Ok - I have learned the hard way. When making your villagers sick so your Adept Doctors can heal them and turn them into Masters - it is best to use all the same sex. This is the 3rd time that while I thought Doc was "healing" obviously he/she had other plans. Now my LazyGirl - who is 49 - is having a baby. I never had plans for her to procreate!!! Right or wrong she was my test subject. Maybe a miracle will happen and since she dislikes work her baby will be a runner. Miracles happen right? Like Adept Docs turning into Masters . . . <sigh> Oh well, gotta laugh.

The problem I am having is the builders. I get 1 master builder and before I can get another one the first one dies. but there are more ways in the Lost Children for them to be come masters then in the 1st VV version. How do I get the updates that I have been reading about? Not the Mods but the true updates.

The details will become available when the update is released (which is not yet).

try to train your builders as soon as possible, and try to breed builders with builders to have kids with some building skills, i always put 2 builders on a project and then when my youngest kid is old enough, i start to train him/her.

I try to bring all young villagers up to at least trainee level in the three main skills, with a few also taken to the herbs to learn doctoring as well. That way I can easily switch villagers between tasks as needed, without the constant need for monitoring. When young, I try to use villagers as builders or farmers, and put the older ones on research as it means less travelling. Once a villager reaches master in a particular skill I'll try to switch them to another as soon as possible and replace them with a master in another skill to train up on the way to becoming, hopefully, Esteemed Elder. Obviously, some times I need to modify things if I particularly need the villagers to concentrate on getting tech points, say, but that is the general idea.

I wasn't complaining about Mstr Docs and Builders. I was just laughing at my own mistakes! When I yelled out "OMG - LazyGirl is pregnant!" my husband looked up and said, "She didn't know better?" It was my mistake but I had to laugh! It's not the easiest thing in the world but that's why I keep playing the game.

I think it is rather funny when your trying really hard to make a master doctor when your doctor is female and the sick ones are all male. She gets pregnant everytime.LOL

Exactly! I did make my first Male Master Parent tonight and once again LazyGirl was my guinea pig - she's over 50 now. Boy, they kissed a LOT to get him to Master Parent. Maybe now I can get triplet builders?????

hi...this is my first post because i never had any success in joining the boards during vv....i had so many comments back then and was so frustrated because i couldnt post them...oh well....good to be here now...i had to comment on your lazy girl...mine is not only lazy but dislikes learning too....ha..i made a scientist and shes made it to adept but lordy she wanders off to do nothing more than anything....just wanted to tell you that i named her after my 13-yr-old daughter because shes ALMOST but not quite as lazy as my daughter!!!!! maybe i can get her to do what i cant get the daughter to do,huh?

At least she'll grow up a lot faster than your daughter - a matter of hours rather than years.

When you are healing a villager get a child to do it, no chance of them having a kiss and cuddle instead and if you get the same child to do all the healing it will be adept or even master by the time it reaches 14, making it easier to get to elder status!

I get my male adept parents to teach the children, simply drag him to the kids and all the kids run to the village centre to learn (REALLY like kids - lol!)

Once all your buildings are built you can still drag builders to fix the huts!

will study strange plants increase healing skills? I want to make my villager become a master doctor so that i can gather more totems but it seems so hard to become a master!

Yes. You should see a message in the status bar that your villager has increased his or her healing skills after they've studied the plant for a while. Either that or they have failed and they will walk away shaking their heads.

The other way to increase a doctor's skills, of course, is to actually heal other sick villagers.

yea....shes already over the hill.....i kept her pregnant...she could manage that(hope thats not what my daughter does too..sheesh)...she did manage to become a master scientist though....i like my little man who runs best though....he gets stuff done fast..including making babies..ha...oh and by the way i showed my lazy girl with name similar to my daughters and she said i was lame...hmmph!