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 harvest dry grass from tallgrass. Flint are occassionally found amongst patches of loose stone
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.
Entering the Copper Age
1. Collect some dry grass, clay, some logs, lignite or bituminous coal and native copper
- Clay is found in most areas that are not too dry
- Native copper and coal/lignite can be found in caves
- Dry Grass is made by breaking tall grass with a knife
2. Make a crucible and some ingot molds
- Use the clay to craft a crucible as well as a couple of molds
3. Make a fire pit
- Put an axe and log in your crafting window to acquire at least 4 firewood
- Put dry grass in your active hand, then right click on the ground, now add firewood with the same method
4. Bake the crucible and molds
- Put your raw clay crafts on the top left slot of the firepit, add more fuel to the bottom slot if required
- Place your baked molds on the ground via Shift+Right click
5. Smelt ores
- Once the crucible is baked, move back from the right slot to the left slow. This will extend the firepit dialog by 4 additional slots
- These 4 slots can now hold your ores for smelting and alloying. Put it your native copper and wait.
6. Pour your molten mix into the molds
- Once the molten metal has cooled to 300 degrees you can take out the ingots and craft better tools.
Here is a video of the full smelting process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkaakcRTjC4