Looking for new friends to play and build with? Me too! I'm continuing a world. I did not know it was going to be a short term world. So I am using it to start a long term world. It won't be abandoned for years. Any work we do or plans we have, won't just disappear. If the host goes down, I will host it elsewhere (regular downloads for offsite backup.)
There's the start of a village that the initial group created, with an amount of stuff in it already. The guy rebuilding the new player starting area, I believe, is going to continue building it. I think everybody else quit. At least, they quit this world for sure.
discord: https://discord.gg/GfyaBDTY
I love the idea of developing a world and building a town, or towns, etc. It's definitely not Vanilla. Double backpack space, 5x stack size, bunch of mods I listed in the comment below. I have a discord I started for this so we can continue from the world that was abandoned. It deserves better!
Long story being, I joined a server I thought was the start of a world being built by a group, that wanted to expand. I had been playing Vintage Story, but also wanted to play with and meet other people. There were only a few active people, a couple of which I thought were pretty fun to play with. Then there were just a couple. then there was just me. Save for a few who came on briefly here and there the last few weeks. I was given a copy of the world, as they plan(ned) on resetting and starting over. I thought it was such a good start for a world, it feels like a crime to not continue expanding it.
One of many things I've been thinking about is having an area full of telporters that lead to areas that are a long distance away, but undeveloped, for people who want to come but want to get on their feet on their own. Then they can rejoin when they get as far as they like. Like I did when I first came to this world. I can even scout for a good area to teleport someone to, for a clean start, until I get the teleporter room finished. Just let me know. I'm "Neininch" on the discord and in the server.
Either way, everything is pliable!
I attached screenshots of the current state of town. The single helve hammer / single quern / single pulverizer shop in town (there are others around, but the public one..) ... I don't think anyone is working on that anymore. I'm happy to go in and dramatically expand it but I may not be the best for the job.
There's so much that can be done. I figured there would be dozens of houses built around - not just a few. I haven't built one in town yet, but am going to
I did not take screenshots of the center starting area, because it's in the middle of being revised.
Edit: I laughed rather hard noticing my health bars. dudes i played with in this world would always ask why i don't just eat more. i ignore my poor guy when it's crying about starving hahahaha until i notice health bar going down. i blame playing decades as a warlock always inching towards perpetual death in WoW.