Bomber Boy

 

"Explosive blast!"

Item ID
5.100.353

Character Appearance

Item Pool

			Bomb Bum
			Treasure Room
			Treasure Room

Collection Grid

(page 3, column 8, row 6)

(page 3, column 9, row 6)

Bomber Boy is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.

Effects

• Grants 5 bombs.
• Causes bombs to explode in a large cross-shaped blast by adding two additional explosions in each cardinal direction.
  • The damage for a single explosion is unchanged, but each successive explosion that hits the same enemy has its damage halved; for example, if 5 of the explosions hit the same enemy, the total damage is 60 + 30 + 15 + 7.5 + 3.75 = 116.25 instead of 60 * 5 = 300.
  • Mr. Mega changes the base damage to 110, with the same halving reductions as above.

Notes

• With Bomber Boy, Bedrooms and super special rocks can be accessed with a single bomb.
• Bombing the Donation Machine will cause a greater than normal amount of coins to drop from the Donation Machine.
  • The total amount of dropped coins is still deducted from the Donation Machine, however.
• Bombing a Blue or Purple Fire Place may cause it to drop multiple Soul Hearts.

Synergies

• Dr. Fetus: Bomber Boy also affects the bombs fired by Dr. Fetus.
• Mr. Mega: All explosions deal more damage, have a larger radius and will overlap each other more, potentially vastly increasing damage. Caution should be exercised, as the explosions' increased radius make self-damage likely.

Interactions

• BBF/ Bob's Brain/ Locust of War: Explosion damage is halved with no additional explosions.
• Epic Fetus: Epic Fetus explosions are unaffected.
• Ipecac: Ipecac explosions are unaffected.

Trivia

• Bomber Boy is a reference to the 1983 video-game Bomberman.

Seeds

PC YZLQ WLAV (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn on Normal, just to the left of spawn on Hard)

Bugs

Bug!	Due to the extreme force of multiple simultaneous explosions, it is possible for Bomber Boy bombs (especially when combined with Mr. Mega) to propel Isaac into obstacles or over pits.

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