In V Rising, you play as a vampire, essentially becoming the monster that you typically fight against in other games. This comes with certain peculiarities – namely, that you are indeed quite evil. Some players apparently do not like this.
What are prisoners in V Rising? In the new survival hit on Steam, you have the ability to capture humans. You can simply charm them and then lock them in a small cell, where they can barely stand, perhaps still sit.
The goal is to drain their blood as needed. In V Rising, there are 6 different blood types with special effects and various qualities. If you find a human with 100% pure blood, you will want to “milk” them as much as possible. You can simply lock them up and draw blood.
Prisoners lose health when bloodletting and gain “Misery.” Misery increases the damage they receive when drained. To ensure they serve as a blood supply for as long as possible, you need to provide your prisoners with food and keep their misery low. So, treat them “well.”
All info about V Rising can be found here in the video in 2 minutes:
“Give us a kitchen to prepare meals”
What is the problem? Unlike your vampiric servants, prisoners need food. Currently, you can only provide your prisoners with 4 items:
- Rats for healing
- Fat fish for stronger healing
- Rainbow trout to reduce misery
- Wise fish for strong healing and also reducing misery
As you can imagine, life as a prisoner is accordingly not particularly pleasant. Additionally, villagers with certain blood types (Workers and Scholars) are often just unfortunate souls begging for mercy.
The reddit user AngryMobster thinks this is a bit too cruel. He has captured a Scholar with 100% pure blood and wishes he could treat her better:
I understand that it’s part of the vampire lore to treat humans like cattle. But my playthrough became so much better once I found the 100%-Scholar. […] So, of course, I want to treat my prisoner better. Not just keep her alive, but well enough that she stays in my service.
He jokingly refers to her as his “waifu,” meaning “wife.” Many people jumped on this, but his point is actually quite different.
This is the player’s idea: AngryMobster suggests creating meals in a kitchen. This would also justify a dining hall, which should actually be present in every castle.
The meals could increase loyalty. And once that reaches the maximum, prisoners could simply roam around the castle. As a bonus, it would then be possible to drink directly from them, not just drain their blood.
The system would also prevent the need to go fishing. Some players seem to be bothered by having to use this feature, because fish and trout are usually obtained from lakes. However, it is tedious to have to find exactly these 3 types.
The post has gathered over 224 upvotes within a day. For the subreddit of V Rising, this is an unusually large amount. What do you think about the idea?
Despite the fact that prisoners in V Rising are in a pretty rough situation, their blood is extremely important for the game. We want to know from you: Which blood type do you prefer to drink?
