You're welcome. smile You can earn tech points faster by:
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- Purchasing level 2 and 3 of Science (on the Tech menu)
- Having additional villagers trained as researchers
- Setting your game speed to 2x in the Options menu. Warning: Setting your game speed to 2x will also cause the food supply to deplete faster. Since your villagers don't have enough food as it is, I really don't recommend it.

About your crops: Did you have your villagers plant any?

The ability to fish requires
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a certain puzzle to be solved and certain technology purchased. So does the golden child. smile

My advice is to concentrate on storing up food. Always have 1 child in your game so they can pick up mushrooms. Once they turn 14 they can't pick up mushrooms anymore but they can work. I hope this helps. smile
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Kathy
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