100 Days in Vintage Story: Arctic Challenge (Hardcore Edition)

In this brand new edition of 100 days in Vintage Story, I attempt to survive in the most hostile environment currently possible, the Arctic. I will teleport myself to the North Pole and give it my best shot not to starve or freeze to death. Join me for the hardest challenge yet!
Intro music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio
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[@Pr1vateLime]

YOOOO i loved the video man! Awesome to see you carry the northern survival torch!!! It looks like a lotta fun!

[@Oscillascape]

Hey Pr1vateLime fancy to see you here. Love your channel btw. Your video was certainly an inspiration.

[@nilbadia2936]

next challenge could be only underground, though i think it's impossible :v

[@Oscillascape]

Problem with that idea, is that you can't break blocks by hand like you can in Minecraft and caves are not as extensive. So unless you cheat yourself mining picks I don't see anyway to do it!

[@doop4wow540]

Maybe if you add a mod with a flint pick that can only mine stone

[@cdgonepotatoes4219]

Maybe a hell world by modifying the spawning of drifters

[@nilbadia2936]

@@Oscillascape would be cool tho :v

[@nilbadia2936]

@@Oscillascape actually there's a mod that lets you craft bone pickaxes and break rocks (only rocks)

[@user-ug4cs2cq6c]

I always liked near impossible challenges in survival games! It is always interesting to watch, which strategies people develop to survive. Also, there is option called Global Temperature, that allows to create even colder planet! I`m not entirely sure, how agriculture works in Vintage Story. Perhaps, you can put garden just under the skies and still get half yield. And who is Misha?

[@Oscillascape]

No, nothing grows below 0 C, so you gota hit that or bust. It can dip below without destroying the plant but only up to plants cold tolerance. There is little point to make the planet colder, besides completely making farming impossible which will force you to hunt most of your time haha. Maybe I'll try perma winter Arctic one day. Misha is my brother that passed away from an overdose. He is the one who inspired me to do KZbin. We used to make videos together. There is one on my channel with him in it. It's pretty easy to figure out which one that is.

[@SpaceCircIes]

​@Oscillascape I'm sorry to hear that. Drugs have hurt my friends and family, too. Sending good vibes.

[@SlimiestGaming]

WOO, YEAH BABY! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT! Been waiting for more Vintage Story from you bro. I love watching this game!

[@Oscillascape]

If you like vintage story, there will be more, I promise 😉

[@SlimiestGaming]

@@cbv2673 I actually bought the game because of this guy's videos. The vanilla game is great, so far in 30 hours in and I'm eyeballing some mods to potentially download too 👀. I totally agree with you

[@Oscillascape]

@@cbv2673 Agreed. I'll be doing my part to spread the word.

[@MonAmour38]

Multi block ships are on the road map so I love that you’re working with the idea already

[@Oscillascape]

Haha, that would be hilarious if I could make a ship of this size swim in the ocean. That would be dope.

[@mdbgamer556]

Whoever Misha is, may they rest in peace. This was an excellent video! :D

[@Oscillascape]

Thanks! He was my brother who inspired me to do KZbin in the first place, passed a few years ago to OD.

[@blitzie66]

thank you for sharing content with us about this awesome game, im sorry for your loss. you are awesome

[@Oscillascape]

@@blitzie66 thank you so much. Comments like these give me so much motivation to keep going!

[@blitzie66]

@@Oscillascape we appreciate what you’re doing man, keep it up!

[@rokevh7800]

@@Oscillascape I bet he'd be proud of how far you've come

[@NobleChaos]

YEAAAHHHHH ANOTHER VINTAGE STORY VID LETS GOOOOO Edit: im watching it while eating. Thats right, its getting the supper treatment, top tier video

[@Oscillascape]

Thanks for kind words! Hope you like it.

[@NobleChaos]

@@Oscillascape I should be thanking you for the awesome videos that you do, especially this one (so far so good). Keep up the good work!

[@Oscillascape]

@@NobleChaos you are too sweet.

[@ConstantinSPurcea]

This man singlehandedly killed polar bears to extinction.

[@Oscillascape]

Good. I hate bears and so will you if you are going to play this game:)

[@shaun9156]

7:12 I see what you did there.

[@Oscillascape]

Haha I gota rewatch. I don't even know what is at 7:12 😇

[@angelsilvagarcia3676]

I like how much you have improved and hope you keep doing this as not many KZbinrs paly this game and maybe a full 365 day would be fun to watch like exploring all the biomes and things like that

[@Oscillascape]

Thanks. I do feel like I improved, although I still don't like my voice, but that's what mom gave me! I have large plans for vintage story. It will be a bulk of content on this channel!

