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How to mine iron ore in V Rising

Iron is a valuable resource in V Rising, but where can you find it? Unlike many other materials which can be found easily throughout the world, iron ore is only found in some specific locations. You'll need lots of it if you want to build better gear and a proper stone castle as your base, so here's how to get your hands on it...
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V Rising's best vampire power is the ability to move full storage crates

I haven't sunk my fangs too deeply into vampire survival game V Rising yet, but my enterprising little nosferatu already has a bunch of cool powers and abilities. I can turn into a wolf, which lets me run faster and be completely ignored by other animals that would typically attack me. I can blink through space leaving a little decoy of myself behind to befuddle my foes. I can turn my enemies into ice cubes with a projectile, pound the ground to create a magic shockwave, and even enchant humans to become mindless servants back at my castle...
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7 items to grab first in V Rising

Looking for some starter tips in V Rising? The newly launched survival-crafter may not be the most fulfilling vampire game around, depending on whom you ask, but it’s still pretty fun to establish your spooky castle, and turn unwary humans into your undying thralls. The game is really well-tutorialized for an Early Access game, walking you through a series of steps that’ll show you how most things work...
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This V Rising armor lets you be a sparkly Twilight vampire

A V Rising armour leak has revealed a new set coming to the survival game which allows players to turn their character into a sparkly teen vampire from the Twilight movies. Yes, you'll soon be able to cosplay as Robert Pattinson - and no, not that one.

V Rising is already proving a hit on Steam, with the goal being to ultimately create your own all-powerful Dracula. As spotted by Demone Kim on YouTube, developer Stunlock Studios could add the option for players to create a very different famous vampire. The YouTuber was "digging around in the files" for the vampire game and found details on a new gear set, with some very familiar properties.

This armour set allows players to "become immune to sun damage", which is extremely useful, but the note that it also makes their characters "sparkle when standing in the sun" should raise the eyebrows of anyone familiar with the Twilight series. Just to spell it out even further, it is literally called the Twilight armour set.

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V Rising blood essence guide

V Rising blood essence is what makes your vampiric world go around. You use it to keep your castle from decaying, you can replenish your health from it, and it's an essential resource for crafting new gear and buildings. However, it's not always clear in the early access vampire game how to efficiently get hold of it and what you should be doing with it once you've built up a vast blood bank.

For starters, you can't get V Rising blood essence from every enemy type in the game - it might surprise you to learn that those undead skeletons are pretty dry. When you do find enemy types whose veins are coursing with crimson, you gain different traits by slurping the sanguine of different enemy types. Eventually - when you get beyond the first few hours of V Rising - you'll come across craftables and new buildings that require 'greater blood essence', which is even harder to get hold of.

To help you unclot the whole thing, we've prepared a quick guide to V Rising blood essence, showing you how to get it, what it's used for, and how to get the rarer 'greater blood essence' variant.

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