10 Best Mods for Vintage Story

Enhance Your Vintage Story Experience with These Essential Mods

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

Carry On

Tired of limited inventory space hindering your progress? This mod (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 all your loot is often worth the effort.

Primitive Survival

Craving a more challenging survival experience? Inspired by extreme survival TV shows, this mod introduces elements that demand strategic planning and resourcefulness from the outset. If you're looking to test your skills and embrace a realistic survival challenge, this is the perfect mod.

Biomes

Customize your Vintage Story world with this mod that ensures plants and trees appear in their correct biomes, but allows for player-defined adjustments. The creator has meticulously considered the impact on in-game creatures, providing clear installation instructions.

K’s Realistic Farming

For players who prefer farming over hunting, this mod expands upon the existing mechanics, introducing new seeds, altered crop growth, and updated recipes and textures. It significantly enhances the farming aspect, making it more rewarding and less tedious.

Medieval Expansion

Build historical castles and strongholds with this mod that adds a wealth of medieval-themed items, including weapons, armor, and building materials. Perfect for players who enjoy creating historical or fantasy structures.

More Animals

Increase the diversity of wildlife in your game with this mod, adding new creatures for hunting and farming. This enhances immersion and makes exploration more engaging. Updated for compatibility with Vintage Story 1.19 (as of January 2025).

Expanded Foods

A must-have for farming and cooking enthusiasts. This mod introduces a wider range of crops, ingredients, and recipes, making food preparation more engaging. Requires A Culinary Artillery 1.2.3 mod.

Bricklayers

This mod simplifies and enhances the construction of detailed structures, introducing new brick types, materials, and late-game mechanics like Glassmaking and Glazing. Ideal for creative builders.

Expanded Traders

Expand your trading opportunities with this mod that introduces a wider variety of merchants and goods, including rare building materials, exotic foods, and advanced tools.

XSkills

Enjoy RPG-style character progression with this mod that allows you to level up various skills through gameplay, adding a rewarding long-term progression system.

These mods offer diverse enhancements to Vintage Story, adding depth and customization to your gameplay. Whether you prioritize survival, building, or exploration, there's a mod to elevate your experience.

Vintage Story is available now on PC.