Hi,
I've been playing Village Sim "forever" - let's see, it says 1401 hours! All the puzzles are solved - I needed some help (thanks!) and had to restart the game one time to solve one puzzle.

Anyway - I enjoy keeping the village going. It's been my experience that the villagers will not breed unless they get a little "encouragement". I usually have two guys set up with breeding as their preference. Sometimes I have two women set up with that as their primary skill too. Then, when the population is low enough, I drag the "breeders" onto other people (different gender) until you hear that "kissy" sound and they go into the hut. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time. I do this until the breeders have "trainee" status on breeding. Then they'll go off and do it themselves, periodically, and your village population will be maintained.

One other note - I always play my game on the easy setting.