GamesSurvival & CraftingV RisingPSA: You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart in V RisingWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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So, you’re playingV Risingfor the first time. You’ve got yourself the foundation of a nice little vampiric castle on the go; plenty of crafting stations, resource refineries, and maybe even a little crypt where your coffin is securely stowed. The problem is you’re struggling to upgrade your castle heart through the main tutorial questline.
TheExpanding Domainquest tasks you with levelling up your castle heart from one to two, but when you look at the heart, it seems to require four servant coffins and 50 floor tiles. You have no servant coffins and even if you browse through the list of V Blood bosses and their unlocks, none of them seem to drop the schematic either.
The good news is thatyou don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart—it’s just a confusing interface. If you hover your cursor over the “upgrade castle heart” button, you’ll see that it instead costs:
In terms of servant coffins, as you progress through the main tutorial, you’ll get a quest to build a stone coffin, which will then reward you with the servant coffin schematic. The trickiest part of crafting one of these is acquiringgreater blood essence. You can make this in the blood press using four unsullied hearts, but since these are a rarer drop from high-level human enemies and V Blood bosses, it takes a little while to gather them.
Image1of3You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart, even though it looks like you do(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)Blood percentage determines how strong your servant is(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)Cast Subdue Human on a weakened human enemy to bring them back to your castle(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Image1of3You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart, even though it looks like you do(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)Blood percentage determines how strong your servant is(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)Cast Subdue Human on a weakened human enemy to bring them back to your castle(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
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You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart, even though it looks like you do(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)Blood percentage determines how strong your servant is(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)Cast Subdue Human on a weakened human enemy to bring them back to your castle(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart, even though it looks like you do(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)Blood percentage determines how strong your servant is(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)Cast Subdue Human on a weakened human enemy to bring them back to your castle(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart, even though it looks like you do(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart, even though it looks like you do(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart, even though it looks like you do(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart, even though it looks like you do(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
You don’t need servant coffins to upgrade your castle heart, even though it looks like you do(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Blood percentage determines how strong your servant is(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Blood percentage determines how strong your servant is(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Blood percentage determines how strong your servant is(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Blood percentage determines how strong your servant is(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Blood percentage determines how strong your servant is(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Cast Subdue Human on a weakened human enemy to bring them back to your castle(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Cast Subdue Human on a weakened human enemy to bring them back to your castle(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Cast Subdue Human on a weakened human enemy to bring them back to your castle(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Cast Subdue Human on a weakened human enemy to bring them back to your castle(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Cast Subdue Human on a weakened human enemy to bring them back to your castle(Image credit: Stunlock Studios)
Once there, activate the servant coffin to inter the enemy and wait until they’re finished cooking. You can’t do all that much with your vampiric thrall initially—they’ll just hang out and guard the castle, though they will potentially die if there are dangerous enemies lurking. Don’t worry too much, though; you can always revive them via their servant coffin.
As you continue the tutorial quest, you’ll eventually get thecastle throne, and this is where you can start sending your servants out to hunt enemies and pilfer resources. Before you do, make sure to equip your thrall with some armour and a weapon, since this will help them tackle tougher enemies and make it back alive with your precious plunder.
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