For years many players of the Binding Of Isaac have complained that while the game is great it comes with one big issue, that being there’s no actual item descriptions. Edmund Mcmillen has said in past interviews he would like to add this feature that until now was only available through mods via the Steam Workshop. Well Edmund and producer Tyrone Rodriguez just dropped the news that patch 1.9.7.13 is now live for The Binding Of Isaac Repentance Plus Beta.
The post on the Steam community page states “Ever been hesitant to grab an item or activate that card because you can't quite remember what it does, exactly? Well no longer - because we've added ITEM DESCRIPTIONS for every collectible, consumable, and trinket in the game! You might just find this handy if you happen to be one of the few people who, for some reason, has trouble keeping track of every single effect from all 1000+ of them”
Before I get into the details of the new patch outside of the highlighed item feature, I would like to remind console players that this version of the game, which added multiplayer to the Steam version of the game is only available on that platform and as such is only on PC. We have seen a comment or two and I’ve even had people DM me about this. As soon as there is news about when this version of the game is coming to console we will let you guys know.
As far as details for the patch goes theres some changes to items, trinkets, balance changes, bug fixes and “a new kind of deal to be found in Devil Rooms that won't cost you permanent loss of your hard-earned heart containers. Instead, simply hurt yourself on some gnarly sacrifice spikes once or twice to get the goods!” For more details see below.
Full Patch Notes
Items
- Revelation: Removed the 2 soul hearts on pickup
- Plan C: Increased the delay before killing Isaac, allowing Delirium and Mother death animations to complete in time
- Mega Blast: Now receives 6 charges instead of 3 when picking up a battery, 9 Volt, Battery Pack, and 48 Hour Energy
- Car Battery: Added interactions for Gello, Book of Belial, Red Candle, The Candle, Doctor's Remote, Telekenisis, and Mega Blast
- Thin Odd Mushroom: Can now break the soft tears cap
- Seraphim: Now contributes to the Seraphim transformation
- 2Spooky: In addition to its existing effects, now adds +0.5 tears and +0.2 shot speed
- Black Powder: Now grants larger explosions and fireplaces will explode when extinguished
- Blood Rights: In addition to its existing effects, each use now grants a tears upgrade for the current room
- Pageant Boy: Now always drops a penny trinket as part of its rewards
Trinkets
- Super Ball: Bouncing tear chance now scales with luck
- Bob's Bladder: Now contributes to the Bob transformation
- Missing Poster: Now has a 33% chance to reveal the Super Secret Room when entering a new chapter
- Used Diaper: Skatole chance raised to 33%. Spawn a blue fly when entering a new combat room
- Rosary Bead: In addition to its increased chance of The Bible appearing, when a Devil Deal is earned, holding this trinket will force the deal to be an Angel Deal
- Modeling Clay/Error: Now correctly display the mimicked item/trinket in Extra HUD when gulped
- Louse: Now spawns a blue spider when completing a combat room
- Karma: In addition to its existing effects, holding it will reduce the chance of the Donation Machine jamming. Donating to a Beggar now has a chance to refund the penny, heal Isaac for one heart or increase Isaac's luck. Blood Donation Machines and Confessionals have a chance to heal Isaac for one heart, spawn a beggar, or increase Isaac's luck. Restock Machines have a chance to increase Isaac's luck
- Equality: When keys bombs and coins are all equal in number, gives +2 tear rate
- Lazy Worm: Now adds +0.5 damage in addition to its shot speed down
- Mom's Toenail: Dropping/swapping the trinket will now make Mom stomp on its dropped location
- Child Leash: While held, familiars gain a small damage multiplier
- Purple Heart: Increased the chance of champion enemies spawning. Chance for champion specific loot drops raised to 50%. Champion loot rewards are doubled.
- Poker Chip: retains its original effect of 50/50 chance for chests to have double rewards or a hostile fly. If the reward was an item and quality 0-2, the item rolls into another of higher quality. Can pull items from outside of the golden chest pool occasionally. Slightly increased the odds of a payout from slot machines, fortune tellers, crane games, shell games, and restock machines.
- Cursed Penny: Increased chance to teleport Isaac to different rooms based on the coin collected.
