V Rising Complete Guide to the Armor Upgrade Path
This guide will explain all the steps to upgrade a Boneguard Chestguard all the way to Bloodmoon Chestguard, Boneguard Leggings, Boneguard Gloves, and Boneguard Boots works exactly the same as the chestguard, the only exception is that Boneguard Gloves and Boneguard Boots need 30 extra Animal Hide in the first stage.
I will list what you need to do to unlock each recipe, what materials you need to gather (and where you can find them), and what building you need to craft each stage at.
In V Rising there are 8 stages you go through when upgrading your Armour:
- Boneguard Armour
- Plated Boneguard Armour
- Nightstalker Armour
- Merciless Nightstalker Armour
- Hollowfang Armour
- Merciless Hollowfang Armour
- Dawnthorn Armour
- Bloodmoon Armour
If you want to skip the entire guide and just see how to craft your next upgrade you can just press the stage you are interested in above to jump there.
How to upgrade other slots (rings etc) will come in another guide.
If you are fairly new to V Rising I recommend to read the information about tiers below, if it doesn't interest you, you can skip straight to How to Upgrade Your Armour.
V Rising Tier System
To better understand V Rising's system of upgrading Armour - it's a good idea to first get acquainted with the Tier System.
Armor Tiers
We can combined the 8 stages of Armour into 4 tiers:
- Tier 0 - Boneguard Armour
- Tier 1 - Nightstalker Armour
- Tier 2 - Hollowfang Armour
- Tier 3 - Dawnthorn Armour
Each tier of Armour has 2 stages: the base stage and the upgraded stage.
The reason why it's interesting to look at them at a tier perspective is because each tier generally requires a new tier of building to craft them, new tier of research desk to unlock them, and new tier of materials generally found in a new tier of location.
Location Tiers
Our map is divided into three tiers of locations:
- Tier 1 - Farbane Woods
- Tier 2 - Dunley Farmlands
- Tier 3 - Silverlight Hills and Cursed Forest
Each tier of location will generally contain material for it's corresponding tier of Armour
Research Tiers
To unlock the upgraded stage of each Armour, we need to unlock them by researching:
- Tier 1 - Research Desk
- Tier 2 - Study
- Tier 3 - Athenaeum
Production Facility Tiers
- Tier 0 - Inventory/Simple Workbench
- Tier 1 - Simple Workbench
- Tier 2 - Tailoring Bench
- Tier 3 - Tailoring Bench
Material Tiers
- Tier 0 - Bone, Animal Hide
- Tier 1 - Leather, coarse-thread, Copper Ingot
- Tier 2 - Cotton Yarn, Wool Thread, Iron Ingot
- Tier 3 - Ghost Yarn, Imperial Thread, Pristine Leather, Silk, Primal Blood Essence
How to Upgrade Your Armour
Boneguard Armour
Unlocked by completing Journal: Mastering Magic
Materials needed to craft this stage:
| Material | How to get |
|---|---|
| Bone | Found by killing pretty much anything. |
| Animal Hide | Found by killing animals. |
Where to craft: Simply go to Inventory & Crafting.
Total material needed for a complete set of Boneguard Armour: 100 Bone + 60 Animal Hide.
Plated Boneguard Armour
Unlocked by completing Journal: Fortify
Materials needed to craft this stage:
| Material | How to get |
|---|---|
| Animal Hide | Found by killing animals. |
Where to craft: at a Simple Workbench.
Total material needed for a complete set of Plated Boneguard Armour: 240 Animal Hide.
Nightstalker Armour
Unlocked by completing Journal: Fortify
Materials needed to craft this stage:
| Material | How to get |
|---|---|
| Leather | Kill Keely the Frost Archer(external link to map) to unlock Tannery, where you can process Animal Hide into Leather. |
| coarse-thread | Found at Bandit Camps in Farbane Woods. |
Where to craft: at a Simple Workbench.
Total material needed for a complete set of Nighstalker Armour: 24 Leather + 16 coarse-thread.
Merciless Nightstalker Armour
Unlocked by researching at a Research Desk, which is unlocked by completing Journal: Blood Hunt
Researching can be a big pain since you need 50 Paper to unlock a random recipe that might not even interest you. Bosses in Farbane Woods can drop recipes directly (Grayson the Armourer(external link to map) seems to drop only armor books) - it's generally faster to farm bosses and hope they drop your recipe over farming Paper.
