With my 2nd village I decided to keep a sharp eye for the tablet pieces. I put the game on pause everytime I wasn't watching them closely. When the rubble was finally cleared...I was missing 6 tablet pieces.

Does this mean tablet pieces and collectables appear while the game is on pause?

Yes, the mushrooms and the collectibles are independent of the rest of the game's timing, they appear even when you pause the game!

It has been over 15 Isola years since I have seen a tablet piece. and I am always roaming around looking to collectables! Though it probably doesn't help that the 3 I need are rare! Guess I will have to wait until cheif helps me find them.

I have a real fear of leaving my game running when I leave it. I have no clue if the puzzle pieces that would show up while the game was unattended would ever show back up. I still need one puzzle piece and one feather.

I know alot of people are saying that they put their games on pause while moving the rubble in hopes that this will prevent collectables from appearing but this hasn't been my experience. I often put my game on pause to move villagers around and have seen collectables and mushrooms appear and dissapear while the game was on pause. Maybe it's just my game but pause seems to only stop the clock and the villagers from moving. I have even used pause when I want to make a baby and one of the villagers won't stop running around and have always been successful.

I have to share this: today, in my second magic tribe, I completed all the collectibles even before finishing the bath (this is my third tribe with completed collections). An hour later, one of my girls came up with the first twins of the tribe. Gee, am I lucky or what?

I always pause my game, before going to bed or going anywhere else. But knowing that the collectibles still appear and reappear, even if it's paused, really unnerves me. That means the game has to be played CONSTANTLY, no stopping, no time for sleep, etc, to MAKE SURE you catch EVERYTHING. Scary thought.

redrockwolf, you gave me creeps .

Though I did experienced that once with vv1, for two days I didn't sleep, on the third day I set up my alarm clock (even though the game was paused) to return back to the game as soon as possible .

Those sound like posts for this thread !

I finished clearing the rubble a few days ago and hadn't seen a tablet piece since then. I JUST found a new uncommon one a few minutes ago so, YES, they do still show up. It just seems that it is not that often.