can u help me? the dam is taking too long and my ppl are running out of food cuz i dont have n e coconuts theres algae in the water and i dont have the pot yet to make the stew to get the fish to eat the algae! what do i do?

If I remember correctly, you need Then the cauldron will show up for one of your villagers to pick up.

If you want to know exactly where it is, view the below spoiler.

You're right Krystal.

That's not how you get the algae-eating fish.

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s Arnie said, the stews aren't useful for the algae-eating fish. I think that you'd have to put everybody to build the dam and all the kids at picking up the mushrooms.
Good luck!