Survival Starter Guide
From Vintage Story Wiki
Controls
The default key mappings are as follows (you can change these in the settings)
- WASD Keys to move around
- E for Inventory
- B for Block Info (shows you what you currently look at)
- C for Coordinates
- Shift to sneak
- L-Ctrl to run
- T to open the chat dialog
- Left Mouse break stuff
- Right Mouse place/use stuff
Basic Tools
- Find some loose stones and break some branchy leaves. Those 2 ingredients will let you make a stone axe, a stone shovel, a stone pickaxe and a stone hoe
- A Flint and a stick let's you craft a knife that let's you harvet dry grass from tallgrass
File:FlintKnifeRecipe.png File:StoneAxeRecipe.png File:StoneHoeRecipe.png File:StonePickaxeRecipe.png File:StoneShovelRecipe.png
Food
- Most importantly you will probably want to explore wide and far for crops and berry bushes to secure your food situation.
- Crops can be planted on any soil after tilling it with a hoe, but grows best on high fertility soil. Crops also require a nearby water source.
- Ripe Berry Bushes can be harvested and afterwards broken+replanted anywhere else. After a while they will start to bloom again.
Inventory Space
- Once you have a basic farm set up, you could go ahead and increase your inventory space
- Reeds can be crafting into baskets that have 2 slots each. Place it into one of the 4 bottom-right slots
- If you've found Flax, you can work towards Line Sacks, which have 4 slots. It requires a lot of fibers though.
Better Tools
- You can then begin upgrading your tools to copper.
- Craft a knife with a stick and flint, which can be found amongst patches of loose stone
- Break the tall with a knife in your hands. It will give you dry grass
- Put an axe and log in your crafting window to acquire firewood.
- Right click on the ground, first with dry grass in yours hands and then add firewood to it with the same method
- You know have a working firepit that is able to smelt copper ore + lignite into copper bars