Thanks for the response, Ladycfii! Leaving the game on and plugged in all day probably won't work, but I'll give it a shot tonight and hopefully will see some results. As it is, I'm somehow down below 200 food AGAIN despite putting all six of my adult villagers to work either foraging or in the farm. How that's possible, I really have no idea. The frustrating part, of course, is that I can't make any progress on construction or research in the meantime.

Ah well, it's all a learning curve. I think the law of random numbers is just out to get me at the moment.

Dragging the little guys back to work when they start to wander off is a workable idea, at least while I'm babysitting the game. Tedious, of course, but it's becoming apparent that this game is going to require a little more attention than I realized at first.