[@resetkl9735]

@@Oscillascape I see nothing wrong with your voice, don't worry. Also amazing videos, keep it up!👍

[@Oscillascape]

@@resetkl9735 Thanks. Trust me, if you saw my recording process you would think otherwise. Sometimes it feels like I have a mouth full of spaghetti as I am reading my scripts. It has gotten better of course and will continue to improve❤️

[@seanjohnston9384]

Only just picked up vintage story and only watched your last 100 days last week, cant wait for third installment

[@Oscillascape]

Thanks! There will be a third one:)!

[@Kurazarrh]

Nice work! That's a serious challenge, and you built a beautiful ship while surviving, to boot! Love it!

[@Oscillascape]

I needed to build something nice after the atrocity of my very first 100 day video!

[@Siegeholm]

You inspired me to get this game and to play it for myself!! You're a legend 👍❤️

[@Oscillascape]

It's a great one, you will not regret it. Thanks for the kind words ♥️

[@easye3549]

Great plot. I watched the entire episode and I want more. And you know what? You are my inspiration if you know what I mean 🙂

[@Oscillascape]

And you are mine!

[@bewot]

This is what i was waiting for! Nice job!

[@Oscillascape]

And I was waiting for this comment!

[@guillermorojas9641]

Great video man, looking forward to seeing more of yours

[@Oscillascape]

Many more to come this year!

[@styrofoamcow6996]

Just found your channel and I'm loving the vintage story vids!

[@Oscillascape]

There will be a lot more in 2024!

[@chikirin9349]

loved the b oat idea for the Arctic! definitely a cozy vibe

[@Oscillascape]

Thanks! I didn't have a plan going in, but a boat made thematic and story sense!

[@Shotgun-Cat]

its great to see more of this and i might get it because of you

[@Oscillascape]

Get it! It's good fun. Glad you like these videos, there will be more.

[@toreadoress]

These are the series that are super fun to watch, but definitely not fun to play for yourself. Thank you for your sacrifice. I found the game about 3 weeks ago and now I'm addicted to it. It would be cool to see the opposite of arctic challenge - only desert survival, but sadly so far the game doesn't have fully implemented desert biomes (beside few patchy chunks of sand and gravel) and the means and mechanics to survive there, combat heat etc.

[@Oscillascape]

Yes, the desert challenge would be a lot easier. The hardest thing would be food spoil rate and heat damage with growing crops. I am planning to try it though this year. Stay tuned!

[@madeye6896]

Please more!! Please 200 days!

[@Oscillascape]

I will be doing 200 days. My next video will be a permanent world that I want to work on continuously through the years. It will go beyond the 100 days frame, 200, 300...1000😎

[@EdnaDicen-rq1zn]

A great morning to start with the video❤🎉

[@Oscillascape]

It's 11pm here, so you are clearly in a different time zone:) hope you like it!

[@gameboy9812]

Just an FYI, you can combine 2 chests and make a big trunk

[@Oscillascape]

Thanks! A few people already pointed it out:)

[@nilbadia2936]

really cool video!!! super fun :)

[@Oscillascape]

Glad you liked it!

[@vipertoxic8593]

Finaly another one lets go baby that what i have been waiting for thats all its about whoooo !!!!❤❤❤

[@Oscillascape]

Happy you are excited! I am excited to make more of these for viewers like you next year! Happy holidays:)

[@vipertoxic8593]

@@Oscillascape happy holydays to you too ❤️

[@alkhaov]

May Misha rest in peace, i think so he wouldve been happy to see your channel thrive with this content :)

[@Oscillascape]

Agreed he would have been. He would probably be making Vintage Story videos along with me.

[@zerotohero553]

Nicely done!

[@Oscillascape]

Thanks!

[@GhostTeamx]

Your Vintage Story videos are lit

[@Oscillascape]

If you like them, I got a lot of fun Vintage Story videos planned out for 2024!

[@VitorEmanuelOliver]

I believe the rabbits that drop nothing are actually baby rabbits. But I could be wrong

[@tuftypinkchicken]

That. Is. Beautiful. Fun vid!

[@Oscillascape]

Glad you liked it. I have a lot more planned in the future!

[@forhonor8457]

One of my favorite KZbinrs ngl also one of my favorite games on top of it

[@Oscillascape]

Vintage Story and Oscillascape, what's not to like? 💪

[@Andreavorhies2010]

Dang! Well done🎉🎉🎉

[@Oscillascape]

Thanks! Glad you like it.

