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Vintage Story Wiki: Complete Crafting, Multiplayer & Server Guide (2026)
39 guides to help you master Vintage Story
🚀 Host a Vintage Story ServerThe complete Vintage Story wiki for solo survivors and clan admins in 2026. Vintage Story is a brutally realistic Stone-to-Iron-Age survival game where flint knapping, pit kilns, granular soil physics, and crop rotation are the actual game systems, not just flavor. Our guides cover the survival progression, the 1.20 Deep Caves update, dedicated server setup, multiplayer config, popular mods, and the lag-fix flow for chunk-loading issues. Looking for the in-game recipe encyclopedia? See the official Vintage Story wiki for items + entities; we focus on the server-admin and multiplayer side they don't cover in depth.
🆕 1.22 Update Guide
Cabinets, fishing, grindstones, reworked berry bushes. Released April 2026, current stable 1.22.7. What changes, what breaks, how to update.
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⛰️ 1.20 Deep Caves
Prepare your server for the new abyssal biome generation.
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🐄 Husbandry Mods
Optimize your server TPS while running complex breeding mods.
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🛠️ Dedicated Server Setup
Installation guide for Windows and Linux. Learn about .NET 10 requirements and ports.
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👥 Play With Friends: LAN, VPN or Hosted
The three ways to run a world for a small group compared, and which one survives different schedules.
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🔗 Cannot Connect
Instructions for connecting to a VS server and troubleshooting authentication errors.
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🌐 Unable to Connect Fix
Fix external join failures, port 42420 issues, and CGNAT dead ends.
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🍖 Neolithic Survival
Master flint knapping, bow drills, and your first 24 hours in the wild.
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🧊 Food Preservation
Survive the winter by building cellars and sealing crocks with fat.
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🌾 Agriculture & NPK
Master the nutrient cycle, crop rotation, and greenhouse construction.
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🔨 Advanced Smithing
The art of voxel-shaping: from copper nuggets to iron blooms.
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💎 Prospecting & Ores
Use the Propick to find deep veins of tin, iron, and precious metals.
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🛡️ Admin Commands
A reference for server owners to manage roles, privileges, and land claims.
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🔍 Catching Xray & Admin Abuse
What server-build.log and server-audit.log reveal, why per-privilege grants beat /op, and what you cannot enforce.
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💾 Save Management
Backup, restore, and locate Vintage Story server saves.
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🧩 Install Mods
How to use the VS Mod DB and integrate the VINTOMATIC installer.
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⏳ Temporal Mechanics
Master stability, temporal storms, rifts, and survive the unstable world.
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⚒️ Metallurgy Guide
Complete ore prospecting, smelting, and alloy creation from copper to steel.
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🚣 Rivers & Boats (1.22)
Navigate the new procedural rivers, build rafts, and handle strong currents.
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🐄 Animal Husbandry
Learn animal taming, breeding mechanics, and sustainable livestock farming.
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⚙️ Mechanical Power
Build windmills, power transmission systems, and automated production.
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🏕️ Survival Strategies
Essential first week guide covering shelter, food, tools, and progression.
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🎣 1.22 Forge & Fishing
Master quenching, tempering, and the 20+ species freshwater system.
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🏰 1.23 Moat & Masonry
Master the new structural stability and functional drawbridge mechanics.
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🔄 Mod Sync Fix
Fix the infinite "Downloading Mods" loop and repair corrupted mod caches.
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🧊 Chunk Lag Fix
Tune chunk radius, tick load, and TTL settings for smoother exploration.
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⚠️ 1.22 Stability Issues
1.22 release crash patterns: look-direction crashes, MSI Afterburner conflicts, mid-save corruption. Mitigation playbook.
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📋 Choosing a Host: Buyer's Checklist
The 7 specs that actually matter when picking a Vintage Story hosting provider.
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🐧 Win to Linux Migration
Move your VS server from Windows to Linux. Save migration, .NET 10 setup, systemd unit, port forwarding.
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⬆️ Update Without Losing Your World
Back up, match versions, audit the modlist, test on a copy. The order that keeps a long-running world intact.
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💥 Mid-Save Update Recovery
Chunks won't load after a mod-laden update? Three recovery paths ranked by data preservation.
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🏰 Long-Term Modded Server
Patterns that keep modded servers alive for years: mod pinning, backup discipline, admin onboarding.
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