Having good parenting skills means you can make babies easier. Improving your healing skills means you can cure illnesses faster.
Studying at the hospital has the same effect. Healing sick villagers increases your healing skills. You can improve your research skills by doing research in the lab. It’s best to use male builders, as females might be occupied raising babies and therefore aren’t busy building.īy acquiring research skills you gain tech points.
The building skill is useful for building structures faster and will increase with dismantling totems, working on the statue and doing repairs. Make sure there’s at least one person collecting food. The farming skill can be improved by picking berries, harvesting crops from the farm and fishing. Farmingįarming obviously is food collection, the more farming skills the more effectively you can harvest food. The highest skill level will be shown at the bottom of the screen when you select a villager, and furthermore it will show you which level they are. For each skill there are three levels: Apprentice, Adept and Master. Of course the more experienced they are in a particular skill, the more efficient they become. In Virtual Villagers 5 there are six different skills your villagers can master. If for example you want a villager to do some farming, set his/her preference to “Farming” (select a villager and click “Details” on the bottom right). Make sure to set preferences for your villagers. That way you’ll avoid major issues with your villagers. So it’s best to switch to “Normal” or “Slow”, or even “Pause” the game when necessary. But keep in mind when you leave the game, it continues.