Crud... another boy...

I got her to have another baby on the next try. Please, be a girl.... Please be a girl....

I have a question about sickness and healing. My little village is just one adult and two children, and the adult is now sick. I'm letting the sick adult rest and drink water and do whatever he likes while I wait for the kids (now 11) to grow up so they can start attempting healing. I'm still many tech points away from a Medicine upgrade, so I don't think forcing the poor old guy to work at research would pay off at this point. Is there anything else I can do? Villagers can't heal themselves, can they?

a child can't heal a sick villager, and they can't heal themselves. You'll have to wait until your kids get older and I can't guarantee that you're sick villager will last that long!! Once he's healed, I'm sure his status will say "weakened". I would suggest having him rest as much as possible and he "could" get better if you're lucky. Good luck!!

Goatherd, when you say your villager is sick, does he say sick or weakened? Healing can only be done on villagers that are actually sick. If they are weak, even critically, all you can try to do is protect them from getting weaker still and ensure that food is plentiful. There seem to be certain jobs that are safer than others. You seem to be conserving your villagers strength correctly, but as Michelle said, I am not sure if he will last long enough for the kids to grow up enough to start collecting food as well....good luck

Savi

Thanks for the help. He did hold up long enough for the young teenager to come of age and heal his sickness. I knew he would -- that fellow had seen harder times than that. Lonely Malik, as I called him, was the sole survivor of the initial villagers after everyone else starved to death when it took 20 years (!) for my first crop to come in after the berry bush failed. Luckily, he had special powers (having been age-zapped) and was able to live for 18 years without eating a bite of food!

So he spent 25 years all alone on the island watering those darned crops, then stocking up on food and researching, when finally a barrel o' babies arrived...two boys.

He lived until he was 58...not bad for a first-generation villager, I suppose. He was given a lovely burial and his passing was honored. One of the two boys died young, but the other is now 20 and alone on the island. He mainly spends time researching (I'm hoping to upgrade Medicine to give him a longer lifespan) and asking the island gods to send a female castaway to join him, so that his lonely line can somehow live on.

(Hmm...I don't suppose a Fertility upgrade ever allows a male to give birth, does it?)

I'm eager to start again (this is my first tribe) so I can experience a more normal game, but there's no way I'll kill this kid off after all he's been through. And if my village does somehow make it, I'm keeping the movie rights for this inspirational tale of survival against all odds!

(Any other advice for my near-hopeless situation is welcome, of course!)

Oh wow, I'm somewhat sorry for your lonely little men. Too bad I can beam you one of my little ladies, now that I've finally got things settle my village is out of the red. XD