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.
• Shooting tears sometimes spawns a blue fire similar to The Candle, 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, 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 affected by luck.
  • At high values (11 and above), the fire has a 100% chance to appear alongside tears.

Synergies

• Brimstone: The flames can still shoot from Isaac while holding the fire button.
  • Occasionally emits a flame while the beam is 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.
• Pupula Duplex: The fires gain a large size and duration increase.
• Urn of Souls: Causes the Urn to emit Ghost Pepper's flames in addition to its regular flames.

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.
• Lachryphagy: Feeding tears will quickly douse the flames.
• Lilith: Spawns fire from her mouth.
• The Ludovico Technique: Fires created from Ghost Pepper will destroy the tear and cause it to respawn on Isaac.
• 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.

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 The Candle variant of Bird's Eye. It was likely reworked instead of the new item since the "ghost" thematic fits blue fires better.