Vintage Story Enhances Gameplay with Top-Notch Mods

Author : Ryan Feb 23,2025

Enhance Your Vintage Story Experience with These Essential Mods

The survival sandbox game Vintage Story, emphasizing creation and exploration, offers immersive gameplay with detailed farming, crafting, and survival mechanics. While the base game provides ample activities, mods can significantly enhance your experience. Let's explore some top-rated mods:

Carry On

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Tired of limited inventory space hindering your progress? This mod (a successor to CarryCapacity) lets you carry chests, baskets, and certain blocks, dramatically increasing your carrying capacity. While sprinting might be affected, and keyboard adjustments may be necessary, the convenience of carrying more loot is often worth the effort.

Primitive Survival

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Craving a tougher survival challenge? Inspired by extreme survival TV shows, this mod adds new features and elements, demanding strategic planning and resourcefulness from the outset. It's perfect for players seeking a more realistic and demanding survival experience.

Biomes

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Customize the world's biomes with this mod, ensuring plants and trees appear realistically within their respective biomes, while allowing for player-defined adjustments. The creator has meticulously considered the impact on in-game creatures, providing clear installation instructions.

K’s Realistic Farming

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For farming enthusiasts, this mod expands upon existing mechanics, introducing new seeds, altered crop growth, and updated recipes and textures. It adds depth and reward to the farming aspect of Vintage Story, making it a more engaging and less tedious activity.

Medieval Expansion

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Construct historical castles and strongholds with this mod, adding a wealth of medieval-themed items including weapons, armor, and building materials. Perfect for players who enjoy building and creating historically-themed structures.

More Animals

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Increase the diversity of wildlife with this mod, adding new creatures for hunting and farming, enhancing exploration and immersion. Updated for compatibility with Vintage Story 1.19 (as of January 2025).

Expanded Foods

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A must-have for cooking enthusiasts, this mod introduces a wider variety of crops, ingredients, and recipes, enhancing the culinary experience and making survival more engaging. Requires A Culinary Artillery 1.2.3 mod.

Bricklayers

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Expand your building capabilities with new brick types, materials, and advanced techniques like glassmaking and glazing. Ideal for players who enjoy detailed and intricate construction.

Expanded Traders

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This mod significantly expands trading opportunities, introducing specialized merchants offering rare items and resources. A great way to acquire valuable goods without excessive grinding.

XSkills

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Add an RPG-like skill progression system to Vintage Story. Gain experience and level up various abilities, customizing your character's skills to match your playstyle.

These mods offer diverse ways to enhance your Vintage Story gameplay. Choose the mods that best suit your preferences and prepare for a richer, more engaging experience.

Vintage Story is available now on PC.