Some of my villagers seems to get stuck being adept even when they are working really hard to be masters. This is especially true of my poor builders. They build and build and their skill bar never moves. Can someone give me a clue as to why they can't get to the master level even when it says the villager has improved?

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I also have had this problem-ESPECIALLY with my builders! I've even seen where it say the villager has improved in construction and yet the bar did not move (I have a way of marking it to see whether or not the bar has moved or not...) And I have this man who his getting closer and closer to being elderly and although he is soooo close to being a master builder (which I desperately need him to be!!) it just won't move! He's been at it for at least 5 years!

There are two factors at work in what you're seeing. The first is that the bars are made up of "segments" and won't change until the villager has gained enough skill to move to the next segment, even though they are actually gaining skill with each successful task. The second is that the amount of skill a villager gains with each task depends upon how skilled they already are. An untrained villager can show a noticeable change in the skill bar on the first successful attempt. As they become more skilled, the incremental change in their skill decreases as their skill increases. Once a villager becomes adept, the amount of additional skill they gain with each successful completion of a task is much smaller than it was when they were trainees. It can take only a few successes to go from untrained to trainee, and hundreds more successes to make it all the way to master.

Thanks! It's just so frustrating But hopefully he'll finally reach the master mark...or I'll just have to buy the next level in medicine!