custom villagers Vanilla Custom Villagers, Lore, Quests, and Maps?"

[Voldemort]

Can we create custom villagers in vanilla Vintage Story without mods, with custom quest messages and lore? This would allow server owners who love vanilla to create their own storylines, locations, and maps.

I would love this myself—I have so many ideas and plans for over 100 hours of content and lore!

[LadyWYT]

8 hours ago, Adnyeus said:

Can we create custom villagers in vanilla Vintage Story without mods, with custom quest messages and lore? This would allow server owners who love vanilla to create their own storylines, locations, and maps.

I would love this myself—I have so many ideas and plans for over 100 hours of content and lore!

I've not tried to do it in the game, but I have poked around in the .json files for uh, reasons, shall we say. Most of what governs the villager behavior seems to be in those files. Likewise, I also went hunting for the tapestry data, and while some of it is in the .json files, the actual lore entries seem to be contained somewhere else in the game's code. So based on that, I assume that creating custom villagers and other lore content will require the creation of a mod, at least for now. Whether that changes in the future, and how it might change(if at all), I do not know.

[Voldemort]

3 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

I've not tried to do it in the game, but I have poked around in the .json files for uh, reasons, shall we say. Most of what governs the villager behavior seems to be in those files. Likewise, I also went hunting for the tapestry data, and while some of it is in the .json files, the actual lore entries seem to be contained somewhere else in the game's code. So based on that, I assume that creating custom villagers and other lore content will require the creation of a mod, at least for now. Whether that changes in the future, and how it might change(if at all), I do not know.

God, I would love to create them in vanilla. It would open new opportunities for people on my server.

 

Edited January 27, 2025 by Adnyeus

[LadyWYT]

Just now, Adnyeus said:

"God, I would love to create them in vanilla. It would open new opportunities for people on my server."

 

It would be a popular tool if added, hence why I say it may be subject to change in the future. They've added other things, like blocks to cue specific music in designated areas, after all.

[Voldemort]

2 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

It would be a popular tool if added, hence why I say it may be subject to change in the future. They've added other things, like blocks to cue specific music in designated areas, after all.

Yeah, also more musical instruments, allowing players to create their own music, which would require both skill and writing. That would be a great side grind or minigame.

Instruments like piano, guitar, trumpet, or drums would be awesome.

[LadyWYT]

Just now, Adnyeus said:

Yeah, also more musical instruments, allowing players to create their own music, which would require both skill and writing. That would be a great side grind or minigame.

Instruments like piano, guitar, trumpet, or drums would be awesome.

https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/463

Tadaa!

[Voldemort]

2 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/463

Tadaa!

Yeah, I saw that one, but I prefer to play on vanilla only and will wait for the official release. Anyway, thanks for the link—it might help someone who’s going to Google this stuff.