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At the beginning of the video, I was thinking, "I do like the sound of the rain when it's not thunder and lightning." LOL I've been seeing you walk by obsidian stones all this time, and I was wondering if you didn't know that obsidian stones are better than flint when making tools. They are equal or better in their use and have more durability. The brains are for tanning leather normally. You may need A Culinary Artillery kitchenware to make brain stew. If you make a Smoker (Primitive Survival Mod), you can smoke the red meat, poultry, fish, and predator meat. Smoked meat lasts longer in the pantry, AND you can use predator meat in the cooking pot when normally you can't.

The only way I can think of to keep the villagers inside the village is to remove any exit gates/doors. It would mean having to dismantle and rebuild the fence every time you want to leave/return to the village, but would keep your villagers relatively safe. As far as I know, you can only use candles in lanterns. You're definitely going to need to find and build up a bee colony. If you don't have the cage mod, you're going to have to capture piglets the hard way using basket traps. This might mean you will have to find a sow and boar in the wild and pen them up until they produce piglets if you can't find any loose piglets in the first place. Best bet is to set aside a penned area with a Shepard (although I've never seen a Shepard for pigs in any village, just chickens and sheep). 32:20 The villages with "cathedral/church" structures always seem to be very spread out. I don't see a "Bee Oak" in it and I don't think the whited-out structure is a Herbalist, so I don't see a pressing reason to check it out yet. Cannot think of why the bee skep with the Herbalist in your current village isn't in good health. It has plenty of flowers and is up on a fence. Maybe it was attacked by a bear, there was a way for a raccoon to get to it, or some other reason it was destroyed. If you're having difficulty finding bees, there is a mod that will put "bzzzzzz" across the bottom of your screen when you get near bees. It's a good thing to carry a skep and flowers when looking for bees because you never know how difficult it will be to find the amount of flowers you will need. 37:40 That cobweb pillar raised my eyebrows and made me question what was nearby. I've traveled days in Survival to find bees before. Not fun. Cool that the new village had a Herbalist! No Clue again as to what happened to the bees. Wondering if it has something to do with the floating grass above or if it's a change in the VS Village mod--especially since it has your channel name as the village title. The farm shouldn't have dead crops, either. Definitely think something's wrong. Did you update the VS Village mod? Might that have had something to do with it? I did make a suggestion a while back about better and more level village generation, but Gerste said he wanted to keep the village generation he had. I think to keep the villages "varied" in nature and so that they wouldn't end up "floating" above the terrain.

There is a mushroom icon on the top row (of your icon list) you can use for the shiitake mushroom tree. No icon of a torch in the torch holder, so it couldn't show anything? Might be a bug that the torch didn't "pop out" of the torch holder and stayed in it. 12:00 I noticed that a lot of items you crouched to auto mark, didn't mark for some reason. Huge waterlogged PITA village. Is that a "cathedral" with a Mayor and Trader? You want to build a roadway? Hmmmm. Future long term project.

Before it was changed/updated, VS Villagers would be "dead" for three days and then revive. With the 20 May 2024 update, version 1.0.0-pre.8 "Remove villagers from the village once they die.", "Fixed homeless villagers not joining a village despite on its territory.", and a few other changes. Pumpkins are not like normal crops. They need approximately a 9x9 grass space with a hoed center where the seed is placed (although the entire space could be hoed). The pumpkin vines spread out in the four compass directions at first, so a block of water could be placed diagonally to the original seeded block. After that, the vines will grow as they want, and you can get several pumpkins from one seed. Personally, I've received 1 minimum and 6 max. You'll need to wait until the pumpkin stops growing and hopefully grants you a pumpkin to turn into a seed before relocating your pumpkin farm. So far, I was able to use brown clay to make most, not all, of the vanilla molds and some of the new molds like the saw and shears, but it wouldn't allow me to make the storage vessel. I'd have to log in to figure out what I can use brown/red clay for as molds or in recipes that use clay, like the dark and light mud bricks. I do not use the Bricklayers mod that I mentioned to you before, but if you add it, I would like to know if it fixed your being able to use the red/brown clay like I have been able to do. Hurray, next episode is exploration!

The weather sound effects just added to the macabre of your living/deceased buried villagers. lol.

