V Rising strikes a fine balance between natural progression and farming. Unlike, say, Valheim, players do not learn every recipe associated with a particular raw material or item.
Instead, the major crafting stations tend to be unlocked by defeating V Blood bosses, with just a few recipes unlocked at the start. To unlock more for their castle, players have to farm for blueprints via alternative methods.
For example, after constructing a Simple Workbench, players immediately learn how to craft copper weapons and merciless copper weapons. It’s a great place to start to replace old bone weapons. However, merciless copper weapons aren’t unlocked automatically. Multiple recipes are locked away in the same fashion in V Rising.
A similar example is Paper Press. However, unlike the Simple Workbench, the Paper Press continues to provide a very important function whereas the Simple Workbench is useless past a certain point.
This is because a Paper Press can craft Paper, Scrolls, and Schematics. These three forms of paper products provide the same use: unlocking more blueprints through the use of a research station. Unfortunately, the Paper Press blueprint is not learned automatically. Here is how players can unlock the Paper Press in V Rising.
There is a major source of progression in V Rising by way of the Blood Altar. Players can pick a target - if they are close to the level - then hunt down the next V Blood boss for new crafting blueprints or crafting station blueprints. That isn’t the case with the Paper Press.
Instead, the Paper Press has to be unlocked with a research station. There are three research stations in V Rising: the Research Desk, the Study, and the Athenaeum.
These are then linked to three forms of paper products:
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