Chaos Malachite is an EXTRA relic in Vampire Survivors added in Patch 1.3.0 (February 2023), located in the Bat Country challenge stage. It permanently unlocks Mortaccio's Level 80 morph, transforming him into a Goshadokuro giant skeleton and evolving his starting Bone weapon into the powerful Anima of Mortaccio. It is also the first of four Chaos-prefixed relics in the game, all Sonic Chaos Emerald references.
This guide covers the full spawn timing at 18:02 in Bat Country, the gottagofast spell shortcut, the Seal option most players do not know about, the complete Anima of Mortaccio stat breakdown, Twilight Requiem (II) arcana synergy, the Goshadokuro lore, and how Chaos Malachite connects to the Bats Bats Bats character unlock.
Chaos Malachite is unique among Vampire Survivors relics because it does not modify a game mode or unlock a system. Its only effect is to enable a single character transformation: Mortaccio, the wheelchair-bound skeleton character, gains the ability to morph at Level 80 during any run. This morph is the first character-level evolution in the game.
Three things happen when Mortaccio hits Level 80 with Chaos Malachite collected:
If any other character picks up the evolved weapon (via Cosmic Finger rewards from Gold Fingers, for example), a translucent Mortaccio appears behind them as a visual callback. The weapon itself works the same regardless of who wields it.
Chaos Malachite spawns in Bat Country, a challenge stage that is itself gated behind several unlock requirements. Here is the full chain if you are starting cold:
Bat Country ends at 20:00 rather than the standard 30:00. Chaos Malachite's 60-second pickup window means you have the stretch from 18:02 to 19:02 to grab it, with only ~1 minute left in the stage after. Plan your build to have movement speed or range coverage by minute 17.
Bat Country's checkerboard floor and rolling green-brown aesthetic are a deliberate parody of the Green Hill Zone levels from Sonic the Hedgehog. Poncle extends the joke with the Chaos Malachite itself (a nod to Chaos Emeralds) and the gottagofast spell shortcut (Sonic's catchphrase). The three pressure plates that unlock after collecting both relics in the stage continue the theme: Plate C specifically toggles a rotating sphere graphic that mimics the Special Stage bonus rooms in classic Sonic games.
If you have the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane unlocked, you can skip the Bat Country run entirely:
gottagofast — cast in the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane from the Secrets menu. This awards Chaos Malachite instantly and enables Mortaccio's Level 80 morph without requiring the Bat Country stage run.
The spell name is a direct Sonic the Hedgehog reference ("gotta go fast" is the character's unofficial catchphrase). This is one of several Sonic-themed easter eggs around Bat Country: the stage itself is a Green Hill Zone parody, and the four Chaos-prefixed relics across the game (Malachite, Rosalia, Lazulia, Altemanna) all reference the Chaos Emeralds that power Sonic's super transformations.
The spell is especially useful if you are starting a new Vampire Survivors save and want to play Mortaccio at full power immediately, without grinding through Gracia's Mirror → Inverse Mad Forest → Bat Country first.
Patch 1.4.200 (1 June 2023) added a feature almost no competitor guide covers: you can Seal the Chaos Malachite relic in the Collection menu to prevent Mortaccio from morphing at Level 80.
Why would you ever want to prevent this? A few scenarios:
To Seal Chaos Malachite: open the Collection menu, navigate to the relic entry, and use the Seal toggle. Sealing is reversible at any time with no gameplay penalty.
This is one of the few Vampire Survivors relics with a Seal option, which makes it a good QoL feature to know about if you are running multiple Mortaccio builds and want to experiment with pre-morph play.
