V Rising — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Dev Update #32: The Next Era | 2026-03-26 | Greetings Vampires!It’s been a while since we last checked in, a bit longer than usual. First and foremost, we want to express our heartfelt gratitude for your patience and faith in us.The V Rising community, while certainly having its faults (like draining the blood of the living to sustain its unholy existence, participating in dark magic rituals, and eating uncooked rats), has always been a bastion of earnest excitement united around the things we all love. We are all monsters for our passions.Today, we’d like to share a bit of what we’ve been crafting and offer some clarity on the direction of Stunlock Studios and V Rising. We can’t revea |
| V Rising 1.1 Hot Fix 10 | 2025-12-17 | Hello Vampires!We’re doing a handful of bug fixes for more concerning issues we’ve found. These fixes are all server-based, so they’ll come into effect whenever the server you’re playing on updates. If you’re hosting a server, please update as soon as possible!The following changes will be applied. GeneralFixed an issue where players could sometimes jump into unintended areas.Added additional logic to prevent Vampires from being able to bypass closed doors.Cast a terrible curse upon Dracula’s blood, preventing it from maintaining its form outside of the Shadow Realm. If you're having issues with the game, make sure to take a look at our known |
| Jade the Vampire Hunter Plushie! | 2025-11-28 | Jade the Vampire Hunter has taken the explosive leap from patrolling the dirt roads of Dunley Farmlands into real life! Or maybe she’s been stealthed next to us all along, waiting for her chance to strike? Regardless, we know she’s here now, and now nothing will stop her from getting close enough to give you a warm, welcoming hug, and definitely nothing else.Be among the first to get your hands on the Jade the Vampire Hunter Plushie by pre-ordering… GET IT RIGHT HERE! Jade the Vampire Hunter comes with everything she needs to befriend you, her new treasured Vampire companion!StakesGarlicTwo flintlock handgunsAn unshakeable hatred born of a li |
| Vote V Rising for Labor of Love! | 2025-11-24 | Greetings Vampires! Many of you have followed us on the journey from Early Access launch, through Gloomrot, to the release of Dracula and 1.0, all the way to the poisonous boughs of Oakveil. Over the years of development, we’ve put time, effort, love, and both your and our ideas together to create something we hope is as satisfying for you to play as it ultimately was for us to create.So we call out to you, well over 6 million creatures of the night, asking for your support. If you ever felt an ounce of the affection we put into bringing you the bloodsucking experience of a lifetime, we humbly ask you to give us your vote for Labor of Love.Et |
| Original Vampire Art Contest Winners | 2025-11-13 | Vampires All Around Us What a magnificent year it’s been for the art competition! A swarming flock of entries blessed our castle halls here at the Stunlock Studios crypts, filling our eyes and hearts with beauty and terror befitting of the immense talent of our kindred kind. This competition had the most entries of any art contest we’ve held to date, and the competition was as fierce as ever! Let it never be said that the Vampires of Vardoran take their artwork any less seriously than they take their bloody hunts. For this contest, the Stunlock Jury consists of Johan Wahlbäck (Art Director), Johan Aronson (Senior Concept Artist), Viktor Blomq |
| ORIGINAL VAMPIRE ART CONTEST | 2025-10-16 | Ah, the familiar scent of terror. It’s that time of year, Vampires! Autumn is upon us, and with it the season of fear and trickery. For us creatures of the night, the looming cold and darkness is like a warm embrace. So, as ever before, we at Stunlock Studios are prepared to celebrate it with you. We return with a new creative contest to offer you an opportunity to flex your talents! SHOWCASE YOUR VAMPIRE The V Rising community has always shown incredible artistic flair, ever since our very first art contest just after our Early Access release. Since then, every year we’ve held a new competition, and each year you have all delighted us! This |
| V Rising October Patch Notes | 2025-10-15 | Hello Vampires!The time for the October patch is upon us! Based on your feedback, we were able to fit a few extra features and bug fixes in, as well as alter some of the planned changes. While we do strive for some level of balance to the numbers side of the game, the most important thing for us is that the game feels good and fun to play. Largely, the following changes focus on balancing the numbers in small but meaningful ways while preserving and, in some ways, perhaps improving the overall game feel for everyone!Now, onto the patch details!The following changes will be applied at 11.00 CEST. GeneralPlayers can no longer equip/swap passive |
