WorldPainter for Vintage Story

[Philipp272]

Hello everyone,

A couple of years ago I created a huge map for Minecraft with a tool called World painter.

This map used to be about 50,000 blocks wide and 25,000 block tall. I created all major rivers, lakes, mountains, biomes, vegetation etc. after putting years of work in it. At some point however, I stopped working on it because there are so many limitations in MC and I also lost interest in playing the game at all. 
 

Since I started playing VS some years ago, I also got the idea of starting a similar project. There is a huge potential in the game, considering the fact that there is for example a real season and weather integration, different biomes, a modding interface and so on.

So I would like to ask if there are any plans in future to implement any kind of tool, that allows to edit a world map “from high above”, not like the very basic editor that is available right now. It would be for example extremely helpful to import height maps (and also temperature/rainfall maps etc.), to create lakes and rivers, vegetation and so on.

Maybe there are already some ways to do it, that I am not aware of?

I also attached some screenshots from the old project (without vegetation at that point).

Best regards 

[Yoh]

Im looking aswell,   

Fantastic project btw.

 

[JAGIELSKI]

Interesting. Have you considered asking the creator of World Painter to make an exporter to VS? I know he did for Wurm Unlimited, maybe he'll be willing to make one for VS?

[Maethius]

I know this is rezing a zombie post, but I would love to see this, too! I created a massive world map approximately that size as well... converting an old Commodore-64 game map into a Minecraft map by first translating the original map into heights, then painting in the biomes to make it match. I would LOVE the ability to take that project into VS!

[HugoCortell]

On 5/16/2025 at 1:45 AM, Maethius said:

I know this is rezing a zombie post, but I would love to see this, too! I created a massive world map approximately that size as well... converting an old Commodore-64 game map into a Minecraft map by first translating the original map into heights, then painting in the biomes to make it match. I would LOVE the ability to take that project into VS!

I agree

[DakotaGrey]

This would be amazing.  I would love to remake my Pangaea map.  Or perhaps Laurasia and Gondwana so that there's still a reason to have boats.

[HugoCortell]

Hey everyone, good news. 

It'll soon be on the moddb.

[HugoCortell]

https://mods.vintagestory.at/worldpainter