Hey all! I have a very big problem, I've been doing this game like 4 or 5 times and I couldn't manage to have at least 1 master builder at the end, this is driving me nuts!!! Can you help me, some tips about how can I manage to have at least a master builder at the end? Thanks for your help!

The key is to avoid training too many of your villagers in construction (and doing it too early) with the limited opportunities that you have. I usually wait until I have almost enough research points for level 3 of harvesting to start on the beach. At that point, you should be able to use the construction of any remaining huts and the other construction projects to train one or two builders and be just fine. If you want the master builders for what I think you want them for, you can accomplish that feat much earlier in the game than the puzzle screen would suggest!

Thanks! I've restarted the game and I'll just begin the construction of the first hut and leave the smashed boat 'till level 3 of harvesting then. Thank you sooo much!!! I'll let you know if I finish the game soon.

Yikes! Don't you hate it when this happens? Who knew that makeing the area tidy would screw you in the end? Looks like I'll have to end this game and start again.

BUT it make me very cross that there is not more than one path to the end.

The point at which you decide to tidy the beach doesn't really determine your success or failure in having builders when you need them. Delaying that task is a choice that I make out of practicality. You don't need to do it any earlier and your villagers aren't distracted by the new leisure opportunities available to them! There are certainly other successful ways to produce the talent you need when you need it.

There are actually many ways to play the game and many paths to the end. For example, I've solved the last puzzle after puzzle 2 and "finished" the game with no dead villagers. I say "finished" because there's one puzzle you can't solve until you have at least one villager die!

The difficulties in training master builders will be corrected in the v1.1 update when it's released.

Thanks for the update, ladycfii!! And thanks so much to LDW for listening to everyone who reported the problem with master builders!

I am in the Pit Hole too......I have completed all my puzzles except this one......now everything else are not important, even when all the food are washed away by the Tsunami, I am ok, as food builds up really fast now.

But, I don't have a master builder. Once I had an island event where the boat wreckage reappear, I was so happy that I got my specially trained villager (with experience in a few trades) to be train quickly as builder. But, after clearing the beach, he experience is only halfway, not enough to be master builder. Now he has long passed on and laying in the congested grave......The next time I will get the youngest villager to clear the beach so that he/she has the highest chance to live and see the second wash up of the debris......

Insist on waiting and see when I can complete the game......