Vintage Story Gets a Boost: Top 10 Mods

Enhance Your Vintage Story Experience with These Essential Mods

The survival sandbox game Vintage Story, emphasizing creation and exploration, offers immersive gameplay through detailed farming, crafting, and survival mechanics. While the base game provides ample activities, mods can dramatically enhance your experience. Here are some top recommendations:

Carry On

Tired of limited inventory space hindering your progress? This mod (successor to CarryCapacity) lets you carry chests, baskets, and specific blocks, significantly boosting your carrying capacity. While sprinting might be impacted, and keyboard adjustments may be needed, the convenience of carrying more loot is often worth the effort.

Primitive Survival

For a more challenging survival experience, this mod adds new features and elements inspired by extreme survival TV shows. It emphasizes strategic planning and resource management, pushing you to test your skills and adapt to a more realistic survival scenario.

Biomes

Customize your Vintage Story world with realistic biome distribution. This mod ensures plants and trees appear in their appropriate biomes, while allowing you to modify this to your liking. The creator has carefully considered the impact on in-game creatures, providing clear installation instructions.

K’s Realistic Farming

Expand your farming options with new seeds, altered crop growth, and updated recipes and textures. This mod transforms farming from a simple survival task into a more engaging and rewarding activity, adding depth and variety to your gameplay.

Medieval Expansion

Construct magnificent medieval castles and strongholds with new weapons, armor, building materials, and more. This mod enhances the aesthetic appeal and provides a wealth of options for building historical or fantasy structures.

More Animals

Increase the diversity of wildlife with new creatures to hunt and farm. This mod adds to the immersion and excitement of exploration, providing more than just survival-based reasons to venture into the game's vast landscapes. Updated for compatibility with Vintage Story 1.19 (as of January 2025).

Expanded Foods

For farming and cooking enthusiasts, this mod introduces a wider variety of crops, ingredients, recipes, and cooking utensils. It makes food preparation more engaging and rewarding, reducing the tedium of survival-based food gathering. Requires A Culinary Artillery 1.2.3 mod.

Bricklayers

Enhance your building capabilities with new brick types, materials, and advanced techniques like glassmaking and glazing. This mod provides greater customization and detail for constructing impressive structures.

Expanded Traders

Expand your trading opportunities with a wider variety of merchants offering specialized goods, including rare materials, exotic foods, and advanced tools. This adds depth and immersion to the gameplay.

XSkills

Enjoy an RPG-style skill progression system. Gain experience and level up in various abilities like farming, mining, and crafting, customizing your character to fit your preferred playstyle.

These mods offer diverse ways to expand and enhance your Vintage Story experience. Whether you prioritize survival, building, or exploration, there's a mod to elevate your gameplay.

Vintage Story is available now on PC.