The Anima of Mortaccio is the payoff for picking up Chaos Malachite. It is Mortaccio's evolved Bone weapon, with the internal ID BONE2. The stat jump from base Bone is significant:
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Base Damage | 65 |
| Area | 160% |
| Speed | 175% |
| Amount | 3 |
| Duration | 2.6 seconds |
| Cooldown | 3.0 seconds |
| Knockback | 1 |
| Pool Limit | 80 (+30) |
| Blocked By Walls | Yes |
Anima of Mortaccio throws spinning bones in random directions. Each bone bounces off enemies, walls, and screen edges, with velocity multiplying by 1.1 per bounce until its duration expires. This is the defining mechanic: late-duration bones move dramatically faster than early ones, so clearing thick mobs actually accelerates as you fight.
After every 5 normal bone shots, two bone arms rotate around your character. When the rotation cycle ends, the arms fling off in two directions as additional bouncing projectiles and then return. The arms leave afterimages, which means they visually trail across the screen while dealing damage along the path.
This is where the weapon's synergy with passive scaling gets interesting. Amount multiplies the arms' damage by 0.5 × total Amount. Duration increases how long both the arms spin and how long individual bones bounce.
The wiki maintains an official synergy matrix for every weapon. Here is the Anima of Mortaccio shortlist:
The green-checkmark passives (highest synergy per the wiki): Spinach (for Might scaling), Empty Tome (cooldown reduction for more bone cycles), Candelabrador (Area increases the bounce coverage), Bracer (Speed compounds the 1.1×-per-bounce acceleration), Spellbinder (Duration extends bounce chains), and Duplicator (extra Amount from 3 to 4+ dramatically boosts arm damage).
Red-X passives (low or negative synergy): Armor, Hollow Heart, Pummarola, Wings, Attractorb, and Crown. None of these scale the projectile behavior in useful ways. If they show up as level-up options during a Mortaccio run, Banish them unless you need them for a specific secondary weapon evolution.
The one major Arcana synergy to target: Twilight Requiem (II). This Arcana makes Anima of Mortaccio bones explode when they expire at end of duration, with explosion damage scaling off Curse. In practice, this turns every bone into a two-stage attack: it bounces accelerating through the horde, then detonates at end of life.
Twilight Requiem (II) is unlocked by reaching Level 50 with Dommario. Pair it with high Curse (via Torrona's Box or stage modifiers) for explosion damage that scales into late-game territory.
The visual payoff for reaching Level 80 with Chaos Malachite is Mortaccio morphing into a Goshadokuro. This is not a random design choice: Goshadokuro (also written as Gashadokuro) is a specific yokai from Japanese folklore, said to be a giant skeleton 15 times taller than a person, formed from the bones of people who died of starvation.
The sprite reuses the standard Goshadokuro enemy asset in the game, which is a late-game boss spawn across several stages. When Mortaccio morphs, he becomes the same crawling giant-skeleton model. His original wheelchair disappears and he gains four-limbed mobility.
Weapons in Vampire Survivors can be shared through the Cosmic Finger system: Gold Finger pickups in certain stages offer random weapon evolution choices, including Anima of Mortaccio if you have the relic. If another character gets Anima of Mortaccio this way, the weapon works identically but the visual effect changes: a translucent, ghostly Mortaccio appears behind that character, implying his spirit is powering the weapon from beyond.
The relic itself only allows the direct morph for Mortaccio at Level 80. Other characters get the weapon's mechanical effects without the character-level transformation.
Chaos Malachite is the first of four Chaos-prefixed relics in Vampire Survivors, all introduced across different patches with the same naming convention and visual style. They share the green gem aesthetic and Poncle has confirmed the Sonic Chaos Emerald reference in both the relic family and the gottagofast spell name.
Each Chaos relic unlocks a different character or weapon evolution:
Collecting all four is part of the game's 100% completion track. The visual similarity between the icons is deliberate: they are the game's Chaos Emerald set, complete with matching green coloration and polygonal faceting.
After collecting both Chaos Malachite (18:02) and Apoplexy (9:00) in Bat Country, three pressure plates labeled A, B, and C appear at the stage's north spawn area on future visits. A small circle of 9 Gold Rings also appears to the northeast.
