If your villager is starving and you only have a beehive remember that when one mushroom appears another one will appear shortly. Also keep your villagers working in the lab to buy your faction please submit more if you have them

Errr... mushrooms don't appear shortly one after the other, except during rain.

Hey Crazy? How long did it take for you to find all yer collectibles? i realize there is no time clock, but gimme a clue as to how much Science points ya got, that should gimme an idea. Seems, i have been staring at my monitor for days and days and still cannot find the last one to each of the four categories... on 2!!! different games. FRUSSS tratin'!!

LOL Opti! You may have to wait long periods of time for good collectibles. Also, you can get the chief to make rare collectibles. Another good way of finding collectibles is making your chief do a lecture, to make sure that no collectibles are hidden under the villagers feet.

Well, all I can say is that I was very lucky. I'm pretty sure I finished in about 40-45 Isola years, even before anyone died. The only thing I know to make collectibles appear more often is to make your chief point out one every 24 hours if you have L3 leadership, like Becca said.

Can someone give me some tips or tricks to get one of my villagers to be a master parent? Hes about 60% of the way there. I cannot make anymore babies I don't have enough housing but Im working on it.. Hes 62 so I don't have alot of time....I've been having him read stories to the childen ALOT but I don't think its helping it says he gained parenting but the bar hasn't gone up any.......Thanks!!!!

He is gaining skill; the difference is that as he rises in skill, gaining further skill has less effect. Think of it as a role-playing game. You may need 100 experience points to get to level 1 (trainee). You might need 250 to get to level 2 (adept). Level three might take 500 points, and level four might take 1000 - a total of 1,850.

This is only an example, but the point is that as your villagers gain skill, they need to repeat the action more often to make the same amount of progress. Just keep up the storytelling.

I know a VERY fast way of becoming a master parent. It will only work if you have one or more villagers of the opposite gender, who are over 50. Keep placing the villager on a 50 year old plus, and do not wait for them to go inside. Simply keep putting him/her on the elderly villager, and eventually they will become a master. I used this twice to get JoaTs. It's a fast and effective way, but it IS cheating. Otherwise, if you have a young villager, just give them a bit of skill in parenting and let them do the rest. I only used the first option because my villager would have died of old age before I could master him.
By the way, it will take a while to get from adept to master. It may seem like the bar is stuck, but it is actually moving in very small portions.

Technically, it's an exploit, and therefore not explicity forbidden in the posting guidelines.

Lurkily? Just wanted to say, thanks for all of the clues, hints, helpful facts and data!

Truly appreciated!

And no, i have no signature and decided i like it that way!!!! <G> i like being a rebel! Woo Hoo!