The Seventh Trumpet is the Vampire Survivors relic that unlocks Endless Mode. Once collected, every stage in the game gains a toggleable option that disables the Reaper at the time limit and restarts the enemy waves in escalating cycles instead. It is one of two relics awarded by The Directer in the Eudaimonia Machine stage, and it is the gateway to long-form scaling runs where your build fights thousands of enemies per cycle.
This guide covers how to unlock Eudaimonia Machine, the exact dialogue choice that gives you the Seventh Trumpet, the fallback path if you accidentally picked the other option, the full cycle scaling math for Endless Mode, the Merchant interaction that most players miss, and the spell-code shortcut.
The Seventh Trumpet is a relic awarded by The Directer, a mysterious shadow-entity that appears on the Eudaimonia Machine stage. Unlike most relics, it is not found on the ground with a green arrow pointing to it. Instead, you are given the relic directly as a reward for picking a specific dialogue option.
Its single function is to unlock Endless Mode, which replaces the Reaper spawn at the end of every stage with an escalating wave-reset cycle. The Reaper is the insta-kill boss that arrives when a stage's timer expires, so disabling it is what allows you to continue a run indefinitely and scale your character past its usual ceiling.
The Seventh Trumpet pairs with its sibling relic, Gracia's Mirror, which unlocks Inverse Mode. You will receive both relics from The Directer eventually, but only one per visit to Eudaimonia Machine, and the order depends on which dialogue option you pick first.
The Seventh Trumpet is one of the latest-game relics you can pick up. You cannot rush it; there is a hard prerequisite chain that forces you through most of the base game first.
When the Seventh Trumpet is awarded, Vampire Survivors displays a cryptic message that is written upside-down and mirrored on screen. This is not a bug. The effect is part of the game's lore treatment of The Directer and the Eudaimonia Machine as reality-distorting entities. The text is readable if you flip your head or mirror the screen, and it reinforces that you are interacting with something that is not quite playing by the game's normal UI rules.
The stage name Eudaimonia is itself a Greek philosophical term meaning "human flourishing" or the state of having a good life, most commonly associated with Aristotle's ethics. Pairing that with The Directer's reality-bending visual treatment and a choice between two paths is a deliberate meta-commentary on how the player has spent their time with the game.
No problem. Picking \"Too Easy\" awards you Gracia's Mirror (which unlocks Inverse Mode) first. The Seventh Trumpet is still obtainable, but the path is slightly longer:
The same logic works in reverse: if you picked \"Too Hard\" first and got the Seventh Trumpet, run an Endless Mode run, return to Eudaimonia Machine, and The Directer will hand you Gracia's Mirror.
A 1 April 2026 beta update (patch 1.15.100, Steam) fixed a bug where the Gracia's Mirror and Seventh Trumpet spell shortcuts could leave the unlock state incompletable. If you are on a very old build and find the Eudaimonia Machine is refusing to award you the second relic, update the game before spending more time troubleshooting.
If you already have the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane unlocked, the Seventh Trumpet has one of the shortest spell codes in the entire game:
dootdoot — cast in the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane from the Secrets menu. No setup required beyond having the Scrolls themselves.
The name is a reference to the long-running "doot doot" skeleton trumpet meme, which is fitting for a relic called the Seventh Trumpet. Spellcasting bypasses the Eudaimonia Machine unlock requirement entirely, so this is the fastest possible route if you are restarting a save or unlocking for speedrun purposes.
To use any spell, you first need the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane, which drops from the Sketamari enemy due south of The Bone Zone (requires the Yellow Sign to access).
Endless Mode is not a "simple no-Reaper" toggle. It is a scaling system that gets significantly harder each cycle. Understanding the scaling is what separates a 2-cycle run from a 6-cycle run.
When you reach a stage's normal time limit (30 minutes for most stages), instead of the Reaper spawning, the enemy waves reset to the beginning of the stage. This is a completed cycle. Every cycle applies the following stacking modifiers to the next one:
| Per Cycle | Change |
|---|---|
| Enemy Max HP | +100% of base value |
| Enemy Spawn Quantity | +50% |
| Enemy Spawn Frequency | +50% |
| Enemy Damage | +25% |
| Player Incoming Damage Cap | Reduced by 1 |
The damage-cap reduction is the scariest of these numbers. Vampire Survivors caps how much you can be hit for on a single tick, which normally protects you from one-shots. Every cycle peels one point off that cap, so by cycle 5 or 6, a single unlucky overlap can delete a full-HP character that would have survived just fine at cycle 1.
