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Virtual Villagers

August 19, 2006

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Virtual Villagers is a downloadable real-time simulation game for Windows (for Mac version, see below) developed by Last Day of Work, the creators of Fish Tycoon and a number of other casual sim games. Take charge of a village of crash survivors and help them carve out a living on a jungle island. Teach them to farm, help them research scientific advancements and expand their population. It's a remarkably addictive game that's easy to play but impossible to stay away from!

You begin with a small handful of untrained villagers. Teach them to perform various tasks such as farming, building, researching, breeding and healing. An extremely helpful tutorial guides you through the game's basics, but everything operates on a simple drag-and-drop mechanic. Want to train a scientist? Drop a villager on the research table. Need to pick berries for food? Drag someone over the berry bush. Villagers may not take to a task immediately, so sometimes you'll have to be persistent.

Once you get everything started, it's time to leave your people alone. Virtual Villagers plays out in real-time so even when the game isn't running the villagers are working hard. Each time you play you'll see the fruits of their labor and can give them new directions or just check up on their progress. You can also adjust the speed to anticipate any gaps in your playing time or to get things moving a little more quickly. Virtual Villagers is just as much about waiting as it is playing.

The strategy in Virtual Villagers comes from how many villagers you assign to each task and how you choose to upgrade your abilities. You accumulate Tech points by getting people to do scientific research. Use these points to upgrade your population's building skills, farming abilities, etc. With each new level opens more possibilities of exploration and survival. The trick is managing which abilities get upgraded first and how you use those new skills to better your village.

Your main goal is to build a thriving population, but there are also various mysteries to solve along the way. Some are fairly obvious, such as the large boulder sitting on the north end of the village, but others you must seek to discover. In all there are 16 puzzles waiting to be unearthed. As you accumulate tech points and upgrade your abilities you can explore each new mystery and see what surprises await you.

Analysis: I've had a blast playing Virtual Villagers. It's a great blend of casual gaming and strategy, which, honestly, is a tough balance to strike. Throughout the day I wonder what my villagers are up to. Are they still farming like I taught them? Any new babies in town? It's always great to come home and check up on my new family. It's great to see the little surprises, such as random events or the occasional new discovery.

Each time I fired up Virtual Villagers I only played it for ten or fifteen minutes. Really, that's all that's required. It's no different than playing a game of Solitaire just to pass the time, only now I actually accomplish something in the long run. Enticing players to return is one of the toughest jobs a casual game designer has, and Virtual Villagers does it extremely well.

Like Virtual Villagers? Check out our review of the follow-up Virtual Villagers 2: The Lost Children. Also be sure to check out Westward, a similar casual simulation game set in the wild old west.

If the game suffers from any drawbacks it's that sometimes there just isn't much to do, especially later in the game. In the beginning you must coddle your village and make sure everyone is working hard to keep the population alive. But as you gain villagers and start farming, it's safe to leave your people alone for days at a time. The occasional random event must be dealt with, but otherwise everything runs smoothly. Of course, if the game required your constant attention it wouldn't be casual, would it?

Virtual Villagers is a great simulation game that doesn't require a lot of time but gives you the satisfaction of an intricate game. You'll have a lot of fun managing your population, teaching them new abilities and exploring the island. You'll know how addicted you are when you wake up in the morning and your first thought is "I wonder how my village is doing?"

Windows Windows:
Download the demo
Order the full version.

Mac OS X:
Download the demo
Order the full version

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Cheers to Urizzato and Brieya for suggesting this one! =)

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Virtual Villagers walkthrough now available!

Walkthrough Guide

A Complete Walkthrough for all 16 puzzles

Puzzle 1 - Get a builder to clean the well. This is the village water supply. Get a villager with building skill, drag them to the well and let them fix it.
Puzzle 2 - Build a new hut. Population is maxed out at 7 until you build a new hut. A villager trained in building is required to build new huts.
Puzzle 3 - Clean up the beach debris. You need to clean up the debris so the villagers can fish. Drag a villager to the debris and it will start cleaning.
Puzzle 4 - Starting a village school. You need a master scientist. Drag them to the long building north of the reasearch table to start a school.
Puzzle 5 - Remove the blockage of the creek in the northwest corner of the village. Villagers need level 2 in construction to work on this. Drag a villager to the rock pile blocking the water flow from the creek. When the blockage is cleared, water will flow to the lagoon. This puzzle is the key to solving three more puzzles.
Puzzle 6 - You need to complete puzzle #5 first and have a villager with level 3 harvesting. Take a master farmer to the lagoon and they will start hunting fish. This may take awhile.
Puzzle 7 - Discover the graveyard (requires Level 2 of Spirituality). When a villagers dies, drag an adult villager to the northeast corner of the island. The villagers will provide a proper burial the pile of bones in village center. After this first burial, villagers will automatically have burial ceremonies for any deceased villager.
Puzzle 8 - Discover the medicinal properties of 4 plants. One plant is the cactus near the boulder, one plant is near the lagoon, two are on the east side of the island. Drag a villager to each plant until all four are mastered.
Puzzle 9 - You need to complete puzzle #5 first. Drag a villager to the field on the east side of the island (where the dead flowers are). They will water the field with water from the lagoon. Make sure to use a villager with building skill so that the watering continues until the flowers bloom.
Puzzle 10 - Solve puzzle #14 first. Wait for the butterflies to follow the golden child, then drag the golden child to the strange plant north of the berry bush where the butterflies will pollinate the plant.
Puzzle 11 - Restore the temple at the ruins (requires Level 3 of Construction). Drag a villager to the ruins in the southeast of the island and they will begin restoring the ruins.
Puzzle 12 - Requires puzzle #11 complete and Level 3 Spirituality. Drag a builder to the shiny rock on the west side of the village and they will chisel the rock to create an idol.
Puzzle 13 - the birth of the golden child (requires Level 3 of Fertility) . This requires puzzle #5, puzzle #12. Drag a nursing mom to the lagoon.
Puzzle 14 - Requires puzzle #13. Drag the golden child to the magic flower garden and wait for the butterflies.
Puzzle 15 - Buried treasure (requires Level 3 of Construction and Level 3 of Science). Search the sandy areas on the south part of the island between the food bin and the temple.
Puzzle 16 - Moving the boulder (requires the golden child). This one just happens on its own when the golden child is ready, you can't force it.

