Pause

2  seconds

Treasure Room Shop

(page 4, column 13, row 6)

Pause is an active item added in Afterbirth †.

Effect

• Stops all enemies until a fire button is pressed.
  • This does not affect troll bombs.
  • Touching frozen enemies will still damage Isaac.
  • Co-op babies can fire without ending the effect.
  • Bosses are affected.
    • After 30 seconds, they will resume their actions while non-boss enemies (except Lil' Haunt) are still paused.

Notes

• New enemies generated during Pause being active will not be frozen and act normally. This applies for spawn-upon-death effects such as Attack Flies created by a Moter, or a Boss that's become unfrozen summoning enemies.
• Paused enemies will not have their damage scaling working effectively, making it highly effective against bosses that employ the mechanic.
• Damage against paused multi-segmented bosses works unpredictably, most notably allowing you to damage Scolex on normally invulnerable parts.
• This allows you to clear a room or do damage to a boss for 30 seconds if you have a way to deal damage without attacking, like an orbital or follower that attacks automatically.

Interactions

• Butter!Using an active item will drop it onto a pedestal on the ground. Taking damage may result in dropping a passive item.: Using Pause with Butter! causes Pause to be dropped with no additional effect.