Vintage Civ

Vintage Civ
Basic Info
Start Date	May 27th, 2022 (2.0)
Owner	SouthernBloc
Admins	Pkeod, SimpleBastard, Novocain
Subreddit	/r/VintageCiv
Discord	https://discord.gg/wkfyFe8tHn
Minecraft Version	1.16.5 (Vintage Story)
Server address	play.vintageciv.com
Website	https://www.vintageciv.com/

Vintage Civ is a Civ server on Vintage Story that had its first beta released on the 2nd of January 2022.

Along with the intense hyper-realism of vanilla Vintage Story, Vintage Civ uses a variety of new plugins, most notably the Shackle Gear . Previously used on AbjectPovertyCraft, the Shackle Gear works similarly to Prison Pearl as a means for players to self-police themselves, a notable "rule" of the Civ genre, being the idea of an “anarchistic gaming experiment” . Other features include Citadel built into the VS base game as plumb-and-square Reinforcement, to make up for absence of vanilla Vintage Story land claiming which prevents players from interacting, placing, or destroying blocks inside the land claim (at no cost whatsoever, unlike Reinforcement).

Another notable difference to vanilla VS is the lack of other player icons in the map, including your own. This makes the addition of the client-side mod VSHUD a necessity to many Vciv players for waypointing and navigation purposes. A certain feature coming from Vanilla VS allows players to be able to see other ingame player nametags within a certain distance, making underground or secluded living difficult. While people have been a bit resenting of the feature ever since VCiv launched, the devs have been thinking away at a rework of the ingame nametag system . Another VS counterpart to Minecraft Civ is the inclusion of the Snitches mod, which comes from, well, Snitches.

More info pertaining to the unique features in Vintage Story compared to Minecraft can be found at the official Vintage Story wiki For other miscellaneous details and the mods included can be found at the Vintage Civ website

Mechanics of Vintage Civ

Vintage Civ throughout its entire history has based many of its features and mechanics off past Civ-like servers, most notably CivCraft and CivClassics. These are some notable differences to vanilla VS and/or similarities/differences to MC Civ.

• The base game of Vintage Story includes reinforcement, its MC Civ counterpart being citadel. Similiar to Minecraft, different materials, different powers of protection. Steel is the highest and common rocks are the lowest in reinforcement power.
• Unlike vanilla Vintage Story you cannot see others on the world map, a side effect of this is not being able to see your own map icon as well. Despite this you can see other players nametag at a certain unspecified distance
• A far different way of terrain generation,
• Combat Tag, forcing a player to either wait 30 seconds to log out of the server after getting hit by another player, or exit before the time limit runs out and leave a "dummy player" that can be killed.
• Snitches
• Bastions
• Shackle Gear. Highest prison time per item being Anthracite. [Someone add more details and how to fuel a ShackleGear]
• Acid Blocks [More details when 2.0 releases on May 27]
• 25k by 25k size, with a diameter of 50k blocks.
• [More to be added]

Nations and Civilizations

Main article: List of Nations on VintageCiv

Player groups include anything from small scale groups who have just established a settlement to larger kingdoms made up of dozens of players.

Name	Leader	Government	Founding Date	Discord Link
Talmberg	Polskizoldak	Collectivism	13th January 2022	Talmberg
Vikings of Vintage	Davis		27th May 2022	Vikings of Vintage
Kindread Clan	Candles		21st March 2022	Kindread Clan
The Beornings		Barbarism(?)	4th May 2022	The Beornings

History

1.0 History

Main article: Vintage Civ 1.0 History

Vintage Civ 1.0 was released on January 13, 2022 after about a week of testing. During launch, very little occurred as players were still settling the map. The major conflict of the server involved Channers and Bastion, a popular town on the server, involving one of Bastion's residents Xorborax. After about 3 months, the server fell into decline as popular hype for CivMC's release, admins working on VintageCiv 2.0, and general disinterest to maintain nations on the server lost motivation for many players.

2.0 Test Servers

The day before launch on May the 26th of 2022 SouthernBloc posted on the #announcements of the VCiv Discord channel featuring a large message featuring and listing most of the main server details aswell as new changes for 2.0. The message states:

To @everyone As we get closer to release, roughly 24 hours out, we are doing the final scrubs and polishing on some mods and concepts. The next phase is to roll the dice, and see what kind of world the new generation is going to give us. So far, the snippets I have taken look promising. I've been asked to provide a server info sheet, which I am happy to give. This really only contains the information you should know at the start, as we have always encouraged the players to reach out and discover the new world and its changes. Its been a bumpy road, but everyone's positive energy has kept a lot of this project alive. Thanks guys.

Server Info

Version:1.16.5 IP: play.vintageciv.com

World Info: The world will be 25K by 25k, with climates being realistic, dirt gravity enabled. Fire Spread is also on.

Spawning: Spawning will be random spawn anywhere on the map, if a bed is not set. This has been tested pretty thoroughly. Make sure you lay in the bed for a good amount of time, rather than just right clicking and praying.

