Tap to unmute
You Can't Build Like This in Minecraft.
Embed
- Published on Apr 18, 2026
- You might be wondering what I mean by that. The game: vintage story, the video: relaxing. I guess. I hope I'm not forgetting to write anything in here?
My discord server where I am and we talk about Vintage Story: / discord
Music used:
Chilly Village - Lo-Phi
Alternate Day - Terraria
The Lazaret - Lo-Phi
Overworld Night - Terraria
Midnight on the Island - Tomodachi Life
Biome Fest - C418
Lost Library - Omori
Viridian City - Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver
Spring - Lo-Phi
Ice Underground - Terraria
8PM - Animal Crossing City Folk
Keighly - C418
5PM - Animal Crossing City Folk
5PM - Animal Crossing
Bubblaine Underwater - Super Mario Odyssey
To Dawn, from a Very Rainy Night - Lo-Phi
Blind Spots - C418
Forgotten Windows 95 Ambient - Retrovex Ambient
Taswell - C418
Hang Glider - Pilotwings Resort
#vintagestory #minecraft #relaxing #minecraftbuilding #building #relax #chill #gameplay #sleep #gaming #survival #survivalgame #vintage #tea #blockgame #sandbox #swag #epicswag
"you can't build like this in minecraft" - *i can't build like this at all*
LOL
Yeah, me too.. I know how to build, but it’s just not my favorite part. I make really nice kitchens, and I’m trying to force myself a bit on a large manor house in my 200+ hr world this time, but when spring hits I’m planting crops, getting the animals going to the next generation, and hitting the road. I’m finishing my armor this winter and going to head north to the resonance archive for my first time! I’m so excited!! 🎉
Not with that attitude
@Domarnett not for long.... Good luck in your journey
Me too lol. Really wish for some kind of machine to copy chiseled blocks
Falling into a sinkhole while explaining the vanilla VS experience is just perfect.
(Falls down a sinkhole)(Takes a ton of fall damage)(Survives) (Curses soil instability)
the humble, sneaky pit straight to hell covered by bushes:
@NeverEverTM the joyful sneaky pit
@NeverEverTM right next to the rift to the rust as well
Wanna say, a big part of WHY the chiseling is good and better than it could ever be if you slapped it onto Minecraft is because the system it uses is so immensely baked into basegame progression.
You WILL need to knap stone to make tools, engaging with the idea of chipping voxels off of things.
Then you clayform, and get to try out ADDING voxels to things.
Smithing cements both of these by making you move voxels into a perfect, complex shapes.
You might even see pre-made chiseled and mixed blocks in ruins, to give you inspiration.
By the time you make a chisel (which is needed ANYWAYS for certain crafting recipies, like the quern for crushing grain) you've already been introduced to the mechanic and seen how thoroughly ingrained into the game it is.
I've seen Minecraft mods that add a chiseling system, but whenever it's put on a build I always think it stands out like a sore thumb, something out of place in the rest of the world.
Yesss, absolutely all of this!! Not to mention how chiseling can be functional in some cases (such as adding a grate so that your coal doesn't fall out for your refractory furnace, or chiseling out holes through which you can actually hit enemies and shoot arrows, etc.)
Plus I feel like with minecraft mods that add chiseling, they often make it a bit too complicated.. like chisels and bits, which will RETURN ALL the bits that you have taken out, immensely cluttering your inventory, even if you have the bag thingy.. and also how many different tool modes they are.. sure, they're useful, and im sure vs could use some of them, but they also make it a lot less intuitive, leading to people maybe not wanting to touch the system due to feeling overwhelmed...
I feel like qp's chisel tools is great in that regard - it adds more functionality, but mostly through additional tools that you can choose to make - that way the original chisel still remains as simple as in vanilla. Very good system, imo.
not just ruins, all the setpieces make extensive use of fancy voxel blocks and chiseled blocks, just some more than others
This is actually a really good point, I hadn't even considered that!
