Something keeps going wrong with my villagers food stores, they loose all that they gather and the crops seem like they disapear before they harvest them all. For example, I got on today and they had 0 food and 111min till the crops would regrow, confused at how this could happen i checked the ldwlog.txt and it said just over 5min ago 800 crops grew and we had 584 food available! 584 in harvested food, and 800 in new crops...and now my people are on the verge of starvation and all in under 10 minutes. Im not a timetraveler, I haven't messed with the clock and I really need advice on what to do to save my village I dont have enough tech points to get unlimited fishing yet, I really need those crops!

Lately I seem to have noticed an increase in notes such as yours in the forum. I do not know what the problem is, but from my perspective I do not think you are alone.

Have you read the puzzle solution guide? It contains spoilers to all the puzzles but perhaps it would help you. A link is in my signature below.

Thank you for the response, but the only puzzle that will help me is to get the algae-eating fish and I dont have enough tech points to get those yet. I've lost 4 people so far, and put everyone else on Research duty.

Kibirah, you didn't say how many people you had... if it's more than 15-18 people, that might explain the difficulty you're having. Hard to sustain more people than that with the crops. No coconuts to help out?

Coconuts are gone, I only had 15 people, but the number has since dropped to 11. But even with 20, wouldnt 500+ food disapearing in 6 minutes be unusual? And the 800 unharvested crops just poofed, they cannot go through that much food in 6 minutes. They wouldnt even have enough time to harvest it, let alone devour it. And if they are eating that much..well they deserve to starve till they learn restraint then dont they

This seems very strange indeed. From my more or less casual observation the food consumption is fairly regular, on the order of 20-40 food units per villager per year. And the consumption seems to vary with the level of difficultly selected... food going faster on Hard than on Easy or Normal.

It really sounds like a time/clock glitch of some sort, for there is no way that that much food could be harvested in 5 minutes, let alone consumed by only a few villagers.

Jer

Improved: Almost works the second time. See Upgrade.

It does seem to happen when you open the game after it's been closed for a while -- the game goes back and calculates all the food that would have been eaten while the game was closed, and then removes it. If you've been gone a while, or if you have other events pop up when you restart, the food calculation might take a minute or two.

Try using a slower game speed when the game is closed (or you can't watch it) -- and try micromanaging a bit. Keep everyone at the research table (no building, no farming, no breeding) until the crops come in, then let one or two villagers harvest.

Good luck!
-- jen