- Added effects for all golden trinkets that did not previously have them
Features/Balance Changes
- Added Item Descriptions to the game after defeating Mom one time per save file. Items will need to have been collected one time before their description will appear.
- Several Devil Deal items now have a sacrifice spike cost instead of permanent HP loss. There is a 50% chance to award the item on the first play and 100% chance on the second.
- Added a buffer to item chests with Glitched Crown, Tainted Isaac, and Soul of Isaac to prevent accidentally picking up the rotating item
- Fixed an issue where double Angel Rooms could have two of the same angel. Key pieces that are not yet collected will be prioritized when determining which angel to spawn
- Travelling to a new floor via Error Rooms or Genesis will now keep the player on the Alt Path if they were on that route. On Downpour/Mines 2, traveling this way will bring the player back to the standard path if they haven't collected the knife pieces on those respective floors
- Added time and score display to The Beast fight in Daily runs
- The beam from Brimstone+Gello will continue for its entire duration even after an enemy is killed
- Removed Broken Glass Cannon as a potential starting item for Eden
- Removed Brother Bobby and Sister Maggy from the Devil pool and added Dry Baby in their place
- Holy shields from different sources now stack consistently and have a unique icon showing what the source of the next shield is. The priority is Wooden Cross, Blanket, Holy Mantle, Holy Card
- Percs! Horse Pill now full heals Isaac in addition to adding The Wafer effect for the room
- Addicted! Horse Pill now gives Isaac a broken heart
- I'm Excited!!! Horse Pill now applies the effect for the duration of the floor
- I'm Drowsy Horse Pill now applies the effect for the duration of the floor
- ??? Horse Pill now add additional curses with each use
- Telepills Horse Pill now guarantees a teleport to a special room
- Gulp! Horse Pill now gulps the golden version of the held trinket
- Hagalaz rune now destroys Stone Fatties, stone turrets and many stone-based enemies. It also breaks the armor of many others including Hosts and Knights
- Healing with coins as Keeper and Tainted Keeper now contributes to Immaculate Conception
- Using Potato Peeler while having Ball of Bandages will now contribute to Bandage Girl instead of giving Cubes of Meat
- The Parasite now interacts with Tech X
- Golden Hearts now explode into coins as soon as they are touched by The Lost/Tainted Lost and Keeper/Tainted Keeper
- Items touched in the Ultra Secret Room with Tainted Cain will now guarantee one Cracked Key pickup
- Tainted Bethany can now collect and store Rotten Hearts for use with active items
- Added a new transformation, "Necromancer"
- Added a wave counter to Boss Rush
- Added a slightly longer wind up before Camillo Jr. attacks
- Online games will now dynamically adjust the cost of Devil Deals for the player nearest to the item
- Replaced Wednesday Delirium Daily Run end goal with random end goal and character
- Added Clicker back into Daily Run pools
- Removed score counter for non-daily runs
- Permanently charmed enemies from Friendly Ball and Pheromones Horse Pill now award score when converted
- If a player disconnects in the middle of a Daily Run, they will receive score up to the last completed floor instead of a zero score
- Adjusted the chances for Daily Run end goals on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday to be:
- 10% Lamb
- 10% ???
