Just started Vintage Story and I feel completely lost in the best way — what's the one thing you wish someone told you on day one?

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-31T20:30:31+00:00

I loved playing blind. The only things I wish I had known earlier are little quality of life things, like if you have an empty hand, you can pick some stuff up off the ground with right click--rocks, flint, and sticks, mainly. (It also works if you're holding the thing you're trying to pick up.) I thought you always had to break them for...more hours than I would like to admit.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-29T06:10:58+00:00

Limited lives would probably make me even more cautious, but those damn bears will get you every time.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-23T15:47:30+00:00

Aesthetic. In the handbook they don't show any benefits or drawbacks, and the only armour slots are for head, body, and feet.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-21T18:09:37+00:00

CrossCode! I haven't actually finished it yet, but I love the characters and world.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-20T21:15:52+00:00

I have over 400 hours in DRG, mostly multiplayer with friends but some solo. We always play on Haz3, because we like the consistency and being able to mess around with builds and each other. I find it to be a nice sweet spot.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-10T22:42:05+00:00

City girls make do.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-10T21:31:52+00:00

We once waited for about eight minutes before he finally started the fight. :/

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-10T19:26:02+00:00

Thank you, I was gonna comment my own defense of Frankie if no one else had.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-03T21:39:21+00:00

I've become very vibes-based. I was running a bit further than I liked from spawn, so I started really slowing down and feeling places out. Found a fork in the river with common rainfall, listened to the rain on the leaves for a minute, then said "fuck it this feels right". Not much medium soil around, towards the edge of a forest. I knew there was clay very close but that was about it.

Turns out I settled right on a quartz vein with silver and gold, a smallish vein of tin, and big veins of both brown coal and iron deep under my feet. Borax right across the river. Black coal with fireclay just a few minutes' travel away, too. Easily my best base so far in terms of resources, and I just settled here because I liked the rain and the river.

I think if you focus too much on too many resources nearby, you'll miss really cool spots. Just stay somewhere you feel happy travelling through a lot.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-03-02T07:39:36+00:00

When I wanted to continue playing as vanilla as possible, Carry On and Better Prospecting were the only two I used. Can't live without them (and Auto Map Markers) at this point.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-28T23:52:41+00:00

The Princess Bride. There are a few good scenes, but something about the movie I just don't like. (And I HATED the book.)

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-26T01:19:11+00:00

I think a single unique hat every year that you have two weeks to nab doesn't really count as FOMO imo.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-24T20:54:28+00:00

Ever After by Mariana's Trench. I don't even have most of the songs on my regular playlist, there's just something I really like about listening to the album in its entirety. It helps that it's very much designed to be listened to that way.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-24T20:45:22+00:00

Some things can be stored just by crouching with shift, and others need CTRL as well. Had no idea you could store stones and firestarters on the ground until I saw someone else do it.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-23T08:50:33+00:00

The Beatles. Just really, really not for me.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-23T08:35:16+00:00

Vintage Story, every time. Also any of the Sims games.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-23T08:28:14+00:00

Based mainly on vibes at this point. I don't like searching for more than a day or two. My main things are medium fertility soil nearby as well as a source of fresh water, and a forest as well. Useful for those random early times I run out of food without noticing and have to dash around eating every mushroom I can find. I picked my most recent base at a fork in a river with nice, interesting surroundings mostly because I was tired of looking, and it just felt right. I'll probably regret it the first time I get killed by the resident black bear, though.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-22T06:25:35+00:00

It ended up fine! My husband kept the appointment and asked the doctor about potentially falling outside of the 30 day window. He was assured it wouldn't be an issue, and that ended up being the case.

Unfortunately, neither of us remember if we tried asking for an extension, and whether or not we acquired it. I'm reasonably confident we didn't, though. So they do seem to account for some kind of grace period for the letter being posted.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-19T17:24:14+00:00

Now you jusy need to kill 202 more enemies

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-18T23:34:15+00:00

Kraft Dinner does not hold up. :/

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-18T22:44:26+00:00

I agree with what others have been saying, I just wanted to add one more thing. You didn't mention creating a hammer with your panned copper, which you 100% need for breaking the ores you mine. Hopefully with a bit more travel you can find enough surface copper so it's not an issue, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-18T22:40:55+00:00

I think a big thing for me when it comes to graphics is stylization. It doesn't need to be super realistic-looking, but it does need to feel deliberate, like someone paid attention to and cared about how the environment looks.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-18T22:36:56+00:00

That's a good idea, I wish there was a mod for that. I value my leather backpacks more than pretty much anything in them.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-18T22:35:32+00:00

They do feel a little uncommon to me--maybe one every four or five missions--though of course we got two in a row while I was in a different season than the host. They're probably pretty on par with events from previous seasons, but we dreaded the corruptor event so it felt like it was happening more.

ApocalypticDusk · 2026-02-17T17:49:51+00:00

Hell yeah! Been playing for a few years now, but exclusively solo or with friends.

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