Bob's Rotten Head

   

"Reusable ranged bomb"

Item ID
5.100.42

Recharge Time

3 rooms

2 rooms

Item Pool

			Golden Chest
		Rotten Beggar	Rotten Beggar
			Treasure Room
			Golden Chest
			Treasure Room

Collection Grid

(page 1, column 2, row 5)

(page 1, column 2, row 3)

Bob's Rotten Head is an activated item.

Effects

• Upon use, Isaac holds a poison bomb which can be thrown in the cardinal directions and explodes on impact.
  • The explosion deals a flat 50 + Isaac's tear damage and poisons affected enemies.
  • The poison deals 6 or 8 points of damage over time.
  • The poison deals 3 times Isaac's tear damage over time.
  • The explosion deals a flat 185 + Isaac's tear damage and leaves behind a gas cloud that poisons affected enemies. The Poison cloud deals 5 damage.
• This item belongs to the Bob set. Collecting three items from this set will transform Isaac into Bob.

Notes

• Bob's Rotten Head is affected by many tear modifiers and some bomb modifiers. Notable exceptions and precautions are listed below.
• Bob's Rotten Head cannot directly impact Beggars, Slot Machines or Blood Donation Machines, just passing through, but can destroy them with the blast damage if it impacts anything nearby and open Secret Rooms, Super Secret Rooms or destroy rocks like any other bomb.

Interactions

• Bob's Bladder / Bob's Curse / Bobby-Bomb / Bomber Boy / Fast Bombs / Scatter Bombs / Mr. Mega: No effect.
• Car Battery: No effect.
• Continuum: Bob's Rotten Head can now travel through walls and appear out of the opposite wall, similar to a portal-type mechanic.
• Cricket's Body/ The Parasite: no longer travels through the wall, instead he bounces off it, like with Rubber Cement and then travels for the rest of it duration and then explodes.
  • Causes to smaller tears to appear and then explode. Tears do not look like the normal head.
• Explosivo / Sticky Bombs: If Bob's Rotten Head sticks to an enemy (sometimes with Explosivo, always with Sticky Bombs), the explosion is delayed but will deal 110 damage.
  • No longer sticks to enemies.

• Rubber Cement: Causes the head to bounce off of rocks and walls.
• Tiny Planet: When used, Bob's Rotten Head will orbit the player similar to a tear.
• Worm Trinkets: Bob's Rotten Head is affected by trinkets like Hook Worm and Wiggle Worm the same way tears are.
• Trisagion: Explodes multiple times before reaching it's target, dealing explosive damage and knockback to Isaac.

Unlockable Achievements

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  Lil Spewer - Die to your own explosion from Ipecac, Bob's Rotten Head, or Horf! pill.

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  The Parasite - Pick up any 2 of the following items in a single run: Bob's Rotten Head, Dead Cat, Cricket's Head, Tammy's Head.

Gallery

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  3DS The icon of Bob's Rotten Head as seen on the lower 3DS screen.

Trivia

• The item's appearance is similar to Pestilence's head.

Seeds

PC 6DKD WJZG (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

PC A7ZJ BFRD (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

Vita Y8JW A17S

Bugs

Bug!	Although Bob's Rotten Head works normally with Butt Bombs and Bomber Boy has no effect, their combination drops the explosion damage by 50%.

Bug!	Using Bob's Rotten Head with Trisagion leads to an instant explosion that hurts the player.

Bombs

Items:

• Anarchist Cookbook
• Blood Bombs
• Bob's Curse
• Bob's Rotten Head
• Bobby-Bomb
• Bomber Boy
• Boom!
• Brimstone Bombs
• Butt Bombs
• Curse of the Tower
• Dr. Fetus
• Fast Bombs
• Ghost Bombs
• Glitter Bombs
• Hot Bombs
• Mama Mega!
• Mr. Boom
• Mr. Mega
• Nancy Bombs
• No. 2
• Pyro
• Remote Detonator
• Rocket in a Jar
• Sad Bombs
• Scatter Bombs
• Sticky Bombs

Trinkets:

• Blasting Cap
• Bob's Bladder
• Ring Cap
• Short Fuse

Cards:

• XVI - The Tower