Small castle base - part 3

[Vratislav]

I did not have much time to play VS during summer, but still, some base improvements are here to be shared. Spring of year 6 and continuing. Still tasks to do.
You may check previous stage of the development here.

I have expanded the manor part of the castle by adding two wings that allowed me to provide ballroom and dining room more suitable space.

The ballroom takes whole western wing and uses full height of the building. There is custom furniture and piano moved from large "better" ruin. The room is still unfinished, I have tried to make curtains in creative but not yet made them here.

The dining room takes one half of the eastern wing. I still need to make custom table and chairs.

I have changed interior style to be more noble in the whole first floor. Also, obtaining several more chandeliers helped a lot. The room behind the left main entrance, previously planned ballroom became something like corridor. Similarly, the room next to it is also rather empty (I do not show it).

A corridor with a main staircase was rebuilt entirely. Stairs were remodelled to gentler slope, and the ceiling was made as posh as possible:

Other rooms in the first floor. A "moody saloon" is located between the entrance corridor and the dining room.

Room for playing games was moved from the second floor to the first floor. I really like how many wallpapers are in the game:

Rooms in the second floor are not yet rebuilt. I will show only an amenity that was desperately missing in the manor building:

The old castle interiors were also improved. In the Knights' hall, a new gothic cupboard was made, there are new shiny armors (Forlorn Hope and meteoric iron plate) and some details were changed. The cupboard is functional, you may put scrolls and books inside.

There are other rooms I haven't shown yet. The museum in the old tower has improved valut, so it is worthy to show:

Also, I have moved the original armory in the manor to its zero level, under the ballroom (as ceiling shows, I have to do something with it). I have used wattle and daub for walls instead of much expansive plaster. The armory is already full of weapons from ruins.

And as inspired by the other discussion, I have made small item sorter to throw the most common stuff when returning from errands. It sorts just several kinds of stones, clay, dirt, cattails, grass, flax fibes and some other things that are permanently clogging an inventory when on journeys:

The expansion of the manor interrupted a road around the castle. Because the castle is located in narrow ridge among three lakes, I had to build a bridge for the road bypass.

And this is all for this moment. Have nice time playing Vintage Story!

(sorry I can't get rid of the duplicate picture here:)

Edited September 27, 2025 by Vratislav
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[Professor Dragon]

This is amazing work.

So lovely!

Any individual room would be worthy of high praise on its own . . . but it just keeps coming!

I particularly like the fluted ceiling above the stairs (last image), but it is all glorious.

(Please don't tell me you did this in Survival . . . although you did mention getting another Chandelier, which makes it seem you are . . . )

[Vratislav]

2 hours ago, Professor Dragon said:

Please don't tell me you did this in Survival

Well, late game. I have steel tools (tier 3 furnace), large flax fields and automated pig feeder. So it was possible to establish an "usual trading route," selling leather products, clothing and bronze tools en masse to several Agriculture, Building Material, Clothing and Treasure Hunter traders around. Really, flax is OP in late game  as it provides both fibres and grain for pigs in large amounts. This earns enough gears for buying wallpapers, colored glass, chandeliers and luxuries. Been travelling far, I have most of obtainable resources. The most time in the recent gameplay was spent on repairing shiny armors and copper tubes for item sorter. (And in 1.19. when building first part of manor, I have spent soo much time travelling among building traders for red clay shingles.) I was also lucky to find white marble deposit underground nearby to base when digging for iron, so that the corridor ceiling comes from. Still, some resources are scarce. I have no easy access to coal, sulfur, salt and lime (it took me like 10k block of travel to obtain large batch of limestone sand for white wattle and daub  ). But I like riding my Elk.

Also, it is not fully vanilla. The QP Chisel tools are essential, particularly pantograph that copies patterns among chiseled blocks (I have spent steel one already). Also, most of collected items and some materials are from Better ruins. Recently, I have added Stone Quarry that quickened stone collection for the new manor wings, but it would be possible also without it. 

[Professor Dragon]

Thank you for such a detailed explanation!

I am just at the beginning of that journey you've described. My trade routes are up and running well (Baking bread for me and selling to three Commodity Traders, as well as feathers and string, is profitable).

Steel Tools have been a game changer - they've finally allowed proper building, at scale. 

I agree about the mods. I have not got to QP Chisel yet, but it is an obvious requirement for anyone working in this space.

Love your item sorter - I hadn't appreciated that such technology was possible in VS.

Anyway, I've been inspired. Thanks for the notes and the build images!

Professor Dragon.

[DUCATISLO]

look cozy

[Grummsh]

Man Your builds never cease to amaze me! I love every bit of it! 

[Kolyenka]

This is incredibly cool ! I have never gotten so far in the game; I have a bad habit of starting new worlds whenever I return to VS. But now I see what I'm missing.

Your decorations are very nice and the architecture is great. I also really love the staircase room, especially the ceiling. Well done !

[Dragendave]

Looks just like a real authentic lived in European castle.. wow
Very impressive!

[Vratislav]

I was requested to send the base, so I exported it as a JSON schematics.

For anyone interested, you may download it here: https://www.uschovna.cz/zasilka/UBMU8JKR3U646MMS-52X/  (for about 14 days and up to 15 downloads, then the link vanishes)

For showing all blocks, use FixedPath and Trail Mod CUPdated mods.

[BabaTheFool]

This is stunning, I'm just awestruck omg

[BlackMoonHowling]

Absolutely breathtaking build, the attention to detail is phenomenal