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How to get stone bricks in V Rising

Wondering how to get stone bricks in V Rising? This vampire adventure from Stunlock has just arrived on Steam's Early Access. And as with any self-respecting survival game, you'll need to do a lot of farming for crafting materials so you can build up your base and keep it from decaying...
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How blood essence works in V Rising

If you're trying to figure out how to get blood essence in V Rising, you're in luck. The top-down vampire survival game has just entered Steam's Early Access, and favourable comparisons to Valheim are already being made. V Rising has crafting and base building, and if you want to hop into the game with friends, there are plenty of options to do that, too...
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Where to find whetstone in V Rising

In V Rising, you'll need to seek out all manner of items if you want to craft the best gear, including the valuable whetstone. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a high-risk, high-reward situation as whetstones are often dropped by the likes of bandits, some of whom will be several levels above you and will easily overpower you in the early game. Still, with a bit of light grinding and crafting early game items like the Bone Sword and gear, you'll be able to tackle bandits in no time...
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Vampire survival game V Rising hits over 46,000 Steam players

There's a new vampire survival game out on early access and the V Rising Steam player count is very promising indeed - in fact, it seems to be an immediate hit on Steam, as the peak for yesterday stood at more than 46,000 players.

There are a lot of great vampire games on PC and, if the initial player counts are anything to go by, V Rising could take a bite out of all of them and stake its claim to the list. The new game by Battlerite developer Stunlock Studios, V Rising is an isometric open-world game where players start as a weakened vampire and have to rise to become the next Dracula or Robert Pattinson.

It released on Steam Early Access on May 17 and, according to SteamDB, the launch was a big success. The peak concurrent player count for the first 24 hours was a 46,593 players, and the game still has 32,457 players online right now as of the time of writing. Impressive, especially remembering it's still only in early access.

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V Rising castle heart - how to stop decay

Building a V Rising castle is one of the most important aspects of this vampiric survival game. After you've chosen your V Rising server and started your journey from frail undead to vampire lord, you'll find yourself out in the gorgeous Farbane Woods with a task to begin making your first home. So while it's relatively obvious that you'll need to chop down trees and mine stone, you're also going to need to gather some V Rising blood essence to get your bloodsucker's abode up and running.

However, building a V Rising castle is just the easy part. You must maintain your castle heart at all times in order to keep your boundaries and walls from decaying. A little drop of the red stuff goes a long way, but if you don't take good care of your castle heart, your home - and all your hard-earned plunder - will become vulnerable to invaders.

So to ensure that your V Rising castle doesn't fall into a state of disrepair, we'll go through the basics of what resources you need to build your vampiric pad and how to stop your castle heart from decaying.

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