The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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The Endless Room! (Challenge) [AB+]
   
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The Endless Room! (Challenge) [AB+]

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Description
Inspired by the old Spidermod survival mod, I bring you my approach of an endless room of constant mob-spawning mayhem!. Defeat waves and watch as the number and difficulty of the mobs/bosses increases, with several items to guide your way.

How to access the endless room?:
It's a custom challenge. To access custom challenges, go to the "challenges" menu and press the Tab key (or the key you use to enter seeds, for example).
Theres also a button on the first room that, after pressing it and defeating the 2 chargers without taking dmg, you get into the challenge.

Mod contents:
* 1 Custom Challenge (Main focus of the mod)
* 1 button at the starting room to play an alternative, less-balanced, version with the character of your choice (Cool stuff)
* 3 different ldifficulty levels

What to expect?:
* 1 boss wave every 9 mob waves
* 1 special reward item room(no pools!) after the boss wave TIME BASED(BE FAST!!)
* 1 special gangbang wave (4 enemies of the same time) before each boss.
* 9 different mob and boss tiers with increasing dificulty
* Savepoints after the bosses
* End game bosses deep into the waves!
* Loop wave = all the waves again but more difficult and with twice the enemies and no more item rooms (triggered after beating a certain amount of end game bosses).

Difficulties:
* Original: the way the mod is meant to be played, following the "What to expect?"'s section formula.
* Easy: slower spawning mobs, an extra item/savepoint at the 5th wave, faster item charges and NO TIME LIMIT on reward rooms.
* Hard: faster spawning mobs, CHAMPION mob spawns, less drops and slower item charge.

Custom game mechanics
* Room effects wont last forever, they are cleared after every boss room, so use that pills and cards accordingly.
* Getting out of the room means death penalty. Most Teleport items are gone (except cursed eye, now death is the curse) but Red chests, Pills(at a v low chance) and cards can tele you out.
* Stopwatch is a special case, it has the same effect as the drowsy pill, a.k.a only lasts till the next boss run, so proc it quickly!
* You'll take half-heart dmg from everything till you are deep into the waves but, no, it wont last forever either.
* Shop prices start costing money after a while, first they will be 7 cents and then theyll go to 15.
* Dying with a Revive item will throw you back to the room after your last boss fight (max of 9 waves). Lazarus revive is an exception to this rule.

Tips:
* Dont try to leave the room (you'll die)
* Red Chests and pills can help a LOT but can KILL you by tele too.
* Dont get attached to your cheap priced items, they get expensive after some waves!.
* Abuse the harf-heart dmg while you can.
* Waves save after boses so, if you want to continue a run, make sure you beat at least 1 boss.
* Kill Red poop Enemies FAST.

Mod Conflits:
- This mod is not, and will not be (until the author makes it so compatibility is possible), compatible with Mom's Dressing Table

TODO LIST!
- Find a way to remove golden bombs/keys. (kinda-done)
- Make some Character-specific/item specific balance tweaks for the non-challenge mod plus.
- Make the room more visualy appealing and give it more personality while retaining it's "emptiness".
- Add the special "Nightmare" difficulty (If i ever do this, you'll either love it or hate it to hell).

I got a crash/bug! :(
First, cheer up!. Second, contact me and/or leave a msg here and, as a bonus, heres a list of things you can do to solve the problem in case it's on your end:
- Check if the Folder in which the mod is located is read only, on some systems this causes problems with saves so you want to make it writable if you have problems (if you dont, just leave it as it is).
- Disable other mods, even if they are skins or challenges. It's sad that the API implementation doesnt allow for challenge exclusive code...ALL THE CODE IS RUNNING ALL THE TIME, so if someone doesnt ask "If the challenge = my challenge" then that mod will break everything else and you'll never know why nothing works. Sometimes, some mods, just dont like each other for whatever reason.
- Make sure the mod (and other mods too, just doing the other devs a favor, heh) is up to date, go and delete the mod folder to force the workshop to update it.
- Repair your game's cache, in case you have been messing around with the resources folder.

