Game is “Vintage Story”. It’s similar to Minecraft, but slower paced.

  • Stoneykins [any]
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    7 months ago

    In minecraft, if you wanna mine some iron, you punch a tree, use the wood to slap out a wooden pickaxe, grab some stone with it, then make a stone pickaxe, and you can mine it.

    In vintage story you can’t mine rock until you have a pickaxe, the lowest level of which is copper. You have to knap stone tools from rocks you find on the ground, and you can’t make wood into planks until you have a saw (also needs metal). To get started with metalworking you have to explore and find copper bits sitting on the ground untill you have a lot, make crucibles and molds out of clay and fire them in a pit kiln, burn wood into charcoal in a pit (because wood doesn’t burn hot enough to melt copper), and then you can melt and pour your copper into a mold. Do that with a pickaxe head mold, put it on a stick, and now you can mine stone. Then go find some more metals and do that some more because to mine iron you actually need a bronze pickaxe.

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        7 months ago

        It started life as a minecraft mod called vintagecraft. I believe you could say terrafirmacraft was one of it’s inspirations. They made this a standalone game when they got frustrated with minecraft’s limitations.

      • Stoneykins [any]
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        37 months ago

        Hi! I don’t know what this means.

        • @Micromot@feddit.de
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          77 months ago

          They are probably referencing the harcdcore mod series gregrech which makes you do stuff like this too

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        7 months ago

        Ehh, they have parts similar in their concepts but in practice I wouldn’t say they are super similar. Pretty different vibes.

        Edit: also Vintage Story is exactly as hard as you want it to be, the world gen and difficulty settings have a lot of options.

      • Catpurrple
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        27 months ago

        I think I read before that it’s actually made by some/all of the people who worked on terrafirmacraft, but then again maybe I’m misremembering that detail. Too lazy to look it up again.

    • Would you recommend vintage craft?

      I love Minecraft but I’ve been on a Factorio grind lately, but open to trying this if worth it.