V Rising Base Building Guide: How to make Best Castle and how much space do you need.

This Guide will help you to build the best Base in V Rising, even if you are a beginner player. You can follow the main guidelines to get the basic ideas of different Base rooms or just learn everything you need to know and build your base your way, as you want it.

A detailed guide on managing space vs. aesthetic in your castle, from the very start to the very end.

There are gameplay tips sprinkled throughout, but is by no means an exhaustive gameplay guide.

Castle Building Basic in V Rising

• Pressing B will open your Build menu, and that buildings will be stored under different tabs within that menu (ie. Sawmill is under Refinement).
  
• Boundaries can only be dismantled if all connected walls and pillars, even those touching the edges of that boundary, are dismantled first.
  
• Verticality is only accomplished with stairs! Connect a boundary to a slope, then build wooden or stone stairs to extend the boundary up or down.
  
• Want to save the trees? Just don’t build a Border on it! You can even remove Borders later and whatever was originally in its place will gradually grow back.
  
• Make sure your Castle Heart is fed with plenty of Blood Essence by interacting with it (F) to check its UI! Castles will automatically repair damage taken if they have Essence.
  
• Castle Hearts can now be placed anywhere as of the June 9th 2022 patch! Feel free to place your Heart in any room of your choosing, be it its own area, behind the Throne, or even wobbling menacingly in your Prison.

PvE and PvP Server Base Building in V Rising

When joining an Official (or unofficial) V Rising server, your strategy will have to change when it comes to your base castle that is listed in this guide. Especially true in PvP, you’ll have to largely forgo aesthetic for structure and security.

I won’t be deep-diving into details, but here’s some barebones basics of building in public worlds.

Priorities:

• Identify a Safe Area
• Secure your Borders
• Wall up!
• Create Airlocks for Entry/Exit
• PvP: Doing this within your 30 minute Combat Protection buff

“What do you mean by Safe Area?”
How building works in V Rising is that you’re able to build almost anywhere on the road, except on roads.
To avoid being built-in by other players and blocked from potential exits – yes, this can happen on PvE servers and is one of the only forms of non-PvP griefing – you want to have an extension to a road.

As the default Territory Tile Limit for Level 1 Castles is 30, the minimum items you should gather are 60 Blood Essence and 600 Stone, to make sure you can claim all of your boundary tiles.
From there, you can keep returning to your new base to add on walls (make sure to fully enclose yourself before putting down Stashes!).

“What’s an Airlock?”
A common protective measure against other players simply running inside your base when you open your door to leave. You open one door, step inside to the airlock and close it, before opening the proper Entry/Exit door to move out.

Here’s a two-door airlock example, though three-door airlocks are more common on PvP worlds (I’d certainly put more than that one airlock around your Heart!).

Best Base Locations Guide for V Rising

The first task of any aspiring Base building in V Rising is to locate a suitable place to start building.

Of course, the best place for a beginner is within the first area of the game: Farbane Woods.

If you are more advanced player and know the game basics, it might be a better idea to move to a different areas in order to get access to higher tier resources easier.

Floor Plan

The first step is deciding whether you want to build a single-level castle on a wide stretch of ground, or a multi-level castle on a mountainside. These images are examples of identifying each type of available ground.

Important!

When building base on a mountainside, you can’t normally extend boundaries up or down natural slopes. The only way to extend your castle’s boundaries here is to use the Wooden or Stone Stairs building options, as shown here.

Currently there’s is no way to build an awning or any type of shade over a staircase, so just keep that in mind for your sun-fearing friends.

With a location chosen and your Castle Heart set down, now comes the planning stage for each room, in order of progression.

Workshop Base Building Guide for V Rising

The Sawmill is the very first Refinement building you’ll make when building a base in V Rising, and it’s essential to progress with further buildings, as planks are used from everything to building walls and doors, larger stashes for your loot (storage chests), various equipment, and furniture.

