im trying to get my villagers to rebuild the ruins and master the herbs, but every time i drag them there they seem to want to walk off. How do i keep them there?

You must insist until they learn! Some are more stubborn than other but they all do it at last. Unless they have a specific dislike as herbs, in this case they may study only the cactus!

Or perhaps more stupid!

do you have all the required tech skills for this yet?

Mastering the herbs doesn't take any particular level of tech. Any villager, even one with no skills at all, should be able to study the herbs. Are you sure that all the strange plants have been visited?

i am sorry, i meant for restoring the ruins
you need higher level techs

Hey, be easy on us slow learning villagers!

More idiotic, then?

hehehe, I don't much care to be called either one.

And your screen name is TheVillageIdiot?

Ouch, you got me there Mr. Palmer. Hmmmmm what to do....

i new help on starting my game

You may look in the VV1 guides section, this topic: Strategy and puzzle... or on another one in the same section.

just do it over and over again or try a different person. that sometimes works

I was having problems solving puzzles, and was ready to give up on the game, contact the company, and demand my money back, because I was so very frustrated. I stumbled across the detailed answers to the puzzles, and that helped me tremendously.

The link can be found here: http://www.ldwforums.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/25915/page/1#Post25915 but please be forewarned! This is the DETAILED answers, not the hints. If you only want the hints, click the link in laurence's post. And the only reason I'm posting the link to the detailed one here, is because the title of the post does say it's for spoilers. Otherwise, I wouldn't do it.