skipper45mn does say that the game has not been paused at all though, swedane, and anyway the time period of 12 + hours seems to be more than could be accounted for by occasional pausing to pick up collectibles, etc. The only thing I can think of is that there's a problem with the system clock, or skipper45mn has been 'time travelling', which is pretty much guaranteed to mess up all LDW games.

i have seen 4 collectibles pop up in and around the common ares. However i have not been able to pick them up. Is there a reason why my adult villagers can't pick up collectibles? I tried each of my adults on each item and no luck. Very frustrating!!!

Only children can retrieve the collectibles. The Virtual Villagers games are different from Virtual Families in that respect.

Never ending stew?

Waited hours for the stew to run out but it doesn't. I need the pot emptied so I can make cloth. Help! Is this a bug?

We would need to know what, specifically, was cooked. To empty the pot, drop a villager on the low well.

Hey...all of a sudden whenever I try to get my villagers have a baby, as soon as I drop one villager onto another, the game crashes to the desktop. When I relaunch the game, I hear the kissing sound during the opening of the game. I am using Mac OS. Thanks!

In the few days that I've owned the game, the game has crashed while either picking up a crab (twice) or just doing anything really. I've had to ctrl-alt-del about five times today because the game froze my entire computer

When the game crashes though, I get this error message:

Error: Access violation at 0x0041D000 (tried to read from 0x2977E0C0), program terminated.

There's a known crash with the crab issue.

The error message isn't always with the crabs though that's what's confusing me. I don't know what triggers it

Ice, if you could take notes on the things you are doing, and write them all down when it crashes, that would certainly help The more detailed, the better