Beautiful World

A curated overhaul that makes Vintage Story stunning on a powerful machine: a vanilla friendly shader, naturalistic terrain, moving rivers, lush forests, living atmosphere, and a world full of ruins and villages to discover.

# Beautiful World: High End Showcase

A curated overhaul that makes **Vintage Story** stunning on a powerful machine. A vanilla friendly shader, gorgeous naturalistic terrain, moving rivers, lush forests, living atmosphere, and a world full of ruins and villages to discover. Best on a fresh world.

## What's inside

### Shader * **SheyderMod**: a lightweight shader that keeps the game's original art style and adds polish. Light enough to run on macOS, where the heavy shader mods crash.

### See far * **Farseer**: draws distant terrain so a high view distance stays readable and epic.

### Landscape and flora * **Plains and Valleys**: a naturalistic terrain base of open plains, valleys and rolling hills. * **Rivers**: large scale moving rivers that carve the landscape. * **Wildcraft: Trees and Shrubs**: dozens of new trees and shrubs for dense, varied forests. Ships with its Herbarium library.

### Atmosphere * **Real Smoke**: physics based smoke from fires and torches. * **Salty's Immersive: Lanterns**: lanterns that flicker and sway with the wind. * **Salty's Cave Symphony**: atmospheric cave ambience and environmental sound.

### World content * **BetterRuins**: ruins above and below ground, beautiful to stumble upon. * **Ancient Dungeons**: procedural underground dungeons to explore. * **VS Village**: villages and villagers that make the world feel alive.

## Recommended in game settings (crank it up) This pack is made for high end hardware. Open **Settings → Graphics** and push the visuals: * **View Distance:** 320 blocks or higher, Farseer keeps the far terrain readable. * **Shadows:** High or Ultra (2048+). * **SSAO:** On, high quality. * **Godrays:** On. * **Bloom:** On. * **Wavy grass and wavy water:** On. * **Foliage and grass density:** Lush or Dense. * **Particle level:** High. * **Fancy graphics:** On for water and leaves. * **Field of View:** 80 or higher for a cinematic feel.

## Per mod tips * **Plains and Valleys:** start a fresh world for the terrain to generate correctly, and use only one landform mod. * **BetterRuins / Ancient Dungeons / VS Village:** also best on a fresh world so structures spawn everywhere.

## Compatibility * **Vintage Story 1.22.3**, the latest stable release. * Client and server side, a fresh world is strongly recommended. * SheyderMod is a light, macOS friendly shader. Heavy shader mods (volumetric lighting and reflections) crash on macOS and are intentionally left out.