Well, I was playing my first game on "Hard" and I got the face in the woods. It appeared to a grown woman (I had two women, two men, and a little girl). I knew the risk, but I decided to take it. And darned if that ungrateful wench did run off with her master farmer and abandon the rest of them. I know she did. She was living pretty with plenty of food and probably got made queen or something while the other poor refugees struggled along.

Is the master farmer always 14? She likes younger guys, I guess. Well, she was only 18 or 19.

Yeah! I found your answer...sorry to say I have tried this for two days and there is no movement in the skill of ANY of my villagers....I am just wondering if any one has ever got to this point..I honestly think if you don't have builders before the buildings are done you can't make them...please prove me wrong...tell me something I haven't tried....thanks for being there! Betts

Exactly which version of the game are you playing?

Did you do the no builder thing that I did or lose your GC

How do I find that out?

Are you playing on a computer or a PDA?

computer

Then all you have to do to train a new builder is to drop a villager on one of the small huts to the left of the research table. Make sure that their action says, "Fixing hut" and watch them to see if they're successful. If they don't succeed, keep trying until they do. If their action says, "Examining hut" pick them up and try again - they won't get skill from that action. After they succeed at fixing the hut, they will have some building skill and will start fixing huts on their own. It will take awhile for them to develop to Master level, but they will eventually make it.

ok I will try the hut to the left....I was using the one we built first...thanks I will try it
Later....

Hey Barb...yyeeaahhh!!!!It is working.... Juro's skill line is getting blue...you are a winner!!!!