v1.22 - Vintage Story

Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and More! (1.22.0-pre.5)

4th March 2026

Please note: This version is quite likely still very buggy and unfinished. Not recommended for use on precious old savegames!

Starting from version 1.22 Vintage Story requires the .net 10 Desktop Runtime
.net 10 runtime for Windows
.net 10 runtime for Mac
.net 10 runtime for Linux
.net 10 other operating systems

Download Links:
Windows 64bit Full Installer (562mb)
Linux 64bit Archive (580mb)
Linux 64bit - Server Only (48 mb)

Windows 64bit - Server Only (57 mb)

Mac 64bit Archive (604mb)

Game updates

Tweak: Fully reworked trader models. Added climate specific clothing for traders. Not yet spawning in survival mode
Tweak: Added a (preliminary) handbook entry to berry bushes, explaining their propagation and care.
Tweak: Berry bush - re-add random fruiting stages on worldgen. No barren or bountiful bushes during worldgen. Remove moisture level info from hud.
Tweak: Berry bush nutrient use now tapers off by 15% per year (resulting in about 5% use after 20 years)
Tweak: Added berry bush traits
Tweak: Update community translations
Tweak: Fish no longer try to bolt away when using entity mover
Fixed: Scraping multiple soaked hides causes game crash #8479
Fixed: Old traders were upgraded to the new traders, but naked and no face
Fixed: When public server advertising is enabled that could send multiple duplicated requests to the masterserver. Issue since 1.22.0-pre.1
Fixed: Multiple issues with berry bushes. Will cause new pre4 berry bushes to turn into unknown blocks
Fixed: Some Nadiyan clothing was not using the correct textures.
Fixed: Merchant hat and fur coat had some texture issues.
Fixed: Berry bush 'unsuitable soil' message was missing localization.
Fixed: Various small issues with bear textures and model
Fixed: Olives' on-ground transform was bad
Fixed: Fruitingbush blocktype was not using correct shapes
Fixed: Snow not all melting immediately but only in patches, when world time advanced to summer
API Fixed: Rideable behavior no longer ignores minGeneration setting

Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and More! (1.22.0-pre.4)

2nd March 2026

Please note: This version is quite likely still very buggy and unfinished. Not recommended for use on precious old savegames!

Starting from version 1.22 Vintage Story requires the .net 10 Desktop Runtime
.net 10 runtime for Windows
.net 10 runtime for Mac
.net 10 runtime for Linux
.net 10 other operating systems

Download Links:
Windows 64bit Full Installer (562mb)
Linux 64bit Archive (580mb)
Linux 64bit - Server Only (48 mb)

Windows 64bit - Server Only (57 mb)

Mac 64bit Archive (604mb)

Game updates

Feature: Added 'ruined' torch holders. They will hold torches, but if broken will not drop themselves.
Feature: Fully reworked berry bushes. Pre 1.22 berry bushes are now legacy blocks. No longer available in the creative inventory, but still functional blocks in-game (WIP!)

Flowering/Ripening still the same for now
Fully reworked models
Can only be propagated by taking a cutting with a knife which takes 6 to 12 months to mature
Berry bushes require fertilization or they will stop bearing fruit
A handful of rare traits will be added in the next pre-release - which propagate to the cutting taken

