Chiseled Block Retention is a Vintage Story mod by Rythillian. Chiseled Block Retention makes chiseled blocks count as solid for room detection, helping decorated rooms retain heat.
Why this mod is worth installing
Use it if chiseled walls, windows, or decorative cutouts stop your cellars, rooms, or greenhouses from being recognized correctly. It is especially useful for builders who want detailed interiors without sacrificing room mechanics.
What Chiseled Block Retention adds
The mod changes how chiseled blocks are evaluated by room detection. Their faces, except the upper face, are treated as solid for this check, so a room with heavily carved walls can still qualify as an enclosed space and retain heat.
This applies to the main room categories, including cellars, ordinary rooms, and greenhouses. It is useful for custom chiseled windows and other decorative patterns that would otherwise make the game reject the room.
Only room detection is changed. Collision remains vanilla: projectiles can pass through openings, interactions can reach through them, and objects can still be placed according to the normal rules. Waterlogging, chimney behavior, and firepit smoke are also unaffected.
The change does not turn chiseled blocks into ordinary solid blocks in every system. It simply removes the strict solidity test used for recognizing rooms, allowing more freedom in decorative construction.
Where to download Chiseled Block Retention
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.
Download the Chiseled Block Retention mod on mods.vintagestory.at