Virtual Villagers 3 - The Secret City Some tips and hints: -------------------- Submitted by: rashminder * Make sure to plant your first seed right away (drop an adult villager - but not a nursing mom - on the seed near the lift). That seed may be a mango, papaya,or banana (random chance). * The lift is useful for placing an adult and being able find them in the same place a few seconds later. (i.e. for getting the couples you want for making babies.) Other places are the waterfalls and bath (when complete.) The villagers will stay in that location for several seconds before wandering off to work or play. * When your adults are collecting objects (keys, firewood, etc.), they may drop them if interrupted by a celebration or if you click on them. The item will then"warp" back to where it was found originally. * The (collectable) tablet pieces will start to appear near the rubble when the rubble clearing project has gotten started with at least 2%. The six herbs (your villagers will "see" these herbs when you fly them over): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- * The Cactus is located just above the Science area. * The Black Orchid is on the edge of the grassy area below the orchard * The Rose is located on the right edge of the orchard, below the hanging thing * The Lotus is to the left of the stairs near the bath * The Tiger Lily is partway up the path to the door (orange flower on right) * The Berry (Magic) or Pitcher Plant (Nature) is located to the left of the alchemy lab, where the kids go when nature calls. These plants only appear when you have purchased Level 2 in your faction. Puzzle: ------- -=Puzzle 1=- The First Chief. Drop all your villagers on the robes in the amphi- theater: any villager except nursing moms can become chief. If you can't find your chief right away, wait until the moms no longer have babies and drop them on the robe. (You will need to repeat this process each time the chief dies.) -=Puzzle 2=- The Bee Hive. First, light the fire (collect wood and dry grass in the firepit, then light the fire). Then drop an adult villager on the burned out torches near the hive. He/she will return the torch to the hive and calm the bees so you can collect honey. -=Puzzle 3=- The Alchemy Lab. You will need an Adept Scientist (or more than one). Scattered around the village (random locations) are 2 colored pots (red or yellow with white stripes), a brown pot, a gray bowl with spoons, and a short spear (orange-brown handle with gray blade). Drop your scientist(s) on each item and they will return it to the lab - if they drop the item before reaching the lab, it will warp back to where you found it originally. Returning all five items solves the puzzle. -=Puzzle 4=- The Roster of the Dead. At the far right of the map (use keyboard shortcut '3' to get there) is a grassy area - at the upper right of this area is a big leafy bush. Have your villagers remove these leaves, which uncovers the roster of the dead (they will gain building skill; trained builders can accomplish this faster). -=Puzzle 5=- Weather Dancing. You will need Level 2 Leadership, a tribal chief, and 3 Adept Farmers. First, drop the chief on your lit fire. He/she will begin weather dancing. Then drop the farmers on the fire, and they will join in. You will know they are successful when sparkles appear over their heads and under their feet. -=Puzzle 6=- The Lift. You will need 3 Adept Builders and Level 2 Restoration. Once you have purchased the tech, drop your 3 builders on the "strange machine" in the orchard. Make sure their action line reads "repairing the lift". If you have done this correctly, the lift will be repaired. -=Puzzle 7=- The Rubble. You will need Level 2 Restoration. Drop a villager (preferably a builder) on the pile of rocks at the bottom of the map. He/she will clear away the rocks, gaining building skill (builders will accomplish this task faster). -=Puzzle 8=- The Ancient Bath. You will need to have completed Puzzle 3 and have a Master Builder. Drop your builder on the "chalkboard" in the alchemy lab (he/she will "see" it if you fly them over the lab) - he/she will create the the plans for the bath. Drop your builders on the bath to complete the project. -=Puzzle 9=- The Statue. You will need Level 3 Restoration, Level 3 Leadership, a tribal chief, a Master Builder, and a completed bath (solved Puzzle 8). Drop the Master Builder on the chalkboard (which will be blank after the bath is completed), and he/she will draw up plans for the statue. Drag an adult villager (not a nursing mom) up the path to the door until he/she "Sees a