Heegrim Posted May 28 Report Posted May 28 (edited) Wouldn’t it be cool if we could place items freely on any block (like how the new cabinets work). That way my starter hovel can really look like a complete mess with stuff strewn all over the floor! Seriously though, it would be awesome to be able to place candles and other decorations exactly where I want them on the mantle of my fireplace. Placing bowls and stuff needs a rework anyways because the hitbox is just flat and I end up picking up a bowl through something in front of it because I wasn’t looking at the very base of the item in front. I have also noticed new players struggling to pick up a fishing rod because they are looking at the rod itself and not the floor. Edited May 28 by Heegrim 2
LadyWYT Posted May 29 Report Posted May 29 There was a mod for this, but I cannot remember what it was called. I think it was for the previous game version, so it's not likely to work now. As cool as this idea would be, I'm not sure that it's actually feasible to implement. I know that Paralives seems to have a good grasp of this kind of gameplay(decorative clutter), but it's an entirely different kind of game from Vintage Story. The best option I can think of is probably to provide some shelves and other storage options that work similar to the cabinets, that the player can then build around via the chisel system and whatnot. Wrench tool could possibly be used to rotate items once they're placed.
BurgerDaddy Posted May 29 Report Posted May 29 I’d just love to be able to use the half of the block that is not covered by a slab on its side to place some things on. Sideways slabs is great, and I get it that the block data “already has something in it”, but it would be nice for functionality and also decoration.
Rainbow Fresh Posted May 29 Report Posted May 29 (edited) 6 hours ago, LadyWYT said: There was a mod for this, but I cannot remember what it was called. I think it was for the previous game version, so it's not likely to work now. You mean this one? https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/47288 Generally speaking though yeah, I agree that more placement options would be very nice. Having free-form placement on ANY block akin to how cabinets work sounds like a performance nightmare in the making but atleast uilizing slabs (which the "Place on Slabs" mod already does) and vertical slabs would be nice. Would open up so many more options for cozy, cramped builds. EDIT: I just realized, if chiseled blocks had the cabinet placement system enabled that would help limit the performance drain. Edited May 29 by Rainbow Fresh 1
LadyWYT Posted May 29 Report Posted May 29 4 hours ago, Rainbow Fresh said: You mean this one? https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/47288 Ah yeah, that's the one!
Heegrim Posted May 29 Author Report Posted May 29 Is it really that big of a performance drain? I assume the cabinet is just working like a chest that stores additional data about position and rotation to display the items. Could they not just attach this data to other blocks when something is placed on them? (of course placing thousands of items would eventually cause issues, but that’s not because the block isn’t a cabinet) Chiseled blocks already generate a custom hitbox mesh so raycasting to find the placement position should be easy enough.
Rainbow Fresh Posted May 29 Report Posted May 29 Everything that's "more data" will eventually become a problem. Minecraft's greatest hacks for challenge runs (the ones revolving around magically re-generating chunks because the game cries) revolve around shoving too much data into a single chunk. If not taxing the runing game itself, storing all that data will become an issue. My VS world save is already 1GB in size and not even close in comparison to how much world I can explore in TOBG for the same world folder size - and that is despite VS just being a database, not a million actual files. "Just attaching" that additional data on demand doesn't work like it (granted, with VS's database approach it could but becomes less performant for retrieving that data in the thousands per chunk then) as the space to save all that data must be accounted for in the first place.
Bruno Willis Posted May 30 Report Posted May 30 On 5/29/2026 at 10:58 AM, Heegrim said: Seriously though, it would be awesome to be able to place candles and other decorations exactly where I want them on the mantle of my fireplace. I was thinking about this the other day, and I wonder if for specific things like candles, they could have placement similar to support beams (i.e. can be placed anywhere you can right click). Candles would need a few extra restrictions compared to support beams, i.e. They must always point upwards, and must be placed on an upward face of a block, even if it's just on one tiny chiseled notch in an otherwise horizontal wall.
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