| V Rising Balance Notes Feedback | 2025-10-06 | Hello Vampires!Down below, you’ll find some details on our current plans for a V Rising balance patch. Now that the 1.1 update has had a good amount of time to settle, we thought now might be a good opportunity to make some adjustments to improve the game overall for our most battle-hungry, restless nightkin.After gathering feedback from the community, as well as with the accumulated feedback on our suggestion and bug report boards, we’ve dedicated some time to testing what we could do to best address the current concerns. These changes will have their limits, as we don’t want this patch to require a save wipe to play. Still, we’re looking to |
| V Rising Security Update | 2025-10-03 | Greetings Vampires!It's recently been found by Unity that there is a vulnerability as old as 2017 that could potentially be exploited in games made with Unity. We've already patched the issue on clients and are currently working to patch it on the server client as well.We highly recommend patching your game and dedicated server client as soon as it's available, as well as being very cautious about any mods you download until you verify they're secure.Be safe out there and take care.If you're having issues with the game, make sure to take a look at our known bugs and fixes to see if there's a potential solution to get you back into Vardoran as |
| The Razer Serpent Night Pack Is Back! | 2025-10-02 | Greetings Vampires! We’re happy to announce that, in collaboration with Razer, we’ve made the Razer Serpent Night Pack available once again! To claim your free DLC, follow this link to the giveaway page. Entering the giveaway will provide a Razer Serpent Night Pack, which unlocks the ability to craft: Razer HoodRazer Serpent Wrap (Available to craft when you unlock tier 1 cloaks)Razer Serpent Veil (Available to craft when you unlock tier 2 cloaks)Razer Serpent Mantle (Available to craft when you unlock tier 3 cloaks) Additionally, anyone who redeems a code will be entered to win a Razer Blackshark V2 Pro, a Razer Naga V2 Pro, and a Razer Hunt |
| V Rising 50% Summer Sale! | 2025-06-26 | Greetings Vampire hopefuls!The Steam Summer Sale is underway, and with it, V Rising is making some historic moves to make the Vampire experience more available than ever for you and your devious proclivities! The game will be 50% off, matching the highest discount we’ve ever offered. If you’ve got any friends who have been looking to explore the night, now’s your chance to bring them with you into the deepest depths of Vardoran.You can also do it in style!For the first time ever, the Eternal Dominance pack is on sale! Never has it been more affordable to drown in the endless opulence of your wildest Vampire desires at 20% off. Drape your lair |
| V Rising 1.1 Hot Fix 9 | 2025-06-12 | Hello Vampires! We’ve emerged from our crypt to carve out a couple of bugs, wrap them up, and bring them back inside for our nefarious dark magic rituals. Please do not ask me about the dark rituals, you really don’t want to know.The following changes will be applied. General Added a confirmation request to the “Kill Prisoner” option in prison cells.Fixed an issue where units spawned through objects like Spider Cave cocoons could sometimes disappear after being imprisoned.Fixed Unholy VFX on the enemy “Skewering Leap” ability.Fixed an issue where queuing up irradiant gruel in a prison cell could remain in que even if the unit mutated, causing |
| V Rising 1.1 Hot Fix 8 | 2025-05-16 | Greetings Vampires! More fixes to cap off the week! The following changes will be applied. General Did some slight reworks to Mace Q, Claw Q, and Whip Q rotation curves that should significantly reduce the potential jankiness of casting them in the opposite direction of your walking inputs while having latency. Solved an issue where items would in some cases be taken from non-treasury chests when crafting/building. Fixed some minor issues with jewel/legendary names. Speaking of names, fixed some typos! Fixed some spacing overflow issues in crafting stations in several languages to bring them in line with other localizations. Fixed an issue wh |
