City building mode

[Pistok]

I was playing vintage story again and i thought about this idea where there is a mode like homosapiens but its like medieval dynasty where its a survival game but you have to build your own village and recurit peasants that you can assign to diffrent roles like farmer hunter , etc.I think a mode like this would be alot of fun as you could build an entire kingdom and be  the bailiff and make for an interesting playthrough. As for how to recruit npcs for your village i think like something like a bounty board that u can buy from traders would be good tho its just an idea.

I know this would take a huge amount of effort to be put into the game but i would like to see it even as a mod.

[Tonko]

On 3/22/2025 at 3:26 PM, Pistok said:

I was playing vintage story again and i thought about this idea where there is a mode like homosapiens but its like medieval dynasty where its a survival game but you have to build your own village and recurit peasants that you can assign to diffrent roles like farmer hunter , etc.I think a mode like this would be alot of fun as you could build an entire kingdom and be  the bailiff and make for an interesting playthrough. As for how to recruit npcs for your village i think like something like a bounty board that u can buy from traders would be good tho its just an idea.

I know this would take a huge amount of effort to be put into the game but i would like to see it even as a mod.

Yeah this would be really cool to see

[LadyWYT]

Luckily there is at least one mod for this kind of thing: https://mods.vintagestory.at/vsvillage

Overall though, I think it's a cool idea but not likely to be added to the vanilla game. The vanilla game is focused more heavily on the player's solitude, and what they can do themselves, rather than building an actual settlement and letting NPCs do all the work for them. The devs also seemed to indicate in a recent interview that they're not keen on having the player capture NPCs and create "trading halls", like what tends to happen in Minecraft.

[Tabbot95]

I think that a backend for a city building mode similar to VSVillage might have a use, that use being villages other than Nadia.

 

[Rainbow Fresh]

As much as I, an avid singleplayer enjoyer, love me an alive world with mindless NPC minions to command (and am now, thanks to LadyWYT's comment, looking ever forward to VS Village once updated for stable 1.22) - that sounds like a completely different game. Both to what Vintage Story is now, and what I see as the direction it is further trying to go. So good for mods like VS Village showcasing that it is possible, even with current tech, but really not something I see fitting for the base game itself neither as content nor as horrendous workload for the devs.

Edited Tuesday at 12:43 PM by Rainbow Fresh