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A half a kilometers square board and as of now, one half of the pieces. For white I have chosen Red/White livery. Black will be purple/black when I get around to it.

The idea for this server is to offer a family safe and fun place to play VintageStory. We now have 4 servers to attend to all tastes. They have different rules and content: Default Darkagecraft: Moded PVE The server is only used to host Vintage Story. The Darkagecraft PVE Moded Server at darkagecraft.net The Darkagecraft Vanilla, with the latest stable game version at darkagecraft.net:42423 The Darkagecraft Creative, again with the latest stable version at darkagecraft.net:42422 The Darkagecraft Dominions, a Moded PVP server at darkagecraft.net:42424 Please make sure to type your Vintage Story Username correctly, we will copy and paste it into the server.

Currently I have a deadlock with my build on a server. I need to expand the building, e.g. to add a kitchen, but it progresses slowly and with lot of frustrations, my design skills are terrible. I could try things in creative first, but I can't import the layout of my existing base and its surroundings to a singleplayer world. Also, despite that being a standard practice, I always hated switching to a separate creative world to design things for survival, because you have to do things kinda twice and it breakes immersion. Could a feature be introduced into the game to allow "mind experiments" for planning and designing buildings and terraforming? E.g. player can sit on some block setup or some station of sort. Or dream while sleeping. Or consume a potion. And be transported into a "dream" world, which is a copy of his, and the player can switch to a creative mode there. After trying and building all things there, player returns to the ordinary world, and can enable to see blocks from the dream world, appearing as ghost blocks. The problem is to prevent cheating, e.g. ore prospecting and ruins search. Idk how. Maybe travel distance limit can be an answer. The dream world is a bubble with radius of ... 100 blocks? I guess it will be generated very quickly. And even if you go into the dream world when exploring the land, you can't explore significant part of cave system or surface. But for a building design it would be more than enough. Or maybe dream exploration can be a thing and quite expensive for early game. Like: we pay for finding ore/ruins with time and metal for tools. Why not pay with less time but different resources for potions instead of metal tools.

Scenes created to show off Vintage Story's building blocks and lighting effects. LEFT CLICK IMAGE TWICE TO GET FULL SIZE. 1 .'Ice North Ice': Windmills stand alone in a landscape conquered by the storms of a north wind. Settings used for God rays, cloud size, fog density and color, bloom and shadows. 2 'Ice Shelf', a ship in a glacial landscape 3. 'Northern Path'

A couple of adventure maps.

A series of stills of a dragon attacking a village. The idea was to see how the Shingle block could be adapted as Scale (these ones on a dragon), but I only used them on the wings, so they did not show up well in the scene at night. It has been suggested these shots are redone with increased 'Bloom', which is a variable lighting effect built into the VS engine. That may give a more dispersed look to the flames. I will toy with this a little bit more, but the difference between VS and other voxel engines is already apparent. This scene took less than two hour to put together, including stills.

Some views of a build designed to demonstrate forging and crop management.

Inspired by the movie 'The land that time forgot', this test build was created in an early version of Vintage story, to test how much scenery can be handled by a low powered Nvidia graphics card (ie my one!). Since it was built the engine has dramatically improved, so I will get back to it at some stage in the near future. As can be seen the hill top town is incomplete, with a few gaps here and there. As I said, I do intend to return to this scene, but with the extra intention of also creating a city that is about 20 times the size. Preliminary builds have been done of this, and the scale that it is possible to work with using the Vintage Story engine is staggering. In this early version. using an AMD E1 processor, a view distance of 660 was possible. I look forward to seeing how much more can be done now that the VS engine has been improved even further. The land in the lowlands beyond the town is an 'Acid Swamp', which I developed when testing designs for fossilized trees. 1 Town and scwamp 2. + 3 'Acid Swap' by day and night 4. Fossilized tree before I added the extended roots and split level landscape. 5 . Treescape with figure to show scale.