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I did think about that, but I decided against it as it didn't feel right for this castle. With the grand decor, guest areas and peaceful gardens, it felt wrong having loud industrial machines near or in the castle. A forge room or jewelry may have been cool though... I also have a separate functional castle that I used to craft everything, so I didn't really need anything functional in this one.

@@Aether_Ray I agree with what you said. When I saw this for the first time I was like now this is a proper castle for a vampire lore to live in luxury.

Four floors (or three floors plus the ground floor).

Haha, it is really large... makes my other castles look like shacks. I'm figuring out how to share the file so people can actually explore the castle. I'll let you know when I have that finished.

@@Aether_Ray haha, thanks will be waiting 😁

Thank you!!! I spent a lot of time working on this castle, and way too much time with the furniture and lighting... makes me happy that others like it, and all that effort is noticed! :D

Thanks, glad you liked the castle! :D I do have a video, but it was before a big update and admittedly, it is very unfinished and not as beautiful as this castle. The video is titled “V-Rising Castle Tour (Before the 1.0 Update)” on my channel. I like the layout I had, and I think the best bits are the battle arena (which I used to do in every castle), the front entrance, the upper garden, and my servant room.

@@Aether_Ray are you going to make more videos. Do you still play?

@@Zues_007 I do plan on making more videos (mostly on stuff I find interesting, as I do this just for fun). For specifically V-Rising content, I’ll upload more castle tours, but I am a very slow builder and mostly play other games. I might work on a more “let’s play” style of video in the meantime, where I show the designing/building process I have. That way I have something to upload while I work on the castle. :) As for if I still play, I just take a break from V-Rising and have been playing other games. I love V-Rising, but it gets stale after a while, especially after decorating a giant castle. A few days ago I started playing V-Rising again, and I’m currently working on a new castle in Dunley (although I’m still deciding on which layout I like best…)

For the archway, I used the (iron) Noble fence gate followed by the (iron) Noble trellis archway. I used two deep archways (the larger ones) with the smaller archway between them. All of them have ivy on top. I have the Paragon Garden Lanterns just outside the arches, and 4 cypress trees in large garden planters.

I didn't really cover both ramps. One ramp is the enclosed staircase at 5:04 and the other is the open staircase at 8:18. I did offset the staircases so the building appears more symmetrical (hence why one appears to be covered up). Hope that answers your question. If not, I'm working on uploading the save file so people can explore the castle in the world. If you'd like, I can reply to this once I've done that so you can check it out for yourself!

You mentioned that you are uploading the save file. Can you please provide instructions with it on how to import it in our game. I tried with another file and it didn’t work. For others who figured it out said they couldn’t get into the castle

Hey, glad you liked the castle! I'll look into how to share the server. My friend owned it, so I'll have to ask him for the save file. We haven't played on it in a while so hopefully everything is still good. I'll just reply once I get it all sorted out (and no need to pay for it. I'd love for other people to enjoy the castle in game!)

@@Aether_Ray thanks a ton. You're amazing!

Do you mean the hill that is there? I didn't place any floor immediately over it, and I use it for the royal guest staircase you see at 20:58.

Thank you!! It's a great castle location, and probably my 2nd favourite in the game. Shame the mountains block the view of the sea though...

Thanks! I'm glad you liked the outside of my castle :) Smart strategy with your functional castle. Good to beat most of the game and then do a lot of decorating, since you have more resources and decorative options then. I like the idea of your first tier mostly being gardens (especially if your plot has a lot of beautiful natural features), but I'm also pretty biased since I love the gardens in this game ;) A nice/grand entrance is always nice and very important. As for the plots, I would say a lot of the very large and easy-to-use plots are outside of Farbane. There are still some large ones in Farbane with some cool features, but most of the ones I used in the past have been split up and don't look as nice now... Additionally, I'd also argue that the other zones (excluding Gloomrot South, unless you like yellow mutated rivers and pyros setting everything on fire...) have nicer natural features in or near their plots. That's just my personal taste though, and of course different designs can work better in different zones.

