No, the GC won't starve to death, but he also won't find a crate of babies. Events only happen if there is an adult villager around.

Also, the GC won't make food (or restore crops/create berries) unless the game is open. You you can't count on his supplying the village, no matter what speed it is.

But I'm curious, did you villagers know how to fish? I need to keep checing my "no fishing" village since they'll eat more than the crops and berries supply (without the GC), but in all my other villages, there are plenty of "natural" farmers to keep the supplies at a healthy level.

If your farmers got sick and there was nobody to heal them, it wouldn't take long before there was no food. In addition to having trained farmers, it's a good idea to have 2 trained healers (in case one gets sick) - especially on the hard setting.

It's too late now, but the game log would have told you what happened each time you lost villagers. The game log is in the Virtual Villagers folder and is called ldwLog.txt. You must check it immediately after exiting the game, however, since it is erased and rewritten each time the game is started.

The bad news is that Island Events don't occur in villages where there are only children (and the GC is a child).

Yes we were a little village and I think ALL of them were great fishers. Even my Master Farmer who Disliked the ocean and would run out of the water when I first dropped him in, started fishing on his own. They were all obsessed with farming/fishing so this really shocked me. Can villagers get sick when the game isn't open, because I just could not believe they all would have stopped farming but if they all got sick for some weird reason and died I could see the children eating up all the food?

I did not know that the GC did not perform when the game was closed, I still thought a bit over 400 food would be enough for 11 villagers (all children) while I was gone this afternoon, but I should not have left the game running and now I am so sad. I did not know about the no events rule without adults either so I will have to end my game and that makes me sad too. I did not want to kill my little GC even though he is a turkey.

I have never had a villager die in front of me and I always wondered how people knew how their villagers died. I will try to find the game log. I am not real computer savvy and I guess I am not very keep the villagers alive savvy either. How sad.

Thanks for the info LadyCFII and sfrose. I just did not think I would get that attached and be so devastated. I really am very sad.

quick question about the log. Is this a record of everything that happened from when you last closed the game (while it was closed) as well as the time the game was open and until it is closed again? I had no idea villagers were suffering so many injuries on the job. Holy cow. And I did get to see that all my babies starved to death after finishing off the food. Oh what an awful way to go.

Yes, the game log contains a record of what happens in the game from the time you last closed it until it is closed again. The first part of the log records the loading of the game, followed by the activities of the villagers while the game was off (those entries all have the same time stamp), followed by what happened in the game while it was running. It can be very enlightening to examine the game log.

It is very sad to lose a village like that, but at least you know what happened.

And yes, villagers can get sick while the game is closed. As Barbara said, it's good to have a couple of trained healers to to cure the sick if it is going to be closed without pausing. You need two, because like one of the hints say "Who heals your healer?"

I'm also sorry that you lost your tribe like that. I've lost a few early in the games, and my "no fshing" village was down to just a couple of kids several times, but with the GC's help I built up the food supply. You do get attached to them. My only problem now is when I want to start a new game, which village should I get rid of?!

One dayall but one of my villegers were dead

Have fun showing your niece the game! It's also good to see the game from a newbie view. Watch the choices they make, joy at solving the problems.

BTW, some people find reading large block of text in alternate colors difficult. It is better to keep to black text and only use color occasioally for emphasis.