The Pile

Boss Portrait
Base HP	580
Base HP	580
Stage HP	0
Stage HP	0
Ingame Appearance
Entity ID	269.1
Found In	Boss Main path Alternate path Degraded Boss Main path Alternate path
Dropped Items	Boss
Unlock Method	Defeat ??? as 6 different Characters

The Pile is a boss added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance that can appear in Necropolis, as well as in the Ashpit in the alternate path.

Behavior

The Pile slowly slides around the room slowly and performs the following attacks:

• Burrows underground, then quickly reemerges elsewhere in the room and fires 5 bone projectiles in a spread towards Isaac. The Pile repeats this attack 3 times in a quick succession. He will generally try to reemerge close to Isaac or directly in his path to cut him off.
  • Where he might reemerge can be generally determined by the direction his seen travelling just as he begins to burrow, however this is not always accurate and most likely due to a bug: he can sometimes appear in a location he did not appear to be travelling to.
• Summons a Bony with a maximum of 2 alive at once.
• Summons spikes in each of his cardinal directions which start at the edges of the room and move towards the Pile.
• Charges in Isaac's direction and continues until he rams into a wall or an obstacle, creating two diagonal lines of rock waves away from the wall and launching a spray of bone projectiles in Isaac's direction. If he runs into an obstacle he also destroys it along with any other obstacles in a small radius.
  • The Pile gains dramatically increased knockback resistance while charging.

Gallery

• 
  The Pile in-game.
• 
  The Pile's appearance in Antibirth.

Notes

• Callus and Orphan Socks prevent Isaac from taking damage from spikes summoned by The Pile.
  • Flat File has no effect on these spikes.

Trivia

• The Pile originates from a conceptual Reddit post by NotYourSaggitarius on the Binding of Isaac subreddit in 2015. A few days later he was programmed into Rebirth by Kilburn, before being incorporated into the Antibirth mod.
  • In Antibirth, The Pile could appear as a boss in the Mausoleum.
• He appears to be a skeletal variant of Polycephalus and an even further decayed version of The Stain.
• In his boss art, the rightmost head lacks 2 teeth on the bottom jaw, unlike his enemy sprite.
• The Pile is one of two bosses that can appear in both the main path and the alternate path, the other being Reap Creep.
  • Because of this, his battle theme will be different, depending on where he's fought. If he's fought in Necropolis, either Crusade or Cerebrum Dispersio will play, while if he's fought in the Ashpit, Juggernaut will play.
  • The Pile is male.

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