Class Changes:

Tailor: Class Exclusive Linen, as well as other tailor required products.

Malefactor: Can make the Raft Hunter: Class Exclusive with Survival mod traps and the such

Clockmaker: Class exclusive to mechanical stuff with the exception of basic windmills. Also required to make Bastions.

Auction House: Disabled

PVP: PVP is enabled. There is also a combat tag of approx. 30 secs, and if you log before it is up you run the risk of your player entity being left in game.

Death Changes: Upon death, you will drop everything with the exception of clothes. Dropped armor will take durability damage, which can be repaired.

There is a lot of game mechanics that were changed for the sake of the genre, that I wont go into full detail about now. As a town, city, community, as you learn things, I encourage you to share what you find. -Vintage Civ Team

It was announced on April 9, 2022 by SouthernBloc that an early version of the 2.0 server has been launched publicly, to last for 24 hours, later said to be on for about 2 weeks. The servers listed in this subsection were publicy released with the intention of finding bugs and balancing issues that can be found in the early release of new content being added. These test servers contains highly anticipated features not seen before in the Vintage Civ server such as bastions, combat tag, pack animals, more enemies, new land generation, and a variety of new building blocks and other smaller mechanics.

On April 17 2022, SouthernBloc held a Discord call discussing the details surrounding 2.0 of Vintage Civ and the future of the server(s) with a handful of other important members such as developers and contributors. In the same call he showcased the trailer for 2.0, planning for release on May 27 2022. In the call SouthernBloc stated that moving towns or structures from the 1.0 map to the 2.0 map will not be done, as he says it gives an unfair starting advantage to some players and that in the release of 2.0 the blocks and materials used in the old 1.0 structures would be deleted as they are from mods that wont be in 2.0.

Beta

It was announced on April 9, 2022 by SouthernBloc that an early version of the 2.0 server has been launched publicly, to last for 24 hours, later said to be on for about 2 weeks (Which did not last 2 weeks). The beta test server as of April 17th has players spawn at 0,0 in the very north-western corner of the world in the water. The closest landmass to the spawn point is a small island which contained a single homestead with a small overgrown farm to the south of it. The beta world has a small size of exactly 5000 blocks north to south and has every quadrant being absent except the +,+ quadrant, which the entire map is in. There has been a few small camps set up by players that have crossed the oceans and landmasses far from spawn though the server has not had as much popularity as the 1.0 beta three months earlier.

The center of the unnamed 2.0 alpha town as of April 23

Alpha

After existing for 9 days, the 2.0 beta world was wiped for a new one that was supposed to last til launch day of the actual 2.0 world . With this the IP for the Beta was replaced with the new world being the 2.0 Alpha. The new Alpha world has randomspawn on, similiar to other civ servers in the genre. According to SouthernBloc this will apply for the actual 2.0 server that will launch in May . The server runs on version 1.16.5 and the size dimensions for the world are -2500 to 2500 east to west and -2500 to 2500 north to south making the world 5000 x 5000 blocks.

After stumbling on SouthernBlocs homestead Miloski and other two players being McBain and Fey all allied to form a town on the island SouthernBloc was originally situated in. As of April 21 this settlement had a total of 4 players currently in the mid-late bronze age with a number of other higher tier items and gear. As of April 24 2022 this server still stays in the regular IP that was used for the beta, while the test server below is now in the main servers usual IP.

Test

On April 23 2022 SouthernBloc launched yet another completely new server referred to as simply the "Test" server. Instead of the previous two 2.0 test iterations, it is connected to from the default server IP being play.vintageciv.com and has dirt gravity turned on, changing the way players build and traverse. With the terrain generation being done for the most part and the world map much bigger than the previous two 2.0 iterations, Southern states this server will last til the 2.0 launch day . It was noticed the day after the server launched that naturally grown wild crops are unusually rare , along with the fact that the equator is also unusually large, makes finding and growing crops much harder.

A group photo taken by SouthernBloc on April 24 with Fey (with the hunter's hood) Cratin (in the bed) Nessie (white haired) and Miloski (blue skinned) just before they left the island

Starting off with a small dirt hut player Nessie built, it quickly gained a handful total of residents after the location started being spread around the Discord due to the hot climate and just because it was one of the only settlements at the time. The settlement's roster comprised of Fey, Miloski, SouthernBloc, Cratin, and Nessie. With a small farm being built to the side of the now-wooden and stone brick house the new civilization was growing. The island settled on was distinctly shaped like an elephants head, making it known as Elephant Island or of similar titles based off the islands appearance on a map.

The 5 player group set sail in hopes of finding an appropriate area for farming and forestry after discovering Elephant Island is inadequate to grow most crops. It took a while for all the group members to eventually meet up and start building due to various mishaps along the journey, but in the end the loot stored at Elephant island was transferred to this new location.

2.0 History

The server officially launched on Friday of May 27 2022. With randomspawn on in a certain radius around 0,0 to prevent server overload, the many players who have joined have already started putting up small shacks and hay beds around the server.