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i am assuming that your ocean is full of algae (if it isn't, just drop your villagers in the ocean to fish).

i have been in your situation a dozen times. the only way i have gotten thru this was kind of radical. it isn't for everyone.

i made the triple black vine poison stew and killed half my villagers. i went after the lazy ugly ones. 17 villagers is just too many to try to support until after you get level 3 farming done and fix the algae problem.

after you kill 8 or 9 of them, dump the poison stew and make the rainbow stew and keep them alive with that, and use the kids to get mushrooms.

regarding mushrooms - use the number pad with numlock on to zip around the island looking for mushrooms. load the mod with the black and white background (pleasantville), and then load either my easter egg mod or my giant pink mushroom mod on top of that so you wont miss a mushroom (giant pink mushroom the size of a child shows up very well against the black and white pleasantville background, you will never miss another mushroom again).

i did not like this solution but it was the best i could come up with.

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