Feature: Begin adding many new clothing sets to be found, traded, or crafted. (Very WIP)
Feature: Hematite and Limonite nuggets can now be used for cave art and writing, in colors 'red ochre' and 'yellow ochre' respectively.
Tweak: Performance - Faster recipe matching with reduced memory usage. Should fix lag spikes on the server and client when crafting or using the handbook
Tweak: Performance: Less CPU cost for unpacking chunks, creating packets etc - mainly affects multiplayer servers
Tweak: Rusty gears now have a pile model that holds up to 64 gears. The old style piles will still be found in ruins, but player-placed piles will be more orderly, and larger capacity.
Tweak: Add non-climbable versions of clutter ladders, for use in cases like bunk beds where you don't want them interfering with the player's normal movement.
Tweak: Chain mail items have a revised smaller model, and are now quad-place-able
Tweak: Handbook search now returns more closely matched results to what was typed
Tweak: Rendered fat recipe no longer dirties the pot
Tweak: Pigs and sheep will no longer stand around idly such that they can easily be fenced in. They will now run away from the player, or attack the player if they get too close.
Tweak: Removed unused 'eidolon gearbox' item from the game
Tweak: Firestarter can now be burned in a firepit
Tweak: Allow to remove candles from existing bunch of candles without breaking it
Tweak: Male goats in general will not use the very smallest horn models, better differentiating them from females
Tweak: Copper shingle blocks now have a grid recipe. The blocktype json was moved from 'metal' folder to 'roofing' folder
Tweak: Grid recipes which produce roofing half-blocks now produce two halves, rather than one
Tweak: Can now also chisel block combine in the chisel tool mode, not only in the crafting grid anymore
Tweak: Blocks with the pillar behavior now display their orientation in the chisel tool mode material selector
Fixed: Honey would give the wrong satiety in a meal
Fixed: Quenching/Tempering buffs not applying when they should and the item now shows its item state in the item info hud.
Fixed: Tempering applied a buff instead of only reducing the break chance
Fixed: Applying many buffs added many lines of text to the item info hud
Fixed: The player would get full nutrition from drinking spoiling liquid
Fixed: Properly stop animations when ground processing items
Fixed: Animation would never end when breaking ore chunks in ground storage
Fixed: Drifters had a missing face on their neck that would show on their back side, when dead.
Fixed: fox and raccoon pelts had a couple missing faces, and mis-aligned cuboids.
Fixed: Bronze rods had combined word localizations (i.e. Tinbronze, Bismuthbronze) which was not per standard
Fixed: Grindstone grid recipe conflicted with polished stone recipe
Fixed: Huge gray boars had the same hitbox as regular ones. Also, pigs' hitboxes were not well centered on them when sleeping
Fixed: Rapid water waterfalls could be split in two in certain configurations
Fixed: Ruined metal doors had the latch on the wrong side, and their hitbox was thinner than the door.
Fixed: Collapsed clutter scroll racks were not texture-swappable.
Fixed: Ruined sabre had blade ground-stored transform, and so looked like it was half buried in the ground.
Fixed: Male bighorn sheep sleeping pose had their head half-way in the ground
Fixed: Bugnet durability wasn't consumed
Fixed: Brass torchholder description didn't have useful info from aged torchholder description
Fixed: /debug helddurability command not marking slot dirty
Fixed: Armor breaks on zero durability
Fixed: Female tamed elk hitboxes displayed raw lang keys instead of translated text
Fixed: Empty chests playing incorrect sound when closedDev: Changed AnimationCode to processingAnimationCode for ground processing behavior
Fixed: Chiseling or rotating blocks located at a chunk edge, now correctly updates lighting on neighbors across the chunk edge
Fixed: Harvested brown sedge tossed on the ground was nowhere near its actual hitbox
Fixed: Some pigs had bad 'center' points in their model, resulting in mis-placed hitboxes
Fixed: Flax fibers' held transform was WAY too small
Fixed: Black coal was a pigment for sign writing, but could not do cave drawings
Fixed: Certain chiseled blocks placed wrong shading onto ground beneath - seen with new trader huts
API Tweak: New overload CraftingRecipeIngredient.Resolve(IWorldAccessor world, string sourceForErrorLogging, IRecipeBase recipe) should be used to Resolve input ingredients, to ensure they are registered to the new fast recipe matching
API Tweak: IWorldAccessor has new read-only property IWorldAccessor.FastSearchRecipesByIngredient; this will be populated by the new CraftingRecipeIngredient.Resolve() method mentioned above
API Tweak: Transform editor dialog now has firepit transform support
API Tweak: Spawner blocks can now define rain and temperature conditions
API Tweak: Added OnContainedInteractCancel for use in ground storage interactions
API Tweak: The Block animation system now also hooked up to the animation sounds system. Example implementation: Bellows
API Fixed: 'scale' property in shape overlays did not work
API Fixed: Offsets from mounted entities now make sense, existing ones will need adjusting

