Is There Anywhere I Could Look To Find A History Of Vintage Story?

[cmmgree10]

I am quite new to Vintage Story but am really enjoying my time with it so far. So I was wondering about some of the history behind it and just thought I would post this and ask.

Perhaps someone could also provide some youtuber recommendations as well. Ones that cover Vintage Story.

[Thorfinn]

What kind of 'tube content are you looking for? For things that teach you basic and medium game mechanics, it's hard to go wrong with Mischief of Mice, Kuzzarh, Ashantin, Rhadamant, people like that. If you want to see chiseling in a very relaxed atmosphere, Hypnotique aka Hypi is very good. Hardcore game mastery without a huge focus on building, GGBeyond, though he has decided not to continue his 1.20 series until the devs nerf the baddies. But check out his 1.19 playlist if that's the kind of thing you are looking for. There are a lot of others out there, too.

BTW, I would not swear that any of those are current. They may have discontinued producing content for all I know.

[cmmgree10]

2 minutes ago, Thorfinn said:

What kind of 'tube content are you looking for? For things that teach you basic and medium game mechanics, it's hard to go wrong with Mischief of Mice, Kuzzarh, Ashantin, Rhadamant, people like that. If you want to see chiseling in a very relaxed atmosphere, Hypnotique aka Hypi is very good. Hardcore game mastery without a huge focus on building, GGBeyond, though he has decided not to continue his 1.20 series until the devs nerf the baddies. But check out his 1.19 playlist if that's the kind of thing you are looking for. There are a lot of others out there, too.

BTW, I would not swear that any of those are current. They may have discontinued producing content for all I know.

Thanks for the recommendations I'll be taking a look.

[cosmobeau]

I've compiled the best fan theories and posts tying the lore together here:

u/GraduateStonefly complied all in-game, canon lore items, journals, and story relevant items & their meaning in the story here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/104QhqbAe6EF5M4KWuBieBhchOZiWhe8-uMcoVwz4PKI/

The lore of Vintage Story is vague and at times hard to find in-game, that being said SPOILER ALERT if you're looking into the lore of the game.

[LadyWYT]

11 hours ago, cmmgree10 said:

Perhaps someone could also provide some youtuber recommendations as well. Ones that cover Vintage Story.

Solstin and TimmyTwoNipples are quite enjoyable watches as well. I don't think either covers the history of the game so much, but they're entertaining without resorting to the loud over-hyped clickbait formats that a lot of YouTubers(in general, not necessarily Vintage Story ones) tend to use.

[Cetasaya]

I'm assuming you mean either in game lore or the history behind the game itself.

Well, lore wise it's all kept vague amd full of holes for mystery and intrigue purposes.  Its designed to be fed to the player in tiny little bites all scattered throughout ruins, story beats, and trader wares.  Scrolls, books, ect.  Vintage Story frankly doesnt have much of a narrative cause it's open world.  It's a returned to nature post apocaplytic world that is invaded by eldrich horros on occasion.  There was some civilisations, knights, kings, ect.  That's kinda it.

The game's history on the other hand...

Some Youtuber, I forget who, did an interview with the principle dev of this game...

I was hunting high level Pals in one of the Pal Sancturaries in Palworld when I had it on tho so it was just background noise to me...

Also.  Check out the Youtuber Just Background Noise.  He isn't Vintage Story, he's an Elder Scrolls boy.

Anyway, i'm sure that vid has alot of dev history among a lot of other stuff.

You could read the wiki, changelogs, these forums, or the dev's blogs here as well.  Same for lore.  There's no curated gathered 'history' of this game afaik.  Same for lore.  I know it began as a Minecraft mod called VintageCraft or some such but since Java Minecraft's code is held up by duct tape, sticks, and fairy unicorns' dreams, they decided to just literally make their own engine from scratch lol.  My god modding for Minecraft must be an umitigated nightmare.

Vintage Story is still pretty niche.  It's just Minecraft with more intricacy and punishment stuffed into it.  Not many people out there play it by comparison still.  So stuff like that you're gonna have to gather yourself.  Good news is that the devs are extremely reachable, join the discord and ask about.

Sorry for the non answers hopefully what i had to add at least points you in the general vicinity of where you wanna be.  Good luck.

Oh yeah Hazzor did a very good vid on the game too.  Its more of HIS first journey tho he isnt teaching much BUT if youre still new you might learn something.

Edited March 1, 2025 by Cetasaya

[Thorfinn]

11 minutes ago, Cetasaya said:

Some Youtuber, I forget who, did an interview with the principle dev of this game...

@Oscillascape, I believe.

[Cetasaya]

2 minutes ago, Thorfinn said:

@Oscillascape, I believe.

Yep.  That sounds familiar.

[cmmgree10]

12 hours ago, cosmobeau said:

I've compiled the best fan theories and posts tying the lore together here:

u/GraduateStonefly complied all in-game, canon lore items, journals, and story relevant items & their meaning in the story here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/104QhqbAe6EF5M4KWuBieBhchOZiWhe8-uMcoVwz4PKI/

The lore of Vintage Story is vague and at times hard to find in-game, that being said SPOILER ALERT if you're looking into the lore of the game.

Thanks I'll take a look.

[cmmgree10]

12 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

Solstin and TimmyTwoNipples are quite enjoyable watches as well. I don't think either covers the history of the game so much, but they're entertaining without resorting to the loud over-hyped clickbait formats that a lot of YouTubers(in general, not necessarily Vintage Story ones) tend to use.

Always looking for recommendations, thanks.

[cmmgree10]

11 hours ago, Cetasaya said:

I'm assuming you mean either in game lore or the history behind the game itself.

