CHARACTERS & PROGRESSION

Items, passives & relics

A pickup, a passive and a persistent discovery answer different questions.

UPDATED 12 NOVEMBER 2026 ENGLISH FIELD NOTES

SHORT ANSWER

Pickups provide effects during a run; recipe passives are ingredients for weapon evolutions; achievement-linked relics and Paint Pots concern exploration or collection. Do not infer an item’s combat effect from an achievement that only says where to find it.

Which pickups has the developer explained?

The 19 August Pick-ups feature describes these examples. The post predates launch, so exact balance values should be checked against the current game rather than supplied from guesswork.

PickupDeveloper-described behaviour
Melta-bombA thermal explosion after a short delay.
Blast TemplateA large screen-clearing explosion; some enemies resist instant-kill effects.
Hellfire AmmoTemporarily strengthens ranged attacks and applies Poisoned.
Purple Sun of ShyishCreates damaging zones that can also hurt the player.
Ravenak’s Gnashing JawsFollows the player’s movement, biting nearby enemies and applying Burning.
Suffocating GravetideStuns enemies, then causes affected enemies to flee temporarily.

Which items are evolution passives?

The recipe lookup identifies the passive required by each collected pairing. Search Dice Cube, for example, to see its reported partners. It is distinct from D6 Dice, which appears as a weapon.

Some recipes mark their passive as requiring its maximum level. A passive ingredient does not become a confirmed pickup effect simply because its name appears in an evolution table.

Where do the achievement descriptions place relics?

These are location clues from the collected Steam achievement descriptions, not exact coordinates or complete routes:

DiscoveryLocation named in the condition
AuspexDesert Wasteland
Book of TzeentchDeath World
The Emperor’s TarotImperial Shipyard
ArcanoscopeTwin-Tailed City
Celestial OrreryUnder Empire
Eye of TzeentchGnarlwood; condition mentions using the Arcanoscope

Steam player Lex says some relics require Auspex to be found. This does not establish that every relic in the table requires it. See map notes for the same source-bounded exploration clues.

What are the known Paint Pot conditions?

Parade Ready asks for 12 Warhammer Paint Pots. Other achievements name particular sets. The 11 November Steam hotfix reduced the kill requirements involving D6 Dice and Nuln Oil for unlocking Reikland Fleshshade and Agrax Earthshade Paint Pots. It does not give the replacement counts. Other platforms were scheduled to receive these changes from the following week.

Do not reuse an old numerical threshold as if the patch confirmed it. Search the achievement conditions for the requested set and compare it with the objective displayed on your platform.

FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE

Sources & scope

Source material reviewed 12 November 2026. Developer statements, player reports and reviews are labelled separately.