Vintage Story OT: Minecraft but with gameplay

[Legend]

I heard about Vintage Story but I thought it was just a Minecraft clone.

Then I saw a random youtube video and was blown away. It's like alternate universe minecraft that prioritized survival gameplay over creative mode.

Bought the game.

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Day 1: Where is the food!?

I spawned and had a nice little hill right infront of me. My minecraft brain thought it'd make a great starter home. I dug into the side of it, and then the whole hill collapsed on me. Yeah, Vintage Story has actual physics. Cool.

Then life after life I kept searching for food, only to starve. I found some berries finally but then a wolf ate me when I was hiding from the cold in a cave.


I finally opened up the in game guide and learned how to make a fire and cook some roots. I now am at least somewhat stable. I have a little wooden roof so my fire doesn't go out in the rain and I have a tower so I can find my base when venturing off. Winter is coming though and I my current situation is far from sustainable.

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Day 2: New World, Still Starving

I had an ok life. I was grilling roots. Couldn't find any clay though and I realized my game mode lacked a map.

Started a new world. Now I have some monsters enabled. Found a great place for my home base, has a huge amount of clay and wood around it. Can't find any good food to eat though. I'm still stuck grilling roots. I think I need to look up instructions a bit because I don't know how to farm.

I built a really tall tower though. Had to pack the dirt so it wouldn't collapse. It'd be really cool if every material had physics like this. I assume I can just make my tower as tall as I want now that it is packed, but it'd be awesome if I needed stronger materials to build higher.


I think that's what this game excels at compared to Minecraft, and what I'd one day hope with Forged Odyssey. Limitations are fun to overcome.

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Day 3: I yearn for the mines

Made my own charcoal. Had to chop down a bunch of trees and burry the logs, then set them smoldering. Was pretty nervous that they'd catch fire but it all worked out. I used that to enter the bronze age. Gave myself a copper pickaxe.

Went hunting for some copper in caves instead of just using the scraps I found around on the surface. I finally found a good spot but I accidentally caused a cave in! Somehow I survived as my body was flung to the side without getting crushed. The dirt and rubble went pretty deep so part of the vain was now visible from the surface, so it actually worked out. I got my copper and marked it on my map if I ever get brave enough to try finding more there.

I've been doing better with food too. I found a fair amount of berry bushes far from my house, and I learned how to replant them in my farm. Don't know how to grow new bushes, don't even know if it's possible. It will take a long time for the berries to grow though so I don't think this is viable. I could maybe get three berries a day if I spread things out and that is not that filling.

I did find some cabbage seeds in an old ruin though. Got those planted so hopefully they work out well. I also found some wild turnips. Only one was ripe so I took it while marking the rest on my map. I hope turnips and cabbage require different nutrients so I can cycle the crops. On my adventures I also found a dead sheep that fell off a mountain. It's the first protein I've had since the game started.


My monument to the gods is going well. Gives me something to do while waiting for things to burn. It also gives me a great view of my valley and was what allowed me to find the ruins in the first place. I think I see a hut not too far from me. Whatever it is, I hope it's friendly.


I'm not sure what to do next. Copper is very limited so I can't just build everything. I think I'm going to try and make a saw though. That way I can start wood working.

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Day 5: welcome to the bronze age

I have a lot of tin but I've really struggled to find copper. Maybe it'll become easier once I start proper prospecting, but right now I think I'll be moving on quickly.

Mining is just so fun and interesting in this game. It's bloody brilliant having physics that matter. One wrong move and you can easily cause a partial collapse. I had a great moment where I saw a cave in  an island on a pond and saw copper inside. I dug just a single step into the dirt so I could have a way back out, but the water pressure pushed was too much for the remaining dirt. It pushed in and caused a chain reaction flooding the cave from every direction. Luckily it was a big cave though (or water physics don't work that way) so it didn't fully fill in. I built a proper dam all around it and blocked off the water. That emergent gameplay was great.

