Professor Dragon

I know the feeling. I'm hanging out for the stable release also, because I don't really have that much room on my old computer to be running multiple versions. That's why I've been a bit quiet here lately. Professor Dragon.

I'm curious - because I want a way to stop snow falling down the chimney. What exactly counts as "blocking" a chimney? Does it have to be within the structure itself, does it have to seal the chimney hole (eg block on top). What? Your sacrifice is advancing knowledge for the greater VS community. Here, have a cookie. Professor Dragon.

Yes, it does work - at least, according to this Issue Tracker report that I found where a different issue was being reported. https://github.com/anegostudios/VintageStory-Issues/issues/7776 However, examples of VTML text were used on v1.21.6 Did you remember to Sign your book? See this thread from that same Issue Tracker report, where the user mentioned problems - that they solved - writing to player generated books rather than to Handbooks. Signing the book in their case worked for them. The thread is bigger, so worth checking out. Professor Dragon.

Is that a question or a suggestion? There are already many different roof colours in the game - check out the Creative mode menu. If you're desperate for using those materials and only have a small area to do, then consider Chiselling the base blocks. Otherwise, the answer is going to be "mods" - but to my knowledge, one has not yet been written for either Andesite or Sandstone. I guess it would be a fairly big task, and I'm not sure there is a big audience for it. "What does a Sandstone or Andesite roof even look like?" would be a valid question. I'm not sure that they exist in the real world. Professor Dragon.

@DoctorSnakes is right - there is not in general, however there are mods in particular which may get what you want. Remember that Vintage Story is also built as a multi-player game, and different in operation to Minecraft, so how it operates is much more function specific and well, different. I was going to say that "Time is weird in Vintage Story," but on reflection was going to restate it as "Time is complex in Vintage Story," before finally on further reflection thinking it is more accurate to say that "Time is weirdly complex in Vintage Story" - or my final thoughts "Time is complex and weird in Vintage Story." Some things that you might expect to progress during sleeping do not, and it is a case of checking individual behaviours. See https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Time for more details and commands and cautions to manipulate time. Search the web for time mods such as "Vintage Story time mods" or similar. Professor Dragon.

Not that I know of. However, there are mods that improve the basic glider. Search the net for "vintage story glider mod" and you'll come across them. eg https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/21867 Or there are mods which improve air travel in totality, from simple hovering cars to a full on air-ship: https://mods.vintagestory.at/vsairshipmod Professor Dragon.

If you really want to be sure, use a light level mod like one of these: https://mods.vintagestory.at/easylightlevels I haven't tried this one, but it is updated to the current version (although the above also still works): https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/32420 Professor Dragon.

Fantastic update. Thank you! As well as the new feature updates, many of the little issues that I've encountered have been addressed. Who knows what the performance features do behind the scenes, but that can only be good. I was going to pull out some of the features/fixes that I liked, but it's practically the whole list <SNIP!> Nibblers: We've discovered a bug that prevented animals like hares from eating player-planted crops since 1.19. This is now fixed. Make sure to protect your crops! Added cabinets and much improved storage system, allowing voxel-precision mixed item placing on cabinets, including books, clothing, chiseled figurines, all previously storable 1.21 items, and more! Cabinets are wood typed and can be upgraded with cabinet doors. Added mannequins to display your clothing Major forge rework. Updated model, added optional bellows, added metal tongs, fuel types matter now, and more Fully rebuilt trader outposts Two new farm-able crops: Fennel and Licorice - Eight new Mushrooms Four new flowers: Bluebell, Ghost pipe, Daffodils and Mugwort Sleek doors texture rework and they now have a glass window Added 8 new variants of storage vessels Added survival mode craftable clay tiles Fixed: Resonance Archives gasifier would burn fuel too quickly Fixed: Baking an item in an oven would reset the spoilage timer Fixed: Animals would never eat planted crops Tweak: Add chiselable full block stone path Handbook improvements Tweak: Stone path stairs and slabs now extend 1 voxel 'below ground' to cover the gap that can be left by regular path blocks. Stone paths now use wildcards to randomize texture, rather than alternates. Fixed: Pie dough sides were unusually dark when placed besides blocks Lots of internal preparatory work for foot steps sounds Tweak: Performance tweaks Tweak: Command Tweaks: Wood ladders can be sawed back into boards Ladders made entirely of sticks have their own model, separate from ladders made from planks Fixed: Fixes npc dialogue link text cut off in some cases Fixed: Armor stands could only be placed at edges of blocks Fixed: Color accurate worldmap: Still used vintage colors until the map was opened Fixed: Rotation of clayforming for watering cans matches output Added crowbar for easier removal of wooden beams Added crock labels for fruit jam Placed backpacks can now be opened New Sound Tracks Feature: New collectibles and craftables eature: Added pot pies - this allows you to create mixed meat & vegetable pies Raw fat now can spoil, and can be cooked into rendered fat, which does not spoil. Feature: Added in-wall mechanical power axles Awwww! Tweak: Can no longer grid craft stuff from hot items Fixed: Luxury trader was still selling gold omok pieces <End snip> It's going to be a long wait though until the stable version is out . . . counting the days . . .