Posted by: Niicol3 | February 25, 2007 3:08 PM

Virtual Villagers - A New Home - Walkthrough

Screens:

Menu Screen
- Play, Start Over, Options, Help, Quit, and Change Player.
- Play - Starts currently selected village.
- Start Over - Deletes currently selected village and starts a new one.
- Options - Audio controls, Full Screen control, Difficulty levels, Game Speed.
- Help - Shows instruction pages.
- Quit - Exits game.
- Change Player - In upper right of Menu Screen is your name and an option to Change Player, you can have up to 5 Villages.
Difficulty Levels
- Easy, Normal, Hard
- Easy - 7 Villagers, 225 Food, 99 Tech Points, 1930 Berries
- Normal - 6 Villagers, 50 Food, 99 Tech Points, 1430 Berries
- Hard - 5 Villagers, 50 Food, 99 Tech Points, 1430 Berries
Village Screen
- Population, Food, Tech Points, Puzzles, Map, Tech, Menu, Detail.
- Population - How many people you have in your village.
- Food - How much food is in the Food Bin.
- Tech Points - How many tech points you have to spend.
- Puzzles - 16 icons representing the puzzles to be solved.
- Map - Overhead view of village.
- Tech - 6 areas of research to spend tech points on.
- Menu - Returns to Menu Screen.
- Detail - Shows details about selected villager.
Detail Screen
- Age, Gender, Health, Skills, Likes and Dislikes.
- You can change the villagers name and control what skill will show when that villager is selected on the Village Screen by checking the box next to the desired skill.
- There are Farmers (Farming), Builders (Building), Scientists (Research), Doctors (Healing), and Parents (Breeding).
- Each job has 3 levels, Trainee, Adept and Master.
- Note: Children born with Trainee level skills are called Apprentices.
Tech Screen
- Farming, Construction, Medicine, Science, Fertility, Spirituality.
- Level 2 Farming - 6,000 points - Allows Farmers to plant crops in the Field.
- Level 2 Construction - 2,500 points - Allows Builders to clear pile of rocks from Lagoon.
- Level 2 Medicine - 15,000 points - Allows Villagers to live longer.
- Level 2 Science - 12,000 points - More Tech Points per experiment.
- Level 2 Fertility - 11,000 points - Allows multiple births.
- Level 2 Spirituality - 5,000 points - Allows villagers to establish burial grounds in the Clearing.
- Level 3 Farming - 50,000 - Allows villagers to fish in the ocean.
- Level 3 Construction - 80,000 - Allows restoration of Ruins.
- Level 3 Medicine - 250,000 - Allows Villagers to live even longer.
- Level 3 Science - 150,000 - Allows carving of Idol.
- Level 3 Fertility - 250,000 - Allows creation of the Golden Child
- Level 3 Spirituality - 80,000 - Allows restoration of Ruins.
Puzzles Screen
- Well, New Hut, Debris, School, Lagoon, Magic Fish, Graveyard, Healing Herbs, Garden, Fruitless Plant, Temple, Idol, Golden Child, Butterflies, Buried Treasure, Hidden Cave.
- Well
  
  - No requirement - Place Builder on well to clear it.
- Healing Herbs
  
  - No requirement - Place any villager on each herb to study until plant is understood.
- New Hut
  
  - No requirement - Place Builder on New Hut site until New Hut is built.
- Clear Beach
  
  - No requirement - Place Builder on debris on beach until beach is clean.
- School
  
  - Requires Master Scientist - Place Master Scientist on Double Hut to turn it into a School.
- Lagoon
  
  - Requires Level 2 Construction - Place Builder on pile of rocks at top of Lagoon to release the water.
- Garden
  
  - Requires Lagoon - Place any villager on Patch Of Strange Dead Flowers, they will water. Patch with Lagoon water until the Garden grows.
- Magic Fish
  
  - Requires Level 3 Farming, Lagoon, and a Master Farmer - Drop a Master Farmer into the Lagoon to catch Magic Fish of Fertility. Special Note: Magic fish is from Fish Tycoon.
- Graveyard
  
  - Requires Level 2 Spirituality and a dead villager - When skeleton of dead villager is on the ground, place any live villager in the Clearing to designate the Burial Grounds.
- Temple
  
  - Requires Level 3 Spirituality.
- Idol
  
  - Requires Level 3 Science.
- Buried Treasure
  
  - Requires Level 3 in all Tech.
- Golden Child
  
  - Requires Level 3 Fertility - Drop a female villager with a baby into the Lagoon.
- Hidden Cave
  
  - Requires Golden Child.
- Butterflies
  
  - Requires Golden Child.
- Fruitless Plant
  
  - Requires Golden Child.