And if you think it's due to a bug, check out the last update section at the bottom part of the description and see if your crash is described there, maybe I already know about it and/or are working on it. Other way, please report it, specially if it's related to a new feature (a.k.a added revive items and you crashed/bug while reviving).

Dev Stuff! (getting a lil personal here)
As you may or not may have noticed, I'm still working on this mod, I'm by no means completly satisfied with what the mod is now (specially balance-wise) and I'll keep improving it to meet the community standards and, of course, what I have planned for the mod in general (tons of stuff!). I wont announce anything till it's comming in1-2 updates tho. You can look at the bottom of this description for the details of latest update on the mod.

And, lastly but not less important, PLEASE, if you enjoy the mod, bring me your feedback! (positive or neggy, want it all)...I specially am looking for difficulty curve-based feedback (is it too easy?, too slow?, too hard?, etc).
If you survive for TOO LONG the game can crash, but, worry not, you can continue your run after the crash and, hopefully, it wont crash for another 500-1000 waves (?).

If you want to help me to hunt down bugs/crashes, please tell me at what wave/tier the bug/crash happens and, if you remember, what items did you have at the point of the crash.

I'd like to thank all of those who add me on steam, the recurring comment section warriors and those who even emailed me!. Special thanks to soler98012 and Serrix , both helped me A LOT in testing system specific crashes (that are impossible to test myself).

This mod is stuck on AB+ and not actively being worked on anymore, but I may eventually make a more "modern" version of it under a different name.

ENJOY THE MOD!


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-->>>> Crash reporting <<<<--
Crashing beyond the wave 300-400 is, kinda, normal due to memory managment problems on the game (I'm activly looking for ways to push this futher and further away)....but if you crash at early waves of the game I WANT TO KNOW at leatst one of this things:
- What other mods you had installed? (if they are too many to list just give me an approximate of how many)
- What wave were you in?
- Did the game save?
- What items did you have? (the ones you remember at least)
- What are yous system specifications?
- Send me the "log.txt" file from ("Documens/My Games/BOIAB+"). This helps to determine wheter it was a problem with my mod or a problem caused by a mod incompatibility that you are running.

However, If you want to make sure that the mod will work to it's best, or you are crashing too much, DISABLE ALL THE OTHER MODS while playing this one. I'll do my best to tackle all the crashes but modding gives you too much freedom and other mods could easily interfere with my mod.

LatestDevUpdate: I'm now looking into making Nightmare mode fun, It will be hard as balls (even harder than current hard) but it'll probably be funnier to lose in nightmare mode. This one will probably take time to arrive since:
1- My vacations are almost over
2- Api stuff is making me go mad.

Please keep up the awesome feedback(Negative feedback works too!) and bug reporting!
183 Comments
soy 18 Dec, 2023 @ 4:34pm 
its just greed but good
Jeepis 1 Oct, 2023 @ 4:41am 
besides my game crashing, everything being a dollar, and Isaac staring with mega blast? This is really fun, i hope you can make it compatible with rep.
JSG  [author] 18 Jul, 2023 @ 10:58am 
The code for this one is incredibly out of date...it would take a rewrite to get it on rep which, while it wouldnt be too hard (the mod is rather small), I dont think it's worth it as is rn.
I may do a more modern iteration of this one someday, as I still like the concept....no promises tho.
test 3 Jul, 2023 @ 4:55am 
please update
cyllibeter 29 Jul, 2022 @ 1:54pm 
can you update to repentance please this looks sick
quaxivus 26 Mar, 2022 @ 6:26pm 
its just greed mode
SwagernioreX 19 Nov, 2021 @ 9:23am 
This amazing mod of AB+ for Repentance support?
JSG  [author] 31 Jul, 2021 @ 5:50pm 
Hey, it only took 4 years for someone to notice it. If you dig long-ass descriptions check most of my other mods, most of which have equally larger descriptions, usually just 1 character away from the limit.
Human 31 Jul, 2021 @ 5:43pm 
i haven't played the challenge yet, but can we appreciate how this man wrote an entire new york best seller book for his description? its so lonk
JSG  [author] 3 Jul, 2021 @ 10:35am 
You'll notice more bugs as you move on, since a lot of stuff changed on rep and I didnt touch this mod in 4 years.