V Rising: How to Get Iron
The first step toward obtaining Iron is to craft any of the Merciless Copper weapons in the game. These weapons are slightly more powerful than their Copper equivalents, and survival game fans will get recipes for them as random drops. Alternatively, a player can take a more proactive approach to acquiring a Merciless Copper weapon recipes by feeding Paper into their castle’s Study.
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With a Merciless Copper weapon in hand, players must now set their sights on locating veins of Iron. These veins can be found in the Dunley Farmlands to the north of the Farbane Woods, and the Haunted Iron Mines in particular are a great place to target. The precise position of the Haunted Iron Mines has been marked on the map that is below, and indeed they are situated on the southern border of the Farmlands.
Once a player has located a suitable vein, they should hit it with their Merciless Copper weapon to extract Iron Ore. Fans can then smelt this V Rising material into Iron Ingots in their Furnaces, provided that they have unlocked the recipe that allows for that transmutation to be performed. For full clarity, the Iron Ingot recipe is earned by defeating Quincey the Bandit King, a Level 37 boss who can be tracked through the Blood Altar.
The Iron Ingot recipe is not the only reward that players will receive for dispatching the Bandit King, though, as they will also earn Iron Weapon recipes and the ability to construct a Smithy at their castles. As some fans will undoubtedly expect, that V Rising workbench is used to mold Iron Ingots into Iron equipment, making it a very important part of this whole process.
To note, Iron is certainly not the last metal that vampire video game fans will encounter during their time with V Rising, and it will only be a matter of time before they are making Merciless Iron equipment and using it to farm Silver. Players will need to exercise some additional care when handling that material, though, as carrying it can deal damage to the vampire.
V Rising is in early access on PC.
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