MorgaineMichele, about the search issue, when you click on the search above the forums, click on the link below the box where you type. If you click on "Advanced" you can set the forum for it to search in as well as the time frame (I would suggest that you set this to be older than the default, since the game has been out a fair time already).

When you click on the 'Search' link click the 'Advanced' link, which will take you to a page which allows you to refine your search parameters. See this sticky thread for more details.

Each of the three villagers' huts takes an increasing time to complete, with the third hut taking a lot longer than any of the other tasks. How long, of course, depends on how many builders you are using.

Building the hospital, as with the other special buildings, only takes a relatively short time.

My first batch of nursery school children seem to have learned some odd lessons.

I had a good number of them hit the "real world" of age 14 all at once. About half of them are acting normally and doing the tasks assigned once they learn them (or if they came out of school with the right skills).

The other half, though, won't continue working. They stand around the village center, or various other spots, for very extended amounts of time with Action: "Nothing".

If made to do something like bring water to the stew pot, they'll fill the pot and simply stand facing it, doing "Nothing", until manually moved.

They ocassionally will move to soak their feet, take a drink or eat, but end up sitting around again, sometimes not even changing poses for long periods of time.

I don't think it's a bug. I had the same things and I just take care that a skill is check off and I put them on the task they are supposed to do. It seems that some of them don't know how to do that by themselves!

Typical teenagers? Not that all teens are lazy, but many are.

Solitha this sounds like a memoryproblem to me. I've had it one or twice when I had more games open and my virusscanner was doing tasks in the background. This sometimes slows our villagers down. Close a copple of windows or check your memory.

Has anyone else noticed that in VV4 some of the villagers have really small heads compared to their bodies?

Has anyone noticed that if it's low tide and you click on where the high tide would be, it makes a ripple as if it were high tide?

I'm still trying to figure out the missing pixels on the collections screen. If anyone could figure it out, it would be fantastic

I've noticed that too!