I'm trying to understand everything about creature growth and alignment before taking up the challenge of making final creature. I've never actually beaten the game yet either (sad, I know...). So I just wanted to ask a few questions to clear up a few things.

1) I understand that creature growth rate dwindles to near nothing after it hits 18, but doesn't actually stop. Does this mean that even if I haven't hit 100% growth by the time he is 18, I can still just let him grow? What about those growth mushrooms, would they still give a boost after my creature hits age 18?

2) I'm having trouble with playing . I make a point to not kill anyone and to try to satisfy the desires of the villages as much as possible, but I always end up staying neutral. I started turning once when I started killing/sacrificing people in an enemy village in land 3 once, but haven't done that in quite a while. Any tips to help me turn ?

3) Should I simply try to balance out the children desire flag with the expansion growth flag or would it be better to let their children desire go unfulfilled?

4) When making wonders, I know that more belief means a bigger and more powerful wonder. What if I were to make two wonders, would it be the same as a single wonder twice as big? Is there a max wonder size?

5) In a skirmish game, after you have conquered all of your enemies villages, will his temple disappear or do I actually have to destory it?

6) I tried placing trees in town so that my villagers wouldn't cut them down, but they did anyways. Aren't they supposed to leave them be as a sacred tree or something?

1) He can grow if he'll be older than 18.

2) Use many miracles, for example move all of your villagers to your temple and heal them, Japanese wonder can increase the power of the healing miracle.

3) I'm not sure about this, you can just ignore them. It is very hard to have both of these flags at 0%, but not impossible. Usually I've seen that both of them were at 0% in the new villages.

4) Didn't understand "What if I were to make two wonders, would it be the same as a single wonder twice as big?". The more belief you have, the bigger the wonder can be and the more power it can have when you build it. There is a maximum size, for a biggest normal wonder you need ~64k wood, but it isn't working for map script files, and also if you have more belief than what is needed for the wonder with maximum size, then it still can be more powerful than a normal wonder with maximum size. Maybe this is cheating, but you can put artifacts near the place where you are going to place the scaffold for the wonder to make
[21:03:56] >>    the wonder bigger or just more powerful.

5) Need to destroy the enemy temple, it is possible if it does have villages, but this is very hard, maybe this can happen only if the temple will get a very high damage and the enemy won't have any buildings.

6) Maybe they want wood too much. Did you see a gray something when you placed the tree? Or it was green?

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My creature is starting to take on the appearance, so apparently I'm on my way. I've been casting heal miracle alot.

for #4, can you build two wonders of the same type? and does a wonder grow after you've built it as your influence grows, or is it stuck at that size?

for #6, not sure what you mean, but the wood desire flag was completely gone.

new questions,

7) I tried to train my creature by having it carry a rock in land 1, and decreased its fatness to 0%. I want to get it back up now, but I'm not sure how. Any ideas?

8 ) Can I get my creature to forget a miracle that it has already learned? like if it learns pack of animals, can I make it forget how to cast it?