Just want to say that I'm really enjoying watching you run through all the issues concerning the VS Village mod. I would not mind if you took the time to go into Creative and rebuild the village buildings all over again to see if the rain inside buildings issue stops. I know I've broken the Herbalist support beams and put them back and the rain stopped falling through them. I've also put up dirt to block the rain between the support beams, but I've never done anything else, since my main goal is to eventually get my own VS Village started from scratch. I've stopped playing for a while, but I'm restarting again, and it takes some time to build up the resources and find a good location that doesn't already have a village in place. I've got my eye on one nice location, but there is a small village there. Debating taking it over or destroying the village.

You now have that empty space under the dead farmer's beds. Once their bodies disappear, the empty space can spawn drifters, which will send the villagers flying out of those buildings and into the open where drifters can attack them. You can hold a stack of unlit torches in your hand and hold them to a lit fire pit or, more easily, one lit torch on a wall or set on the ground, and they will light one by one as long as they're sheltered from rain. Does Frodo the Smith recognize 3 tall doors? The rain may be falling through the aged planks in buildings. I've found rain falls through all parts of the VS Village buildings (including walls and supports) as if they're not there until you break and replace them or put up a solid block of some kind.

bro it's soooo cosy and calm ..i like it!!

If all I have is the 7 slot nails and strips mold (instead of the 3 slot), I usually make them in sets of four because they only use 25% of an ingot's worth of molten metal. I would just prioritize your next bronze pour to finish off that partial saw blade. Isn't there that ruin made of mud brick that you found? You could raid it for its materials. I have found, unless mods have been updated to include them, that red and brown clay have limited uses. I will use the red/brown clay for what I can and then use the blue/fire clay for everything else. In truth, I wish there was a way to sieve gravel, including river gravel, into sand in VS. Like it would sieve into rocks, flint, and other large items, but sand would need panning into smaller items like shells, gems, nuggets, etc. River gravel would have a different loot table to reflect being waterlogged. Are we going to have an Adventure to find new bees?

You shouldn't have "4" units of copper since it's always in amounts of "5". This means there was an error somehow in your pour or something. Your best bet is to just get rid of it somehow. Toss the crucible away or pour it into a sacrifice mold and destroy it.

I really like your narration and voice You have a calming and engaging way of speaking Thank you for making these videos! The cooking has been giving me issues but your videos have helped quite a bit.

Cool that you found more mine entrances. Still wonder what that "?" is. Not sure if it's on top of the mountain or if it's just on the other side in a type of valley.

Have you looked up "grub" and "surface drifter skin" in the Handbook to find out which mod they're from? Surprised you haven't put down some wood or stone pillars and put the torch holders on them to light up some of the dark spots in the village. You might need a quern to grind the grain down into flour and have a bowl or bucket of water to turn it into bread. I'd stop feeding the boars for now until you get a sow. It's no use keeping them fattened up when you could put the food to better use in your own stomach. I think you either still have stuff in the vessel on your back, or you tossed the feathers you found in favor of another item while exploring The Dungeon.

I don't know if you're looking for torch holders, but they were all over the place down in that mine shaft/living area.

You have both the "Underground Mines" mod by XurxoMF AND "Ancient Dungeons (Th3Dungeon)" by Th3Dilli. The Underground Mines are the ones with the extensive mine shafts with the mushrooms on the logs and the easy to find ores on the walls. These have the aged wooden area with stuff at the top and the aged wooden ladder that leads far underground and has space for people and animals to fall into. Fairly extensive mine shaft system with multiple entrances/exits! Ancient Dungeons has the rope ladder going down in one long single block shaft (so you can't really fall down, and most animals wouldn't either). These are the multistory system, with stairs or short ladders, that go up/down and are more reminiscent of mine shafts turned into living spaces that have fallen into ruin. Both the UM and AD have special rooms and translocators in them. Good thing you kept that red "?" as the entrance to the Dungeon you went down!