good place to anchor the statue" -- this villager is more likely to be successful if he/she has some building skill. That villager will then build scaffolding to help anchor the statue. Your chief must direct work on the statue, so drop him/her on the statue to begin this process - if the chief stops directing work, then progress will halt until you return the chief to his/her duties. Once the chief is directing, you can then drop builders on the statue to help "pushing the statue". The villagers must push the statue up the path towards the door - this will take several hours (you can click on the statue to bring up a timer in the status bar that will help you determine how long is left - but this time depends on how many builders you have working on the project and may increase if builders leave the project). Your builders may occasionally complain that "there is no more room to help out" - only a limited number of builders can work on the statue at any given time. -=Puzzle 10=- The Orchard. You should plant your first seed as soon as the game starts: this first seed is located next to the ruined lift: drop one of your adult villagers on this seed and he/she will plant it. To gather the next two seeds, you will need to have completed Puzzle 6 (The Lift). As soon as a rain storm starts, place an adult villager (but not a nursing mom) on the lift (his/her action line should read "Standing on the Lift") Leave the villager there until the lift reaches its highest point, when a seed will fall from the tree above. Drop the villager on the seed to plant it. You will need to plant a total of 3 seeds (the original plus two from the lift) to complete the orchard - the puzzle will be completed once all three trees have become mature (and start producing fruit - it takes about 8 hours on 'normal' speed for the tree to mature). Additional seeds (beyond the first three) will not be planted, but will instead be placed in the food bin. (Note: If you have trouble getting to the lift before it starts to go up, you may wish to pause the game with the spacebar when you see the rain start before finding a villager. You will need to unpause the game to see their status line to make sure they are properly placed.) -=Puzzle 11=- Banishing the Sharks. You will need to have completed Puzzle 3 and have at least Level 2 in your chosen faction, Nature or Magic. For NATURE: collect the following herbs for a potion: 2 X Black Orchid, 1 x Pitcher Plant. For MAGIC: collect the following herbs for a potion: 2 X Rose, 1 x Berry. Have an adult villager (not a nursing mother) drink the potion. He/she will take a vial to the ocean. How the sharks are actually dealt with depends on the faction chosen (the nature potion is a shark repellant, the magic potion "charms" the sharks so they won't bother the villagers). -=Puzzle 12=- Aromatherapy. You will need to have completed Puzzle 8, have Level 3 Medicine, and a Master Doctor. Drop your Master Doctor in the completed bath. He/she will fill the bowls around the bath with Lotus plants ("doing aromatherapy"). Then drop a Master Doctor on the fire to light the burners and finish the puzzle. -=Puzzle 13=- The Ash Key. Later in the game (after at least one fire cycle - 10 hours on fast speed), you will notice sparkles around the fire. Let your fire go out (do not replenish it with firewood) - a diamond will appear in the ashes. The diamond will be too hot to pick up initially (it was in a fire, don't forget). To cool the key, drop adult villagers on the rightmost of the two waterfalls (where they go to drink and do laundry). They will gather water and drop it on the key. They will need to do this several times (8-10, at least) to make the diamond cool enough to touch - your villagers won't repeat this task on their own, so you will have to make them do it by dropping them on the waterfall. When the villagers no longer bring water to the fire (they'll revert to drinking from the waterfall when you drop them on it), drop a villager on the key - they will take it to the door and solve the puzzle. You will need to repeat this step if they drop the key before reaching the door. -=Puzzle 14=- The Hanging Key. You will need to have solved Puzzle 3. Collect the following herbs for a potion: Cactus, Rose, Lotus. Make the potion and have villager (other than a nursing mom) drink it. That villager should feel "light and springy!". Drop them near the pink diamond (the hanging thing) just above the Rose plant - their status line should read "trying to reach the key". They will jump up, collect the key, and place it in the door. If they drop the key