Watering the crops in the Windows version does nothing more than give your farmers more skill .. the crops are on a timed cycle - and it seemed to me it was the same in Village Sim. So change your farmers to researchers (or builders if you need them) while waiting for the crops to come in

I was wondering that but afraid to take the chance since they automatically went to watering when the crops disappeared. I would love to have that time to do other things. The crops seem to disappear once an hour and take about 45 min for them to come back and the more people I have the longer it takes them to come back. I am usually out of all food sources before they come back.
Bridget

That's because with a bigger population you tend to increase the number of farmers, so they harvest faster, making the interim waiting time longer, though the actual cycle time is the same

so you promise me they won't die of starvation if I don't water the crops. I have faithful watered the crops from the beginning. I take every villager that can work and just water the crops until they grow. I will be forever grateful if you can promise me they won't die of starvation. My biggest fear.. I am working so hard on getting to be able to fish.
B

Hmm... Well so far ladyscifi hasn't nipped in to say I'm wrong, but I've gone through Sim games without doing any watering at all, and the crops kept replenishing themselves.. so I'll stick my neck out

i hope you are right since I spend most of my day watering and it is making the game kinda boring now. I could get so much more done if I was not having to water so often. thanks