Right now I'm storing mine around the cemetary.... I thought about putting them near the center of the village, but I've got 7 and they are way to big. So.. where do you keep your's?

I leave them in a line up by the big stone mouth, then move them into the graveyard as their owners die.

i store them next to the pond on the rocks, so they don't block collectables, and once the elder dies, i put it on top of their gravestone...

The native americans often put the totem pole either in the center of the villaige or at the entrance of the villiage. For the time being, I have my two placed in the portion of the beach no one uses.

I like to store mine at the graveyard too. My V's also talk to them.

I store mine at the entrance to the graveyard too

i store mine around the graveyard and on the rocks by the pond.

That is sooooo cool and a great idea. But how did you get your picture along with your post?

I store myn on the fire but I only have one right now

I store mine at the bottom beach where the wood is stored.All along the edge. If I keep them anywhere else they just get in the way.And the more Elders You get the more totems.In some ways I don't want the villagers to get a totem,because they take up so much room.And having a place to store them is becoming a problem.
But they are part of the game.

I just did a print screen then pasted into MS Paint. I save it as a PNG file. Then hosted it on photbucket to get it here. Hope that helps.

I have mine around the mosaic floor, they haven't gotten in the way of collectibles yet and they look great

Thank you for your help. It is getting the pictures from Photobucket onto this site is where I am having the problem.

just go to the picture that you want in photbucket, click the box, then at the bottom of the page click "generate HTML code" then choose the one for message boards.

Ok so please tell me how y'all got so many totems. I can barely get one.

Because we train our villagers quite well!

Lots of work! You have to watch them constantly to stay on task!

Thanks; I will give it a shot.

I saw in another thread that the best thing to do is stack them on top of each other on the diving board. That way they will not interfere with your ability to see collectibles and mushrooms.

After finishing the game and having all the collectibles and no longer needing any mushrooms, I think places that were mentioned such as the graveyard or the mosaic would make nice showcases.

I store mine near the ocean.

I had one village running smoothly and had been playing a new village for a couple of days. I went back to check on the first village and was checking the older villagers for their health/age, etc. and discovered that two of them had become elders (yay!) and I thought, well then, where are their totems? I looked all over the village and could not find them. Turned out they were on the far left of the screen in the middle of the ocean, LOL! They must've both been fishing when they hit their third master, even though I had marked both of them as being Researchers at that point in their lives. Anyway, just wondered if anyone else had this happen? I put them just below the rocks they climb up to jump into the pool.

I put mine near the rocks by the pool and at the moment I have them all stacked because they do cover collectibles and I'm only waiting for one.

As a matter of fact I noticed that the gravestones also hide collectibles sometimes too, I only saw one because of the sparkle and I popped a child on the stone and she came away with a butterfly....not the one I'm waiting for though grrrrrr

NN

I also had them at the cemetary until I had an island event where all the little villagers had to honour the dead, and they all trooped into the graveyard but couldn't get out because of all the totems.

I have my first master doctors totem by the hospital and my first master scientists by the research table. The other four are around the fire pit but not too close.

i store mine at the mosaic...and know i think wahts behind stonhendege

I decided to put my totems where there wasn't too much colour i.e. flowers, etc. so opted for just behind the love shack. They look nice against the sandy backdrop.

Also, sometimes when VV's are arguing are complaining, they stomp over there and end up behind the totems talking to themselves, then come out all calm and relaxed, funny!

Occassionly, I will put one or two in the sea in the upper left corner, and between the mosaic and the woodbine lily (pink bottom flower)!

Best of Irish,
Maura

I took another member's advice, and I have my totems stacked for now right near the dam. Once I reach 50 elders (sigh...) I will decorate my village with them.

I still wonder if there isn't some other trick the totems, or one of them or a sequence like the stew, can do or avenue they may open up if placed correctly. I've toyed around but I don't have them all (styles). I would think it may have something to do with the mosiac tile area. Perhaps it would open up another part of the island. I know, I know....wishful thinking!

I do the same .... move the totems over to the graveyard as the owners die. Otherwise I keep them around the pond.

In one village I've used my totems as a wall to fence off the toilet area and give the little villagers a bit of privacy when nature calls. But then sometimes it gets a bit crowded down there with adults complaining and arguing, people going indoors, builders collecting materials, not a great deal of privacy! lol

I keep mine here:




If they are too spread out they get in the way when I scroll around the island quickly.

mine are here , but I will have to move them if I am ever going to find the last two pebbles lol

Hey, Pinkfish, what a fine collection of totems, puts me to shame!

trying this now ...

Hey, I did it, but this was meant for another thread ... the strange behaviour one! Thanks everyone for all the help with this, much appreciated. (Esteemed elder, carrying out research, with bowl of water in his lap - anyone else seen this happen?)

well done Treen , now you can teach others how to do it lol

Wow, that's a good idea to put them in the graveyard as the Elder dies............hope I have room!! Right now mine are everywhere........ and I do mean everywhere! They get in the way of collecting things.

I can store my eco-friendly totems just about anywhere without them getting in the way