before reaching the door, you will have to resolve this puzzle. -=Puzzle 15=- The Clam Key. You will need to have solved Puzzle 9. Once the statue is completed, a pearl will appear. Have a Master Builder pick up the pearl - he/she will take it to the waterfall to be "finished". Then have the tribal chief pick up the finished blue pearl: the chief will use the pearl to get the key from the giant clam and will then put the key in the door. (As with the other key puzzles, you may have to repeat parts of the puzzle if the key is dropped before it gets to the door). -=Puzzle 16=- The Sun Dial. You will need to have solved Puzzles 13, 14, and 15. Once all three keys are in the door, the sun dial room will be revealed. Drop a villager on the sun dial until it reaches the position at the furthest left (there are three locations for the sun dial). When a beam of sunlight hits the sun dial, ghostly figures will appear in the room. Drop a villager on those ghosts and the mystery of the secret city will be revealed! Potion Combination Result: -------------------------- 1 - Rose 2 - Black Orchid 3 - Cactus 4 - Lotus 5 - Tiger Lily 6 - Pitcher plant 7 - Berry Combination List: ----------------- Ingredients Result -------------------------- 1 + 1 + 1 = Romantic/Embrace 1 + 1 + 2 = Feels Lonely 1 + 1 + 3 = Fertile 1 + 1 + 4 = Happy feet - Dances 1 + 1 + 5 = Stinky Breath - Villager burps green cloud 1 + 2 + 2 = Stomachache - minor health gone 1 + 2 + 3 = Burns - minor health gone 1 + 2 + 4 = Awful - makes Villager sick 1 + 2 + 5 = Burns - minor health gone 1 + 3 + 3 = Yummy - Kids drink 1 + 3 + 4 = Light & Springy (Villager able to get pink diamond) 1 + 3 + 5 = Blannesamagawa loomajoobamooga!! (crazy!) 1 + 4 + 4 = Fertile 1 + 4 + 5 = Woozy - Villager spins and sits 1 + 5 + 5 = Fun - acts like child 2 + 2 + 2 = Yikes! Half health gone 2 + 2 + 3 = Stomachache - minor health gone 2 + 2 + 4 = Stomachache - minor health gone 2 + 2 + 5 = Woozy - Villager spins and sits 2 + 3 + 3 = Awful - makes Villager sick 2 + 3 + 4 = Energy - runs short while 2 + 3 + 5 = Must exercise! 2 + 4 + 4 = Nasty, bitter 2 + 4 + 5 = Has to Go! Nature Calls! 2 + 5 + 5 = Sleepy - sits/lies down 3 + 3 + 3 = Minor Health given 3 + 3 + 4 = Medium Health given 3 + 3 + 5 = Nasty, bitter 3 + 4 + 4 = Medium Health given 3 + 4 + 5 = Feels Hungry (eats a lot) 3 + 5 + 5 = Nasty, bitter 4 + 4 + 4 = In a Trance 4 + 4 + 5 = Hiccups - Villager hiccups & jumps 4 + 5 + 5 = Nasty, bitter 5 + 5 + 5 = Fun - acts like child -=NATURE FACTION=- 6 + 6 + 6 = Itchy 6 + 6 + 1 = Feel Better 6 + 6 + 2 = Sleepy - sits/lays down 6 + 6 + 3 = Feel Better 6 + 6 + 4 = Feel Better 6 + 6 + 5 = Awful - makes Villager sick 6 + 1 + 1 = Soapy - hiccups floating bubbles 6 + 1 + 2 = Burns - minor health gone 6 + 1 + 3 = Feel Better 6 + 1 + 4 = Fertile 6 + 1 + 5 = Hiccups - Villager hiccups & jumps 6 + 2 + 2 = Gets rid of sharks (several villagers take to ocean) 6 + 2 + 3 = Nasty, bitter 6 + 2 + 4 = Burns - minor health gone 6 + 2 + 5 = Has to Go! Nature Calls! 6 + 3 + 3 = Too hot - tries to cool off 6 + 3 + 4 = Feel Better 6 + 3 + 5 = Nasty, bitter 6 + 4 + 4 = Having an epiphany in a trance nothing 6 + 4 + 5 = Stomachache - minor health gone 6 + 5 + 5 = Nasty, bitter -=MAGIC FACTION=- 7 + 7 + 7 = Paralyzed ...can't move... 7 + 7 + 1 = Burns - minor health gone 7 + 7 + 2 = Sleepy - sits/lies down 7 + 7 + 3 = Nasty, bitter 7 + 7 + 4 = Burns - minor health gone 7 + 7 + 5 = Awful - makes Villager sick 7 + 1 + 1 = Gets rid of sharks (several villagers take to ocean) 7 + 1 + 2 = Burns - minor health gone 7 + 1 + 3 = Scientific Clarity 7 + 1 + 4 = Yummy! 7 + 1 + 5 = Yummy! 7 + 2 + 2 = Nasty, bitter 7 + 2 + 3 = Who turned out the lights?! 7 + 2 + 4 = Feels Smarter 7 + 2 + 5 = Has to Go! Nature Calls! 7 + 3 + 3 = Freezing - Tries to get warm 7 + 3 + 4 = Feel Better 7 + 3 + 5 = Nasty, bitter 7 + 4 + 4 = Epiphany/Trance 7 + 4 + 5 = Stomachache - minor health gone 7 + 5 + 5 = Whoa! Teleports villager near beach Unlimited honey: ---------------- Submitted by. RM If one of your villagers likes to run, have that villager smoke the hive. By doing this, the bees will stay and you will have never-ending honey. Lift: ----- The lift is useful for placing an adult and allowing you to find them in the same place a few seconds later. You can use this to get the couples you want to have babies. Other places where villagers linger are the waterfalls and bath (when completed). Gem key: -------- Keep lighting the fire. You will notice sparkles around the fire. Let it burn out and the key should appear. However, it is too hot to pick up. Go to the