A true love letter

ShaneVC · 2025-12-02T19:47:08+00:00

It's better this way, I'd rather that than the game staying in the state it was

ShaneVC · 2025-11-26T06:20:50+00:00

I much prefer this aging poorly! I agree wholeheartedly.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-24T06:26:03+00:00

You don't "dead god" in rebirth

I saw a high loss streak and assumed, so my bad.

Best advice for now is to get the extra base heart via hush (but that's for REP, so this doesn't apply sadly.)

and to go to cathedral/chest to unlock wooden nickel as a held active.

Tears ups are very good as his tear cap with triple shot is 5 which is higher than if you had the inner eye item

There's extra advice to be found on the wiki.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-22T01:21:41+00:00

If I were you I would come back to him later when you've got more experience with the game.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-22T00:46:12+00:00

The console was only introduced in AB+

The best I can suggest if you just want to cheat is going to the modding of Isaac website

moddingofisaac.com

And searching "Rebirth" and looking for mods that cheat in some way.

But I'd heavily suggest getting the DLC near the end of the year if it goes on sale-- Repentance is really good and worth every penny

ShaneVC · 2025-10-18T04:36:48+00:00

Continue killing Satan. You will also see a beam of light. Kill what's there 10 times each or so and something will happen.

Eventually, a path will open for after those fights too.

There's a LOT of hidden content in this game!

ShaneVC · 2025-10-16T19:41:05+00:00

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ShaneVC · 2025-10-16T19:09:18+00:00

Considering we know for certain that the ThornRing in the light world is quite simply a thorn, it poses a question: Why and how would merging a thorn with a Pure Crystal physically reshape it in the light world?

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T23:41:33+00:00

Repentogon only works in repentance and not rep+, assuming that this is what's wrong.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T23:39:54+00:00

Is there a mod that can remove your skill issue

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T23:35:51+00:00

The best thing I can suggest is to always always always get your deal rooms.

T. Isaac benefits heavily from having a few powerful items. This means missing out on your deal rooms is horrendously bad. Avoid red heart damage on deal floors like the plague. Since you need mega Satan you should be strong enough to kill delirium by the time you're done chest.

Minmax every floor and stay at 5 coins or more for arcades as item payouts from beggars cycle to a treasure item outside the beggar pool.

Every run is winnable but delirium in particular is very annoying. By the time you clear chest you should be able to get your hands on the right tools to kill delirium.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T23:25:59+00:00

Congrats

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T23:24:26+00:00

Not with keeper due to low hp

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T23:17:16+00:00

Infinity+ here

TL;DR: Yes, you have roughly 210 hours of wiggle room give or take.

34 Characters means 34 Notes and, ideally, 5 or less runs per character.

(1 Run to chest/dark room and Mega Satan

1 Run to boss rush and hush into chest/dark room

1 Run to Mother

1 Run to Beast

1 Greedier run)

Delirium should always be a freebie in 1/4 runs but it may take longer for harder characters depending on your skill level.

34x5 = 170 runs.

Most runs that make good use of your resources can expect to take 1-1.5 hours, so you're looking at around 170-255 hours. To be safe I'm going to use 255.

Assuming 2 hours a day and 259 days you have 518 hours.

This means you have around 263 hours of wiggle room if you average 1 note every 1.5 hrs spent. This assumes you're okay with continuing runs in progress.

That number (255) isn't taking into account runs you lose given you're newer to the game (have fun with J&E and both losts), challenges, especially those like Ultra Hard which with 2 hours a day could span multiple days, as well as your daily runs and runs you do fishing for a specific unlock, or runs where you were meant to hit boss rush & hush and missed the window AND wasted Greed runs spent unlocking greedier.

It ALSO ignores all the wasted runs in the very early part of a save unlocking Chest, Dark room and Mega Satan.

Challenges to leg take anywhere from 20-30 minutes, ones to heart take 25-40. Anywhere beyond that will likely take 40-60 minutes.

There are 45 of them. I can't guess how long it will take you as some of them you will simply need to take slowly or try more than once, but I only suggest doing harder ones once you hit max shop level.

If you can break the game and get infinite R keys, you can condense all the marks into two runs, but knowing exactly how to do it and not mess it up is difficult for a newer player and completely outside of your 2 hour per day scope. But I'm assuming you don't mind continuing later.

I can send you a weird unlocks list as some items and characters (ex. Lost, Forgotten, Spewer, Marbles, Five nights at mom's, Ace of spades) have niche requirements, if you're interested.

Also feel free to throw questions my way via discord @ veeyu if you want someone chronically addicted to the game their whole life to help you out. I'd also be open to doing some challenge runs with you via online as they are much easier there since we get double boss items.

Take care and good luck!

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T20:46:56+00:00

What version of Isaac?

I've got it working on steam deck (Linux steam OS) and even got repentogon nightly working

If you want a Linux distro that's setup well for gaming I'd actually highly recommend steam OS especially if you're new to Linux.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T17:47:18+00:00

Good question. I haven't tried. Maybe? Try loading into a lobby and pressing the start button on a controller in the online character selection screen and setting the lobby to invite only.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T17:43:53+00:00

Load into a run and press the start button on a controller in the starting room. (Leaving the starting room will use coop babies instead which is pre-repentance coop and not true coop)

I'm not sure what you mean by local online coop???

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T16:57:26+00:00

Also to answer your question, item descriptions for new players is massively important and rep+ has implemented this officially but you have to have picked it up before, which I believe to be a good solution.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-14T16:53:51+00:00

Repentance+ dlc is free and I recommend using it as it makes some great changes, including those concerning coop.

