Hello,

Apologise if this has been posted before, but I couldn't find anything like it.

My adept builders don't become master builders even though they keep working on building projects - huts etc.

I'm still quite early on in the game, but when it says they have improved in construction, checking the details shows they have not!

Am I doing something wrong?

Patience... It takes more and more skill as they increase to 'up' a level... They will eventually become master, nothing is wrong.

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.

I don't know if it is just me but I find Building and Farming skills the most difficult to build to Master level. Perhaps, it is simply because we concentrate more on gaining tech points to proceed in the game. I now have 20 in my tribe with the most inexperienced doing the research while the others are building and farming. When I have my food at a very high level and my bath built I will go back to concentrate on tech points. Already I have four elder plus I am having so much fun!

Builders and farmers typically have to walk farther than scientists and doctors do, so their work (and progress) usually takes longer.