Huh, interesting

There are several sources of RGB colors and their codes. Best to look for one with the most available colors to give you a broader spectrum of similar colors. 14:00 Water churns from full blocks of water into a block of no or little water so that first spot you picked up water from probably had a center block without a full block of water. An old VS trick to fix water is for you to plant cattail or papyrus roots in a spot where the water is churning, and it should correct the problem when the plant updates and is ready to harvest. Check Judith's bed to see why she isn't in it at night. If someone else is in her bed, find out where their bed is located until you find out why they're playing musical beds (chairs).

Dont waste your life with that...

For your Custom Auto Map Markers (CAMM), you need to set a hotkey for them. CAMM are best for something you see relatively often and only have one description. One of my CAMM is for a cave opening. You could use a CAMM for red or brown clay, since blue clay and fire clay are already on the AMM list. Since you only have 3 CAMM, I use INSERT, HOME, and PAGE UP on my keyboard as my "hotkeys" for them. You can use any keys you want--they're like 3 quick macros. But you can't just look at them and have them automatically trigger like the normal AMM because they're special and YOU have to trigger them. You need nickel in late game as part of cupronickel, and it requires iron tools to mine, so marking it now is actually a good thing to do. Currently, the mine you are wandering in that is under the village seems to be far enough below that it shouldn't affect the villagers. Personally, I find anything that is underground needs coordinates unless it's been cleaned out or totally looted. Crushed Chromium, crushed cassiterite, and crushed alum is used to make mordant for dyes. You saw Uranium on the ceiling, but there is no use for it yet. I can NOT explain why crates give us several different items, but we can only put one item in them. I can only think it's a glitch or bug that hasn't been fixed or it's something planned and we haven't been told what that is yet on the forums or Devlog. I have a sneaking suspicion that the ores found in the mine walls are specific to the mine creation and not necessarily part of a natural ore vein. The variety of uncommon ores inside the mine, like Nickel, Chromium, and Uranium, are usually far harder to find. Hint: There is more to that mudbrick ruin than you think. Aqua Vitae is beyond brandy and can be used with bandages for some good healing. The Animation Manager and VS Village have been updated today.

I don't think the black or brown coal in stacked piles or as individual pieces show up on the auto map marker because they're not deposits in stone. I would highly recommend you make a lot of charcoal (chalk and limestone might work, too) and start using it to make Cave Art markers on full stone or wooden blocks of that mine below ground. To learn how, look up Charcoal in the Vintage Story wiki. It has a blurb about it near the bottom of the page, but I'll tell you here, too: "Drawing cave art is done by having charcoal in hand, holding 'Ctrl' and pressing the right mouse button. The cave art to be drawn can be chosen by having charcoal in hand, looking at a cave art viable block and pressing 'F'. Cave art can be removed by using a watering can." Marking each entrance on your game map is another good idea. Give them all the same icon and color different from others, and name them something like the Loxleigh Mines aka LM1, LM2, LM3, etc. I was wondering if you already had a hammer to go with that pickaxe to break up the mined ore chunks. All you need is 2 cassiterite tin and 18 copper nuggets to make one tool or ingot. You can make vegetable porridge by using two slots with grain and one or two slots with vegetables of some sort.

Do you play using a set of self-imposed rules? Like what are your limitations on what you can and can't spawn in?

Looking forward to the next episode!

I've always found 1 male Herbalist, 1 female Herbalist, and 1 Farmer sleeping inside the Herbalist building. I think the Soldier didn't belong, but commandeered the bed. As an American, that rubs me the wrong way (3rd Amendment of our Constitution) so it might be imperative to verify he hasn't commandeered it permanently. And, if so, why. FYI Pigs no longer eat grass. They eat spelt, rye, flax, amaranth, sunflower, cassava, soybean, peanut, turnip, carrot, onion, cabbage, pumpkin, and dry fruit mash.

I love the vs village mod!

tanky fuckers

Just found this series! Loving it so far! So relaxing and you upload so frequently!! I only just found out about vintage story and you're really inspiring me to get into it... I love watching you care for the villages!

What bed are you giving the villagers. Do they not use the beds in the builds?

