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For those who missed my last post, my Isaac Item Recognizer app is released and available for everybody on Google Play.

Many people wanted to check it out after my previous posts, feel free to use it and leave feedback for future improvements.

http://bindingofisaac.com/post/110884940374/afterbirth

• a new alternate final chapter

It's not alternate, it leads to the other two. Its additional.

Its not final, because you can continue after it. Its penultimate at best. I wouldn't call moms foot or heart final just because you have to stop there a few times.

Its not a chapter, the "chapters" are pairs of floors (basement, caves, depths, womb, god path, devil path). This is one boss, not even a whole floor. It doesn't even tell the story of the hush, it just raises far more questions.

Getting a new "chapter" like cathedral/chest, or hell/dark room, was my most anticipated feature, and there is zero new exploration associated with this.

Not cool ed, not cool.

> last week i asked the fans what minor fixes/updates they wanted to see in the next update, and i read them all (if all means the top 20 or so). a lot of the more common suggestions will be finding their way into the update.. but the one that stuck out for me the most was that “sacrifice rooms are worthless”

>this is something i agree with and again something that i felt held more weight/significance to the games theme/story due to it being the focal point to finding the lost. but alas we all know how that ended… but what to do with them now?

>on the gameplay side of things the sacrifice room was meant to be a “i got too much life” archetype, where as if you found more life than you needed you could gamble with it in said rooms… but no one does that.. why? because its too luck based with its payouts.

>well i can say this, i found a way to fix this system… but its a but of an overhaul that will need to be added into afterbirth instead of just a normal update… but it should make things a lot more interesting.

Found it, it was in the Afterbirth Update #7

Before dank became a meme word, it meant unpleasantly damp and cold. But yeah they could've used 100 better words.

Just go to any online thesaurus and bam: http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/dank

10 better words to use

You completely ignored the red glow, which got bigger with every tear fired, even the one that Edmund missed. I understand that you are just giving your idea of what the item might do, but writing "I found out what the item does" in the title is very misleading, since you didn't really find anything out, just had an idea. EDIT: In this post (http://bindingofisaac.com/post/104716763444/lets-make-a-dlc-together-part2) Edmund mentions an item which "raises your damage the more your tears hit", but he says that missing would reset the effect. My guess is that the thing in the .gif could be some variation of that.

Hah, you just reminded me of a really old memory: that was roughly the experience I had with Kitten Cannon back in 2005/06. Played that shit on the old Bondi Blue iMac G3s in our school library, big group of friends constantly competing to get a highscore.

Man, what a crap game in hindsight.

To quote Edmund's blog: http://bindingofisaac.com/post/169521328569/a-new-years-qa

"Q: Is this really the end of Isaac? no more dlc?

A: i did say many times this was going to be the last isaac DLC.. and at the time i strongly believed it. but there seems to be something pretty cool on the horizon, its creeping up slowly.. its familiar but a bit different and its being held up by a group of people… when i squint i think i can make out a… oh sorry i gotta go, there is someone watching me in my space ship. "

I think 1:1 conversion rate for the Light Bum should be fine. Or 1.5:1 and he could also drop the Golden Hearts* if they include those.

*"golden heart pickups (when depleted you spawn a few hearts)" blog post

WinRAR offers features 7zip does not, like profiles for different compression settings, recovery records in case of corruption, and the ability to delete archives automatically after restoring, to name a few. For the average user 7zip is fine, though. WinRAR does still have a place for some.

By the way, there's a security vulnerability that allows arbritrary code execution in 7zip that was found last week. If you use it and haven't updated it recently I would highly recommend you update it now.

With Afterbirth+ coming out soon and all these lua tutorials being posted, I decided to do a cheap mockup fix myself. It works something like this:

• When you pick up Experimental Treatment, all your stat points are put into a pool. A few bonus points are dropped into this pool as well (the stat-ups that Experimental Treatment promises).
• The game continuously does 50%-chance rolls on each stat to determine if that stat gets a point. It does this until the point pool is exhausted. There's definitely more efficient ways of doing this, but...
• There's also a basic HP check, to make sure that you don't end up with 0 HP.

The way this works, you always end up with a net gain of points across all stats. If you wanted, you could also weight individual stats by changing the probability of a successful roll (so you don't end up with 10 HP, for instance).

Excuse my awful scripting since I'm a novice, but I hope that it encourages the community to start exploring Lua so that we can all put our ideas and fixes into Afterbirth+ as a group.

Emmm... maybe I misunderstood your reply, but the "victory lap" Emund talked about is most definitely not that. He wrote in a post that (maybe) in the expantion you will be able to "replay the gain with your final items". Going to the Chest after hush is obviously not replaying whatever he meant by "gain".

