Tear Detonator

Item Icon
Pickup Quote	"Remote tear detonation!"
Entity ID	5.100.383
Recharge Time	1 rooms 16 seconds
Item Pool	Crane Game Shop Treasure Room
Quality	1
Item Tags
Collection Grid	(page 4, column 18, row 1) (page 4, column 18, row 1) (page 4, column 19, row 1)

Tear Detonator is an activated item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.

Effects

• Once activated, all tears in the air split into 6 more tears in all directions, which retain their damage and shot speed.
  • Luck-based effects from items such as Tough Love or Holy Light are applied individually to each tear.

Synergies

• Akeldama: Will bust tears generated by Akeldama into Isaac's current tears.
• Angelic Prism: Tears that are split by the prism can be split again by Tear Detonator.
• Anti-Gravity: All tears currently floating in the air will be multiplied, resulting in a massive amount of tears.
• Book of Virtues: Spawns wisps on the middle ring. The wisps' tears are also detonated into 6 tears; the resulting tears are based on Isaac's own, rather than the wisps'. Created wisps trigger Tear Detonator's effect when destroyed. Despite Tear Detonator having a timed recharge, the wisps persist between rooms.
• Car Battery: Multiplies the tears, effectively creating dozens of tears.
• Compound Fracture/ Cricket's Body/ The Parasite: Tears that are split can split again into burst tears.
• Haemolacria: Splits tears into 6 Haemolacria tears that burst into split tears. If split tears are burst, all of them will split into 6 Haemolacria tears creating an enormous amount of tears when the main tear splits again.
• Ipecac: All tears will split into 6 explosive tears, making it very powerful (but also dangerous unless Isaac has Host Hat or Pyromaniac).
• Lachryphagy: Similar to the Haemolacria synergy, if the main tear splits, 6 tears will spawn that can be fed. However, if burst tears are split, all burst tears will split into 6 tears resulting in an enormous amount of tears that are likely to feed each other.
• Lead Pencil: Each of the tears explodes into 6 smaller tears.
• The Ludovico Technique: The tear explodes into six smaller tears, then reappears next to the player.
• My Reflection: The shrapnel tears will curve back to the location of the original detonated tear.
• Sad Bombs: Bomb tears are multiplied.
• Shooting familiars: Shooting familiars' tears explode into Isaac's tears, with his actual damage and effects.
• Tiny Planet: Tears split, and then orbit around where the tear was originally from, three spinning clockwise, three counterclockwise.
• Trisagion: Tears split into six beams.

Interactions

• Chocolate Milk: No matter how charged the tears are, split tears always deal a tiny amount of damage.
• Explosivo: Tears that are stuck to enemies will not deal explosion damage; tears released by it may be sticky tears that immediately stick back onto the enemy.

No Effect

Tear Detonator becomes useless with the following, barring other sources of tears:

• Azazel
• Blindfolded
• Brimstone
• Dr. Fetus
• Epic Fetus
• Mom's Knife
• Tech X
• Technology
• Technology 2(laser only)

Trivia

• Tear Detonator has the same sprite as Remote Detonator, but colored blue.
• Tear Detonator's sprite, in comparison to Remote Detonator's, is 1 pixel to the right.

Seeds

PC P0J3 YNW0 (First Floor's Tresure Room)

Switch VGSW 1EJQ (First Golden Treasure Room)

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