V Rising Blood Types and Blood Quality: Every Blood Type explained and how to get 100% Blood Quality

Looking for information on every V Rising blood type? There are 7 different blood types in V Rising , each offering different stat boosts and buffs to your character, who has a blood pool that will slowly diminish over time. If your blood pool is empty, you’ll take damage until you fill it again. You can fill your blood pool by using the Feed ability (“F” key) on the various creatures and enemies in the world of Vardoran.

However, drinking blood will also change your blood type. Bandits and soldiers may give you a blood type that boosts your damage and defence, while animals in the Farbane Woods may increase your speed. The range of effects is broad, and you’ll want to switch blood types often to become a V Rising pro. If you want to know more about every V Rising blood type and the effects of blood quality, we’re here to help.

In this V Rising blood type and blood quality guide, we’ll break down each of the 7 blood types, including Scholar, Brute and Warrior blood, and explain the various boosts and abilities they grant depending on the blood quality you have. We’ll also cover how to get 100% blood quality and how to use servants for a constant supply of high quality blood in V Rising, which is now out of early access after the release of the 1.0 update .

On this page:

• Every V Rising blood type explained
• How to get 100% blood quality in V Rising
• V Rising prisons: How to extract blood from servants

Every V Rising blood type explained

In V Rising, you’ll spend most of your time either fighting baddies, exploring the world, or gathering resources with which you can build your castle . While you can partake in all of these activities from the start, using the right blood type will increase your effectiveness. For example, the Brute, Rogue, and Warrior blood types boost your combat capabilities, while Creature increases your speed and survivability in the world of Vardoran. Below, we’ll walk you through each of the 7 blood types in V Rising:

• Frailed: Default, no benefit. Can be regained by feeding from small rodents.
• Brute: Increases overall healing and attack speed. Primarily gained when feeding from bandits and soldiers.
• Creature: Increases movement speed, sun resistance, damage reduction, and healing regeneration. Primarily gained when feeding from animals.
• Rogue: Improves crit rate, movement speed, and travel skill cooldown. Primarily gained when feeding from assassins, trappers, and archers.
• Scholar: Improves various spellcasting attributes including spell power, spell cooldown, and life leech. Primarily gained when feeding on spellcasters.
• Warrior: Improves physical power, damage reduction, and weapon skill cooldown. Primarily gained when feeding from guards or militia.
• Worker: Improves resource yield, one-hit resource gathering, damage reduction from certain environmental hazards, and travel speed on horseback. Primarily gained when feeding from weaker and non-hostile humans.

Frailed

Frailed is the default blood type that you’ll have when you first spawn in as a new player on a server. You’ll also reset back to frailed when you die and respawn. Unlike the 6 other blood types listed below, frailed has no associated benefits , so you’ll want to find an enemy to leech blood from as soon as possible to change to another blood type. Even low quality blood of a different type is better than frailed as they’ll offer minor benefits, so make getting a new blood type one of your first priorities when you spawn.

It’s worth noting that eating rodents or small animals from your inventory, which can refill your blood pool in a pinch, will also reset your blood type to frailed. With that in mind, it’s always worth knowing where to find nearby sources of different blood types so that you can quickly run over and refill your blood pool without defaulting back to frailed.

Creature

The Creature blood type is the best for survivability and exploring the map . Below, we’ll list the effects that you get with each stage of the Creature blood type:

• Tier I: 3-15% movement speed
• Tier II: 10-25% increased Sun Resistance rating
• Tier III: 10-20% damage reduction
• Tier IV: 150% increased health regeneration
• Tier V: Boost all above effects by 30%

You can get the Creature blood type from animals around Vardoran . This will be a common blood type for new players especially, as they’ll likely face off against plenty of bears and wolves while trying to collect bones .

Brute

The Brute blood type increases your damage and health recovery in combat, making you a tanky killer who can jump into the middle of any fight. Below, we’ll list the effects that you get with each stage of the Brute blood type:

• Tier I: 7.5-12.5% primary attack Life Leech
• Tier II: 7.5-15% increased primary attack speed and gain 1 gear level
• Tier III: Healing received increased by 20-35%. Heal self for 4% of your victim’s health when striking a killing blow
• Tier IV: 6% chance per relative health recovered to boost movement speed by 20% and damage of primary attacks by 25%
• Tier V: Boost all above effects by 30%

The Brute blood type is commonly found on humanoid enemies, such as bandits and soldiers . You’ll find these all over the world of Vardoran in the various towns and encampments on the map.

