Hi, after installing the latest version of VS 1.1, I had to start the game all over again. Somehow luck was on my side and quicky I solved all 12 puzzles. The last being puzzle #11 at 287 hours.

Today, however, I had a shock of my life. I realised my huts were gone and I checked the puzzles, #1, #3 - 6, #8 - 9 and #12 became unsolved again!!! I was so worried that my Tech levels were lost but luckily they're still at level 3.

I checked my status and it still record that I have solved 12 of 12 puzzles. And though I have level 3 for all tech, my villagers are still confused about the giant rock?!

Is this a known bug or something completely new? Pls advise, thanks.

i cant believe it, you scared me...i'm breaking my head trying to solve the puzzles, i hope nothing like this will happen to me.....email the LDW friendly staffs, i'm sure the'll come up with something...

Could you possibly provide a few more details surrounding that situation? For example, did an Island Event occur shortly before you had that shocking reversal in your game?

Nothing abnormal happened before that as far as I can remember. And I can't remember if it happened after an island event or something. The only thing I have observed since v1.0 to the latest is sometimes when I tap on the screen to zoom in or do my dragging around to view elsewhere, I have some errors that prompted me to reset my device. I can't remember if the reversal happened after a reset. It didn't for v1.0. But for v1.1, I have only experienced once such reset and after that I realised that some puzzles became unsolved. I am not absolutely certain that they are related.

Now I have solved all the unsolved "solved puzzles" except the boulder. It has remained solved after the "reversal" but the boulder is still blocking something until now! This is so crazy!

Yesterday, I dragged an Adept Builder over the boulder. At first, the comment was "She sees the boulder blocking something". Then the comment became "She sees something unusual" and started walking away. I tried to simulate it with a Master Builder to no avail. I followed the Adept builder until she reached position of Puzzle #12 and she knelt down around that area a few times and came about to nothing. Please note that I've re-solved my Puzzle #12 as well by then. I thought there is a new puzzle or surprise hidden for v1.1! What a disappointment!

Update: The error that I mentioned above just occured while I wish to drag the screen. Here is the error message:

Quote:

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MemoryMgr.c, Line:3635, NULL handle

You may need to restart the handheld by performing a soft reset. Please press the RESET button.

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Can't press the Reset button on screen. I always need to use the reset pin in such cases. Anyway, checked the game after soft resetting my device, it's ok. Nothing is amiss except my boulder is still blocking something eventhough it's been solved earlier.

I had a similar thing happen. Nothing odd like crashes or resets happened before. I had completed the game again with all 12 puzzles solved and one day I turned on the game one day and it told me that my villagers had just put up their first hut. My villagers were on the whole rebuilding thing but now all puzzles are solved except #5.
Hopefully, this is an easy problem to fix.

Peter

Another thing that I can remember doing probably before some of my puzzles became unsolved was I changed the difficulty level from Medium to Hard. But that never has any problem in v1.0.

I have never paused the game. It used to be on Slow when I sleep and Normal on my waking hours until I solved all puzzles. Then I left it permanently on Normal real hours.

Will I ever get to move the boulder again?

Until now, it's over 962 Realtime hours played. On the Puzzle Status, the boulder has been moved but in the game, it's still there.

Arthur could say for sure, but it's likely that the game "thinks" that the puzzle is already completed. It's clear that the game has become "confused" about its status, due to some sort of bug. The problem lies in determining the cause of this bug.

Maybe Village Sim cannot write the save file, and it restores the previous game?

No, because these are long-running games that have been saved many times before the bug happened. They wouldn't revert to the status of a new game. Besides, the puzzle screen shows that the puzzle is complete, in conflict with the conditions in the game - that wouldn't happen if it was an issue with writing the savegame file.