Tbf the chisel mod for Minecraft is like 15 years old, at the time it was cool af
This is a fantastic point and really does highlight why chiseling just feels like it fits - doesn't feel tacked on, feels like everything was made with it in mind, even the ruins you find around the world have chiseling
the chisel nearly ruined my ability to play mc again, feels so chunky handling these 1 meter cubes. i start to miss chiseling cabinets out of one block for 15 minutes
I can't wait for our real cabinets in the next update!
@fruity4820 Either can I
They look so delicious!
I LOVE storage!
I've just found a nice mod that does over window panes, and makes them no only openable, but also give them storage in the form of putting things on a window sill.
I only found it yesterday, so it's current! :D
i kinda have the opposite problem
when i play a more complex building game, i start missing minecraft where i can just place down a couple of blocks, and it looks reasonably like a cabinet
I dont know I really like that restriction honestly. Like theres definitely some benefits to vintage story's extremely granular building system. But i really like having to figure out how to make an identifiable object out of abstract shapes.
Minecraft gives me the same experience as building with Legos where there's very set in stone limits on what connections you can do, so your forced to find interesting workarounds. Which I think the precise voxel by voxel building just can't replicate.
@thegreatgoobert5847 yeah honestly ive been playing mc again lately. they both have their places. much different games than they look to be on the surface
the best thing I like about Vintage is sound design
I can't think of any game that managed to make wind sound so good, it just feels like I'm there
i agree they do some sort of dark magic to get the world feeling just so alive almost no matter where you go
Facts. Plus all the satisfying sounds like knapping, and fire sounds, or trees falling. Everything sounds so good and grounds you in the world!
when the bear jumps you with no sound effects xD (before the next update)
funniest part is due to how my brain, just, decides to work
during wind I tend to feel cold even though my room is at a stable 30C
@grynte1 oh yeah, that's frustrating, wolfs and bears always scare me
1:47:00 You already can wash your dishes ! If you let something rot in a cointainer (like a croc, or a bowl for example), you can throw them in water and after 2 seconds the rot will pop up to the surface, leaving you with clean containers :)
Yeah, that blew my damn mind!
It's so good!
I also like that you can make use of that rot by dumping it in a barrel, then capping it off and letting it sit so it can turn into fertiliser for your garden plots.
There's so much I love about this game!
I haven't touched my Minecraft account for years now, lol!
Mind that this won't make dirty cooking pots (from using them to make glue) back to normal cooking pots though!
legendary morning refresh pull good lord
Lol it's 7 am rn here
Sycophancy is for dumbasses
FYI the foodshelves modder has come back from hiatus as of today, so they will probably fix all those conflicts
Those privacy sites are really funny because they just make stuff up about how they work, when europe really does have applicable law that would force companies to delete your data on request
Love how the castle is coming along. I like that it incorporates multiple styles. Large structers are usually built over time and have budget changes or are added onto by different people so it almost tells a story( a vintage one) about the people that built it with different intentions and designs in mind throughout its construction.
A mostly historically accurate castle? Awesome! Honestly I was kind of worried it was gonna be more like a palace again, like in your Alumeria playthrough
Looks like you need to make yourself a lightning rod! It's the only reliable way to keep your animals from being smitten by Zeus lol. When you do make it, you need to place it high. Its area of effect increases one block in each direction for every block it is above ground, to a maximum of 40. So placing it two blocks high will only protect two blocks in each direction from it, etc.
there's the Chisels and Bits mod in minecraft but even attempting to do this would lag the entire game.
remember to add the tea mod when you're looking for the mods to add...
Been my favourite for a while now. :D
Look for the one I found just yesterday that gives smoke a realistic feel and behaviour too.
I always built for smoke, but now it has an actual purpose! :P
@TheMurlocKeeper how do you keep buildings insulated before the copper age? didn't mess with it much
@AttacMage thats simple, you dont.
