Arctic Survival is a Vintage Story mod by Faeldray. Arctic Survival adjusts Vintage Story world generation and growth limits for colder Snowball Earth-style playthroughs.
Why this mod is worth installing
This mod is for players who want a frozen climate to remain challenging without losing access to essential clay, fuel, food, plants, animals, and basic tools.
What Arctic Survival adds
Arctic Survival lowers temperature restrictions for several resources. Red, blue, and fire clay, peat, cattails, horsetails, bees, flax, seaweed, aquatic plants, and selected berries can appear or remain useful much farther into frozen regions. Barren soil also gains more practical uses, including clay spawning, peat, raspberries, and mudbrick production.
The world remains cold rather than becoming easy. Plant growth pauses, resets, or enters dormancy at adjusted temperatures, while some shellfish only spawn in cold areas but still grow within warmer limits. Rare oak generation, elk, and expanded mushroom spawning help preserve leather, mounts, gathering, and food options.
Flint deposits can generate in every stone type, making surface flint more dependable when loose stones are absent. Lakes use muddy gravel bottoms, supporting panning for seeds, and traders no longer have a minimum temperature restriction.
Optional integrations add further cold-climate resources: Salt and Sands can provide shellfish, while other farming or food mods can make seaweed and related plants more useful. Temperature and other values can be customized through a supported configuration library; without it, the mod's defaults apply.
Where to download Arctic Survival
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.