How to Evolve Raging Fire in Vampire Survivors

Raging Fire is one of many Belenades Spellbook weapons in Vampire Survivors‘ Ode to Castlevania DLC. Evolving it turns it into Salamender, inspired by Salamander from Castlevania: Dracula X — here’s how.

How do I evolve Raging Fire in Vampire Survivors?

In Vampire Survivors, Raging Fire evolves into Salamender when combined with Spinach. Level both items to max, and the next treasure chest you open has a high chance of evolving Raging Fire into Salamender.

How to unlock Raging Fire

Before permanently unlocking it, the only way to use Raging Fire is by playing as Charlotte Aulin. Charlotte herself is unlockable by finding 7 Mirrors of Truth stage items, which spawn after opening the Capra Gate for the first time.

Evolving Raging Fire into Salamender once unlocks Raging Fire as a weapon for Survivors in future runs. It’s also necessary to unlock John Morris, which requires a handful of Belnades Spellbook evolutions.

How to get Spinach

Spinach is a passive item that’s unlocked from the very beginning of Vampire Survivors. An easy way to guarantee Spinach at the start of your run is to use Arcana VIII — Mad Groove on Mad Forest, Moongolow, Boss Rash, or Mt. Moonspell to pull one toward you. You can also do this on Ode to Castlevania to attract an Arma Dio, which allows you to choose any passive item.

Mad Groove is unlocked by surviving for 31 minutes in Mad Forest. Incidentally, both Mad Groove and Mad Forest are references to a music track in Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse.

As always, Golden Eggs will speed up the evolution process if you have them unlocked. If you fed your character so many eggs that they’re too fast to pick up treasure chests, you can reset their speed buffs by traveling south in Moongolow.

Beat Arcanas for Raging Fire/Salamender

Aside from using Mad Groove to acquire Spinach initially, the best Arcanas to pair with Raging Fire and Salamender are Gemini (I) and Heart of Fire (XIX).

As with all fire-related weapons, Heart of Fire causes Raging Fire and Salamender to spawn explosions after damaging enemies. Gemini creates the counterpart “Speculo Raging Fire,” which doubles the output of both weapons.

For even more explosive damage, pick up weapons such as Hellfire, Red Muscle, Prototype weapons, The RPG, and Daybreaker Tip.

Vampire Survivors and the Ode to Castlevania DLC are available on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and mobile devices.