You’ll be returning to this room very often throughout the game along with the Forge, so it should be somewhere you can always easily access.

The In Confined Castle Room criteria (closed room + roof + door/archway) gives a 25% buff to the crafting and refinement rate of all applicable stations.
Workshop Flooring is learned after defeating Greyson the Armourer, and reduces the cost of refinement of applicable stations by 25%!

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 2×2
Roomy Floor Plan: 2×3

Forge Base Building Guide for V Rising

“Hang on, shouldn’t the Simple Workbench be in the Workshop?”
Yeah, you’d think so, but it actually gains its crafting speed bonus from Forge Flooring! So, into what will become your one-stop shop for melee weaponry it goes.

You’ll be coming back into your Forge pretty frequently throughout your adventure to restock your furnaces with metal to smelt – especially later as it takes much more time – so try not to build your metalworking off in a lonely corner of your castle grounds in V Rising.

The In Confined Castle Room criteria (closed room + roof + door/archway) gives a 25% buff to the crafting and refinement rate of all applicable stations.
Forge Flooring is learned through the first Tier of Research (T1), and reduces the cost of refinement of applicable stations by 25%!

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 2×3
Roomy Floor Plan: 2×4

*Possibly the most frustrating thing about the Forge is the Smithy’s size. It’s juuust a hair too big to be placed in a 1×1 room, which is exactly why your floor plans should always be at least 2 tiles wide.

**The Anvil is a deceptively large workstation. While 2×2, it’s oriented in a curve, leaving a lot of space to work with, as shown above with the bottom furnace giving it a hug. You can use this design as a pathway around it, or as a cornerstone of your Forge with some storage beside it.

Tannery and Tailor Base Building Guide for V Rising

With Keely the Frostbringer slain, you’ll have unlocked the Tannery and the ability to turn all that Animal Hide you’ve been hoarding into bonafide Leather; the key ingredient to your next armour upgrade.

Like the Forge, you’ll be jumping in and out of here fairly regularly as you’re progressing, so making this room an adjacent one isn’t a bad idea at all.

You won’t get access to the Tailoring Bench until the final boss of Farbane Woods, but we may as well prepare for it!

The In Confined Castle Room criteria (closed room + roof + door/archway) gives a 25% buff to the crafting and refinement rate of all applicable stations.
Tailor’s Flooring is learned through T2 Research, and reduces the cost of refinement of applicable stations by 25%!

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 2×2
Roomy Floor Plan: 2×3
*The Tailoring Bench is an odd one to build around; while technically a 2×2 station, it fits an L shape, meaning only one half is actually 2 tiles wide.
My example shows this in how the bottom half goes up to the southern door’s pillar (and blocks potential walls), but a Tannery (or wall) fits snugly against the top half.

Research Library Base Building Guide for V Rising

What becomes the largest room in many castles is the Library; starting from the humble and deceptively tiny Research Desk, growing into extremely spacious T2 and T3 stations, combined with the ol’ reliable Paper Press.

You won’t be returning here all too often, and almost not at all once you’ve unlocked all research, so feel free to pretty up this space with extra features and furniture.

I often combine the Library with the Blood Altar or Devourer, and add in some Flower Seed storage to the extra space.

The In Confined Castle Room criteria (closed room + roof + door/archway) gives a 25% buff to the crafting and refinement rate of the Paper Press.
Library Flooring is learned through T2 Research, and reduces the cost of refinement of the Paper Press by 25%!

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 3×3
Roomy Floor Plan: 3×4

Alchemy Lab Base Building Guide for V Rising

After you slay Clive the Firestarter, you’ll unlock the Alchemy Table, access to crafting potions, and craftable small explosives; used for blowing open doors in PvP enabled worlds, but more often blowing up large deposits of metal to free up space for your castle.

The Lab is a criminally underused room by many players!
Through the different tiers of research, you’ll gain access to powerful healing, buffing, and resistance potions that will make your un-life significantly easier the further you get into the game, so you’ll be returning here often.