- 15% Isaac
- 15% Satan
- 10% Delirium
- 20% Mom's Heart
- 20% Mom's Foot
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where rerolling with Tainted Cain would result in all of his crafted items turning into Breakfast
- Added Lazy Worm to the thematic payouts from worm bosses
- Fixed an issue where Rotgut was unable to spawn his thematic drop
- Fixed an issue where the flesh door would remain open during the alt path Mom's Heart fight
- Fixed an issue where Glowing Hourglass could duplicate Blood Puppy
- Fixed an issue where Baptism by Fire and Bloody Mary challenges were starting with Book of Virtues
- Fixed an issue where Fissure enemies could despawn on uncleared rooms
- Fixed an issue where Filigrie Feather would prioritize Key Piece drops. A Key Piece will only drop if the player already has the other piece, collected without Filigrie Feather
- Fixed an issue where using Book of Virtues between active item pickups would give infinite free wisps
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using Genesis after using Death Certificate
- Fixed an issue where using Glowing Hourglass in Downpour 1 would teleport the player Home
- Fixed an issue where Glowing Hourglass could cause Tainted Lilith to be unable to shoot
- Fixed an issue where items granted to Esau when using Soul of Jacob and Esau were removed from future item pools
- Fixed an issue where Boss Rush could prematurely close on Home daily runs
- Fixed an issue with charged items not firing with Epiphora
- Fixed an issue where spectral tears would cause Bob's Rotten Head to bounce off of walls
- Fixed an issue where Star of Bethlehem would significantly speed up its pathing while the player is in an off-grid room
- Fixed an issue where Belly Jelly and Cone Head could prevent the on-damage effects of items from triggering when using Dull Razor
- Fixed an issue where Black Maw was not charging to the right correctly
- Fixed an issue where a ??? pill could prevent the chest from appearing after defeating Satan in Ultra Hard
- Fixed an issue where killing Greed could remove Coupon and Head of the Keeper from future pools
- Fixed a bomb exploit that allowed the first phase of Dogma to be skipped
- Added a time delay between the sound effects for Little Chubby, Big Chubby, and Lil Haunt
- Fixed an issue where consumable pop-ups were miniaturized when holding Found Soul
- Fixed an issue where game sounds would not correctly switch when the output device changed
- Suplex no longer works on fireplaces or during Mega Mush, preventing softlocks and unintended damage
- Fixed an issue where Camo Undies would not come out of stealth when using mouse controls
- Fixed an issue where Eye of the Occult tears would not travel to the cursor when using mouse controls
- Fixed an issue where flies from Beelzebub could be farmed for infinite daily run points
- Fixed an issue where Keeper would lose his Birthright effect after the Mom Chase
- Fixed an issue where Tainted Jacob could not be damaged by copies of Dark Esau from Birthright
- Fixed an issue where Camillo Jr. could fire from offscreen in Greed Mode
- Fixed an issue where Wavy Cap tears up could be kept and distortion effects could be removed by exiting and continuing the run
- Fixed an issue where Bumbo's evolution would be reset after the Mom Chase
- Fixed an issue where ice shards from frozen enemies could freeze and damage friendly monsters
- Fixed an issue where Abyss Locusts were not removed during the Mom Chase, causing potential softlocks
- Fixed an issue where crawl spaces could spawn during the Mother Chase, causing potential softlocks
- Fixed an issue where a dead zone in the center of Red Poops was not triggering damage
- Fixed an issue where Consolation Prize would always drop a bomb when playing as Tainted ???
- Fixed an issue where losing an Eternal Heart while the player has Rotten Hearts resulted in taking an extra half heart of damage
- Fixed an issue where Dream Catcher could display incorrect Treasure Room items in the Alt Path when combined with some other items
- Fixed an issue where copies of Dark Esau beyond the first were not doing damage to Tained Jacob
- Fixed an issue where Tainted Bethany would not start with the correct number of stored red hearts in co-op if she was not player one
- Fixed an issue that allowed Keeper and Tainted Keeper to gain infinite health with Mother's Kiss trinkets
- Fixed an issue where exiting and continuing would remove the I'm Excited effect
- Fixed an issue where using Soul of Cain in the mirror room would break the mirror
- Fixed an issue where Bethany's starting Book of Virtues was not contributing to the Bookworm transformation
- Fixed an issue where a crawl space would not spawn if placed under certain rocks
- Fixed an issue where Glowing Hourglass would not refund a teleport card if used to undo that teleport
- Fixed an issue where tech items would not break open secret rooms with Terra or Sulfuric Acid
- Fixed an issue where Tained Lazarus could respawn as another character on death and lose story items if they were held by the other Lazarus half
- Fixed an issue where collecting a Bone Heart could remove charges from Alabaster Box
- Fixed an issue where Bloaty's creep attack could hit flying characters
- Fixed an issue where playing a Blood Donation Machine with the Swallowed M80 trinket would not cause the machine to be destroyed when Isaac explodes
- Fixed an issue where using Glowing Hourglass immediately after taking Dad's Note resulted in a softlock