[@Niko-yl3du]

Good video. Keep making more Vintage Story.

[@Oscillascape]

Thank you and I will.

[@exiafk2470]

im your 1000th follower gratz

[@Oscillascape]

Thanks!!! 🎉🎉🎉 Hard to believe it finally happened. Feelsgoodman

[@tabby_powl]

Now we need a volcano mod for the reverse of the challenge

[@Oscillascape]

Might be hard, but I am up for a challenge. I want to do a desert challenge this year, which is sorta the reverse.

[@bigbubbsblue]

I just watched an hour long video about hunter bears

[@Oscillascape]

Do you not have anything better to do? 🤣

[@kevinknight287]

Great video! Desert challenge next!

[@Oscillascape]

That's on my radar for 2024, stay tuned.

[@gaddiusgaddium9082]

How!? How did you outrun that bear!? The bears in my world are a menace to sobriety.

[@Oscillascape]

You really can't. Sometimes they choose to stop chasing you, is what happened to me.

[@gaddiusgaddium9082]

@@Oscillascape Wild, crazy. Your luck is A tier, bro

[@kidtea]

Lets gooooooooooooooo only a week ago since you replied to my message about vintage story, legend

[@Oscillascape]

Haha, small enough channel that I can still respond to everyone! Anyway, if you like vintage story, there will be more, I promise 😉

[@martinlysy]

awesome ship, but that windmill looked kinda wacky.

[@Oscillascape]

The windmill was just a quick afterthought. I just quickly cobbled it together. Although, I didn't think it looked that bad😂

[@rahul9704]

Petition to collectively name all these challenges "Enns mode"

[@Oscillascape]

I don't get it, what's an enns?

[@rahul9704]

@@Oscillascape The first Cold Start VS player, Enns13, who spawned all of these cold/icy world attempts. He plays on very punishing settings though. In addition to your settings, no mods, no map, 150% dmg modifier, snowball earth, worst class for the arctic (Blackguard for the worst ranged accuracy and high hunger), and he refuses to do cheesy things like 2 block hole. As a result he makes very little progress episode on episode, but it feels like true wilderness survival and is very entertaining. Although I will say yours is the only other Cold Start that I really enjoyed the whole time because it was in the spirit of survival. Surviving permanight was interesting. While I liked Pr1vateLime's series, I did not think it was in the same spirit. Really epic ship build for such a punishing challenge though! I liked your first 100 days video too, and if you do a full series it'd be fun to watch; a shame we're missing out on all the content.

[@Oscillascape]

@@rahul9704 I gota check him out! Truthfully I started with Minecraft where ice spikes was my favorite challenge. So it was only a matter of time till I tried it in VS! I will be doing more challenges and harder stuff as I get better at the game.

[@rahul9704]

@@Oscillascape Sounds great 😄

[@Mrbanana1113]

A good tip for panning is you dont need to click on the water, you can just hold your cursor at the bottom of a pannable block and right click until its gone 👌

[@Oscillascape]

I know that! Maybe the video made it look like I didn't. Thanks for the tip though! ♥️

[@user-fe2jg8yy9z]

love it

[@Oscillascape]

And I love you 😚

[@VisiVersa]

i guess hell really did freeze over!

[@Oscillascape]

Those -60C nights will do that!

[@gaddiusgaddium9082]

2:40 Malefactor superiority!

[@Oscillascape]

I was very much underrating the class. It's a very smooth start, although it doesn't offer much late game.

[@gaddiusgaddium9082]

@@Oscillascape I'll never see late game. I'm leaving the stone age IRL, soon 🤣

[@grandfremdling3841]

Very good 👍

[@Oscillascape]

Appreciate it!

[@MaliciousSmack]

I didn't like the first 100 days video, but this one for sure was better. The last one left a sour taste because at the end it sounded like you didn't really like the game and also seemed like you were applying a lot of Minecraft mentality straight to VS. This time around though, you seemed like you have adapted to VS a little better and apart from the fact that your windmills still look unpleasing, it feels way more VS, proving my point that VS is better if you don't compare it with MC. So yeah, much better this time around and you really impressed me by creating a huge ship with so limited resources through sheer perseverance. I'd love to see a modded arctic challenge without underground farming though. I think primitive survival feels much more VS than underground farming, so that would be pretty great.

[@Oscillascape]

You are probably right about Minecraft mentality. It's hard to break. I am starting to understanding the game a lot better and its inherently limitations and working in the spirit of the game. There is a definite drive for me to min-max in my games and perhaps vintage story is best be taken slowly. Although I feel like iron tools are an absolute necessity for me. Other ones break too damn quick. I imagine getting iron will always a top priority. Regardless, I am glad you liked this one better. There will be plenty more and hopefully I can express my love for the game through the videos. It is a phenomenal game!

