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Ball x Pit passive evolutions & ingredient checks

Collect compatible passives, upgrade them fully, then pick up a fusion core and choose Evolution. Passives use their own recipe list: a ball recipe cannot evolve an item. Start with your target and check the required item slots before committing. [1]

Megabonk.org editors · Checked 2026-10-30 · Base game + free updates · No claimed gameplay test

Plan a passive recipe

Passive recipe workbench

Already carrying (optional; one entry per actual item)
Choose a target

Choose a target to plan a route.

Uses the first listed recipe, keeps duplicate ingredients and stops at carried items. This is not a save reader, drop simulator, capacity check or shortest-route optimizer.

Ingredient route

Ball x Pit carried balls above a separate row of passive icons
Official screenshot © Kenny Sun and Friends / Devolver Digital. Official store image checked 30 October 2026; capture build/date not supplied. Visual context, not a test of the recipe or build. The left-side rows distinguish carried balls from passive items. The written core-selection steps below come from the cited report, not this combat image. [8] Open full image ↗

Three checks before spending rerolls

  1. Check the exact item names. A similar effect or a similarly named ball is not a substitute.
  2. Upgrade the matching ingredients fully in this run. Owning their encyclopedia entries is not carrying them.
  3. At the core select Evolution and the named result, rather than assuming possession automatically transforms items.

hashtagtylerh explains this process with Arrow of Fate: Lover’s Quiver + Hand Mirror. That is a community procedure, not a test performed by this website. [1]

Passive recipe table

EvolutionIngredientsSet / source
CornucopiaBaby Rattle + War HornBase [2]
Gracious ImpalerReacher’s Spear + Deadeye’s AmuletBase [2]
Odiferous ShellWretched Onion + BreastplateBase [2]
Phantom RegaliaGhostly Corset + Ethereal CloakBase [2]
Soul ReaverVampiric Sword + Everflowing GobletBase [3]
Tormentor’s MaskSpiked Collar + Crown of ThornsBase [2]
Wings of the AnointedRadiant Feather + Fleet FeetBase [2]
Deadeye’s CrossRuby Hilted Dagger + Diamond Hilted Dagger + Sapphire Hilted Dagger + Emerald Hilted DaggerBase [2]
Deadeye’s ImpalerGracious Impaler + Deadeye’s CrossRegal [4]
Grotesque ArtilleryHand Fan + TurretRegal [4]
Argent StopwatchHourglass + Silver BulletShadow [1]
Arrow of FateLover’s Quiver + Hand MirrorShadow [1]
Full Metal RapierIron Onesie + Sword BreakerShadow [1]
Ardent TireRubber Headband + Wagon WheelNaturalist [5]
Inglorious HammerPlatinum Dumbbell + Upturned HatchetNaturalist [5]
Remote DetonatorMagnet + Pressure ValveNaturalist [5]
WindweaverBottled Tornado + SlingshotNaturalist [5]

Capacity and irreversible choices

Deadeye’s Cross takes four distinct dagger ingredients. Check whether your character and current progression can hold all four before making it the run’s goal. The plan lists dependencies, not the number of simultaneous slots needed by every intermediate stage. [2]

The Ballbearer gives up passive items; it is therefore the wrong choice for a passive-recipe run. The Hoary Hoarder has extra passive capacity but only two ball slots. That trade is useful for item hunting and limiting for deep ball chains. Select for the task, rather than following one overall character tier. [6]

DCRage’s guide describes chosen passives as not freely replaceable. Keep room for your target ingredients instead of filling every slot with unrelated bonuses first. The guide contains conflicting update chronology and some disputed effect values, which are excluded from this planner. [3]

Soul Reaver is a passive, not Soul Sucker

Soul Reaver uses Vampiric Sword + Everflowing Goblet. Soul Sucker is a ball with a different recipe. If searching for Soul Reaver produced a vampire/ghost ball chart, switch to the passive recipe here. This distinction matters when reserving item slots. [3]

Missing items may have appearance conditions

A missing Ghostly Shield is not evidence that you need another passive evolution. The Ghostly Shield guide → explains its stone-ally requirement, random offer and encyclopedia registration. A recipe helper cannot determine whether you have met that requirement in your live run. [7]

Sources & evidence limits

  1. Reddit · hashtagtylerh ↗ — Shadow recipes and max-level/core/Evolution instructions; 2026 discussion.
  2. Reddit · tetracycloide ↗ — Full-release recipe post and corrections; older community observations.
  3. GameFAQs · DCRage ↗ — Version 4.0, 15 Aug 2026; use recipe ingredients, not disputed effect values or update chronology.
  4. Reddit · hashtagtylerh ↗ — Regal recipes and laser clarification; 2026 update discussion.
  5. AllThingsHow Staff ↗ — 7 Aug 2026; four Naturalist passive recipes; automatic-evolution wording is not used.
  6. Steam · developer announcements ↗ — Regal 26 Jan, Shadow 27 Apr, Naturalist 6 Aug 2026; Risen announcement 20 Sep.
  7. Steam Community · Seasoul / NyX ↗ — 19 Oct 2025: stone-ally requirement and success reply.
  8. Steam · Ball x Pit screenshots ↗ — Official store image checked 30 October 2026; capture build/date not supplied. Visual context, not a test of the recipe or build.

Checked 30 October 2026. Community reports can change with patches. We have not played these routes or benchmarked builds.

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