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Vampire Survivors weapon evolution guide

Want to know how to evolve weapons in Vampire Survivors? This roguelite indie game is rapidly gaining in popularity, as players discover the sheer joy of walking around a forest or library, slaying an ever-growing encroaching horde of monsters that just want to be very close to you.

It's a relatively simple game to play, but mastering it and unlocking Vampire Survivors characters can get a little tricky if you don't spec into the correct build from the start. To evolve an item in Vampire Survivors, you must first level up a weapon to its maximum level, collect its linked item when it appears on the level up screen, then kill a boss monster and open the chest it leaves behind. Unfortunately, you only have a few slots for weapons and items, so you must choose carefully.

The items that synergise well with a weapon aren't necessarily the items you need to evolve them, so while you'll want to pick up the candelabrador if you have the garlic weapon, you also need a pummarola to power it up. To help you figure out which items to keep, we've put together a list of all the possible Vampire Survivors weapon evolutions and which items you need to pick up when you level up.

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Vampire Survivors update 0.42 brings new stage and weapon

There's a whole batch of new content for breakout hit roguelike game Vampire Survivors out today in a new Early Access patch. The update, dubbed patch 0.4.2, adds a brand new stage called the tower. There are seven new achievements to unlock, which means you can expect a new weapon, a new weapon evolution, and more.

The new stage is Vampire Survivors' spookiest level yet, with gothic skull statues, a deep blue tiled floor, and vampire-friendly red carpeting accenting the staircases and traps littered around the floor. It features a new set of enemies and special events, and if you've been following along since last time, it'll mark another step toward your ultimate goal of finding the resting place of the vampire himself.

If you want to work out how to acquire all of this new stuff yourself, you may want to stop reading here. Part of the fun in Vampire Survivors is experimenting with new builds and discovering the new synergies yourself, so we completely understand if you want to go in blind.

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Patch 0.4.2

New Content

Contains 7 new achievements:
- 1 new stage, including new enemies and events
- 1 new character
- 1 new relic/gameplay option
- 1 new weapon
- 1 new evolution
- 1 more Reroll
- 1 more Banish

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Tweaks:
- Heavily reduced chances that enemies will spawn inside walls in the Dairy Plant
- New entry in the Options menu "Less physics, more FPS". It's enabled by default, if you don't like it or for some reason it glitches badly on your machine, you can disable it from the Options menu from the main screen.
- Guide arrows don't jitter anymore - please enable the guides from the Pause menu if you have the Map but can't locate coffins etc.

Bugfix: some projectiles not moving when there are no enemies to target
Bugfix: Clock Lancet disappearing when moving upwards for too long

[h3]New gameplay option[/h3]
Unlocked by finding the new relic in Stage 4, the new "Hurry" option in Stage Selection will simply make the timer tick twice as fast, so enemies waves will change every 30 seconds in real time instead of the usual 60.

What's next

Arcanas are coming soon :)

Vampire Survivors didn't rip-off Castlevania sprites after all

PC Gamer recently spoke to Luca Galante, the sole developer behind indie hit Vampire Survivors. During the conversation I asked about a brief early controversy, which flared-up and then died-down almost as quickly: some people accused the game of going too far in its homage to Castlevania, and even that certain sprites were a straight rip-off...
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Vampire Survivors creator 'didn't have a vision' when he started making the game that allowed him to quit his job

Vampire Survivors was released on December 17, 2021, and quickly became a word-of-mouth hit. It's a simple-looking game but the great pleasure here is in how it escalates: What begins as a lone figure whipping skeletons is soon enough a coruscating supernova of liquid death destroying legions of ghouls with every step...
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