Village Item Locations:

Lagoon - Teardrop shaped dark patch of dirt in Northwest corner of village, has pile of rocks at top with blue water behind them.
Berry Bush - Large green bush covered with 1930 red and yellow berries surrounded by large circle of grass in upper center of village.
Clearing - Rectangular light patch of dirt in Northeast corner of village
Well - Southeast of Berry Bush
Giant Rock - Southeast of Lagoon
Double Hut - Southeast of Giant Rock
Hut - East of Double Hut
Research Bench - South of Double Hut
Small Hut - Southeast of Research Bench
New Hut - Board leaning on stilts with rock next to it located between Hut and Double Hut
Food Bin - South of Hut
Field - West of Small Hut
Debris - On beach South of Field
Pile Of Strangely Straight Rocks - Southeast of Food Bin
Patch Of Strange Dead Flowers - East of Hut
Fruitless Plant - Orange plant Northwest of Berry Bush
Healing Herbs - 4
Green Strange Plant directly below Lagoon
Medical Cactus above and to the right of the Berry Bush, left of Clearing
Strange Lily at bottom right corner of Clearing
Rare Rose below Patch of Dead Flowers
Buried Treasure - Directly West of Pile of Strangely Straight Rocks and directly South of Food Bin

Walkthrough

Open Virtual Villagers Game.
Go to the Menu Screen.
Go to Options and set Game Speed to Paused, set Difficulty to Easy, then click Done.
Go to Start Over until you have 7 Villagers that are 4 women, 2 men, a child, and the Builder is a man.
Place the Builder on the Well.
Place the other man (Farmer) on the Berry Bush.
Place 3 women (Scientists) on the Research Bench.
Place the youngest woman (Doctor/Parent) on the Green Strange Plant.
Go to Menu.
Go to Options, set Game Speed to 2x Speed, click Done.

Click Play, the villagers will begin their tasks. They may fail a few times, begin doing laundry, or become curious about other village features, so you will have to replace them at their tasks when they walk away.

When any milestone is reached or a good event happens, all the villagers will go to celebrate, so when the Builder is done clearing the well all the villagers will leave their tasks and go to the well to celebrate, and you must replace them to their tasks.

Place the Farmer back on the Berry Bush.

Place the 3 Scientists back on the Research Bench.

Place the Builder on the New Hut site, you can not make a baby until the New Hut is complete.

When the Doctor finishes studying Green Strange Plant, place her on the Healing Cactus, Strange Lily, and Rare Rose until all the plants have been understood. Any order will work.

When all medical plants have been studied there will be another celebration and you will have to replace your workers to their tasks.

Place the Farmer back on the Berry Bush.

Place the Builder back on the New Hut.

Place all 3 women Scientists and the Doctor/Parent on the Research Bench.

The Scientists will twitch when the current portion of research is complete, and they will either walk away (failed research) or points will be added to your Tech Points. Either way, as soon as they twitch you can pick them up and place them on the Research Bench again to start their next experiment. This will add Tech Points at the fastest possible rate, and you should have enough points to buy the next level of Farming while still having around 1000 berries on the Berry Bush, assuming that your Farmer does not like Running. Also, there is an audio cue which sounds like bamboo chimes when the Scientists begin research and complete research.

When your Scientists have gained 6000 Tech Points, go to Tech screen and purchase Level 2 Farming. This allows your Farmer to plant the Field, (planting the Field also requires that the Well has been cleared) and he will stop foraging the Berry Bush, saving the berries in case of an unfortunate event such as a Typhoon which wipes out all of the food in the Food Bin.

Place the Farmer on the Field.

Keep the Scientists researching until you can buy the next level of Construction.

When the Builder has completed the New Hut, place him on the debris on the beach.

Once the New Hut is complete you will need to begin breeding in order to have a population to carry on when your original 7 villagers die. The villager that you drop on another villager is the one who receives the breeding points and becomes a breeder. A breeder initiates breeding with all members of the opposite sex.

If your breeder is a male, all 4 women will end up with babies and no research will continue until they are done caring for the babies, which takes around 2 hours, until the baby is 2 years old, and the male breeder will breed with all 4 women again. A female breeder will initiate breeding with any man , and only she will have a baby, so you have much more control over breeding and gaining tech points with a female breeder. A villager may not breed until they are 20 years old. Choose the youngest woman (20 or older) to be your breeder. Drop her on a man. The man may run away a few times, just bring him back and keep dropping the woman on him until they kiss. Once they kiss, your population will increase if a baby has been made. If your population does not increase, pick up the woman and drop her on the man again until your population does increase. You do not have to wait for them to go indoors, if a baby is made it will show in the population count as soon as the kiss happens. Continually breeding her will give you a steady supply of villagers. Note: When your breeder self initiates breeding it will cause her chosen mate to stop work and wait for her embrace.

When the Builder completes clearing the debris from the beach, and you have bought Level 2 Construction:

place him on the pile of rocks at the top of the Lagoon to clear it.

When the Lagoon is cleared:

place a villager on the Patch Of Strange Dead Flowers, the villager will water the Patch from the Lagoon and create the Garden.

When one of your Scientists reaches the title Master Scientist:

place her on the Double Hut to create the School. Once the School is established, children will be born with some skills.

When your first villager dies:

buy Level 2 Spirituality, then drop any adult villager in the Clearing to create the Graveyard, or Burial Ground.

When you have purchased Level 3 Farming:

place a Master Farmer in the Lagoon to catch the Magic Fish Of Fertility. Note: The Magic Fish is a Greenfin Spotanus, the same Magic Fish Of Fertility in Fish Tycoon ;)

When you have purchased Level 3 Spirituality:

place a Builder on the Strangely Straight Rocks to build the Temple.

When you have purchased Level 3 Science:

place a Builder on the Large Rock to create the Idol.

When you have purchased Level 3 in 6 Tech areas:

place a Builder on the beach directly South of the Food Bin and directly West of the Temple to uncover the Buried Treasure.

When you have purchased Level 3 Fertility:

place a mother with a baby in the Lagoon to create the Golden Child. The remaining Puzzles are dependent on the Golden Child.