waterfalls where the villagers get a drink and drop them there. The key must be there in order to do this. The villagers action will be "Putting water on the firepit". Keep doing until it has cooled. Pink diamond key: ----------------- Submitted by: Cheatsbook You will need to have solved Puzzle 3. Collect the following herbs for a potion: Cactus, Rose, Lotus. Make the potion and have a villager other than a nursing mother drink it. That villager should feel "light and springy". Drop them near the pink diamond (the hanging object) just above the rose plant. Their action should read "Trying to reach the key". They will jump up and collect the key. Clam key: --------- You will need to have solved Puzzle 9 (the big statue). Once the statue is completed, a pearl will appear (not the key). Have a Master Builder pick up the pearl. He or she will take it to the waterfall to be "finished". Then, have the tribal chief pick up the finished blue pearl. The chief will use the pearl to get the key from the giant clam. Cheat: ------ Submitted by: TheOne After u install and play your virtual villager game, u can change the time system on taskbar on your operating system to the next day or next week or next month, and see what will happend on your game. Hint: ----- Submitted by: marty Use the potion: Cactus , Black Orchid , and Lotus after acquiring "level 2 potion" on projects to speed things up! Faster events: -------------- The time in the game runs is based on your computer's clock. It is possible to shorten things by setting the clock ahead and then going back. Be careful though, sometimes people will die over this time. Hint: ----- Submitted by: twila If you find a blue star fish pick it up you will become a master at what ever you do. It has to be one of thouse thing were you have to chose thing or the other Cheat: ------ Submitted by: Krazy If your villagers are starving, stop time (Pause) the game then go into your time/date settings on your pc, then you can set it ahead a day. When you go back into your game you can use your chief again to create food and you don't lose any progress or risk people dying. This also works for using the chief to point out rare objects. Time Manipulation: ------------------ If you need to speed up the time in your game, just change the time accordingly on your computer. The games time is based on your computers clock, so it can be easily manipulated. Tablet pieces: -------------- The collectible tablet pieces will begin to appear near the rubble when the rubble clearing project has gotten started with at least 2%. Unlimited honey: ---------------- If one of your villagers likes to run, have that villager smoke the hive. By doing this, the bees will stay and you will have never-ending honey. How to get rid of Sharks: ------------------------- If you really need to fish in the game, here's a way to fix the shark problem. Nature Faction - 2 black orchids + 1 pitcher plant Magic Faction - 2 roses + 1 berry Note: Potions may blow up even if you use the right ingredients. Extra Food: ----------- Submitted by: Kyra For a little extra food or tech points, when you see a mushroom or collectable instead of just putting one kid on it put one on then immediately another kid. The mushroom/collectable will duplicate. Hint: ----- Submitted by: Nicole Johnson You will need to have solved Puzzle 9 (the big statue). Once the statue is completed, a pearl will appear (not the key). Have a Master Builder pick up the pearl. He or she will take it to the waterfall to be "finished". Then, have a master scientist pick up the pearl. He'll take it to the lab and smooth it over. Then have the tribal chief pick up the finished blue pearl. The chief will use the pearl to get the key from the giant clam. Easy Parenting Skill: --------------------- Submitted by: Gabby (You must have an Elderly female to do this.). Instead of actually having to make the babies, wait out their growing, just let your guy be with an older woman. Use a male on the elderly female as if you wanted them to have children. Continually do this. Only use the male on the female because if you use the female on the male, the female gets the points. How to get faster tech points from collectables: ------------------------------------------------ Submitted by: Jacob Miton You need the to find any collectable that is uncommon or rare then put a child on it then pause it very quickly while it is paused find any other child and put it on the same collectible (if it doesn't work the first time repeat) and when they take it to the lab common:200 instead of 100 rare:400 or 300 instead of 