Mods / MightyBamboo
- Tags:
- Author:
- MIghtyGooga
- Side:
- Both
- Created:
- Jun 5th at 6:11 PM
- Last modified:
- Jun 15th at 12:35 PM
- Downloads:
- 1985
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Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.22.0 - 1.22.3, potentially outdated):
mightybamboo_1.5.3.zip 1-click install
Mighty Bamboo
A Vintage Story content mod that drastically expands the depth, utility, and aesthetic variety of bamboo. Make your long treks to the southern horizons truly rewarding with native harvesting, tiered storage, and a beautiful suite of organic structural elements.
Core Features
Dual-Variant Ecosystem New Variant
Introduces dedicated Green Bamboo Stakes that drop directly when cutting wild green bamboo culms, preventing them from automatically drying into brown variants. Both types retain their unique visuals through all crafting steps.
Upgraded Chests & Trunks Expanded Storage
Construct beautiful bamboo containers with either variant. To reward your southern travels, all bamboo chests and trunks possess a slight upgrade in inventory capacity over traditional vanilla storage solutions.
Atmospheric Bamboo Lanterns
Cast a warm, organic glow across your homestead with specialized lighting setups crafted from lightweight bamboo elements.
Crafting Recipes
Observations & Development
🚀 Roadmap
1. Finish all green variants of the vanilla bamboo objects.
2. Add new exciting items made of bamboo, and add some advantages to them.
3. Improve the Lantern texture.
⚠️ Attention
You can make the green variants of the bamboo by substituting the vanilla brown stakes in the recipes. All recipes are fully indexed and viewable inside the native in-game Handbook!
💡 Feedback
Suggestions are welcome! Leave your comments below with adjustments, bug sightings, or feature updates you would like to see next.
A Note on Mod Development
Some of the code in this mod was written with the help of AI tools, but this is far from a "vibe-coded" project. As a developer, I have invested hours of my own life orchestrating, analyzing, and directing this implementation. Every line of code, recipe modification, and asset patch was carefully designed, verified, and heavily tested in-game to meet the high standards of how this mod should look, feel, and behave.
This process has been an incredible learning experience for me. I am constantly diving deep into Vintage Story's modding patterns, and I am completely open to feedback! If you are a more experienced developer, please feel free to inspect the codebase directly on GitHub and suggest improvements or best practices.
| Mod Version | Mod Identifier | For Game version | Downloads | Released | Changelog | Download | 1-click mod install* |
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| 1.5.3 | mightybamboo | 1336 | Jun 15th at 12:35 PM | mightybamboo_1.5.3.zip | 1-click install | ||
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| 1.3.0 | mightybamboo | 649 | Jun 5th at 6:15 PM | mightybamboo_1.3.0.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Mod refuses to load for whatever reason, logs don't even have any error messages or warnings. Cannot find recipes in the handbook, and bamboo does not drop the required items.
(EDIT: I am dumb of ass, my mod path was incorrect after having copied my client settings over, mod works just fine lmao.)
Dear MIghtyGooga I was wondering if you could help a fella out with some info. I would like to remove the limitation placed on the scaffolding that makes it break if building out to the side. It limits the scaffolding so much hay bails are still better or at the very least you can't just carry scaffolding but must also carry hay for when you need to extend sideways. I have looked through the code of the mod, but I can't recognize the variable if there is one that would control that behavior. Can you point me in the right direction? I would be grateful.
Can you adjust the bamboo lamp so it doesn't float when you place it on something (or ideally so that it connects to blocks around it)
It looks pretty bad as a lamppost when it floats above the fencepost you sit it on.
Thanks!
Fixed the version thing. Let me know what you guys think.
It would be great if you added varnished bamboo beams, especially for tropical-style constructions.
it is asking for the 1.22.3 to load it
Yes its for the latest version of the game. 1.22.3
:)
why it says from 1.22.0 to 1.22.3 in the download?
Hmm. It should work on all 1.22 versions. Can you let me know if its not running for you? and what version are you on?
not working for 1.22.2 it asks for the 1.22.3
Please add patches for the other types of bamboo in the Floral Zone: East Asiatic Region mod.
They have ...
- Black Bamboo
- Fountain Bamboo
- Golden Bamboo
- Moso Bamboo
Thanks!
Black Bamboo sounds awsome! I´ll get to that, a little later, since I still want to implement a few things.
Please add assets from the obsolete Better Bamboo mod. I loved that mod! Especially their shutter windows!
I´ll take a look at the windows. I might be able to come up with something passable. Thanks for the suggestion.
Please add bamboo slabs, bamboo stairs and bamboo ladders!
Thanks!
I'd love to see the Better Bamboo version of fencing added in, too. While the crossbraced bamboo now in vanilla VS is neat, it does not look good when you want to make a single pole stand up from the rest, ie if you wanted to make a bamboo lamp post/support as part of your bamboo fence.
I noticed the same. Let em see if I can change that.
can we have a bamboo charcoal? its quite wide spread irl
Yes we can!
looks great!