Rogue

The Rogue blood type makes you faster in combat, while also increasing your critical hit chance . Below, we’ll list the effects that you get with each stage of the Rogue blood type:

• Tier I: 10-20% chance to critical strike on weapon attacks
• Tier II: 8-15% movement speed
• Tier III: 12-25% reduced cooldown on travel skill. 100% chance to critical strike on next physical attack after using a travel skill
• Tier IV: 50% chance on critical strike to expose victim’s armor, increasing damage taken from all sources by 15% for 4 seconds
• Tier V: Boost all above effects by 30%

Like Brute, you can get the Rogue blood type by feeding on human enemies . Make sure to hover your cursor over enemies to quickly check their blood type if you’re after a specific one.

Warrior

The Warrior blood type is all about damage . Big damage from your weapons, reducing damage from enemy weapons, and reducing cooldowns on your weapon skills so that you can deal huge damage more often. Below, we’ll list the effects that you get with each stage of the Warrior blood type:

• Tier I: 20% increased physical power
• Tier II: 15% reduced cooldown on weapon skills
• Tier III: 15% reduced damage taken and 25% increased damage when striking enemies at full health
• Tier IV: 15% chance to parry an attack reducing damage taken by 50%. Parrying an attack increases your own damage by 25%
• Tier V: Boost all above effects by 30%

Again, the Warrior blood type is common amongst human enemies , so head to camps and fortified locations to find guards, militia, or bandits with this blood type.

Scholar

The Scholar blood type focuses on your magical abilities , increasing their damage and reducing spell cooldowns. This will improve the effectiveness of many of your vampire abilities, making the Scholar blood type valuable for any player who prefers magic over swinging a sword. Below, we’ll list the effects that you get with each stage of the Scholar blood type:

• Tier I: 20% increased spell power
• Tier II: 15% reduced cooldown on spells
• Tier III: 10% spell life leech
• Tier IV: 15% chance to reset spell cooldown on cast
• Tier V: Boost all above effects by 30%

Those looking for the Scholar blood type should focus on hunting down priests and other magic-wielding enemies in the Dunley Farmlands and Silverlight Hills . You won’t tend to find this blood type in the Farbane Woods, so you’ll need to venture North to get a constant supply.

Worker

While many of the other blood types focus on combat, the Worker blood type places emphasis on resource gathering . Whether you like to build, or just really need some Iron and Silver to make some of the best weapons in V Rising , this is the blood type for you. Below, we’ll list the effects that you get with each stage of the Worker blood type:

• Tier I: 10-30% increased resource yield
• Tier II: 15-25% increased damage against resource objects
• Tier III: 10-20% increased mount gallop speed
• Tier IV: 3% chance to instantly destroy a resource node and trigger a burst of speed
• Tier V: Boost all above effects by 30%

You’ll mostly get the Worker blood type from NPCs that aren’t hostile , so try heading into villages and towns around the Dunley Farmlands and Silverlight Hills.

How to get 100% blood quality in V Rising

As you can see in the list above, aside from Frailed, each blood type has 5 tiers . These tiers give extra effects that unlock based on your blood quality . Blood quality is the percentage number that you’ll see next to the blood type when hovering over an enemy. It’ll become a lot clearer to spot when enemies reach low health and the feed ability becomes an option.

Regardless of which blood type you want to use, the different tiers are each unlocked at set blood quality percentages, as listed below:

• Tier I: 1-29% blood quality
• Tier II: 30-59% blood quality
• Tier III: 60-89% blood quality
• Tier IV: 90-99% blood quality
• Tier V: 100% blood quality

To get 100% blood quality, you’ll need to feed on an enemy who has 100% blood quality. It might sound simple, but these enemies are incredibly rare. While they can be found in every region on V Rising’s map , including the Farbane Woods, you’ll find enemies with 100% blood quality more frequently in higher-level areas. There’s no trick to this, so you’ll have to keep hunting until you find an enemy with 100% blood quality.

However, the more difficult part comes after you get 100% blood quality. As we mentioned, these enemies are incredibly rare and your blood pool needs replenishing often. This means that you’ll probably find yourself with 100% blood quality, but need to feed on an enemy with a lower percentage to refill your blood pool. This may change your blood type, and will almost definitely make you lose the Tier V buff. The difficulty, then, lies in finding a consistent, renewable source of 100% blood quality for your preferred blood type.