The In Confined Castle Room criteria (closed room + roof + door/archway) gives a 25% buff to the crafting and refinement rate of all applicable stations.
Alchemy Flooring is learned with T1 Research, and reduces the cost of refinement of applicable stations by 25%!

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 2×3
Roomy Floor Plan: ?x?

*Vermin Nests are a player-preference type of building; their dominant use is to have a steady supply of Rats for feeding your prisoners and as an early brews ingredient, but they spawn as actual entities you need to pick up, and will only create a few at a time before pausing for you to pick them up.
They also fall into the “frustratingly just too big” category of looking like they’ll fit in a 1×1 space, but taking up 2×2. Expand your room as you deem necessary.

Although, I highly suggest having (at least access to) a large room for the third option on the Nest’s list..

V Rising Castle Gardens (and Waygates!)

By the time you’ve felled Goreswine the Ravager and unlocked Tombs and Fences, you may have collected a few flower seeds along the way. Maybe you already have the Alchemy Lab and want to start an ingredient plot?

Try to build this close to your Lab, particularly if you want to plant all your flower seeds here.
You could also section off little gardens around your grounds for individual flower ingredient types, especially for Cotton plants as they’re only used in the Tannery and Tailor.

Trees (Acorns and Pinecones) can also be planted, Acorns in particular grow to be quite large and are a great option to provide natural shade, given Exterior features can’t be roofed over.
Flowers are very small and can be fit to many spaces, but you should always build rooms and fences before planting because of their hitboxes.

Vampire Waygates

Speaking of exterior features, the most useful one comes after defeating Polora the Feywalker; the ability to teleport to and from your doorstep. These can be used as beautiful centrepieces for a garden, or placed in a nice spot by your castle walls.
But remember, no roofing! So natural shade or walls without floors are your friend against the sun.

There is no flooring type available for the outdoors, or anything that boosts the timer for Tombs or flower/tree growth. Hopefully Stunlock may consider adding Fertiliser from Blood Essence or as a prisoner byproduct?

Garden Examples

Smallest Floor Plan: 2×2 (for a Tomb and Flowerbed)
Cozy Floor Plan: Whatever you desire!

Crypt Base Building Guide for V Rising

After learning Dominating Presence, you’ll gain access to Servant Coffins!

A whole Greater Blood Essence seems a steep price for earlygame, but it’s most certainly worth it once you’ve progressed to getting the Throne Room. So, before you have the Throne or Prison Cells unlocked, keep an eye out and catch those stray 80-100% to turn into your minions!

Blood Quality determines how much of a bonus a Servant will get depending on their type, but it’s still a random chance through a certain percentage, so every Servant will pop out a little weaker or stronger than the other.

They’ll patrol your grounds, but won’t come with you out for a fight on the road.

Servant Coffins don’t have the In Confined Castle Room buff.
Crypt Flooring is learned through T1 Research, and provides an extra 50% speed bonus to the Servant Conversion Rate of any Servant Coffins inside.

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 2×3
Roomy Floor Plan: ?x? – 1 tile every 2 Servants minimum

A gameplay tip from me to you starts before you even boot the game, or later if your Googlefu’s up to snuff (ServerSettings JSON File).
If you’re playing solo, please make sure Servant Conversion Rate is between 5~15, and Servant Hunt Loot is at 5. The base conversion rate is a whopping 1 & 1/2 hours, and Hunts don’t progress if you’re not connected to your world.

Throne Room

Once you’ve beaten Quincey the Bandit King to unlock Iron Smelting, and farmed up 4 Greater Blood Essences, it’s time to get to work on making your minions get to work!

You’ll have to give them adequate gear to send them out on missions, but the rewards can mean the difference when having to farm for one annoying material (or several, Mosswick Village is great if you’re trying to get Fish and Fish Oil).

You don’t have to put your Castle Heart here, but your Throne can actually clip a bit inside it, making for a beautiful centrepiece of your castle.