The mounted animation should position the player relative to the hitbox
The attachment point on the mounted creature should go on the part of the entity the player's movement follows
The seat offset adjusts the location of the player's hitbox relative to the attachment point* Internal: Change pelt grid recipes that accept multiple sizes, to new 'anyof' format, for Rennorb to check, as they don't seem to work.

1.22 related changes

Tweak: Added grid recipe for snow shovel, and modified model a bit. Also changed code name (old snow shovels will no longer be valid items).
Fixed: When starting to fish you can no longer switch the active slot immediately to prevent other bugsthis prevents switching the active slot as soon as you start to fish rather then waiting for when the bobber will be spawned and thrown else you could end up fishing while not even having a fishing pole in handsFixed: If the character menu was opened during fishing the line would not render correctly. dev: refactor fishing system to nullable
Fixed: Animals not breeding
Fixed: Rotating a tile slab changes the type of tile #8436
Fixed: Pounder caps only visually update when adding crushing material (#8439)
Fixed: Items would disappear when baking in oven
Fixed: Ruined and ornate spears still had old damage

Fixed: Small and large bellows recipes conflicted
Fixed: Cabinets would not accept certain combinations of metals for the tolls and nails
Fixed: Several tool/weapon heads could not be coated in fireclay
Fixed: Juvenile fish had wrong held transforms
Fixed: Ruined spears still did old thrown damage
Fixed: Some shears could not be placed in the forge, or leaned against a wall
Fixed: Oil lamps in the offhand were held backwards

Fixed: Crude bow had no grid recipe
Fixed: Meteoric iron spear did not have grid recipe
API Tweak: some IRecipeIngredient properties are now in IRecipeIngredientBase; no practical change in usage

Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and More! (1.22.0-pre.3)

18th February 2026

Please note: This version is quite likely still very buggy and unfinished. Not recommended for use on precious old savegames!

Starting from version 1.22 Vintage Story requires the .net 10 Desktop Runtime
.net 10 runtime for Windows
.net 10 runtime for Mac
.net 10 runtime for Linux
.net 10 other operating systems

Download Links:
Windows 64bit Full Installer (562mb)
Linux 64bit Archive (580mb)
Linux 64bit - Server Only (48 mb)

Windows 64bit - Server Only (57 mb)

Mac 64bit Archive (604mb)

