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(except in Rebirth)

For all Tech items, check Tech (disambiguation)

Tech X is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.

Effects[ | ]

  • Isaac's tears are replaced with ring-shaped lasers.
    • Shots can be charged to increase the size of the rings.
    • The rings deal damage 15 times per second. Only the outer circumference of the rings will deal damage.
    • Rings pass through obstacles and enemies. Rings have infinite range and will travel until they hit a wall.
    • (in Repentance) Damage dealt is based on the amount charged, starting at around 25% Isaac's damage and approaches 100% at maximum charge.
      • At 30.00 fire rate or above (0 tear delay or lower), charging is no longer needed and fires 30 rings per second. Higher fire rate results in higher laser damage.
        • Damage per Tick is capped at 100% Isaac's Damage, at 90.00 fire rate.

Notes[ | ]

  • The rings are similar in appearance to the combination of Collectible The Ludovico Technique iconThe Ludovico Technique and Collectible Technology iconTechnology.
  • The laser rings will linger for a brief moment upon touching a wall, allowing more damage to be dealt to enemies closer to walls.
  • The "R U A WIZARD?" pill effect does not work with Tech X.
  • Acquiring an extra copy of Tech X will shoot an extra laser ring.
  • (except in Repentance) Charging only increases size, not damage. It is useful for hard-to-hit enemies or hitting a wide area at once, but spamming small, uncharged shots will lead to much higher damage output.
    • (in Afterbirth †) With the charge bars option enabled, the rings can be released immediately as the charge bar appears for easier gauging of maximum damage output.
  • (in Repentance) The maximum ring size is slightly smaller in Repentance.

Synergies[ | ]

