Geologic Review: Vintage Story, Part 1

Vintage story is an ambitious game that attempts to recreate many natural processes of the real world. This is part one of a review where I discuss how realistic it is compared to real life geology and my opinions on how to improve it. Extra Gneiss on this video    • (Extra Gneiss) Vintage Story Geologic Revi...   Intro: Discord: icarotkd Ending Music:    / dingyfried   Editing Contributions: Sashaccubus Patreon:   / gneissname   Discord:   / discord   Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gneiss.name BisectHosting was gracious enough to provide us with the Minecraft server we use for the community. If you are in the market for a server then you can use my code gneiss to get 25% off the first month when using any of their gaming servers. https://bisecthosting.com/gneiss References: By domdomegg - Own work, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Collins, B.D., Stock, G.M., Eppes, MC. et al. Thermal influences on spontaneous rock dome exfoliation. Nat Commun 9, 762 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02... Diversity of coccolithophores By Monteiro, F.M., Bach, L.T., Brownlee, C., Bown, P., Rickaby, R.E., Poulton, A.J., Tyrrell, T., Beaufort, L., Dutkiewicz, S., Gibbs, S. and Gutowska, M.A. - https://advances.sciencemag.org/conte..., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... McKey, Doyle & Rostain, Stéphen. (2015). Farming Technology in Amazonia. 10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_9893-2. By USGS - https://earthquake.usgs.gov/data/crus... archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/201502030..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... By USGS - Understanding Plate Motions at the Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Karst By United States - Figure 1 in Taylor, Charles J., and Earl A. Greene. "Hydrogeologic characterization and methods used in the investigation of karst hydrology." US Geological Survey (2008). Chapter 3 of Field Techniques for Estimating Water Fluxes Between Surface Water and Ground Water, Edited by Donald O. Rosenberry and James W. LaBaugh, Techniques and Methods 4–D2. Available from USGS at https://pubs.usgs.gov/tm/04d02/pdf/TM..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Heller, Paul & Liu, Lijun. (2016). Dynamic topography and vertical motion of the U.S. Rocky Mountain Region prior to and during the Laramide Orogeny. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 128. 10.1130/B31431.1. Watershed By Mheberger - Own work. Data for the watershed boundary and rivers data is from the US Geological Survey, obtained via the Hydro Network Linked Data Index (NLDI). Map created with the Python script described here: https://mghydro.com/?p=58. Map background by Stamen Design, CC BY 3.0. Background data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Ofiolite By Ofioliti.svg: Fradeve11derivative work: Woudloper (talk) - Ofioliti.svg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Diving Helmut By User:Claudio Elias - File:Escafandra01.JPGFile:Escafandra02.JPG, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... Biomes By Ville Koistinen (user Vzb83) - The blank world map in Commons and WSOY Iso karttakirja for the information.Referred to over a hundred sources, but here are some of the more extensively used ones: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...