Game updates

Feature: Arapaimas, pike, piranhas, and sheatfish may attack players if cornered. Red-bellied piranhas are especially agressive towards injured players.
Feature: Can now mount shields on wall mounts
Feature: Quern shows grinding outputs on handbook page
Tweak: When using the Entity mover tool can now use mousewheel to change entity distance
Tweak: Tuned seraph idle animations
Tweak: Can now add linings or change the color of glass for small lanterns in ground storage
Tweak: Added fish bones item, which is functionally equivalent to existing tiny bones (cannot be used for handles or in armor) but looks fish-appropriate.
Tweak: Added new ground crafting sounds, for scraping soaked hides with knife, trimming small or medium scraped hides into parchment using shears, carving a bone into a flute, removing the head from a bear *pelt* with head, and sawing a raw longbow stave into a raw recurve stave using a saw.
Tweak: Copper roofing grid recipe yield doubled, except that tips are now individually made from a single copper plate.
Tweak: Show quern in "Created by" section for grinding recipes
Tweak: Breaking blocks adjacent to and below water flow, may now cause the water to flow into the newly made gap
Tweak: The devastation tower elevator now prevents falling through when going down
Tweak: Added server config setting UpnpInfiniteLifetime (enable with /sc upnpinfinitelifetime on). Use this for infinite UPnP port mapping lifetime; otherwise the default 10-minute lifetime auto-renews mappings. Behavior may vary depending on the router.
Fixed: Tule root didn't say in description that it can be planted again
Fixed: Luxury trader was selling two shields that were missing the wood attribute.
Fixed: Placing a crock into ground storage would crash the game on some operating systems
Fixed: Sheep no longer spawn in thick forests or shrubland
Fixed: Rope couldn't be placed on ground without already existing ground storage
Fixed: Some story locations (lazaret) caused additonal protected areas above ground after using /wgen regen at their position
Fixed: Couldn't pick up empty armor stand
Fixed: Devastation tower pitch black at night and other worldgenned light sources not emitting light
Fixed: Bamboo stakes and shovel gui icons when moused over were not centered.
Fixed: Long bowstave is invisible in ground storage when dry
Fixed: "Toggle sprint" checkbox hover text was wrong in the game settings
Fixed: Aged sailboat did not have a creative item to place it (and so did not show up in handbook)
Fixed: Flax fibers were not centered in the gui
Fixed: Hot items invisible in ground storage
Fixed: Metal arrow fletching was solid black
Fixed: Rare crash when chiseled block name is null
Fixed: Drygrass item was not centered in it's selection box when laying on the ground
Fixed: Mouflon and bighorn sheep horns had bad wall mount transforms. Mouflon horns were also missing localizations.
Fixed: Water updates not consistently triggered if solid blocks (water-logged blocks) were in the same position
Fixed: Clouds disappearing after sleeping in some cases
Fixed: Dirty cooking pot had bad incorrect idle pose
Fixed: Anomalously light texture section on adult male elk's neck fur
API Feature: Targetable AI tasks can specify a minimum and maximum injury amount of the target
API Feature: Added MouseWheelMove input event
API Feature: ItemSlotCharacter now uses virtual CheckDressType instead of static IsDressType
API Tweak: BlockMultiblock now uses .GetInterface() instead of .GetBehavior() to find interfaces
API Feature: Added texture bleeding system for seamless block transitions

New block properties for controlling texture bleed behavior:
BleedPriority (auto from material or manual override)
CanReceiveBleed, BleedOverlayTexture
BleedTopFaceOnly, BleedGroup, BlocksTextureBleed

API Refactor: Collectible.OnCreatedByCrafting() and CollectibleBehavior.OnCreatedByCrafting() "gridrecipe" argument is now of type "IRecipeBase" instead of "GridRecipe"
API Refactor: Worldgen: Moved ChunkColumnGen event registration from StartServerSide to InitWorldGen()
API Refactor: New tag condition matching system. Complex tag conditions hold either a set of disjunctive entries ([a and b and c] or [d and e]) or as a set of conjunctive entries ([a or b or c] and [d or e]).

In both cases each of the inner sets can also have a set of forbidden tags that is always disjunctive. The syntax for using these in json follows one simple rule: If no junction verb is specified, the group is treated as conjunctive (a and b and c)
examples:
[["all", "of", "these"]]
[["all", "of", "these"], (or) { allOf: ["all", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }]
{ allOf: ["all", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }
{ anyOf: ["any", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }
{ anyOf: [["all", "of", "these"], { allOf: ["all", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }] }
{ allOf: [["anyOf", "of", "these"], (and) { anyOf: ["any", "of", "these"], noneOf: ["any", "of", "these"] }] }11:20 AM
these can be used in recipe ingredients and entiy behaviors for now* Replacement Tag System

API Tweak: Use GetInterfaces for all instances of IIgnitable
API Tweak: Add stencil buffer API to rendering interface
API Tweak: Collectible.DamageItem() - Added optional arg "destroyOnZeroDurability"
API Tweak: Frameprofiler (.debug logticks xx) now records mousedown/mouseup event cost as well
API Fixed: Collectible.OnHeldDropped was not called server side
API Fixed: Crash when entity tries to play sound it did not have
API Fixed : When using a villages.json to specify modded villages a non wildcard schematics path would not resolve properly
API Fixed: Unable to export texture atlasses when intallation folder did not have user permissions, they now go to the data folder instead
1.22 related changes

