The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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No More Useless Items: Afterbirth+
   
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No More Useless Items: Afterbirth+

Description
2.0 UPDATE!

  • Added support for The Forgotten!
  • Covers all items up to and including Booster Pack 5!
  • Keeper is now rescued from death if you get Abaddon on an item reroll!

Thank you all for your continuing support!


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Tired of playing as Azazel and finding pickups which only grant flight? Sick of playing as The Lost and repeatedly coming across items which only work when you get hit? Then this is the mod for you!

With this, you'll no longer encounter any items which are guaranteed to be useless - or outright negative - for those characters who start every run with special abilities or hindrances.

Features
  • Affects ???, Azazel, The Lost, Lilith, and Keeper.
  • Each character has a list of blacklisted items which is unique to them.
  • Replaces blacklisted pickups with items from the current room's Item Pool, where applicable.
  • Replaces Collectibles, Trinkets, Cards, and Pills.
  • Whenever you re-roll your items, blacklisted items the game gives you will be replaced with new items from the Treasure Room pool.
  • If you manage to deplete the Item Pool when playing as The Lost, you'll start receiving Boom! from item drops and re-rolls rather than Breakfast.
  • Prevents blacklisted cards or pills from being given to you by the Deck of Cards and Mom's Bottle of Pills respectively.

Blacklisted Items

A full breakdown of which items are blacklisted for each of the affected characters can be found on this spreadsheet[docs.google.com].

However, here is an overview of the type of items which are generally blacklisted:
  • ??? - items which give red health, spawn red hearts, or require red heart containers to feel the benefit.
  • Azazel - items which grant the ability to fly, items which give spectral or piercing tears, and any items which are otherwise overridden by Azazel's starting short-range Brimstone laser.
  • The Lost - items which give flight, items which grant spectral tears, items which only trigger their effects when you receive damage, items which grant any type of health, and items which require more than half a heart of health to work.
  • Lilith - items which apply tear effects that can't be used by the Incubus familiar.
  • Keeper - items which affect how much damage you take per hit, and items which require you to be at half a heart of health.

Notes
  • If you pick up an item which is blacklisted for a different character, and then you change into that character mid-run, the item will not be replaced.
  • If you're carrying a blacklisted Active Item, Trinket, Card, or Pill after changing into a character the item is blacklisted for, the item will be replaced if and when you drop it.
  • The choice of which items to blacklist is sometimes subjective, but in general I blacklisted items which are only helpful in very specific scenarios, while leaving items which give a very small benefit, but do so all the time.
  • It's possible there are some items which were wrongly blacklisted, or weren't blacklisted when they should have been - feel free to let me know if you have any ideas for improvements!

I hope that some people will find this useful. :-)

Shout-out to YouTube star Lytebringr for his incredibly helpful tutorial videos.
129 Comments
Flap_Jack  [author] 26 Dec, 2023 @ 1:33am 
@ Jelweryzs : What do you mean? If this is in response to my last comment 2 and a half years, I published the Repentance version of this ages ago. Just check my mods page or search for "No more useless items".
Jelweryzs 25 Dec, 2023 @ 10:38pm 
And you will found it or just this will be dead...?
Flap_Jack  [author] 19 Jun, 2021 @ 5:42pm 
@ HaVeNII7 Hey, I'm afraid I haven't found the time/motivation to complete a Repentance version of this yet, but it will definitely be done. Thanks for your interest!
HaVeNII7 16 Jun, 2021 @ 3:07pm 
Hey, any progress on an update for Repentance? This looks like it will make the game significantly better, definitely curious to try it out once updated.
Flap_Jack  [author] 30 May, 2021 @ 10:39am 
@ tomasiukas21212 Coolgum15 I don't know for sure, I haven't tested it. My suspicion is that it should broadly work, but none of the changes or additions in Repentance (co-op will only consider player 1, no new characters are covered etc.).

I will be working to update this when I get the time, but due to the number and nature of the changes it won't be possible to update this mod for Repentance but keep it backwards compatible. For that reason, I'll likely publish the Repentance version as a separate mod, and keep this one unchanged for Afterbirth+.
Coolgum15 26 May, 2021 @ 2:38pm 
Does this still work in repentance?
tomasiukas21212 23 May, 2021 @ 2:17pm 
does it work in rep?
Father "Gray" Garcia 20 May, 2021 @ 2:42pm 
i will test this in rep to see if works
Mr.Guest 26 Mar, 2021 @ 3:09am 
Yeah, thanks.
Flap_Jack  [author] 25 Mar, 2021 @ 1:17pm 
@ Mr.Guest : It doesn't. This is because Stop Watch triggers even when the player takes a hit but is protected from damage by Holy Mantle, and The Lost starts with that. So, not a useless item.