Hello all! Noob here seeking advice. I have six villagers, 3 men, 2 women, 1 girl child. First hut already done. Plenty of food. Ladies have been 'going indoors' with all the different men, but no babies! What can I do? They are 'going indoors' like mad, but not reproducing!

Sometimes it takes a while for a couple to have a baby. It helps if you buy fertility tech which improves fertilty.

Edited out references to VV3 - LadyCFII

Thanks for replying. I've finally manged one little rugrat out of all the 'going indoors' that's going on. Guess I'll keep at it.

There is one trick that can help; if you pause the game, you can repeatedly drop one villager onto another until she comes up with a baby. This is technically an exploit, and therefore it's debatable whether it's a cheat or not, but it is very certainly efficient for those without patience.

Hmmm, I'll have to give that one a try. At last, with Level 2 fertility, I managed to produce 2 little liebchen and they are both a little skilled in research. Both of my breeders are scientists and i've had them going at it like rabbits and it's taken me days to get her knocked up.

ACK! I forgot to observe that this one was posted regarding VV1; this is a VV3 trick. Pardon me, my mistake.

Not to worry lurkily, I've leveled up my fertility and I've now got a happy little gossip of mothers hanging out in the clearing with three little ones wandering around curious about everything! It took some creativity though and some trial and error. Some of the partners did nothing but run away from each other and others would go indoors willingly enough but not produce. Now it's just a matter of waiting for my little ones to become productive members of society.

I'm quite sure that certain partners prefer each other, and certain partners dislike one another. Also, I found that someone who dislikes green will NOT pair off with someone wearing a green shirt, for instance; things to keep in mind. I have no regimented experimental data like I do for the food in VV3 (if you call such a small sample 'data') but it's what I've observed.

They don't have to actually go indoors to have a baby. Check the population number (say its 30) then get a male and a female and keep on putting one on top of the other, but don't let them go indoors or anywhere. If you just keep placing one on top of the other, the number will eventually switch to 31, and a baby will suddenly appear in the female's arms. No need to wait for them to go indoors and even then they might not be successful so why waste that time? Just keep on placing one on top of each other over and over and over and over and over again until you see a baby in the female's arms.

i also recently got the game and i found that there is one place that after ....4 tries they ussually tried...and finally were successful...that makes 9...i think...(one other woman had a baby*same dad for all babies* and the same woman had a baby earlier that day)