Well, lore wise it's all kept vague amd full of holes for mystery and intrigue purposes.  Its designed to be fed to the player in tiny little bites all scattered throughout ruins, story beats, and trader wares.  Scrolls, books, ect.  Vintage Story frankly doesnt have much of a narrative cause it's open world.  It's a returned to nature post apocaplytic world that is invaded by eldrich horros on occasion.  There was some civilisations, knights, kings, ect.  That's kinda it.

The game's history on the other hand...

Some Youtuber, I forget who, did an interview with the principle dev of this game...

I was hunting high level Pals in one of the Pal Sancturaries in Palworld when I had it on tho so it was just background noise to me...

Also.  Check out the Youtuber Just Background Noise.  He isn't Vintage Story, he's an Elder Scrolls boy.

Anyway, i'm sure that vid has alot of dev history among a lot of other stuff.

You could read the wiki, changelogs, these forums, or the dev's blogs here as well.  Same for lore.  There's no curated gathered 'history' of this game afaik.  Same for lore.  I know it began as a Minecraft mod called VintageCraft or some such but since Java Minecraft's code is held up by duct tape, sticks, and fairy unicorns' dreams, they decided to just literally make their own engine from scratch lol.  My god modding for Minecraft must be an umitigated nightmare.

Vintage Story is still pretty niche.  It's just Minecraft with more intricacy and punishment stuffed into it.  Not many people out there play it by comparison still.  So stuff like that you're gonna have to gather yourself.  Good news is that the devs are extremely reachable, join the discord and ask about.

Sorry for the non answers hopefully what i had to add at least points you in the general vicinity of where you wanna be.  Good luck.

Oh yeah Hazzor did a very good vid on the game too.  Its more of HIS first journey tho he isnt teaching much BUT if youre still new you might learn something.

Thanks. I had heard about Vintage Story before but I saw Hazzor's video and finally decided to take the plunge and I am glad I did. Minecraft has gone downhill and this game seems to be what I wanted from Minecraft all those years ago.

[Cetasaya]

5 hours ago, cmmgree10 said:

Thanks. I had heard about Vintage Story before but I saw Hazzor's video and finally decided to take the plunge and I am glad I did. Minecraft has gone downhill and this game seems to be what I wanted from Minecraft all those years ago.

Agreed.  Minecraft was once one of my all time favorite games but many factors have soured it beyond reasonable salvation and vintage story is just simply better in just about every aspect.  I have a massive OLD Minecraft world full of gorgeous super high level builds, including enitre towns in Minecraft and years of irreplacable memories attached to it.  But everything from greed and mismanagement to laziness, lies, and lack of creativity pushed me away permanently.

Still consume Minecraft content like Hermitcraft, the Life series, ect. but i havent played it in at least a year.

Now looking at a Xiumavoid (or however his name is spelled) vid that's talking about the 'fallen tree update" and i'm losing it right now lol.  Turly pathetic.  What a way to piss away a trillion dollar household name like that.  Fallen tree logs.

Hazzor's vid does an extremely good job at showcasing what differentiates VS from MC.  Very high quality vid and it focuses mostly on coziness, realism, and difficuly.  He gets it.  Plus his playthrough was unmodded (or so lightly modded I didnt notice or remember).  A LOT of youtubers that recently did VS content are taking credit for the recent and extreme surge in server load and new players.  And while I of course know they all contributed, I believe that Hazzor's vid is the one mostly responsible.  He's already an upper mid tier tuber and that vid is one of his most watched.  It got blessed by the algorithim gods really hard.  It is likely to start a snowball effect.  

If a group like Hermitcraft makes a series about it, Vintage Story will explode and the playerbase will permanently change.

Edited March 1, 2025 by Cetasaya

[dakko]

On 2/28/2025 at 11:05 AM, Thorfinn said:

...If you want to see chiseling in a very relaxed atmosphere, Hypnotique aka Hypi is very good...

Hypi was killed in a boating accident a few months ago. Her sweet spirit and creativity is sorely missed.

[cmmgree10]

20 hours ago, Cetasaya said:

Agreed.  Minecraft was once one of my all time favorite games but many factors have soured it beyond reasonable salvation and vintage story is just simply better in just about every aspect.  I have a massive OLD Minecraft world full of gorgeous super high level builds, including enitre towns in Minecraft and years of irreplacable memories attached to it.  But everything from greed and mismanagement to laziness, lies, and lack of creativity pushed me away permanently.

Still consume Minecraft content like Hermitcraft, the Life series, ect. but i havent played it in at least a year.

Now looking at a Xiumavoid (or however his name is spelled) vid that's talking about the 'fallen tree update" and i'm losing it right now lol.  Turly pathetic.  What a way to piss away a trillion dollar household name like that.  Fallen tree logs.

Hazzor's vid does an extremely good job at showcasing what differentiates VS from MC.  Very high quality vid and it focuses mostly on coziness, realism, and difficuly.  He gets it.  Plus his playthrough was unmodded (or so lightly modded I didnt notice or remember).  A LOT of youtubers that recently did VS content are taking credit for the recent and extreme surge in server load and new players.  And while I of course know they all contributed, I believe that Hazzor's vid is the one mostly responsible.  He's already an upper mid tier tuber and that vid is one of his most watched.  It got blessed by the algorithim gods really hard.  It is likely to start a snowball effect.  

If a group like Hermitcraft makes a series about it, Vintage Story will explode and the playerbase will permanently change.

Yeah, Minecraft never really advanced past a certain point. They just keep adding blocks, useless animals and other stuff that does not improve the game and just to be honest is bloat. I think the problems started before Microsoft but Microsoft has certainly made the problems worse 10 fold. Minecraft will always have a place in my heart but it is not that same promising game it once was.

I really liked Hazzors video reminded me of LukeTheNotable's first 100 Days Minecraft video where he was effectively learning the game for the first time.