EDIT: here's the post http://bindingofisaac.com/post/106554719739/lets-make-a-dlc-together-part3

Looks like there was yet another depot update about two hours ago as of this comment. From the looks of it Nicalis is ~~either~~:

• Releasing beta builds for Afterbirth, but unlisting it so people don't see it in Steam.

~~* Updating Rebirth in the prerelease/beta branch.~~

Either way, the fact that there have been a few updates implies something big is coming.

EDIT: AFTERBIRTH IS UP ON STEAM AS A NEW BRANCH.

https://steamdb.info/app/250900/depots/

AFTERBIRTH. RIGHT THERE. It's locked under a private beta obviously but odds are the update earlier today and the one recently are for Afterbirth. Judging by the looks of it the beta is Windows-only as the other builds in that branch are on par with the build of Rebirth we have, but I seriously doubt it'll stay that way.

EDIT 2: Yep, latest internal update was definitely Afterbirth.

https://steamdb.info/app/250900/history/

The reason it works is because (if you'll allow me to greatly oversimplify) anything before a ? exists to tell the website what page to give you. Everything after is extra stuff the site might like to know.

For example, if you watch any video on Youtube, you'll see that the url looks something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[VIDEOID]. You can see that everything before the ? is constant; you're always requesting /watch. However, the YouTube servers are programmed so that when you go to /watch, they check to see if you also sent a parameter called v. As you can see after the question mark, you did! v=[VIDEOID]. That's how they know which video to show you.

bindingofasaac.com (more correctly, tumblr, but domain name trickery is beyond the scope of my knowledge) isn't programmed to look for any extra parameters. When you go to http://bindingofisaac.com/?release_date_announced, this is the conversation you're having with the site:

Hello, are you bindingofisaac.com?
Yep, that's me.
Excellent! I'd like to see your home page, please.
Coming right up!
Thank you. By the way: release_date_announced.
I don't know what that means, but here's the page you requested.

The site doesn't react at all to your last statement, and gives you the same page it would have given you either way. It could theoretically have been programmed to do something else when it received that parameter, but it was not.

Placeholder art most likely.

Also: http://bindingofisaac.com/post/104716763444/lets-make-a-dlc-together-part2

>- a usable item that makes the last tear you fired blow up into smaller tears like the sad bomb or tammys head (timed charge)

Makes the hairs on my ears stand up. Reeeaaally dark and creepy, it's perfect.

Edit: Here's Edmund's post on the Rebirth blog: http://bindingofisaac.com/post/80652188030/headphones-highly-recommended-maximum-volume

Rise From Hell - Start as Azazel on Sheol with some bonus hearts. Levels go backwards. Work your way back to Basement I.

Let It Linger - Each level introduces a new curse, along with all the curses of the previous levels.

Superhot - Enemies and bullets only move when you do. Fire rate of all enemies increased.

I Am A Wizard - Permanent R U A Wizard? effect.

Are you referring to this post?

http://bindingofisaac.com/post/119330273474/chorus-mortis-afterbirth-update-7

He mentions that he agrees sacrifice rooms are not worth the cost, but his proposed solution would be a major overhaul to the system. Yesterday he explained on Twitter that the change was left on the cutting room floor. Tweet

Regardless of whether or not that blog post constitutes a promise, I have no reason to believe Ed is being disingenuous in saying that he planned to change sacrifice rooms but ultimately had to scrap the idea before launch. It's possible that there has been a change to them that we just haven't found yet. Remember how long it took the community to discover the luck up gained by donating to the donation machine?

As for curse rooms not worth visiting, I guess we just disagree on their usefulness.

It's live on the blog now.

for the lazy:

SCORING SYSTEM

"first id like to point out that the points im detailing here are most likely place holders to be edited as we continue testing… but here is the foundation of what we have currently running."

Positive points:

+200 points per floor cleared
+400 points for sheol / cathedral / chest / dark room
+666 points for boss rush / mega satan
+1 point swag bonus for each held pickup on completion/death (bombs, keys, pennies)
+??? for secret bonus points

Negative points:

-1 point per second spent playing (rewards for fast play)
-10 per hit taken from an enemy / obstacles (damage from items/donations/etc don’t count as damage) (rewards for how well you play)
-?? per item taken (still testing this but i want people to be a bit more choosy on what they take and push risk reward a bit more here)

> ume

Ume is the base form of the verb umeru in Japanese. Umeru means to bury (in the ground).

