How to Configure the Playstyle of your Vintage Story Server

Vintage Story comes with five preset playstyles for server owners to choose from. These playstyles each offer a unique way to play Vintage Story by making changes to a range of settings including death punishment, food spoilage rate, temporal storm settings and a lot more.

Important: After changing playstyles it is recommended that you reset your server's world.

Available Playstyles

Below is a list of available world playstyles and a short description of the kind of experience each of them gives.

Playstyle Description
Survive and Build The default survival experience of Vintage Story. Balanced exploration, building and survival.
Exploration For players that do not enjoy combat or a significant focus on survival. Greater focus on exploration and building, and less focus on survival.
Wilderness Survival For players that enjoy challenging combat and survival mechanics. Greater focus on survival, and less focus on exploration and building. Respawn randomly within 5000 blocks upon death.
Homosapiens Removes all lore content and evidence of current or past civilizations. You are the first and only human on the planet. Stronger focus on realistic survival.
Creative Building Flat and empty terrain with unlimited blocks, the ability to fly and world editing tools.

If chosen, you must change the world type to super flat and generate a new world to apply these changes.

Changing your Server's Playstyle

Your server's playstyle can be selected in the Vintage Story Server Settings section of your server's control panel.

  1. Access your control panel and Stop your server.
  2. Navigate to Files > Config Files.
  3. Click Vintage Story Server Settings.
  4. Select a playstyle using the World Play Style dropdown.
  5. Save and Start your server.

To learn more about Vintage Story server hosting, you can browse our library of Knowledgebase articles here.

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Mitchell Smith

Managing Director @ Shockbyte

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