Welcome. It's really better to ask your questions in the appropriate game forum, since this forum is for introductions and a lot of people don't read posts in here. I assume that you're playing Virtual Villagers: A New Home (VV1)? The number of villagers you start with depends upon the game difficulty. 7 for easy, 6 for normal, and 5 for hard.
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