I know the chief gets magic powers- like (spoiler) and (spoiler)

but is there anything else he/she can do? oh and i know about the pointing too...

I tried searching the forums and couldn't find where anyone else has asked this, so please forgive a newbie!

Thanks!

The best is to click on the ? of the Leadership technology, it will tell you what does the chief in each level.

Also, he directs the villagers' work and that makes it going faster. Just put him on a task as for working and you'll see on the "Action" line at the bottom, that he'll direct the work!

It's him who put in place the 3rd key. (See the VV3 guide for that )

Maybe there is other things that he does but the most important are here and at the ? of Leadership.

Yes the cheif does the 3 that you mentioned & directs work although when I put a chief to direct something I dont think he makes progress or efficiency any better ?

I think the villagers are more likely to work than to goof off.

My villagers also seem to stick to their jobs at least a little better when there is a chief on the job!

I can't say I've noticed much difference. All the chiefs I've had are far to soft on them for my liking.

Ho do you make the Tribal Chief grant food?

Drop the Chief on the food bin.

the cheaf does MANY things like...... and so on.... p.s. check the spelling

Also

I understood the chief can do something to increase fruit on the trees, but so far I have not come across any information on this ability, or if they can do it, how to get them to!

Any help would be much appreciated

The chief can direct the farmers harvesting food so that they are more productive, but he can't increase the amount of fruit on the trees.

Your Chief can also:
collect firewood & dry grass, heal people, and put water on the firepit. Probably s/he can also collect flowers for potions, but I haven't actually tried that.

As far as the Chief directing work, I've had limited success with that. Since my villagers never seem to want to build that third hut (!!), I usually have my Chief directing their efforts. Sometimes it even helps, but I've come back to the game on occasion to find that the Chief is the only one still there!! Everyone else has run off to go fishing, or swimming, or "enjoying the bath", or whatever.

The chief can collect herbs. It's very handy, actually. It's so much easier to have him go around picking the herbs you need than to take someone off a job.

He can also make potions, so if you're worried about weakening one of your villagers, use the chief and if the potion blows up and weakens him, well, you don't need to worry about making him rest as he doesn't work anyway. Obviously, let him recover before trying again

The more villagers you have, the more influence your chief will be when he/she directs work.

So if you have only a handful of villagers, they may wander off (maybe because their preference was checked for something else). But, as you increase the number of villagers that you have, the chief seems to get more influential. I've even simply put my chief on directing a task (mid and late game) and watched my villagers wander over to where he was to get to work.

Thanks HappyPlayer - I was also wondering about the chief directing work. My tribe is still small and so I hadn't been seeing any real benefits.

if it is a woman she may still have kids (If she is old enough)