I've lost all the villagers in my first VV2 village :(.
I had it going really well. I had 11 villagers with level 2 Farming and level 2 Engineering and lots of items collected. I almost had an Elder and I had two others with two Master and Adept skills each who were also well on the way to becoming Elders.
Then disaster struck :(. I not only got birds eating all the crops before they could be harvested, I also got algae on the sea so the villagers couldn't fish and the coconuts were all gone and to add to that all my kids grew up so I couldn't collect mushrooms any more. I didn't have enough tech points to get any more skills and so my poor villagers starved to death :(.
I've started again, so I hope these do better this time.
I so feel for you, Dianthus. I've just started trying this game out, and I had my village to almost an identical place as you, when I had the exact same thing happen.
I thought my villagers were doing great, and I thought the birds were a random thing, and that the crops would come back again, so I left them overnight, woke up, and they were all dead.

Now I know what to do, after searching these forums - I'll just say that you need to build a scarecrow to scare off the birdies, but now I have to start all over, to get there again. So far, I'm 1900 tech points from starting construction on my new dam (that was my biggest hurdle in the first game, getting that [censored] dam built with the limited food supplies).
