In minecraft, if you wanna mine some iron, you punch a tree, use the wood to slap out a wooden pickaxe, grab some stone with it, then make a stone pickaxe, and you can mine it.

In vintage story you can't mine rock until you have a pickaxe, the lowest level of which is copper. You have to knap stone tools from rocks you find on the ground, and you can't make wood into planks until you have a saw (also needs metal). To get started with metalworking you have to explore and find copper bits sitting on the ground untill you have a lot, make crucibles and molds out of clay and fire them in a pit kiln, burn wood into charcoal in a pit (because wood doesn't burn hot enough to melt copper), and then you can melt and pour your copper into a mold. Do that with a pickaxe head mold, put it on a stick, and now you can mine stone. Then go find some more metals and do that some more because to mine iron you actually need a bronze pickaxe.

[–] randomsnark@lemmy.ml 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

sounds like the old terrafirmacraft mod

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It started life as a minecraft mod called vintagecraft. I believe you could say terrafirmacraft was one of it's inspirations. They made this a standalone game when they got frustrated with minecraft's limitations.

[–] Lemmyvisitor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago

ah so slower paced in terms of progression rather than action

[–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Greg

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hi! I don't know what this means.

[–] Micromot@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago

They are probably referencing the harcdcore mod series gregrech which makes you do stuff like this too

[–] Manzas@lemdro.id 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Basically easier Rlcraft

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Ehh, they have parts similar in their concepts but in practice I wouldn't say they are super similar. Pretty different vibes.

Edit: also Vintage Story is exactly as hard as you want it to be, the world gen and difficulty settings have a lot of options.

[–] Manzas@lemdro.id 1 points 11 months ago

But still similar

[–] Elon_Moschus@feddit.de 4 points 11 months ago

Nice

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So is it like terrafirmacraft then?

[–] Catpurple@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

I think I read before that it's actually made by some/all of the people who worked on terrafirmacraft, but then again maybe I'm misremembering that detail. Too lazy to look it up again.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

Would you recommend vintage craft?

I love Minecraft but I’ve been on a Factorio grind lately, but open to trying this if worth it.