My 1st modded playtrough of VS:)
Vintage story is a block-based survival game. At the first glance it looks much like modded minecraft, but it is much deeper than that. It has really accurate progression trough the ages- from knapping stone tools and picking berries, to clayforming, panning for ore, casting your first set of copper tools, to taming and breeding animals, having a prosperous garden (make sure to rotate your crops! Different plants need different nutrients!) and making steel in a cementation furnace. Which is not a block, by the way, but a whole structure. If you have a varied diet, you'll be stronger; and if you're wearing heavy armour, you'll be slower and tire more quickly. Also, there's monsters at night- but a bear or a moose is a thousand times more scary. To me, this game is everything I hoped minecraft would be and more. It's grindy, it has meaningful progression, and really interesting lore.
So, why mod it?
Well, I got to the point of making steel, in my third year of the game. I still want to play there more, but it's become a bit overwhelming, and as the game is still in early access (and that world had basically all the progression/story completed after the 200 hours I put into it), I wanted a new, but different, start.So here it is!
I just got my first copper tools and started capturing animals to keep and breed. My current to-do list has checking traps I set, moving animals to the pens I made for them, and smithing a saw^_^
Robots and shit! AKA I love you holograms, I love you robots, I love you programs that have "living" personas, I hate you ai chatbots
My fascination with robots and AI companions has been unyielding ever since I first watched chobits at about 12. Having my own Sumomo was all I wanted, and what I still wish I had. Sadly, if making a moving robot of such a tiny size would be even possible, it would be simply impossible for me to ever buy. BJDs are expensive already- imagine having to cast that with also having all the servos, computer chips and whatever else it would need inside it. That's why, while not giving up entirely on my dream, I did have to modify it quite a lot.
And while having a tiny robot like Sumomo is nigh impossible, technology has progressed a lot since I was a kid. Sumomo, and other smaller persocoms, function just like a smartphone, although in a much cuter case. So, with the confidence of a mediocre white man, I have decided that I want to do my best and make my own phone app/ persocom hologram from my old phone. It has a broken camera, can't make calls, has to be plugged in all the time, but it shouuld be enough for a "simple" program (I have no real coding experience, most I've made is some .xml mods and this site, both of which have no connection to making android apps) with voice recognition for simple tasks (like setting calendar dates, alarms, making lists and starting playlists) and with the screen displaying a certain corresponding animation (I have made two animation panels in my life). As you can see, I have absolutely no experience with this- and as such, I expect it to be done in the next few decades xD That's okay with me, though, and I really want to do little things for this, even if it ends up falling trough.
So, What's on the to-do list?
Well, a lot! First group of things is character based:-creating a character to inhabit the box
-make the box
-make animations for the character and resize them properly
-give them a voice
Second group is soft/hardware based:
-wiping my old phone
-learning to code in whatever language the phones use
-making a small app that does different things when you press different buttons
-get actual buttons to connect to the phone, via cable or bluetooth
-make sure that outside button press=something in app changes
-including voice recognition
The third group is putting everything together, and adding finishing touches. Honestly though, there's 100% a lot of things I missed simply because I don't know shit about coding; still, I would be so happy with each step completed, that it doesn't really matter how long it will take, or if it's going to happen at all. Just having a study buddy next to me would be enough:)