Charley is our young story teller, and he loves to help people with Virtual Villagers. Here is Charley's very own guide, which contains helpful tips and information about Virtual Villagers.

Charley323's Virtual Villagers begginer guide for hints and tips!

I just thought I should post my little VV reference guide, that has lot's of help in it! Hope you all like it, and it becomes of some use at least.

Objective of the game: To care and nuture a little tribe of people who had fled from an erupting volcano, to a new island called Isola. And to solve the 16 puzzle's. Where ther scared, and need your help for them to survive and of course like I said, to solve the 16 puzzles!

The hints:
If you have 89 villagers and have triplets or twins, it allows you to go up to 92, until those two die, the population can also increase with some events. After completing puzzle 4 you can click on the drum and all the kids even the GC will come to school! But they don't learn anything.
While selecting a villager with the white circle around the villager, press the F6 key on your keyboard to change the villagers clothes.
Children can pick mushrooms, just place a child on a red (Worth 45 food points) or brown (Worth 9 food points) mushrooms. But they dissapear quick, so act fast!
Clicking the mask on the bottom left corner of the game screen, can give out more hints. But if you can't find all of them here they are:
1. Reaching a milestone can benefit your villagers.
2. Medicine reduces disease and extends longevity.
3. There are many useful spots to wich you can drag your villagers.
4. One male villager can farther many children.
5. Pause the game if you go away for very long.
6. Children inherit some skill from there parents.
7. A villager's skill preference can be set on the Detail Screen.
8. A villager prefefers the skill you set.
9. Fish are the only unlimited food source.
10. Building more huts supports a larger population.
11. Your village can grow to a huge population. (90 - 92, and sometimes more).
12. Sometimes villagers stubbornly do what they want.
13. Time passes wether you're playing the game or not.
14. If your healer is sick, who is healing your villagers? (If you have the GC, then he'll throw partys and heal the sick villagers).
15. Adult villagers are naturlly excellent swimmers.
16. safe and happy villagers attempt new things.
17. Isola is pronounced Ee-zoh-lah!
18. It can take several tries to teach something to a villager.
19 Certain herbs on the island can be examined.
20. Success a task may require meeting key requirements first.
21. Sick villagers tend to hang around the well.
22. Master Researchers generate more tech points than others.
23. Sick or nursing villagers do not work.
24. What are all those butterflies up to?


The Villager care tips:
The villager doesn't allways succeed in an task, so be patient. If they keep running away in any direction from it, check that villagers detail screen, about it's likes and dislikes. You can also check the villagers skill preference, by ticking one of the six skill box's, and the villager will most likely continue that most often, but they will not do a skill wich they have no skill at. They can like and dislike:
Snakes, sand, running, blue, red, yellow, the ocean, rocks, drift wood, playing, bees, monkeys, coconuts, work, suprises, exploring, bushes, jokes, wind, bananas, crowds, berries, fish, whale meat, butterflies, ants, birds, herbs, flowers, laundry, medicine, resing and maybe a few more.
And if they get sick, then it would be a good time to get another villager and place that villager on top of the sick villager, and he might succeed in healing the sick villager. (You can even place kids on them to train them before they can be trained on anything!) But if you don't heal them, the sick villager will become weakend and die. To help them get out of the weakend stage you need to feed them, but only let them work at farming and healing. Until they recover from the injuries or sickness. They can get sick from being elderly and some events make them sick. Medicine technology also helps them live longer.
You can also change there name, by clicking on there name in there detail screen. And "exercise" also seems to help them live longer, a bit.

Keyboard shortcut's:
D=Villagers detail screen.
M=Map.
P=Puzzle's.
T=Technologies.
Space Bar=Pauses the game.

The other tips:
The best technology to get first is farming, then science. Because the berrie bush is limited. If you have a runner at the start of the game, and the villager dosn't dislike berries, then put the villager on the berrie bush, so the villager will be running to the food bin to take the berries back. But this can also mean your scientists will have to work harder. Also, keep in mind that babys or normal children villagers eat as much as an adult, so if your starting a new game, don't go to make babys to quickly, or you could very well be on the brink of starvation! Oh, and pay attention to your villagers, they can ofton help with the location and needs for a puzzle!