| Tristan the Vampire Hunter Plushie! | 2025-05-14 | Beware Vampires! Behold, your doom. Tristan the Vampire Hunter has long since terrorized the pathways of the Farbane Woodlands, striking fear into the hearts of all that goes bump in the night. Now you can bring the finest monster slayer south of Dunley Farmlands home with you! Pre-orders are RIGHT HERE! Tristan the Vampire Hunter Plushie comes with: Glow-in-the-dark eyes that will look directly into your soul from across the room no matter how dark it gets! Finely embroidered details to display his immaculate style and dedication to the Church of the Light. Detachable sword and crossbow so that he can appear threatening in a large variety of |
| V Rising 1.1 Hot Fix 7 | 2025-05-13 | Hello Vampires! We’re darkening your doorstep to deliver more delectable bug fixes. A little balance tweak that should make corrupted blood a bit less oppressive in PvE and PvP alike, as well as fixing some wording and unintended behaviors. More to come! The following changes will be applied. General Corrupted Blood’s chance of spawning a shadow is down from 30% per ability cast to 20% per ability cast. Damage from the shadows has been increased to 150% from 120%. Fixed an issue where the vampire horse could land on an upper floor in your castle when called to a lower floor. Fixed various typos. Fixed an issue where Talons of the Lich Beast d |
| V Rising 1.1 Hot Fix 6 | 2025-05-09 | Greetings Vampires! We’re getting even more fixes in before the weekend so that you may indulge your blood lust as bug-free as possible in all of your rich upcoming free time. The following changes will be applied. General Fixed more skinning issues on a few armor sets. Fixed mesh clipping on the Undead General Helmet. Fixed a potential server crash issue related to pathing. Corrected an issue where Cassius’ sword could get stuck under ground, making the boss unkillable. Added some missing collisions in a place where the player could jump into the abyss. So if you want to jump into the abyss, you’re going to have to try a little harder. Fixed |
| V Rising 1.1 Hot Fix 5 | 2025-05-07 | Greetings Vampires! We’re adding a new patch today with a wide variety of fixes to address your most urgent needs! Additionally, we’re continuing to optimize the game so it can run more smoothly. The following changes will be applied. General Fixed an issue where Vampire mounts could no longer be mounted. Please note that if your horse is currently bugged in this way, for the fix to take effect, you will have to resummon your horse. After it has been resummoned, it should not break again. Fixed an issue where prisoners summoned to your base through a “Dusk Caller” over a long distance could get stuck in transit, and may never arrive, also cau |
| V Rising 1.1 Hot Fix 4 | 2025-05-06 | Greetings Vampires! Hotfix time! We're implementing some more optimizations to help our servers run a bit better and provide a smoother overall experience! These changes are entirely server-side. They will be applying to Official servers on the next restart, and your private servers the next time you choose to update. If you're having issues with the game, make sure to take a look at our known bugs and fixes to see if there's a potential solution to get you back into Vardoran as quickly as possible! We're always grateful for your help in translating the game at https://crowdin.com/project/v-rising-game IMPORTANT NOTE! Please report any issues |
| V Rising 1.1 Hot Fix 3 | 2025-05-05 | Greetings Vampires! We’re going to be applying a hot fix to help clean up a few bugs. Keep bringing them to us so we can keep slaying them. The following changes will be applied. General Fixed an issue with getting stuck in permanent repair state when double-clicking a model. Fixed an issue where feeding a prisoner fish while at 100% blood quality would unlock the “Perfect Test Subject” achievement. Fixed an error that was resetting resolution settings. Fixed some scrolling not working in forge menus. Fixed an issue where Gaius the Cursed Champion could go back to resting state while his fight is still active, making him temporarily unavailab |
| V Rising 1.1 Hot Fix 2 | 2025-04-30 | Hello Vampires! Another Hot Fix! The Vampire bug slaying continues! The following changes will be applied. The following changes will be applied. General The Garden Lamp Post Flourish is now double-sided. Fixed an issue where monster beam sequences would not play in some circumstances. Fixed an issue where Nocturnal Opulence Stairs could clip through walls. Fixed an issue with the Banquet Table that made decorations appear underneath the table surface. Fixed an issue where lightning strikes could sometimes hit players inside castle rooms. Renamed the “givecombatpreset” server admin command to “givecombatpresetandallunlocks” to properly reflec |