I have restarted this game three times now and if I am honest its really beginning to _bug_ me.
I seem to be doing everything ok, I get the food problem sorted an update to the trees when the green algea comes but I cannot get rid of the green algea no matter how much I look with a master farmer, am I doing anything wrong ? or looking in the wrong place.
The furthest I have got is the two huts built, the dam, fire, the sharp intruments made and started to cut back but only got to 80% complete, crops coming every 300 and odd so minutes but then everyone died because there wasn't enough food
Please help or give me a few pointers to help me on my way

You are going at it the right way. But you have to have a certain tech level.

You're on the right track with the master farmer, but you need a certain tech level first ...

you have to have food level 3 and a master farmer, you have to let them get at least 10 yellow fishes, i think, i had 5 master farmers and i put them to do and i finally did it, your best bet is to have 2 or 3 master farmes and do it a few times.

good luck

What do you mean a certain tech level, I got level 2 farming, level 2 building, level 2 tech and level 2 foresty kinda thing but I keep running out of food but cannot get my tech points up enough to get the level 3 farming

Well you don't have the right tech level of the right tech just yet. Unless you have a lot people, you should be able to hold them off until you get what you need.

No igottapi4, she does not have the right tech to solve it yet.

i know thats why i edited my answer.

Ok, well it was not edited when I wrote it. Sorry. And we are trying not to give out too many spoliers just yet.

Make sure you build the dam as soon as you can. That gives you a better chance of making it through. Looking for mushrooms can be important in this game - even a life saver - just as it is in VV1. Any duplicate collectibles you spot while looking for mushrooms also help your tech points.

The farms will support 12-15 villagers, more with coconuts and shrooms.

You won't be able to grow much more than that until you solve your present food source problems.

Ok thankyou all very much for your responce it is greatly appreciated

I'm having the same problem. My people keep dying because the crops won't grow fast enough and the mushrooms don't come fast enough and i'm still working towards level 3 food, but I think everyone will be dead by then :-(

It is very possible on easy and normal to make it to level 3 farming with a villager of 10-12 people buying all level 2 techs before you even get level 3 farming. Just takes a little strategy. Keep trying

You'll need to keep your population down until you can clean the ocean. I will not go over 9 until then. Since it takes time to meet the requirements to solve puzzle 7 you have to manage your food resources a lot better then in VV:ANH. As we have said, you will have to come at this game in a different manner as compared to VV:ANH.

well I only have 7 people and most of them are adults.. and i'm playing on easy so i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong then

I don't know. The farm will easly support 7 villagers with only one farmer. Or they getting sick and maybe not being healed?

nope :-/ none of them say they're sick, but it also takes like 400 minutes for the food to regrow and then that food is usually gone within 3 hours or so!

Ok, switch it to 2x speed until the garden comes back, then switch to normal or slow speed. Then when the crops are done switch back to 2x speed, and so on.

What speed are you playing at?

You should normally be able to build up a big enough stock of food to tide your villagers over the period of the empty field with the help of the mushrooms.

Oh okay thank you "TheVillageIdiot" i'll try that and "Arnie" right now it's constantly on x2 speed and maybe that is my problem?

On 2x speed it should not take 400 minutes for the new crops. Have you time tralved?

Has anyone been able to find the beetles? Or the pebbles?

I didn't found any beetle, or pebble.. Or anything like that.. Huh..

You have to solve a puzzle for each before you will start finding them.

Ah ha...thank you

Now...any idea how long a stew will last? Or how many it will feed?

how do you time travel?

its a very very bad idea

why?

Time travel involves changing the time on your pc to make the game play faster. However, you will make game play harder on yourself, and may also interfere with any programs that you have a subscription to, like virus protection software, for example. It's considered very bad form, and will prevent others from giving any help when asked. It also detracts from the game overall, which makes it a waste of your own money, and that's...just dumb.

Vvking, you can time-travel by, clicking on you're computers clock. But this can "kill" you're entire game, at one point. So I do not recomand it, and it affects not only you're game but you're whole computer.

okay I won't

I think Village Monk said it best here:
http://www.ldwforums.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=53311&page=2#Post53311

Lisalyanne

As well as possibly messing up other windows programs it can cause strange side effects in VV. Even if you don't get strange things happening to your game it will prevent completely or delay your ability to get some of the puzzles in VV: TLC especially.