Vintage Story: Change playstyle

Playstyles are preset world settings that change the feel of Vintage Story — from relaxed exploration to hardcore wilderness survival. [WORLD] Play Style and other [WORLD] Startup options only apply when creating a new world. Existing saves keep the playstyle they were generated with.

Back up first if you still need the current world.

Change playstyle (Startup)

1. Open the Blacksmith’s Portal and select your Vintage Story server
2. Stop the server
3. Create a backup from the Backups tab
4. Go to Startup
5. Set [WORLD] Play Style to one of the values below
6. Optionally tune related [WORLD] fields at the same time (game mode, seed, climate, and so on)
7. Reset the world (or point the save at a new world file) so generation uses the new preset
8. Start the server

Play Style value	What it is for
surviveandbuild	Default survival: balanced exploration, building, and survival
exploration	Less combat/survival pressure; more focus on exploring and building
wildernesssurvival	Harder survival and combat; random respawn within a large radius
homosapiens	No lore/civilization remnants; stronger realistic survival focus
creativebuilding	Creative building preset — pair with a blank/superflat-style world for a canvas

Tips

• Many [WORLD] Startup options (seed, seasons, temporal storms, land claiming, and more) also only apply on new world creation
• Runtime admin options such as password, public listing, and PvP live under [ADMIN] and apply every start
• For a fully customized map created in single-player, use create a custom Vintage Story world
• Official world config details: World Configuration on the Vintage Story wiki