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

Carry On

Tired of limited inventory space hindering your progress? This mod (replacing the older CarryCapacity version) lets you carry chests, baskets, and specific blocks, dramatically increasing your carrying capacity. While it might impact sprinting or keyboard shortcuts, the convenience of carrying more loot is often worth the adjustment.

Primitive Survival

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

Biomes

Customize the world's realism with this mod! Plants and trees now appear in accurate biomes, but you can modify this to your liking. The creator has meticulously considered the impact on in-game creatures, providing detailed installation instructions.

K’s Realistic Farming

For players who prefer farming over hunting, this mod expands the existing mechanics. It introduces new seeds, altered crop growth, and updated recipes and textures, adding depth and reward to the farming aspect of Vintage Story.

Medieval Expansion

Construct historical castles and strongholds with this mod, adding medieval-themed weapons, armor, building materials, and more. Perfect for players wanting to build a fantasy world or historical structures.

More Animals

Increase the variety of wildlife with new creatures for hunting and farming, enhancing immersion and exploration. 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, recipes, and cooking utensils, making food preparation more engaging and rewarding. Requires A Culinary Artillery 1.2.3 mod.

Bricklayers

Build intricate and diverse structures with ease. This mod adds new brick types, materials, and late-game mechanics like glassmaking and glazing, expanding building customization.

Expanded Traders

Trade Rusty Gears for a wider variety of goods with specialized merchants offering rare materials, exotic foods, and advanced tools. This enhances immersion and provides alternative resource acquisition.

XSkills

Enjoy RPG-like character progression with this mod. Gain experience and level up in various skills (farming, mining, crafting) to customize your character and playstyle.

These mods offer diverse ways to expand Vintage Story's gameplay. Whether you prioritize survival, building, or immersion, these mods will significantly enhance your experience.

Vintage Story is available now on PC.