KKKordy Posted October 10, 2025 Report Posted October 10, 2025 Hi, so im a little new to VS, especially playing with friends, and i found it a little difficult trying to get to my friend while playing together, is there a way to spawn closer or even next to each other? Either a mod or a setting i need to flip on during the setup of the world, so we dont have to spend 5-10 minutes trying to get to one another but we can just throw ourselves into the game straight away. Second question is more of a general question for the future of the game and it concerns hosting, are there plans to make it easier to play with friends without having to either: Host dedicated throught your machine or paying for a server, or hosting via LAN, something like a simple peer to peer like on other popular coop games. Thanks in advance to all answers provided :]. Cheers
LadyWYT Posted October 10, 2025 Report Posted October 10, 2025 8 minutes ago, KKKordy said: Hi, so im a little new to VS, especially playing with friends, and i found it a little difficult trying to get to my friend while playing together, is there a way to spawn closer or even next to each other? Either a mod or a setting i need to flip on during the setup of the world, so we dont have to spend 5-10 minutes trying to get to one another but we can just throw ourselves into the game straight away. Welcome to the forums! On this one, I would ask what kind of settings you picked for the world. By default, players spawn in a 50 block radius from the world spawn point. However, harder difficulties like Wilderness Survival and Homo Sapiens have the spawn radius set to 5000 instead. I'm guess that you may have picked one of those difficulties as the preset for your world, and that's what's likely causing the issue. The good news is that you can adjust the spawn radius for world spawn in the settings at world creation(and probably after creation as well, by using a console command and reloading the world, though I am unsure of what command to use). 10 minutes ago, KKKordy said: Second question is more of a general question for the future of the game and it concerns hosting, are there plans to make it easier to play with friends without having to either: Host dedicated throught your machine or paying for a server, or hosting via LAN, something like a simple peer to peer like on other popular coop games. I'm not sure that I understand the question here though. To play Vintage Story, you will need a server of some sort. Most people either pay for hosting, or set up a server machine themselves(this is the method a friend and I use). You can also open up a singleplayer world to a friend, either via LAN or over the internet(did this with a friend too in our early days of Vintage Story), but that does still technically count as a server due to the machine running the singleplayer world counting as the host. However, that is probably the method of hosting that you're looking for, provided you have a computer strong enough to handle it(especially if you're intending to use mods).
KKKordy Posted October 10, 2025 Author Report Posted October 10, 2025 2 minutes ago, LadyWYT said: Welcome to the forums! On this one, I would ask what kind of settings you picked for the world. By default, players spawn in a 50 block radius from the world spawn point. However, harder difficulties like Wilderness Survival and Homo Sapiens have the spawn radius set to 5000 instead. I'm guess that you may have picked one of those difficulties as the preset for your world, and that's what's likely causing the issue. The good news is that you can adjust the spawn radius for world spawn in the settings at world creation(and probably after creation as well, by using a console command and reloading the world, though I am unsure of what command to use). Hi! I picked Standard and im pretty sure it was all if not all default, i didnt touch anything but yea makes sense i was just wondering if there is a way to spawn RIGHT next to my friend on world creation, if its spawn radius then thank you, ill look into it, if not let me know 3 minutes ago, LadyWYT said: I'm not sure that I understand the question here though. To play Vintage Story, you will need a server of some sort. Most people either pay for hosting, or set up a server machine themselves(this is the method a friend and I use). You can also open up a singleplayer world to a friend, either via LAN or over the internet(did this with a friend too in our early days of Vintage Story), but that does still technically count as a server due to the machine running the singleplayer world counting as the host. However, that is probably the method of hosting that you're looking for, provided you have a computer strong enough to handle it(especially if you're intending to use mods). I cant find the exact terms for this, its more just a general question about the future plans of the game, but basically is the plan to make it so i can just click "host", create a world right out the bag that a friend can join without any external programs like hamachi or radmin or without setting up dedicated. Its not a huge problem or anything but just curious about it.
Solution LadyWYT Posted October 10, 2025 Solution Report Posted October 10, 2025 6 minutes ago, KKKordy said: Hi! I picked Standard and im pretty sure it was all if not all default, i didnt touch anything but yea makes sense i was just wondering if there is a way to spawn RIGHT next to my friend on world creation, if its spawn radius then thank you, ill look into it, if not let me know Oh gotcha. Yeah spawn radius is what you're looking for. I would try turning that down to like, five blocks or so. You should spawn right next to each other in that case, while still having a bit of wiggle room. 7 minutes ago, KKKordy said: I cant find the exact terms for this, its more just a general question about the future plans of the game, but basically is the plan to make it so i can just click "host", create a world right out the bag that a friend can join without any external programs like hamachi or radmin or without setting up dedicated. Its not a huge problem or anything but just curious about it. Gotcha. I can't really speak for the future plans of the game since I'm not a dev, but there is a roadmap of planned features that you can find here: https://www.vintagestory.at/roadmap.html/ However, this isn't a feature that I would really expect to see, since it's essentially already implemented in the game with the method I mentioned earlier. Essentially, create a singleplayer world, open it to LAN and start playing if you and your friends are on the same network. If not on the same network, you'll still need to open to LAN, then open the pause menu again to open the world to internet. You may also need to adjust firewall rules or router settings for this method to work, and the world will only be playable while whoever is on the host machine is playing. https://www.vintagestory.at/selfhosting/ 1
KKKordy Posted October 10, 2025 Author Report Posted October 10, 2025 12 minutes ago, LadyWYT said: Gotcha. I can't really speak for the future plans of the game since I'm not a dev, but there is a roadmap of planned features that you can find here: https://www.vintagestory.at/roadmap.html/ However, this isn't a feature that I would really expect to see, since it's essentially already implemented in the game with the method I mentioned earlier. Essentially, create a singleplayer world, open it to LAN and start playing if you and your friends are on the same network. If not on the same network, you'll still need to open to LAN, then open the pause menu again to open the world to internet. You may also need to adjust firewall rules or router settings for this method to work, and the world will only be playable while whoever is on the host machine is playing. https://www.vintagestory.at/selfhosting/ yea i saw the roadmap and there was no feature like that, i know theres self hosting but its a little trickier and i was just hoping theres a plan to simplify it in the future, but if not its not a big deal thanks a lot!
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