Passive items

**Passive items** are non-weapon items that give the player bonuses to their stats, similar to PowerUps. They are offered to the player alongside weapons whenever the player levels up.

The player can select up to six different passive items from level ups, but it is possible to carry more by picking up passive items that generate with the stage. Most passive items must be unlocked before they can be offered to the player.

Most passive items can be used to evolve a particular normal weapon each to a stronger one.

See Combos page for a list of which Weapon and Arcana is affected by stats and their corresponding passive items, PowerUps, and Arcana.

## Types

There are 17 normal passive items in the game. Additionally, 4 special passive items are unlocked after obtaining the Yellow Sign; a special passive item in the Tides of the Foscari DLC that can only be obtained with certain characters reaching level 30; all of which cannot be initially obtained from level ups, only as a stage item.

## Stage items

On each normal stage, certain passive items spawn on the map. Milky Way Map displays the locations of these items. Each item is guaranteed to appear at least once, but certain items have a chance of spawning more than once, depending on the starting Luck.

Stages spawn the following items:

* **Mad Forest**: Spinach, Hollow Heart, Pummarola, Clover, Skull O'Maniac.
	+ Up to 3 more Spinach (40%, 30%, 10%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 3 more Clovers (30%, 20%, 10%) may be spawned.
* **Inlaid Library**: Stone Mask, Empty Tome.
	+ Up to 3 more Empty Tomes (40%, 30%, 20%) may be spawned.
* **Dairy Plant**: Attractorb, Candelabrador, Wings, Armor.
* **Gallo Tower**: Bracer, Spellbinder.
* **Cappella Magna**: Duplicator, Crown, Tirajisú.
* **Moongolow** and **Boss Rash**: All normal passives except Torrona's Box.
* **Bat Country**: 9 rotating Gold Rings
* **Tiny Bridge**: Wings and Attractorb
* **Mt.Moonspell** : Spinach, Pummarola, Candelabrador, Duplicator, Attractorb, and Stone Mask
	+ Up to 2 more Spinach (10%, 10%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 2 more Pummarola (10%, 10%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 2 more Candelabrador (10%, 10%) may be spawned.
* **Lake Foscari** : Armor, Bracer, Clover, Crown, Skull O'Maniac, and Academy Badge
	+ Up to 4 more Armor (10%, 10%, 10%, 10%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 4 more Bracer (10%, 10%, 10%, 10%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 4 more Clover (10%, 10%, 10%, 10%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 4 more Crown (10%, 10%, 10%, 10%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 4 more Skull O'Maniac (10%, 10%, 10%, 10%) may be spawned.
* **Abyss Foscari** : Armor, Empty Tome, Attractorb, Crown, Stone Mask, Skull O'Maniac, Torrona's Box, and Academy Badge
	+ Up to 4 more Empty Tome (10%, 10%, 10%, 10%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 5 more Attractorb (20%, 20%, 20%, 20%, 20%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 4 more Crown (20%, 20%, 20%, 20%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 3 more Stone Mask (20%, 20%, 20%) may be spawned.
	+ Up to 4 more Skull O'Maniac (20%, 20%, 20%, 20%) may be spawned.

Upon moving to an item, it can be picked up or discarded. If you already have the item, it grants a free level if not at max level. If you already have 6 or more passive items, it becomes an additional passive item and can be thereafter upgraded from level ups. If discarded, the item disappears and can no longer be picked up.

### Hidden stage items

After obtaining the Yellow Sign, four additional passive items will spawn in all normal, bonus and challenge stages. These passive items cannot be obtained through any other means than picking them up during a run. The first time entering a stage after getting Yellow Sign, the game will automatically pause to show the new hidden stage items that were added:

* Silver Ring, usually found due north of the starting area.
* Gold Ring, usually found due south of the starting area.
* Metaglio Left, usually found due west of the starting area.
* Metaglio Right, usually found due east of the starting area.

Each hidden stage item is guarded by an Atlantean that spawns when the player gets close to the item. The player does not have to defeat the guard to pick up the item, but they will continue to follow the player until defeated. If the stage item was attracted using Mad Groove (VIII), the guard will not appear until the item is interacted with.

## Tips

* It is wise to devote the majority of your passive item slots (at least 4) with stats that benefits weapons like Might, Area, Projectile Speed, Duration, Cooldown, and Amount. Save items that you only get for evolutions like Armor, Wings, Stone Mask, etc. for after you already have a clear direction of your build.
* If the passive item you need for your build is already a stage item, take them after you have filled you passive item slots to get the most benefit out of all of them.

## Trivia

* In Abyss Foscari, five extra Attractorb can spawn which exceeded the maximum level of it, all of them spawning will result in the last one simply removed from the stage. On the contrary, there is one less Stone Mask to max it out if they all spawn. Most likely it is an oversight and one of the Attractorb is meant to be Stone Mask.