Brutal survival game Vintage Story gets another huge update, plus work on an Adventure Mode announced

Vintage Story has some of the most interesting game mechanics I've seen in a survival game, but it's a little brutal - so I'm keen for this new Adventure Mode.

After the news a few months ago about the game Hytale being cancelled, the developers of Vintage Story posted how they were inviting developers to come work for them. This led to another post in July talking about how they now plan to make an Adventure Mode for Vintage Story, although they haven't settled on a name yet.

For the latest big update to Vintage Story it adds in lots of new ocean content including 33 new fish, coral reefs and large waves. They've also improved clouds, added a bunch of new blocks, you can now tame and ride Elk, healing items now gradually heal instead of being instant, a player revive system for multiplayer was added, various story adjustments, you can now name your sailboat and attach shields and lots more.

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They've also disabled purchasing on their itch.io page, so now you have to get it direct (it's not on Steam or other stores). They claim that itch.io haven't paid them "for over 3 months". In their Discord, the Vintage Story developers expanded on this and said itch are "withholding a six figure sum of our revenue share".