Some hints and tips to help your blood sucking adventures.
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I will be rechecking the information with the fully released content and making changes as required.
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Happy Hunting!
Vampire GPS!
Right click any point on the world map to create a waypoint. The map will automatically draw you a path to follow to get to that waypoint!
The path will attempt to avoid settlements and other castles.
If you take a wrong turn, the the map will recalculate a new route for you!
The route will show up on your world map and on your mini-map, so you can get to your destination without having to keep checking the world map every few turns.
Reset Magic Spell Points
As you kill V Blood Bosses you will earn Spell points that are used to unlock spells in your spell book.
An Altar of Recollection is used to reset your Spell points. You can reset each magic school individually.
Resetting your Spell Points is free!
Charging Batteries
Depleted Batteries can be charged using lightning!
In the Stormdrain Hills area of Gloomrot North, you will find Lightning Harvesters. The harvesters charge Batteries in groups of 10, so you will need at least 10 depleted batteries in your bags to work the Harvester.
Stand in front of the Harvester and interact to open its menu. Click the ‘Charged Battery’ button and wait for the machine to do its work. If you stay near the machine then you are much less likely to get hit by lightning.
After you have charged the set of 10 batteries, remove the charged items from the Harvester. The Harvester will then become overloaded and you won’t be able to use it again for a short time (a few minutes).
Soul Shard Necklaces
Soul Shards are high powered Necklaces that drop from end game V Bosses. Each soul shard has passive buffs, and gives you an extra Ultimate Ability. You can choose to use the Soul Shard Ultimate by equipping the Soul Shard, or you can use an Ultimate from your normal spell schools by dragging your chosen ultimate back into the ultimate slot after equipping the Necklace.
Soul Shard of Solarus – Rewarded from killing Solarus the Immaculate
Soul Shard of the Winged Horror – Rewarded from killing Talzur the Winged Horror
Soul Shard of the Serpent – Rewarded from killing Megara the Serpent Queen
Soul Shard of the Monster – Rewarded from killing Adam the Firstborn
Soul Shard of Dracula – Rewarded from killing Dracula the Immortal King
To store the Soul Shard necklaces in your castle you will need to build a Soul Shard Pedestal to place it on. Each Soul Shard will need its own Pedestal. You cannot put Soul Shards in normal chests. Find the Pedestals in the storage section of the build menu after you have killed the related boss.
Having a Soul Shard equipped or in your bags may prevent you from teleporting or using Bat Form, depending on your servers settings.
The Soul Shard will lose durability over time, even when you are logged off! You can suck the blood of a Primal Blood Soul to regain 750 durability. You will find Primal Blood Souls at the end of Tier 2 Rift Incursions in the Ruins of Mortium area.
Eye of Mortium
The Eye of Mortium is available to build after you upgrade your castle heart to level 3, completing the quest ‘Reign Supreme’.
The Eye of Mortium will allow you to see the timer for Rift Incursions.
Rift Incursions
Rift Incursions are regular events the happen in the Ruins of Mortium area.
You can start participating in these at level 55-60.
The Rifts are invasion forces focused on a small settlement. There will be a few waves of monsters to defeat with a final boss in the middle at the end.
When you arrive at a Rift, follow the black wispy line to the area where the mini-event is. Kill all the baddies then go back to the middle of the Rift to follow the next black line and kill the baddies there too. Repeat until the Blood Soul Boss shows up in the middle, then kill the boss!
Tier 1 Rift Incursions reward Stygian Shards.
Tier 2 Rift Incursions reward Greater Stygian Shards.
The shards will drop on the floor to be collected after each mini-event and after the end boss.
Stygian Shards can be used to unlock passive buffs at the Altar of Stygian Awakening. They can also be used at vendors in Ruins of Mortium to buy sweet loots.
During the Rift Incursions you may also find Scrolls that unlock specific buffs at the Altar of Stygian Awakening. If you already have the buff that the scroll unlocks then you can pop it in the devourer to break down for Stygian Shards.
Bags
There are many types of bags available, some which will be looted from mobs out in the world.
The best bags are crafted, you will unlock these by killing various V Bosses.
Use a Leatherworking Station to craft your bags, this is unlocked when you kill the V ‘Lidia the Chaos Archer’ (Level 30).
