Keeper's Box

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(in Repentance and Repentance+)

Keeper's Box is an unlockable activated item added in The Binding of Isaac: Repentance.

Effects

  • Upon use, spawns a random pickup or item, which must be bought for its normal ShopShop price.
    • Items generated by the box will always be shop items.
      • If used while playing as Character Tainted Isaac icon.pngTainted Isaac, the alternate item will be from the pool of the room it is used in.
    • It has an equal ~11.1% chance to spawn a card, pill, bomb, key, battery, item, soul heart, red heart, or sack.
    • The pickup/item will be surrounded by spikes/cost hearts if the box is used in a Devil RoomDevil Room, a Black MarketBlack Market, if Isaac has Collectible A Pound of Flesh icon.pngA Pound of Flesh or is in a boss room after using Collectible Satanic Bible icon.pngSatanic Bible.

Notes

  • Keeper's Box can spawn hearts when used as Character Keeper icon.pngKeeper or Character Tainted Keeper icon.pngTainted Keeper, unlike normal shops. They cannot be purchased by these characters, however.

Synergies

  • Collectible Book of Virtues icon.pngBook of Virtues: Spawns glowing coin wisps on the middle ring. Enemies killed by the wisps' tears have a 20% chance to drop a random coin.
  • Collectible Coupon icon.pngCoupon / Collectible Mr. ME! icon.pngMr. ME! / Collectible Crooked Penny icon.pngCrooked Penny + Collectible Schoolbag icon.pngSchoolbag: Spawned pickups/items can be made free.
  • Collectible D20 icon.pngD20 + Collectible Schoolbag icon.pngSchoolbag: Rerolled pickups have a chance to reroll into an item from the current room's item pool.
  • Collectible Keeper's Sack icon.pngKeeper's Sack: Stat upgrades from the spawned pickups/items can be gained even when shops become unavailable (Floors after the Boss Mom ingame.pngMom fight excluding ??????).
  • Collectible Restock icon.pngRestock: Buying spawned pickups in the ShopShop will always respawn them as items and their prices will never increase. This does not work outside of the shop. It also works in Greed and Greedier modes, although it will respawn them as (random) pickups.
  • Collectible Steam Sale icon.pngSteam Sale: Spawned pickups/items will be on sale.

Interactions

  • Adoption PapersAdoption Papers: Does not affect Keeper's Box items, meaning both familiars and shop items can be purchased in tandem over the course of a run.
  • Collectible Chaos icon.pngChaos / Collectible Sacred Orb icon.pngSacred Orb / Collectible TMTRAINER icon.pngTMTRAINER: Affects items spawned by the box.
  • Store CreditStore Credit: Cannot be used on consumables or items spawned by Keeper's Box outside of the Shop.

In-game footage

Trivia

  • Keeper's Box has a similar shape to Collectible Pandora's Box icon.pngPandora's Box, along with a keyhole in the same position.
  • This item is similar to Collectible Portable Slot icon.pngPortable Slot, and the pickup quote (Portable shop) may be a reference to it.

Bugs

Bug Bug! (except in Repentance+) Keeper's Box can spawn hearts for sale when playing as Character Keeper icon.pngKeeper/ Character Tainted Keeper icon.pngTainted Keeper.