I decided that it was time for one of my villagers to have her first baby. I'll usually start them off in pre-natal training by getting intended new mothers to tell a story to the kids, so that she's got enough parenting skills to choose the father herself.

In this case, although the kids set off to listen to a story, she kept deciding to cool her feet, take a swim, repair a hut. Anything but tell a story. When I looked at her details she has "children" and "talking" as her dislikes. Oviously, she wouldn't like talking to children!

I had to start her off as a parent without any training, but luckily it took a couple of tries until a baby appeared, by which time she'd become a Trainee Parent.

Any other interesting results of a villager's likes or dislikes?

I put a guy to the task of building a fire once. He put the wood in place and then the grass. But when I told him to "start a fire" he hightailed it out of the area. When I looked at his dislikes, I found he disliked fire. So I had to have someone else light the fire.

I have a male who dislikes fish. While fishing he's "running away" sometimes

I had several peeps in all VV's who didn't like crowds. I think they don't like the celebrations because it's too crowdy, so they just go on with their job without the festivities

I've got one who dislikes fish as well. However, he seems to retrieve fish quite happily. I expected trouble with him when making him a farmer, but I've never seen any problem. I was surprised, because in the other VV games he'd be running away nearly all the time. He must only dislike fish a little.

Maybe he just dislikes eating fish, but doesn't have a problem catching them.

As I wanted to train Kiamu in building skills, I put him to clear the stream. But impossible to have any success, it was "No!", "No!", "No!", every time!

Looking at his "Likes/Dislikes", I saw that he dislikes.... wind!
(the place to clear the stream is up on the cliff, near the wind-flutes! )

So I brought him back on a hut and he fixed it... easily!!

I think it is neat that these like/dislike reactions were built into the game. It gives our people a little more personality.

I spoke too soon. I've since seen him running away from the food bin, but only after delivering a fish. Presumably he doesn't mind catching or carrying the fish, but dislikes them when they are in the bin. Most odd.

Well I can imagine that, all those fishies so close to those delicious berries? I'm no fish-lover either, I would stock them somewhere else too ... (back in sea for example )