Bob's Rotten Head

Effects

• Upon use, Isaac holds a poison bomb which can be thrown in the cardinal directions and explodes on impact.
  • (Removed in Repentance) The explosion deals a flat 50 + Isaac's tear damage and poisons affected enemies.
  • (Added in Repentance) The explosion deals a flat 185 + Isaac's tear damage and leaves behind a gas cloud that poisons affected enemies. The poison cloud deals 5 damage.
  • (Removed in Afterbirth) The poison deals 6 or 8 points of damage over time.
  • (Added in Afterbirth) The poison deals 3 times Isaac's tear damage over time.
  • (Added in Repentance) It will bounce off walls slightly before exploding on the floor.
• This item belongs to the (Added in Afterbirth)(Bob) Bob set. Collecting three items from this set will transform Isaac into Bob.

Notes

• This item can drop from (Sloth) Sloth.
• Bob's Rotten Head is affected by many tear modifiers and some bomb modifiers. Notable exceptions and precautions are listed below.
• Bob's Rotten Head cannot directly impact (Beggar.png) Beggars, (Slot Machine.png) Slot Machines, or (Blood Donation Machine.png) Blood Donation Machines, just passing through, but can destroy them with the blast damage if it impacts anything nearby and open (Secret Room) Secret Rooms, (Super Secret Room) Super Secret Rooms, or destroy rocks like any other bomb.

Interactions

• (Added in Afterbirth)(Bob's Bladder) Bob's Bladder / Bob's Curse / Bobby-Bomb / (Added in Afterbirth) Bomber Boy / (Added in Afterbirth †) Fast Bombs / (Added in Afterbirth) Scatter Bombs / Mr. Mega: No effect.
• (Added in Repentance) Book of Virtues: Spawns wisps in the middle ring. The wisps shoot arcing green tears with decreased range, with a 7.5% chance of firing an explosive, poisonous tear.
• (Added in Afterbirth) Car Battery: No effect.
• (Added in Afterbirth) Continuum: Bob's Rotten Head can now travel through walls and appear out of the opposite wall, similar to a portal-type mechanic.
• (Removed in Repentance) Cricket's Body/ The Parasite: no longer travels through the wall; instead he bounces off it, like with Rubber Cement, and then travels for the rest of its duration and then explodes.
  • (Added in Repentance) Causes two smaller tears to appear and then explode. Tears do not look like the normal head.
• (Added in Afterbirth / Removed in Repentance) Explosivo / (Added in Afterbirth / Removed in Repentance) Sticky Bombs: If Bob's Rotten Head sticks to an enemy (sometimes with Explosivo, always with Sticky Bombs), the explosion is delayed but will deal 110 damage.
  • (Added in Repentance) No longer sticks to enemies.
• (Added in Repentance) Flat Stone: Will cause Bob's Rotten Head to bounce once, exploding twice and leaving two gas clouds.
• Rubber Cement: Causes the head to bounce off of rocks and walls.
• Sacred Heart: Homing effect is applied.
• Tiny Planet: When used, Bob's Rotten Head will orbit the player similar to a tear.
• (Added in Afterbirth †) Trisagion: Explodes multiple times before reaching its target, dealing explosive damage and knockback to Isaac.
• Worm Trinkets: Bob's Rotten Head is affected by trinkets like (Hook Worm) Hook Worm and (Wiggle Worm) Wiggle Worm the same way tears are.