The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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A Better Aquarius?
   
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Tags: Lua, Items, Tweaks
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6 Apr, 2018 @ 10:05am
8 Oct, 2019 @ 2:39am
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A Better Aquarius?

In 1 collection by Sartre's right eye
All 'A Better [blank]?' mods and some other stuff
35 items
Description
Well sure enough, it's been buffed!

The original Aquarius was always a downer when you picked it, mostly cause it had an effect that was barely noticeable..
I originally wanted to just up the damage it dealt per tick, and even though that happened as well in this mod I felt like it was necessary as well to give it a little more 'spice', since just a damage up seemed so...
...well, lame.

So without further ado:
Before:
- Would leave a trail of tears that did 2 damage per tick

Changes:
- Upped the damage to 5 damage per tick
- If the player picks up a certain items that gives statuseffects to enemies, the trail of tears changes color to that appropriate effect and gives a 50% chance upon dealing damage to an enemy to also apply that statuseffect to that enemy for 8 seconds
- Effects include: Fear(purple), Slow(white), Burn(orange), Charm(pink), Poison(green), Confusion(lightgrey), Bleed(red), Freeze(darkgrey), the Midas's touch effect (gold), Shrink (darkblue) and a special state that changes effects based on time passed (rainbow colored)
- These effects don't stack. So for example if i've picked up something that gives me poison, and pick up something that qualifies as a 'Slow' item, it gets overridden.
NOTE: The exception on this rule is Rainbow (because it's so rare, and it looks p neat)

The items that I qualified for the statuseffect to change include items that not always make sense (like, you can get the burn effect from hot bombs). I might change this in the future if people don't like that I gave so many items the ability to change the effect, but I thought it was important that as much items as possible could change the effect, since you might not even happen to stumble upon any items if I qualified too few of them...

Items that change the status effect for each effect individually:
-Slow: Ball of tar, Broken Watch, Censer, Juicy Sack, Little Gish, Night Light, Spider Bite, Stop Watch, Large Zit, Parasitoid
- Poison: Common Cold, Ipecac, Scorpio, Bob's Brain, Serpent's Kiss, Virus, Toxic Shock, Bob's Curse, Black Bean, Mysterious Liquid, Contagion, Dead Tooth
- Fear: Abaddon, Dark Matter, Mom's Perfume, My Shadow, Spear of Destiny
- Charm: Ball of Bandages, Betrayal, Glitter Bombs, Mom's Eyeshadow, Poke go
- Burn: Fire Mind, Hot Bombs, Explosivo, Ghost Pepper
- Confusion: Butt bombs, Glaucoma, Iron Bar
- Bleed: Backstabber, Mom's Razor
- Midas' Touch: Eye of Greed, Midas' Touch
- Freeze: Mom's Contacts, Charged Baby, Broken Modem
-Shrink: God's Flesh
-Rainbow: 3-Dollar bill, fruit cake

Compatibility:
- Gave extra description for External Items Descriptions
- Compatible with True Co-op.
Or at least, as far as I know. Not fully tested, but certainly not fully broken

If you like changes like these, check out my MegaMod 2

And as always:

<Have fun!>
32 Comments
☢PashaVerti☢ 6 Aug, 2022 @ 1:15pm 
Oh, they genuinely used your idea or just had the same one?
Sartre's right eye  [author] 15 May, 2021 @ 4:45am 
Ye they didn't gave multiple tear effects a rainbow colour tho
=> Very disappoint, overrated Dlc
No but really i'm super flattered that added some of my shit. They really nailed as good as every aspect of what makes Isaac great in terms of reworks. Also i wouldn't have ever imagined homing aquarius to be a thing haha
Zical 14 May, 2021 @ 6:22pm 
well repetence did this
Sartre's right eye  [author] 27 Dec, 2018 @ 5:04pm 
Weird, ...that seems to be working for me.
Does it not change color when you pick up aquarius and then 3 dollar bill/fruitcake? Mind, you gotta pick them up in that order...
...I'll update it to be sure
smartest rock alive 27 Dec, 2018 @ 3:16pm 
How do you get it rainbow? i cant seem to make it rainbow with 3 dollar or fruitcake
hutdavide 27 Nov, 2018 @ 3:33pm 
has this mod been added to the official game by chance? In practice makes the "aquarium" item more powerful?
DeoxysAndMew 2 24 Sep, 2018 @ 11:36am 
That's amazing!
Tbh, I forgot about 3 dollar bill, which it does makes sense to have 2 special items with the same effect.

Out of all 500+ and modded items, 2 is still better than 1. :D
Amazing. thanks a lot.
Sartre's right eye  [author] 24 Sep, 2018 @ 10:15am 
Heya, I added your request to the mod
I did also made it so 3-dollar bill (wich has a similar effect to fruit cake) so that the effect would be seen more. Sorry if this makes the synergy less 'special' in your eyes, but remember: the effect changes if you pick up another teareffect-item, so it's kind of difficult for me to say that it's only allowed on one item since it's seen so rarely
.. + it just made sense
Anyway, I'll be making some changes to the megamod in a sec. I'll let you know when that's done as well.
DeoxysAndMew 2 4 Sep, 2018 @ 4:10am 
Well... yeah, you're right.

SInce the tear effects do change constantly, so it would make more sense to have like switching between the rendom effects like 2 seconds each time.

But Rainbow Creep with JUST this particular item, would make a unique synergy that no other items could make. ;D

(I wonder if it synergizes with Adam's Exapnsion Mod and it's "Putrid Gland" trinket.
As it makes creep to boil, and thus it hits the flying enemies.

Let's just see if it can be done. :)
Sartre's right eye  [author] 3 Sep, 2018 @ 3:58pm 
I think that would be slightly OP, if all effects appear at the same time all at once
Maybe if it's like a random chance to get a certain effect after a certain amount of time passed or different every room, maybe then...
...Idk, I'll look into it for sure