By cycle 3, enemies have:
This is why builds with area-of-effect weapons and fast proc rates scale better than single-target builds in Endless Mode. You need to be killing entire waves in a single tick, because the spawn quantity and frequency increase will overwhelm any build that can only kill one enemy at a time.
While Endless Mode is active, the Merchant reappears upon completing each cycle. On its own, that is already worth knowing: you get another chance to buy Banished items, Nduja Fritta Tantos, or check for character-specific offers each cycle.
The hidden interaction is with Inverse Mode. If you have both Endless Mode and Inverse Mode enabled on the same run (which requires both Seventh Trumpet and Gracia's Mirror), the Merchant also sells an extra Arcana card per cycle. Arcanas are permanent per-run modifiers that you normally cap at three, so stacking additional Arcanas across cycles is a massive late-game power spike.
This is why most competitive Endless Mode runs use Inverse Mode alongside: the extra Arcana scaling compensates for the harder enemy waves and pushes your build past what a vanilla Endless run can achieve.
Once you have the Seventh Trumpet, Endless Mode is not automatic. You have to toggle it on from the Stage Selection screen each time you want to use it.
Endless Mode is not available on every stage. Special stages like Boss Rash, Room 1665, and the Holy Forbidden event stage have their own rules and do not support Endless. Hyper Mode on Eudaimonia Machine itself does nothing per the wiki. If the toggle is greyed out, the stage does not support the mode.
The Seventh Trumpet is not the last you will see of the Eudaimonia Machine. After collecting both it and Gracia's Mirror, return to the stage one more time. On this third visit, The Directer's dialogue becomes garbled text, and the entity declares "But enough talk, have at you!" before attacking you as the game's final boss.
Defeating The Directer unlocks the Greatest Jubilee, a unique weapon. Eudaimonia Machine then permanently appears at the end of the stage list so you can replay the fight whenever you want.
This means the Seventh Trumpet is not just an Endless Mode unlock. It is the first half of the two-part sequence that ends with the final boss of the base game. If your goal is 100% completion, picking up the Trumpet is a mandatory step on the way there.
Collect every standard relic in the base game to unlock Eudaimonia Machine. Enter the stage, walk north to The Directer, and choose "Too Hard" when asked about your path. The relic is awarded immediately.
It permanently unlocks Endless Mode, a toggleable run modifier that disables the Reaper at the time limit. Instead of dying, your enemy waves reset to the start in escalating cycles with +100% HP, +50% spawn rate, and +25% damage per cycle.
dootdoot. Cast it in the Forbidden Scrolls of Morbane from the Secrets menu. This bypasses the Eudaimonia Machine unlock requirement entirely.
You receive Gracia's Mirror first, which unlocks Inverse Mode. To still get the Seventh Trumpet, start and end a run with Inverse Mode enabled, then return to Eudaimonia Machine and speak to The Directer again. You will be awarded the Trumpet automatically on the second visit.
No. Endless Mode is not available on special stages like Boss Rash, Room 1665, the Holy Forbidden event stage, or Eudaimonia Machine itself. On stages where it is supported, you enable it via a toggle on the Stage Selection screen.
Each completed cycle stacks modifiers on the next one: enemies gain +100% of their base HP, +50% spawn quantity and frequency, and +25% damage. Your incoming damage cap also drops by 1 per cycle, which is the main reason late cycles can one-shot full-HP characters.
Yes, and it is the intended pairing. With both Seventh Trumpet and Gracia's Mirror collected, you can enable Endless and Inverse simultaneously. In that combined mode, the Merchant sells an additional Arcana card each cycle, which is a huge late-game power spike.
It is intentional. The Directer and Eudaimonia Machine are designed to visually distort the UI, and the cryptic message reinforces that you are interacting with something outside the game's normal rules. The text is readable if you flip or mirror the screen.
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Wiki citations: Seventh Trumpet, Eudaimonia Machine, Endless Mode.
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