⚗️ Evolution Recipes
Evolutions upgrade base weapons using a matching item ingredient at a Gem Station inside the dungeon. The weapon must keep an empty Gem Socket or the recipe cannot fire.
Quick Table
| Base | Item | Result | Mana |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🩸 Whip | 💔 Hollow Heart | ⚔️ Bloody Tear | 2 |
| 🔪 Knife | 🛡️ Bracer | 🌪️ Thousand Edge | 1 |
| 🪄 Magic Wand | 📖 Empty Tome | ✨ Holy Wand | 2 |
| 🪓 Axe | 🕯️ Candella | 🌀 Death Spiral | 2 |
| 📕 King Bible | 🔮 Spellbinder | 💜 Unholy Vespers | 3 |
| 🔥 Fire Wand | 🌿 Spinach | 🌋 Hellfire | 3 |
| 🧄 Garlic | 🍅 Pummarola | 👻 Soul Eater | 2 |
| 💧 Santa Water | 🌀 Attractorb | 🌊 La Borra | 2 |
| 🔷 Runetracer | 🛡️ Armor | 💀 NO FUTURE | 3 |
Detailed Entries
⚔️ Bloody Tear
Recipe: 🩸 Whip + 💔 Hollow Heart
Post-evolution mana: 2
Deals heavy slash damage in a wide arc. Lifesteal effect restores HP equal to 15% of damage dealt.
📌 Hollow Heart must NOT have the "Destroyed after use" tag. Check the card description before slotting.
🌪️ Thousand Edge
Recipe: 🔪 Knife + 🛡️ Bracer
Post-evolution mana: 1
Fires a dense barrage of 8 blades at the nearest enemy. Each blade deals individual hit stacks.
✨ Holy Wand
Recipe: 🪄 Magic Wand + 📖 Empty Tome
Post-evolution mana: 2
Fires 4 holy bolts simultaneously, each seeking a different target. Base 198 damage per bolt — scales massively with Mana Chain.
📌 At Mana Chain x3, Holy Wand deals ~594 damage per bolt = 2376 total per cast. One of the strongest evolutions mid-run.
🌀 Death Spiral
Recipe: 🪓 Axe + 🕯️ Candella
Post-evolution mana: 2
Hurls a spinning spectral axe that orbits and returns, hitting enemies twice per throw.
💜 Unholy Vespers
Recipe: 📕 King Bible + 🔮 Spellbinder
Post-evolution mana: 3
Summons 3 orbiting dark tomes that deal damage on contact. Duration and orbit speed scale with level.
📌 High cost means strong Mana Chain multiplier. Ideal as a chain-closer for max damage.
🌋 Hellfire
Recipe: 🔥 Fire Wand + 🌿 Spinach
Post-evolution mana: 3
Launches three massive fireballs in a spread pattern. Each leaves a burning pool dealing DoT for 3 turns.
📌 Arca Ladonna's signature evolution. Her passive makes Fire Wand cost 0, enabling Mana Chain entry at 0-cost.
👻 Soul Eater
Recipe: 🧄 Garlic + 🍅 Pummarola
Post-evolution mana: 2
Aura now absorbs the souls of defeated enemies, each soul granting +2% damage for the rest of the run.
📌 Snowballs hard in floors with high enemy counts. Prioritise this evolution in Mad Forest elite encounters.
🌊 La Borra
Recipe: 💧 Santa Water + 🌀 Attractorb
Post-evolution mana: 2
Creates a vortex of holy water that pulls all enemies toward the centre, dealing burn damage per turn.
📌 Attractorb also has a standalone effect: playing it draws 2 cards. Do not use for evolution if you need the draw engine.
💀 NO FUTURE
Recipe: 🔷 Runetracer + 🛡️ Armor
Post-evolution mana: 3
Fires a piercing runestone that bounces between all enemies on screen up to 7 times. Each bounce deals full damage.
📌 Best against groups. In Boss encounters with adds, this can chain to the Boss for massive bonus hits.
Rules Checklist
- ⚠️ A weapon card MUST have an empty Gem Socket to be eligible for evolution. If you have already socketed a Gem, you cannot evolve that card.
- ⚠️ Item cards marked "Destroyed after use" cannot be used as evolution ingredients — check the card text carefully.
- ✅ Evolution Gems are obtained by headbutting chests (bump into them) or as Boss drop rewards.
- ✅ Evolution happens at a Gem Station (shrine icon 🏛️) found inside the dungeon — you do not evolve automatically.
- ✅ After evolution, any Gems already socketed into the base weapon are retained in the evolved form.
- 💡 Peachone (unlocked at Character Level 25) has TWO Gem Slots — making it a premium evolution candidate.
Gems & Blacksmith (Official)