Clearly we need to use the shovel to bury something instead of jumping down the hole.

Properly dons tinfoil hat

Alternatively, 7 Monday updates. Suddenly Rebirth doesn't seem so far away, hm?

Also here's a countdown I made some time ago.

I think it, along with the other special floors, is way too common. Edmund originally billed them as "champion" floors, so they should be about as common as you see champion enemies so as to make them more special when they do happen, rather than having runs where nearly every floor is a champion one. Perhaps make them a bit harder/more different as well.

There should also be a version for the Cellar (and Catacombs etc.) so they're more like stuff overlayed over the existing floors rather than another one entirely. It really throws off the balance when instead of the interesting duality of, for example, Basement + Cellar, you have Basement + Cellar + Another Basement.

Finally, like the Cellar etc. they should be unlocked by something rather than appearing from the start.

There was mention pre-release of Afterbirth making sacrifice rooms more useful. I wonder if that could hint at something needed to solve this puzzle.

http://bindingofisaac.com/post/119330273474/chorus-mortis-afterbirth-update-7

> last week i asked the fans what minor fixes/updates they wanted to see in the next update, and i read them all (if all means the top 20 or so). a lot of the more common suggestions will be finding their way into the update.. but the one that stuck out for me the most was that “sacrifice rooms are worthless”

>this is something i agree with and again something that i felt held more weight/significance to the games theme/story due to it being the focal point to finding the lost. but alas we all know how that ended… but what to do with them now?

>on the gameplay side of things the sacrifice room was meant to be a “i got too much life” archetype, where as if you found more life than you needed you could gamble with it in said rooms… but no one does that.. why? because its too luck based with its payouts.

>well i can say this, i found a way to fix this system… but its a but of an overhaul that will need to be added into afterbirth instead of just a normal update… but it should make things a lot more interesting.

I don't see anything that really sticks out, but I guess it's worth considering. The way he teases the next week's item (dead eye) makes me think that could be something, but that's even more of a stretch.

You guys remember this post? When he announced the release of Rebirth, he said:

"I hope you don't get lost."

That was a huge clue regarding the Lost. So when he announces the release of Afterbirth in the summer, perhaps he'll show another clue to something we couldn't have possibly predicted?

I'll take that bet!

(And win, since Edmund mentioned in a previous post that there will be 8 new transformations :D I can't though comment on their usefulness. One will be a Mom transformation though).

People usually refer to Eden as a him because it's easier, but quoting Edmund: "see Eden isnt a man, nor are they a woman.. they just are." http://bindingofisaac.com/post/86958618769/spoiler-alert-you-unlocked-eden

Black hearts are functionally the same as soul hearts except they activate the Necronomicon effect when they're depleted. It was covered in this blog post about a month ago.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slaughter.guideforbindingofisaacrebirth

If you're on Android.

The Dev is awesome. You can also turn off ads for free but donate if you like the app!

Edit: /u/diceroll123 is the dev BTW. Really friendly dev.

To Robfank:

Thank you, you did a great job, but there's some minor problems.

On death, there's two files playing in order. When the intro file (Isaac Died_02.ogg) ends, new one (You Died.ogg) starts with a fade in, and it's a little annoying. I somewhat fixed this by inserting the part from "You Died.ogg" to the end of the intro file and looping it up to five minutes, so intro file goes for 5 minutes, sounds the same as in original, and there's no more fading, (until 5 minute mark of course).

Also, your boss themes aren't starting from intro parts. For now, there's no way to make custom boss intros like in the flash version, so i will provide my boss theme files starting with the intro parts.

And finally. "Boss FIght jingle OUTRO v2_12.ogg" is 7 seconds long, so "The Calm intro.ogg" starts kicking in only after 7 seconds, unlike in the original, where "The Calm" theme is blending in at 3 seconds mark. So what i just did, i've inserted The Calm intro.ogg and The Calm.ogg into the Boss Fight Jingle outro, and extended it to 10 minutes. Now it sounds just like in the original.

Here's the link with my files, including fixed credits song and original boss theme instead of WotL one: http://www.sendspace.com/filegroup/XgJqG3InKsRlmTXaQvdCy3ttSZ8wSWITcXJMMd1ydGIz6SwGX1pofNRYnL88HCLV

https://www.sendspace.com/file/ryrcep

I know its not the best way of fixing things, but it's the only possible way as long as we don't have access to the game code.

Work on your aim, Isaac.

After posting this, I realized that there are already a few comics about Baby Long Legs, so why not have one with Crazy Long Legs?

EDIT: If you don't know what a Friend Ball is, then you probably haven't seen the recent Afterbirth update.

