Bob's Rotten Head

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Bob's Rotten Head is an activated item.

Effects

  • Upon use, Isaac holds a poison Bomb.pngBomb over his head which can be thrown in the cardinal directions and explodes on impact.
    • The bomb can fly across the room for 9.5 tiles before falling to the ground and exploding.
    • (except in Repentance and Repentance+) The explosion deals a flat 50 + Isaac's tear damage and poisons affected monsters.
    • (in Repentance and Repentance+) The explosion deals a flat 185 + Isaac's tear damage and leaves behind a gas cloud that poisons affected monsters. The poison cloud deals 5 damage.
    • (in Rebirth) The poison deals 6 or 8 points of damage over time.
    • (except in Rebirth) The poison deals 3 times Isaac's tear damage over time.
  • (except in Rebirth) This item belongs to the BobBob set. Collecting three items from this set will transform Isaac into Bob.

Notes

  • This item can drop from Sloth.pngSloth.
  • Bob's Rotten Head is affected by many tear modifiers and some bomb modifiers. Notable exceptions and precautions are listed below.
  • Bob's Rotten Head passes through Beggar.pngBeggars, Slot Machine.pngSlot Machines, or Blood Donation Machine.pngBlood Donation Machines, but can destroy them with the blast damage if it impacts anything nearby.
  • Can open open Secret RoomSecret Rooms, Super Secret RoomSuper Secret Rooms, or destroy rocks like any other bomb.
  • Certain interactions require Flat Stone to be effective or work.

Interactions

  • (except in Rebirth)Bob's BladderBob's Bladder / Collectible Bobby-Bomb icon.pngBobby-Bomb / (except in Rebirth)Collectible Bomber Boy icon.pngBomber Boy / (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth)Collectible Fast Bombs icon.pngFast Bombs / (in Repentance and Repentance+)Collectible Rocket in a Jar icon.pngRocket in a Jar / (except in Rebirth)Collectible Scatter Bombs icon.pngScatter Bombs / Collectible Mr. Mega icon.pngMr. Mega: No effect.
  • Collectible Bob's Curse icon.pngBob's Curse:
    • (except in Repentance and Repentance+) No effect.
    • (in Repentance and Repentance+) The explosion leaves behind a poison cloud.
  • (in Repentance and Repentance+)Collectible Blood Bombs icon.pngBlood Bombs: Bob's Rotten Head leaves a pool of red creep on the ground after each explosion.
  • (in Repentance and Repentance+)Collectible Book of Virtues icon.pngBook of Virtues: Spawns wisps in the middle ring. The wisps shoot arcing green tears with decreased range, with a 7.5% chance of firing an explosive, poisonous tear.
  • (except in Rebirth)Collectible Car Battery icon.pngCar Battery: No effect.
  • (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth)Collectible Compound Fracture icon.pngCompound Fracture: Spawns 1-3 smaller heads that explodes for half the damage of the bigger one.
  • (except in Rebirth)Collectible Continuum icon.pngContinuum:
    • (in Afterbirth and Afterbirth †) Bob's Rotten Head can now travel through walls and appear out of the opposite wall, similar to a portal-type mechanic.
    • (in Repentance and Repentance+) No longer travels through the wall; instead he bounces off it, like with Collectible Rubber Cement icon.pngRubber Cement, and then travels for the rest of its duration at a slower speed and then explodes.
  • Collectible Cricket's Body icon.pngCricket's Body: Spawns four smaller heads that explodes for half the damage of the bigger one.
  • (except in Rebirth)Collectible Explosivo icon.pngExplosivo / (except in Rebirth)Collectible Sticky Bombs icon.pngSticky Bombs:
    • (in Afterbirth and Afterbirth †) If Bob's Rotten Head sticks to an enemy (sometimes with Explosivo, always with Sticky Bombs), the explosion is delayed but will deal 110 damage.
    • (in Repentance and Repentance+) No longer sticks to monsters.
  • (in Repentance and Repentance+)Collectible Eye of the Occult icon.pngEye of the Occult: Isaac can control the mid-flight direction of the head, however its air-time is not increased.
  • (in Repentance and Repentance+)Collectible Flat Stone icon.pngFlat Stone: Will cause Bob's Rotten Head to bounce once, exploding twice and leaving two gas clouds.
  • Collectible Fire Mind icon.pngFire Mind: Creates fire when the head lands.
  • Collectible Godhead icon.pngGodhead: Creates a Godhead aura around the head and applies homing effect when thrown.
  • (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth)Collectible Haemolacria icon.pngHaemolacria: When the head lands, tears are fired.
  • (except in Rebirth)Collectible Holy Light icon.pngHoly Light: Has a chance to throw a Holy Light head that spawns a damaging beam of light dealing ((except in Repentance and Repentance+)4x) (in Repentance and Repentance+)3x the explosion damage when it hits an enemy.
  • Homing tears: Homing is applied to the thrown head as well.
  • (except in Repentance and Repentance+) Spectral tears: The head will pass through obstacles and walls, meaning it will no longer destroy obstacles or open secret rooms on impact. They can still be opened if the user stands back far enough to let the thrown head run out of range.
    • (in Repentance and Repentance+) The head will slightly bounce off of walls with spectral tears. It still passes through obstacles.
  • (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth)Collectible Lachryphagy icon.pngLachryphagy: The head act as a tear, dividing itself if enough time has passed and interacting with other tears. The five heads coming from the main head deal half damage. Feeding a head with another increases damage by the amount of damage Isaac has. If a tear is fed with a head, the tear will gain the head's damage.
  • Collectible The Parasite icon.pngThe Parasite: Causes two smaller tears to appear that explodes for half the damage of the head. Tears do not look like the normal head.
  • Collectible Rubber Cement icon.pngRubber Cement: Causes the head to bounce off of rocks and walls.
  • Collectible Tiny Planet icon.pngTiny Planet: When used, Bob's Rotten Head will orbit the player similar to a tear.
  • (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth)Collectible Trisagion icon.pngTrisagion:
    • (in Afterbirth †) Not recommended as it explodes multiple times before reaching its target, dealing explosive damage and knockback to Isaac.
    • (in Repentance and Repentance+) Shoots a white blast of light instead of the head that pierces through monsters, and causing explosions when it contacts an enemy (if not killing it at the first tick), an obstacle, or when it runs out of range. One tick of the beam deals 33% of Bob's Rotten Head's damage to monsters, but the resulting explosion every tick deals full damage.
  • (in Repentance and Repentance+)Collectible Uranus icon.pngUranus: Monsters are frozen when dying to Bob's Rotten Head.
  • Worm Trinkets: Bob's Rotten Head is affected by trinkets like Hook WormHook Worm and Wiggle WormWiggle Worm the same way tears are.

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Gallery

Trivia

  • The item's appearance is similar to Boss Pestilence ingame.pngPestilence's head.
  • Sloth.pngSloth's full name is Bob Sloth, revealed in a QnA. Because Sloth drops this item, it may be his head.

Bugs

Bug Bug! Although Collectible Bob's Rotten Head icon.pngBob's Rotten Head works normally with Collectible Butt Bombs icon.pngButt Bombs and (except in Rebirth)Collectible Bomber Boy icon.pngBomber Boy has no effect with it, their combination drops the explosion damage by 50%.