I played the game until I had solved all but the GC and boulder puzzles, had plenty of food, 65 villagers, all techs maxed out, but had to deal with the zonbie waterers for the last few days. The crops did NOT replenish. I directed the farmers to plant, and they did, but still the crops did not return. Luckily, I had enough fish and crabs to last forever. Then the game totally crashed and is unplayable. I wonder if this is a bug?

My guys are also in the same rut. They just keep watering the crops, nothing has sprouted, and they won't do anything else. I'm on my fourth game: here were the stats:
hours played - about 85-90?
food about 15,000
population 60
tech levels completed 9
puzzels solved 7

Totally frustrated now. I've restarted twice since then and my villagers just seem to go into zombie mode. The Berry bnush is depleted, I'm on level 2 harvesting, but nothing is growing. I think they flooded the field. Have I caught a bug?

Oh, I failed to mention that my first game crashed - apparently my battery died while going home from work.

And I am registered, not Anonymous - I'm pointermom

Okay - Pointermom here again (the website won't recognize me) - everyone is dead. Here are the stats that make NO SENCE at all:
Realtime hours played 885476 (NO WAY!)
tech levels completed 31107
so what happened?

Hi, Pointermom! First, are you saying that the forums won't recognize you when you log in? I have to log in every time because my firewall software blocks a number of types of cookies, and the site won't automatically recognize me.

As for your stats - wacky stats almost always indicate one of two things: the system clock has been moved back in time, or the savegame has become corrupted. The game doesn't necessarily handle either condition very well.

The game can become corrupted in a number of ways, including if the Palm crashes during game play. Arthur and his team are working diligently to resolve the crashing problems, and will release an update to the game. In the meantime, you could reinstall your game (after completely deleting it first) or try starting a new game and see if there are problems.

If you just let them keep watering, eventually, the crops sprout again. It takes a long, long time, but they always do. I simply gave up on them and let them keep watering. I had other villagers who were fishing, and I had plenty of food. Low and behold, many hours later, the crops came back.