Bomber Boy is a passive item added in Afterbirth.
Effects
- Grants 5 bombs.
- Causes bombs to explode in a large cross-shaped blast by adding two additional explosions in each cardinal direction.
- The damage for a single explosion is unchanged, but each successive explosion that hits the same enemy has its damage halved; for example, if 5 of the explosions hit the same enemy, the total damage is 60 + 30 + 15 + 7.5 + 3.75 = 116.25 instead of 60 * 5 = 300.
- Mr. Mega changes the base damage to 110, with the same halving reductions as above.
Notes
- With Bomber Boy, Bedrooms can be opened with a single bomb.
- Bombing the Donation Machine will cause a greater than normal amount of coins to drop from the machine.
- Bombing a blue or purple fireplace may cause it to drop multiple soul hearts.
- This bug has been fixed.
Synergies
- Anarchist Cookbook: Spawned bombs explode in a cross pattern, therefore covering a wider area.
- Bob's Curse: The range for poisoning nearby enemies is much bigger.
- Butt Bombs/Error: The given collectible ("No. 2") does not exist.: Each explosion counts as an individual Butt Bomb, so this deals 90 damage per explosion to all enemies in the room.
- Curse of the Tower: The troll bombs spawned by the effect of this item will explode in a large cross pattern, making them more likely to damage both enemies and Isaac.
- Dr. Fetus: Bomber Boy also affects the bombs fired by Dr. Fetus.
- Glitter Bombs: Each explosion has a independent chance of generating a pickup to use.
- Hot Bombs: Creates fire in a shape of a cross.
- Mr. Mega: All explosions deal more damage, have a larger radius and will overlap each other more, potentially vastly increasing damage.
- Pyromaniac: Each bomb can restore multiple red hearts.
- Sad Bombs: Each of the nine explosions will have its own tear burst.
- Scatter Bombs: Each of the smaller bombs explode in large cross-shaped blasts.
Interactions
- Epic Fetus: Epic Fetus explosions are unaffected.
- Locust of War/BBF/Bob's Brain: Explosion damage is halved with no additional explosions.
- Ipecac: Ipecac explosions are unaffected.
In-game Footage
Trivia
- Bomber Boy is a reference to the 1983 video-game Bomberman.
Seeds
PC YZLQ WLAV (Treasure room adjacent to spawn on Normal, just to the left of spawn on Hard)
Bugs
Bug! | Due to the extreme force of multiple simultaneous explosions, it is possible for Bomber Boy bombs (especially when combined with Mr. Mega) to propel Isaac into obstacles or over pits. |
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The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth |
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