Adds new food and meal types to the game. Expanded Foods brings dozens of new recipes, preservation methods, and cooking mechanics to enrich your homesteading experience.

Features

• Dozens of new food recipes and meal types
• Bushmeat meals, vinegar, and salt production
• New preservation methods and food storage
• Alcohol brewing with multiple beverage types
• Dried pasta and advanced cooking techniques
• Peanuts with +50% nutrition boost in meals
• Compatible with Acorns, Alchemy, Braziers, More Animals, Primitive Survival mods

Installation

Download the mod file and place it in your Mods folder, or use the 1-click install button. Make sure you also have A Culinary Artillery installed as a dependency.

Note: If you use Bushmeat Meals, Vinegar, or Salt Production as standalone mods, delete those before installing Expanded Foods — they are included.

Latest Changes (v2.0.0-dev.7)

• Peanuts receive +50% nutrition boost in meals
• Simmering recipe cooking durations significantly reduced
• Tree syrup made non-drinkable
• Dried pasta added as new food
• Various texture and compatibility fixes

BetterRuins brings over 600 handcrafted structures to Vintage Story — graves, translocators, villages, dungeons, and monoliths scattered across your world. Every expedition reveals something new, with a focus on atmosphere, lore, and rewarding exploration.

Key Features

• 600+ unique structures — villages, dungeons, monoliths, graves, translocators, and more
• 12 story locations with interconnected quest lines
• 22 craftable blueprints found in ruins
• Enriched lore through discoverable books and documents
• Rewarding loot systems tied to structure difficulty
• Full configuration UI via ConfigLib

Story & Lore

BetterRuins adds 12 interconnected story locations with quest lines that unfold as you explore. Discover ancient documents, decipher forgotten languages, and piece together the history of the civilizations that came before. Every ruin tells a story — if you know where to look.

Installation

Download and place in your Mods folder, or use 1-click install. Requires a new world for structures to generate. Existing worlds will only show structures in newly explored chunks.

Primitive Survival aims to provide a more realistic early game experience — inspired by primitive survival shows and real-world techniques. It also adds end-game elements to keep things interesting once you've mastered the basics.

Trapping & Hunting

Craft and place a variety of traps and snares to catch animals. Deadfall traps, snares, pit traps — each with different strengths and ideal targets. Hunting becomes a thoughtful process of scouting animal paths and setting up the right trap for the job.

• Deadfall traps for small to medium game
• Snares and tripwire traps
• Pit traps for larger animals
• Fish traps and weirs for passive fishing

Fishing

Multiple fishing methods beyond the vanilla hook — use line fishing, limb lines, fish traps, and weirs to catch a variety of freshwater fish. Each method works differently depending on the water source and season.

Food Preservation

Smoke meat and fish using smokehouses. Dry food on racks. Create jerky and preserved foods that last through the harsh winter months when fresh food is scarce.

Irrigation & Farming

Build irrigation channels and aqueducts to water your crops. Design systems that gravity-feed water from elevated sources to your fields — bringing real engineering challenges to your homestead.

Decorative Elements

Craft animal trophies, bone decorations, and primitive furniture from the materials you gather. Display your hunting prowess and give your shelter a lived-in, rustic feel.

Installation

Download and place in your Mods folder, or use 1-click install. Works with existing saves. For the in-game configuration GUI, install the optional ConfigLib and ImGui dependencies.