Hi, I love VV 1 and 2 and this is my first post.

There's been a lot of talk of having the kids learn to find mushrooms and other collectibles after a while of being led to them. I understand that a part of the fun of the game is dragging little kids around and trying to find hidden items that just pop up. I was just thinking that it should be one of the buyable perks of the exploration tech or maybe farming or both.

Or instead of having them learn to find things on their own maybe there should be a noise, like a chime, that would sound whenever one of those collectibles show up, and wouldn't fade as you get farther from where they appeared even on the map page. That way you still have the fun of the hunt and you can focus on particular villagers you want to teach a skill to without bouncing around every 5 seconds looking for objects that aren't even there. When it gets too annoying you could toggle it on or off on the options page. To me that seems like a better reward for exploration than simply being able to find them on the map.

I also like Kalon's idea of the huts deteriorating more quickly than they do now so it's easier to earn building skills after the puzzles are complete.