V Rising prisons: How to extract blood from servants

If you want to stay at 100% blood quality permanently, you can imprison servants who have 100% blood quality . This essentially turns them into a blood farm that you can regularly feed on to retain 100% blood quality while filling your blood pool. This requires a few steps though, as you’ll need to do the following before you can imprison a servant and turn them into a blood farm:

1. Unlock the Servant Coffin and Dominating Presence
2. Use Dominating Presence to get a Servant with 100% blood quality
3. Unlock and build a prison cell
4. Imprison your 100% blood quality servant
5. Unlock and craft empty glass bottles

We’ll go over each of these steps in greater detail below.

Unlock the Servant Coffin and Dominating Presence

The Servant Coffin recipe and Dominating Presence ability are both locked behind quests in V Rising, so you’ll need to progress through the objectives listed in the top-left corner of the screen. Eventually, you’ll see a quest named “Lord of the Manor” that rewards you with the Servant Coffin recipe. The next quest, simply named “Servants” , tasks you with building a Servant Coffin and rewards you with the Dominating Presence ability.

Use Dominating Presence to get a Servant with 100% blood quality

After unlocking Dominating Presence, you must then use this ability on an NPC to get a Servant and complete the “Army of Darkness” quest. While the first NPC you come across likely won’t have 100% blood quality, spend enough time hunting and you should eventually come across one. When you find someone with 100% blood quality, use Dominating Presence to enslave them under your command and take them back to base.

There are other factors that you might want to consider when choosing servants in V Rising, such as their stats and perks, but those don’t matter if you just want to use them as a 100% blood quality farm.

Unlock and build a prison cell

After you have a servant with 100% blood quality, you’ll need to unlock the Prison Cell recipe so that you can imprison them. You can get the Prison Cell recipe by killing Vincent the Frostbringer , a level 40 V blood carrier found roaming around the centre of the Dunley Farmlands. After your fight, head back to base and build a Prison Cell with 12 Iron Ingots .

If you want more information on Vincent and other V blood carriers, check out our V Rising boss locations guide , but killing Vincent is all you need to do to get the Prison Cell recipe.

Imprison your 100% blood quality servant

After enslaving a human with 100% blood quality and building a Prison Cell, you can simply interact with the cell and select “Imprison” to lock the servant away . This will add new options to the Prison Cell interface, including a “Drain Blood” button . If you have empty glass bottles, which we’ll explain how to get in the next step, then you can simply drain blood from your servant. This blood will maintain the blood type and blood quality of the servant, essentially allowing you to make little blood vials that you can consume. These will refill your blood pool without changing blood type or losing blood quality .

Unlock and craft empty glass bottles

Of course, you’ll need empty glass bottles that can store the blood. You can get the empty glass bottle recipe by defeating Christina the Sun Priestess , a level 44 V blood carrier found roaming around on the East side of the Dunley Farmlands. After defeating Christina, you will be able to craft empty glass bottles at an Alchemy Table with four pieces of Glass. Then, simply head over to your imprisoned Servant and select “Drain Blood” to fill the bottle with their 100% quality blood.

It’s important to note that draining blood from a prisoner will deal damage and raise their misery level . Misery is a status effect that imprisoned NPCs get whenever you drain their blood, and it simply increases the damage they take next time you drain blood, making this action more harmful each time you do it. If you want to restore a prisoner’s health and maintain a low misery level, you’ll need to catch and feed them fish . If you fail to feed your 100% blood quality Servant, they will eventually die after losing enough blood.

That wraps up our guide on V Rising blood types and blood quality. If you’re looking for other essential V Rising advice, take a look at our V Rising tips and tricks . If you’re struggling against any of the bosses mentioned above, make sure you know how to increase your gear score in V Rising . If you’re a big fan of Stunlock Studio’s vampire-themed survial MMO and want a server with your friends, take a look at our guide on how to set up a dedicated server for V Rising .

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All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them

These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints

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Looking for more Arc Raiders Blueprints? It’s a special day when you find a Blueprint, as they’re among the most valuable items in Arc Raiders. If you find a Blueprint that you haven’t already found, then you must make sure you hold onto it at all costs, because Blueprints are the key to one of the most important and powerful systems of meta-progression in the game.

This guide aims to be the very best guide on Blueprints you can find, starting with a primer on what exactly they are and how they work in Arc Raiders, before delving into exactly where to get Blueprints and the very best farming spots for you to take in your search.

We’ll also go over how to get Blueprints from other unlikely activities, such as destroying Surveyors and completing specific quests. And you’ll also find the full list of all 75 Blueprints in Arc Raiders on this page (including the newest Blueprints added with the Cold Snap update , such as the Deadline Blueprint and Firework Box Blueprint), giving you all the information you need to expand your own crafting repertoire.