  • Collectible 20 20 icon20/20: Fires two Tech X rings instead of one. (in Repentance)Damage down applied.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Apple! iconApple!/Collectible Euthanasia iconEuthanasia/Collectible Holy Light iconHoly Light/Collectible Little Horn iconLittle Horn/Collectible Mucormycosis iconMucormycosis/Collectible Tough Love iconTough Love: The tear effects will apply randomly at each damage tick depending on Isaac's luck stat.
  • (in Repentance) Character Azazel iconAzazel: Azazel fires a Brimstone ring instead of Tech X ring with a 35% damage penalty. If combined with Brimstone, the damage penalty is negated.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance) BookwormBookworm: Can fire an additional Tech X ring with same 25% chance.
  • Collectible Brimstone iconBrimstone: Fires a Brimstone ring. This Brimstone ring is larger than the laser ring and has a much wider hitbox.
    • (except in Repentance)Collectible Brimstone iconBrimstone + Collectible Technology iconTechnology: The damage boost from Brimstone + Technology is lost, but the laser fires while charging the Brimstone ring.
      • (in Repentance) Fires a Brimstone ring coiled by a laser. Once again increases Isaac's damage by 1.5x.
    • (in Repentance) Double Collectible Brimstone iconBrimstone: Further increases the width of the ring, and grants +1 Damage.
  • (in Repentance) Collectible Cricket's Body iconCricket's Body: Shoots out smaller tears on hit.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible C Section iconC Section: Overrides the charging effect, but shoots a laser ring with a fetus tear in the middle. The ring's damage is half the fetus' damage.
  • Collectible Dr. Fetus iconDr. Fetus: Overrides the charging effect, but shoots a laser ring with a bomb in the middle. The ring's damage is Isaac's Damage.
  • Collectible Epic Fetus iconEpic Fetus: Each missile shoots 10 laser beams like from Collectible Technology iconTechnology in each direction with a flat 25 damage bonus, similar to Collectible Tammy's Head iconTammy's Head.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Explosivo iconExplosivo/Nose GoblinNose Goblin/Collectible Sinus Infection iconSinus Infection: Every damage tick has a chance to stick a tear of the respective effect on enemies.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Fruit Cake iconFruit Cake: Works on the laser rings.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Haemolacria iconHaemolacria: Haemolacria tears will burst into 3-5 Tech X rings on impact. The sizes of the rings are various, but they deal 100% Isaac's Damage.
  • Haemolacria + Brimstone: Brimstone overrides the effects of Tech X, effectively making it useless.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Head of the Keeper iconHead of the Keeper: The tears turn into the Tech X tears, but they still retain the ability for enemies to drop money, which is now based on every tick of damage, rather than with the rings themselves.
  • Homing: While the rings won't home in on enemies, they will bend inwards to hit enemies within each ring, resulting in a substantial damage area increase.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Jacob's Ladder iconJacob's Ladder: The rings gain a light blue tint and generate sparks when hitting enemies or obstacles. A ring can generate only one spark per tick.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Lead Pencil iconLead Pencil: Every 15th laser ring fired also shoots a cluster of tears.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Loki's Horns iconLoki's Horns: Adds a chance to fire 4 laser rings at once with 2 in front and 2 behind Isaac, each pair firing on top of each other.
  • Collectible Lost Contact iconLost Contact: Tech X rings are able to block projectiles as they travel ((in Repentance) sometimes [more testing/debugging required]).
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Mom's Eye iconMom's Eye: Isaac will now sometimes fire an additional ring from his back.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Mom's Knife iconMom's Knife: Simultaneously fires the knife and laser ring(s).
    • (in Repentance) The knife is fired with a Tech X ring around it, similarly to the forgotten's club throw. The ring's damage is based on the amount charged, starting at 33% Isaac's damage and 100% at maximum charge.
  • Collectible Monstro's Lung iconMonstro's Lung: Fires 3-5 extra rings in 30° spread. Extra rings deal from 50% to 100% damage of the main ring.
    • (in Repentance) Fire Rate is divided by 3.1.
  • (in Repentance)Ouroboros WormOuroboros Worm: The ring inherits the homing chance benefit, without being affected by the pattern.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Rubber Cement iconRubber Cement: The rings bounce off walls once.
  • Collectible Sad Bombs iconSad Bombs: Bombs explode into Collectible Technology iconTechnology beams in all directions.
  • Collectible Strange Attractor iconStrange Attractor: Magnetic effect pulls pickups and objects to the ring, increasing accuracy.
  • Collectible Tech.5 iconTech.5: Occasionally fires a linear laser while charging Tech X.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Technology iconTechnology: Fires a linear laser while charging Tech X.
    • (in Repentance) Fires a Collectible Brimstone iconBrimstone ring coiled by a laser. Despite its appearance, it does not give 1.5x damage (see Collectible Brimstone iconBrimstone synergy above).
  • Collectible Technology 2 iconTechnology 2: Fires a linear laser while charging Tech X.
  • Wiggle WormWiggle Worm: Rings take star-shape, slightly increasing its area of effect.

Interactions[ | ]

Overridden by Tech X:

Only stat effects are applied; otherwise overridden by Tech X:

Other interactions:

  • (in Repentance)Collectible Almond Milk iconAlmond Milk: Fires automatically upon reaching full charge. Tech X overrides most of the worm trinket effects.
  • (in Rebirth and Afterbirth) Character Azazel iconAzazel: Azazel's brimstone overrides Tech X.
  • Collectible Blood Clot iconBlood Clot / Collectible Chemical Peel iconChemical Peel / (in Repentance)Collectible The Peeper iconThe Peeper: The effects have 80% chance to be applied per damage tick.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Chocolate Milk iconChocolate Milk: Doesn't increase damage, but reduces Isaac's tear delay by 20%.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Continuum iconContinuum + Collectible Incubus iconIncubus: Incubus's laser rings cannot go through walls.
    • (in Repentance) Works as expected.
  • Collectible Dead Eye iconDead Eye: Prior to picking up Tech X, the damage multiplier is preserved to where its at, and missing shots will not remove it. Saving and quitting the game will remove the multiplier. Picking Dead Eye after Tech X has no effect.
  • Collectible Fire Mind iconFire Mind: Laser rings set enemies on fire and do not explode.
  • Character The Forgotten iconThe Forgotten / Character Tainted Forgotten iconTainted Forgotten: A laser ring forms around the bone toss attack. Character The Soul (Character) iconThe Soul uses Tech X normally, and Character Tainted Soul iconTainted Soul cannot use it at all.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Fruit Cake iconFruit Cake: Only status effects granted by Fruit Cake work on the laser rings.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Gello iconGello: The familiar charges based on the distance from the target enemy. It charges more when it is further from the enemy.
  • Collectible Godhead iconGodhead: Damaging halo effect lost, but retains Homing effect and stat changes.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Immaculate Heart iconImmaculate Heart/(in Repentance)Collectible Saturnus iconSaturnus: Normal tears orbit Isaac.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible Incubus iconIncubus: The rings fired by the Incubus have a fixed size; charging the ring will only increase the size of the player's own rings.
    • (in Repentance) Works as expected.
  • (in Rebirth and Afterbirth)Collectible Ipecac iconIpecac: Overridden by Tech X. The damage bonus is lost upon entering a different room. Still poisons enemies like Ipecac does.
    • (in Afterbirth †) +4 damage and poisons enemies.
    • (in Repentance) Tech X ring causes an explosion on every rock or enemy it passes through. The ring will not open Secret RoomSecret Rooms.
    • (in Repentance)Collectible Ipecac iconIpecac + (in Repentance)Collectible Almond Milk iconAlmond Milk / Collectible Soy Milk iconSoy Milk: Explosion damage maintained as tears vastly increases.
  • (except in Repentance)Collectible A Lump of Coal iconA Lump of Coal: Damage and size of the ring increases the further away it is from the player, but is actually roughly 2/3rds of tear damage up close. It takes a few tiles of distance to reach normal damage and go above it, with the maximum being 1.5x at roughly a room's width away.
    • (in Repentance) The damage is normal at point blank range but the damage increase per tile is significantly lower.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Marked iconMarked: The rings are now fired automatically with ring size depending on Isaac's distance from the cursor; the further he is, the larger the rings are.
  • Collectible Mom's Eyeshadow iconMom's Eyeshadow: All rings become pink. Rings will not always charm, but have a chance (Dependant on Luck) to breifly apply the charming effect for a few ticks of damage. All enemies pierced by the ring during this time will become charmed.
  • Collectible Proptosis iconProptosis: The ring's damage and size substantially increase, but decreases the further it travels.
    • (in Repentance) The ring's damage and size is based on the distance from Isaac. The damage is 4.38x when Isaac is on the center of the ring, down to 1.5x.
  • Pulse WormPulse Worm: The ring pulsates in size between 0.67x to 1.33x over a 2 second cycle.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible The Scooper iconThe Scooper / Collectible Stye iconStye: The effects have 20% chance to be applied per damage tick.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Soy Milk iconSoy Milk : Fires automatically upon reaching full charge.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Sulfuric Acid iconSulfuric Acid/Collectible Terra iconTerra: The ring can destroy Obstacles, but it can't open doors or Secret RoomSecret Rooms. Terra also greatly increases knockback.
  • Collectible Tammy's Head iconTammy's Head: Tammy's head fires regular tears.

In-game Footage[ | ]

Bugs[ | ]

Bug Bug! (in Rebirth and Afterbirth) The black ring generated from the synergy of Collectible Dr. Fetus iconDr. Fetus and Tech X behaves as a Collectible Maw Of The Void iconMaw Of The Void ring and may cause black hearts to drop.
Bug Bug! Having Tech X with Collectible Soy Milk iconSoy Milk / (in Repentance)Collectible Almond Milk iconAlmond Milk and Collectible Kidney Stone iconKidney Stone causes Isaac unable to fire laser rings when Kidney Stone is active.


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