Notes on the Golden Child:

The Golden Child never gets sick or dies.
You can not kill him, no matter how much you may want to…
He never ages, he never grows up, he never changes appearance from a toddler.
You can not force him to perform his tasks, he does them all on his own.
Shortly after birth, he will move the boulder and you can place a villager into the cave to see a teaser for the next chapter.
The Golden Child is said to create the Garden as well as move the Boulder, but by the time there is enough tech points to buy level 3 Fertility, my villagers have already watered the Garden into bloom, so I myself have not witnessed the Golden Child creating the Garden.
To date I have been unable to get him to do the Butterflies or the Strange Fruitless Plant, in fact, it seems that the entire game there is a flock of Butterflies on the screen, and as soon as the Golden Child appears, the butterflies vanish…..
The Golden Child also makes berries on the Berry Bush, restores the crops in the Field, and makes food in the Food Bin.
He also make parties which cause all villagers to leave work and join him in dancing.
And he can walk on water. Imagine that. ;)

Other Notes:

Occasionally you will see a Mushroom pop up, place a child on the mushroom and he will pick it up and take it to the Food Bin.
Brown Mushrooms are 8 food, Orange Mushrooms are 45 food.
Fish are 9 food, Crabs are 55 food.
Children can not swim.
Maximum number of villagers appears to be 90, although some screen shots seem to show over 300 villagers. If this is actually possible, I wish I knew how to do it.

Occasionally you will have a villager whose dislikes conflict with their job, like a builder who hates driftwood will take forever to clear the beach, and when you try to start him to the task he stands there and does nothing for a very long time. When this happens, I have found it to be more expedient to restart the village. Conversely, you will sometimes have a villager whose likes compliment their job, such as a Builder who likes Running, so can complete the New Hut in less time than usual.

Occasionally you will find items washed up on the beach. Among these there may be:

Brass Compass - Letting researchers have it improves skill somehow.
Black pearl - Sharing makes your villagers happy.
Badly weathered crate - Rusty tools, adds 1000tech points, makes some villagers ill
Crate with 1, 2, or 3 babies in it - Adds to Population.
Crate with juicy steaks - Adds 1500 food.
Crate of golden ripe bananas - Adds 1000 food
Crate with well preserved tools - Adds 1000 Tech Points.
Crate of rats - Causes injury and disease.
Crate of diapers…..
Vial of blue liquid - Causes illness or lowers skill.
Vial of red liquid - Alters appearance.
Vial of watery fizzy liquid - Lowers skill.

Other Events:

Isola Day Celebration - Dancing and feasts!
Big Wave - Puts debris on beach that must be cleared by builder.
Honeybees - Pollinate Berry Bush and make it thrive.
Humid weather molds food - Removing moldy pieces saves some food, makes some villagers sick.
Measles Epidemic - Makes children sick.
Monkey eating mushroom - Trying the mushroom allows adults to pick mushrooms?
Monkey hiding large cache of bananas - Adds 600 food.
Monkey ransacks research table - Lose 9000 tech points.
Monkey stealing food - Allowing it to steal food results in better healing.
Moth in cocoon - Helping moth kills it.
Plague of Locusts - Eats all your crops.
Ripe Red Berries - Eating them kills villager instantly. Oops…
Shipwreck - Blocks beach access, again, and debris must be cleared from beach by a Builder, again.
Stranded whale - Harvesting the whale adds 1000 food.
South Wind - Withers berries, scorches crops and damages food in Food Bin.
Troubled Child - Allowing child to try work increases child’s skill
Typhoon - Destroys all food in the Food Bin.

Authors Note:
This walkthrough was created by restarting my game each time I realized I had made a mistake, or had a question which could only be answered by restarting the game and following specific parameters.
I am not certain if trying the mushroom allows your adult villagers to pick the mushrooms, as I didn’t think of trying it until after I had deleted that game, but the text for it strongly suggested that this was the case. If it happens to me again I will be sure to update the walkthrough.

[Edit: Thanks Cathy for the extensive walkthrough! Spoiler tags have been added to make it take up a bit less space :) -Harukio]

Posted by: Cathy | July 22, 2007 3:17 PM

Comments (may contain spoilers)

Everyone in my village keeps dying becuase i dont knoe how to heal them...i drag one healthy one onto the sick and it dosent work... please tell me what to do!!

Posted by: Jazmine | February 15, 2008 11:11 AM

What age can children begin to work as an adult?

Posted by: Neil | February 15, 2008 7:19 PM

i heard a large boom, and the mother i was going to use to host the golden child has twins, and goes from 222 min nursing, to 137.. not sure but it was in the ten thousandnths..... wtf? and the girl who got the fish of fertility wont breed. wtf again???

Posted by: meh tazzy | February 15, 2008 10:58 PM

I recently restarted the game and i have 7 villagers, none of them are women. is there any way to get more women so i can get more kids or should i start over?

Posted by: b1rd | February 17, 2008 10:38 AM

ok, i just bought the game and i have no clue how to get them started on fishing and none of them are masters how long does it take i am so confused!! help please and thank you

Posted by: kallie | February 19, 2008 12:58 AM

Kallie-
to get them fishing you need level 3 of farming and you need them to find the strange fish in the lagoon after you get a builder to clear that area. after that they will start to just go fishing as long as the beach is clear of debris.

Posted by: b1rd | February 19, 2008 10:27 AM

hello I need help please!!!!! I have three villagers dead and I have no clue on how to bury them!!!!! Plz help me I don't know what to do!

Posted by: phyphy | February 19, 2008 1:24 PM

What are the Puzzles on VV 1 in order? I'm a newbie and I'd just like some knowledge.... :) Thanks!

Posted by: Elle | February 19, 2008 9:08 PM

example

to get puzzle 10 you have to take the golden child to the garden. it should say "calling butterflies". keep him there untill they show up. they take him too the "mysterious fruitless plant" above the berry bush. the butterflies that are following him will pollinate the plant and solve puzzle 14.