Tweak: The large bellows model has been elevated on a stand, like the small bellows. The large bellows now also graphically represents two chambers as is more accurate for a blacksmith bellows. (the old bellows only had one chamber)
Tweak: Crude bellows are now limited to 500 durability
Tweak: Raccoon trapper hat item code renamed to 'generic-gray'. (old hats from pre1 and 2 will no longer be valid)
Tweak: Soaked bear hides no longer produce multiple scraped hides. They now produce one hide in all stages
Tweak: Crude bellows' nozzle now visually connects with forge at same level as other bellows
Tweak: Grid recipe for grinding wheel now also requires a saw and hammer.
Fixed: Issues with the cooking pot and containers were causing solidified rendered fat to no be obtainable without a bucket. The recipe now will just immediately produce the rendered fat items in the cooking pot, and we will address the technical issues at a later date.
Fixed: Meals in containers would always display as fully fresh when hovered over in the inventory
Fixed: Soaked raccoon and fox furs lacked grid recipes for scraping
Fixed: All stones could be used to make white cave art (now just chalk and limestone, as intended).
Fixed: The new nails and strips added for lanterns (brass, molybdochalkos, bismuth, and electrum) lacked smithing recipes
Fixed: Texture issues with merchant hat, and fur coat
Fixed: New fox/raccoon tail hats and trapper hats did not have recipes
Fixed: Rapid rivulets could split into more than one stream during worldgen
Fixed: Andesite quern grid recipe only accepted steel hammer.
Fixed: Raccoons would drop an extra hide sometimes.
Fixed: The handbook said that multiple small and medium oiled hides could be done with one rendered fat, but in fact took one fat for each hide.
Fixed: The linux server start script now checks for .NET 10 instead of 8
Fixed: Render bug on mannequin with some dresses that let you look through the world
Fixed: Incorrect hitboxes on mannequins
Fixed: Some bad hold positions and held transforms on some creature items, that would obscure one's view.
Fixed: Psychedelic shader effect causing night vision
Fixed: Q-Dropping a fishing pole did not remove bobber and made the fishing pole unusable
Fixed: Shift-Clicking fishing pole did not remove fishing line
Fixed: Waterwheel not constructable
Fixed: Able to add bait to fishing pole after already tossing the bobber
Fixed: Blue Meanie mushroom had a missing texture
Fixed: Couldn't ignite unlit torch from lit source
Fixed: Unable to light pit kiln with firestarter
Fixed: Crash for sharpenable items when not looking at any block
Fixed: Crowbar and cleaver were not able to be put into the forge.
Fixed: Small bellows handles were missing some faces.
Fixed: Some tool heads would clip into forge when empty of coal. Inforge transforms have been adjusted.
Fixed: Tobias now sells the correct goods.
Fixed: Mannequin causing grass below to die off
Fixed: Mannequin had very small gui transform
Fixed: hansa wall banner, wrong banner side color. Hansa freestanding banner now has a 3 high block hitbox
Fixed: Grindstone had seam lines between planes showing
Fixed: Wrong position and color of block breaking particles of cabinets
Fixed: Snowshovel deleting soil blocks and moving snow jankily
Fixed: Liquid containers consumed during crafting when they shouldn't
Fixed: No longer able to carry a hot pot of cooked food without tongs
Fixed: Shapeless recipes ignoring tags resulting in some ingredient matching to any item
Fixed: Failing to match recipe ingredients for some recipes resulting in handbook crashes
Fixed: Cabinet would not drop the properly woodtyped version of the block when broken
Fixed: Decal when breaking cabinet was rotated incorrectly
Fixed: Cabinet would not give the properly woodtyped version of the block when pick block was used
Fixed: Female mouflon sheep required male bighorn sheep in order to breed
API Tweak: Unhardcode bellows animation
API Fixed: Modded patch files containing uppercase letters could not be found anymore
API Fixed: Transforms on forge resetting when using tfedit

Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and More! (1.22.0-pre.2)

8th February 2026

Please note: This version is quite likely still very buggy and unfinished. Not recommended for use on precious old savegames!