The Throne unfortunately gains no speed bonus of any kind from any flooring, so decorate to your heart’s content! Build a dark cathedral and line it with pews, build yourself a luxurious hovel at the peak of a mountain, it’s your throne!

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 1×1
Roomy Floor Plan: 3×3+

Prison Base Building Guide for V Rising

When you’ve bested Vincent the Frostbringer, you’ll unlock a most vital room for your progression.

Prison Cells allow you charm a weakened human (as you would with bringing in a new servant) and instead put them inside a cell to turn them into blood on tap.
Prisoners don’t need to be fed or watered normally, only given food (Rats/Goby) when they need healing.

The more blood you drain, the more Misery they’ll be caused, which will cause them to take more damage each time you take more blood, and can potentially kill them.
Misery can be decreased with Rainbow Trouts and Sage Fish.

Alternatively, if they’re not 100% Quality, you could always drain a high-percentage prisoner for what they’re worth, Charm them out of their cell, and turn them into a new Servant.
You certainly don’t need 100% of any blood type to beat the game, it just makes it easier.

It’s the best way of securing yourself some high-quality blood types for storage, and to always have good quality blood when you need it. Try and collect ’em all?

Prison Cells don’t have the In Confined Castle Room buff.
Prison Flooring is learned with T3 Research, and reduces the damage taken from Blood Extraction by -25%.

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 2×2
Roomy Floor Plan: However many prisoners you wish to keep!

Only humans can be imprisoned. Werewolf Villagers will simply turn into werewolves at night and walk out of their cells. You’ve been warned!

Gemcutter and Jewelcrafter

Earned much later into the game, these two tables are solely designed for you to more easily acquire the gems needed for certain weapons and accessories, and craft the latter.
They’re also the only buildings for this room type currently available in the game.

It’s a very rarely used room given how infrequently you’ll need to upgrade this one particular slot on your vampire, so feel free to spruce it up however you like as you tuck it off into a forgotten corner of your grounds.

The In Confined Castle Room criteria (closed room + roof + door/archway) gives a 25% buff to the crafting and refinement rate of all applicable stations.
‘Regulus’ Pattern is learned with T3 Research, and reduces the cost of refinement of applicable stations by 25%!

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 2×2
Roomy Floor Plan: 2×3

You DO NOT get Gem Dust from the Gem Cutting Table! You get Gem Dust by feeding gems you don’t want to The Devourer.

Soul Shards

So, you’ve finally beaten one of the last three bosses. Congrats!

I’ll save you the headache and tell you they work the same way plants do, where you have to “build” them from your inventory hotbar.

They also prevent you from using any Vampire Powers (no Forms for you!), mounting a horse, using Cave Passages. However, if you’re on a world where the Teleport Bound Items option has been turned off, you can freely Waygate your way home.

So I recommend, for your sanity, to build a Waygate close to each Soul Shard Bearer before beginning the slog.

And they’re just as annoying as all the “just too big” stations as have come before in your adventure! Despite looking like they’d rather snugly tuck into a 1×1 room, they’re just large enough that you need a bit more space.

Did I mention you can have all of your Soul Shard buffs active at the same time? c:

Layout Example

Smallest Floor Plan: 2×4
Roomy Floor Plan: 3×4-3×5

Storage & Other Useful Stuff

Fundamentals and Special Objects

Unfortunately I don’t have either DLC, so no DLC items will be included.

Certain objects you can build are extremely useful, but don’t benefit from (or necessarily belong to) any particular room type.
These are essentially your building wild cards and can be placed anywhere you see fit!

Storage Options

You don’t have to be stuck with that dingy ol’ stash chest forever!

Conclusion

Making a proper Base in V Rising might be a challenging task, but with this Base Building Guide you should be able to use up the space you have most efficiently and avoid common mistakes in the process of making your Castle a perfect vampire citadel.

Guide created by Shazzamon on Steam Community

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