The mushroom bug has been fixed in v1.01 of Virtual Villagers. See this post.

what a great game!! keep up the great work!! (patiently awaiting the PC version of Plant Tycoon)

i love all the suggestions posted already!!

i'd like to suggest:

Make females too old to breed just as villagers are too young...its sad that the baby dies with the mom. 75 year old women shouldnt be able to get pregnant, its just crazy!!

love the family tree idea (like in fish tycoon)

I would like to be able to kill them off. I know it's mean, but sometimes you just get a worthless one.

I would love if this game was online. Also would like if the put color blanket on babies, like blue for a boy and pink for a girl.

I am not sure if anyone has suggested it yet but different weather patterns would be great. Maybe they would have to build a shelter to keep them safe from the rain. Then the rain would make the crops flourish but if they did not have the shelter they would get sick easily from the water. I mean they do rain dances so why not have it rain?

I don't know if these things have been suggested already but...
I think you should be able to see sick people easier, like make them green, or make them cough or be sick, something that would indicate that they are sick.
I would also like it if they could explore the forest of something, it just makes it more adventurous, doesn't it?
Thanks, Becky.

I have a few suggestions....

I'm sure this has already been mentioned, but I have to throw my 2 cents in anyhow. I would really like to see more occupations available for my villagers. I mean, realistically there is only so much room at that research table. And then there is the fact that sometimes I have villagers doing laundry when they need to be at work. How about some of these options.....

Seamstress (they NEED new clothes)
Teacher (those kids clamor around the front of the school building then leave when no one shows up)
Pastor (or something along those lines for days of worship)

Something else I would love to see is actual aging. It's difficult to tell my 18 year olds from my 74 year olds. I can only hope *I* look so good at that age!! Couldn't the older villagers LOOK older?

Pets. I'm sure there has to be some animals on this island that could be tamed?

Hunting. Same thought process as the above idea, only animals for eating, not petting. Besides fish. If you consider those to be animals, that is.

I have to admit that while I enjoy the game immensely, I was a little disappointed over the fact that out of that entire island, these villagers are limited to a fraction of it. There could be villagers sent out to explore the rest of the island, but nooooo. They seem to be bound by some unnatural force field. Fear? I'm not sure. But when I look at the map and see the rest of this island, I feel somewhat cheated.

Anyhoooo .... those are my thoughts, suggestions and comments. Thanks for any consideration of them!

Kel

Love the idea of color for the babies to differentiate the gender!!! GREAT IDEA!

Kel

please put this game online and have blue blankets for boy and pink for girl.

I would like to see another set of puzzles about exploring the cave.