The Binding of Isaac is a randomly generated action RPG shooter with heavy Rogue-like elements.
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Binding of Isaac Cathedral glitch [closed]
Before I go on Wrath of Lamb is installed correctly, I have beaten the sheol before it lives (because a devil room spawned on the third run) and after it lives. Yet I don't get a beam of light. I ...
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BoI erases my data
I got Binding of Isaac for Linux through the Humble Bundle. It works fine, and sometimes saves my data (things found, challenges unlocked, etc.), but then sometimes erases them - seemingly at ...
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What determines how much damage a blue fly does?
I've had trips into the basement where blue flies seemed to do almost cosmetic damage, and trips into the dungeon where the blue flies were a murderous death swarm. What items or statistics make blue ...
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Does the Lucky Foot affect the Slot machine or not? [duplicate]
So yeah the wiki says that it does increase the chances of winning at the Slot Machine but it also says that it doesn't. I would like a definitive answer to if the Lucky Foot does or does not affect ...
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My game tends to crash
I play the Binding of Isaac a lot. I'm trying to unlock the D6, so I must beat the womb as ???. But when I get to the loading screen for the womb part 1, the game always crashes. Is there a way to fix ...
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How do I know what all this stuff does?
This game has all kinds of items, but everytime I find one there doesn't seem to be a description. How do I know what all this stuff does?
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Why did I turn into a demon instead of dying?
While playing the Binding of Isaac, I should have died when fighting Monstro II, but instead I got a message on a blue screen saying (I think): "Today is a bad day to have a castle". It gave me half a ...
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Does buying the Treasure Map cancel the Curse of Darkness Curse?
I'm doing my first challenge run in The Binding of Isaac and I've decided to do the the first challenge on the list: Dark was the Night. This is the challenge where you automatically have the Curse of ...
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What counts as beating a challenge in Binding of Isaac?
I've been trying to work through the challenges introduced in Wrath of the Lamb to unlock stuff in the Binding of Issac,but have noticed that I'm not winning the challenges after beating 'It Lives'. ...
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Is Wrath of the Lamb available to buy anywhere besides Steam?
I see from here that the expansion is available to buy from Steam but there doesn't seem to be any alternative methods of purchase available. Does anyone know if the expansion can be bought anywhere ...
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What does health actually mean?
The health rating on the character select screen, what is the actual meaning for it? The wiki mentions how one health is equal to one red heart container, but this is not the case.
Case in point ...
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Can I get to Sheol through a challenge run?
So, I need to beat Sheol with Isaac in The Binding of Isaac, can I select the "Doctors Revenge" challenge (which requires you to beat Mom's Heart) and maybe get lucky with a demon room on the Mom's ...
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Is the Sacrificial Dagger like the other orbitals?
The wiki description for the Sacrificial Dagger is:
Dagger orbits Isaac, very high damage.
Does it also have the projectile blocking property of the other orbitals(i.e. Meat Boy or Halo of ...
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What strategy can I use to beat Isaac?
I'm trying to finally get myself over the Binding of Isaac, and I fear that won't happen until I've beaten the chest level with a few more characters. The problem is that I find it remarkably ...
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How do I unlock the “Meat 4 Evar” challenge in “The Binding of Isaac”?
I've had Wrath of the Lamb for a week, and everywhere I search, I can't find the answer. Please help!
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Binding Of Isaac sound problem
I recently purchased the Wrath of the Lamb expansion and since then there's no in-game music and no sound...
I have just recently formatted my computer and re-installed Windows XP, I don't know if it ...
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What counts as damage for the no damage achievements?
In the Binding of Isaac, there are various things that decrease total health in some way. Which of those things count as damage for the "Complete the X without taking damage achievements" (Basement ...
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How do secret rooms work in Wrath of the Lamb?
Without the DLC, the secret room would've been here guaranteed, as it's the only non-room area with three or more rooms around it:
Instead, I lose. I get nothing. Good day, sir. Why is that? What ...
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Is unlocking all the items enough for the Golden God achievement?
Is Golden God unlocked by unlocking every non-DLC item, or do you need to also find and pick them up?
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Do I need to open the chest to make it count as a win?
If instead of opening the chest I skipped it and used one of the methods to access Sheol directly (I am error room; Devil room; We need to go deeper) does it still count as a victory as far as the ...
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Are the chest level unlockables required for Platinum God?
In the most recent update after beating the most recent boss holding the Polaroid. You can unlock a special chest level which beaten by each character unlocks a new trinket. Are these items required ...
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Can I go back to the rest of the level once I beat Mom?
Am I really leaving behind everything on the Depths 2 after I enter the boss room? I had left behind a blood donation machine and a full health pill and everything else!
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Why did my pills change?
In Binding of Issac Wraith of the Lamb I picked up a Range Down Pill that I already identified. Some time during the play-through it changed to a Range Up Upgrade. I am not sure when it happened or ...
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Dependency is not satisfiable: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 error when installing Binding of Isaac
I'm trying to install Binding of Isaac on my Debian machine, when I try to install the .deb installation package with GDebi, I get the error
Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: ...
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Do challenge runs count towards Isaac's completion achievements?
Challenges 9 and 10, Isaac was good today and The purist, require you to kill respectively Satan and Isaac. Do these kills count towards Isaac's achievements, Mom's Knife and The D20?
