Converter is an activated item.
Effects[]
Converts two Soul Hearts or Black Hearts into one filled Red Heart Container.
Converts one Soul Heart or Black Heart into one filled Red Heart Container.
Notes[]
- Using this item on Black Hearts will activate the Black Heart's damaging effect.
Must use with two full Soul Hearts to work. One and a half will not work.
Synergies[]
Book of Virtues: Spawns wisps in the middle ring, looking like hearts. Wisps have slightly higher health than average. Red Heart pickups can be used to restore their health.
Book of Revelations /
Satanic Bible: Allows for generation of Heart Containers. (
Schoolbag required)
9 Volt +
Habit: Allows for an easy setup to get max health as long as one has a self-damage source, such as a Blood Donation Machine or a Devil Beggar.
- Guppy's Paw:
Allows Isaac to have 10 Heart Containers and 1 Soul Heart.
Allows Isaac to attain up to 12 Red Heart Containers or any combination of Red Heart Containers and Soul Hearts.
- +
Potato Peeler + Sharp Plug: Allows Isaac to generate infinite damage upgrades and Cube of Meat.
- +
??? +
Birthright: Removes one Soul Heart and grants two, effectively becoming a 3-room charge Book of Revelations.
Tainted Eden: Heart containers gained from Converter are kept, even after rerolling.
Dark Judas / Tainted Judas: Converts one Black Heart into one Black Heart, keeping Judas’ health the same as before but activates The Necronomicon effect regardless.
Interactions[]
Bethany: Bethany cannot activate the Converter whether she has soul charges or not.
Car Battery:
No effect.
Consumes 2 Soul Hearts and produces 2 Red Heart Containers.
The Soul: Consumes Soul Hearts and produces
Bone Hearts for The Forgotten. Does nothing when used by The Forgotten.
Tainted Bethany: When used while fully charged, adds 2 Blood Charges to her pool at no cost to her Heart total. When used with no charges, consumes 3 Blood Charges and produces 2, resulting in a net loss.
- With Car Battery: Consumes 3 Blood Charges and produces 4, still at no cost to Heart total, resulting in infinite Blood Charges.
In-game Footage[]
Gallery[]
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3DS The icon of Converter as seen on the lower 3DS screen.
Trivia[]
- The Converter is a reference to a converter, a device or system that changes the form of something.
- According to Edmund via the Four Souls Isaac lore stream, the Converter's sprite was originally supposed to be similar to an adapter that converted US-standard power plugs for UK-standard power outlets, then he "just threw some wires on it."[1]
- The Converter can be seen as an opposite to Guppy's Paw. Where the Converter takes two Soul or Black Hearts to form a Heart container (or just one Soul or Black Heart as of Repentance), Guppy's Paw takes one Heart container to form three Soul Hearts. Additionally, their flavor texts are similar.
References[]
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