Thanks! I worked really hard on the entrance so I'm glad you liked it :)

Hey! Thanks for the input :) This castle is supposed to be purely aesthetic, and was sort of a challenge I set for myself to see if I could make a really beautiful castle in V-Rising. I had a functional castle (with all of those workshops, forges, etc.) in Farbane where I farmed all of the materials for this castle. I probably could have made some rooms look "functional", but only for decorative purposes as I did all of my crafting in my Farbane base. I have some extra context in the video description. If you're interested in seeing my productive/functional castle, I can do a quick recording of it and link it as an unlisted video, although it really is nothing spectacular.

This took me about 3-4 weeks to build. I did go on vacation for a week, which slowed my building a bit. Not sure if that’s short or long for a castle to be honest… most of the castles I built were before they added 2 story castles, and those took about a week max for the larger ones.

Thanks for the advice! I totally agree. To be honest, I didn’t know what to do with those top floor rooms. Just too much space for a bedroom, but I didn’t want to section it into smaller rooms. I also wanted to try something… different and crazy. Didnt quite work. I also just wanted to finish the building at that point lol. For the dracula throne, I really wanted to use it but it kept clipping through the wall a little bit and looked a bit too big for the room… I want to use it in a castle though, since it’s such a beautiful and grand throne

Good luck with your solo run; I hope you enjoy it! Progressing through the game was really fun, and designing/building a decorative castle was a fun way to enjoy the endgame.

Thanks for that. I wanted the video to be nice and relaxing, so I'm glad I achieved that. Not too sure I should be happy the video put you to sleep lol... but I'm glad it helped you take a relaxing nap

Thanks for the input! I did look at the cobblestone paths, and while they are very pretty, they looked a bit odd on their own. With trees they would look amazing though. I think cypress trees would look nice in the courtyard while still keeping that clean look I was going for...

Try putting small garden plots with fire or snow flowers

Thanks, I'm glad you liked the castle! :) To get the floor to open up, just use the "Invisible Foundation" in the Castle -> Foundation tab. Fill in the roof sections with this tile and they go away.

@@Aether_Ray Wow, Thank you, I hadn't thought about that. Great to know =D

Hey man, amazing castle!!!! I've been building a heavily inspired version on an online server. Is there anyway you could share the save of the world you've built this in? Would be an insanely big help. (if you don't know how, lmk!)

really nice, and well done. Sadly, motion sickness from all the bobbing around with character.

@@user-bt4vo9nq6g Thanks, glad you liked it, and sorry about that. I need to be careful about the mouse movement with stuff like this... I tried to move my camera slowly (especially for this longer version) to avoid that, but looking back I still flick around a lot...

I really like the sectioning and the colors in each section. You've done such a great job in color blocking the areas and the lighting is chef's kiss. Which plot did you make your castle? The space is so huge! Or is it two plots that you bridged together?

@@welldan Thank you! I'm glad I went with differently coloured sections/rooms instead of the blue castle design I had before. It makes each area feel different, which can be hard in such a large castle... Glad you liked the lighting as well. Spent waaay too much time experimenting with that... but I love the lighting in this game so I couldn't help it :P For the plot, I made it in that large, isolated, circular-ish plot in the northwest of Silverlight. I show the exact location in my extended version around 50 seconds in.

Thanks, glad you liked the castle! I also love the PvE in V Rising, which seems to have only gotten better after the update. I’ll be sure to take a video of my next castle once it’s finished!

@@Aether_Ray I only started after full launch to avoid losing my progress but videos like this one make me very excited about what I'm going to build. Your focus on aesthetics and the general feel of the environment is EXACTLY my type of content. Definitely subbed. Thank you!

Thank you! Hopefully this route helps you, and good luck playing on the 4.6 server. It’s a great patch :)