7 Slots – Leather Bag
Unlock recipe by killing Lidia the Chaos Archer (Level 30)
10 Slots – Silver Thread Bag
+200 Silver Coin Carry Immunity
Unlock recipe by killing Christina the Sun Priestess (Level 44)
13 Slots – Mountain Peak Bag
+300 Silver Coin Carry Immunity & +26 Max Health
Unlock recipe by killing Frostmaw the Mountain Terror (Level 53)
15 Slots – Pristine Leather Bag
+400 Silver Coin Carry Immunity & +34 Max Health & +10% Resource Yield
Unlock recipe by killing Willfred the Village Elder (Level 64)
18 Slots – Bat Leather Bag
+500 Silver Coin Carry Immunity & +42 Max Health & +10% Resource Yield & +25 Sun Resistance Rating
Unlock recipe by killing Gorecrusher the Behemoth (Level 83)
Wagons
Wagons (Wandering carts) travel the world, containing loot for you to plunder!
They will contain different materials, books, and a chance to loot Shattered Weapons.
Doorbell
The Doorbell is an item that your visitors can use to announce their request for entry.
Place it at your entrance way to save the knuckles of your visitors, no more banging on the door for them!
Curse of the Forest
When you first enter the Cursed Forest you will get a stacking debuff called ‘Curse of the Forest’. As the stacks of this debuff get higher, a mist will form around you and your mini map will grey over. This will make navigation through the forest very hard.
To get rid of the debuff you need to be wearing a special Cape, called ‘Shroud of the Forest’.
The recipe for this Cape is unlocked by killing the V Boss called ‘Ben the Old Wanderer’. Ben walks around in the forest and you will need to rely on the blood trail to track him.
Move slowly through the forest to avoid pulling too many adds at once! If you run into Gorecrusher.. then it’s best to run away as fast as you can!
Once Ben is dead you will have the recipe unlocked for the ‘Shroud of the Forest’ cape. You can craft the cape from your character’s crafting screen, no need to hurry back to your castle! It costs 200 Pristine hide, 200 Plant Fibre and 20 Ghost Shroom, all of which can be quickly farmed while in the Cursed Forest area.
With the cape equipped, you will no longer have the Curse of the Forest debuff. Make sure to take it with you whenever you want to farm in the Cursed Forest in the future!
Jewels
Jewels will be looted from random mobs, or found inside chests as you level through the game. To equip them, open up your spell book, select the spell and then click to choose/equip a Jewel.
- If you don’t already have a Jewel equipped to a spell, then you can equip it by just right clicking the Jewel in your inventory.
- If you have a selection of Jewels in your bags then when you click each spell, the Jewels for that spell will show under the spell Jewel slot, so you can easily compare them.
- Kill the V ‘Raziel the Shepherd’ to unlock the Jewelcrafting Table, allowing you to craft Tier 2 Jewels.
- Kill the V ‘Mairwyn the Elementalist’ to unlock the recipe to craft Tier 3 Jewels.
- Kill the V ‘General Valencia the Depraved’ to unlock the recipe to craft Tier 4 Jewels.
Shattered Weapons
Kill the V called ‘Octavian the Militia Captain’. You will then be able to create an Ancestral Forge. This can be used to restore shattered weapons that you loot around the world.
Restoring these weapons takes high end crafting mats. The weapons are different quality/levels depending on where you loot them from. They all have extra stats and bonuses compared to normal crafted weapons.
Damaged Gear
You will have a message on screen that will tell you when you gear is damaged.
Hover over your gear to see which item has been damaged and then get the materials needed to fix it into your bags (or Treasury).
You can then hover over the damaged item and press your middle mouse button (default) to repair your gear.
While hovering over the item you will be able to see the item menu at the bottom of your character sheet, here you will see the command for repair.
Building Stairs
Stairs can be placed in most areas of your territory, but you will want to make sure there is space for the first upper floor tile. When you have placed your stairs, walk up them until you are near the top and then you should be able to place the first floor tile of the next level easily.
Placing floor tiles when you have rooms below can be a bit tricky as the roof seems to be in the way. Select your floor tile and hover over the area in front of the stairs. You will notice you cannot see the preview of the floor as it is hidden by the roof, however you can see that the magic emanating from your hand will turn blue instead or red when you have the tile in the right place.
