During your early castle construction in V Rising, you might notice that one crucial piece of building material is missing from your build menu. Despite having access to floors, walls, and various stations, you actually don’t have the option to construct a roof. This is quite concerning for many players in V Rising, as you play as a vampire and wilt away in the slightest bit of sun. While you can construct a Mist Brazier to act as a sun blocker, these require bones to fuel them and don’t look the best when scattered around your base.
Luckily, you eventually gain access to roofs for your castle. However, the process to get to that point is somewhat complicated, so we’ve decided to offer a step-by-by explanation of how to put a roof over your head in V Rising.
Placing roofs
At the start of V Rising, the only walls you’ll have access to are Palisades, which are wooden plank walls that simply get the job done and nothing more. They don’t look fantastic but can keep out wildlife from entering your base. After some main story missions, though, you will eventually acquire the recipe for the Reinforced Walls and Castle Flooring. These turn your wooden base into a castle of fantastic proportions.
With the Reinforced Walls and Castle Flooring, you can replace your Palisades with stone castle walls and floors. Once you completely enclose a room with the Reinforced Walls and place Castle Flooring all along the ground of the room, a roof will automatically close above your head. As long as you keep the walls and flooring intact in that one room, the roof will remain. However, if you remove a wall to expand your castle, the roof will disappear. So if you’re looking to expand, we recommend doing so at night so the sun won’t shine through your empty roof.
Gathering the necessary materials
The one caveat to constructing the Reinforced Walls and Castle Flooring is that it requires a solid amount of materials. In order to build one wall/floor, you need a set amount of planks and stone brick. Reinforced Walls require 10 stone brick and six planks to construct while the floors only require around half of that.
In order to expedite the process of gathering stone brick and planks, you can build multiple Sawmills and Grinders. The Sawmill requires lumber to create planks while the Grinder needs stone to make stone bricks. However, to create one plank or stone brick takes nearly half a minute, so you’ll be sitting around for a while waiting for your materials to finish. Although, if you create two or three Sawmills and Grinders, then your waiting time is cut in half.
To construct a Grinder, you need four whetstones. These are mainly found in Bandit camps across Farbane Woods. If you want to see which points of interest contain whetstones, open your map and hover over the yellow circles on the map. This will bring up a small box that tells you the location’s name and what materials can be found there. With eight or twelve whetstones in hand, you can construct two or three Grinders in your base. Sawmills are much easier to construct, so you should have no problem making multiple of those.
After you have the necessary stone brick and planks, start making Reinforced Walls and Castle Flooring to bring your roof together. We recommend not making a huge room to start with, as this requires more stone brick and planks. Start modestly to put a roof over your head and shield from the sun and then work your way up to building a giant vampiric castle.
Source: Gamespot