100. Use for the cheif: ------------------ Submitted by: Katie If you feel like the cheif is almost useless..Your female cheif can have babies. Easy Food: 4000 food to start: ------------------------------ Submitted by: circle 2K Before Starting your game sit computer clock ahead one day then start game. After smoking the bees and planting your first seed , leave the game running and reset set your clock this will give you 3000 honey and 1000 fruit. Improving Villager Health : --------------------------- Submitted by: dada Can be done by mixing potions in the alchemy lab. You'll need to have fixed it first, which is puzzle 3, but once you do you can mix one of two potions to restore villager health. A combination of either Cactus + Lotus + Lotus or Cactus +Cactus + Lotus creates a potion that restores villagers health. Leader with unclaimed robe: --------------------------- To choose your own leader with the robe still hanging up (unclaimed), make the potion Tiger Lily + Tiger Lily + Lotus. It will be bitter, however if you then pick up that person and place them on the robe to try it on, they will become chief, even when that person had already said it did not fit. No time to wait for babies: --------------------------- Submitted by: Muhammad Asad Parvez First, put a male on a female or female on male vice-versa. Then the message line will read going indoors for some privacy. Move the male villager from his place. You will see a baby in the hand of female villager. Amazing food cheat for Ipod/Iphone: ----------------------------------- Submitted by: lucagee You must have a Tribal chief to do this. * First drag your chief to the food. He will either creat magic food or refuse. * If he refuses, Use this code. * Go to Menu * Go to Options * Put the time to paused (Make sure the game is paused. * Press the square button on the ipod/iphone * Go to settingsgeneralDate & timeset Date & Time * Now Press the current date above the slot machine thingy with the time EX- Monday January 1, 2009 * Set the date to a day after * Go back to Virtual villagers and unfreeze the time * Now drag your tribal chief back to the food. * He will create more magic food. OUTCOME- You created magic food 2 times in 5 mins YOU CAN DO THIS AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT!!! Your welcome!! I found this out myself! HOW DID I DO IT? I dragged my tribal chief to the food not knowing about magic food Then It said creating magic food and i realized it gave me +150 food when i was going to sleep i paused the game. The next day i did it again, but the game was paused the whole night so then i paused set date +1 and tried, IT WORKED! Now your villagers will never die out. Warning with time change: ------------------------- Submitted by: Jordy as many of you know you can speed the game up by changing the clock on your computer. first, while doing this in the begining I stongly advise you to do by a hour at a time at most your people are much less likely to die from disease or starvation because a shorter time is elapsing. Secondly, when clearing the rubble down by the bath DO NOT use the clock jump meathod, the tablet peices that you should geet from clear the rubble disapear and there is no other way to get them so you are out of luck unless you want to start over. Just warnig you Fun Fact: ---------- Submitted by: Jordy the potion: berry, tiger lily, tiger lily doesn't teleport you the same place each time. you can be teleported almost anywhere on the island.just found it out while i was messing around Baby making time: ----------------- Submitted by: Jordy You can know if the people who are heading indoors will make a baby or not, the population will change as soon as they say "going indoors" this way if they aren't going to make a baby you can just pisk them up and try again instead of waiting for the to walk over to the house. You don't even have to wait if they are going to have a baby. As soon as you see the population change just pick up the female and it will apear in her arms when you put her down.All this is just to help you save time in breeding. Collectables: -------------- Submitted by: Jordy if you have been playing the game you probabally have already noticed this but incase you havn't: turtle shells are only found around the waterfall and mating build; ocean iteams are, ofcourse found only on the beach and reef; feathers and mushrooms are found anywhere including the reef and path up to the key door but the rare feathers are uasually found in the clearing that has the roster of the deadon down by the bath; and finally the the tablet pecies