Actually, for the "core" characters, Edmund has said the following:

Isaac = Fighter

Maggy = Cleric

Eve = Druid

Cain = Thief

Judas = Mage

Samson = Berserker

It doesn't appear that ??? is ever given an official class, but I see a lot of people making him a Necromancer or just a zombie/monster.

Lazarus could be an Alchemist (starts with pill, and just has a "medical" kind of feel to him).

Azazel is probably just a Demon/Devil-type character.

Eden... not sure what to make of this one. They could simply be a "glitch." Also, this character is genderless

The Spoiler? I wish it was considered a ghost-type... Then physical attacks would mean nothing.

Here's a list of all seeds with interesting 7 character words found in seed codes.

Here's the code we wrote (a friend wrote most for me, for the optimizations required to make this run in only 2.5 hours ... on a 36-core server):

http://termbin.com/p88j

Let's objectivize "horror game" real quick.

• "Horror game" is the constitution of the subject "game" with the adjective "horror".
• We both agree that The Binding of Isaac is a game, so we'll skip right to "horror".
• An adjective is an attribute given to the subject. In other words, we are giving a relationship between two concept for a given context.
• Horror is defined as "An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust".
• The main context of the game The Binding of Isaac is of a youth child, Isaac, living a multitude of intense emotions, including fear, shock, shame and sadness. The game also display a variety of elements culturally viewed as disgusting such as poop, piss, nudity, child abuse, gore, dead bodies, blood, spiders and insects.
• Given all these elements, we can objectively state that The binding of Isaac is definitely a horror game, for it's content is related to the definition of horror.

Yes, it's a feature Edmund described in this update post for Rebirth.

>but on top of all of this im also now able to make anything in the room have a more rare alt to it. a good example being this room, there is a very small chance those metal bricks turn into rocks so the black heart becomes accessible..

Stuff in the rooms are supposed to have a weighted chance to be one thing or another; you can see this if you decompile the stb files (Basement Renovator represents this by stacking them on top of each other). Unfortunately the feature has never worked, ever since Rebirth came out, only one of the things ever shows up. Presumably Edmund doesn't know it's broken, because he designed a bunch more rooms that are supposed to do this in Afterbirth (e.g. that one secret room with the Mom's Hand? The hand is supposed to be one of many options including a battery, an I AM ERROR guy and Rag Man).

I really wish they'd fix this because it's an interesting mechanic and could vary things up a lot.

This app was called "Guide for Binding Of Isaac" initially, I remember using it.

Just "Isaac" is a bit different, but I know that Google Play moderators are sometimes too hasty with the banhammers.

There are new items as well, those are mentioned on the official blog. I'm mostly focusing on the fixes and changes since you can experience most of the new content by playing the game.

Pulled from his latest blog post: > this year will be a year of the monthly “Booster pack”!

> as you may have assumed, using mods wont allow for you to unlock new game content / get achievements. but we have come up with a way to bring the best mod content officially into the game via mini monthly updates to AB+ or “booster packs”.

> (ill probably also join in the fun a little.. honestly i came up with a few neat item ideas during the last week of crunch that i need to see in game.. so maybe this whole “letting go” thing is a lie!)

> so all you out there will get to experience a year of free user made content officially added, and all you modders will get a chance brag to the internet about your amazing design skills and unlock the biggest and most sought after achievement in Isaac to date, the “MY WORK IS OFFICIALLY IN ISAAC” achievement!

http://bindingofisaac.com/post/124037931109/more-like-3d-yes-afterbirth-update-15

>you can draw and take notes on the 2nd screen around the map so you can remember to go back to specific rooms, or just draw wieners.

HE KNOWS YOU

I think there is already a cluster bomb thingy already plannedd (confirmed?) for Afterbirth. I don't know if it's with troll bombs only or not. <source>

There are a couple of Android apps (maybe also for iOS but I don't use iPhone) that have all that info, and they are offline!

Edit:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slaughter.guideforbindingofisaacrebirth (my favorite)

And

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.poyo.boirebirth

The only thing we have to go off of is the quote in Edmund's blog: http://bindingofisaac.com/post/169521328569/a-new-years-qa

"Q: Is this really the end of Isaac? no more dlc?

A: i did say many times this was going to be the last isaac DLC.. and at the time i strongly believed it. but there seems to be something pretty cool on the horizon, its creeping up slowly.. its familiar but a bit different and its being held up by a group of people… when i squint i think i can make out a… oh sorry i gotta go, there is someone watching me in my space ship. "

> the point of Greed Mode wasn't to be, well, greedy? Getting as many items as possible and see how crazy a run can be?

