V Rising: Complete Guide To Prisoners (2024)

Strong blood can be hard to come by in V Rising, so you will definitely want to set up a prison room. In a prison, you can place cells and keep strong-blooded enemies and feed on them whenever you need strong blood. Setting up a prison can't be done at the start of the game, so we are here to help.

In this guide, we are going to go over how to set up a prison and manage your prisoners. Doing this is completely optional, but it will provide you will blood so you don't have to rely on tainted hearts or rats. First, let's take a look at how to unlock Prison Cells.

Updated May 30, 2024 by Jacqueline Zalace: Prisoners in V Rising are a great source of constant, high-quality blood. With the 1.0 update now out, we've updated this guide with even more information on how to obtain and take care of your prisoners.

How To Unlock Prison Cells

To unlock the Prison Cell, you will first need to defeat Vincent the Frostbringer. This is a level 44 V Blood Carrier that you can find near wandering in the Dunley Farmlands.

Once you defeat Vincent the Frostbringer, the recipe for the Prison Cell will unlock. To build a Prison Cell, you will need the following materials.

• 8x Iron Ingot
• 2x Reinforced Plank

How To Make A Prison Room

With the Prison Cell unlocked and enough materials in your inventory, you can now build your very own prison room. This can be done by creating a closed room in your castle with enough space for a few Prison Cells.

For maximum efficiency, you will also want to have Prison Flooring. This is a recipe that unlocks after completing the story quest that requires you to build a Prison Cell for the first time. As such, you will get both the cell and flooring around the same time.

How To Get Prisoners

To have prisoners, you will first need to charm human enemies to follow you back to your castle.

'Dominate Human' is an ability that will be gained through completing main objectives. After targeting someone and using this spell, you will have the charmed human following you. This spell works better on enemies with low HP, so be sure to attack your target first.

To dominate a human, we recommend setting your sights on one and killing off all other nearby enemies. With the one remaining, you can slowly chip away at their health to make them vulnerable to domination.

With the human in tow, you can return to the prison room of your castle and interact with a Prison Cell. If your charmed human followed you back without dying, then you can place them inside the cell.

Dusk Caller

The Dusk Caller consumable will cause a group of bats to appear and carry the human under your control back to your realm. The human will be deposited into an empty cell, so you don't have to escort them through the map.

If you are traveling to another biome to get a prisoner, we highly suggest using a Dusk Caller. This makes the entire process very easy, as you don't have to do any long-distance traveling.

To make a Dusk Caller, you will need to craft it with the following materials at the Alchemy Table. The recipe will unlock after you defeat Leandra the Shadow Priestess (this is a level 47 boss).

• 4x Scourgestone
• 60x Hell's Clarion

Prisoner Interaction Screen

Now, it's time to interact with your prisoner. When you do so, you will see a screen with the following options.

• Blood Potion
• Extract Blood Essence
• Feed Prisoner
  • There are several feeding options to choose from, including rats and a variety of fish.

To drain blood, you will need to have an empty glass bottle on hand. This will fill the bottle while causing them to lose some HP. Luckily, you can increase a prisoner's HP by feeding them.

Prisoners will also have Misery. This will influence how much damage the prisoner takes while you drain their blood. For example, with higher levels of Misery, draining blood will take a large chunk of HP.

What Is Irradiant Gruel?

In addition to fish and rats, you will also be able to feed your prisoner Irradiant Gruel. This is a consumable that will increase their blood quality by a few percentage points, but have a 35 percent chance to turn your prisoner into a mutant.

Mutant Blood can still be consumed, but it will provide different stats than the prisoners' previous blood type. The first tier of mutant blood will provide you with a slower blood drain rate.

To make Irradiant Gruel, you will need to combine the following materials at the Alchemy Table.

• 20x Plague Brier
• 20x Mutant Grease

Can You Release Prisoners?

Prisoners can be re-charmed or killed if you want to remove them from the cell that they are currently in.

With a prisoner re-charmed, you can bring them to other cells or turn them into a servant. If you choose to kill the prisoner, you will no longer be able to use them.

Prison Room Layout

Initially, you should have as many cells as you are able to build, which will probably just be one. Once you get enough material though, we highly suggest creating enough cells for every blood type in the game.

This will allow you to choose the blood type that fits your current goal the best. Additionally, we recommend being a bit picky about the prisoners that you capture. If possible, try to find enemies with 100 percent blood quality. This can be rare (and random), so overall, just try to make sure that a prisoner has blood over 50 percent.