In this guide:

• What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
• Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
• Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders Blueprints obtained from quests Blueprints obtained from Trials Best Blueprint farming locations

What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?

Blueprints in Arc Raiders are special items which, if you manage to extract with them, you can expend to permanently unlock a new crafting recipe in your Workshop. If you manage to extract from a raid with an Anvil Blueprint, for example, you can unlock the ability to craft your very own Anvil Pistol, as many times as you like (as long as you have the crafting materials).

To use a Blueprint, simply open your Inventory while in the lobby, then right-click on the Blueprint and click “Learn And Consume” . This will permanently unlock the recipe for that item in your Workshop. As of the Stella Montis update, there are allegedly 75 different Blueprints to unlock - although only 68 are confirmed to be in the game so far. You can see all the Blueprints you’ve found and unlocked by going to the Workshop menu, and hitting “R” to bring up the Blueprint screen.

It’s possible to find duplicates of past Blueprints you’ve already unlocked. If you find these, then you can either sell them, or - if you like to play with friends - you can take it into a match and gift it to your friend so they can unlock that recipe for themselves. Another option is to keep hold of them until the time comes to donate them to the Expedition.

Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes

Below is the full list of all the Blueprints that are currently available to find in Arc Raiders, and the crafting recipe required for each item:

Note: The missing Blueprints in this list likely have not actually been added to the game at the time of writing, because none of the playerbase has managed to find any of them. As they are added to the game, I will update this page with the most relevant information so you know exactly how to get all 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints.

Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders

Below is a list of all containers, modifiers, and events which maximise your chances of finding Blueprints:

• Certain quests reward you with specific Blueprints .
• Completing Trials has a high chance of offering Blueprints as rewards.
• Surveyors have a decent chance of dropping Blueprints on death.
• High loot value areas tend to have a greater chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Night Raids and Storms may increase rare Blueprint spawn chances in containers.
• Containers with higher numbers of items may have a higher tendency to spawn Blueprints. As a result, Blue Gate (which has many “large” containers containing multiple items) may give you a higher chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Raider containers (Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, Medical Bags, Grenade Tubes) have increased Blueprint drop rates. As a result, the Uncovered Caches event gives you a high chance of finding Blueprints.
• Security Lockers have a higher than average chance of containing Blueprints.
• Certain Blueprints only seem to spawn under specific circumstances: Tempest Blueprint only spawns during Night Raid events. Vulcano Blueprint only spawns during Hidden Bunker events. Jupiter and Equaliser Blueprints only spawn during Harvester events.

Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, and other raider-oriented container types have a good chance of offering Blueprints. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints have a very low chance of spawning in any container in Arc Raiders, around 1-2% on average. However, there is a higher chance of finding Blueprints in particular container types. Specifically, you can find more Blueprints in Raider containers and security lockers.

Beyond this, if you’re looking for Blueprints you should focus on regions of the map which are marked as having particularly high-value loot. Areas such as the Control Tower in Dam Battlegrounds, the Arrival and Departure Buildings in Spaceport, and Pilgrim’s Peak in Blue Gate all have a better-than-average chance of spawning Blueprints somewhere amongst all their containers. Night Raids and Electromagnetic Storm events also increase the drop chances of certain Blueprints .

In addition to these containers, you can often loot Blueprints from destroyed Surveyors - the largest of the rolling ball ARC. Surveyors are more commonly found on the later maps - Spaceport and Blue Gate - and if one spawns in your match, you’ll likely see it by the blue laser beam that it casts into the sky while “surveying”.

Surveyors are quite well-armoured and will very speedily run away from you once it notices you, but if you can take one down then make sure you loot all its parts for a chance of obtaining certain unusual Blueprints.

Blueprints obtained from quests

One way in which you can get Blueprints is by completing certain quests for the vendors in Speranza. Some quests will reward you with a specific item Blueprint upon completion, so as long as you work through all the quests in Arc Raiders, you are guaranteed those Blueprints.

Here is the full list of all Blueprints you can get from quest rewards:

• Trigger Nade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Sparks Fly”.
• Lure Grenade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Greasing Her Palms”.
• Burletta Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Industrial Espionage”.
• Hullcracker Blueprint (and Launcher Ammo Blueprint): Rewarded after completing “The Major’s Footlocker”.

