Hi,

I have been playing VV2 for a while now (since it's out) and I'm at my second tribe. My first one is pretty much done, I have the max villagers, all the puzzles done, I'm just getting elders and changing clothes. So I know what I'm suppose to do, but for some odd reason in my second tribe, I can't get the darn cauldron out of the wood pile and I can't get my master scientist to make that cutting tool to clear the thorny bush area. I have built the extra hut, built the dam, fixed the mating hut and have L2 technology

Did I miss something? Any help would be great!

You could check the puzzle solutions in the Guide section to make sure you didn't miss anything.

I did read the puzzle solutions and like I mentionned I have done this in a previous tribe, but for some odd reason in this new tribe it won't work. Is there a glitch I'm not aware of?

Not that we're aware of. There is some 'overlap' between the cutting tools and the scarecrow puzzle, since they are in basically the same area, but nothing that prevents completion of either. I have seen it be a little tricky to retrieve the cauldron sometimes - try being more persistent there.

One thing I noticed for the stones that create the cutting tool, those little stones are not sparkly, in my first tribe they were but in this second one they are not.... Any chances that means something?

1) Check to make sure you have credit for the herb mastery puzzle.
2) Check to make sure you have Exploration 2 technology done.
3) Check to make sure the scientist trying to make cutting tools is a master scientist.

If you have done both of the above and still you do not see a cauldron in the wood pile I am stumped. Have you done any time traveling? I have read in another thread about a missing gong puzzle piece that time traveling can have unexpected results. Perhaps time traveling affects this puzzle as well.

Let us know what happens!
- Borg

Check on 1, 2 & 3
I have all those no problem.

I didn't time travel (had no clue what it was until I just read a post about so I could answer you) but we did have a time change (2 sundays ago, way before I started my second tribe yesterday) where I live and because this year it's 3 weeks earlier then last year, I had to set my pc manually. Could that be a problem? How do I solve that?

from what I've heard, as long as you aren't actually playing when you reset the clock, it shouldn't effect game play. I know there was a thread about time traveling and daylight savings, but they may have deleted that since daylight savings is over.

Nope, just checked, it's still there. Try reading that to see if you can find anything.

That's not totally true. You can't change the clock indiscriminitely, even when the game is not actually running. Some adjustments, particularly changing the clock backwards, will cause problems with the game, even it it's not running.

Yea, I was just thinking that setting the clock backwards a an hour or so would really confuse the game.

It could just be this new game your playing has a glitch to it. Just restart the game. Or just play it and hopefully it will work itself out.
I have had some weird things happen in my new games. But if it is something that isn't suppose to happen,I just start over.

Checked it out but nothing there... All they talk about doesn't apply. I started a third tribe to see if that one will do the same and I left my second one alone at 1/2 speed and I'll check back in a few days on them to see if anything has changed.

TMOVal..about the time change. If you are running Windows 2000 you need to run a tool on your computer to fix the time zones. Manually changing it will only work till Windows syncs with the atomic clocks or whatever it does with the time servers. Its called Time Zone Editor
You can find it http://www.softshape.com/download/tzedit.zip there.

Run that, click on edit, change the start time to the second week of march. The end time to the first week of november. Click apply and close. Now open your time zone by double clicking on the system clock and clicking time zone tab. Change the time zone to anyone of them and change it back to apply the new settings.

If you have XP it should have came through as an automatic update if you have that turned on and you should now have had to adjust it yourself.

I have XP and I only had to do it the first day and the second day when I re-opened my computer and after that it was in sync.

Perhaps you got the update a couple days late. Either way if it hasnt changed back hopefully you are all set.

Ok I have no clue what happened but for some odd reason when I turned on my computer this morning my clock was back an hour!

My "automatically adjust clock for daylight saving changes" is checked. The "Automatically synchronize with an internet time server" is also checked but it seem that their two servers are wrong.

I'm not sure what to do anymore it seem to mess up any tribe I started since the switch as my first tribe was started before the time change...

go to windows update and download the update that updates the timezones. When you go to windows update click on custom and look under the critical updates and one of them will say something along the lines of this update will fix your time zones etc etc. Get that one. Then reboot and you should be fine

Well I did download that update and started a new second tribe and all is working fine now Thank you very much to everyone for their fast replies and help