Holdfast is a Vintage Story mod by Australlama. Holdfast lets you found a settlement, hire villagers, and automate building, farming, cooking, gathering, and defense.
Why this mod is worth installing
Choose Holdfast if you want your base in Vintage Story to become a working settlement instead of a collection of player-built rooms. It suits players who enjoy planning, logistics, and gradual town growth.
What Holdfast adds
The Town Hall serves as the settlement’s control center. You choose structures from its catalogue, prepare a construction area with storage for materials, and let builders assemble the design once the required supplies are available. Buildings can use base materials already present in your town, reducing the need to search for rare ingredients.
Residents fill specialized roles as new facilities become available. Farmers manage seasonal fields, cooks prepare meals, quarry workers and lumberjacks gather basic resources, and workshop workers produce construction components. A fishing dock can help stabilize food supplies while the settlement is still small.
Food and schedules directly affect productivity. Workers eat at the eatery around midday, sleep at night, and stop working when the settlement cannot feed them. Guards, archers, tower crossbows, and the keep provide protection, while roads help villagers navigate between buildings without getting stuck.
Town Hall tiers are unlocked through substantial, useful construction projects. The mod also supports custom building themes, allowing survival-friendly structures to be designed from craftable materials and adapted to the visual style of your settlement.
Where to download Holdfast
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.