Beginner’s FAQ | Village Life
Village life is a fun “village simulation” on Facebook that let you create your own villages. However, the game does not teach you how everything works and expects you to figure out those on your own. Thus, we have compiled a list of Village Life Facebook information to help you creating and mastering your village. Please share this guide with your friends and on the web if you have found it helpful. However, please do link back to us to show your support!
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Village Life Age and Time System
Unlike many of the other Facebook game that you have played. The time in Village Life on Facebook is tied to the real world player time. In this case, 1 hour of real world time = 1 year in Village life.
Your villagers can grow old depending on the time that it has since passed. Depending on their age, your Village Life villagers will offer different capabilities.
Age 0-1: Newborn and does nothing. However, you do not have to tend them or fulfill their needs.
Age 1-12: Child who cannot help with the daily village tasks. However, they do have wants and they will produce happiness for your village. They are great at helping your village to level up fast. It should be noted that you can move child at age 11 into a house. However, it may be later until the child demands the extra Village Life housing.
Age 13-17: Teen, you can decide your village’s come of age skill. You can start using them for work at this stage.
Age 18: Adult villager.
Timing of a villager’s life:
We will list out some basic time frame of villager’s actions in regard to date, marriage, and birth. We will discuss more about this aspect of game play in detail later on in this guide.
Dating: 24 hours before marriage.
Marriage: Commences after both player accepts the marriage proposal.
Waiting for Baby: It may take 1~7 days or longer for the newly wed to want a baby. It may have something to do with their age.
Making Baby: 24 hours to wait for baby confirmation. If failed, will get another attempt shortly after.
Pregnancy: Last 24 hours. Sometimes may last up to 48 hours.
Coming of Age and Village Life Skill System
When your villager gets to age 13, he or she will be able to choose their skills or professions. Below are the different skills and what they do for you in the game:
Foraging – Collect fruit from trees and bushes.
Farming – Farming the fields.
Forestry – Cutting and tending the trees.
Mining – Working and mining the different stones and minerals.
1 Skill = 25% less time
2 Skill = 50% less time
3 Skill = 75% time deduction.
Each villagers have three skill slots. The blue ones comes from the father’s orange slot. The pink one comes from the mother’s orange slot. And you can get to decide your child’s orange slot when they come of age. This means that with more generations of your Village Life villagers. You can “specialize” or create specific type of workers for your needs.
There are two thoughts associated in creating the villager that you want in Village Life.
The first is that you can create villagers with different skill sets as “Jack of all trades”. This build is flexible that you can assign your villagers into different tasks at will. The second Village Life skill build is to create and mate specialized workers only with all three skill slots the same. The benefit is that you can really save alot of time by using a highly specialized worker. However, it will take a couple generations of mating for you to create that villager skill build.
Dating and Marriage
When your villager reaches the age of 18, he or she will start wanting to date. However, the person being dated will be requested from one of your neighbors. If any of your neighbor has available single villager of opposite sex, you can request them to date. Once a request has been send and the receiving side accept. The villagers will start dating for 24 hours.
After the villagers in Village Life has dated for 24 hours, you can send out marriage proposal. After accepting the marriage proposal, a wedding ceremony will commence. After the ceremony, the newly wed may either stay in your village or leave. It should be noted that getting more villagers from weddings can push your village limit higher.
Pregnancy and Village Life Baby
If the married couple in Village Life chooses to stay with you, they may conceive and make babies in your village. It usually takes 1~7 days before your couple may want to have a baby. Once they decide, it may take 24~48 hours before they succeed. And once they succeed, the pregnancy will take 24~48 hours again. The pregnant female villager will not be able to work on village tasks while carrying the baby.
When the baby is born, you will be able to give him/her a new name.
Village Life Villager Limit
You have a villager number cap of 12 villagers in the game. Once you have reached this cap, your married couples will no longer able to conceive. However, you can break the or sneak above the cap by having villagers from another player’s village marrying into yours.