I've just started my third village. The other two are completely self-sufficient and I just check on them every so often to see what they're doing.

The third village is having a LOT of problems . Like my second village, they ran out of food and I tried to keep them going but I had to go out all day in the "real world" and when I checked back one of them had died and was lying in the middle of the village. He's STILL lying there a "real world" day and a half later even though they now have level 2 in spirituality and several other skills. He's continued to lie there even though several of the villagers have almost sat on him .

Is there any reason why these villagers seem to so behind the others in getting the hang of burying their dead neighbours when the others were doing so almost as soon as they'd landed and what can I do to help them?

Did you actually drop one of your villagers in the burial ground? YOu need to do that for them to work out what to do

Ah {smacks self aside the head}. I did that with my other two villages but I must have forgotten to do it with this one. I tend to lose track of what I've done with which village and think that the newer ones have made more progress than they have.

Well his body's now disappeared, but they didn't bury him. Ah well. At least he's not still lying there now - after much trying - I finally have two nursing mothers.