I tried the pause technique in order to bring multiple children on the mushroom but once I've dragged the last child, the mushroom disappears and mind you, this is in pause. And also do you guys recommend me pausing the game overnight or at 1/2 speed? I want to wake up to some progress so I was second guessing...

If you have levle 3 farming you can try it at 1/2 speed!

riality, if you use the pause method to get mushrooms, try putting 2 or 3 children on... don't get too greedy and try to put every child on.... the mushrooms don't last forever on pause.. they come and go the same way

As bajantara stated, the mushrooms will go away on pause, but what ever kids you drop on it so "picking a mushroom" on the action line will pick up a mushroom when you unpause the game. So I just keep piling kids on the them until it goes away. And all the kids who had picking a mushroom on their action line will still pick the mushroom.

i'm greedy!!

when i find a mushie, i pause the game and grab every kid i can find, GC first if possible (so the little fart won't throw a party and ruin it). i throw every kid i can find on the mushie until the action line stops saying "picking a mushroom" sometimes i only get one or two, sometimes i get more than 20, it depends on how early i saw it, and how close by the kids are.

Ooh! good tip about grabbing the GC first (or early.) Though in most of my "finished" games, I don't care so much about how many mushrooms I get since food isn't as critical.

In my current "in progress" game, I working on getting Level 3 Medicine before Level 3 Farming, so food is more critical. No GC yet, so I just grab all the kids I can until the "picking a mushroom" line doesn't appear.

BTW, on one of my computers, I changed the carring.png file to be twice as big as it normally is. All of the objects grew, but the main reason was to make the mushrooms easier to spot. Unfortunately, the mushrooms don't show up in Map Mode. I was hoping to "mushroom hunt" by making them easier to see when looking at the entire island area.

riality, in answer to your other question. It depends. If it is still very early in the game and you might not have enough berries, or berries and harvests on their own, you may want to pause the game overnight. Later, Harvesting the crops can substain a smallish (less than a dozen) population overnight at 1/2 speed. For larger populations, you really should have level 3 Farming until you get practice at finding the right balance.

i tried the same trick sfrose. i wish the mushies showed up in map mode, but then it wouldn't really be a challenge would it?

Perhaps. But it would just depend on the priorities that someone has. If they are in map mode, they wouldn't be able to to "speed up" tasks like watching for the research "kick" quite as easily.

There are times in the game that I really need those mushrooms, and it can be so frustrating to find one and by the time you also find a kid and get him there it disappears.

can't watch for the kick while i am perusing for mushrooms either

oh well