@AttacMage You can build thatch roofing that has raised center pieces to provide access to the air
YOOOOO! Shout out to the Dwarves of the Silver fortress on the Kingdom of Eriador server! They killed it with those statues. The inside of their hall is just as impressive. They're basically rebuilding Moria in the mountain.
if you can point me in the direction of this server i would love to see some Dwarf build! It looked fkn amazing!
another really cool dwarf hold is in the world of Ren. You can find it on RubixRaptor's channel
24:35 richest laugh I've ever heard
Alternative title: "You can't get carpel tunnel like this in minecraft."
Man I love this game so much. Mudbricks, my beloved.
Also big agree on the shiver thing. Now I just see them as weird dogs
i am addicted to your vintage story addiction ☕
I'm sure you know this already but just in case no one has said anything, when using slabs you can place them in the crafting grid to lock them into either vertical or horizontal, to change which orientation just place it in the crafting grid again and it will cycle through normal, vertical, and horizontal. your build looks amazing so far!
Now THIS is how to start a morning! And maybe a little tea too…
I understand why Qps and the splitter plugs aren't vanilla, they definitely do make a lot of aspects of build easier. But for building at any kind of scale they do feel borderline necessary. Splitter Plugs slightly less so. Thank you for these long form VS videos!
I forgotttt splitter plugs weren't base game, still only an hour in if he ends up talking about it, but I was wondering at the start why he didn't have any smooth limestone stockpiled on slats if he was planning this build. That makes sense lol.
More power to you for building with stone in this game without the amazing stone quarry mod
The paintbrush is especially useful for chiseling windows. When you can barely see the glass. You just chisel the window with another material where the glass should be, then place glass in hotbar and use paintbrush to substitute the material with the glass. Saves your eyes trying to chisel glass.
good tip! need to remember that for the future.
Oh my god, that is SUCH a good tip!! Thank you so much!
I'm glad we have this guy playing VS
You DO realise that you can play it yourself too, right?
@TheMurlocKeeper I actually didn't realise it. I'm glad we have you as a know it all
@dinozor_09so much snark :(
I cannot stress enough mow much headache the stone quarry mod saves. I know it hasn't been updated in a while, but thats because it still works fine. I love it because not only does it save a HUGE amount of time when quarrying rock, its also more realistic and more immersive. You can also use the rubble hammer and rubble bin to turn stones into gravel
Mythical pull for the morning, I know what I'm doing for the next 2 hours and 25 minutes. Thanks Mongster!
Love your alpha format where projects last multiple videos. Really adds to the relaxation when you lack pressure!
fun quern tip! Hold the interact button then alt tab, it'll continue to grind in the background
I absolutely love the tea sections :)
And that polar bear mug is awesome
i was thinking the same thing when I saw it! so cute lol
The quarry mod is one of my favorite mods. Really balanced and helps get a lot of those tedious blocks a bit more quickly.
The building in this game is amazing but it would drive me absolutely insane
I have stopped playing Minecraft altogether because of this game lol
Wait. I thought this was Minecraft
Mods are really well documented and maintained with developer made central platform to up and download them. I mod 500% more in VS than I had in Minecraft simply because its so easy.
Having steel but no cellar is wild btw
Dude you 100% lactose intolerant
If it isn't allergy I recommend drinking a lot of milk, like half a liter a day for a month. It won't be nice but you will get rid of the intolerance. Worked for me after I have moved and different flora in the place ruined my lactose tolerance in a month. I was living with it for a year or two and then went crazy with milk, kefir and yoghurts and it went away after a few weeks :) you can build your gut biome back up
Non-White moment.
@marsen1234 There are lots of reasons why people may have negative effects when drinking milk, lactose intolerance is technically the norm for adult humans (most people on Earth are lactose intolerant), but especially Northern Europeans (and those descendend from them; as well as some other smaller population hotspots around the world, for example around Sudan/Ethiopia there is another population that developed it independently) are often lactase persistent - lactase is the enzym our bodies use to break down lactose. They keep a high production of that enzym going after childhood.
If you had no problems with milk before moving, you probably have lactase persistence but your gut flora just got messed up as you described. So it wasn't really true lactose intolerance. People who are actually lactose intolerant - don't have lactase persistence - will not just cure it by getting used to it or at least will have a much harder time.
