Rust & Rot is a Vintage Story mod by Darce. Rust & Rot adds hostile creatures shaped by decay, corrosion, and strange rift-born corruption, plus themed loot, weapons, armor upgrades, and storage items.
Why this mod is worth installing
Choose it if you want exploration in Vintage Story to include more unsettling enemies and useful rewards. Config Lib is optional for adjusting selected spawn settings.
What Rust & Rot adds
The bestiary is split between rotten and rusted threats. Rot Walkers, Crawlers, Beasts, Pillars, Miasmas, and Bone Masses bring disease, decay, and heavy melee danger, while Itinerants, Golems, Roamers, Drifted Ones, Caged Ones, Mimics, and Boilers add metallic or otherworldly encounters.
Defeating these creatures can provide more than ordinary combat loot. Rotten Leather improves gambeson or becomes a speed-boosting rotten tunic and hood, Miasma Warts make a nine-slot bag, and a Roamer Bag can be opened for its contents.
The mod also introduces Heavy Tar as fuel and a weak repair adhesive, made through a process involving Drifter Organs and Black Sludge. Bone Masses can drop throwable skulls for ranged attacks, while bones and leather turn them into a Spine Club; Boilers provide Iron Shackles for close combat.
Where to download Rust & Rot
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.