Cute Starter Farm (May1st, year 3/130 hours playtime)

[Cetasaya]

Old Mincraft builder here.  Vintage Story player since Oct 2023.

Began playthrough as a slow burner using only stone tools, but I remembered the chisel is a metal only item, so that was thrown out the window after about hour 30 or so lol.  Decided to base my home design off of a lore location's style.  Many things I wanted to incorporate but perfection is the enemy of finished.  My home's dimensions turned out to be cute and compact (I dont remember why, i'm assuming its cause wattle and daub were expensive for a stone aged character...) so everything else was built similarly proportioned.  Nothing's truly finished, of course, but the home and smithy essentialy are.  The greenhouse is 65% and the dock is a humble 40%.

 

Nice shot of the principle buildings.  Greenhouse hasnt been chiseled yet.  Missing a wattle and daub block up high on the house.  Probably popped it when I tore down the first greenhouse in creative.  The left click range in creative is extremely long lol.  This is all close to world spawn/origin as you can see.  I usually plop down my starter in a ruin or something and quickly build my main base somewhere with a dramatic view or near a resource.  Not this time.  The ruin base was kept and everything was used.  Trying to build with nature and the terrain instead of flattening everything like I usually do.  I also always used to journey to an area warm enough to skip below freezing temps.  Not this time.  Only thing I regret is that the percip is extremely high.  It rains all the time here in the spring and summer.  Favored wood is pine, ruins were limestone so that's the stone.  Entire base needs pathing, lamps, landscaping, ect.  Low tier tasks that sit comfortably at the bottom of the list for now and likely will for a while.

 

Berry plantation from the opposite end.  I grow only blueberries and cranberries.  It's finished except for some decorative clutter and the blueberry bushes on the left need a trim.

 

Apiary.  Havent populated every stump with a skep yet but there is penty of space and flowers for all the honey and wax a solo player will need at any given moment. 

 

Smithy/Windmill building interior.  Very difficult to get a good pic, but this shows most of what is going on.  A real forge sits in the middle of the cobble forge.  Chimney extends up through the roof.  Windmill is your typical short, proportial windmill, helve hammer, quern, old anvils, ect..  Three floors and a door from it leads out on the roof of this smithy.  The windmill is a semi circle with the flat end up against the smithy.  Building a decently looking roof/cap for such an unusual shaped tower was a task lol.

Whelp cant post any more pics lol.  No interiors but I guess this is a good gist.  I have fallen in love with this build and while I will eventually move on to start a larger base, this one is my best VS base so far.

Edited March 2, 2025 by Cetasaya

[Daev]

Awesome build! Wish there were more angles but I more so hope to see another base in the future!  Great workmanship with the materials available to you!

[Peanutt]

that forge build is so pretty, and i love the house too with its medieval style.

[Cetasaya]

On 4/21/2025 at 10:37 AM, Daev said:

Awesome build! Wish there were more angles but I more so hope to see another base in the future!  Great workmanship with the materials available to you!

 

On 4/23/2025 at 2:19 AM, Peanutt said:

that forge build is so pretty, and i love the house too with its medieval style.

Awwwww thank yall so much!  Yeah next build im gonna post a LOT more pics!  All of the credit must go to the devs for the house design I basically just copied their designs lol.  The forge design was mine tho.  I think I saw a google image of another forge build and miniturised it as much as I could.

Ive since began another world and havent played VS in a ferw weeks (im playing stardew and enshrouded rn) but ill be coming back of course and ill post whatever I come up with!

Thanks for the kind words and feedback

[FreezePlay]

I love that it looks really well made!!! Thats really cool man

[SubtleOrc]

hold on.. you can trim berry bushes?

[Grummsh]

10 hours ago, SubtleOrc said:

hold on.. you can trim berry bushes?

yes with shears  

[Cetasaya]

On 5/28/2025 at 7:32 PM, SubtleOrc said:

hold on.. you can trim berry bushes?

Yup.  Great for keeping track of what bushes have replenished in addition to asthetics.  Could be wrong but I dont think it even takes any shear durability and they DEFINITELY dont regrow to an untrimmed state.  Dont know if trimming is reversible tho, I doubt it.

On 5/13/2025 at 7:58 AM, FreezePlay said:

I love that it looks really well made!!! Thats really cool man

Thanks!

[Grummsh]

On 5/31/2025 at 1:10 AM, Cetasaya said:

"Dont know if trimming is reversible tho, I doubt it"

Well for now you can always just cut the trimmed berry bush down and plant it again and it will well bushy = untrimmed