Talk:Tainted Cain

General strategies? I'll start off by noting that Freezer Baby is strong and easy to craft, multiple copies can be crafted. And BFFs is easy to craft, to go with Freezer Baby.

Easy way to break the game is to create Alabaster box with 1 soul heart and 7 pennies. It is created fully charged and spawns 2-3 soul hearts and two angel pedestals full of consumables. Bomb the donation machine a few times and you'll have enough pennies to go infinite relatively quickly (This is now patched and no longer works).

If you want to go for a full-on breaking run, you might want to consider using the D1 + Car Battery + Battery Pack combo.

First craft the D1, you can do this with 2 soul hears, 2 pennies, 2 bombs, 1 nickel, and 1 key. A good alternate route is 5 red hears, 1 penny, 1 nickel, and 1 pill. If you can get all the materials fast enough, you can craft it on the first floor. Then, craft a Car Battery. The easiest recipe is with two 2 soul hearts, 1 penny, 1 key, 3 bombs, and 1 card. You can use the D1 crafted earlier to duplicate pickups like soul hearts and bombs to use in crafting. Finally, craft a Battery Pack. This is by far the easiest craft, only requiring 4 red hearts, 3 pennies, and a key. Alternately you can craft it with 6 red hearts and 2 pennies. Make sure to craft it in a room without pickups so the D1 only duplicates the batteries. After crafting, duplicate and use the micro-batteries to recharge. Repeat the process until no micro-batteries are in the room. This combo lets you have infinite batteries, and use the D1 to duplicate all pickups on the floor.

Afterward, it's possible to generate all types of pickups as long as you have at least pennies, keys, and bombs in other rooms to craft a D20 to then craft nearly any other item in the game. Given this setup is mostly consistent after acquiring the D1, this all can be done in less than 30 minutes. You can then craft Clicker for an easy win with another character or multiple Eden's blessings for a broken future run. Have fun!

Beyond the above strats, I often start off with making items that give me items or that take away my need to use items. No.2 is good to remove the need for bombs, the poop + midas touch combo gives plenty of coins, all the sack/bag items are great (especially sackhead), and so on