Edwin_Blacktallow

Ah yeah, I see the Skyrm inspiration now. And good idea keeping one inaccessible.

Love the rug, I'm going to need to try and do one. And I just found bauxite too! Is the blue color you have used andesite?

I've sculpted a new miniature, inspired by vintage story. This is made with a paperclip wire frame, sculpted in miliput. A bit of cork for the rocks and some foam foliage. It's painted using acrylic miniature paints. I'll be honest, I dont really know what that thing is... I started off trying to create some sort of dark fae creature. But it developed such an otherworldly appearance. It reminds me of the Dover Deamon, or even a traditional Wendigo (no anlters or deer skull which is a pop-culture adaptaiton to the classic native American folk lore) But I had a darker thought, what if this is a Seraph. Maybe one that spent a little to long underground, or strayed to close to a rift and got -for lack of a better phrase- temporally mangled... What do you think it is? Truly, whatever it's origin, it is a Godless Beast. And now it looms over me while I work from home, ever lurking in the edge of my vison. (You can see my last abomination here)

The bridge looks great and love the ambiance with the candles. A thought for the sewers, you could use the charcoal symbol markings as a sort of thieves marking like in Skyrim. (Think you can use other materials too, maybe chalk?)

I had a idea for my fantasy town that I never got round to: was a sewer system that connected into the basments/cellars of buildings. Lots of winding tunnles, could add secret doors behind vines. Maybe an overflow into the river and even a secret hideout down there for a thieves guild. If you have ever played it, the starting dungeon from Oblivion is my inspiration, could chisel some rats. And if it breaks into a cave system keep it and make it part of it, and it could conect to your crypt and dungeon too! Other building ideas - Brewery - Might be too similar to the Libray but could add a university with gardens - Fletcher with archery range

You could easily fit 48 pine logs in there, best hand basket I've ever seen

"Is it possible to learn this power?"

My best advice is dont be afraid of being limited. As I'm sure you know you have to travel far for new rock types and deep south/north for new wood types. Let the game limit your building options, work with what you have. If you look at every wood and stone block in the game you'll spend hours reviewing the options before you even place a single thing down. Limitations aren't always bad, they can drive you to make a decsion. And don't worry about doing it "wrong" you can always dig it up and re build it if you don't like what you have made. Also if you haven't yet check out wattle and daub, bit of a pain to make but looks great with varied natural texture.

All looks amazing! Love the stylistic design of Dave. The segmented, rigid shapes are very impressionistic, feels like a great visual reference to how we know so little about dave. We only really have what we can see/imagine to explain him: The full picture of what it is isn't quite there, but its terrifying either way.

Yeah rifts are my bane, nothing worse than trying to finish a roof when a bow torn thinks it would be funny to shoot you off it

I have some interior archways and a large spiral staircase that goes from basment, ground floor, first floor and up to attic. Each level of the house has an offical room or two but also plenty of open space (non "room" space). This mainly encompasses the stairwell and some hallways, however there are few (non) rooms conected to said hallways with open arches. I've gone for a balance of both closed off rooms I can hunker down in if needed and also a open design beacues it looks nice. I guess just find a balance that works for you. I think important rooms to close off would be kitchen to stay warm by in winter and also bedroom to stay warm while sleeping. My main crafting room is open to the hall via an arch beacuse I'm always dipping in and out of there and dont want a door in the way.

I think the main requirements are size and door type. Your room needs to be 14x14x14 or less blocks in size. And doors need to be solid (not crude/ruined, and not grated trapdoors) I recently started building a larger house and have been trying to divide up the interior with partition walls and doors to create several smaller rooms. There's a lot more detail on this wiki page that talks about slabs and chiseled blocks, might be worth reading if those types are making up your walls. https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Room

Are you mainly playing survival or creative mode? And if you are in survival are you just starting out or are you pretty advanced/well established in your world?

Ah brilliant news, I've just started a new 1.22 world with microblock chiselling on. Dry grass roofs here I come!

Not so fun fact, last time I checked you can't chisel dry grass blocks in survival. Not sure if this is changed in 1.22?

Watch the skies traveller

Love the big windows, must let a lot of sun in in the day and make you feel like you are still out in all the nature even when you are inside. Also think the small huts are great, haven't seen that before. I'm assuming they are covering the bee skeps?

Oooo looking spicy!

Amazing work! Love the detail on the cloak

Everything (and most importantly the Inn) is looking great, think we should open a chain and get more people to build this style in their game. Then we can take over the world!

I would agree, the default distance is far. And when you only have so much time to play just walking for an hour, not really feeling like you are getting closer to your goal and then having to stop does suck. I try to peek into surface caves and find broken translocators, they can get you a fair distance but which direction that is is pretty random. Also as far as I'm aware you always end up deep underground, so pack a lantern, a pickaxe and some ladders to get back to the surface. You might get lucky and end up with a chain of translocators with short walks between them that help you traverse longer distances. Another option would be mods, now I belive this game should be a challenge. But I also believe it should be fun, I use a few quality of life mods to help balance that out. One is bed spawns, chuck a bed roll down, sleep in it and when you die you end up where you slept. If you still drop loot on death and your saturation is reduced it is still something you want to avoid, so death dosent become meaningless, but it's less of a set back, that way you can get back in the action, and back to the fun. Over all I would say the story locations are worth the effort. Vintage story does a great job at making the journey difficult, and it should be. You need to plan, you need to think about what you are doing before wandering off into the wilderness, I think that's great. Don't feel disheartened if you need to head back home before moving onto the next location, think about everything you learned on your journey. Make a plan, take time to prepare and get back out there!

Very cool, Love the framing and the use of the 2x2 door

Yes both floors are 3 blocks high. I'm using half blocks for flooring so the ground floor has a 2.5 block height (Although you could chisel these thinner if you wanted, I personally like the cramped cozy space). The second floor is a lot more spacious with only a small attic room bringing the ceiling down on the long section, but most of the space is open. I was going to post these screen shots at some point anyway, now is as good a time as any. Hope this helps, if this build inspires your own please share, would love to see what you come up with I'm planning on removing that wooden cube holding the chandelier in place with some chiseled dark brown wattle and daub to mimic a wrought iron chain. Really happy with the roof beams, this took a lot of wood but is worth it. Interior decoration is a work in progress as I find more treasures in the world.

The Tavern is built from a mix of conglomerate and granite cobble stone. The colours are close and blend well which give better texture. Second floor is light brown wattle and daub. And the wood I use is Walnut. This is all in 1.21. Hope this helps

Hello! Its been 6 Months since I last posted about my Village project but I haven't stopped working on it! (Too see my original post check the bottom of this one) Building all this in survival has been tough, running out of blocks and realizing I need to spend a good few hours prepping materials before I can get back to building has been hard, but the hard work is worth it! I've expanded the crafts district with a general purpose store house. When I made this build I thought I would just be filling space and barely use it... But its become the center of my building work, I store most of my tool and all building materials here. Its currently central in the town too which is very handy. I also build a Tavern, Lavenders Rest, I do all my cooking here and chill out inside on stormy nights. Then I built a dock, Its smaller for sure but I think I've managed to layer a lot of detail in such a small spot. And just down the road is a small textiles shop where I store flax and clothing I find in ruins. Just opposite that is a stable for my Elk. I've got a lot more to show you but struggling with the image limit on the forums If anyone knows a work around that please let me know