So all I want to say is: whoever may try it should be really careful, it may not help you if you're actually genetically unable to digest milk.
Oh yeh, I havnt even finished diakos last vid yet and now we are blessed with a mogster vintage story video 🤯
Love getting these notifications
Lightning strikes damage all creatures within an 8-block radius of where it struck. So the roof needs to be higher and wider (to prevent it from hitting the ground nearby), or use a lightning rod to attract the lightning elsewhere nearby
some kind of mechanical powered stone cutter / table saw you have to make to make diagonal blocks would be amazing
You are a digital architecture genius, my friend. My god. Michelangelo in the pixels.
Would love to see if you could do a Q&A with the creator, Tyron.
Oat milk gaming!! I'm glad I'm not the only one!!
The title dunking on minecraft is great
I used chiseling to make the Apollo 11 lunar module once lol
YES YES YES. FINALLY A VS VIDEO🎉
I love how no matter where, no matter how, no matter why, Terraria music will always find its way into videos it has nothing to do with. That's just how iconic and beautiful it is.
When Vintage Story gets rivers it's gonna be insane!!! I can't wait! I've been holding off making a new world because I really want a river world.
it would just be in the new land generated if you started now
I've heard the devs are working on rivers, im waiting on that before I start again.
Yessir, will be interesting t see how that's gonna be implemented. I always feel like my world is outdated/incomplete for the amount of new stuff they keep adding and such
It might be a while before rivers are implemented. I just started my own VS world, and I considered waiting until 1.22 came out before starting, but ultimately I decided I couldn't wait. It's rough to wait to start, out of fear of worlds becoming quickly outdated, but you might be waiting a long time if you're waiting for the game to be "done" to start playing
It was meant to be in this upcoming update, but they said they weren't happy with it yet and were delaying it to the update after.
The qp chisel doesn't consume the pantograph, as far as i know that's working as intended
1:38:00 honestly, wouldn't be surprised if that's another hidden feature. The game already has so many miniscule details to everything
Gotta love it, if Mongster upload new Vintage Story content. Keep it up man
woah those drifters look like something out of fear and hunger... love the castle!!
Next project is building a 1:1 scale RPD Station
How dare RUclips hide this from me for 1 hour
Same comment I've seen 1,000 times
About two weeks ago I started up a new world in a warm climate & I started in a massive redwood forest with plenty of lime to go around (compared to my first world I spent ~120hrs in, where the nearest lime source was a thin layer of marble ~9.5k to the south, this is a blessing). Meaning I can finally start on steel production in one of my worlds. I, too, found out that hail is a thing in the game. Luckily I had the redwood tree canopy mostly covering me, so it wasn't too much of an issue.
I'm about 40hrs into the world. I struggled a bit to find enough surface copper & tin to get properly started, but as I'm surrounded by limestone there was plenty of flint. I've currently got my first full set of iron tools, thanks to a neverending hematite vein (seriously, I came back from my most recent trip with 2 & a bit full crate's worth of nuggets). The forest is abundant in boars & chickens, alongside the occasional wolf, & the rare siting of bears which means I have plenty of fat for mechanisms, & there's already a spot that I want to move to that has great surrounding views, even if I wouldn't be under the tree caopy anymore.
There are some problems that I'm finding; it's that although there are forests around that have the usual of maple, oak & birch, when it comes to pine, I've only found a few with resin, plus the lack of any open fields to find wild crops. I have a grand total of 8 (eight!) flax seeds & only a handful of some others from traders.
After typing this out it feels like I'm in nearly a polar opposite of the 120hr world. Plenty of animals & lime, but not enough resin. The lack of flax is a constant, though.
_However_, due to all the flint that I've picked up or mined, I finally joined the Church of the Pie. They make things so much easier inventory-wise.