Starting from version 1.22 Vintage Story requires the .net 10 Desktop Runtime
.net 10 runtime for Windows
.net 10 runtime for Mac
.net 10 runtime for Linux
.net 10 other operating systems

Download Links:
Windows 64bit Full Installer (562mb)
Linux 64bit Archive (580mb)
Linux 64bit - Server Only (48 mb)

Windows 64bit - Server Only (57 mb)

Mac 64bit Archive (604mb)

Game updates

Only 1.22 related changes:

Tweak: Different spear heads now have different smithing recipes more appropriate to their shape.
Tweak: Anchovies no longer spawn (for now) as they are too tiny to make sense to have flay-able. Made small fish quad-placeable.
Tweak: Changed fishing pole handbook text to reflect that you can actually catch fish on an un-baited hook, and remove section about different fish responding to different baits, weather, temperature which is not accurate at this time
Fixed: bunker, shad, and chub fishes were not flay-able.
Fixed: Small lanterns had incorrect selection and hit boxes.
Fixed: Old elk mounted lanterns crashing the game
Fixed: Waterwheel/boat construction crash
Fixed: Rollers crash
Fixed: Players unable to ignite pit kilns
Fixed: Grinding wheel issues
Fixed: Chiseled block transforms are broken when dropped
Fixed: Crash when adding fuel to the forge with a stack size of 1
Fixed: Adding fuel to forge would consume item twice instead of once
Fixed: Crash when hovering the cursor over a crucible full of molten copper
Fixed: Boars fleeing at hyper-speed. (github #7926)
Fixed: Clay lamp body was missing clayforming recipe (github #7931)
Fixed: Pickled fennel had more satiation than raw fennel (github #7940)
Fixed: Tar item showing in handbook (was supposed to be excluded) (github #7646)
Fixed: Powdered alum, cinnbar, and lapis had no way to be made (github #7646)
Fixed: Meteoric iron spear did not have a smithing recipe. (github #7963)
Fixed: Missing in skeletal arm text
Fixed: Curdled milk texture had dark border that showed in gui of barrel.
Tweak: Added bear hide armor repair grid recipe. Converted more hide-related products to use tags.
Tweak: Spear windup now takes twice as long.
Fixed: ReverseTagsCheck flag in grid recipe ingredients was not wokring for some recipes
Fixed: When dying players would not have their satiety restored at all
Fixed: Grain could not be eaten
Fixed: Commodity trader sold the wrong goods
API Tweak: Make more AI tasks use the new json config settings

Fishing, Mechanisms, Metalworking and More! (1.22.0-pre.1)

5th February 2026

Please note: This version is quite likely still very buggy and unfinished. Not recommended for use on precious old savegames!

Starting from version 1.22 Vintage Story requires the .net 10 Desktop Runtime
.net 10 runtime for Windows
.net 10 runtime for Mac
.net 10 runtime for Linux
.net 10 other operating systems

Download Links:
Windows 64bit Full Installer (562mb)
Linux 64bit Archive (580mb)
Linux 64bit - Server Only (48 mb)

Windows 64bit - Server Only (57 mb)

Mac 64bit Archive (604mb)

Game updates

Check out devlog post

Instructions for Mac Users - seems like there are new issues with this build
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First you have to follow these instructions:
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/open-a-mac-app-from-an-unknown-developer-mh40616/mac

And if that doesn't work, then move the .app into your Applications folder and run each of these commands in Terminal line by line:
cd /Applications
sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine "Vintage Story.app"