Lightyear Frontier Vintage Skin: How to Get It

The Vintage skin’s official name is Vintage Taxi

Players search for a vintage skin, but the item itself is the Vintage Taxi Mech Set. That is the name in the news headline, in the post body and in the reward description. If you are matching a screenshot or a video thumbnail, this is the set you are looking at: the studio’s taxi-themed set for the farmstead.

The set shipped with two paint buckets, Bronze and Black, for the primary and secondary colours. Paint and parts are separate jobs. The set decides the shape; the paint gun decides the colour, and swapping colours later does not change which set you own.

Related: how the mech upgrade slots work→

How to claim it from the mailbox

This is not a store purchase and it is not tied to one save file. The claim happens inside the game, and it takes about a minute once you have the two constructs standing on your farm.

1. Build a mailbox if the farm does not have one. It is in the building menu.
2. Open the mailbox and click the May Reward entry.
3. Build an upgrade depot if you have not already; the Halloween and festive posts call the same construct an upgrade dock.
4. Dock the mech and switch the set parts on.
5. Optional: load Bronze or Black paint and recolour the parts with the paint gun.

The 28 May post answers a related question: mech sets are saved to your account, so they show up in every save. Seeing the content splash on the main menu is enough to unlock, and the mailbox entry can be redeemed later.

The sets with a dated announcement

Four sets have a post with a date and a claim method. Two of them were advertised as limited, and two arrived after the studio stopped using expiry dates. The table keeps each set under the name its own announcement used.

Four dated posts, not a catalogue. The Halloween and festive posts never use the words “Mech Set”, so the table keeps their own names instead of renaming them.

Why the two “limited” sets are permanent

The original wording is the reason this question keeps coming up. Vintage Taxi was advertised for anyone playing “anytime between April 29th to May 31st”, and the Hot Rod post called Vintage’s 31 May end date a last chance before the set was “gone”. Both read as deadlines, and for three weeks they were.

On 18 June 2024 the studio reversed it. The CEO wrote that the May set was being made retroactively available to anyone logging in, and that both the May and June sets would stay available forever. The same post folded future monthly sets into regular game updates and said seasonal sets and decorations would be permanently available from the moment they appeared.

That is why the 2024 dates are history rather than access rules. A player starting today does not need to have logged in during May 2024, and does not need to have kept an old save.

One detail these posts cannot settle: they were written before the 1.0 rework, so the mailbox wording in the current build may not read exactly “May Reward”. If the set is listed in the mailbox, that is the entry.

Lagom is the default set, not a reward

Lagom turns up in patch notes with no reward window at all. The 16 October 2024 update changed the default colours of the Lagom mech set to dark blue and bronze. Nothing in that note calls it a login gift or a limited item, so it belongs with the starting look rather than with the four sets above.

The distinction matters when you read a list that mixes every skin with every unlock. A recoloured default and a claimed set are different things, and only one of them can be missed.

1.0 added a set the notes do not name

The 1.0 launch notes have one line about mech appearance: “Added a new Mech Set”. No name, no date, no acquisition steps. The Steam page sells the game and a soundtrack bundle; there is no skin pack in the store, so the new set is not paid DLC.

If a video or a list gives the 1.0 set a name, treat it as unconfirmed until the studio or the in-game menu says the same thing. The 1.0 page on this site takes the same position: the set exists, the name has not been published.

What else changed in 1.0→

What is missing, and why

There is no official index to copy from. The news feed carries single announcements, the community wiki has its own pages, and neither gives a dated inventory that covers the reward sets, the seasonal sets and the 1.0 set together. The wiki.gg mech page returned a 403 during this check, so it was not used as a source.

That leaves four confirmed sets and two named items without a claim method, which is more useful than a longer list with guesses in it. When the studio publishes names or a menu that can be checked, this page grows.