Lachryphagy is an unlockable passive item added in Booster Pack #4.
Effects
- Isaac's tears decelerate as they travel. Upon stopping or hitting an obstacle, they burst into 8 tears in all directions.
- Hitting an enemy will not cause them to burst.
- Tears can be fired into other tears to feed them, increasing their damage and the damage of the burst tears.
- If one tear is fed 5 other tears, it will immediately burst.
- The tears will have their damage added together, with the first consumed tear giving additional damage.
- Tears in the burst will deal half the damage the main tear would have.
- Tear bursting can also happen from sheer shot size. With sufficiently high damage or several tear-size increasing items, the tears will burst almost immediately after firing.
Interactions
Brimstone: Lachryphagy does not affect regular Brimstone beams, but tears from other sources such as Isaac's Tears will burst into 8 Brimstone beams.- Chocolate Milk: Rapidly firing small, uncharged tears can cause the fed tear to grow into a gigantic tear that will still deal fairly low damage, while feeding tears with charged tears will result in higher-damage tears.
- Dr. Fetus: Overrides Lachryphagy.
- Epic Fetus: Overrides Lachryphagy.
- Flat Stone: Overridden by Lachryphagy.
- Ipecac: Tears will burst into more explosive tears.
- The Ludovico Technique: Overrides Lachryphagy.
- Monstro's Lung: The tears clump together soon after firing, causing potentially up to 20x base damage on a direct hit on an enemy.
- Pop!: Tears behave erratically, with freshly fired tears usually behaving like Lachryphagy and burst tears like Pop!.
- Proptosis: The tears most of the time fade out quicker than they can burst.
- Sinus Infection: All tears have a chance to burst into boogers. Boogers will always burst into more boogers, though some of the boogers may incorrectly appear to be normal tears. When a booger sticks to a enemy, it will burst into 8 boogers which have a high chance of sticking again to the same enemy.
- Tech X: Overrides Lachryphagy.
- Technology: Overrides Lachryphagy.
- Tiny Planet: Both the Lachryphagy tears and their resulting burst tears follow the orbiting path of Tiny Planet.
- Trisagion: Tears will split but cannot be grown by feeding tears.
Synergies
- 20/20/The Inner Eye/Mutant Spider: Tears tend to clump together soon after firing for high damage shots. It may take more than 5 tears in total to cause a burst.
- Compound Fracture: Bone tears split into 8 tears, each of which can shatter into bone shards.
- Cricket's Body/The Parasite: Fed tears split into 12 tears.
- Dead Eye: The damage bonus from Dead Eye is very easy to keep as shots that would normally fly into a wall will usually float to a halt instead.
- Dead Onion: Increased tear size from Dead Onion makes tears significantly larger and burst prematurely, with damage increased similar to max-sized Lachryphagy tears.
- Euthanasia: Retains triple damage, ability to kill normally unkillable enemies, and tear burst. If the tears are fed, they burst into 8 like Lachryphagy; however, if they kill an enemy, they will burst into ten tears that can be fed, each of which will burst again into 8 tears.
- Haemolacria: Tears look like Hameolacria. They can be fed and will burst into 8 tears that has Haemolacria's burst effect upon hitting obstacles or enemies.
- Kidney Stone: Fires a barrage of tears that tend to clump together into larger tears, along with a kidney stone which can also be fed and bursts.
- Jacob's Ladder: Tears from Lachryphagy's burst create lasers when they hit an enemy or obstacle.
- A Lump of Coal: Tears continually grow in size without being fed other tears, but they will still only deal bonus damage based strictly on how far they travel. Burst tears will still grow in size and damage as they travel.
- Monstro's Lung / Lead Pencil: Tears tend to clump together, becoming one giant tear which splits into 8 large tears.
- Rubber Cement: Tears will damage and bounce off enemies normally and burst afterwards.
- Technology Zero: Regular tears and split tears are all joined by lasers.
- Tractor Beam: All split tears will travel along the beam.
- Varicose Veins: Upon taking damage, fires ten tears that can all burst.
In-game Footage
Trivia
- Lachryphagy is based on this Steam Workshop item by Echo, originally known as Hungry Tears.
- The name of this item is a reference to the behavior of insects, drinking tears of other creatures.
Gallery
Lachryphagy's appearance in the original steam workshop mod.
Lachryphagy tear growth, as they're being fed.
 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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