Most of us have had all of our villagers die the first time or two that we played the game. That's how we learn what works and what doesn't!

One successful strategy for getting your village going is to put two villagers to work foraging for food and the rest of the villagers working at the research table. That way, you'll be able to purchase Harvesting L2 before your village runs out of food. You should also hold off on growing your population until you get farming, because the kids eat as much as the adults. If you start the game on easy, you'll get 6 villagers (and that will give you an extra person to do research)!