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BasicBushcraft
Ok, so this was initially just going to be a few common sense recipes but its becoming one of those monster mods of abstract small changes that i hate. So although i'm going to keep this around i really want to break it up into its constituent parts so people
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Which BasicBushcraft release should I use?
BasicBushcraft 2.1.1 targets 1.22.2. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.
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Is BasicBushcraft required on the client, server, or both?
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What else does BasicBushcraft 2.1.1 need?
2.1.1. Change the file and its required mods may change too.
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This file does not list any required or optional mods.
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Add BasicBushcraft without breaking your instance.
Built for BasicBushcraft 2.1.1. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.
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About this project
What does BasicBushcraft add?
Ok, so this was initially just going to be a few common sense recipes but its becoming one of those monster mods of abstract small changes that i hate. So although i'm going to keep this around i really want to break it up into its constituent parts so people can use the pieces they like.
This mod adds a few common sense recipes to things that I think should be readily available. Also adds a recipe for reeds (though it's a little expensive compared to having a reed farm).
After finding "Zippy's Thatch Patch" (which makes SO much sense), I rebuilt a few of my recipes around his theory. There are still no new models or anything, but his mod takes care of a few things that will make the game easier with mine.
Firepitsticks just makes it so you need to start a fire with sticks instead of logs, which honestly makes way more sense.
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INCLUDED CONTENT I DID NOT AUTHOR:
- RowanSkie's "firepitsticks"
- ZippyWonderdust's "Zippy's Thatch Patch"
NEW ABILITIES
- Shave sticks into thatch with a knife or axe
- Cut firewood into sticks using a knife or axe
- Recycle firestarter back into its components
- Braid thatch into rope
- Craft baskets or chests using thatch
- Debark logs using only a knife.
- Bind sticks with rope for makeshift firewood
- Craft thatch into grass by hand
- Make candles with rope, some fat, and a lit torch
- Bake thatch into potash in the cooking pot
- Cook bone, poultry, fish, redmeat, and bushmeat in meatystew, even if cooked
GAMEPLAY MODIFICATIONS
- Knives now require rope instead of a stick
- Hoes and Spears now require rope
- Torches require 2 sticks, 1 rope, 1 thatch, and 2 fat (but still last for eternity in your inventory), and can also be made with a bandage and a stick.
- Wattle and wattle fences now require 3x as many sticks.
- Firestarter itself can be burned in the fire
REMOVED FEATURES
- Flint and Stone Shovels (stone adze - basically a hoe - is the more realistic stone age tool)
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PLANNED CHANGES
- make obsidian tools stronger than usual
- Cut debarked logs into firewood
BUSHCRAFT LIGHTING DESIGN
- torches: short burn time
- oilamps: long burn time
- candles: very long burn time
- lanterns: infinite
- not sure how to work this design quite yet.
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PATCH 2.1.1
- Removed bamboo from recurve bow recipe
UPDATE 2.1.0
- Changed burn times and temperatures of various items to be more realistic. Sticks now burn hotter than firewood but for a much shorter time. Drygrass burns hot but extremely fast. Rendered fat burns for a very long time at a fairly low temperature.
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VERSION 2.0.0
- Modified for compatibility with 1.22.2
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UPDATE 1.8.0
- Added ability to recycle axeheads
- Replaced crude bow recipe with recurve bow (saplings, tallow, rope, bone)
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UPDATE 1.7.0
- Added recycling recipes for knives, and spears in order to preserve tool heads when needed (comes out as flint for now. can't quite make it do what i want).
- Replaced crude bow recipe from saplings and pelts
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PATCH 1.6.2
- Updated mod description
PATCH 1.6.1
- Runtime error correction
UPDATE 1.6.0
- Updated for compatibility with Stable Build (1.21.6)
- included RowanSkie's "firepitsticks"
- included ZippyWonderdust's "Zippy's Thatch Patch"
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UPDATE 1.5.0
- Added recycling recipe for firestarter into thatch
- Added recycling recipe for wattle and wattle gates into sticks
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PATCH 1.4.1
- Added cooked poultry, redmeat, and bushmeat to soups
- Fixed bone broth and a few other things
UPDATE 1.4.0
- Added cooked poultry, redmeat, and bushmeat to meaty stew recipes
- Added bone as a second-ingredient (broth) for soup.
