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Vintage Story Wiki: Complete Crafting, Multiplayer & Server Guide (2026)
41 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 1.22.1). 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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🔗 How to Join
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.txt and server-audit.txt 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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