Materials needed to craft this stage:
| Material | How to get |
|---|---|
| Copper Ingot | Smelt Copper Ore (from hitting copper rocks) at a Furnace |
| Leather | Kill Keely the Frost Archer(external link to map) to unlock Tannery, where you can process Animal Hide into Leather. |
| coarse-thread | Found at Bandit Camps in Farbane Woods. |
Suggestion: Kill Errol the Stonebreaker(external link to map) at Bandit Copper Mine, this will give you a lot of Copper Ore to smelt into Copper Ingot.
Where to craft: at a Simple Workbench.
Total material needed for a complete set of Merciless Nightstalker Armour: 32 Copper Ingot + 16 Leather + 16 coarse-thread.
Hollowfang Armour
Unlocked by killing Quincey the Bandit King(external link to map)
| Material | How to get |
|---|---|
| Leather | Kill Keely the Frost Archer(external link to map) to unlock Tannery, where you can process Animal Hide into Leather. |
| Cotton Yarn | Kill Beatrice the Tailor(external link to map) to unlock Loom, where you can process Cotton (found at Cotton Farms in Dunley Farmlands) into Cotton Yarn. |
| Wool Thread | Found at Farms in Dunley Farmlands or crafted with fire-blossom and coarse-thread at a Loom |
Where to craft: at a Tailoring Bench (after killing Quincey the Bandit King).
Total material needed for a complete set of Hollowfang Armour: 32 Leather + 32 Wool Thread + 32 Cotton Yarn.
Merciless Hollowfang Armour
Unlocked by researching at a Study, Study is unlocked by killing Nicholaus the Fallen(external link to map)
Researching can be a big pain since you need ? scroll to unlock a random recipe that might not even interest you. Bosses in Dunley Farmlands can drop recipes directly - it's generally faster to farm bosses and hope they drop your recipe over farming scroll.
| Material | How to get |
|---|---|
| Iron Ingot | Smelt Iron Ore (found at Haunted Iron Mine in Dunley Farmlands) into Iron Ingot at a Furnace. Recipe unlocked by killing Quincey the Bandit King(external link to map). |
Where to craft: at a Tailoring Bench
Total material needed for a complete set of Merciless Hollowfang Armour: 48 Iron Ingot (960 Iron Ore).
Dawnthorn Armour
Unlocked by killing Octavian the Militia Captain(external link to map)
| Material | How to get |
|---|---|
| Scales | Drops from Earthworms, Frogs and The Duke of Balaton at Swamp of Greed in Cursed Forest and from Spiders at Spider Cave in Cursed Forest. |
| Pristine Leather | Pristine Hide dropped by Werewolves in Dunley Farmlands or by enemies at Lurker Dwellings in Cursed Forest, process Pristine Hide into Pristine Leather at a Tannery |
| Ghost Yarn | Drops at Ancient Villages in Cursed Forest. Drops from Ungora the Spider Queen(external link to map). Process ghost-shroom (found in Cursed Forest) and Cotton Yarn into Ghost Yarn at a Loom |
Where to craft: at a Tailoring Bench
Total material needed for a complete set of Dawnthorn Armour: 640 Scales + 48 Pristine Leather + 32 Ghost Yarn.
Bloodmoon Armour
Unlocked by researching at a Athenaeum, Athenaeum is unlocked by killing Raziel the Shepherd(external link to map)
Researching can be a big pain since you need ? schematics to unlock a random recipe that might not even interest you. Bosses in Silverlight Hills & Cursed Forest can drop recipes directly - it's generally faster to farm bosses and hope they drop your recipe over farming schematics.
| Material | How to get |
|---|---|
| Imperial Thread | Kill Mairwyn the Elementalist(external link to map) to unlock the recipe and process snowflower, sunflower, and Wool Thread into Imperial Thread at a Loom. Or get it as a drop from areas in Silverlight Hills (Army Outposts etc). |
| Silk | Recipe drops from Ungora the Spider Queen(external link to map). Process Silkworm (found at Spider Cave in Cursed Forest), Cloth, and Highland Lotus into Silk at a Loom |
| Primal Blood Essence | Crafted with Greater Blood Essence at a Blood Press after killing Jade the Vampire Hunter(external link to map) |
Where to craft: at a Tailoring Bench
Total material needed for a complete set of Bloodmoon Armour: 48 Imperial Thread + 32 Silk + 4 Primal Blood Essence.