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(except in Rebirth)

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 Collectible Tough Love iconTough Love or Collectible Holy Light iconHoly Light are applied individually to each tear.

Notes[ | ]

  • (in Repentance) The item only costs 10 coins when found in a ShopShop.

Synergies[ | ]

  • (in Repentance)Collectible Akeldama iconAkeldama: Will bust tears generated by Akeldama into Isaac's current tears.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Angelic Prism iconAngelic Prism: Tears that are split by the prism can be split again by Tear Detonator.
  • Collectible Anti-Gravity iconAnti-Gravity: All tears currently floating in the air will be multiplied, resulting in a massive amount of tears.
  • Character Bethany iconBethany/ Character Tainted Bethany iconTainted Bethany: Bethany can use Tear Detonator multiple times in rapid succession at the cost of one Soul/Blood Charge per use, allowing for a huge area of effect that wipes out most rooms.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Book of Virtues iconBook 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.
  • Collectible Car Battery iconCar Battery: Multiplies the tears, effectively creating dozens of tears.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Compound Fracture iconCompound Fracture/Collectible Cricket's Body iconCricket's Body/Collectible The Parasite iconThe Parasite: Tears that are split can split again into burst tears.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Haemolacria iconHaemolacria: 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.
  • Collectible Ipecac iconIpecac: All tears will split into 6 explosive tears, making it very powerful (but also dangerous unless Isaac has Collectible Host Hat iconHost Hat or Collectible Pyromaniac iconPyromaniac).
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Lachryphagy iconLachryphagy: 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.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Lead Pencil iconLead Pencil: Each of the tears explodes into 6 smaller tears.
  • Collectible The Ludovico Technique iconThe Ludovico Technique: The tear explodes into six smaller tears, then reappears next to the player.
  • Collectible My Reflection iconMy Reflection: The shrapnel tears will curve back to the location of the original detonated tear.
  • Collectible Sad Bombs iconSad Bombs: Bomb tears are multiplied.
  • Shooting familiars: Shooting familiars' tears explode into Isaac's tears, with his actual damage and effects.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Technology Zero iconTechnology Zero: Tears generated by Tear Detonator can be connected with electric charges.
  • Collectible Tiny Planet iconTiny Planet: Tears split, and then orbit around where the tear was originally from, three spinning clockwise, three counterclockwise.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Trisagion iconTrisagion: Tears split into six beams.

Interactions[ | ]

  • (except in Repentance) Collectible Chocolate Milk iconChocolate Milk: No matter how charged the tears are, split tears always deal a tiny amount of damage.
    • (in Repentance) Split tears always deal Isaac's damage.
  • Collectible Explosivo iconExplosivo: 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:

In-game Footage[ | ]

Trivia[ | ]

  • Tear Detonator has the same sprite as Collectible Remote Detonator iconRemote Detonator, but colored blue.
  • (except in Repentance) Tear Detonator's sprite, in comparison to Remote Detonator's, is 1 pixel to the right.


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