Warhammer Survivors Weapon Evolutions: Recipes & Chest Requirements

How to evolve a weapon

Choose the weapon you already carry, find its passive in the tables below, and work toward that pair during the same run.

Upgrade the base weapon to its maximum. Most reported base weapons cap at level 8; follow the weapon's actual upgrade limit rather than treating 8 as universal.
Carry the matching passive item. For most recipes, possession is enough. The five exceptions below require the passive to be fully upgraded.
Once the requirements are ready, open a chest that can award an evolution, dropped by a boss or elite enemy. A normal level-up selection is not the evolution trigger.
Inspect the reward. Some evolutions add an attack while retaining the original weapon, so seeing the base weapon afterwards does not necessarily mean the evolution failed.

These tables combine dated community reports. They are not an in-game test or a guarantee that every chest qualifies. The launch lists contain 21 entries for 40K and 18 for Age of Sigmar; Nuln Oil and D6 Dice appear in both, so those are 37 distinct combinations, not 39 different recipes. Shared combinations are listed once below.

Warhammer 40K evolution recipes

All rows require the weapon at its maximum and an eligible chest. “Max” in the passive column is an additional condition.

Base weapon	Required passive	Result
Ardent Blade	Tactical Rock (max)	Weapon of the Matriarch
Battle Cannon	Figure Case	Side Sponsons
Boltgun	Dice Cube	Heavy Bolter
Chainsword	Tape Measure	Eviscerator Chainsword
Combat Shotgun	Magnet	Executioner Shotgun
Crozius Arcanum	Lightning Bolt	Benediction of Fury
Fidelis	Golden Demon	Purgator Mirabilis
Flamer	Glue	Heavy Flamer
Frag Grenade	Bandolier	Ripper Pistol
Lasgun	Gauntlet	Meltagun
Mechanical Bite	Sabaton	Remote Detonation
Power Fist	Codex Astartes (max)	Gauntlets of Ultramar
Power Klaw	Da Lucky Stikk (max)	Bale Eye
Shield of Faith	Bugman's Tankard	Emperor's Wrath
Smite	Ardcoat	Fury of the Ancients
Spear of the Faithful	Chaos Sigil	Thorn of the White Rose
Storm Bolter	Lightning Bolt	Assault Cannon
Storm Eagle Rocket	White Dwarf	Deathstrike Missile
Whirlwind Battery	Liquid Green Stuff	Orbital Bombardment

For a Lasgun evolution, collect Gauntlet, max Lasgun, then open an eligible chest for Meltagun. Figure Case is the passive paired with Battle Cannon; it is not the resulting weapon.

Lightning Bolt supports two 40K recipes: Storm Bolter and Crozius Arcanum. One passive can support both, but each weapon still needs its own upgrades and evolution opportunity. Do not spend a slot on an unrelated passive just because its name appears elsewhere in the table.

Age of Sigmar evolution recipes

Base weapon	Required passive	Result
Blade of the High Heavens	Figure Case	Thengavar
Boltstorm Pistol	Dice Cube	Typhoon Crossbow
Brace of Pistols	Bandolier	Duelling Pistols
Brazier Staff	Liquid Green Stuff	Master of Runes
Cyclone Sword	Magnet	Voice of the God-King
Flintlock Pistols	Ardcoat	Result name disputed; see note below
Fyrestorm Greataxe	Kragg Blackhammer's Master Rune	Zangrom-Thaz
Grandblade	Tape Measure	Celestial Greatsword
Mystical Ward	Glue	Warding Lantern
Nebulous Sea-Fog	Bugman's Tankard	Aquatic Illusions
Poisoned Throwing Knives	Gauntlet	Bladed Vortex
Rope & Grapnel	White Dwarf	Ghost of Rhea
Stormcharged Warhammer	Tactical Rock (max)	Uskavar the Sunderer
Tempest Axes	Sabaton	Whirlwind Axes
Twin-Tailed Cat	Golden Demon	Enchanted Glove
Uskavar the Sunderer	Null Pendant (max)	Ghal Maraz

Flintlock Pistols has a naming conflict in the reviewed sources. Games.gg and ShowGamer call the Ardcoat result “Anti-Wizard Flintlock”; GamerBlurb's weapon guide calls it “Aqshian Firestakes.” The pairing is reported consistently, but the result name is not settled here. Check the current in-game Armoury before treating either label as definitive.

For Tempest Axes, Sabaton is the passive and Whirlwind Axes is the result. A reviewed community table reverses those two columns; the other sources agree on the order shown here.

Shared recipes in both universes

Base weapon	Required passive	Result
Nuln Oil	Hourglass	Mordant Earth
D6 Dice	Scatter Die	Sustained Fire Dice

These two pairings are unchanged between the two reviewed launch lists. Some sources spell Scatter Die as “Scatter Dice”; match the item shown in your game.

Which passives must be maxed?

The Games.gg recipe guide identifies five evolution steps with this extra requirement:

Evolution target	Passive that must be fully upgraded
Bale Eye	Da Lucky Stikk
Weapon of the Matriarch	Tactical Rock
Gauntlets of Ultramar	Codex Astartes
Uskavar the Sunderer	Tactical Rock
Ghal Maraz	Null Pendant

A shorter recipe table may show the correct pairing while omitting the passive level. When a chest gives a normal upgrade, inspect this condition before concluding that the pairing is wrong. ShowGamer does not explicitly mark Tactical Rock as maxed for Uskavar; the stricter requirement above follows Games.gg and GamerBlurb's detailed weapon-path report.

The two-stage Ghal Maraz route

Plan for Stormcharged Warhammer → Uskavar the Sunderer → Ghal Maraz early enough to carry both passives.

First max Stormcharged Warhammer and Tactical Rock, then obtain Uskavar from an eligible chest. Next upgrade Uskavar to its maximum, max Null Pendant, and obtain Ghal Maraz through another qualifying chest. Finding Null Pendant alone does not complete the second step.

The character unlock guide connects this route to Rostus, Bastian and Celestant-Prime. Use it to choose the appropriate starting character before planning the run.

Why is my weapon not evolving?

Check the recipe in this order:

What you see	What to check next
Correct weapon and passive, but weapon still has upgrades	Reach the weapon's own maximum first
Max weapon, but a normal upgrade from the chest	Check passive level and whether that chest can award an evolution
Uskavar is ready, but no Ghal Maraz	Max Uskavar and Null Pendant; this is a second evolution step
Base weapon remains after receiving a new attack	Check the reward; some paths retain the original
Fusil-Cannon never becomes Long-Fusil from chests	Review the special acquisition below
You are following an old demo chart	Compare the current launch weapon pool and in-game recipe

Long-Fusil is a special acquisition. ShowGamer ties it to Major Docheval and a retaliatory-damage objective, while Games.gg leaves it out of the standard chest list. Do not treat “Fusil-Cannon + Tactical Rock = Long-Fusil” as a verified ordinary evolution. The secret-character route describes the related Juntar and Amberbone dependency.

For an in-game record of discovered recipes, ShowGamer reports unlocking the Armoury by collecting Warscroll on Skrappa Spill. Follow the question-mark marker and check the resulting unlock. Discovery progress and source tables can change after patches; use the game's current objective wording when it differs.