Tractor Beam

"Controlled tears"
Entity ID	5.100.397
Character Appearance
Item Pool	Crane Game Treasure Room Treasure Room
Collection Grid	(page 4, column 12, row 2) (page 4, column 12, row 2) (page 4, column 13, row 2)

Tractor Beam is a passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth.

Effects

• A beam appears directly in front of Isaac in the direction that his head is facing. Isaac's tears travel in the path of the beam.
  • When Isaac moves or turns his head, tears that are mid-flight will snap to the beam.
• +0.5 tears.
• +1.0 fire rate.
• +5.25 range.
• +1.5 range.
• +0.16 shot speed.
• +0.5 tear height.

Notes

• This item prevents the player from firing tears at angles using momentum.
• Having this item equipped prevents Isaac from automatically aiming downwards after he stops firing.

Synergies

• Anti-Gravity: Tears that are still hovering can be pushed in the direction Isaac is aiming by walking into them.
• Cricket's Body: All splash tears will follow the beam, effectively tripling damage.
• Conjoined transformation: The 2 split shots will instead follow the beam, making it easier to hit enemies with. Essentially increases DPS.
• Continuum: The tears will re-appear directly in front of Isaac and continue their flight path after going off screen.
• Homing tears: The tears will stay in the line but slow down at the location of the monster.
• Kidney Stone: Tear barrage and stone will follow the beam.
• Lachryphagy: Tears can still be fed and will still burst. Burst tears will travel along the beam.
  • Split tears are no longer confined to the beam.
• Mom's Knife: Teleports the knife when aiming in a different direction after you shot the knife.
• Monstro's Lung: All tears are fired along the beam but at different heights.
• Ouroboros Worm: The tears follow a straight path, ignoring the spiral pattern, the tears also stall at a specific point giving a greater chance to land tears.
• The Parasite: All splash tears will follow the beam. If combined with 20/20 will result in absurdly strong knockback, capable of pushing almost any boss away with incredible force.
  • If all shots connect, effective damage will be multiplied by 2 + log₂(damage), rounded down.
• Pop!: Tears stick along the tractor beam even when they slow down and collide, capable of creating a dense line of shots.
• Rubber Cement: Tears will follow the beam until they bounce off of something, then they will leave the beam.
• Sinus Infection: Once the booger falls off the enemy, Isaac can loosely control it by moving and firing in different directions, and make it stick to another enemy.
• Sprinkler: Tears fired by the sprinkler will follow Isaac's beam, increasing damage output.
• Sumptorium: Tears shot by blood clots will follow the beam.
• Tiny Planet: The tears will no longer orbit Isaac, but still gain the range increase and spectral tears.

Interactions

• Analog Stick: Tears cannot be fired diagonally; however, stat effects apply.
  • Tractor Beam can be angled diagonally or in any direction using an analog stick or mouse controls. Tears are dragged along with the beam.
• Brimstone: Overridden by Brimstone. Stat effects apply
• Dr. Fetus: After firing a bomb and moving, the bomb will have a homing-style effect towards the beam, but will not stay directly on the beam. Not recommended, as changing directions while firing will cause the bomb to reel back to Isaac at high speed, making self-damage very likely.
• Epic Fetus: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
• Euthanasia: Needles fired will follow beam; however, burst needles will not.
• Explosivo: Explosivo's tears will become "entangled" when sticking on an enemy, causing them to jump from the tractor beam to the enemy and vice versa every frame. The tear will explode only once either at the beam or the enemy.
• Eye Sore: No effect on the extra tears.
• Guillotine: The beam will visually follow Isaac's head as it orbits, but tears will still stay centered relative to Isaac's body.
• Haemolacria: Fired tears will travel along the beam; however, the burst tears will not.
• Hook Worm: The beam overrides the worm's tear movement effect, but keeps the +10 range.
• Incubus: The Incubus tears aren't affected by the beam, but the beam will still be there.
  • Incubus + Monstro's Lung: Incubus's tear barrage will follow the beam.
• Incubus: The Incubus tears will follow the beam.
• Lead Pencil: Tears fired will follow beam; however, tear barrage will not follow the beam.
• The Ludovico Technique: Overridden by The Ludovico Technique.
• Marked: Tears will only fire in cardinal directions.
• Multidimensional Baby: The beam only affects the original tears, not the duplicated ones.
• Saturnus: No effect on orbital tears.
• Spirit Sword: Overridden by Spirit Sword.
• Tammy's Head: Tractor Beam does not affect the tears created by Tammy's Head.
• Tech X: Overridden by Tech X.
• Technology: Overridden by Technology.
  • The beam becomes unaffected by Isaac's momentum.

Bugs

If combined with Continuum and Pop!, there's a very strange bugged interaction. Tears will appear for brief moments at the back of your head, given your constantly shooting, and if you hit an enemy with one of these, it'll teleport them to a corner of the screen. The player can also get teleported to a corner, resulting in potential softlock without flight or how to jump.

In-game Footage

Telefragging/teleporting glitch:

Trivia

• This item is a reference to tractor beams in science fiction, often depicted as beams of energy that can be used to move objects.

Seeds

PC 9333 LT34 (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

PC 2J1M 978K (Treasure Room below to spawn)