I had my tribe just looking for collectables and trying to get trophies, since all puzzles were complete. I decided to stop playing for a while and I thought my game was paused. I hadn't even opened it in over a month.

Yesterday I decided to go have a look, and found it had not been paused and was running on 'normal' speed all of that time. I was surprised to find that only 4 villagers had died, and they from old age. There was 46 food no fire, and the stream was 100% blocked.

I guess the tribe had been busy growing, lol. There were 38 6 year olds! The population was 95! I set all to farming or building, and now this morning the stream is flowing clear, and they have nearly 8,000 food!