Hi everyone who has completed the gong, please help me with the last piece in the waterfall.

I tried the strategy posted, made a stew from the black, the red and the orange plants. I let anyone who walk by eat the stew. Some of the villagers who eat return to their normal tasks, others went to enjoy the pond. But those that went to enjoy the pond did not dive to retrieve the last piece of gong.

I tried letting them eat, and then forcefully drag them to the waterfall, it does not work too.

Do I need to get a villager with a specific skill to do the job?

I buy my version from MSN Games, if you need to know.

The black flower and 2 orange ones worked for me. You'll see little star-like things floating just about the stew; and when a Master Builder eats it, drop him in the pond. He will put the gong piece in place also. Other villagers won't do that.

Thanks. I think I messed up this part. Might have disturbed the villagers after they have eaten or no master builder was there when I made the stew. I will start a new game and see if I can get it this time. Thanks again.

A master builder is not required to retrieve the sunken gong piece: any adult villager will do.

Actually, Rain, I have done it with villagers who weren't builders. Any villager of any skill level will work. Must be 14+ however.

Should say that they feel no need to breathe after eating, then drop that adult in the pond.

Hi, I've had other villangers dive and retrieve the gong piece too. But they won't place it in the gong. They put it in the research building.

The villagers won't put gong pieces into the encasement unless you've cleared the way for them -- they put the piece in the research hut for safe keeping until the encasement is clear (and they'll put the pieces in the gong when that happens).

Hi everyone, here's the update of my experience. I start a new tribe, and after I got the cauldron, I made the magic stew. No star-like things were on the stew, but I made my villagers eat it anyway and forcefully drag them to the waterfall. None of them dive to get the piece of gong.

Do you have to buy up to level 3 of Farming or something before making the magic stew?

Opanlink, when they began eating the stew, what did the message below the action line say?

Hi, the stew takes two orange and one black to get the under the water piece.

I finished it...i loved it

Ive finished 3 games now, the last two i kind of ran simutaniously, my first was all on its own, the second i started and has about halfway when i decided to start the third. i have two more that i am currently working on that arent close lol.

Hi, I completed VV I & II, x 2. Each time I am trying something different.

You're making the wrong stew. The one you listed in your first post is incorrect.


Tess

Hi,I have 6 totems,I drop them all in the middle of the mosaic,but it doesn't work.Can anybody say what should I do to receive the last part of the gong?
Thanks

Irina, did you get your game from Reflexive? If so, what was the date you got it from them?

Help, please! Can anyone tell me how I can get more than 50 elders? Also, yesterday, I rang my Gong and it said, "The Gong grants vision." Does anyone know what that means?

The msg says the villager feels healthier after eating.

Tess, I used the long black plant near the waterfall, the red one on the mosaic, and the orange plant below the hospital. If they are wrong then which are the correct one?

opanlink, you need to get 1 black vine & 2 lots of the orange flower to make stew to breath under water. Hope this helps. Jane

You can't; that's the limit (apart from a very unlikely set of circumstances). See the several other threads on this topic in the forum.

Too late now, but if you get 'vision' again, look in the graveyard...

Oh does it show the bones?

From what I have read in other threads, no. But, it does show something close to that.

How do I open the crate on the Shore. It keeps telling me "Master Builder is needed" or "Can't do it alone"

The solutions to all of the puzzles are contained in this spoiler thread in the Guide Section of the forums.

Jib67, thanks! I've got the last piece of the gong out of the water! And all along I was thinking it might be a _bug_ or something.

I got it from Reflexive Arcade about a month ago
Sorry for my english-I'm from Germany
Thanks

I keep starting over so I haven't completed the game ... heh

You need level 2 exploration, complete puzzle 1 at least one of the flowers mastered. Take an adult villager to the cauldron they'll say preparing a stew. Drop the villager by the cauldron again, Adding food to the stew, next Adding water. It will say 3 herbs needed. Add two orange flowers and one black one. tthe villager will eat the stew and say NO NEED TO BREATHE take the villager to the waterfall the villager will go under the water to get the gong piece.

ive finished it if you can make a stew you need 1 of the black flowers near the water fall and two orange red flower near the red flower by the mosaic (warning not the red flower though)

No levels of tech required. What you need is a stew made from the black flowers (northeast) and two from the orange flower (south and center). Then, after a villager eats it, place him in the pond. He/she will climb out and dive in from the platform to retrieve the gong piece. Be sure to let him climb out and dive though.

Actually, you need level 2 exploration to be able to find the cauldron.

Yes, I found out that anyone can dive and place the gong piece, not just a Master Builder.

Just exactly what does Level 3 Exploration give us? I could ring the gong without it.

Not much. The only extra is the ability to see collectibles in Map View. Since I hardly ever look at the map it's always the last (or last-but-one) tech I get. Level 3 Science is similarly of little use. By the time it is reached there's only the sewing hut to spend the extra tech points on.