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
  • 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

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  • Find some loose stones and break some branchy leaves. Those 2 ingredients will let you make a stone axe, a stone shovel and a stone pickaxe
  • Flint let's you craft a knife that let's you gather dry grass.

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