Ghost Pepper

Ghost Pepper is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth †.

Effects

 * Shooting tears sometimes spawns a fire similar to, damaging enemies and destroying shots it comes into contact with.
 * Shooting tears sometimes spawns a blue fire similar to, damaging enemies and destroying shots it comes into contact with. It lasts on the ground for a limited time and can pass through obstacles.
 * Creating farts through items/pills such as Re-Lax,, , and etc. causes fire to shoot out alongside the fart.
 * The only exception to this is the farts generated by Butt Penny.
 * The fire deals 3x to 6x of Isaac's damage, depending on the size of the flame.

Synergies

 * : The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
 * Occasionally emits a flame while the beam is firing.
 * ,, , : Will spawn fires upon use/activation.
 * : Fires can be spawned while firing bombs.
 * : Fires can be spawned while moving the crosshair.
 * : Fires are spawned as normal and can be hit by Ipecac tears, making this especially dangerous with a multi-shot ability.
 * : The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
 * Occasionally spawns a fire when fired.
 * : The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
 * : Fire will appear behind Isaac.
 * The fires gain a large size and duration increase.
 * : Will occasionally spawn a fire. The lasers will not douse the flames.
 * : Will occasionally spawn a fire while firing lasers. Laser rings will not douse the flames.
 * : Will occasionally spawn a fire while firing beams. Fires damage is not reduced.
 * : Causes the Urn to emit Ghost Pepper's flames in addition to its regular flames.

Interactions

 * //: Will only spawn one fire.
 * : When holding down the fire button, when fire spawns it will be almost immediately put out by the clumps of tears.
 * : No effect.
 * //: Fires cannot split.
 * Homing tears: Flames will not be homing.
 * //: Will not spawn fire by themselves, Isaac will spawn an additional fire instead of the familiar.
 * : Feeding tears will quickly douse the flames.
 * : Spawns fire from her mouth.
 * : Fires created from Ghost Pepper will destroy the tear and cause it to respawn on Isaac.
 * Isaac now periodically creates fires that shoot towards the Ludovico Technique tear.
 * : Affects normal tears but no effect on fire.
 * : Eyeballs tears quickly douse flames.
 * : Flames will not lose damage or shrink as they travel.
 * : No effect on frequency or damage of flames.
 * : The sprinkler will not spawn flames.

Trivia

 * "Ghost pepper" is an alternate name for the bhut jolokia, which is arguably one of the world's hottest peppers.
 * After Repentance, this item is essentially a variant of . It was likely reworked instead of the new item since the "ghost" thematic fits blue fires better.