Vintage Story

[steady canyon]

https://www.vintagestory.at/
https://wiki.vintagestory.at/
Vintage Story is an uncompromising wilderness survival sandbox game inspired by eldritch horror themes. Find yourself in a ruined world reclaimed by nature and permeated by unnerving temporal disturbances. Relive the advent of human civilization, or take your own path.

Progress through multiple ages
Start out empty-handed in the stone age and learn to survive by foraging, hunting, crafting, and fighting. Live through the four seasons and advance further by smelting copper for more powerful tools, creating bronze alloys, learning to work iron, mechanize common tasks and ultimately reach the steel age.

A wicked universe backed by original story elements
Take on the role of a lost being in the body of a tall blue creature and discover the remnants of civilization. There is no linear storytelling; it is up to you to piece together who you are and what has happened from the little evidence that remains. During your journey you will encounter wayward creatures, find old stories, battle temporal instability, and endure temporal storms.

One million square kilometers of procedurally generated landscapes
Enter a vast open world populated by a range of cute, strange, dangerous, and horrifying creatures. Vintage Story utilizes a great deal of procedural technology to create immensely diverse landscapes, climate conditions, and geological features to always keep exploration fresh and exciting.

Not just hardcore!
Vintage Story offers multiple playstyles and a huge amount of customization options when you create a new game world. You have the power to choose a creative experience, a peaceful world, balanced survival, hardcore wilderness survival or quite literally anything inbetween.

Unreal world simulation
Having undergone 9 years of continuous development the VS game engine now fully and believably simulates seasons, soil fertility, rock strata, localized weather patterns, rain, snowfall & snow accumulation, hail, realistic climate distributions, food spoilage, body temperature, animal husbandry, farming, block physics, inspiring sunsets and nightskies, mineralogy, knapping, clayforming, metallurgy, smithing, microblock editing and more

Inspired by Nature
Vintage Story is heavily inspired by natural processes of the real world and brings them into the game in a fun and enjoyable way. Our aim is to capture the beauty of the natural world and amplify the experience within our game.

@high falcon @inland comet @dreamy lagoon figured i'd make a thread for it here

[high falcon]

Oh v pretty

Your world?

[steady canyon]

no, representative screenshots of the early game from google

[high falcon]

Ah

[steady canyon]

well "early" there are windmills in the distance in one

[high falcon]

Looks pretty much the same as present VS

[steady canyon]

i meant the early game as in progression

[high falcon]

Oh

[steady canyon]

my house is not great, but it works for now

at current, i just made a copper anvil, forge, and a simple bow (finally). a temporal storm started right after i logged on

[steady canyon]

i made a saw finally, and i've updated my house into planks

and expanded it

[high falcon]

Saw is an essential tool

You need it for nails which you need for proper storsge chests

[steady canyon]

i've made so many things now, and the house is really feeling like a house. i got glass now, so i can see outside, and i made some tin bronze tools. i've almost got leatherworking going, but i can't find enough lime yet

[high falcon]

yeah some resources are a real bottleneck

you cont just need lime tho, i think you can use borax?

you have enough oak for tannin?

you need weak AND strong tannin

[steady canyon]

i have so much oak

and i got plenty of tannin barrels

haven't found borax or lime from rock yet, everything around me is igneous

i finally have some copper armor

[high falcon]

armour is somethig i genuinely never bothered making

[steady canyon]

well i'm tired of dying lol

[high falcon]

but then i never really got into leather making

[high falcon]

may or may not be getting a vintage story server going with a friend, if anyone is interested shoot me a dm or something

[high falcon]

very pretty sunrse

[manic talon]

yes

[high falcon]

Mmm halucination enemies

Attacking the demons of the mind

[inland comet]

https://www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/news/1220-pre1-fishing-mechanisms-metalworking-and-more-r431/

[high falcon]

Ye

Pretty sweet features being added

[steady canyon]

Finally finished reading this, there's so many great changes coming!

Less enthused about spears getting nerfed

And i hope fishing bait is something relatively easy to get early game; fish are an important starting food

[high falcon]

yeah i dont agree with the spear nerf

willl have to see how things play out

[steady canyon]

They were nerfed because they added iron-tier spears, but like, iron is a huge pain in the ass to get so that really sucks for defending yourself before the iron age

Also now we gotta defend our farms from rabbits and grain doesn't produce as much per plot so the cards are really stacking against early-game players

[high falcon]

its not really that much of an issue, just build a fence around your farm
but yeah, it is making early game harder

[manic talon]

all im hearing is that with the correct setup. nature will feed bunnies to my meat grinder

[steady canyon]

Mega already has one of those

[manic talon]

huh.

[steady canyon]

It catches foxes and chickens too

[manic talon]

ah the hole

also is anyone gonna use the white gravel region. i wonna relocate. or at least make a bas ecloser to everyone else

[steady canyon]

Go for it

[manic talon]

okie dokie

although possibly ill keep the compound around. if not ill build down

i.e basically carve a mountain and shove the compound inside

[high falcon]

https://youtu.be/87i-XtXhv9U

[steady canyon]

i'm making brandy!

[manic talon]

cool! where?

[steady canyon]

in my single-player game

[manic talon]

oh okie! can we see home?

[outside of building]

[manic talon]

pretty!