Posted by: pamela hill | February 20, 2008 2:02 PM

How long does it take to dig up the treasure?

Posted by: M | February 21, 2008 12:07 PM

Hey is the child actually Golden?

Posted by: Anonymous | February 21, 2008 11:55 PM

I have to say, I've been so curious about the boulder. I just solved that puzzle and I am so NOT impressed.

Posted by: Caresse | February 23, 2008 4:39 AM

I find that when the Golden Child wants to "party" you can click the drum and send him and the rest of the kids to school. This will keep him busy for long enough to send your adults back to work. Also, for costructing the ruins, the idol, and digging up the treasure, you can place multiple villagers on the task at hand. This allows you to complete the task much faster.

Posted by: Caresse | February 23, 2008 4:44 AM

Do i need a master builder to find the treaser

Posted by: Jord | February 23, 2008 11:11 AM

First of all I like to thank everyone on this site, it helped me out alot. I just started to play vv1 6 days ago, and i have everything that i needed to get, but my question is when do u see Monkeys, whale, lucusts, wind, and typhoon ect. My next question is when does the game end, when everyone dies of old age.

Posted by: queenie | February 24, 2008 11:08 AM

I think you stick an adult villager in the top right of the map.

Posted by: Jeremiah | February 24, 2008 6:32 PM

I want to thank everyone who offered info on this site. I have completed my puzzles. The golden child is the key to the butterflies and the plant that produces fruit. Drag the golden child to the flower garden and he will call the butterflies then drag him to the plant that looks like it could produce fruit. The butterflies pollenate the plant and produces fruit.

Posted by: Jadell | February 24, 2008 8:52 PM

How do you produce twins and triplets?
I have level 2 fertility but so far no twins or triplets?

please reply.

Posted by: Kevin KK | February 26, 2008 7:49 PM

I just got this game and i got the mysterious face and now i have one less villager now Help

Posted by: Rose | February 27, 2008 3:23 PM

how long is the female pregnant??
or is it not guaranteed that she will have a baby even if they "go indoors"

Posted by: Caroline Gray | February 28, 2008 10:46 PM

i actually figured out the answer to my question a few minutes after i asked when i went back to playing and the girl had a baby (i read this stuff while i wait for stuff to happen in my game) so yeah sorry just my blondeness coming through

Posted by: Caroline | February 29, 2008 12:01 AM

I don't know if anyone has discovered it or not but if you click on the drum beside the school it makes the children gather around and go to school this also seems to increase tech points.

Posted by: Lizzie | March 1, 2008 12:40 PM

Googled VV1 & found this site. It's great. I had completed everything except the treasure and lost patience trying to find it. Thanks for the help. My villagers are now on their way to digging it up!

Posted by: Whit | March 1, 2008 3:43 PM

Yes Lizzie..I always "beat" that drum beside the school...sometimes in tune with the background music. It's so nice to see all the kiddies go running towards the school. :)

Posted by: aena19 | March 3, 2008 3:23 AM

does anyone have a problem when the villagers are building their third small hut, they will not focused on to build it. They just kept abandoning it and go to fix the small hut above it. So I have to kept dragging them back to the new hut so they continue the building.

Posted by: d_c | March 3, 2008 6:21 AM

d_c I experienced that problem the first time so I just patiently dragged them back to the task...but I have noticed that they do go back to building the hut after, let's say, harvesting crops or fishing or doing the laundry. They do go back to the task of building the hut, but they always get distracted by other things to do in the village... :)

Posted by: aena19 | March 4, 2008 4:10 AM

thanks for info on how to get the golden child. I have solved all but one puzzle, the cave. the golden child removed the rock, what's next?

Posted by: Maria | March 4, 2008 2:17 PM

Take the Golden Child to the Magic Flower Garden.And let see what will happen.

Posted by: ... | March 5, 2008 5:15 AM

hi...well this sucks i finished the game, and i didnt think i had to ge another one...damn i wish i knew that one!!!!! it was a lot of fun though, now i have to go beg my b/f to get me the # 2

Posted by: amber | March 5, 2008 11:40 AM

if one of your people die and their holding a baby dose the baby die too

Posted by: anna | March 5, 2008 7:54 PM

I need help. I have purchased my Level 3 Spirituality, and I move a builder to the Strangely Straight Rocks, and it tells me additional research required. What am I don't wrong?

Posted by: Laura | March 5, 2008 10:27 PM

Anna, as I know the baby dies as well...

And Laura, did you also purchase the Level 3 Construction? I'm not really sure but I think you also need that, and you need to have a Master Builder...

Posted by: aena19 | March 6, 2008 1:47 AM

I have finished all the puzzles, what's next? How do I know when the game is finished?

Posted by: maria | March 6, 2008 8:38 AM

we had a flock of parrots eat all our food once and a crate full of spiders attack a villager,the red vile poisened all our villagers, our golden child did make the fruit grow on the plant,are
all the bald guys like really lazy.

Posted by: anna | March 6, 2008 11:15 PM

How do you uncover buried treasure?

Also,

You have to use as little of the berry bush as you can and set a lot of people at research so you can buy farming. I think if you go to options, you can set it to 2x the speed and it goes fast.

Posted by: SAdie | March 7, 2008 2:57 PM

Okay so i changed the day. Basiclly every thing was the same ecept that i had like 5 or 6 more kids!!!! How did this happen?! What do i do?!

Posted by: Ariel Barton | March 8, 2008 8:32 PM

Has anyone noticed when you place a female villager on top of a male villager she has a boy and vice versa.I really needed a girl and if i didnt have one the game was going to be lost.I dont know of it is really true everytime it happens but its something to think about.

