i had level 2 of everything, fishing, the hospital, and the orchard, and when i turned it on this morning all i had was bones and message like
the fates were not kind and all your villagers died
now i have to start all over

Oh no!!!!!!!!!! I'd be so sad. Hope you have better luck on the next one. That's why I don't leave the game running if I'm not sitting here watching them.

I've not been playing long and just as my techy was getting to 3000 points doing research - I blinked and the next thing she was already buried through an accident! I think I over worked her poor thing. I only have one male now - eek.

Oh no! That sucks. I feel better about babysitting my game now and pausing it when I sleep. I was tempted to let it run overnight but now I won't. BTW, did you put the game on Slow or was it on Normal or Fast overnight? Slow might be better.

tick--I can't believe your villager got buried through an accident! I didn't know that could happen.

Villagers can be injured while working, so it is possible to lose one who is already weakened.

I can't believe all mine have just been mysteriously wiped out too - why does it happen? I must admit I gave up on VV2 after I thought I had paused it and hadn't and they all died. I'm seriously thinking VV3 was a waste of money if they can randomly all get wiped out when I'm actualy playing!

So sad fr ur tribe.

We don't know of anything that can cause villagers to mysteriously be wiped out. If you were playing constantly, your villagers had plenty of food, and you had a healer to heal any sick villagers, they should have been fine.

The most common causes of villages being wiped out are:

1. Having only one trained farmer. If the farmer gets sick and is not healed, starvation is a real possibility for the tribe. Villagers can (and should) be trained in more than one skill. In VV3, any villager with farming knowledge will harvest food when the food supply is critically low.

2. Not having a trained healer to take care of the sick when the game is off. If you're using kids to heal sick villagers when the game is on, you need to be aware that kids will not heal sick villagers on their own. If there isn't a trained adult healer, you need to be vigilant and check frequently for sick villagers. Keeping the fire going reduces the frequency of disease.

3. Growing the population too large and too soon. The initial food supplies in all VV games are limited and won't support a very large population. In VV3, if you grow the population beyond about 10-12 villagers, you will need to hunt mushrooms a lot to prevent starvation.