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Lithos is a lightweight, compatibility-focused server fork for Vintage Story.

The goal is simple: improve server performance without drifting too far away from vanilla behavior or making mods work around the server.

Lithos takes a much more conservative approach to optimization. Changes should be small, measurable, and easy to reason about. If an optimization requires heavily rewriting a vanilla system or creates significant compatibility problems, it probably does not belong here.

Goals

• Improve server performance where it actually matters
• Stay as close to vanilla behavior as reasonably possible
• Maintain strong compatibility with existing mods
• Avoid unnecessary rewrites of vanilla systems
• Keep the codebase small and understandable
• Require review and reasoning behind performance changes
• Make upgrades to newer Vintage Story versions manageable

What Lithos is not

Lithos is not intended to replace large parts of the Vintage Story server or become its own server platform.

It also is not Stratum Lite.

Stratum is a much more aggressive project and has been useful for experimenting with deeper changes to the server. Lithos takes what we have learned from that work and applies a different rule: start from vanilla and only change what we have a good reason to change.

Lithos is still early in development, so some of this will change as the project grows.