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Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWhatever you do don’t go looking for a similar game called Vintage Story /s
VS is like Minecraft but way more realistic. There’s actual metal forging, panning, true mining, farming crops takes a lot longer, weather is a lot harsher. It’s just a more survival-heavy experience.
Luanti is a good one too, although it might be closer to a minecraft clone than what you’re describing. It’s open-source though, and supports a fairly large modding community. There are all sorts of user-created extras that you can download and enable/disable as you please, right in the launcher.
They even have user-created game modes, so you can play the more traditional minecraft-style sandbox/survival game, or do various puzzles/mazes/platformers that people designed.
Vintage Story is a lot like that too. The only thing is there’s no mod browser in the game, you have to open a separate window for it.
True mining? So you spend weeks looking for rich vains, then chissel them out over months, then process the ore etc. etc.
Maybe not quite “true” mining, but there’s definitely a prospecting aspect of finding a good vein. There is a mod for coring/quarrying too. There’s pretty much a mod to make any aspect of the game more/less hardcore.
Like Terrafirmacraft? (Is that still a thing?)
I think it spawned from that. Or one of those types of mods.
Basically they realized that what they wanted to do would basically make it a whole new game anyway, so they just went and made their own.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I really want to like VS but the progression is painfully slow. I love the story, I’ve put literal hours into chisel art to the point that I got to mod just to make my own doors, and I love the concept of the progression, I just desperately need 4-6 other people so none of us have to do all of the damn work. I quit playing a while back when I’d spent 3 days logging on with the goal of exploring and ended up wasting all my game time doing chores before I could get out and about.