Vintage Scarecrows is a Vintage Story mod by Chiappo. Vintage Scarecrows adds a craftable scarecrow that makes nearby small animals and selected critters flee, then ages into a salvageable and decorative object.
Why this mod is worth installing
Useful for players protecting gardens, homesteads, and animal areas from unwanted visitors without preventing creatures from spawning. It is also a practical decorative prop that changes appearance over time.
What Vintage Scarecrows adds
The scarecrow is crafted from a straw hat, a raw-hide mantle, and a strawdummy. Once placed, it influences an area of roughly 18 blocks for small animals and about 9 blocks for larger animals, causing affected creatures to move away rather than stopping their spawning.
Its active stage lasts for a configurable period of 2160 hours. Afterward, the scarecrow becomes old and stops working, but useful materials can still be recovered from it. In the final rotten stage, it remains mainly as a small decoration and has only a low chance to provide drops.
The mod targets raccoons, foxes, hares, boars and pigs, deer, goats, sheep, crows, several swan and duck varieties, and bowtorns. This makes it especially suitable for farms where wandering wildlife or lore entities can disturb carefully arranged spaces.
Where to download Vintage Scarecrows
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.