SCTNE, I'm not sure that construction techs have anything to do with housing, I think they only relate to certain puzzles that require a builder. My understanding is that your builders will automatically start building huts when the population hits certain levels. For example, once you get to about 27 or 28 villagers, you will start building a new hut.

Because of this, I usually wait on the last construction level and go for science first to speed up research. My games seem to go faster that way.

Ok I am new to this. I have been playing the game for about 2 days. I get to 41,000 in tech and right when i get to 50,000. All my people die. Am I doing something wrong.

SaxyT, you do need th builders at top level in order go get some of the puzzles that link to 'special events' or you won't get them solved. Yes, I agree that science would increase tech points quickly, but I was after the puzzles the first time - I completed the game after 129 real time hours. This is great!

onica, I can't really answer that without more info.

What's your population when they die, what tech levels do you have and what's your food situation at?

Just a guess without the above info, but is it possible (since it takes a while to get tech levels) that you are doing no breeding at all and your villagers are dying of old age?

It's true that you need all your farming before you can grow a large population in this game but the villagers do age so make sure you have at least a few little rugrats running around.