Finding lore

[BiancaMoon]

Hello,

Sorry if this is the most stupidest question possible but how to find lore in this game?

I managed to find 4 books so far by sifting bony soil, but we are talking here of sifting at least 150 blocks of it. I tried caves and killing monsters but when I do find a dungeon underground it contains some goodies but never books. From monsters best luck I had with any good loot is some jonas parts after killing those scorpion looking things with saws on their tails.

So what is the best way to get books or any type of lore content?

Thanks.

[TitanSlayer]

Cool

 

[Brady_The]

In my experience, lore is one of the rarer goods to find. Panning for example has a 1 in 285.71 chance to drop a lore book. Next to looting ruins, buying from traders is another way to acquire lore. There are also not just books, but tapestries and scrolls as well.

The difficulty makes finding lore content so much sweeter, though.

Edited Wednesday at 09:04 PM by Brady_The

[LadyWYT]

56 minutes ago, BiancaMoon said:

So what is the best way to get books or any type of lore content?

Right now? Resonance Archive. Let's just say it has a large collection of lore, some of which can only be found there and others that can be found in multiple places. Talking to the traders is also a good way to get some lore tidbits, although what they have to say right now is a bit limited.

Otherwise, as @Thorfinn mentioned, panning is a decent way to get some of the lore books, although I do believe it's panning bony soil specifically. The books are still a rare drop, however, you can find bony soil in most of the surface ruins. Lore books and tapestries can also be found in the ruins themselves(some tapestries can only be acquired via ruins), and sometimes certain traders will sell them as well(artisan traders for tapestry pieces, for example). In regards to monsters dropping any kind of lore thing...to my knowledge, I don't believe any of them currently do, aside from the bells--I think they have a chance to drop a scroll, although I might be thinking of the tuning cylinders for the resonators.

There's also the flavor text that accompanies the classes and many other items in the game, often clothing, accessories, weapons, and certain pieces of armor. You don't need to actually acquire the items in order to read the text in this case; you can just browse the handbook for items that fit into those categories and see if the item page has any sort of special description to go with it.

Outside of the game, the Story portion of the forums is a good place to browse for fan theories, stories, and other discussion related to the game's lore, as well as ask questions about the lore itself. There are also a couple of short stories on the Vintage Story website, that I don't think are actually in the game at this time.

https://www.vintagestory.at/stories/storyexcerpt-themorning.html/

https://www.vintagestory.at/stories/storyexcerpt-ghosts.html/

I think that covers most of it. I'm not really sure there's an easy way to find all the lore in one convenient spot, although that's one of Vintage Story's strength--it makes you find the pieces and put them together to form your own conclusion of what happened.

[BiancaMoon]

Thank you all!

I don't mind lore being a very hard find I was just thinking I was doing something wrong to progress so slow.

Now that  I know the rate of progression on the lore is supposed to be slow, I am quite happy to follow that slow pace. I naively tried to go to south and see the desert, leading to me running for days until the climate actually did change, but on the way I saw some spectacular ruins, so I now know where to start. When you mentioned traders I remembered one wanting something to give me a location with great wealth. I should visit traders again to find that one.

Again thank you so much!