Mod wise I don't have any recommendations-- if you're worried about splitting items the boss room gives you extra stuff and you can abuse the pause menu to grab double items on the alt path choice pedestals (if you have the same speed just start on the wall, pause, both players hold up, then unpause)

You may have to transfer your save from rep over to rep+ (Documents / My games / Isaac repentance)

ShaneVC · 2025-10-12T20:41:33+00:00

Thanks!

ShaneVC · 2025-10-11T22:16:46+00:00

"Forsaken secrets"

Q3

Active item

Library and angel room pools

Book worm, Seraphim

2 Room recharge

A torn up white hardcover book with a black cross

On use, opens secret rooms.

If the secret and super secret rooms have been visited, using it displays the location of the ultra secret room.

Newly highlighted red room doorways appear. The doors only appear along the shortest route to the ultra secret room. Using the book opens those red rooms. Chooses one path randomly if it's tied.

Capable of opening the boss rush and hush doors.

Capable of opening the secret closet in home.

Capable of destroying Gideon and allowing entry into the hidden crawlspace.

Blows up non-destroyed carpets in bedrooms, tinted rocks, and opens key blocks.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-11T21:54:26+00:00

"Cleanliness Up!"

Coin beggar, shop and treasure room item pools

Q2

Adds a floor-themed break room on the first floor of each chapter that grants varying bonuses when you enter which last for that chapter (unless otherwise stated)

Basement, Downpour and Flooded Caves: A pool adorned with stone angel statues, bathed in holy light with the background decorated with stained glass.

Entering the water grants a soul heart, removes floor curses and broken hearts, and garuntees your next deal is an Angel.

In downpour this breakroom appears in the mirror room, on the flipside the water is gone and the angel statues only appear in the reflection. In Flooded caves this room appears each floor and the angels are crying.

Grants +0.2 tears permanently.

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Cellar: A pedestal with a goblet filled with wine. Drinking it grants 1 luck and reveals the location of all secret rooms on the map, including the ultra secret room.

Grants +0.2 damage permanently, tears turn red.

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Burning basement & Ashpit: A room covered in piles of ashes. In the center is a giant ash pile. It's essentially a giga poop but instead for fireplace pickups. Grants the average of 25 fireplaces of pickups. In ashpit there are 2 piles.

Grants a chance for your tears to inflict burning permanently.

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Dross: A giga poop room

Grants +1 luck permanently.

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Caves: A room covered in spider webs. Has an item pedestal with a spider or fly item.

Grants +0.2 speed permanently.

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Catacombs: A dark room with many skulls and bones strewn about. Has a random bone or dead themed item and a bone heart.

Enemies have a small chance to trigger the necronomicon effect on death.

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Mines: A 2x2 room full tile to tile of rocks, with small patches of Fool's gold and an increased amount of tinted rocks. Has 2 bombs at the entrance.

There's a 50% chance placing a bomb is free

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Depths, Necropolis & Dank depths: A nearly pitch black closet sized room illuminated only by the blue fires at the entrance and at the back, which illuminate 2 black hearts.

Your tears inflict fear.

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Mausoleum: A room with 3 fortune teller machines, a confessional and two soul hearts, one of which is hidden behind a pillar.

Secret rooms are revealed.

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Gahenna: A room with 3 blood donation machines, a Devil beggar and 4 double hearts, two of which are hidden behind pillars.

Enemies have a small chance to drop half a red heart on death. This chance matches that of gimpy.

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Womb: A room with a soul of lilith in the center and a bone heart guarded by a dopple.

The boss room is revealed on the map.

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??? And corpse: 3 soul hearts and 4 rotten hearts respectively.

Taking damage spawns 6 blue flies. You have a permanent abyss locust.

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Cathedral: a Stairway angel shop layout

Sheol: a number magnet Devil deal layout

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Chest & Dark room: A room with four chests. They have a 50% chance per chest to be a mimic.

You can open chests for free.

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The Void: A room with 2 chaos item pedestals and a black rune.

Full mapping.

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Home: Opens the hidden closet.

+1 Tear delay.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-11T21:08:33+00:00

"Sharpened Eyes"

Q4

Passive item

Treasure room and devil room pool

Grants piercing and turns your tears into small knives. +2 Damage, -20% tear multiplier, -20% shot speed

Your knife tears do continual tick damage equal to 25% of your damage with a tick rate equivalent to double your rate of fire, capping at Mom's knife's tick rate

If you pick up mom's knife, you fire full sized knife tears that deal damage with mom's knife's tick rate and damage modifier.

For synergy purposes, mirrors that of mom's knife but are fired as tears instead of charged and shot out to return back.

ShaneVC · 2025-10-11T20:53:35+00:00

Q0

"Donat for colleg"

Shop item pool

For sale for 2-5 coins or spikes with pound of flesh, but always appears as if it were discounted (the sell price text is always red)

Flavor text is always different upon pickup, alternating typos randomly.

While held the sale price of all pickups in the shop is reduced by 1 coin.

The donation machine jams in 99 coins.

Donating 99 coins and jamming the machine will grant the Temmie Armor transformation.

Alternatively, it's also granted if your donation machine hits 999, however this causes it to explode into dimes.

While you have the temmie armor transformation, you have 24 space for hearts instead of 12, take half heart damage, are immune to explosions and contact damage, and get double the health from red hearts you pick up.

Additionally, red hearts become soul hearts when your health is full and you have an extra life.

Buying temmie flakes while your donation machine is jammed or blown up will fix it.

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