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Don't think about it like that, it's not hard to not die in the game as long as you're careful, and the food you're saving is just rotting away. Again once you have a proper food making system going on at your base you'll never really run out of food and you won't need to be afraid of wasting anything. Dying is just part of the game sometimes, you shouldn't be afraid of death, if it comes it comes and you just get half of your hunger bar taken away. You can read a guide about it, or watch a YouTube video. There are lots of effective methods on how to use it, and most people say that it's a fun activity.

Focus on getting your food situation solved, progress through the ages, build and expand on your base and make it cozy, there is tons of hours of content by just doing these three things. You say you don't know what to do except running around the spawn point and collecting stuff, solving your hunger problem is something to do, progressing through the ages is one of the main progression lines in the game. Once you solve your hunger problem and get a proper base and tools, you'll unlock most of the game, you will be able to explore far and not stay stuck within your base. I haven't died to starvation once because that was one of my initial goals when I started my world, it's very easy to not die from starvation if you just run around look for berries and take the bushes with you back to the base. Also don't hunt wolf and bear, it's the biggest waste of time and energy, the bushmeat is low quality, expires fast and doesn't give much satiety. Instead hunt boar, sheep, goats, bunnies, they give high quality red meat which you can cook into stews and last for much longer and gives lots of satiety. Find seeds and grow crops, make an oven and you can bake bread and pies with berries and the crops which last for a very long time especially in a cellar. The game's main goal isn't to progress as fast as possible but to survive, a lot of great tips have been already said in this thread just make sure to follow them.

Have you tried looking for white patches in mountains? I have Limestone rock all around me in mountains.

Happy 10th anniversary! The game has been phenomenal for me.

You’ll probably get a response tomorrow hopefully

That's just how it works I guess, it's the same for me Going for hunting trips is in the name, it's going to be a trip so you'll have to pack everything you'll need with you and prepare to be outside for multiple days

There is Project Glint, it's going to be standalone though.

Any game with some sort of a challenge no matter how good it is will probably make you vent. I’m loving VS but I geniuenly got upset the first 2 hours when I couldn’t find clay for the life of me, and I wanted to build my base next to a deposit. OP if you’re reading this I mean no disrespect is just my opinion, but in that first 2 hours I didn’t come straight to the forums where it’s obvious most people who use it are fans of the game and call it $5 USD shovelware. OP has given it another chance most likely because people were praising it even more and probably went and watched some gameplay, the game is genuinely good and I haven’t been this immersed in a game for a long time now personally. But again OP if you’re reading this I don’t mean no disrespect, and it’s nice to see people like you that can actually give something a chance even after they disliked it.

The clay struggle was real for me as well, but not as bad as some others in this thread, it took me about 2 hours to find my first clay, later on I found so many that I think I’m set for my whole play through when it comes to clay. Although I just wish it was easier to find it, I think it might deter a lot of people from playing the game.

Pro tip: torches in the offhand makes your hunger rate up to 120% Apart from that, it looks nice. Enjoy!

I have my base near a lot of peat, I'm glad I didn't think (oh this is a good spot for a pit kiln) hahaha

Digital Extremes is up there with the best developers in the world.

I'd like to defend myself and also others and say that jumping from game to game can happen to anyone, it happened to me and I'm certainly still having that problem but it seems to be less abundant right now after changing a few things I do when playing games. Actually, when I was a kid it was the opposite, I'd stick with 1 game and play it for a long time, I finished more games at that time than now, I even stuck with games like NBA 2K (I didn't even watch the NBA and it was the cause I started watching it lol) and played MyCareer for hours per day. For the past 3 years something seemed off, luckily I'm starting to figure it out.

Rare moment when someone criticizes the game without giving it a proper chance, but still does and it starts to grow on them. For me it took me about 5 hours of gameplay for it to start growing on me lol, now I'm almost 20 hours into my world, still stuck with copper tools but that's the beauty of it, I don't need to rush towards bronze tools, at the moment I just focused on improving my build and expanding my farms, hunting from time to time.

Make a "Rye Allergies" mod so it gives you negative HP every time you use it, so it forces you to only use Oat hahaha

Apart from that @Veronica Hohenheim, you can also always contact the devs to restore your account if you have the email with the key or any kind of receipt, you shouldn't worry much.

Yeah I don't see that happening anywhere in the near future at all. Just because it's an indie title doesn't mean there is a chance lol.

Well that is the only way to verify ownership, through your game account created in the client area with the key. I would understand if the game didn’t require signing in but then let’s say a group of friends wanted the game only one would buy it for everyone to have it lol

I liked the vibe of it, even installed a mod that improved the overall sound effects and sounds in general on a temporal storm. It's not bad, only 2 things I changed are hunger rate to 75% and animal swim speed to 50% because the damn wolves and bears are faster than me for some reason on water lol. Plus it makes it easier to kill animals instead of having to dig a hole for 2 boars.

Great guide, while I'm way past the 5 day mark it still had some useful information for me. Hopefully it helps other new players!

As a new player I kind of see temporal storms and rifts being a problem for old players rather than new players. For me, it's an exciting new game mechanic and lore piece. And I haven't gotten annoyed, the first time I got a temporal storm I was so immersed in the game when it happened I kind of forgot reality and I was genuinely experiencing a bit of fear. For older players, I would understand that it's probably old and stale for them now, and just an annoyance rather than a cool game mechanic. Although this is my opinion, other new players might absolutely hate temporal storms and rifts.

No worries!

You can use this command to disable rifts, which will in turn lower drifters spawn rate /worldconfig temporalRifts off

If you had ragdoll every time you just 2 blocks too high it would get annoying But on death this sounds like fun.

Completely moving away is not a good idea though. As a consumer you're not getting hurt by using Steam even with DRM (they will not wake up on a random Tuesday and take all your games away) and quite frankly I cannot imagine myself using that Epic Games clunk or even GOG which is DRM-free. On the other hand, there is a big issue with Vintage Story being on Steam and that is the refund policy, you only have maximum 2 hours of playtime to refund your game. Given how it took me about 5 hours to be satisfied with the game and also the fact that the progress is just very slow paced, lots of people might not end up liking the game but they're way past the refund time. One good thing about Steam is regional pricing, while there is already an option for LATAM countries, that doesn't mean everyone else can buy the game at 20 euros, it is a cheap price overall, but lots of people from my country would not be able to afford it, and if it was on Steam it would've been priced around 12-14 euros which is more affordable.