[@RollerBaller]

Ngl a lot of the moments in this video felt very convenient. Iron right were you were digging for a farm, a whole STACK of blue clay, saltpeter at the entrance of the first cave you found, an aged wooden bed just at random. I guess this video ain't exactly for my tastes.

[@Oscillascape]

That's fine. Sorry you didn't enjoy the video. Random is random mate. Maybe check out my future ones, perhaps I won't be as lucky.

[@RollerBaller]

@@Oscillascape it might be more likely that I prefer watching challenging games and vintage story can be such a game. However a lot of people enjoy your content, so don't change for 1 viewer, you're doing fine

[@Sarum9nich]

They added new animals in 1.19, some of them will spawn in the arctic. Living arctic is much easier now if you can get pass 1st day.

[@Oscillascape]

Interesting. I gotta see what animals are those. I think making artic more survivable is a good idea long term for Vintage Story devs.

[@Sarum9nich]

@@Oscillascape its a monkey paw thing. They made early survival easier due to easier access to red meat. But traders no longer exist in arctic.

[@Sarum9nich]

@@Oscillascape but they also removed traders from arctic. Early survival is easier, long term prosperity is harder.

[@aricabramson7688]

storytelling matters more than skill in a 100 day video.

[@Oscillascape]

Are you praising the storytelling? Cause I don't feel like I am that skilled in VS yet😂

[@effortless4588]

QWESOME VUDEO

[@Oscillascape]

Glud you loiked it.

[@alexanderff6272]

LY2 buddy XD nice run. but 100 days is not the point. i usually play like 3 ingame years to get to somewhere. in case of snowball. or wait. it wasnt a snowball in ur run it seems. so u can try. no any changes to survival. only icy world and snowball earth. so u start from kinda deep north. North is a Meteoric valley. its pretty ez to get lots of it there. idk if its rly better than blackguard, i just prefer meteoric chainmail. i also play 200 minig speed and 200 durability to make digging not that boring. i can recommend TraderCamps mod, cuz polar is a trading world mostly. also "fireclay from panning" and "auto panning"is fair enough imo. and i just got one interesting info. one guy checked 100k south in snowball world in creative and found pretty summer like landscapes there it seems. so am not sure what to think about it now. i was sure its a snow BALL, but maybe its not. for me challenging point was to grow a rice in the middle of frekin north. i dont use underground farming. only greenhouses. u cant do it first summer and temperature is not the most trouble. most trouble is sunlight. its getting dark too fast if u grow rice on not fertlilized soil. so u have to prepare ur soil and catch a correct day. also keep it watered 100%. the only way to get it grown with no cold damage ;) so i see it a pretty good challenge to put a base right where u spawned ish, spend like 2-3 years, collect like 300gers and prepare for big jorney to 100k south. i have a 2yers snowball world and am gonna check if its rly summer on 100k i go then =)

[@alexanderff6272]

nvm. nothing interesting on 100k south. yeh its clay there, yeh sheeps, yeh wild rye, but nothing else. no point. even summer there is not a summer. its +1 summer and like -5 winter. wierd stuff.

[@Oscillascape]

Very cool! I didn't know about snowball earth setting when I did the challenge. Underground farm was unnecessary, it was warm enough, you right.

[@siegodertriumphalertod]

Iam pretty sure that guy is lying to us, he died several times

[@Oscillascape]

Sure. Whatever you say:)

[@Runovaris]

Is there a reason why you don't tend to use trunks? They give more storage space than two chests by themselves.

[@Oscillascape]

Trunks? Is that a thing? I'll look at the recipe book. I am still fairly new to Vintage Story, learning something every time I play.

[@Runovaris]

@@Oscillascape Yep! Combine two chests to make a trunk.

[@zhehui]

Commenting before the official watch hope you know how to make double chests.

[@Oscillascape]

Yes I do. No clue why I never use them when it's my default in Minecraft. I'll use them next time I promise.

[@GewelReal]

36:34 typical Minecraft mistake

[@Oscillascape]

You always hope it doesn't happen to you, and then it does.

[@zackerytyler7021]

Love the video, but copper laterns do not provide a lot of light, unlike iron ones

[@Oscillascape]

Not according to wiki. There is no difference between the type of metal for lanterns, it's always 18 light level. You can use a liner to bump it up to 20.

