Bird Cage

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(in Repentance and Repentance+)

Bird Cage is an unlockable passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.

Effects

  • Gives Isaac a fat bird familiar that sits on Isaac's head until he takes damage.
  • Upon taking damage, it will jump off of Isaac's head and land on the nearest enemy, dealing damage and creating a rock line in a random direction. For the rest of the room, it acts like Collectible Dead Bird icon.pngDead Bird, flying around, albeit slower, and dealing contact damage to enemies.
    • Bird Cage does 45 damage to enemies it lands on and 10 damage per rock wave that hits enemies, then does 3 contact damage per tick while chasing enemies (~6.43 damage per second). The rock waves can destroy obstacles.

Notes

  • If damage is taken in a room with no enemies, the familiar will directly go to the flying phase without performing the jump attack.
  • Contact damage can be dealt to nearby enemies even when the familiar jumps off of Isaac's head.
  • Bird Cage's jump can be carried over to another room mid-jump to create a rock line there instead. The direction of the line is preserved from how it would be in the original room.
  • While the familiar is sitting on Isaac's head, it can be affected by certain character appearances. For example, it will appear fully black if obtained by Character Tainted Judas icon.pngTainted Judas.

Synergies

  • Collectible BFFS! icon.pngBFFS!: Spawns 4 rock waves in an X pattern and doubles contact damage. Damage of the jump and the rock waves is unaffected.
  • Collectible Sacrificial Altar icon.pngSacrificial Altar: Can be used after the familiar has jumped.
  • Collectible Spin to Win icon.pngSpin to Win: Boosts the familiar's damage while spinning, although has no effect on its speed.

Interactions

  • Collectible Bird Cage icon.pngBird Cage: Multiple copies of the item provide no benefit and won't make more than one familiar appear.
  • Collectible Box of Friends icon.pngBox of Friends: Immediately makes the familiar jump, leaving a ghost copy on Isaac's head until he takes damage. This has no benefit to the damage dealt and will not spawn more than one familiar.
  • The TwinsThe Twins: If Bird Cage was active in a previous room and it was chosen by the trinket, it skips the jump and enters its flying phase. Behavior otherwise identical to that with Box of Friends.

In-game footage

Trivia

  • Bird Cage is from the Antibirth mod.
  • The item's name is a pun: the familiar resembles Boss The Cage ingame.pngThe Cage, and it functions like Dead Bird, thus making it a "Bird" version of the Cage.