Tear Detonator

"Remote tear detonation!"

Item ID
5.100.383

Recharge Time

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.
Effect[edit | edit source]
- Once activated, all tears in the air split into 6 more tears in all directions, which retain their damage, and shot speed.
- Unique, luck based effects from items such as
Tough Love or
Holy Light are applied individually to each tear.
- Unique, luck based effects from items such as
Synergies[edit | edit source]
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.
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.
- Shooting familiars: Shooting familiars' tears explode into Isaac's tears, with his actual damage and effects.
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.
The Ludovico Technique: The tear explodes into six smaller tears, then reappears next to the player.
Sad Bombs: Bomb tears are multiplied.
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.
Lead Pencil: Each of the tears explodes into 6 smaller tears, which can be very powerful.
Book of Virtues: allows for infinite fires which trigger the tear detonator effect on being destroyed
Interactions[edit | edit source]
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.
Tear Detonator becomes useless with the following, barring other sources of tears:
In-game Footage[edit | edit source]
Seeds[edit | edit source]
PC P0J3 YNW0 (First Floor's Tresure Room)
Switch VGSW 1EJQ (First Golden Treasure Room)
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