A handful of large-scale mods (e.g., Primitive Survival, Medieval Expansion, or Tech Tycoon) have signed agreements with the Vintage Story development team to use an exclusive variant of vintagestorylib.dll. This variant includes pre-release hooks or proprietary optimizations not available to public modders. Running such a mod without the accompanying exclusive DLL results in immediate crashes.
Create a new C# Class Library project in Visual Studio. Reference: vintagestorylibdll exclusive
Write your transpiler or prefix patch:
[HarmonyPatch(typeof(EntityAgent), "SetMaxHealth")]
public static class ExclusiveHealthPatch
static void Prefix(EntityAgent __instance, ref float value)
// Override limit from 50 to 500
if (value > 50f) value = 500f;
The vintagestorylibdll exclusive is a double-edged sword. Here’s an honest assessment. A handful of large-scale mods (e