Ghost Pepper

 

"Flame tears"

Item ID
5.100.495

Character Appearance

Item Pool

			Treasure Room
			Treasure Room

Collection Grid

(page 5, column 10, row 1)

(page 5, column 11, row 1)

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

Effects

• Shooting tears sometimes spawns a fire similar to Red Candle, damaging enemies and destroying shots it comes into contact with.
  • The fire is blue similar to The Candle, and seemingly deals more damage. It can also pass through obstacles and walls.
• Creating farts through items/pills such as Re-Lax, The Poop, Butter Bean, and etc. causes fire to shoot out alongside the fart.
  • The only exception to this is the farts generated by Butt Penny.

Notes

• The chance of spawning fire is not affected by luck.
  • The fire is now affected by luck.
    • At high values, the fire has a 100% chance to appear alongside tears. (Tested with 11 Luck, 100% fire spawn rate)

Synergies

• Brimstone: The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
  • The flames now only shoot when firing.
• Butter Bean, Mega Bean, The Black Bean, Wait What?: Will spawn fires upon use/activation.
• Dr. Fetus: Fires can be spawned while firing bombs.
• Epic Fetus: Fires can be spawned while moving the crosshair.
• Ipecac: Fires are spawned as normal and can be hit by Ipecac tears, making this especially dangerous with a multi-shot ability.
• Mom's Knife: The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
• Monstro's Lung: The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
• The Poop: Fire will appear behind Isaac.
• Technology: Will occasionally spawn a fire. The lasers will not douse the flames.
• Tech X: Will occasionally spawn firing while charging lasers. Laser rings will not douse the flames.
• Trisagion: Will occasionally spawn a fire while firing beams. Fires damage is not reduced.

Interactions

• 20/20/ The Inner Eye/ Mutant Spider: Will only spawn one fire.
• Anti-Gravity: When holding down the fire button, when fire spawns it will be almost immediately put out by the clumps of tears.
• Blood Clot: No effect.
• Compound Fracture/ Cricket's Body/ The Parasite: Fires cannot split.
• Homing tears: Flames will not be homing.

• Incubus: Will not spawn fire, making the item useless as Lilith.
  • Lilith now spawns fire from her mouth

• Lachryphagy: Feeding tears will quickly douse the flames.
• The Ludovico Technique: Fires created from Ghost Pepper will destroy the tear and cause it to respawn on Isaac.
  • Spawned fires will no longer destroy the tear from Ludovico.
• A Lump of Coal: Affects normal tears but no effect on fire.
• Pop!: Eyeballs tears quickly douse flames.
• Proptosis: Flames will not lose damage or shrink as they travel.
• Soy Milk: No effect on frequency or damage of flames.
• Sprinkler: The sprinkler will not spawn flames.
• Bird's Eye: If collected, will allow the player to shoot both flames

Trivia

• "Ghost pepper" is an alternate name for the bhut jolokia, which is arguably one of the world's hottest peppers.