I have two adept builders, and two trainee builders, and I have put all four of them on the rocks in the upper left part of the camp and none of them have any idea what to do with the rocks. I keep running out of food, this is insane. The beach is clear, the hut is built, I've been sending one of the builders to the research table again and again, because it says "more research may be needed" and the little so-and-so just shakes her insolent head at me and goes off to pick berries.

The berries get picked, then go rotten. I only have 1200 tech points, I can't buy anything, and I'm at my wit's end. Please help, this is incredibly frustrating. I've tried turning it off then back on, as I saw that solved another player's problem. They won't build anything, they took so many tries at making a baby that all but my child is a trainee parent, and if I were on this island I think I'd go mad.

At the beginning the builders are not very important. You must set your villagers at research and try to gain 6000 tech points to buy the level of farming and you'll have some crops to harvest. If they don't want to do it, bring them to the well for drinking or to the bin for eating and back to the research table. (They must be set in the "detail" screen as "scientist") And, by waiting, take care of the mushrooms that your children may pick up. Don't let them do every thing they want, especially "embrace" or "going in door", you don't need to increase the population!! And forget the rocks for this moment, it's too early.
PS: excuse-me if my English is not very correct, in spite of, I hope it will help you

If I were you, i'd have all my adults execept one on research. Then leave the other one on food. You must build up your tech points. You can use the children that you have for mushrooms. Make shure you put a tick on the jobs you want them to do. Hope that helps.

You must insist a lot and take care of their health. If they are a little bit tired, bring them to eat once or twice. And put the one who is the less healthy at farming, he'll go better in a few moment.

Just remember you don't need someone to farm all the time. Have your farmer farm about 300 food then put them on research then after your villagers have ate them selves down to about 150 food put the farmer back to farm.

This will gain you extra tech points every now again when you put the farmer on research.

Thanks! That group died, but my new group is doing insanely well.

Just a little tip: before quit the game, don't let your villagers without one or two healers (select them in the "details" screen) and put them at a task (as rechearch) and they'll work at it. Even if they have the skill for healing, they don't do it by their own if they are not selected for.

My problem is on spirituality , I first buy it becaus eof my 2 island events in onbe day it goes 5 , 000 i buy my spirituality
then i plan to make a cemetery but no puzzle was solved!

It happens when one of your villagers die , so they create the cemetary. Bring a villager to the place at the upper right corner, they "celebrate" and they bury the dead.