I've gotten all the awards except that one.
I cant get anyone to live past 80!
I took real good care of Izzy and she died @ 80

Are you taking the Nature path or Magic? L3 Nature enables your villagers to live longer. So far I've had four villagers qualify: at 90, two at 92, and one lived until she was 95. Three were in my oldest game.

i have 2 villages, one in each faction, and 80 is the oldest i get in either
95 !!! congrats arnie

my oldest villager has lived to 100 but i don't know how that happpened i didn't do anything special he was just a master farmer.

Does it help if you baby them? I get to worrying about them as they become elderly and do things like 'fly' them around to save on walking. If they are trudging painfully toward the waterfall, I give them a lift there and back. Then I send them down for a nice long bath. I set them to work at something 'easy' like science or healing or just let them wander. I even let my 68 year old 'have a little fun' before he went. (It was the last thing he did, but his little skull was grinning!)
None of this probably makes a darn bit of difference as far as longevity, but I get to feel as though I am a loving and kind goddess to my people. Plus, it is too painful to watch them struggle to walk. I'm only a few years short of knee and/or hip replacement myself!
Serious question: Does it make ANY difference whether you work your villagers hard (even refusing the food and water breaks) or give them a life of ease, say motherhood and studying medicine? Is the game designed to consider 'wear and tear' on a body or is the lifespan determined from the start? I'll still be sweet to my elderly and show tough love to my stubborn couch potatoes, but it would be nice to know if that affects anything other than my own ego.
Can they die of neglect when their goddess spends too long at the forum after cranking them up to high speed? Um...gotta go!

Science is not exactly "easy" on your villagers because they might have research-related accidents that will lower their health bars.

I have the nature faction and I've only have two villagers make it to 81 =[

I also have nature and the closest I've gotten is 78 and 79.

Ive had quite a few, including one farmer girl who made it all the way to 98.

I have "Magic" faction, and have had no luck getting any of them to 90. I hope it's not impossible for those of us who chose Magic to get this award, but I'm worried since it sounds like those of you choosing Nature is have trouble too. Highest I've gotten is 82 so far.

My oldest is 89. My 2nd chief.

I'll have to pick one of my villagers to baby and take care of and see if that makes any difference.

oh no tofu! so close

i have tried babying some
with all the puzzles done i don't make any of them work now, but of course most do it voluntarily

yummymummy: a hundred!!!!!!!! that's awesome

thanks patricia57 i didn't do anything special with him at all i've chosen the nature faction and left them to it.

I haven't had one get past 86 on Magic faction.

That award is the only thing I have left to complete every aspect of the game.

well I havent finished a complete tribe yet but the highest my villagers have gotten so far is 58

Well, that makes ME feel better. I chose Magic Faction, too. Made it harder in the food area, for about the first 30 game years. I have hope for my little guys. I've lost 3 villagers, now: Hakuna, at 66; Hillbilly, at 64; and Maya, at 65. I still have five village Founders left. All my Founders, but one, became Esteemed Elders. I'd like to see at least one of the Founders reach a ripe old age.

I wonder if I'm doing anything wrong? I let my villagers basically do what they want and they still die on average at 73 - 75... I don't get it

Yay! I'm glad to hear there's some hope for us Magic factioned people! Heidirea, do you have your game set to "Easy", "Normal" or "Hard". Mine has been set to hard, but I'm wondering if it might be worth it to move it back down to "Easy" for this last award I'm missing.

I always play the first few times on "easy". When I get bored, then I play a few times on "normal", etc. That keeps the game exciting for me. Usually works until the next game comes out. This one, I'm glad to say, has more options. "Easy" for Magic; "Easy" for Nature. "Normal" for Magic; "Normal" for Nature. "Hard" for Magic; "Hard" for Nature. Hopefully, many times, on each level will keep me occupied, until VV4 comes out. (Not too long, I hope! )

I have magic faction. Quite a few of my villagers reached 80+. Just none passed 89 yet. I picked normal difficulty. I just finished every tech except science. Hopefully they will live longer now.

I had my best laugh when trying to get two of my villagers to 90. I chose to experiment with potions (instead of reading the cheats) and found one that improves health, so I am feeding that to my elders to see if it helps past 76 (so far, my oldest) However; you guys have got to try these two potions-----try, Tiger Lilly+Rose+Cactus, as well as Rose+Rose+Tiger Lilly. I laughed until I peed in my pants!! These guys are a hoot but I was afraid I had killed off my poor old guy that I was trying to save!!! I'll get back to you on the health potion---I don't have results of my experiment yet.

In my longest-running tribe I've had four villagers live to reach Ancient Elder: one got to 90, two to 92, and one to 95. That's out of 104 who have died so far according to the Roll of the Dead. In my second tribe the oldest villager died at 88 (out of about 30 on the ROD) and my newest tribe has an oldest villager of 78 (only half a dozen have died there so far). All the tribes followed Nature.

Well One of my villager's has finally past on she lived to 66 my oldest villager yet she was my first EE. I have nature & second level of medicine tech.

I have just had two die at 100:


I have Level 3 in Medicine and Nature. I also had my game off for a long period of time.

Kasey, I am really impressed and jealous .

For some reason, my villagers die in bunches at the same age. I'll turn the game on and there will be a bunch of dead villagers. When I check the roster of the dead, I'll see they'll all have died at the same age. Consecutively I've had 8 die at 75, 10 at 79, 7 at 83, 8 at 80 and so on. It's weird.

i've made it to 86, several 81,82 84 but never to 90, any ideas on how to help them? seemed as the game progressed so did their deaths, 60's then to 70's then to 80's and then it dropped down to 70's and i can't get them back up. i usually ease up on them once the puzzels are solved and just let them coast along, not even trying for EE's, but then they started dying earlier? is this just coincidense? anyone know?

I've made it to I think 93 in a tribe with nature with everything researched to the maximum (except magic, it isn't my faction).

My oldest thus far was my fav Siki..She was 71 (With Lvl 2 Mediciene!)

I got one to 92 in Nature,no luck in Magic

I've still had no luck getting 90 in Magic Faction. And I still have the same weird issue I mentioned before...groups of villagers dying at the same age. Today when I checked on them, I'd had 9 villagers die at age 77. It's driving me nuts. This is the only thing I need to completely finish all the goals/puzzles of my first tribe.

I have gone both factions "on two separate attempts of course" and achieved a 90 yo in both but only after medicine level 3. My oldest villager was 96 on my first game when I went with Nature. I can't remember the age of the villager when I went with magic.

Well, I still have no one past 81!!
I have level 3 of every thing on 3 villages and some villagers i have pampered outrageouly, and still no 90 y/o!

Somehow while I wasn't watching someone lived to be 90. Not sure who it was...I have been frustrated because I can't get anyone to build so I have been ignoring the tribe and only check in once a week.

i have researched everything just trying to finish off the collections and awards. can't get that 90 year old. and i am on nature as well, any ideas out there?

Best suggestion I've seen is to leave the game off for a while and only come back to it after a few days. Of course, you can still play another village in a different slot.

Sometimes you just have to wait a while, until your villagers start livivg to the age of 85-67.Also. I've found that it's easier for scientists to live longer.Hope that helps

I meant 85-87
sorry about that.

my oldest was 99!!! WOO!

weird, she was named after me