---For this achievement, you must complete all of the puzzles listed under the "Chapter 1" heading.---
They appear on this screen:
The achievement will pop when:
If something is underlined in this guide, it is very important to follow this tip. Failure to do so could result in lost items and/or wasted time. See "General Tips" at the bottom of this guide before starting the game.
Chapter 1 contains 12 puzzles which are challenges that, once solved, allow the player to grow their village. These can vary in difficulty from requiring a villager to move an object to mastering all of the technologies and having a certain number of master villagers. More often than not, you may need to complete these puzzles out of order.
About half of these 'chapter 1' puzzles have an individual achievement associated with each puzzle, which I will direct you to the solution of, if it applies.
Some puzzles are rather simple, while others will require proper timing, with many steps building on one another. Many items, especially towards the end, will take 12-48 hours to craft.
I completed this guide spending no real money. If you choose to spend real money, it will only make things easier/faster. I'd recommend using 300 lavastones to give you an extra crafting slot at the crafting hut, if you choose to do so.
The names of the 12 puzzles (with my tips) are as follows:
Row 1, left to right:
The Fire
Bring firewood to the Fire Pit from the Dry Wood Pile beneath it. Collect coconut husks from the ground near the palm tree (this is kindling). Bring villager to the Fire Pit to ignite.
Fixing the Dock
Find three pieces of wood scattered across the island and bring them to the dock in the South.
Use all pieces to fix the dock.
Crafting Hut
Drag a villager to the whale bones to the east of the island. They will take a bone to the workbench in the research/dining area.
After placing the whale bone, drag a villager onto the workbench and they will craft a pickaxe tool. The pickaxe will appear next to the anvil.
Drag a villager onto the pickaxe and they will begin to chop the tree down (down south near the lava flow), which will gradually die and drop an apple seed. This seed will be used later in "The Garden" puzzle.
After the tree is chopped, builders can be put to work on the crafting hut to rebuild it. The crafting hut is located next to the dying tree.
Release The Kraken
Row 2, left to right:
Worship
There are four pedestals surrounding the large stone Kraken statue.
Once they are rebuilt with a villager of knowledgeable in both building and research, you will be able to worship the Kraken statue.
Craft 2 stone and 2 metal
lava + water = stone (45 mins.)
stone + fire = metal (2 hrs.)
Place villagers (adept or master researchers) on all four pedestals to worship the stone Kraken.
This will summon the real Kraken.
The Garden
Rhubarb Pie
Do not harvest the Rhubarb right away. Wait until all 3 crops are fertilized and ready for harvest. The game makes you fertilize in order: Rhubarb, strawberries, blueberries. If you harvest the Rhubarb before fertilizing the rest, you will have to re-fertilize the rhubarb before you can fertilize the other 2. Fertilizing and harvesting all 3 are required for completing "The Garden."
Clay Hut
Big pain. You need 12 clay bricks (CLAY+FIRE). Once they are crafted, use a villager to take them to the clay hut one at a time.
Row 3, left to right:
Antidote
Harvest POISON from the snakes nest combine with MAGIC = ANTIDOTE
The Water Wheel
Fixing the Statues
***This is the most painful puzzle of all. It will require the most time and steps.***
When you are ready to take this on, you will need a master gatherer and a Chief. The Chief cloak is hanging on a tree by the breeding hut. In order to turn a villager into the chief, you will need a single villager with all skills maxed. You might as well make your master gather the chief since making a master gatherer is so annoying. You have to manually make a village gather things around the map. It will take over 100 gathers. Just gather everything, all the time.
Destroying the Kraken
This quest is usually last, and will require the completion of "Fixing the Statues" first.
To craft a (blue, red and yellow) Butterfly, you must combine a WORM with a BLUEBERRY, STRAWBERRY or SULFUR.
You have to craft FERTILIZER + BACTERIA to make (WORMS).
If you don't have (fertilizer) yet, you have to craft MIXED HERBS + EARTH.
If you don't have (bacteria) yet, you have to craft ALGAE + WATER.
If you don't have (mixed herbs) yet, you have to craft GRASS + WHEAT GRASS.
Then you will need to combine each color of BUTTERFLY with GLASS (SAND+FIRE), which will result in blue, red and yellow glass.
You will need a master builder to set all the piceces of glass into the 3 statues. Rather than continuing to train new master builders, I just waited until all 3 pieces of colored glass were complete and then resurrected my Chief (using my last lavastones) to set all 3 pieces.
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Important online resources I used to build this guide and complete the puzzles:
Crafting Guide:
Resources and where to harvest them:
Puzzle solutions:
***As you can tell, a great amount of the credit for this guide goes to the Virtual Villagers Fandom WIki.***
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General tips:
Try to login everyday. The game awards daily consecutive logins with prizes. Most of the prizes are nearly worthless but some items like WORM or GLASS could shave nearly 24 hours off your play/crafting time. The more consecutive logins you rack up, the better the prizes. You should also be logging in regularly to make sure your important villagers don't die of hungry or disease while you are away.
Start trying to make a Chief as soon as all the tutorial/easy puzzle are out of the way (probably once you start on the 2nd row of puzzles). See Fixing the Statues for the Chief instructions. You may need to resurrect a villager one or more times to have enough time to make a chief. Save your lavastones for resurrections, and then possibly end game crafting, once all the Master villager related tasks are out of the way.
You can trade with the trading ship but I wouldn't recommend it more than the first trade. By halfway through the game, I had all technology categories maxed with nothing else to spend research points on. It's better to hold onto your supplies and crafted items.
