Inflectus

Season 1: Revitalization In three days, we're launching a new narrative Season of Echoes of the Ancients: https://discord.gg/7VenJgFX?event=1480640655687422195 It will not result in a map wipe, a character wipe, or any wipes of any sort! Instead, it aims to revitalize the existing map with new content, both mechanical and narrative. Our server will go down for maintenance on Thursday night, so that I can move mods around and world-edit in things on Friday morning/overnight. Tides of Trade Recently, the ship docked in Waystone has departed for Mesana, a new pier built in its place. It will return soon, with prominent people aboard, and new trades to offer. Someone leaves a message in its wake... Join us for a new Conclave-centric storyline, crafted for flexibility and tangible consequences based on your decisions and which faction they empower. We haven't had a meaningful server narrative since around the launch of Season 0, so this will hopefully be the start of something great for both staff and players to sink their teeth into, while also expanding on the lore of the Conclave, the Exploratorium and the Yannic Order. Learning from our prior mistakes, we will make sure to pace out major narrative events in Tides of Trade, giving players and staff time to digest and prepare. Additionally, the conclusion of Tides of Trade will more than likely impact how our next and ultimate storyline begins and ends. With that, your participation could affect the very fate of Venmire- and by extension Mesana- when we cross into Season 2. Major characters will be played by Rat, Kay and Breeso, but if they ever need a break, we have all the documentation we need to swap out actors to keep things going. We may also be opening roles throughout these narratives for players to temporarily play (or work their existing characters into), so stay tuned for that. Upcoming Content We have a whole ton of content separate from Tides of Change ready for you, which I'll further detail on Friday, but for now I'll include some screenshots (most of which taken by Beans of the upcoming Dungeon) and some bullet pointed summaries: Our newest Dungeon, built and programmed by Xenon_San to iterate on the previous Dungeon: more optimized, more accessible, more thematic and more rewarding. Additional infrastructure in and around Waystone, supporting new players and returning players alike; lots of it coded or created by myself (thanks to Xenon San and their command block code extension mod), a new location created by Ravyn Alexi, some incoming builds created by Oxford Koda and a significant contribution made ICly by Shazza and Albey. New modded content, such as one long-anticipated mod to replace Art of Cooking and another that we have already added to the server to allow members of our team to create and edit NPCs (without depending on me to do so) and revamp our old ones with new features. Systemic improvements to our rules, online resources and settlements; a collective effort, thanks in no small part to Shazza hunting down and organizing a lot of our old docs. Get Involved This is a great time and opportunity to get involved in our server! Join us for a time when many old players return and some new players find their footing! It's a rare and great way to get immersed and involved in the community! http://discord.gg/R9BpRPxDV7

Haven't bumped this post in a while, but the server is still alive, and we're currently planning our big "revitalization update"! It won't be a seasonal wipe, rather an injection of a ton of content (procedural generated mechanical dungeon, new lore books, starting a new main plotline, QoL and onboarding updates, new major mod, etc.) to try and breathe new life into the existing world. If you or your group of roleplayers would like to join us as part of this big update, we would be happy to have you! It'll be a great time to get involved in the server if you weren't already! Feel free to ask any questions here or add me on Discord (Inflectus)!

Just a heads up we've recently updated our server to 1.21.5! Some bugs have reared their ugly heads as a result of the update (and all the mod updates that came with it, some of which including unofficial patches), but we're working to stabilize the experience and have ironed out most of the obvious issues already. Server is still very much active and growing, with multiple towns actively recruiting (or in the works), so please don't hesitate to join our Discord and apply! http://discord.gg/R9BpRPxDV7

Art commissioned by Blackcat Briar! Built by roleplayers, for roleplayers, Echoes of the Ancients is a deep roleplay server operated by the Passion Project (PP) Gaming Community. Our vision is to cultivate a deep, flavorful and immersive roleplay experience, built to scale and become the premier Vintage Story roleplay server. We work hard to create a unique experience, built on our own systems, our own story and our own custom content. Pillars: Roleplay Lore Freedom Longevity Accessibility Story: Echoes of the Ancients is a fictional universe that takes place in a post-apocalyptic bronze age on the continent of Daystar, a realm fractured into three distinct regions: Mesana (the homeland), Venmire (the refuge) and Cindorath (yet to be discovered). It follows the fall of the Ancients, an enigmatic people whose empire achieved unparalleled expansion and technological greatness. Season 0 focuses on Venmire: a recently-colonized land of humid jungles, sprawling rivers, putrid swamps and redwood-topped mountains. While Mesana is torn apart by supernatural disaster, our characters flee to this fertile and exotic promised land. Some hope to carve out a new life for themselves, some seek to exploit its riches, some hope to support their families back home and some simply wish to survive long enough to return to Mesana and rebuild. You have a handful of unique cultures to play as... Riverfolk Duneriders Undergrounders Skylanders You can play a character in this pivotal moment in history, becoming a larger part of how it's remembered and what for. Your stories will tell the collective odyssey of Venmire and the struggles- and accomplishments- of its people. You will give real meaning and impact to the history players read about when applying to our server years down the line and writing their own backstories! You, like the people of Venmire, are pioneers in your own right! Us: We are a crack-shot team of seasoned roleplayers, writers, programmers, artists and moderators from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania. We have former staff and players hailing from Minecraft and Vintage Story roleplay servers, DMs and players of tabletop RPGs and modders (like BASIC) from the Vintage Story community. I was also a Discord Partner up until 2020, lending me plenty of experience in effective community and team management- assets when undertaking a project as bold and ambitious as this one! I hope you'll give us a chance, and that we'll soon see you become a part of our wonderful community! Join and apply on our Discord today!

I don't know of any public roleplay servers that are unmodded and have a consistent playerbase, personally, but I only really look at the bigger/more active public servers. It might be possible and sustainable without major content mods, but you'll still find yourself hurting to grow and create a consistent playerbase to actually roleplay with unless you use essentials like RP Basics (proximity chat, nicknames and text formatting), Itemizer (ability to rename and redefine descriptions for items, for roleplay flavor) and a handful of others.