Building blocks

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Vintage Story has a great number of different building blocks, which are accessible at different stages of the player's technological progress.

The player can trade with various NPC traders around the world for building blocks regardless of their current technical progress, however the following lists will focus only on the blocks the player can directly find or craft at their applicable progression stage. Some other blocks like Bookshelves, Wallpapers or ancient ruin blocks can theoretically be acquired at any point of the game, but require the player to venture into ruins below ground. The same applies to aged wood, which can be found in various crafted versions in ruins.
These lists will also disregard containers and various decor items like paintings and flowerpots, as well as misc items like armor stands, rugs or useable constructs like bloomerys, clay molds or light sources.

Requirement: None/ Stone Tools

When starting the game, the player only has access to resources they can scavenge by hand or with basic stone tools. Luckily, this still allows for a variety off building materials and even essentials like doors and fences.
The following list is further divided in lower and higher effort, as some blocks are theoretically obtainable from the very start of the game, but may not be "worth" the time and resources the player would have to invest while simultaneously trying to survive.

Low Effort

Blocks that can be obtained with minimal effort and time investment, and are therefore optimal for starter homes.

Soil based blocks

Blocks that can be crafted with soil of any fertility as part of the recipe, together with sand, clay or dry grass.
Keep in mind that building with soil itself may not work if gravity is enabled for soil on world creation.

Wood based blocks

Blocks that can be obtained directly from trees - like logs - or crafted from the by-products of felling them - like sticks. This also includes utility blocks like ladders, fences, gates and doors.
All recipes in this section require the possession of an axe - except for the ones that only use sticks.

Stone based blocks

Blocks that can be crafted with any kind of loose stone as part of the recipe, sometimes together with clay or soil.
Loose stones can be simply acquired by picking them off the ground, but will later also be a by-product of mining.

Other blocks

Some other building blocks require different main ingredients like dry grass, quartz or clay. All these can be acquired without the use of tools.

Higher Effort

Blocks that require considerable investment of time and/ or resources, or require the player to have specific climates or stone types around them which otherwise would require time to search for. It is possible to acquire these blocks, but the player should weight the effort taken.

Requirement: Basic metal tools

Once the player has found their first copper bits and ventured into casting metal into tools, they not only gain easier and faster access to already familiar resources, but also some new crafting methods and therefore blocks.
The possession of a pickaxe finally allows to mine ores and minerals as well as loose and whole rocks. Crafting a chisel allows for some advanced crafting recipes, but mainly opens the possibility for complete design freedom, as almost every building block can be chiselled into different forms or even combined with different materials.

Requirement: Anvil & Saw

With enough metal the player can cast their first anvil, unlocking new tools like the saw, and recipes like metal plates. The saw specifically opens the technology tree up, since the ability to produce boards enables the player to create buckets and barrels for liquid storage.

Wood based blocks

With a saw, the player can create boards, a key requirement for all advanced wooden recipes.

Brick based blocks

With access to a barrel, the player can start making mortar, an ingredient required to craft clay, stone and refractory brick blocks.

Metal based blocks

With a steady supply of metal and advanced processing methods on an anvil, the player can create whole metal blocks and other metal based building parts.


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