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If I use the Ankh and manage to kill the final boss, who gets credit for the kill?
The Ankh item works this way: when you are killed it instantly teleports you to the previous room visited, turning you into ???.
If, while in this state, you manage to kill Satan/Isaac, who gets the ...
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What are all of the rules that determine where secret rooms appear?
The Binding of Isaac with the Wrath of the Lamb expansion has two different secret rooms on each floor. It seems that there are some specific rules that determine where the rooms can appear on the ...
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How can I find the secret rooms most efficiently?
With the Wrath of the Lamb expansion, The Binding of Isaac now has two different kinds of secret rooms, and together they seem to have somewhat complex placement rules.
If I can only search for these ...
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Are the no-damage achievements necessary to get “Golden God” and “Platinum God”?
In the base game there are five achievements that require you to complete a "layer" of the basement without taking damage. Are these necessary to get the "Golden God" and the "Platinum God" ...
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My “damage” stat bar is flashing. What does it mean?
When I open the menu to look at my stats, the bar that shows damage is "flashing" (well, it looks more like it keeps increasing from "0" to "max" over and over again at high speed, hence "flashing"). ...
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What happens if I get an Eternal Heart when I already have 12 Heart Containers?
We already know that Soul Hearts can stack indefinitely, even with 12 Heart containers. What happens with Eternal Hearts in the same situation? Are they still getting added between Heart containers ...
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How does the Scapular work?
The description of the Scapular on the wiki says:
Whenever you are downed to 1/2 of your last Heart, Aura around your head temporarily vanishes and you are granted 1 Soul Heart.
Does this ...
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Is the Golden God Achievement still possible with wrath of the Lamb?
Can I still get the Golden God! achievement in Wrath of the Lamb or will I only get it when I get the Platinum God! too?
The description of both achievements is: "100% of the game" but Golden God! ...
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What's causing my random magnet effect?
Sometimes, I get random magnetic effects like you typically see with Magneto. What could be causing me to have these magnetic properties?
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How do I unlock the Cathedral in the Wrath of the Lamb DLC?
I bought the Wrath of the Lamb DLC, but the Cathedral isn't unlocked yet. How is this unlocked? Is it because I haven't beaten the Sheol with all the characters yet?
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Can “Blood Lust” take me above max damage?
Samson's starting item, Blood Lust, increases the the damage of Isaac's tears with each kill.
Can it go beyond scale, as some damage multipliers do (i.e. Whore of Babylon)? What I'd like to know is ...
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Are Sheol achievements locked now with Wrath of the Lamb?
I had most achievements before the Wrath of the Lamb update. Most of them, that is, except for the ones given for completing Sheol with Judas and Eve. I then completed the full game with Judas and got ...
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How does the new type of secret room work?
In Wrath of the Lamb, I've come across a new type of secret room that works in ways I am not familiar with (primarily, unlike the standard secret room, it doesn't appear next to multiple adjacent ...
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Can I unlock samson by ignoring two treasure rooms on the same floor?
Unlocking the new Samson character requires one to "pass on 2 treasure rooms". I've recently started the game only to encounter an extra large version of the basement (the level I was on said ...
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How does the game prioritize hearts?
If I have white hearts, soul hearts, and normal hearts, in what order will they be taken when I am damaged?
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Which Trinkets are available in Wrath of the Lamb?
I just found a new item called Tick in Wrath of the Lamp DLC and discovered that is a 'Trinket'. In the meanwhile while playing I found other trinkets like Aces of Spades, Push Pin, 2 of Diamonds and ...
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Why my cellar changed and now is full of spider webs?
My basement cellar texture changed and now rooms are full of spider webs and fast annoying spiders. What's happened? Any hints how to go back and how to kill these spiderlings?
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What's Tick effect? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Trinkets are available in Wrath of the Lamb?
I just found this strange thing called Tick in Cellar level. Its stay on player head but it also shown to the top-left ...
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Can I choose which level I'll go in?
Sometimes, when starting anew game in Wrath of the Lamb, I'll find myself in the cellar rather than the basement. Ditto when going down a level.
What determines which level I'll go in?
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What do you have to do to fight Isaac?
The new final boss in Wrath of the Lamb is Isaac himself, with three forms similar to The Devil.
As Isaac, I got to Utero, got through it, and beat It Lives, then go to Sheol and beat The Devil - I ...
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What happens if I complete the title screen puzzle?
I have beaten Isaac the Cathedral level once, and when I returned to the title screen, there was a rectangle with what appeared to be a piece of a puzzle in it. I infer that I can complete the puzzle ...
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What does the “fortune-telling” slot-machine do?
There's this new slot:
What does it do? I've spent some cents only to receive cryptic phrases. The best use I've found for them is blowing them up.
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What does the A Missing Page trinket do?
In the Binding of Isaac expansion I found a trinket called A Missing Page, and so far I have not noticed any effect. What does this trinket do?
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What are each of the challenges?
On the main menu, there are a list of challenges you can attempt. Clicking one starts the game, presumably with differences depending on the challenge.
What is the locked challenge, and what is ...
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How do the new “skull” challenge rooms work?
There's a new kind of challenge rooms, these one:
I've managed to get in three times, always under the Holy Grail effect (pre 1.33 patch it was possible to cross these closed doors while flying), ...
