Tungsten is a Vintage Story mod by Zaldaryon. Tungsten is a server-side optimization mod for Vintage Story that reduces garbage-collection pauses, memory use, and lag in modded multiplayer worlds.
Why this mod is worth installing
It is aimed at administrators of busy or heavily modded servers who want smoother simulation without changing gameplay. Singleplayer worlds may see smaller benefits, while client-side performance requires a different tool.
What Tungsten adds
Tungsten works exclusively on the server side and targets the repeated data handling behind multiplayer simulation. It reuses lists for entities, blocks, drops, events, containers, and physics operations instead of creating as many temporary objects.
Its optimizations also cover chunk loading and unloading, entity simulation, cooking containers, grid recipes, propick reads, player-death notifications, and several server-side lookup routines. The goal is to reduce allocation pressure while preserving the same rules and results.
The reported benefit grows with server activity: busier worlds and larger player groups have more repeated work to optimize. The mod is therefore most useful when lag comes from server processing or garbage-collection pauses rather than from client rendering.
Where to download Tungsten
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.