Posted by: Sound Four45 | March 9, 2008 9:35 AM

I have level three in everything but when i put a mother with a baby in the lagoon there is no golden child and when i put a master builder (or scientist) on the rock they are confused :(

if you have answers for me please post them :D

Posted by: Caroline | March 9, 2008 11:18 PM

I have just lost all my male villagers and now i am in a panice Plz Help!!!!!

Posted by: Rose | March 10, 2008 1:41 PM

does a builder have to be a master to find the treasure or does the golden shild do it?? IM CONFUSED!!

Posted by: bob | March 10, 2008 5:49 PM

Puzzles 10 & 14 solution

To solve the butterfly puzzle (14), put the Golden Child in the garden, where he'll summon the flock of butterflies. Then put the Golden Child on the strange fruitless plant to the right of the lagoon, and he'll make it bear fruit. You have to have the butterflies before you can do this.

Posted by: LC | March 11, 2008 1:27 AM

what happens when you finish all the tasks? how do you know if you won and the game is over? or are there more things to do and find?
please let me know what to do next.

thank you so much, i really love the game i name all my families and it's great.

Posted by: SOPHIA | March 11, 2008 1:27 AM

Plz i dnt no how to get the treasure my master builder saw something but then didnt do anything PLZ HELP

Posted by: Hannah | March 13, 2008 6:55 PM

how will i clean the beach???thers so manny algae!!!!

Posted by: eliejah | March 14, 2008 5:17 AM

No one has actually commented on the buried treasure. Does anyone have an idea of where EXACTLY to find it. I've been looking what seems like forever for it with no luck. Do you have to have a certain type profession person to dig it up as well?
Question is for VV1
thank you!

Posted by: Mary | March 14, 2008 8:46 AM

Is there anyway to delete a villager?

Posted by: amy | March 14, 2008 9:56 AM

hi!! i have played bother virtual villager a new home and the 2nd one with the lost children!! they were both sooooo much fun!! i was wondering if there will be a third one out soon?? if so when??

[Edit: Yes, Virtual Villagers 3 is coming soon! Be sure to watch this site's homepage ( http://jayisgames.com ) for news and a very special offer on how you can win the game for FREE when it's released this spring. -Jay]

Posted by: kristen | March 15, 2008 2:40 AM

I actually had 2 people named Paco once, so I changed them to Paco 1 and Paco 2. I'm having trouble getting the "Pacos" to start the garden!!

Posted by: Virtually Real | March 18, 2008 5:08 PM

At the most, it takes me about 1 day to finish a task, including the lagoon and garden. Without the Science thingymajigger, I can gain around 2,500 tech points within an hour. I put 3 Master Scientists at the research table and let them go!

I ♥♥love this game!

Posted by: Virtually Real | March 18, 2008 5:30 PM

Another random item found

When a villager finds an old drum, there are old records inside it. The villager who found it will become a master healer.

Posted by: ...........random.......... | March 19, 2008 1:15 PM

Well, well, well! Click below to reveal my secret.

Finally, I got the magic fish from the lagoon.. I had to be persistant with my villager. Finally, Paco got it! Way to go Paco!

Posted by: Virtually Real | March 19, 2008 7:23 PM

He picked it up from the lagoon! But I still haven't solved the puzzle with the fish on it! Why is that?

Posted by: Virtually Real | March 19, 2008 7:42 PM

you CAN rename your villagers... when you click a villager's detail the cursor is automatically behind their name (above their picture) :D

i successfully found that out before anybody died so now i can look in the graveyard and when i click on the stone to see who the were i can actually remember who they were lol

btw: "virtually real" paco is the awesomest name ever haha :)

Posted by: fyi lol | March 20, 2008 7:58 PM

So, just curious. I've completed every puzzle thus far, save the buried treasure, and am now spending my time simply breeding as many women as I can and hoping for some triplets so that I can at least see them before the game ends. :p

My question is whether or not there is any way to at least give the villagers a "nudge" in the right direction, per say, to at least locating the treasure quicker? I've tried dragging and dropping them in numerous locations surrounding the temple and the food bin, but I either get "Nothing," "Honoring Temple," "Fixing Hut," "Examining Hut," or something similar. I have managed to luck up with two different villagers stumbling across the location to the left of the temple without my help, but they only manage to crouch down about three times acting like they're looking at something before they walk off.

Help?

Posted by: Christina | March 21, 2008 3:55 AM

Haha,
I got a master farmer who likes crab meat and every time he goes to fish he comes up with a crab. Also use the mushroom clone trick where you pause the game and put all of your children on a mushroom and they all get it. I did that with a red mushroom and 6 children. It comes in handy if your running out of food- it saved my village. :)

Posted by: Crab Meat | March 21, 2008 2:27 PM

to get the butterfly puzzle....just drop the golden child into the garden

Posted by: Kurt | March 21, 2008 3:42 PM

once you have the butterflys from the garden..they follow your goldne child...take him to the fruitless plant and the butterfliys will pollenate it..causing it to bare fruit

Posted by: Kurt | March 21, 2008 3:54 PM

Heh, thanks fyi lol.

My village was just blessed with twins. We now have over 100,000 food, 13,000 tech points and about 12 children.

Special note to fyi lol: Paco was the father of the twins!

Posted by: Virtually Real | March 22, 2008 10:39 AM

We now have another group of twins.. And 50 villagers now!

Paco is the father of both twins. Paco rocks! He is.. 21 years old. :)

Posted by: Virtually Real | March 22, 2008 12:24 PM

Woot! 90 villagers, fully researched construction, fertility, and farming!

Posted by: Virtually Real | March 23, 2008 9:39 AM

Hello in order to solve the butterfly puzzle you have to drag the golden child over to the garden and of course the garden has to be in bloom, but the butterflies do not have to be there. Drag the golden child a few times and the puzzle will be solved.