Yes, it's to be greedy, but you're thinking of it in the wrong sense. The point of Greed mode is to continue and see how many waves you can handle in a row before you have to press the button just because you cannot manage the large number of enemies. Basically, the greedier you are at handling multiple waves at one go, the more money you get.

http://bindingofisaac.com/post/127517383219/lets-get-greedy

Quoting from the site:

"Solid Black = fades in and out of visibility / item drop = red chest

Yellow = double walk/shoot speed / item drop = undisclosed new pickup item

Red = very high hp / item drop = heart

Grey = blows up when killed / items drop = bomb

Green = leaves green creep under itself / item drop = pill"

Ninja edit: http://bindingofisaac.com/

It would be awesome. Also using Zelda Classic to make a LoZ - Binding of Isaac mod would be sick as well!

Oh, I hope they can be done. A LoZ mod for BoI and a BoI mod for LoZ :D!!

Well, you can play Time Fcuk on Newgrounds, But this doesn't have chapter 2 in it. If you REALLY want to know about chapter 2, I say go and get The Basement Collection yourself... because I'm not that far in chapter 2 myself. [Now, in the Binding of Issac, there are a lot of references to Time Fcuk. The most obvious one being the Gemini alt, Steven. If you pick up the Steven item, you will grow a little tumour with a face on it, just as in Time Fcuk [after the tutorial-ish stages]. If you collect little Steven, then that references, well, the little steven that left or something [I think this got explained in Chapter 2, maybe not]. If you play the fortune teller, you can get a fortune saying [Steven lives], which is involved with the ending of Time Fcuk. And, a hard one to spot, in one of the endings, you can see a quote saying "GET IN THE BOX", referencing the ending of Time Fcuk. The game also borrows sounds from Time Fcuk and spewer. Go and play time Fcuk for yourself!](/spoiler)

Download from Google Play here

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Unfortunately, I couldn't get my app unbanned :( But they allowed me to release a new version, losing all my installations and reviews. People asked me to bring in back, so I decided to make it for you guys.

I made few feature updates as well:

- Added error message for camera open errors

- Added Spanish translation for interface and items by /u/Nun01 (he volunteered to make it, he's a great guy!)

I believe you are referencing a tweet made by Edmund in which he says once it's ported to AB+ he was thinking about adding it to the game because so much is there.

Edit: he says "bring the mod officially to afterbirth"

(https://twitter.com/edmundmcmillen/status/810209436211912704) [source mobile attempt]

Also in this blog post he says he considers adding his favorite fan made content into the default game every month http://bindingofisaac.com/post/154255262019/for-those-of-you-who-are-blind-the-binding-of

the biggest hurdle for this is most of the major changes to Antibirth come from additional code injected into the game. I believe it's C++ meanwhile AB+ mods will require Lua. Most declarative languages are just a difference in syntax and memory usage, however teaching the entire dev team Lua to port their already hard worked mod again will take some time.

Indeed, that's what it sounded like in Edmund's post about it (he even says "Burning Basement/Cellar"). It kind of seems like they ran out of time to make alts for both floor types and just made them more common to compensate.

They also seem overly common, I had a run where all but one floor was an alt, and this is on Normal. Edmund described them as "champion variations", which implies they'd be relatively rare. (It also bothers me that there's a Burning Basement, Flooded Caves, etc. but no equivalent for the Cellar, Catacombs, etc. It throws the duality out of whack.)

i have no clue if this was tested yet, but i'll put it out there.

we can be almost certain this secret is done with judas, given the clues on display. there's heavy emphasis on generosity, which is the opposite of greed, and edmund's mention of microtransactions and the character being the [Keeper](/spoiler) alludes to the shop. "look to la luna" obviously refers to the moon card aka secret rooms. finally, tyrone's clues with the stream today (ending at 10:09, being 109 minutes long, and mentioning it explicitly as a police code) imply suicide

my theory is you have to suicide king in the secret room of the shop floor on greed mode with judas to unlock the blue womb, a third path alongside the cathedral/chest and sheol/dark room, as mentioned here ("new alt path and game ending"). beating this floor unlocks [the Keeper character](/spoiler)

edit: the stuff about slowing down, stop digging and live, and bedrooms are red herrings, built specifically to confuse

He talked about this challenge in one of the updates. Apparently every floor will be XL with the maximum amount of rooms possible. Let me see if I can find it...

EDIT: Found it!

> You can't normally see the post tags on the main blog posts.

How are you supposed to find the tags? Is it something only people with tumblr accounts can do?

edit: Somebody already answered this, my bad. Let me quote them here.

