Ok so theres the algea everyone is talking about, well i get it grows when they over fish,, but what if they wont fish, i got my crops and my coconuts, they go for those but not fishing,, what do i do???

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I had the same problem on one of my games. I couldn't figure out how to find the algea eating fish so I just started a new game. I made sure I could get coconuts quickly and now my village is ok. I will go back and try to figure the first game out after I am done with this new one I started.

Good luck Terina

No I allready get how the algea grows,,, and how to fix it,,, but it wont grow ,, their not fishing anymore,,, so the algea isnt going to grow at all,,, i think i jumped the gun on getting my farm tech up ,, im guessing i was supposed to acually wait till the fish were all gone and then get second level farming??? so theres not algea growing at all... please tell me i dont have to start over

I wouldn't start over... the coconuts are limited, so eventually they'll run out and have to go back to fishing. Even if you get the crops growing, they don't grow all the time, so there's going to be a lot of time when they're fishing instead.

I hope so, im not going to start over till i know for sure ive Messed it up LOL ,,, but as you said they may just be ok,, and when the coconuts are at 0 and the crops are waiting for a recycle,, i may put everyone on fishing just to get it going lol ill figure it out thanks everyone for the imput

They will fish, and it will cause the algae to appear. Just keep dropping villagers into the ocean. Did you time warp? Getting the algae usually is not difficult and should appear before you get the farm playing normally.

A couple of times I came back to discover the coconut trees depleted, the crops empty, and the food bin at zero. Throwing as many villagers as possible into the sea a few times soon made them fish, and was a quick way to rescue the food stocks. It did bring the onset of the algae closer though.

Wow.. really arnie? I have to try that

You've got to keep an eye on them, though. Otherwise they wander off to plant crops or water the field, ignoring the famine.

No Algae and you want to start again ???? I'd be down on my knees thanking the Gods of Isola heheheheh

I've been playing since yesterday afternoon and I've had no problems keeping the food level up. I've got crops and the stew and no sign of algae at all. My food reserves are over 700 and I've got 14 people (3 of them babies)...How can I possible get the algae problem to show up? Is it critical to solve a puzzle?

In short, you don't need the problem. It'll probably turn up eventually and you'll wish it would go away. Solving the problem is a puzzle, but I don't think you need to have the problem first. At least, I think not; I've always had the algae around for at least a while.

Yes it is ciritcal to solve one of the puzzles. Just keep dropping your farmers into the ocean. You'll get it.

I have had a couple of games where I could skip the algae all together. I had runners and the seemed to hury the game along so I did not have to worry about the algae.

So just keep putting them in the ocean, and it will come.

Thanks, I'll just keep playing the way I am and see what happens.

VI,

Did you try solving the algae problem without getting it? I'm surprised that Arthur didn't include the possibility that could happen.

Woke up this morning to algae, no coconuts and no crops.
Hope they don't starve to death

How can you solve algae problem without getting it?

I've been keeping one villager fishing, one building, and the rest gaining tech points to stave off the algae! I'm going to see how long I can go before I have to buy the first tech level in farming. That way my coconuts will remain untouched while I get the most amount of fish that I can.... hopefully that will help while I deal with the algae, and tide them over until I earn enough tech points....
But, I'm also only making one baby at a time, when my youngest is 12... so I'll always have a kid to gather goodies. So far, so good...

That should work for you. I've been able to go straight to level 3 farming on a occasion or two. It all depends on how much mushroom hunting you do, as well as collectable, if you are blessed with any runners and what events you happen to get.

I've not had the algae problem either. But I've purposely kept my population down, except that one combo of herbs in the stew that made everyone feel..........friendly, lol. But thankfully no babies were made, whew!
I keep seeing people talk about time warping, I just couldnt do that. I am running at 2x speed and sometimes I still think it's going too fast. It's about the journey more than the destination, right? lol.

I dont even know how to time warp, so thats not gonna happen, and no thanks i dont want the explaination lol but i eventually did get the algea, after the coconuts were all gone and the crops were waiting for a recycle,, i sat there and put them back over and over again, and it showed up.

BTW, it is possible to solve the puzzle without getting the algae. I've done it a couple of times now.

I still have no algea...will this effect me solving the puzzles and finishing the game??

Here's what happened: First my tribe fished until they got Coconuts=(level 2 farming). Then they stopped fishing and started harvesting the coconuts (they also started the [censored]=(level 2 construction) while they were still harvesting the coconuts. I had 8 villagers at that time.

Then they finished the [censored] and waited on the crops. At that time I had about 700 food stored. Since the coconuts were getting low, I made my tribe fish when food strage got too low below 300. Once the crops were ready, my tribe harvested the crops(scarecrow was also in place). My food storage is now about 2000.. and still growing, but there is still no algea. Since my tribe is harvesting crops there has been no need to fish anymore.

Is the algea necessary for the prosperity of my villagers?

YB

When your population gets high enough, they'll proably need to start getting into the fish again to supplement their food resources.

I wish i have no algae at the beginning. It always comes too fast and i have food shortage problem.

Yogibear,

Im not sure if the algea is required to solve the puzzle,, i ended up having to restart a new game cause they all died of starvation,*my fault lol* and i let them totally overfish the ocean, when the algea apeared i got level 2 farming and started with the cocnuts and its been wonderfull since, and to top it all off, i am not having the food glitch everyone else seems to be having, they work just fine while im away. But no harm in trying though see if you can get the algea puzzle without the algea acually showing, if it doesnt work, sit there and put them in over and over again till you got it. best of luck

PS ,, i love how you miss spelled dam and LadyCF edited it out lol

I'm just on my second game. On the first I had food difficulties, but the second time 'round I knew much better what I was doing (what to concentrate on, how to solve the necessary puzzles first, etc.), plus I didn't start having babies until the food situation was stable. I had a good store of food (always at least 1000) all the way through the game, like that.

I just got rid of my algae, and I looked in the log file... It keeps saying, for example, "Fish store remaining: -118", and it keeps going down from there.

I've had the same problem...the algae is the last puzzle I need to solve and it's never appeared.

My villagers just constantly water the crops..which never appear unless I'm actually watching it, and they never fish.

The only thing that's keeping them alive at the moment is the stew that heals, or they'd all be dead.

I think my problem is I solved the crop puzzle before the algea appeared and it's caused a glitch or something.

Have you been dragging villagers into the water? They should start fishing on their own once they've been taught to do so. Just because they're trained as farmers, doesn't mean they know how to find all the sources of food. A farmer won't start harvesting coconuts or fishing unless (s)he's been shown to do so (at least, as far as I've noticed).

Nah, they'd all been taught to fish..three of them became masters just from fishing..they just wouldn't do it more than once (from me dropping them in the water) then they'd go straight back to watering non-existant crops.

Seems I've solved the problem though..found the algae fish without the algae and now that puzzle is solved they are fishing AND crops are appearing.

Maybe it has something to do with doing the puzzles out of order?

That would seem to make the most sense. I was definitely wrong about the farmers needing to be taught by you how to choose different food resources, as I just had one whom I had on the fields go out and start harvesting coconuts while I was away, and another who started fishing. They do seem to prefer the task that you put them on though, whether fishing, harvesting coconuts, or tending the fields.

You'll just need to keep dragging them to the ocean if you want to solve that puzzle. Trust me, the Algae will come, but you are going to have to work to get. Wow! Did I just say that? LOL It could be a _bug_, but to find out we will need you to work extra hard and keep dropping your villagers in the ocean to see.

Thanks!

Algae does not seem to be required. In at least one village I had no algae, but was able to get the algae eating fish anyway.

Jer

As I said before, I never repeat myself.