What are the best V Rising base locations? When talking about V Rising base locations or castle locations, we mean the flat, elevated plains that can be used for building. You can claim one of these spots by placing a castle heart, as explained in our V Rising beginner’s guide. Although there are many castle locations in V Rising, it’s difficult to determine which one is the best, especially as a new player.
Generally speaking, the best base locations in this multiplayer game are spacious, close to other regions, close to important resources, close to points of interest such as merchant camps, and (especially when playing on a PvP server), easy to defend. Although a base location with multiple exits is often preferred on PvE servers, as this will save you some walking time, players on PvP servers typically prefer base locations with a single entrance point and a large, secondary plateau, as this is easier to protect against raiders.
In this list of V Rising base locations, we’ll show you some of the best locations to build your castle in V Rising version 1.0.
These are the best V Rising base locations:
- Farbane Woods
- Silverlight Hills
- Cursed Forest
- Gloomrot
- Dunley Farmlands and Ruins of Mortium
Farbane Woods
This amazing V Rising base location is found in the northwestern part of the Farbane Woods. While protected by the relative safety of the starting region, this spacious building plot is very close to both the Dunley Farmlands and Silverlight Hills regions. It’s perfectly suited as your first V Rising base location since it has plenty of basic resources nearby, including many stone and copper deposits within the base itself, wolves as your next-door neighbors, fishing spots to the south, and sulfur deposits to the southwest.
The best thing about this castle location, however, is its close proximity to the Shady Merchant Camp in the southeast, where you may spend copper coins in return for gems, Merciless Nightstalker armor, and many other things.
Silverlight Hills
The massive plateau in the northwestern part of the Silverlight Hills is not just the best base location in this region; it’s one of the best on the entire V Rising map. Unsurprisingly, this spot is usually taken on servers with many other players, but if you’re playing on a quiet map, you might be able to claim it.
If you do, the castle’s corner position and secondary plateau will give you a defensive advantage in PvP mode. Furthermore, this base location is surrounded by amazing farming spots for silver and gold, which you can find in the Sacred Silver Mine and the northwestern part of Brighthaven respectively. As an added bonus, you’ll find plenty of traders in the Brighthaven Trade District.
Cursed Forest
This is one of the best V Rising base locations if you’re looking for an absolutely massive single plot. Situated in the northern corner of the Cursed Forest, it’s quite isolated from other player bases, allowing you to build your enormous vampire castle in peace. Although this building spot isn’t surrounded by as many resources as other V Rising castle locations on this list, you’ll find plenty of challenging PvE enemies, including some V Rising boss locations. With any luck, the monsters will scare off the raiders.
If you care less about the size of your castle and more about convenience, consider one of the two plots in the northeastern corner of the Cursed Forest instead. Although you may have to deal with neighbors on a multiplayer map, you’ll be closer to the Ancient Village and Ruins of Mortium in the south.
Gloomrot
Some of the best V Rising base locations in Gloomrot are found in the south and southwestern parts of the region, as these plots are close to neighboring biomes and farming spots filled with glass and tech scraps.
However, the best V Rising castle location in Gloomrot is a more central one, positioned on the border between Gloomrot North and South. It’s right between important farming locations such as the Trancendum Mine (lots of copper and sulfur), Pools of Rebirth (mutant grease), and Thunderstrike Peak (electricity). On top of that, this Gloomrot base location is very close to a waygate and a cave passage leading back to the center of the Farbane Woods.
Ruins of Mortium and Dunley Farmlands
The latest V Rising region, the Ruins of Mortium, doesn’t have any base locations. Not to worry though; there’s an amazing castle plot right on the border between the Ruins of Mortium and the Dunley Farmlands, just south of the middle road that connects the two regions.
This V Rising base location places you as close to the farming spots in the Ruins of Mortium as possible; it’s only a short walk to the Vampire Village Ruins and Dracula’s Castle (which is an excellent location to find Bleeding Heart) from here. On top of that, you’ll find all the best Dunley Farmlands resources to the west, including several militia camps and farms. This truly is the best V Rising base location if you want the benefits of both regions without having to deal with troublesome enemies at your castle gates.
How to pick the best spot for your V Rising base
In addition to picking one of the areas above, here are some other things to consider when choosing precisely where to plonk your base:
- You’re probably not going to claim the absolute best location in each area when joining an active server, as plenty of other players will have already claimed those spots – don’t sweat the decision too much.
- Since other players can destroy your castle on PvP servers, a good way to keep your base relatively safe is to build it in an area where high-level enemies spawn. Stone golems and treants are the Dobermanns of V Rising.
- Pay attention to the build area when placing your V Rising castle heart as it tells you roughly how much space you have to work with when expanding your castle.
- If you can, try to build close to one of the teleporters as you can use them to get to faraway places with ease.
- Keep an eye out for castles in prime locations that are in a state of disrepair. If you can sneak in and destroy the castle heart, you can build your new home on the remains of your rival’s fortress.
That concludes our list of the best V Rising base locations. Once you’ve built your castle, don’t forget to get your very own V Rising horse, and make sure you’ve got enough V Rising leather and V Rising whetstones. If you ever grow tired of the gloomy Ruins of Mortium, don’t forget that there are more bloodcurdling vampire games to quench your thirst for darkness.