There is a VERY good reason this is top 20 for gaming on trending. It shows how what could have been seen as just another Minecraft clone not 5 years ago has developed mechanics that no mod ever could. (Also your building skills probably help a ton, and the serene editing style. I’ve loved all the series I’ve watched from you, and obviously, so have many others)
Love these VS vids, it's how i found this channel
Since you’re a builder and enjoy lots of chiseling I think the stone quarry mod would also save you a lot of time. Especially since there is a block that allows you to turn stones into gravel and sand. Quarry out large slabs of rock which you can then get ashlar polished or full stone.
I love your tea sections
Ohoohoh more Vintage Story content!!!! love love love it, thank you so much :3
the terraria music really made this video great
one roof doesnt do angles sideways but its successor does
I absolutely love the lore accurate building tools, huge advantage over minecrafts' vanilla AND modded systems ("building gadgets" come to mind, which just feel like cheating).
If you enjoy building but don't enjoy gathering rocks, the quarry mod is really good. It allows you to smith metal plugs. you hammer them into rock and then all the rock between two planes of those hammered in plugs will break into a large slab. You can then use special tools to break free rock, polished rock, bricks, and stones from those slabs. The steel version can turn a 7x7x7 grid into a slab. It allows quickly gathering materials and processing them into the things you need..
a line of brick chiseled into the bottom layer of plaster might help. but ultimatly daub is gonna fit better or even polished phyllite stone.
I love him but calling his tea delightful and wonderous back to back is diabolical.
it was just that good
I would say you have truly been initiated into VS with that level of chiseling. Im beyond jealous of that first building though it looks absolutely amazing
“when its not raining its quite gorgeous” sounds like the UK 57:51
when it comes time for the gatehouse i request that it have a portcullis.
1:49:00 There is a mod called "Rivers" that adds rivers with current, like what I think you're talking about. I think the only reason someone would build trusses for a long time is just to make it look good. Though a system to incentivise architecture would be really cool, at least just as an optional challenge, like soil instability.
Edit: Also, a quick mention, I've figured out recently that if you chisel stone before you mine it out, you can get the full stone without quarrying it, but it can't be used for recipes, just a neat trick to save you time and resources.
Edit 2: Never mind, you already got it all lol.
horsetail poultices can sort you right out when hurt as they are easy to make. a horsetail farm is just fallow feilds and they are crafted in batches of four. you will need cattails also.
Work is canceled due to the weather for me so I'm sitting here watching this.
Blessed
Also yea I feel you on the milk. I used to be huge milk because in the dairy state. Around mid 20s I started to also get those 'stomach issues' with it. I just can't stand the taste of the coconut milk. Oat milk isn't bad but nice whole milk is just too good for me to not drink.
Your channel is a great breath of fresh air. Thank you for keeping it real and being sincere.
the world needs more sincerity like we have here :)
I understand why you’re hesitant to try new mods but another mod that will save your stone troubles would be the stone quarry mod.
Thanks for showing the Snipping/Cutting from Voima, I love that as a mode of construction!
I absolutely love the tea sections. I really can't describe why. But there is just something very comfy about it and I am looking forward to it in every video.
Starting a new world in a new game version is worth only if you make world with huge oceans and small to mid sized islands / small continents, to experience sailing, which is totally worth. Plus, this kind of world setup is bit harder, resources are scattered and bit scarce so you have to travel/sail from island to island.
My recommendation for the world gen setup is: Landcover 50-60%, Landform Scale 30-40%, and increase World Height to 320.
Minecraft adds a couple of baby creatures in a very long time, while VS simulates life :D its not even comparable at this point, just they are both block games, thats it.
The tea segment made me feel so cozy on our cold rainy PNW morning
"oh thats just a modded MC type game" - This sentence makes me kinda rage... cuz people are gatekeeping themself toooooo hard... and thats what makes me kinda rage... or "This game is not on steam, im not gonna buy it, but i play MC..." this also makes me rage...