>On the blog itself you can't see the tags for some reason, but if you click embed it shows you the blog post without the blog theme so it shows the tags too at the bottom of the post.

Thanks /u/Shinenite.

Sounds like it's your keyboard ghosting. You can test this in a text imput field, try holding down, a, then s, then d, then f, and see how many you can do at the same time. For instance, my keyboard can only handle 4 inputs at the same time, and it looks like this when I do it: asdfff. It sounds like yours might be 3, so you might get asdddd when you do it.

EDIT: actually ghosting isn't really as simple as I put it, but you can use this tool to see if ghosting on your keyboard is what's causing the problem. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/20966625/

I hate to break it to you, but it is impossible to get the game before Christmas. There might be a chance to get it via Ebay, but you would have to pay a lot. The only way to get the base game is to pre-order it on amazon ....

While there could be some deeper meaning to it like something about Isaac getting in the chest to die, it likely is just Ed trolling. It's most likely a reference to Time Fcuk, one of his older games on Newgrounds. It's the game where Steven comes from and the beginning has him encountering his future self who tells him to "Get in the box!". The box in this case is a time machine and the strange puzzle game that follows comes as a result of his entering the box. The message at the end of BoI could be a hint at the reported upcoming bundle of Ed's older Flash games coming to Steam, which includes Time Fcuk.

Starplant is the astronaut from a game called Germination. One of the people on the Isaac discord made it.

Same thing for Twitch, being a character from a game called Heckland.

On the official blog for The Binding of Isaac, for the post about The Forgotten Update, one of the tags says "#see you in a few months" which is a strong indicator that Edmund and friends do have something in store for Isaac's future. On the New Years Q&A post, this is Edmund's response to the final question; "Q: Is this really the end of Isaac? no more dlc? A: i did say many times this was going to be the last isaac DLC.. and at the time i strongly believed it. but there seems to be something pretty cool on the horizon, its creeping up slowly.. its familiar but a bit different and its being held up by a group of people… when i squint i think i can make out a… oh sorry i gotta go, there is someone watching me in my space ship." This is a very strong indicator that what's in store for Isaac's future may be much larger than what was ever intended. Of course, what exactly is in store is completely unknown and Edmund has been known to stretch the truth but I feel that it's safe to say that more item mods being added officially isn't quite out of the question.

That the daily run's 'goal' would be for the player to beat Mom. Ed has talked in one or two of his blog posts that different daily runs will have different criteria, this one here explains this a little bit.

Pretty cool (I upvoted the post) but you can just go to http://bindingofisaac.com and scroll to the first afterbirth update. But hey for lazy people (like myslef) its another way to accses them.

BUT why does it not have the last like 4 updates?

EDIT: He fixed it because I mentioned it and now I look like an idiot ;P

Edmund offhandedly mentioned an [http://bindingofisaac.com/post/126958800209/combo-breakerafterbirth-update-20]("awesome trailer") in the latest Afterbirth update, will you have anything to do with that?

EDIT: The formatting for embedded links just refuses to work right now, sorry

The pre-release sales seem to be doing pretty well so far...

>"our 1st 3 days of preorder sales have been mind blowing.. i cant talk numbers but i can say that we sold more than triple what Dead Rising 3 sold on their launch day.. and that is astounding."

http://bindingofisaac.com/post/97013539659/rebirth-gets-flashy

It's up until the game releases, confirmed by Edmund:

>if you own the original on steam and <strong>preorder before the nov.4th release</strong> you will get 33% off the price! regardless of what you paid for the original!!!

Open Powershell in Administrator mode (right click) and paste this:

iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex

Close and reopen your terminal and choco should be available

Oh, I misunderstood you.

I'm not very knowledgeable about licensing, but I was under the impression that CC-BY-SA meant that other websites using the same license can freely copy anything.

http://www.wikia.com/Licensing

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

It says that credit needs to be provided, though. It's hard to say because the images aren't really property of the wiki, but property of Edmund.

That is better than what I could draw

I am so awful at drawing... :(

Here is my attempt at drawing Lonk in a game called Drawception

I can made a mod for it, just drop this file in your resources folder located at

C://Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/The Binding of Isaac Rebirth/resources

I believe the newest ~~downgrade~~ patch removes the downside of having mods, so go ahead and try it.

Livesplit - a highly customizable and functional timer. Features automatic time splitting for many games, but sadly not this one. I have to control the timer myself to start and end runs.