Alas, that’s only 4 Blueprints out of a total of 75 to unlock, so for the vast majority you will need to find them yourself during a raid. If you’re intent on farming Blueprints, then it’s best to equip yourself with cheap gear in case you lose it, but don’t use a free loadout because then you won’t get a safe pocket to stash any new Blueprint you find. No pain in Arc Raiders is sharper than failing to extract with a new Blueprint you’ve been after for a dozen hours already.

One of the best ways to get Blueprints is by hitting three stars on all five Trials every week. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints obtained from Trials

One of the very best ways to get Blueprints is as rewards for completing Trials in Arc Raiders. Trials are unlocked from Level 15 onwards, and allow you to earn rewards by focusing on certain tasks over the course of several raids. For example, one Trial might task you with dealing damage to Hornets, while another might challenge you to loot Supply Drops.

Trials refresh on a weekly basis, with a new week bringing five new Trials. Each Trial can offer up to three rewards after passing certain score milestones, and it’s possible to receive very high level loot from these reward crates - including Blueprints. So if you want to unlock as many Blueprints as possible, you should make a point of completing as many Trials as possible each week.

Best Blueprint farming locations

The very best way to get Blueprints is to frequent specific areas of the maps which combine high-tier loot pools with the right types of containers to search. Here are my recommendations for where to find Blueprints on every map, so you can always keep the search going for new crafting recipes to unlock.

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Dam Battlegrounds

The best places to farm Blueprints on Dam Battlegrounds are the Control Tower, Power Generation Complex, Ruby Residence, and Pale Apartments . The first two regions, despite only being marked on the map as mid-tier loot, contain a phenomenal number of containers to loot. The Control Tower can also contain a couple of high-tier Security Lockers - though of course, you’ll need to have unlocked the Security Breach skill at the end of the Survival tree.

There’s also a lot of reporting amongst the playerbase that the Residential areas in the top-left of the map - Pale Apartments and Ruby Residence - give you a comparatively strong chance of finding Blueprints. Considering their size, there’s a high density of containers to loot in both locations, and they also have the benefit of being fairly out of the way. So you’re more likely to have all the containers to yourself.

Buried City

The best Blueprint farming locations on Buried City are the Santa Maria Houses, Grandioso Apartments, Town Hall, and the various buildings of the New District . Grandioso Apartments has a lower number of containers than the rest, but a high chance of spawning weapon cases - which have good Blueprint drop rates. The others are high-tier loot areas, with plenty of lootable containers - including Security Lockers.

Spaceport

The best places to find Blueprints on Spaceport are the Arrival and Departure Buildings, as well as Control Tower A6 and the Launch Towers . All these areas are labelled as high-value loot regions, and many of them are also very handily connected to one another by the Spaceport wall, which you can use to quickly run from one area to the next. At the tops of most of these buildings you’ll find at least one Security Locker, so this is an excellent farming route for players looking to find Blueprints.

The downside to looting Blueprints on Spaceport is that all these areas are hotly contested, particularly in Duos and Squads. You’ll need to be very focused and fast in order to complete the full farming route.

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Blue Gate

Blue Gate tends to have a good chance of dropping Blueprints, potentially because it generally has a high number of containers which can hold lots of items; so there’s a higher chance of a Blueprint spawning in each container. In my experience, the best Blueprint farming spots on Blue Gate are Pilgrim’s Peak, Raider’s Refuge, the Ancient Fort, and the Underground Complex beneath the Warehouse .

All of these areas contain a wealth of containers to loot. Raider’s Refuge has less to loot, but the majority of the containers in and around the Refuge are raider containers, which have a high chance of containing Blueprints - particularly during major events.

Stella Montis

On the whole, Stella Montis seems to have a very low drop rate for Blueprints (though a high chance of dropping other high-tier loot). If you do want to try farming Blueprints on this map, the best places to find Blueprints in Stella Montis are Medical Research, Assembly Workshop, and the Business Center . These areas have the highest density of containers to loot on the map.

In addition to this, the Western Tunnel has a few different Security Lockers to loot, so while there’s very little to loot elsewhere in this area of the map, it’s worth hitting those Security Lockers if you spawn there at the start of a match.

That wraps up this primer on how to get all the Blueprints in Arc Raiders as quickly as possible. With the Expedition system constantly resetting a large number of players’ Blueprints, it’s more important than ever to have the most up-to-date information on where to find all these Blueprints.

While you’re here, be sure to check out our Arc Raiders best guns tier list , as well as our primers on the best skills to unlock and all the different Field Depot locations on every map.

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