All of these crashes are being caused by the same thing. RoseRed gave us the clue we needed for these. It can happen any time a villager attempts to do something and refuses (or fails). When they shake their head, they can end up with an invalid position that the game can't handle, and it crashes. We will be releasing a fix for this, but I can't say yet when that will be.

I dropped this character on the spot you see in the screenshot to see if he could interact with the flutes but discovered he cannot move away from there on his own. He keeps deciding to do something else, doesn't leave, and this repeats endlessly until I move him manually. This is under Mac OS X 10.6.2.

First, I have to thank LDW for yet another brilliant game; I'm having a blast playing it! I think I may have unearthed a bug with food collection and storage. My tribe was blessed with tech level 3 in an island event, but as my villagers collect food, the food level actually decreases - and I don't mean the normal dips that happen as villagers eat. At tech level 3, and with only 8 villagers so far and anywhere from two to four on farming at any time, the bin should be filling up quickly. The instant that my little guys drop food in the bin, the food level goes down several digits (in one instance, for example, from 952 to 938). This began to happen when my villagers solved the



puzzle. Anyone else had this issue? P.S. I'm running Windows XP.

I have a problem. My mausoleum, lab, and flutehead collectibles are nearly complete. But I only got about 3 fish scales. Is this a bug? I keep on checking the tidal pool but they seem to be very hard to find.

Regarding the collectables: I haven't hear about any bugs or glitches there.

Examples from my two games: "With ZERO glitches"
I'm running two games. 
Game one: 4 out of 12 fish scales collected. Just collected fish scale 5.
Game two: 10 out of 12 fish scales collected.
Remaining collections, both games: Missing between 4-5 collectables.

I am sure it is different for every player!
I think you just need to be patient for a while longer.

The fish scales are only available about half the time, when the tide is out.

This is a glitch and absolutely not normal. Are you changing your computer clock?
Something is really wrong. I have played all 4 of these games nearly continuously since the first one came out and I really believe this is not normal at any speed.
Just my humble opinons

Thanks, Arnie, for adding the most important point to the conversation.

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I am not sure if LDW would call it a bug. It's more like being out of bound. Perhaps a tad too close for where we, the players, would consider the boundary edges of the game.

The only way for it to keep repeating, is by you manually dropping him between the waterfall and the wind flutes. It's not possible for the peeps to get there by themselves.
Anyway, now I have a place to put the naughty ones.

I run the same OS as you.

I am having Audio problems.
Running XP... background sounds great, any active sounds have static. it is just on VV4, i do not have the others loaded into my computer... yet... just downloading them... :D:D

Not sure if this is a bug or not. In the strategy guide, it says that once you collect all of the scales, golden fish will start showing in your nets. Well, I don't have all of the fish scales yet. However, I have been getting golden fish all along and even have the golden fish trophy already.

Love the game, btw.