Vampire Survivors

Vampire Survivors

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1 BILLION gold in 26 min (0 eggs)
By rabbit.s [MS-DOS][rus]
Or how to farm with Sammy efficiently
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This guide is outdated
Recent patch has fixed Limit Break lags.
Now you can just pick Sammy with weapon limit = 1 on Hyper/Arcanas/Limit Break/Inverse and get 1kkk gold in ~7 min. Arcanas: Wicked Season / Disco of Gold.
Requierements
Tides of the Foscari DLC
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313550/Vampire_Survivors_Tides_of_the_Foscari/
Lake Foscari stage unlocked
It unlocks when you reach level 20 in Mad Forest.
Sammy unlocked
Sammy gains XP when picking up Gold Coins and Coin Bags.
Each gold is converted to exp 1:1, multiplied by the stage gold multiplier, Greed and Growth.
To unlock him, defeat 6000 Sammies (spawns at the Lake Foscari stage).
If having troubles finding them, check out the Lake Foscari map here:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2962309583
Wicked Season and Disco of Gold arcanas unlocked
Wicked Season gives +0.5% Growth, Luck, Greed, and Curse every level (+ temporary doubles one of those stats every 10 seconds).
Disco of Gold makes us unkillable (picking up gold restores HP) and starts Gold Fever every time we pick up coin bag.
To unlock arcanas - find Randomazzo in Gallo Tower, north. Just follow the green arrow.
To unlock Wicked Season arcana - reach Level 50 with Christine.
To unlock Disco of Gold arcana - reach minute 31 in the Inlaid Library or defeat Death.
Recommendations
Ophion (weapon) unlocked
100% insta-kills enemies (if having 10k+ luck).
To unlock it - evolve the Shadow Servant.
You basically need to complete the DLC. If having troubles with it, check out my other guide:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2962309583
Hyper/Inverse/Endless modes unlocked
More enemies, more gold.
To unlock Hyper - Defeat Avatar of Gaea boss, that spawns at 25:00 (at Lake Foscari).
To unlock Inverse/Endless - select two dialogue options at the Eudaimonia Machine stage.
If having troubles with the basic game progression, check out my other guide:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953930313
PowerUps maxed
For obvious reasons.
Don't forget about the Charm PowerUp (unlocked by collecting the Apoplexy in Bat Country).
Silent Old Sanctuary and Beginning arcanas unlocked
More Vicious Hunger projectiles => faster farming.
To unlock the Silent Old Sanctuary arcana - reach minute 31 in the Dairy Plant or defeat Death.
To unlock the Beginning arcana - reach Level 50 with Antonio.
How to farm?
  • Set weapon limit to 2.
  • Start the Lake Foscari stage with Hyper/Arcanas/Inverse/Endless modes as Sammy.
    * Do not enable Limit Break mode, cuz it makes the game unstable and causes significant FPS drop.
  • Choose the Wicked Season as your starting arcana.
  • Buy the Disco of Gold arcana from the merchant (available only with Inverse mode).
  • Choose the Shadow Servant as your second weapon (on level-up).
  • Pick up the free arcana chest (in the north-west forest) ASAP and choose the Silent Old Sanctuary arcana.
  • Pick up some other stage items. My setup looked like this:
  • Wait in the forest to delay item-pickup lag until you kill the first boss and get the Ophion.
  • Return to the starting spot.
  • Pick up boss-dropped arcana chest. Choose the Beginning arcana.
    * likely, you will encounter item-pickup lag, caused by high character level-up frequency (so, you will get no Candyboxes or arcanas from chests). In this case, you can buy the Beginning arcana from the merchant at 30:00.
  • Wait as much as you want to farm.
    * Do not choose the Boogalo of Illusions, Lost & Found Painting or Chaos in the Dark Night arcanas (looks attractive, but causes significant FPS drop).

Item-pickup lag
If you level-up too frequently, chest pick-ups will be delayed significantly. To avoid it and get the Ophion early, you can stay in the forest (where mushrooms spawns instead of normal enemies) until the first boss will be defeated and the Shadow Servant evolved.

Level-up frequency:
OK
Item-pickup lag expected

FPS impact
According to @Vermilisix, the game only lets you level up once every 4 frames.
I did some 5 min runs with different Target Framerate settings, that confirms, that your leveling (farming) speed is FPS-dependent:

240 FPS*
143 FPS
60 FPS
30 FPS
time
level
per min
level
per min
level
per min
level
per min
2 min
380
380
410
410
424
424
440
440
3 min
970
590
1035
625
1102
678
889
449
4 min
2292
1322
2332
1297
1980
878
1338
449
5 min
4401
2109
4259
1927
2868
888
1788
450
Max lvl/min possible
3600
2145
900
450
* in this run in-game FPS was not consistent (140-240).
My results with 0 eggs
I did many test runs with different setups and stages.

The best run
I did 45 min 0 egg run and got 3 232 012 000 gold.
Got 1 000 000 000 gold at 26:39.
Got the Ophion at 4:50.
The run was smooth (60-143 FPS). Did it with 143 FPS limit.
Higher values expected with 240 FPS limit on a decent hardware.

Run stats:




1 Weapon Limit run (worse)
I did 45 min 0 egg run and got 2 143 113 000 gold (which is slightly more than the Big Trouser gets per 760 min 0 egg afk run). In this case I got the Ophion from Candybox.



The run was smooth (60+ FPS), but suffered from the item-pickup lag, so I got the Ophion and the fourth arcana only at 28:52.
How to farm without DLC
Thank you for your attention
Please comment down below if I missed something important, or you have any other suggestions.
54 Comments
P4wn4g3 15 Jun @ 9:28pm 
Seems like maybe Hidden Anathema + Jubilee would increase this substantially
Sparrowlicious 16 Nov, 2024 @ 12:41pm 
thank you for the guide!
rhettthehoovey 26 May, 2024 @ 4:48pm 
works.
Bioness 13 Apr, 2024 @ 7:31am 
@Tsooop yes, there is still an FPS drop, but even with the low FPS, unless your game is crashing you will get more gold from Limit Breaking Sammy at any Eggs levels.
Dee 18 Mar, 2024 @ 12:38am 
@Bioness it still tanks my fps whenever I try to limit break
Bioness 17 Mar, 2024 @ 10:32am 
A recent patch has fixed the lag from Vicious Hunger, making Limit Breaking it provide more gold than not.
Chopsteak 7 Mar, 2024 @ 12:55pm 
Thanks for this, I went from being poor to having too much money real quick. :cqlol:
talonsgamingadventures 17 Jan, 2024 @ 5:10pm 
Thanks for testing for me cause i have crappy laptop that shuts down when i look at Sammy.
rabbit.s [MS-DOS][rus]  [author] 16 Jan, 2024 @ 10:48pm 
@talonsgamingadventures
Tested with 2 216 857 eggs.
It takes 05:07 to get 1kkk gold in this case.
talonsgamingadventures 16 Jan, 2024 @ 10:07pm 
What about a Sammy with like a billion eggs how would that work?