After weeks and weeks of trying to get that last piece I need I admit defeat & lack of patience and give up. I need a rare tablet piece and am so tired of sitting and waiting for it to show up. Since tablet pieces only appear once I don't even get to see a different piece appear. I am so frustrated at this point. Chief point out feathers, shells & corals over and over. I have wasted enough hours on this and am tossing in the towel. I am so disappointed....Is there a quitters group I can join?

I know how frustrating collectable can be, Aurora. When I was playing VV2, I had just one thing left and it literally took me upwards of 5 months to finally get it. Once I found that last piece, I cannot tell you the overwhelming joy I felt. It seems that when you are down to just once thing to finish a collectable, it is like the "a watched pot never boils" situation. Try not to spend to much specific time looking for it but instead, play with the village. Make some more potions. Change your villagers clothes, and every so often just skim by and see if your last piece has shown up. If not, Oh well... Just know it will show up sooner or later and the satisfaction will be great!

Yes I finally got my last puzzle piece yesterday!!!

I have been playing the game for months and suddenly there it was.

And started making babies as my population was raised!!!
And before I made babies I got my older elders parenting skills up!
And got several more Jack of All Trades in this game.

As Gamemastr1 said keep it going and pop in to play every so often and you will get it!

I have plyed one village after another so many times,i lost track of how many.I have yet to find all the colletibles.

It looks really hard...I've never completed a collection, but I'm sure if you just play with your villagers and not look around so hard, you'll find it.

Congratulations MickTeddy!

I understand how you feel Aurora, but I don't think you should try so hard. Eventually it shows up.

Alas, I too share your frustration. For this reason, I no longer play just to finish a collection. If I see one, I collect it, and if not...So be it. I concentrate on finishing everything else, and having fun with my tribes. I find this to be a much more enjoyable way to play!

I deleted my magic tribe in error. Grrrrrrrrrrrr

So I now have 2 fledgling villages. 1 of each faction in potential as neither hve enough points to move that way yet.
Mind you I can use the tips and help I have found here to perhaps help me achieve my goals faster.

And when I had been playing my second game for about 10 minutes, setting up tasks and the hive etc, I had no collectables at all.
Finding so many of them in the other games first few minutes must have been a sheer and utter fluke.
And I only had 1 kiddie being flown around to grab them, plus the odd one by the child Chief!

I STILL have one last piece of the puzzle to get.
Looks like it is going to take a while!
lol

I obsessively played my first nature faction tribe and thus completed all the puzzles, the collectibles and most of the awards far too soon to have really enjoyed the game. My second village (magic) is still not finished yet because I only play it when I want to have fun and really interact with their "lives". As to the collectibles...I know they will all eventually show up and I will exuberantly scoop up the nearest child and proudly watch them trot it up to the lab.

After 9 million plus tech points I gave up on that tribe and it's missing feather.
Not having any better luck with current group. Can tell you an approach I tried hoping for better results...leaving the cave rubble & debris until other three categories collected has not helped!

After 10+ tribes, I've decided it's just dumb luck. I've completed the collections in 4 or 5 villages without even trying. One especially lucky village had all of the feathers, all the shells and all but one rare coral before the first babe-in-arms was 5 years old. As soon as I started clearing the rubble, I had pieces appear every few minutes and was done all collections before I started the statue or sewing hut.

Other tribes I have run the kids ragged collecting, used the chief to help point out rares, and I still can't get that one last feather or shell.

I am on my fourteenth completed game and have got all the collectibles in all games except for a tablet piece, or two, in each and every game. I agree this can be hugely frustrating, it's one of the low points of the game IMHO. Apart from that I love it. Does anyone have a spoiler for how to get the tablet pieces quicker? I have found that if I click on the collectibles on the collectibles page when I don't get one for a while, one turns up shortly afterwards, (perhaps a coincidence) but not so with the elusive tablet pieces.

Success! After "only" 442 Isolan years, that last, coveted uncommon tile piece appeared like magic while I was stoking the fire. The kicker? Still have not had any triplets

i give up too
one village i have all the collectibles,
another village i have all the awards
but i cant get one COMPLETE village

I was curious so my last game I decided to watch the rubble clearing exclusively, and note down when I got the tablet pieces. After waiting until 5% for my first piece I got one at 6%,10%,11%,18%,18%,21% and 27%. I am now at 68% and haven't had one since!! Not only is it frustrating, it is REALLY boring! I do fly over the map occassionally to check on everyone and to grab collectibles and mushrooms. I have to say this is the worst part of this game. The rest I love!!

Can anyone tell me what it is that the tribal chief does to help find rare collectibles and how to get him to do it?

If you click on the "?" next to Leadership tech on the Tech screen, you will see a description of all of the chief's special abilities, which can be performed only once every 24 real hours (according to your computer's system clock).

There is a good discussion of how it all works in this thread.

Thank you for the quick response.

I have completed all collections (excepting Keys, as they are mandatory to completing game). It did take a while for final Rare Shell to show up though. It'll happen to y'all as well. I was about to give up as well a couple of times.