In Edmund's blog post that first revealed Apollyon and the Void, it was shown that the character would start with lower stats than Isaac, but the item would be a 4-charge. This would have made Apollyon runs a bit more interesting (This passive is pretty good, but I really need a stats up soon!). It would have been more of a race to boost your stats with Void, and really make one think about which passives were worth it for their unique effects. And with the Void's reduced charge, you'd have more opportunities to improve yourself if you found a bunch of items on a floor. It was a good balance, and actually made Apollyon distinct.

Or Isaac's face is replaced with Edmund's. Nicalis has clearly already worked out how to do it, so it would be relatively easy implementation.

There was never a set release, AFAIK the most recent info we have for it is "as soon as they get time" from Afterbirth Update 6

Referring to this post.
edit: This was tweeted shortly after.

afterbirth is currently in development

from the sticky:
> Afterbirth is the name of the upcoming DLC for the game which is estimated to come out mid-2015. You can find all information you need to know over on the development blog at http://bindingofisaac.com

according to "The birth of Rebirth" post a while back, there will be 4,294,967,295 seeds. thats 32^8 - 1.

0 - 9 A - Z, "except the letters I, O, U, and V—because those look too much like other letters."

also they took 4 out to only have 32 possible characters, making it a nice round number considering thats 2^5, and then that : 32^8. ( minus one )

http://bindingofisaac.com/post/93169913069/the-birth-of-rebirth

> finally, <strong>rebirth will also feature 5 new special room types (like the arcade, sac room, devil room, etc)</strong> i wont be spoiling any of these so you can figure them out yourselves.. but they are all quite cool and im looking forward to reading about what you think the hidden purpose of each is…

>unless Epic Fetus is still set at 80 damage rendering this post pointless

nailed it.

Also, I believe we've seen what Brimstone + Mom's Knife looks like. I'll try to find it after I post this but I think it just shoots a bunch of knives.

edit: Yes, I was right. Here it is. And it's from this post.

Actually, I think you may be onto an item Edmund hinted at 3 months ago.

Quote - "but seriously save your credit card for the store… (only the rebirth devs will get this joke, but youll get it too eventually…)"

Source - http://bindingofisaac.com/post/86267138574/charity

I W A N T T O K I L L I S A A C when you take the spaces out, IT's the password to that twitter account. It was only logged into ONCE and it was last night, during the event. I have an IP address, and an email, which originates from a TEMPORARY email address site called trbvm.com

Print Screen button > CTRL+V in Imgur (or MSPaint) > Upload and done.

Or you can use something like Snipping Tool which comes with any Windows OS after Windows 7, or something like ShareX which is free and open source and uploads screenshots automatically to Imgur.

I can make a mod for that, but be sure to only use it when you already have Real Platinum God, or else steam won't ever register new achievements from your game. (you may use Steam Achievement Manager to give yourself achievements you didn't register)

Here's a mod that starts every character with MissingNo. : https://www.mediafire.com/?d7zlujy1e14dbv0

All you have to do is place that file in your resources folder, and bam. Said folder is located at C://Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/The Binding of Isaac Rebirth/resources

Explain THIS line from Isaac's blog post (http://bindingofisaac.com): "Q: Is this really the end of Isaac? no more dlc? A: i did say many times this was going to be the last isaac DLC.. and at the time i strongly believed it. but there seems to be something pretty cool on the horizon, its creeping up slowly.. its familiar but a bit different and its being held up by a group of people… when i squint i think i can make out a… oh sorry i gotta go, there is someone watching me in my space ship. "

I mean, I do know Edmund himself confirmed that Antibirth isn't going to be compatible during his April AMA on Twitter, but he ALSO said that there would be Greed Dailies, Bi-Monthly Booster Packs, and no enemies added in Booster Pack #5, so he's probably an incredibly unreliable source and I just disproved my own argument.

He is an official character that was added in booster pack #5. Ed has said that boosters 4 and 5 will be ported to console, although there is no release date as of now.

> The expansion will be: $9.99.
> but for the first week of release people who own afterbirth will get afterbirth+ for a mere $6.66!

From the blog.

Oh, and as for the Map? I believe what we are looking for is hiding somewhere in this daily map. I don't have the time right now to watch any gameplay back, but there may be a clue here. Also, I want to point one other thing out. Way back, in one of his blog posts with a secret image, there was that EXACT sprite of the lost at the bottom of this page. Just above is a gif with the bats, and the caption says to look closely, and you might see something. In the gif, at the top of the room, there looks to be almost a set of one eye faces pointing towards the middle. And just below the gif, is a clicky question mark with the hidden image. ITS A MAP. A VERY SPECIFIC ROOM WITH SPECIFIC HIGHLIGHTING ON TILES.

