It's a Vintage Story challenge event!
(Not official this time because the devs don't want to officially promote events that use third-party mods, which is fair!)
In celebration of being done with The Video, I've put together a short little challenge event for my community, in the current stable version (1.21.6). It will be run twice, once TOMORROW (Sunday March 22) and once next weekend, either Saturday or Sunday (to be determined based on player availability), at the same time: 20:00 central European time / 19:00 UK (time zones are hard right now because some countries are on daylight saving time now and others are not, some will change next weekend, some will not change at all (the lucky bastards), so you can use a time zone converter like this one to figure out what time that will be in your area.)
I'm posting this here to let everyone know that this is a public event which will not be restricted to my patrons, but is open to anyone who wants to take part! The only requirement is that you join my Discord server because that's where it will be planned and all announcements will be made. I apologize for not putting the link to that here because we already have a bot problem, but you can find it in the video details of any recent non-VOD video on my Youtube channel (youtube.com/secretfoxfire). When you join, please say something in the chat to prove you are human, so the mods know not to kick you out!
The event is expected to last 2-4 hours. The details are a secret until it starts, but the players will be given a challenge to work towards as a group. There will be just a few mods added to the server (including some accessibility ones) along with a handful of tweaks I've made myself. The non-accessibility mods and tweaks will add hurdles to the most obvious paths to completing the challenge, so players will have to work together to solve the problem presented to them. Monsters and mob hostility will be active during the challenge, so it may be necessary to deal with wolves, bears, and monsters. However, there will be no temporal storms or stability, and to allow players to focus on the task at hand immediately, some shelter and a few basic resources will be provided at spawn.
Since it is a cooperative event, players will be encouraged (but not required) to join a voice chat for faster communication. We may also try using the RP Voice Chat mod to allow in-game proximity chat, but I will have to test this first as I haven't used it yet, so that's not confirmed yet.
Several players will be recording their perspectives for the first run of the event, and I will edit their footage and mine into a video for Youtube which will be published after both runs, so no spoilers for folks who don't join the first run.
Join us if you can, this weekend or next! I'm very excited about the surprises I've set up for everyone. I really miss running the official Vintage Story events, but I just don't have the time anymore for that. Still, now and then I will try to set up something short and simple like this, so be sure to follow me if you're interested in that sort of thing!
If you want to see what kind of nonsense I've gotten up to in the past, check out my videos of past official events from when I was working directly with the developers to run these challenges!