[@zackerytyler7021]

@Oscillascape ah must have mix up oil lamps from laterns then ty

[@inub1579]

did you have the crops grow underground setting on

[@Oscillascape]

Correct. You have too, otherwise you can't grow anything past certain depth and it's not very deep at all. Honestly it was probably unnecessary. I did not expect it to be warm enough at the North Pole, but I could have grown on the surface just fine, just a bit shorter season, but I also could have started earlier not having to work on the underground project to begin with.

[@MasterCakeX5]

I really like the video! Only thing I would improve is the way of narrating because honestly it sounds as if you were bored or annoyed. But maybe that is only my interpretation. I encountered that style of narrating in a lot of 100 day videos from different creators and always wonder why they are so annoyed all the time like reading a boring script :D

[@Oscillascape]

Well that's just my voice I suppose. I assure you, I am not bored, but I am trying to pace myself. Reading 14 pages of script is tough, so perhaps I sound less energetic because I am trying to not burn my voice half way through. I am slowly improving in that department, my voice recording skills are probably my weakest point.

[@gofr36]

There is some thing like a wrench in minecraft but u can only get it with commands

[@Oscillascape]

Interesting, I had no idea, that is useful to know.

[@gofr36]

@@Oscillascape debug stick or smth

[@darthjesus7959]

excellent. Good to know that after 3 months you still can't say the word "crucible" right. But hey, at least you've got more than one language under your belt.

[@Oscillascape]

How do you pronounce it haha? I am 100% looking it up now. Although pronunciation was never my strong suit clearly.

[@jakeking974]

I wasn't nearly so ballsy, but my first run after getting an initial feel for the game was inspired by PrivateLime's Arctic survival run where I set monster spawns to 10 days out and spawned myself in the glaciers and my objective was to run as far South as I could until I was forced to stop before getting myself killed and resetting to spawn. It took me like a week and I even killed bears with flint spears before I had a home, but once I got to a biome with TREES and CATTAILS, I was absolutely hype. I actually made it all the way to the iron age (technically) until a mod conflict prevented me from cooking bricks to make bloomeries, completely cockblocking me from iron and steel. RIP decent runs, right? I'm currently about 1-2 weeks in a run and I already have bronze tools, an anvil, leather on the way, and I have about three times as much tin as I have copper to makes whatever else I want and I'm STILL waiting to see what exactly breaks everything and forces me to retire the run.

[@Oscillascape]

Could you not disable the mod and continue playing? Sounds like a very successful run. As long as it's fun, it doesn't matter how hard it is. Some of my favorite runs were the hardest where nothing went my way. Update me on your current run once it ends!

[@calebbradley7151]

Anyone know of a cheap laptop that can run this on normal settings? After watching i want to play just bad u got my sub!

[@Oscillascape]

I think if you go to gaming laptop sub-reddit. You can find people posting deals all the time. I think you can buy something in the 600-800 dollar range that might do the trick.

[@Gaiwwie]

Ohh

[@Oscillascape]

🤪

[@Gaiwwie]

Can you do this in real life too???, I would like to watch it too

[@Oscillascape]

I would one hundred percent die in a day or two, but there is a dope TV show called Alone. That's basically that.

[@Gaiwwie]

@@Oscillascape next challenge is desert, but I don't remember does desert exit in this game 😂

[@pestilentsleeper9152]

What is your modlist?

[@Oscillascape]

I added a mod list to the description of the video. I played with a few less mods then I normally do because I was trying to keep it vanilla besides the QOL mods. If you want to see my more typical mod list, my most recent videos also has a list in the description.

[@jakepierson6208]

Will there be a 200 days?

[@Oscillascape]

Not an arctic challenge. But I am going to start a long term Vintage Story world next with the idea of doing 200, 300 days etc. Arctic is missing a little too many resources for me to want to commit long term. Video coming in a few weeks.

[@jakepierson6208]

@@Oscillascape Excellent. Also, there's a good chance that crop spawnrates are absoluteley borked.

[@kylekemp3995]

If you give creedance to a creator in-video, please link their content in description.

[@Oscillascape]

I mentioned him once as a passing joke. Doubt he needs me shouting out his channel, considering he is about infinity larger than my channel.

[@shinobisblackcat]

Stream live please.

[@Oscillascape]

Sorry. My current life does not allow that. I live in a tiny studio with small kids. Scripted is what I can do, even then it requires kicking out the fam. Once we have a bigger place though, I want to try. Maybe this year.

[@rudiger86]

Wtf is drip

[@Oscillascape]

Drip is a colloquial word for fashionable clothe and accessories, at least in US.