Posted by: Red Rose | March 23, 2008 3:54 PM

guess what!!! 2 of my villagers drank a blue vial and it said something about the smell of sweet porridge and they both turned back into kids again!!!

Posted by: felicia | March 23, 2008 11:39 PM

If you prefer to find the hidden treasure on your own... stop reading this post. But since there have been so many inquiries on how to find and dig it up, here goes.

treasure

First you must have a Master Builder! Take him/her just west of the ruins and South of the food storage bin. Keep draging him/her over the area until you see their thought that something looks like it's buried there. Place him in that spot. Th builder will not dig the first few times, but once they do, your on your way. Once the Master begins digging, all other builders will help.

Hope that helps and good luck.

Posted by: Linda | March 25, 2008 9:07 AM

Sorry,
I'm new to posting and I screwed up on how to use the spoiler. Sorry if I ruined the puzzle for anyone. I'm trying to find the edit button.

Posted by: Linda | March 25, 2008 9:14 AM

Does anyone know who the eyes in the cave belong to? Is it an animal or another tribe?

Posted by: Linda | March 25, 2008 9:26 AM

The walk through says he doesn't know how to get the butterflies or to get the unflowering plant to flower.

Take your golden child to the flower garden. When he's there he will call butterflies. The butterflies will follow him. Then take him to to the unflowering plant the butterflies will pollinate the plant.

Posted by: Anonymous | March 26, 2008 7:52 PM

I'm at 90 villagers, all research done, and am basically waiting for some elderly ones to die (ick). Several of the villagers have taken to pacing in the village center "worried about housing." But they don't start a new hut. Is there a way to make them start one? Thanks!

Posted by: Moni | March 27, 2008 12:40 AM

i beat the whole game in like 6 hours. i guess i took all the fun out o it but heres how to do it. move the clock on your computer forward everytime u wanna do something faster (i.e. harvest crops, build hut, etc.) but only do it for a couple hours or less if u don't have much food. i found that out the hard way. p.s. it's also important u don't go BACK in time. when its about to be 12:00 am (the next day) let your calendar KNOW its going to the next day.

Posted by: louiza | March 27, 2008 7:43 AM

I used the clock fast forward thing as well, was gutted when I went back to the game and my original seven had died. It does take some of the fun out of the game but makes it a lot easier that waiting for the villagers to do a lengthy task.

To find the treasure...

Drag a master builder and a master scientist over the patch of sand underneath the food bin and next to the temple, this is because they need to work together to come up with a scientific way to dig up the treasure.

Posted by: Staci | March 27, 2008 1:53 PM

Is there any way to get more than 90 villagers?? The villagers are still gaining breeding points but are not producing any babies.

Also, some of my villagers say that they are worrying about housing but all of the huts have built and they have been examined and fixed. Does anyone else have this problem if so what did you do??

Just a thought, who buries the last to die??

Posted by: Staci | March 27, 2008 5:11 PM

Hey guys,
This game can get confusing. who digs up the treasure?/what profession or is it the golden child. Did you know that one of the babies the mother is still holding eats as much as an adult/child. one of my people has barely any breeding on his bar but when you drag him to a woman he creates a baby with out him even going indoors. it's helpful but is it just a glitch. how do you know where the treasure is and how do you dig it up? plz respond soon!!!

-Princessjoerg

Posted by: Princessjoerg | March 28, 2008 11:23 AM

Can anyone tell me what i can do with all the tech points i have after i have fully researched everything?? I've got loads and my scientists keep making more but i dont know what to do with them all. Can anyone help??
Thanks,
Sarah
xxx

Posted by: Sarah | April 1, 2008 3:35 PM

i am playing right now and all of my grownups are sick how do i heal them only my 8 year old is not sick and this game is hard

Posted by: lulu | April 1, 2008 8:29 PM

To find the treasure you need either a master scientist or master builder can't remember which. You need to drag the master over about an inch or less under the food bin. You will see it say digging let them dig. It takes awhile for them to get the treasure.

Posted by: chaz | April 2, 2008 11:55 AM

lulu you probably figured this out already but your sick healers can still heal, they have on my game. What I do is heal a sick healer with a sick healer. Then the healed healer heals the rest.

My dilema is that I have over a million tech points what can be done with them? And since I bought the third stage of fertility the last tech no one wants to work. They all want to play or do laundry. How do I stop this?!!!!! Is there a way to convert or blow up the laundry shack?

Oh and you can kill the golden child, I have I had surgery on my tendon in my foot. My computer is upstairs so for three weeks I was unable to go upstairs and everyone in my village died except the golden child. However, he was deathly ill I guess no one there to play with. He had plenty of food though LOL.

Posted by: chaz | April 2, 2008 12:05 PM

In reference to Cathy's walkthrough note on 7/07: Other Events: Monkey eating mushroom...

"Authors Note: I am not certain if trying the mushroom allows your adult villagers to pick the mushrooms... i.e. Other Events: Monkey eating mushroom - Trying the mushroom allows adults to pick mushrooms?" (end quote) I just found the answer: allowing the adult villager to pick the mushroom (after watching monkey eat mushroom) allows that adult villager to pick only that mushroom... he then gains foraging skills. He cannot pick mushrooms after that. p.s. you never actually see him pick the mushroom; they tell you he picks it. This is useful if you need a Master Farmer.

Posted by: Indigo | April 2, 2008 8:56 PM

What do you get if you buy level 3 construction?

In fact would someone list level 3 everything, what happens?

I had a random event not listed on here.

It was a small mysterious crate. I said yes open it and it was a crate full of coconuts. Gain 500 food points.

Posted by: Kiki | April 3, 2008 1:54 AM

PS, I just bought construction level 3 and it means they can work on the flat rocks to restore the temple.

