Hive Mind

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Hive Mind is a passive item.

Effects

  • Increases the size and doubles the damage of Blue Spiders, Blue Flies and (in Afterbirth † and Repentance) Locusts.
  • (in Repentance) Fly and spider familiars become stronger, exactly like Collectible BFFS! icon.pngBFFS!.
  • This item belongs to the BeelzebubBeelzebub set. Collecting three items from this set will transform Isaac into a giant humanoid fly.
  • (in Repentance) This item belongs to the Spider BabySpider Baby set. Collecting three items from this set will transform Isaac into a humanoid spider.

Notes

  • (except in Repentance) This item does not affect Fly familiars or orbitals.
  • No effect on flies made passive by Collectible Skatole icon.pngSkatole.

Synergies

  • GuppyGuppy: Doubles the damage of all Blue Flies spawned greatly increasing damage output.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Brown Nugget icon.pngBrown Nugget: Turret does 7 damage instead of 3.5
  • Collectible Mom's Wig icon.pngMom's Wig: Doubles spider limit of the wig to 10 spiders.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Plum Flute icon.pngPlum Flute: Doubles (in Repentance) Boss Baby Plum ingame.pngBaby Plum's contact damage, but not projectile damage. Plum is also larger.
  • (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Red Locusts: Contact damage is doubled as normal and explosions will deal an additional 25 flat damage.
  • Collectible Sissy Longlegs icon.pngSissy Longlegs: Increases familiar's size. Spiders spawned by Sissy are affected by Hive Mind.

Interactions

  • (in Repentance) Collectible BFFS! icon.pngBFFS!: Does not give any additional benefit to fly and spider familiars.

In-game Footage

Trivia

  • Hive mind is the concept of a large number of beings acting in the interest of the survival of the group as a whole, with little to no individuality.
  • (in Repentance) This item is one of the only five that count towards 2 transformations, the other four being Collectible Skatole icon.pngSkatole, Collectible The Bible icon.pngThe Bible, Collectible Magic Mushroom icon.pngMagic Mushroom and (in Afterbirth † and Repentance)Collectible Parasitoid icon.pngParasitoid.