vintage story ~ builder dilemma

[kossai]

so badly want this house to be pretty , and already eat up lots of survival materials and preparation time to try make pretty . but so many materials so far off , and worry will get overwhelm with try to build up there if not already have pretty space .

already sort of have this problem in minecraft - often prebuild at least part of base in creative mode , with some general guidelines to keep things fun when back in survival . will not fill in rooms or give items , for example - only real exception is light sources , strictly within base .

... and in game with so much more focus on survival , feel like might be best way to go - satisfy builder play style without accidentally spell doom . if have more experience in game , would be great challenge to balance build and survive , but right now ? probably better to recognise and fix problem , so can experience actual survival .

reflection , actually , this was how even play first real minecraft world at all , way back in 2013 ! and hey , still play minecraft 11 years later , so this gamemode swap hardly ruin experience . :P
sometimes people balk and demand justify things like that , but really , know how brain work and how should probably best handle . always regularly back up game save files anyway , so can reverse things if really hate .

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[onlyknownothing]

I will say, the reason I stopped playing Vintage Story was because it gets very grindy when it comes to making the sorts of things needed for real construction projects. Decoration and architecture takes a serious back-seat to the survival simulation, and once you're getting into making significant stonework structures or trying to light spaces with sources that don't burn out but still provide functional lighting it can get rather absurd.

I may pick it back up again with the 1.20 update, but if I do I'm going to institute a new rule for myself - I'll make the first of whatever it is by hand, to "unlock" it, then shift into creative mode to reproduce the thing instead of having to hand-free every stone block and forge every single torch sconce for whatever it is I build. Because my first attempt to make a castle was an exercise in tedium and vast environmental destruction of the scenery, and after a week of real-time play I still only had one gate-house tower done. The comparative time investment versus Minecraft is high.

[kossai]

yeah , can definitely see that ! not bad thing in self , different design for different games , but ooh just burst with ideas , and have largely aesthetic builder play style in any games where build is possible . love to lay out beautiful meticulous plans !

that sound like good rule too :)
for right now , only put down basic skeleton with some rooms , and lanterns to actually keep light level safe . other than that all furniture and containers , plan to make in survival . but maybe would steal that rule if something is too excessive to justify material spend , and no alternatives will do , hehe .

[onlyknownothing]

yeah , can definitely see that ! not bad thing in self , different design for different games , but ooh just burst with ideas , and have largely aesthetic builder play style in any games where build is possible . love to lay out beautiful meticulous plans !

You will greatly appreciate once you get the chisel then. You can break down blocks into sub-pixels and carve stone into custom shapes!

Also, as a somewhat undocumented feature, you can make drawings on the walls using charcoal, chalk, and a few other colored minerals. This allows you to make simple drawings, but you can also overlap them to make more complex (albeit still rough) art. Thought you might appreciate knowing!

[kossai]

oh absolutely will fall in love with that forever . :D