YES PLS MORE VINTAGE STORY LETS GO
I REALLY hope that the devs take this into consideration! That would be a total revolution
im very glad you discovered the joys of oatmilk
Mojang is too busy pandering to the age regression EPI grungler troonslop fanhons
“I want a panda bear hide, I wanna hang it up in the castle”
-every nobleman with a castle ever, probably
i JUST finished the last episode after binging them all and ive absolutely loved your playthrough. you have such a unique way of looking at the game and its insanely endearing to watch, especially when you come across a new thing and your first thought is always instantly "what can i use this for?" and if it doesnt have a direct purpose you usually go "oh it looks nice i can use this in a build or to chisel with" and i think thats something people dont do enough of in the slightest
i Love your tea segments. it makes me feel realxed and gives the video a aura of bob ross blended with build montage, and a hint of primitive technology.
I wish all minecraft builders now would go to this game because of the style of building nowadays. Minecraft is 16x16 for a reason
what an amazing thing to watch this morning
"I think limestone is a considerably rare rock" literally one of the most common types of accessible rock in the world lol
I have been watching all sorts of RUclips playthroughs for decades and 99% of games are never as fun to play as they are to watch. I bought vintage story after watching yours and a handful of others videos and have put 100 hours in two weeks on it.... It some of the most fun content ever. Even managed to get steel before my first winter ended! (51 hours on the dot)
Side note, but the debate over what terraria in 3d would look like seems to have ended to me after playing this game. I'm sure that after adding more enemies, bosses, progression, mods, etc. this game WILL be that "terraria in 3d" that everyone has been trying to make for so many years... and then some.
cheers mate
I really love the tea segmens. They are really cozy
ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
Oh man I can't wait to see what you come up with in VS. Regarding mods - the game is BUILT from the foundation to be easy to mod. Even the main play modes function within the game as mods, and yes there are a TON of amazing mods that can customize your game into pretty much whatever you want it to be. Love this game so much, so happy to see more MC creators trying it out.
I LOVE the tea segments.
The timing of this is incredible I'm gonna sunday the HECK out of this video
It's funny how Mojang says they won't add vertical slabs or furniture because it "hurts creativity" but chiseling in vintage story and how much fun people have with it proves this argument is completely backwards
Them adding anything more than a mob and 12 blocks to the game in a year of dev time hampers creativity
the shelves they added was so half arsed, its just an overglorified item frame. meanwhile we have actual looking shelves in the last 5 years
A lot of people like old minecraft, pre beta 1.8 minecraft. They even prefer building in it over normal minecraft. Why is that? Because more chanels for creativity don't inherently make the game better. Current minecraft stands at a middleground between vintage story and its classic version. And just because its a middleground, doesn't mean it's better or worse than the two extremes
Have you ever heard the expression "Limitation breeds creativity"? Art isn't about realism or detail, in fact it most often employs the _illusion_ of detail. It's problem solving. It's abstraction, and working within the limitations of a medium. Oil paints are not a more creative medium than charcoal simply because there is more variety in colour because creativity is internally manifested. It's not the game's creativity that is impacted by additional mechanics, it's yours. _You_ must be more creative with limited mechanics. It's not better or worse, it is simply a tool, and the skill or quality of an artist is not determined by their tools.
@Ramblin_Jack Sure, have you heard minecraft has been out for a while now, 14 years! There only so much you can do with the restrictions Mojang put on themself. It was creative to use stairs as benches and chairs 12 years ago, it was creative to use trapdoors as slabs 10 years ago - i think it's time we explore something new
ur such a comfort channel for me
God, could you imagine how insane vintage story would be if you could detach blocks from the default grid and rotate them at a 45 degree
The stone quarry mod does for collecting stone what chisel tools does for building.
As in to say, you should look into the stone quarry mod. It will save you sooooooo much time collecting stone types.
16:36 as a scythe user i can honestly say it is pretty neat but does tire you out
Phenomenal building process, you can really see the many, many, many hours of thinking and rethinking the process in real time. Very well done.
Also, the tea intermission has been easily my favorite part of the episodes as a fellow tea enjoyer. I've lately been down the rabbit hole of plain white tea or a jasmine green. I like simple/plain floral tea :))