One of the auto map marker settings is that you can tell it not to mark poisonous mushrooms. I found it to be quicker to look-shift at a mushroom and see if it shows up on my map, rather than stop to look it up in the Handbook to see if it's edible. I've found it better to totally fence off caves without gates to stop villagers and traders from ending up in places we can't get them out of. I think almost all the VS Village buildings are not "houses" because when it rains it will douse fire pits despite several layers of blocks above them. It's like the building blocks are invisible or porous like sand blocks unless you break them and replace them. Since I usually end up in the Herbalist buildings (if there is one), I end up breaking and replacing all the beam logs, the blocks above the fire pit, and use dirt blocks between all the beam logs to block off the rain falling through the thatch roof. This way I can have no issue placing a torch on the wall, so I can reignite my other unlit torches. I'm also hoping the various "invisible" blocks (like those over the wooden chests in the Herbalist building) disappear when the village buildings are revamped/rebuilt.

Starting new is fun. I'm playing on the hund republic server, we just retarted the server but no one plays on it. It's just me bebop'n around.

Those spiral stairs are amazing!

Those glowing pillar things are awesome. I found one in a world I had to discard, but I always wondered if I could take it with me and place it at my base. Honestly, with the long strands of tule, I would think we could make grass baskets that might hold one or two items or will take a lot more tule than the reeds to make normal hand and storage baskets. Oh, wow, FOUR dungeon/mine entrances with a ladder! Good thing you set the game to passive mobs! I'm sensitive to heights, too! Especially, if they include dark-colored stairs because of childhood trauma. I usually have more than one home base. The initial base where I explore my area, get my molds made, get into the copper or Bronze Age, and get food secure. Once I'm food secure, I make a tent bag (Still Useful Stuff mod) so I can travel further and explore more and start some serious looting. Then it's time to decide on a great place to live. Either next to a village or a place to make my own village.

I am really sorry you had to start over. I hoped I could prolong this for another while because the 1.0.0 final update should contain a couple of new better villages replacing the old ones.

Maybe contact the Vintage Story team and see if they might know how to restore the broken chunks? I’m sure they would also want to be aware of an issue like this so that they can bug fix it, assuming it is a vanilla bug and not due to a mod.

Good place to move into for sure. The brick bottom floor should stay brick because it's high traffic. Wood floors above because it's more realistic considering Tudor buildings.

OMG!!! How did this happen!! That is so scary! Was this an update of some sort?

Laura, I have been enjoying Vintage Story through your gameplay, last night I started my own game! BTW, I enjoy listening to you troubleshoot game issues and talk to the AI guys! Sometimes they act like they know you!

Thanks for you passion to enjoy something. Watching you play feels like spending time with an old friend. This is peaceful, a full of joy. <3

oh rad one video and i love this channel already

I wonder! You could probably lead them forward with a bed since they seek them out eventually, though that would take a while, too.

Holy That's the first time I hear of you but all I gotta say is respect for the dedication 400 episodes on anything is just crazy, that's there is called passion

Try removing the mayors block, reloading the world, replacing it and then to change the name to whatever you like. Then reload the world again. The villagers as well as the beds, workstations and stuff all update whenever the world is reloaded.

Thank you for the written notice at the start of the video! Since you're in creative, pay the soldiers underground or outside the village fences to follow you for a few gears. For those underground, if it's easy to get onto the ladder, they will do so and follow you up, and then you can block them from going down. That's how I got one back into the village after one fell down a relatively deep hole before the drifters started roaming at night.

just a thought you should break and throw away every bed naer and around the village to make sure that dont happen again. im thinking night time on random night pulled them to those beds instead of ones up top.

very interesting, i wonder if all mine are under ground also. village spawned with 12 people and only my trader is still hanging around the outskirts of the village.

This is a great world honestly I love it!

Finally youtube gives me a good recommendation. I love the vibe

Extraordinarily entertaining episode!!!

Very comfy series, thanks for taking us along the journey, Laura!

This is the equivalent of looking for your car keys on break but then realizing halfway through that it was in the pants you wore when you frist got home

Is it possible the Farmer couldn't exit the farm to go to their bed due to the closed gate? Or was it a lack of pathing? I like the village beds being sold by the villager trader. It stops the Players from stealing the vanilla beds in the buildings and forces them to make their own or find one in a ruin. Although, I agree with you on a different design, as them laying on the ground looks weird. Not sure if it's a compromise between the villagers laying on the ground all the time, the villagers laying correctly in a bed, or if it's an aesthetic choice.