Also I died for the first time on this save file. And then I died a few more times. I found a great cave but monsters kept killing me. Was a mad dash running back to get my stuff. The darkness might have been the scariest thing since without my torch, the caves are genuinely pitch black. I only had the light from my previous body's torch at the bottom of the pit with all my other stuff.

And on my way back with a full haul of items, I discovered something strange. It's not like the ruins elsewhere yet it is very man made. I'll look into ways of getting down into it without just breaking everything.


Food wise I'm doing good. I have a giant berry farm and the first berries will be produced soon. I'll need to figure out what the best thing to do with them is because food spoils in this game and I'll have way too many all at once. My cabbage and turnips are doing ok but not great. I think I need some fertilizer and to fully replace the soil. I also found some green beans in a ruin. If summer was year long I'd be doing excellent but come winter I'm going to struggle. I'm trying to get some farm animals but since I only have grass, I'm limited. Can't feed a boar grass.

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Day 9: winter is coming

Plants are starting to change color. It's actually really cool. All of a sudden I'm seeing so many edible plants because they don't blend in as much anymore.

I was worried I wouldn't have enough food for winter but I should be set. So many of my vegies will stay fresh just because the cold air refrigerates them. I also now have some grain crops so those can last years.


Found a copper motherload. I now have around 5 thousand things of copper. Was pretty fun and interesting prospecting. Before that point I had only ever found copper near the surface so I was confused why my mine didn't produce anything near the top.

I actually might be getting done with the game. I could go fight some monsters but as far as survival goes, I am doing pretty dang good. ~40 hours into the game.


Having fun being creative though. My massive tower keeps getting bigger and now I'm finishing it up with stone instead of just packed dirt. I have a cool design where the steps wind up along the outside, feels a bit more authentic.

[Legend]

Day 10: how was I supposed to know winter would be cold!?

All my crops have died and I am freezing to death. I need to get warmer clothes. I need to slaughter a farm animal, but they are also starving and will not drop much meet.

Will have to look at the wiki and calculate the most optimal way to consume my food stores. I have a fair amount of cabbage and onion and turnips but if I just eat them as is, that'll last me a week or two. Hopefully I can turn them into a stew or something to increase my calorie intake.


My giant tower of babel reached the height of its original dirt core. (well this was like the third or fourth dirt tower, but it was the last one before I started building the shell in stone. I put a room/observation deck there and I love how it turned out. It feels wrong to keep building so much more above it, but I think I'm only a third of the way done if I stick with my spiral design. Current floor is 6x6, excluding walls.

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Day 14: Spring is here, I have survived with plenty of excess food

Who knew soybeans were so good? I had a full crate of them and I kinda forgot about them. I thought I was getting down to some hard decisions about my farm animals, but then I rediscovered them. I tried baking bread but it seemed less efficient.


I needed to find stuff to do. Winter was too harsh to go on expeditions.


Finished my massive tower. Really really pleased with it. Just absolutely giant. Taller than mountains. Put in a glass floor on the very top, looking down to the mid level (the previous highest point). I also finished my home/church/junk room attached to it at the base. Then I dug out a very small room under/within the bottom of the tower, making sure the whole thing wouldn't collapse (it wouldn't, the game only does a physics sim for natural stuff but it was fun to roleplay). It is the holy of holy, the holiest room in my kingdom of one. Completely empty atm but I used a red stone to make it feel special, like the heart of god or some neolithic thing.

Expanded my church with some smaller rooms that are actually usable, and I put in windows and a loft area. Really a fan of how it has all turned out. Just feels incredible with some roleplay.

Getting kinda boring again though so I started slaughtering some animals for fun. I could really use the pelts and fat so it wasn't just senseless violence. Working on tanning the hides but I need more oak wood.

At around 55 hours in the game. Maybe only another few hours left before I give it a big long pause.

[kitler53]

At around 55 hours in the game. Maybe only another few hours left before I give it a big long pause.

don't you have some psychonauts 2 play?  



did you notice the pun?

[Legend]

don't you have some psychonauts 2 play? 



did you notice the pun?

I got till monday

And I did notice the pun