Nuclear Neighbors BETA Vampire friend

The vampire in Nuclear Neighbors BETA is a named companion outcome, not a confirmed boss HP bar. The badge is Bats? nah friend: Get the vampire friend. Our September 2026 snapshot logged 1,065 awards. That is in Hatman territory (~1,621) and above police rats if you only count the companion success, not the bust. People have completed it. This page is the roster card. Route notes also sit on endings because a friend in the bunker changes the rest of the run.

The experience is a public BETA from Building Adventure on 20-player online servers. A vampire friend is a shared NPC. Other players can attack it, joke it, or wipe the mood. Hunt with a small group that wants the same badge.

What we actually know

• Official badge name: Bats? nah friend.
• Official description: Get the vampire friend.
• Created 26 August 2026 with the encounter wave.
• 1,065 awards means the outcome exists in the live public BETA.
• The name argues for friend, not slay. There is no published “Vampire Killer” badge.

Building Adventure has not printed a blood item, a named house, a night you must stay awake, or a bat-count meter on the experience page. If a clip shows bats, that is one clip. It is not a farm table.

How it compares

Award funnel for neighbor-shaped badges:

• Toilet troubles: ~40,363
• Child of Radiation: 2,646
• Hatman: ~1,621
• Bats? nah friend: 1,065
• Rotten beans: 853
• GET AWAY: 165
• Cryptid Killer: 0

The vampire friend is completable and mid-rate. It is not the unsolved cryptid hunt. Do not assume the vampire is “one of the cryptids” until a badge description says so. Hatman is a taker. Skeleto is a multiplier. This one is a friend flag.

Rank the encounter on the tier list after you have seen the event. Until then, treat it as B-tier curiosity: worth a dedicated Normal night, not worth a Help me wipe.

Habits that do not need a fake blood quest

Do not immediately attack. The badge name is the only official hint we have. If a bat-themed event starts, hold fire unless the BETA forces combat. If combat is forced, leave and try another session instead of inventing a stake.

Call “bats” or “vampire.” In a 20-player bunker that is the whole sentence. Long lore in chat gets people toilet jumpscared.

Isolate the hunt. Use a throwaway Normal day after getting started. Do not mix this with Time thief, Stinky, Cryo Chad, or Cryptid Killer. One experiment per night.

Do not bribe with fridge beans. Midnight Snack is five beans in a row from the mysterious fridge. Rotten beans is a slay on a mutated can. Neither description mentions a vampire. Mixing pantry luck into a companion flag is fanfic.

No code spawns a friend. The codes hub still has no official strings. Spin the wheel! (~2,556) is a reward roll, not a bat summon.

Shared-server risk

A 20-player fill lobby will shoot first. If you care about the stamp, play with people who read this page. After the friend flag pops, check Roblox inventory, then go back to the how to survive food loop. A companion does not pause Hatman or police rats.

If the event never starts, that is allowed. 1,065 awards is common, not guaranteed every night. Do not stand in a doorway for an hour on a theory. If a patch changes bats, the award rate will move. Track dates on the BETA changelog.

What we will not fake

We do not have a confirmed spawn room. We do not have a confirmed gift item. We do not have a published “feed the vampire” prompt. Testers disagree about whether the friend stays in the bunker or is a one-shot flag. When testers disagree and the BETA is silent, this wiki says unknown.

We also will not file the vampire as a required step for Alien Saviors or Child of Radiation. Those badges have their own text. Cross-link them because they all change the story of the bunker, not because we have a combo.

The vampire friend is a completable companion stamp with about a thousand awards. Befriend first. Hunt on Normal. Keep the rest of the 20-player bunker on task. That is the card until Building Adventure prints a bat meter.