maybe we have discussed this before, maybe not.

I have been trying to eliminate the building skill from one of my established villages. I have not let anyone with any building skill breed for generations now. No babies are being born with building skill. I know I am not giving the villagers any experience in the area. However, they continue to show up. Half of my villagers keep managing to get the skill.

This obviously aggravates me. I thought that villagers didn't just magically learn things. They had to be taught it, or be born with it. Have I don't something wrong?

True, villagers don't just magically learn things, but... sometimes a villager will think a hut needs repair and will try to fix it. If he is successful, he'll gain skill and be that much more likely to try and do it again in the future. Just chalk it down to the villagers' curiosity and leave it at that. ^^

*sigh*

at least eliminating the building skill will be a challenge then, lol

why are you trying to eliminate the building skill eyeshigh?

Not Eyeshigh, but I'll bet it's because he wants farmers, not builders, now that the puzzles are completed.

I'm a she, and yes I want farmers and healers, no need for builders, all they do is drive me insane with all of the fixing of the huts. I think at some point I must have given a male builder some breeding skill because I had a village full of children who were growing up to be builders, which was useful when I needed the ruins rebuilt and idol uncovered, but darn annoying otherwise!

Occasionally, there is a need for builders. One of the events can cause the beach to get cluttered with debris again. When that happens I just need to put one of my villagers on the beach and be successful once, and eventually others (with building skills) will join in on the task.

If there is no one with building skills, it'll take much longer, even if only one villager starts on the task.

But this is an interesting challenge and I may try it myself. I normall pick a male breeder who has both farming and building skills on the theory that they are going to learn to build anyway...

Drives me insane, too. I have a game that's been running since September. Most of the time, I do succeed in having children born with no building skill at all (because I very carefully choose a breeder with only farming or farming/healing skills). But there's always a builder or two who learned on their own - I never activate the building skill for anybody. And sorry about the gender mixup.


I've had to do that sometimes, too, when all my males somehow had acquired building skill. Only when I had the shipwreck events (beach debris) occur, did I intentionally activate building skills, and unfortunately, that tends to result in builder descendants for a couple of generations. Groan.

I've been trying to elimminate building skill for a long time because my dad's village is jam-packed with builders, and his food went from 4million to 500,000

I think if I can get it down to only a handful of builders I will be happy. Last night I had a coniption fit because I got an event that wiped out 15 million in food, and while quite a few of them did go back to gathering food, my builders were fixing the huts while starving to death. Then half my farmers were either watering crops or doing laundry. I was not a happy camper.

And no worries about the gender mix up. My students accidentally call me Mister every once in a while (not that I could be confised for a guy-but hey). If i cared that much about it, my avatar would make it more clear that I'm a girl, instead of being my favorite painting.