This is a great suggestion. I might try it for my next "big world." My first main world had soil instability on, but the downside is that after 20 years in one location, ALL of the hills were denuded to some extent, or weird pillars with a few trees on top. I turned it off for my second world, but it feels lacklustre not having soil collapse when it "should." So I'm tempted by the third way, which is to mod the behaviour so that blocks still fall, but you're no longer randomly losing mountains to a rabbit.

My current game is with 20 day months, and I went through winter massively (MASSIVELY) overstocked with food. 30 day months should be quite doable. I had some advantages. Spawned in an area with abundant berry and mushroom resources Near an Agriculture Trader (not really needed, but they sell seeds and food) Exploring turned up a lot of seeds everywhere - this really is the key Prior knowledge that let me build farms and storage effeciently Found a Trader who sold glass, which allowed for an early 14 x 14 greenhouse

In addition to what other people have said - cheat. It's okay. I've done the journey to the story events on worlds with larger scaling for the story structures aaaaaand . . . . never again. Apart from overcoming the challenge and getting that sense of achievement (tick - done that), the week plus long trip didn't really add a lot to my life. Sure, I discovered some nice structures along the way. However, they are all so far away you're unlikely to come back to them anyway. The main thing that the long trip did was blow out my game save file by a huuuuuge amount. You have three options. 1) Decrease distance for the story missions, as per @LadyWYT's suggestion. Trap: If you make it too small, you will be forever seeing a later story mission on the skyline. 2) Spawn the story location at a place of your choosing. Easy to do, and means you have your main base set up near it. 3) Get the co-ordinates and teleport there. Professor Dragon.

Maybe make your own? Just download some of the official images and adjust to your heart's content. Local stationary/print shops let you do a print of even a single page of sticky labels at a cheap price.

You guys wait until the later story events! In any case, I totally overgeared on the Eidolon and went in with full Forlorn Hope armour, steel shield and steel arrows - and it was fine. Staying in the corner, jumping to avoid attacks (most of the time) and pelting with arrows worked for me, with additional thwacking of locusts behind the pillar. However, this approach really does cut it out from being an "early" (mid?) game experience, which is when all of this should really take place to be most useful. I'm curious as to the lowest levels of gear that seasoned Vintarians do it at. I'm sure it is possible to do it in linen gambeson - I just haven't tried it.

I don't know if this has been mentioned before on the forum . . . I've been a bit "AFK" since the Christmas period. But . . . the YouTube channel for Vintage Story has this - stackable and rotable items on display shelves. This has been something that I've dearly wanted for a long time. There are mods . . . but I like the vanilla experience a lot (except where I don't, looking at you HUD display and Light Level friends). Anyway - check this out! ! ! (And VS staff . . . why isn't stuff like this posted in our "News" section or elsewhere on this forum? Or have I just missed it. I feel like this being the "official" forum should get the news first, but it seems to get left out.) Professor Dragon.

Soooo . . . initial thoughts. It is a very different game. Think "Minecraft with creature mods and shader pack out of the box." It is bright and colourful, and feels so, so, so, so very "easy" compared to Vintage Story. Prime example - a brown bear in Hytale is your early training mob in the starter area. In Vintage Story it is still a challenge for experienced players. Within 15 - 30 minutes, we had a fairly detailed starter house up, with faux chiselled blocks (you just pick from a palette of blocks) and two tone roof. Plus a bunch of useful workstations. Within a few hours, had seen several different biomes, faced many and varied mobs, and returned home in time for dinner. After Vintage Story - or even regular Minecraft - the compression of timescales is really noticable. It is also very obviously still a Beta game experience. The main drawcards, such as instanced dungeons, have yet to be implemented. Things that we take for granted, such as the Handbook or block information are nowhere to be found - which is a bit of an issue, considering the vast number of blocks and beasts around. Or water - it is a pick up and put down one "block" of water. There is no flowing water when you remove a bucket - just a hole in the water left behind. A lot of quality of life issues that V.S. licked a while back. But what it does - a bright, colourful, dip in experience - it does well. I could go on, but long story short. It is a very different game, with a very different (younger) target audience. Maybe in a few years, some of that audience will move on to Vintage Story. Professor Dragon.