I think spirituality level 3 must be restore the big flat rock up at the top and it becomes their 'idol'. (Like Easter Island.)

I think you have it the other way around on your review.

Posted by: Kiki | April 3, 2008 2:07 AM

Ok. I didnt see this on here. To help with food. Oh and I couldnt figure out how to do the spoiler thing. Anyways... when a mushroom pops up pause the game. Go move all your children to the mushroom (make sure it says picking mushroom). Unpause the game and they will all pick the mushroom. Im playing on hard and only have 3 children right now so I havent tested it on more children then that. Hope it helps it has helped me.

Posted by: Lemon | April 3, 2008 7:08 AM

Pausing the game to get more than one mushroom doesn't work for me. The mushroom disappears before I can round up all the children and end up with only one kid getting the mushroom. I thought pause would pause the timer with the mushrooms as well, but on my game it doesn't. I started another game and it doesn't work there either.

Posted by: chaz | April 3, 2008 10:16 AM

You mentioned that finding a blue vial on the beach will lower skills and possibly cause illness. Ive found several blue vials on the beach...always found by a child....and they GAIN skill points not loose them. Any one else found this out?

Oh and when your villager HAS twins or trips do the kids actually look alike? Can you really tell that they are twins or trips?? Let me know!

Posted by: Sara | April 4, 2008 11:21 AM

does anyone know if the golden child stays 5 years old forever?

Posted by: roxane | April 5, 2008 11:09 PM

Yes the Golden Child stays a child forever...

Is he bald and wearing a gold tunic in everyone's game?

I have questions.

There hasn't been butterflies in my game for a long time, and there still aren't. SO how will the Golden Child make the flowerrs grow on that one plant?

If that doesn't happen, it's OK, the other things are more important that he does - creating lots of food for example. And he does that. He like to party too. haha

The other thing is the lagoon fish. Everyone dives for it but no one catches it. And yes I have put 3 different Master Farmers in the lagoon.

I have level 3 everything and buried treasure is found.

Posted by: Kiki | April 6, 2008 1:33 AM

Vial of blue liquid - Causes illness or lowers skill.

----------

I let my villager drink it and she became a master builder from untrained.

Posted by: Maul | April 6, 2008 2:00 PM

when it shows the map it shows more parts of the island but how do i get my villagers to find it.

-kate

Posted by: kat | April 6, 2008 5:53 PM

I need some help. My villagers breed fine and I have the little hut built, but my max population doesn't seem to want to increase... i don't know what i am doing wrong ? :(

Posted by: Melli | April 11, 2008 2:31 AM

okay this is what i found out:

i started over(unsuccessfull the first time,) and had two people who liked to run. i put them and all the other villagers except the builder foraging. the builder i put on the well, then the hut, then the beach,...

Posted by: M | April 11, 2008 10:34 PM

this has to do with the golden child

there is one way to get rid of the golden child... if the event is seen that the golden child see a pair of eyes or something in the bushes and you click take a look, the child is never heard from again. and that's a way to get rid of the golden child

Posted by: Megan | April 13, 2008 6:59 PM

Achem.. I've now completed the game.. Paco has died, sadly. :'(

Posted by: Virtually Real | April 14, 2008 6:33 PM

really enjoyed this game, like many others here i was stuck on the treasure, thanks for all the tips, i have now found the treasure. happy gaming x

Posted by: deelight | April 19, 2008 2:51 PM

this whole message is a spoiler BWAHAHA! One of my kids found blue liquid and hes a MASTER FARMER!!!!!!

Posted by: pichu666 | April 19, 2008 3:18 PM

Where is this berry bush i don't understand !

Posted by: Laura | April 19, 2008 4:37 PM

I have finished all of the puzzeles exept the buried treasure. When I put a builder on the south part of the beach, Nothing happens. I have level 3 in science and construction. Please help me!!!!! What an i duing wrong

Posted by: Lauren | April 21, 2008 9:28 PM

my max pop is 90 and i have gotten 92 people, but how do you increase the max population???????????
PLEASE HELP!

i have lvl 3 in everything, completed all puzzles, and have done everything!!! AND I CAN ONLY HAVE 90 PEOPLE!!! PLEASE HELP!!!

Posted by: bob | April 22, 2008 5:39 PM

I had an adult eat the mushroom after watchig the monkey

the adult wasn't able to pick mushooms, intead ended up with nausea and stomach cramps.

Posted by: spencer | April 22, 2008 11:18 PM

example

I noticed that some think that you need the "golden child" to find the burried treasure but you don't. You need level 3 building, level 3 spirituality, and a master builder/master scientist person to find it, at least that's what I had when I dug it up. I wanted to get it found before the "golden" pain in my neck distraced the workers.

Posted by: AlaskanStephanie | April 23, 2008 2:38 PM

what s the point of the buried treasure?? i dont get it! i was all excited, but i dont notice any diffrence!

Posted by: Anonymous | May 1, 2008 6:20 PM

this site helps alot

Posted by: Anonymous | May 1, 2008 9:41 PM

my max pop is 11 how do i increase this i already have level 3 in everything but medicine?? please help

Posted by: Anonymous | May 2, 2008 1:10 AM

Thank you so, so much for posting this walkthrough, I'm about to win the game thanks to you! I'm not sure if the monkey-adults picking mushrooms thing works, but I will definitely try it. Now I have a little info to contribute:

Once I had the Golden Child, I tried dragging him onto a few things. When I dragged him onto the Garden, he brought the Butterflies, and when I dragged him onto the Strange Fruitless Plant, the Butterflies following him pollinated it and made fruit grow on it!!!

Hope that helps with the walkthrough, and thanks again for all your help. ^^

- Alex

Posted by: Alex | May 4, 2008 3:37 PM

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