are found as you uncover the rubble down by the bath. A few tips: ----------- Submitted by: Ellie If you are playing the free version on your ipod or iphone, it allows 9 villagers and no more. However, if you build the small hut in the middle of the village, it adds some more room and allows more villagers to live. Also, if a villager is standing on the lift, and it hasnt rained for at least 10 minutes, after a few minutes it will start to rain. :) 3 Gems: ------- -=Square gem=- use potion on a villager that makes you fell "light and springy" and put the villager under the cliff with the gem. the villager will spring up, snatch the gem, and bring it to the door. -=Ash gem=- Once your fire has been burning for more than 10 hours, you will see sparkling on the fire. let the fire burn out, and in the asy remains there will be the gem. It will be to hot to touch at first (duh, it was in a fire!) so bring a villager to the water fall. the action should have something to do with putting water on it. repeat until the villager doesnt put any more on. drag a villager to the gem and they will put it in the door. -=Clam gem=- First you need to have re-built the statue. there will be a gem. give it to a master builder to "Finish" it, then give the finished gem to the cheif. the cheif will bring it to the clam and get the gem in the clam. They will bring that to the door. Hint: ----- Submitted by: Wild For the Lift puzzle, you can just have 2 Master Builders and 1 Adept Builder. That works too But you can't have a Trainee Builder. Finding collectables: --------------------- * Turtle shells are only found around the waterfall and mating build. * Ocean items are found only on the beach and reef. * Feathers and mushrooms are found anywhere including the reef and path up to the key door. However the rare feathers are usually found in the clearing that has the roster of the dead down by the bath. * Tablet pieces are found as you uncover the rubble near the bath. Useless Chief: -------------- Submitted by: Sam If your first chief has just died, and you have finished the alchemy lab, to avoid another useless chief, have a child (preferrably a young female) drink the potion tiger lilly, tiger lilly, lotus and drop her on the unclaimed robe. You will have to have completed puzzle three. I say young female because then, she can still collect items when she's a kid, and she can have babies when she's an adult. If you can't wait, you can use a potion to kill your chief. Full health: ------------ Submitted by: roxy the potion cacus+cactus+cactus gives your villagers full health it is better than the other health drinks to do this you need to have solved puzzle 3. Extra Food: ----------- Submitted by: LadyEmiko Once you have crowned your chief, he has the talent to create magical food. (Place him on the food bin to activate this talent). He can only do this every 24 hours. However, your villagers will continue to eat the food he's created and more. You will begin to run out of food too quickly to make up for it by creating extra. I learned that the chief's talent does NOT depend on game time, it works off of real time! So if you pause your game and come back in 24 hours, the chief will create more food. This way you can gain food without losing any to hungry villagers. Continue to do this until you've developed a stable food supply and have enough food to last your villagers until they unlock an unlimited food source. Unlimited Food and time change: ------------------------------- 1. Time Change-While gameplay press the start button(near the spacebar)on your keyboard. Then right-click on the date(bottom right corner if you have it).Then click on 'Adjust Date/Time'. once you are done changing the time, press apply then go back into your game. But don't go too far ahead or else all of your villagers will die.Example,if you are working on the roster of the dead or the hut you would go forward in time at least 2-3 days. Anymore and it might be game over! 2. Unlimited Food-Same thing as the first one. But you need a tribal chief! Once you have your chief, create some magic food by dropping him/her on the food bin. He/she will make magic food twice. That doesn't mean that you can only get 2 food.Pause and press the windows button when he/she sits down.When he sits down, that means he/she is done. Change the time to the next day (if youv'e done this before, go ahead the next day from the day that you did last time). Apply the time to the next day and go back into the game. Un- pause and make your chief make more magic food.Keep doing this for a reward and infinite food!