The pressure plates are visual toggles, not gameplay modifiers:
The 9 Gold Rings, however, are the real reward. Approaching them triggers 9 Sun Atlantean enemy spawns. Defeating all 9 unlocks the Bats Bats Bats character, a secret unit with +80 Max Health, +80% Movement Speed, and +2 Revival built in. Bats Bats Bats can also be unlocked directly via the spell whydithavetobebats if you do not want to farm Bat Country twice.
Chaos Malachite is a prerequisite for this unlock chain. You cannot trigger the pressure plates or the Gold Rings without having both relics in your Collection.
Bat Country houses two relics: Chaos Malachite at 18:02, and Apoplexy at the 9:00 mark. Both spawn in the center of a Diamond square with the same green-arrow tracking, and both despawn 60 seconds after appearing.
Apoplexy permanently unlocks the Charm PowerUp, a stat that makes enemies more likely to flee. It is a pure stat-PowerUp relic (no character morph or system unlock), so many players grab it as a secondary on the same Bat Country run where they collect Chaos Malachite.
The practical run structure: reach minute 9, grab Apoplexy, survive the 9-minute gap, grab Chaos Malachite at 18:02, then push the final ~2 minutes to 20:00 for the stage completion bonus. Hyper Mode in Bat Country (+80% Gold, +10% Luck) is unlocked by default once the stage is unlocked, so there is no additional requirement for farming runs after the first collection.
Unlock Bat Country (reach Level 80 in Inverse Mad Forest, which requires Gracia's Mirror). Then start a Bat Country run and survive until 18:02. A green arrow appears pointing to the relic, which spawns at the center of a Diamond square. Collect it within 60 seconds before it despawns. The shortcut is to cast gottagofast in the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane instead.
It permanently allows Mortaccio to morph at Level 80 during any run. On the morph, Mortaccio visually transforms into a Goshadokuro (giant Japanese skeleton yokai) and his Bone weapon evolves into Anima of Mortaccio, a stronger bouncing projectile with 65 damage and 175% speed.
gottagofast. Cast it in the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane from the Secrets menu. This unlocks the relic instantly and enables Mortaccio's Level 80 morph without requiring a Bat Country run. The spell name is a Sonic the Hedgehog reference.
Yes. Patch 1.4.200 (June 2023) added a Seal option for Chaos Malachite. Open the Collection menu, find the relic entry, and toggle Seal on. This prevents the Level 80 morph while still keeping the relic in your collection. Sealing is reversible at any time.
60 seconds. The relic spawns at 18:02 in Bat Country and despawns at 19:02 if not collected. Since Bat Country has a 20:00 time limit (not the standard 30:00), this gives you about one minute of post-pickup gameplay before the stage ends.
Anima of Mortaccio is Mortaccio's evolved Bone weapon, triggered by the Level 80 morph. It can also be obtained by other characters through Cosmic Finger rewards from Gold Fingers in certain stages, or through the Gala Edition of Mortaccio's Survarot weapon. Non-Mortaccio wielders get a translucent Mortaccio ghost visual behind their character.
Chaos Malachite (Bat Country), Chaos Rosalia (Astral Stair), Chaos Lazulia (Mt. Moonspell, DLC), and Chaos Altemanna (Tiny Bridge). All four are visual and thematic references to the Chaos Emeralds from the Sonic the Hedgehog game series, and each enables a different character morph at Level 80.
Bat Country is a deliberate parody of the Green Hill Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog games. The checkerboard floor, diamond block formations, and rotating sphere background (Plate C) all reference classic Sonic level design. The Chaos Malachite itself references Chaos Emeralds, and the gottagofast spell echoes Sonic's unofficial catchphrase.
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Wiki citations: Chaos Malachite, Anima of Mortaccio, Bat Country, Mortaccio, Bats Bats Bats.
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