There are three choices that determine the success of a given run in Vampire Survivors: your choice of character, your choice of weapons, and your choice of passive items.
While the latter is generally considered the least important of the three, and rightly so, the passive items you pick up can have a huge impact regardless, both on your character’s stats and the weapon evolutions you have access to.
To make the best passive item choices for your build, you’ll need access to the complete information. That’s where our comprehensive Vampire Survivors passive item guide comes in. Read on to learn what each passive item does, how you can unlock it, and which weapon evolutions it enables.
A complete guide to the passive items of Vampire Survivors
Introduction: What passive items are, and where you can find them
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Before we get to the guide itself, it’s a good idea to go over the core principles of passive items first. Passive items modify your character’s stats, almost always in a positive way. They can be acquired by leveling up, in the same way as weapons, by picking them up if you find them lying around in a Stage, or by receiving them as a reward from treasure chests. Once you have six passive items, you can’t obtain more by leveling up, but you can still collect those that appear as stage items, meaning you can easily have ten or more in a single run if you plan things out carefully.
Complete list of passive items
The following list covers every passive item in the game as of the Tides of the Foscari DLC, and lists their effects, unlock conditions, and the weapon evolutions they enable.
| Passive item name | Effect | How to unlock | Weapon evolutions enabled |
| Spinach | +10% Might per level. | Unlocked by default. | Fire Wand and Four Seasons |
| Armor | +1 Armor and +10% retaliatory damage per level. | Unlocked by default. | Runetracer and Eskizzibur |
| Hollow Heart | +20% Max Health per level. | Survive for 1 minute as any character. | Whip |
| Pummarola | +0.2 Recovery per level. | Survive for 5 minutes with Gennaro Belpaese. | Garlic and Silver Wind |
| Empty Tome | -8% Cooldown per level. | Hold 6 different weapons at once. | Magic Wand |
| Candelabrador | +10% Area per level. | Get Santa Water to level 4. | Axe and Four Seasons |
| Bracer | +10% Projectile Speed per level. | Get King Bible to level 4. | Knife and Flash Arrow |
| Spellbinder | +10% Duration per level. | Get Runetracer to level 7. | King Bible and Mille Bolle Blu |
| Duplicator | +1 Amount per level. | Get Magic Wand to level 7. | Lightning Ring and Summon Night |
| Wings | +10% Movement Speed per level. | Reach level 5 as any character. | Shadow Pinion and Glass Fandango |
| Attractorb | Increases Magnet by a varying amount each level. | Find a Vacuum item in a light source. | Santa Water and Mirage Robe |
| Clover | +10% Luck per level. | Find a Little Clover item in a light source. | Cross and Flash Arrow |
| Crown | +8% Growth per level. | Reach level 10 as any character. | Pentagram and Prismatic Missile |
| Stone Mask | +10% Greed per level. | Find the Stone Mask in the Inlaid Library. | Gatti Amari and Night Sword |
| Tiragisú | +1 Revival per level. | Survive for 20 minutes as Krochi Freetto. | Phiera Der Tuphello and Eight The Sparrow (Union) |
| Skull O’Maniac | +10% Curse per level. | Survive for 30 minutes as Lama Ladonna. | Song of Mana and Shadow Servant |
| Torrona’s Box | Increases Might, Projectile Speed, Duration, and Area every level. +100% Curse at level 9. | Hold 6 different weapon evolutions at once. | Victory Sword and Flames of Misspell |
| Academy Badge | Alternately increases Amount and Revival, while decreasing Growth. | N/A. Can only be found in Lake Foscari or Abyss Foscari, or by reaching level 30 as Eleanor, Maruto, or Keitha. | N/A. |
| Silver Ring | +5% Duration and Area per level. | N/A. Can be found as a stage item in every stage after collecting the Yellow Sign Relic. | Clock Lancet |
| Gold Ring | +5% Curse per level. | N/A. Can be found as a stage item in every stage after collecting the Yellow Sign Relic. | Clock Lancet |
| Metaglio Left | +0.1 Recovery and +5% Max Health per level. | N/A. Can be found as a stage item in every stage after collecting the Yellow Sign Relic. | Laurel |
| Metaglio Right | +5% Curse per level. | N/A. Can be found as a stage item in every stage after collecting the Yellow Sign Relic. | Laurel |
So there you have it: a complete guide to the passive items of Vampire Survivors. Each has its place and its uses in certain builds, but now that you have the complete information you’ll be able to choose the best options for you and your preferred playstyle.
