Hi all -- I decided to start a new village on my Village Sim and I was happily going through the puzzles, but I never upgraded to level 3 harvest and I had 2 farmers that kept the food levels btw 1000 - 2000 and all seemed to be well. I left the villagers building the temple and when I came back the food was all gone and people started dropping like flies. I am guessing that they eat a lot more while they are doing construction, but it's a bit too late for that revelation! I made everyone remaining a farmer and left them watering the crops and foraging but still every time I come back there are still NO CROPS (in at least 3 days) and more and more are dead. I am down to 4 people (3 adults and 1 child), I have around 34k tech points and I am at my wits end. I have one person foraging, one researching and one watering. but whenever I leave them alone, I come back and they are all watering. What brings the crops back in VillageSim?

You should check out this post and see if it's possible that you're experiencing the situation that I described there.

Sadly when I awoke today, the village was gone. There were no crops there either. I actually never pause the game, and I'm not sure why. I figure they are a village, let them do what they will! It's too bad, because a barrell of babies showed up during the night! But they died as well. Le sigh.... I've started a new game, so we'll see what happens!

Uh mabye you should press the all powerfull pause button.

I've already done the whole thing without ever pressing the pause button, so that can't be it.

Every game is different.

I've even had a well established village (GC, all puzzles complete, 90+ villagers) almost wiped out over night.

I had a game on a computer that I only get to once or twice a week. I started a new game a few weeks ago, pausing while I was gone since the game wasn't quite ready to run on its own.

Last Wednesday, I left the game running. I had Level 2 Farming, and each adult spent a little time "planting crops" so it was in their "knowledge set." No new babies yet, so only the original 4 adults and kid (it was hard mode...) They should have survived until yesterday.

But when I opened the game all of the villagers had died. When I checked the log, there were at least five crops that came in, but my farmers ignored it. They picked the berrie bush until it was gone, and then everyone starved.