Vampire Survivors evolution chart and build planner

Fill six weapon seals. Each seal pulls its required passive into the opposite rack and names the evolved weapon the chest can grant. Presets drop a full first-run, screen-clear, or boss rack in one click. The atlas underneath filters all twelve recipes while you type.

Weapon seals

6×6 rack

      Twelve-recipe evolution atlas

      Weapon Passive Evolved Role Effect Map pickup
      Whip Hollow Heart Bloody Tear Sustain & Critical Critical hits restore 8 HP per proc and deal double damage in horizontal slashes. Hollow Heart spawns naturally as a stage item on Mad Forest.
      Magic Wand Empty Tome Holy Wand Single-Target Lock Fires continuously with zero cooldown delay and pierces one extra enemy, pushing bosses back. Empty Tome can be picked up off the floor in Inlaid Library after filling all 6 passive slots.
      Knife Bracer Thousand Edge Directional Boss Melt Launches an uninterrupted stream of high-velocity blades in the direction you face. Best paired with Hollow Heart or Garlic so you can aim safely into elite waves.
      Axe Candelabrador Death Spiral 360-Degree Screen Clear Throws nine massive piercing scythes outward in a full ring around your character. Candelabrador also expands Garlic, King Bible, and Santa Water hitboxes.
      King Bible Spellbinder Unholy Vespers Permanent Orbit Barrier Orbiting books never expire, forming a permanent knockback ring that blocks swarming bats and skeletons. Combines with Candelabrador and Empty Tome for overlapping defensive rings.
      Garlic Pummarola Soul Eater Early XP & Knockback Aura Steals HP from enemies inside the aura and scales its damage up whenever you recover health. Pairs naturally with Bloody Tear (Whip) to trigger Soul Eater's healing damage cap.
      Fire Wand Spinach Hellfire Heavy Piercing Meteors Launches giant meteors that pass through the entire screen, dealing massive base damage per hit. Spinach boosts all weapon damage by up to +50%, making it a universal passive slot.
      Santa Water Attractorb La Borra Creeping Damage Zone Flame pools slowly converge on your position, creating a high-DPS moat that melts late-game waves. Attractorb also pulls XP gems from across the screen so you level up without walking into danger.
      Cross Clover Heaven Sword Boomerang Crit Cleave Giant golden blades boomerang across the screen and can critically strike for massive burst. Clover increases chest luck and four-leaf drops.
      Lightning Ring Duplicator Thunder Loop Dual-Strike AoE Burst Every lightning bolt strikes twice, hitting random clusters across the viewport. Duplicator adds +2 projectiles to almost every weapon in your build.
      Song of Mana Skull O'Maniac Mannajja Vertical Column Slow & Cleave Wide purple waves wipe entire vertical columns and slow surviving enemies. Skull O'Maniac increases enemy density (+Curse), feeding you more XP gems per minute.
      Runetracer Armor NO FUTURE Bouncing Laser Explosions Rebounding beams explode on contact with screen edges and enemies, plus Armor reduces incoming damage. Great for narrow corridors like Inlaid Library and Gallo Tower.

      How to read a paired rack

      Whip wants Hollow Heart and becomes Bloody Tear, a horizontal critical that also heals. Garlic wants Pummarola and becomes Soul Eater, the early aura that keeps gem vacuum safe. Magic Wand wants Empty Tome and becomes Holy Wand for single-target lock. The planner lists every armed evolution by those names, then repeats the chest rule: level 8 weapon, passive present, boss chest.

      Stage notes stay attached to the seal. Hollow Heart is a natural floor drop on Mad Forest, so a whip rack can skip the passive level-up gamble if you route the glade. Duplicator, the Lightning Ring partner, is also the meta power-up you buy first outside the run. If a preset mentions Candelabrador or Spinach, those are area and damage passives already paired to Axe and Fire Wand inside that six.

      First-Run Safe Sustain. Built around Bloody Tear + Soul Eater healing synergy, Unholy Vespers knockback ring, and Holy Wand single-target defense.

      30-Minute AoE Screen Melt. Maximizes Candelabrador, Spinach, and Duplicator so Death Spiral, La Borra, and Thunder Loop erase full-screen waves.

      Boss & Corridor Crit Lock. Concentrates Holy Wand, Thousand Edge, and Heaven Sword critical bursts on elite bosses while Bloody Tear keeps HP full.

      Questions players actually hit

      Why does the planner stop at six weapons?

      A Vampire Survivors run has six weapon slots and six passive slots. The planner refuses a seventh seal and tells you the rack is full, so the passive pairing stays inside a real inventory instead of a wish list.

      When does an evolved weapon actually appear in a run?

      The chart arms the evolution name as soon as the base weapon and its passive share the rack. In a match you still level that weapon to 8, keep the passive at level 1 or higher, and open a chest dropped by an evolution-eligible boss.

      How do I hand a loadout to another player?

      Share copies a link whose weapons query lists the seal ids, for example ?weapons=whip,magic-wand. Opening that link refills the same six slots, the paired passives, and the evolved names. Reset clears both the rack and the query.

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