- Removed unintentional modification that turned rope somehow into an edible dairy item... wtf... ??
- Thatch can now be cooked into potash in the cooking pot
- Fixed bone broth in soup
- Added cooked poultry, redmeat, and bushmeat to soups as well
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UPDATE 1.3.0
- Made rope burnable
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UPDATE 1.2.0
- Removed rope from metal spear and metal hoe recipes
- Attempted repair of torch recipe
- Removed proto-mortar crushing stuff between rocks recipes and made the mortar its own separate mod
- Made firestarters burnable
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UPDATE 1.1.0
- Tested on a new wilderness survival world.
- Removed flint and stone shovel recipes
- Added mortar and pestle and various recipes for producing flour, charcoal, salt, rust, bonemeal, lime, flint, and clay.
- Removed stick from standard knife recipe so that rope is the only option in early game
- Added rope to spear recipe
- Updated torch recipe to 2 fat, thatch, rope, and 2 sticks (since they're basically immortal i think its fair to make them just slightly more expensive)
- Increased sticks required for building wattle objects.
- Changed stick shaving recipe from reeds to thatch
- Replaced "drygrass to rope" recipe in favor of "thatch to rope"
- Removed standard torch recipe as well as reed torch recipe
- Added a simple tallow candle recipe (rope, fat, and a torch to melt the fat)
- Spent way too long trying to replace the torch recipe but finally figured it out.
- Ensured thatch can be made with an axe, which does not require rope. This is necessary for very early progression.
- Added thatch baskets and chests.
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PATCH 1.0.1
- Changed output of sticks to papyrus to cattailtops.
- Fixed mod name and data in modinfo
VERSION 1
- Tested
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VERSION 0
- replaces classic debarked log recipe for one where you just need a knife
- adds recipe for firewood into sticks (ax or knife)
- adds recipe for grass into rope (9 grass)
- adds recipe for a rope-handle knife (rope and knife)
- adds recipe for sticks and rope into firewood (8 sticks, 1 rope)
- adds recipe for 3 sticks cut into papyrus (knife)
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CANCELED
- Torches extinguishing in containers. (can't be done with just json)
Project description from Vintage Story Mod DB.
Pick your setup
BasicBushcraft releases for each Vintage Story version.
Choose the version and loader you play, then open the matching release.
1.22.0-rc.2
1 loader build1.22.0-rc.1
1 loader build1.22.0-pre.5
1 loader build1.22.0-pre.4
1 loader build1.22.0-pre.3
1 loader build1.22.0-pre.2
1 loader build1.22.0-pre.1
1 loader build1.21.6
1 loader build1.20.10
1 loader buildCheck the dependencies, then try the file in a copied instance before changing a world you care about.
Recent files
BasicBushcraft versions and loaders
2.1.1
basicbushcraft_211.zip
13 May 2026
2.1.0
basicbushcraft_210.zip
7 May 2026
2.0.0
basicbushcraft_200.zip
7 May 2026
1.8.0
basicbushcraft_180.zip
18 Mar 2026
1.7.0
basicbushcraft_170.zip
17 Mar 2026
1.6.2
basicbushcraft_162.zip
15 Mar 2026
1.6.1
basicbushcraft_161.zip
15 Mar 2026
1.6.0
basicbushcraft_160.zip
15 Mar 2026
1.4.1
basicBushcraft_141.zip
27 May 2025
1.4.0
basicBushcraft_140.zip
20 May 2025
1.2.0
basicBushcraft_120.zip
18 May 2025
1.1.0
basicBushcraft_110.zip
16 May 2025
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