Floor tiles you place on your upper floors will still count towards your heart floor tile limit.
Deleting Stairs
Deleting stairs can often be tricky as there are many requirements, try this checklist..
- You cannot delete a staircase if that is the only way/route to get to the next floor. Either create another staircase to join the next floor to the one below, or delete all floor tiles that are on the next floor.
- If there are walls or pillars that are touching the stairs but are not joined to any other floor tile then you will need to delete them. It is best to delete any joining walls or pillars until the staircase has nothing touching it!
- Don’t be stood on your stairs while you are trying to delete them.
Relocate your Castle
Moving your castle to a different plot of land used to be a brutal affair, with many trips required across the map to be able to move all your items.
The item ‘Castle Relocation Heart’ has been created to make this much easier! It also enables you to keep all your servants and prisoners from your previous castle.
Unlock the ability to build Castle Relocation Heart by completing the quest ‘The first book in the library’.
To start the Relocation process, leave your current castle as it is, head over to a new plot of land with just 100 Blood Essence to build your Castle Relocation Heart.
Interact with the Relocation Heart and you will asked to link it to another heart that you own on the map. Select the castle heart that you want to transfer and the process will begin. You will be able to cancel the process at any time by interacting with the heart again and selecting to cancel.
Note: Once the Relocation Heart is down you wont be able to leave your new plot until you are finished building and have transferred your castle. Leaving the plot will cancel the transfer.
After you start the process you will be given a quest to relocate. It will ask you to place Mandatory Structures and Some Travel Bags.
Open up the build menu and build each item until they are all greyed out, you don’t need to lay out your castle perfectly at this point, you can just chuck stuff down to get it over here!
In the castle foundation menu you will see the travel bags, place these to hold all your items during the move.
Mandatory items include..
- All Chests – Even empty ones
- Servant Coffins
- Prisons
- Crafting Stations
- The Travel Bags!
As you build, you will notice that the items are not ‘visually complete’. Only when you click to finish the relocation will your items be properly built and moved over.
When you have placed every item, go back to the Relocation Heart and finish the Relocating process.
All items that were not part of the Mandatory selection will be broken down into their materials and placed in the travel bags. Your old plot of land will now be completely clear of all items, ready for its next owner!
Hint: Bigger castles will have a lot of Mandatory items, this can make it more difficult to move! It may be best to demolish many of the structures in your original castle, so that the materials get moved over for you rather than the structures themselves. Some players may prefer to completely rebuild their entire castle in the new plot before hitting the button to transfer, its up to you! The Travel Bags count as a Mandatory item!
Note: The Travel Bags will mostly have the materials used to create the walls, floors, windows, and doors that you did not rebuild, as well as seeds from the garden! The Travel Bags will disappear once you have emptied them.
Getting into the Silver Mine
The entrance to the Silver Mine is blocked off by a gate which can only be opened from inside.
To get into the Silver Mine, go up the path on the right side (shown in red on the pic). This path is an entrance only, you need to drop down at the end and you will not be able to get back up.
When you are finished farming your silver, to get out of the Silver mine you need to walk all the way through the mine to the southern part where the gate is. Walk up to the gate and hold down F to open it.
Beware of Sir Magnus the Overseer, wait for him to path away from the gate if you are not ready to kill him yet!
Changing game settings
Open V-Rising, go to the Load Game menu where you can see your list of servers.
Select your server on the list, to the right you will see the ‘Edit Settings’ button in the corner.
This button allows you to edit most settings within the server without having to faff about with notepad.
If you want to edit the file instead, then click ‘Go to Directory’ on the right side, this will open up a folder on your PC with the save game info in it.
Open up the file (with notepad) called ‘ServerGameSettings’. In here you will see all the adjustments you made to your server when you created it.
Have a play with the numbers to see the results in game!
You can see a PDF with all the Parameters here.
If you don’t have experience with coding then editing this file can be tricky. You may find it easier just to create a whole new private server with the settings you want, then go into that servers settings file and copy the whole thing and paste it into the file for the server you want to play on, replacing all the data for the new settings.