I should have given more context.

The image from Isaac cheat sheet explains how the item works now.

The gif is from a blog post of Edmund, which shows an old version of the item, and in my opinion it worked better.

They changed how the item worked 11 days before release.

> the Polaroid has been now moved up to an item

Implying it wasn't an item before.

Anyways. I don't say they are not items. I don't say they are items. To me they are all things that do stuff in a game I play. Hell, if you want a fucking mulliboom is an item that grants you negative health.

I only say that the OP, who said we were promised 120 items and didn't get 120 items was wrong, since in the 120 statement Saltmund included trinkets.

Everything beyond that statement is totally irrelevant.

Originally Edmund said that she'd start with 3 items, so maybe they just removed the chest item and kept the other 2. Sources: 1 2

There are 4 billion (4294967295 (2^32 - 1)) possible seeds, not 800 billion. (source) Not every string of 8 characters is a valid seed, if you just type random garbage into the seed entry it will almost never work.

http://bindingofisaac.com/post/122200451849/score-afterbirth-update-12

https://twitter.com/tyronerodriguez/status/639930082253910016

Nope, time is certainly being taken into account. It's one of the variables that dictates your final score.

It seems as though the formula changed from "1 second of play time = -1 point" to "3 seconds of playtime = -1 point", going by the elapsed time in Tyrone's run compared to his time penalty.

There were many rough stats given out in the first Afterbirth update.

>Now on to afterbirth news! for those that dont know Nicalis and i have been working on a very large dlc for rebirth for the past 2 months that we hope will be done by summer. this dlc will add the following features

>-100+ new items

>-a new playable character (Lilith)

>-a whole new alt path and game ending

>-a whole new game mode that will greatly expand the game by 100+ more hours

>-new alt floors

>-tons new enemies and bosses

>-a lot of new super secrets

>-10 new challenges

>-a butt ton of new achievements

>-6+ new music tracks

>-more poop!

http://bindingofisaac.com/post/115745801844/afterbirth-update-1

Yeah Afterbirth will contain in-game daily runs, scored in a (subject to change) specific way.
When that comes out, the link in the top left might disappear, but I'll leave the site and bot running for the (probably few) who doesn't get Afterbirth.

On the blog itself you can't see the tags for some reason, but if you click embed it shows you the blog post without the blog theme so it shows the tags too at the bottom of the post.

[Fire Mind](#firemind) this was my 1st item(I was happy since it was ovb. from the hype of †, but I then didn't know why I was taking explosion damage for no reason.
The game was still out and I was one of the NO WIKI people

If you mean Edmund, then yeah, he has

The Cursed! challenge was from someone on this subreddit, and Edmund wrote on his blog here of items he liked that he saw from the subreddit

I think the fact that he can make extremely rare rooms, rare alts to individual rooms and rooms that don't have to be accessible through all 4 doors will help with variety.

I just tried this (with x0109x and variations) and it did not work. Images enciphered with ImageMagick also don't look like the imgur link. See here for examples: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/transform/#encipher

If you really want to practice for Afterbirth+, I'd recommend learning LUA, since that's what mods are going to be written in!

This is a very good tutorial that explains both basics and advanced stuff!

it's not that hard to do that for yourself.

Edit: not really sure why i'm being downvoted. maybe because i didn't give a tutorial? i guess i can give one here.

1. Download the most recent version of Rick's Unpacker
   
2. Go into common/Binding of Isaac/resources/packed and drag afterbirth.a onto Gibbed.Rebirth.unpack. This will create an afterbirth_unpack folder next to your afterbirth.a file
   
3. Move itempools.xml from afterbirth_unpack to your resources file
   
4. Edit the xml with Notepad ++
   

You can buy the golden box(base game + expansion) and/or the base game on ebay. Expect that both will cost a lot.

You can pre-order the base game on Amazon UK or on Gamespot(depends on your country).

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/2405/The_Binding_of_Isaac_Rebirth_Complete_Bundle/

It's the same price on Steam. (A bit more actually. It's $34.99 on the eShop)

You have to remember that it's the base game + both DLCs.

+ After that, here are most of the screenshots and teaser images posted so far: [gallery1] [gallery2]

There are a few minor 'spoilers' about items that have been teased but Edmund says he's barely shown 1% of whats to come.

Shoulda guessed it might do that because it includes all the cheat engine stuff. Try this one

https://mega.nz/#!DpgDVTrC!EiGStsE_-lbnO89vhdi82rNLiduj1WouTi3miVuVdiI

http://www.filedropper.com/1001enabler