Unlock Toastie with your controller (0.7.2 and +)

Toastie requires quick reflexes to unlock. It is however much easier if you do it with your controller. Here's how...
Bonus tip: You'll also learn how to configure your controller for each game in your Steam collection.

Steps to unlock Toastie

You probably already know this part, but it doesn't hurt to repeat.

To unlock Toastie you need to follow these steps:

Exdash (another secret character) needs to be unlocked first. If you haven't already, go to the main menu screen and type x-x1viiq on your keyboard to unlock. Don't type too slow or it won't work. Every time you pick up a Clover you also have a chance of unlocking him. But don't count on that happening anytime soon, since the odds are about 1 in 65000.

After doing this, don't forget to unlock the Exdash silhouette on the character screen before trying to get Toastie.

Now you need to defeat either the Stalker or the Drowner. The best place is in the Dairy Plant area. The Stalker will have a 1% chance to spawn at minute 0, and 30% at minutes 8 and 12. The best strategy is to lure him to a cart and trigger it to kill him in one hit. But it also works if you have the Pentagram or find a Rosary.

0.7.2 UPDATE! Starting with this version it is much easier to go instead to the new area, Cappella Magna. Camp around one of the three rosaries that spawn south of your starting location and wait for the Drowner to spawn before picking it up.

When the Stalker (or Drowner) dies you have 1 second to hit the DOWN ARROW and ENTER keys on your keyboard. You will then hear a jingle and Toastie will now be unlocked.

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Note: If for some reason you prefer to go to the Dairy Plant, you can read my other guide on How to Quickly Restart your Runs, so you can minimize the time you spend trying to spawn the Stalker. You can immediately restart the run if the Stalker doesn't spawn with the initial monsters and you don't want to wait for the 8th-minute mark. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2814419449

Configure your controller

Steam for Windows/Linux includes the option to configure your controller, allowing you to remap its buttons to whatever you like. And the beauty of it is that you can do this on a per-game basis.

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To do this you go to the Vampire Survivor Steam game settings, and make sure you enable Steam Input.

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(2)
You should now have a new Controler Layout entry on your game library page. If not, make sure your controller is turned on. You can also try to start the game and then exit it

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(3)
Click it and configure your controller how you like it. Below, I configured my Xbox controller to map the A Button to the Keypad Enter key on my keyboard. And D-Pad Down key to Arrow Down.

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Note: You won't be able to map the left and right sticks correctly. Don't use those.

And you are done!

Now it will be much easier to trigger that Toastie unlock. Even better than with the keyboard.

Have fun!

[Hero-Absurtle]

This is insane ! :D gg

[Rich]

Thank you very much for this guide,
just to confirm it also works when toggling multi button and selecting down arrow key and keypad enter.
I mapped down and enter to X and mashed it after defeating the 8 minute stalker in the dairy plant and unlocked Toastie.

[Mono (puppeteer)]

Thank you

[ADOG]

thanks you my frined

[Marfig]

@Loglis, it may work. I haven't tested that possibility.

[Loglis]

Is it working if we combine "Down arrow" + "Keypad enter" on a single button like "X" ?

[Sneph]

theyre both death sprites with a different colour, i think stalker is green and drowner is blue

[Imp]

what do the stalker and the drowner look like