[steady canyon]

the winter is lasting way longer than i thought it would. but i made a sailboat at least and they're WAY more maneuverable and fast than in valheim

[high falcon]

Yay
I still have yet to make one

[manic talon]

i havent been on in a while so idr when i left

[manic talon]

exploration honse

[steady canyon]

fully upgraded boat! that's 14 shields i had to make

[high falcon]

Bote!

[steady canyon]

whoa, hot springs are a thing?

[steady canyon]

[high falcon]

Oh good luck

[high falcon]

Yeah
Im told that directly beneth those is lava, though no idea how deep
You could use it to make an obby generator but youd only do that if you wanted black rocks

[steady canyon]

i have captured some chickens and pigs, and they are almost reproducing

[high falcon]

https://youtu.be/DkAyQNT-F-4

[steady canyon]

hmm. i like the new system in concept, but i am not a fan of the added need for acquiring compost. it's already such a PITA to get in any good quantity.

[high falcon]

You can use any fertiliser but yeah i agree

[solid rivet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvzBB_--xM

[high falcon]

honestly a lot of things coming in 1.22

[solid rivet]

big QoL upgrade

a lot of branches of gameplay getting a ton of extra hours of gameplay to rabbit hole into

[high falcon]

not sure im going to like them all, berry bushes are critical for early game survival for example, now they're similar to fruit trees

smithing is far more complex

fishing could be fun, water wheels are going to be a FASCINATING addition that drastically changes how and where you place buildings

[solid rivet]

it reinforces that mountain slopes are a great place to build

lots of space to put water wheels into rapids

and the altitude for windmills

just not on top so you don't have to climb too much to get back up

[high falcon]

atm rapids are the way they do it but its still a beta feature, they plan to change that

[steady canyon]

this patch is gonna be so hype

[high falcon]

ok so i watched the vid and looked around more, rapids are what they're gonna use for 1.22, as rivers need more time in the proverbial oven apparently

[steady canyon]

got all 3 machines up and running with clutches and transmissions

the top of the windmill housing; there are 4 rotor shafts combined into one vertical torque which is then split into the 3 machines at the bottom

external view of the windmill housing

the side rotors do not yet have full sails, gotta wait for spring to grow more flax

[dreamy lagoon]

It's been a hot minute since I've seen that.

[manic talon]

it is beautiful

[high falcon]

I love what youve done with that!

[steady canyon]

i have reached the iron age

also finally gathered enough bismuth bronze to make chain armor

[steady canyon]

full chain armor

ah, you can't see the iron anvil behind me

[manic talon]

:0 cool

[high falcon]

Oh iron? Niiice
And a full set of armour
Congrats!

[dreamy lagoon]

They found a vein of good iron somewhere and worked it down a bit.

[steady canyon]

I used a cheaty prospecting mod to find it, because i was really struggling to find non-surface ore in an organized manner

Suddenly my bottleneck became charcoal with all the metalworking, and it's still winter so trees aren't regrowing yet, though i have plenty in reserve to chop down

The place i decided to settle ended up being winter between late October and late April

[steady canyon]

so begins my efforts to make a fully automatic quern, with hoppers and chutes and archimedes screws

[high falcon]

https://bsky.app/profile/vintagestorygame.bsky.social/post/3mijmf2sri22q

Vintage Story (@vintagestorygame.bsky.social)

A Post Card from Balduranne...

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Bluesky · Apr 2, 2026, 4:21 PM

[dreamy lagoon]

https://www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/news/1220-fishing-mechanisms-metalworking-and-more-r441/

[high falcon]

ye
unfortunatly im not at home to play it :(

[steady canyon]

I will be incredibly busy pretty much until maybe this weekend and i really wanna play

[high falcon]

Have to claw some time out when i get back then

[steady canyon]

gonna go get some food then start a new world in the new version

[high falcon]

taking surface copper deposit to a new level

[manic talon]

that's dope

[high falcon]

https://mods.vintagestory.at/kemono sweet kemono (the pony mod) updated to 1.2

only trouble is, if i install this id need to restart my world

[steady canyon]

Same

My current world is pony-less because of it

[high falcon]

i put 12 hours into this world :( do i restart?

yes ijust named worlds by number, i was dialing in settings and finding a good worldgen

...fuck it time for world 9

[manic talon]

question. will we do another online server?

[steady canyon]

the logistics make it unlikely

[high falcon]

Yeah it didnt work

Its only fun if were all playing around the same times, it was frustrating to log in in winter, barely get to spring, log out, then its winter again

[manic talon]

yea. i tried to burn through winters when you where all offline but i then stopped. plus game got updated so its unlikely

[high falcon]

https://youtu.be/d7imWmJW_MM

[steady canyon]

@inland comet speak of the devil, the Algorithm was listening last night and made me aware of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JKhhtoe9v4

[steady canyon]

now to watch this video which appears to be related, that i must have missed getting posted

[steady canyon]

ok this is really neat and i'll probably be adding this

[steady canyon]

and a more industrial version, since i'm apparently going down this rabbit hole now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZrZZefkohE

[steady canyon]

even more detail (the first one doesn't have audio for some reason)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fil1euki-Co
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nspGz6xYzvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fel_MZ2Cw

[steady canyon]

how a spinning wheel works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLtdyFIe_VA

[steady canyon]

New patch! https://www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/news/1223-maintenance-patch-r445/

In particular

[high falcon]

that last one is a fairly pop... wait snow shovel? when did that get added?

be carefull updating when you're mid-modded game

[steady canyon]

snow shovel was added in 1.22, sneak right click and walk to shove snow around