Buoy
Buoys are small enemies that spawn stationary, half-submerged in water, and will remain inactive until they take damage or Isaac draws near. If disturbed, they will hop out of the water, creating a small splash of 3-4 short-ranged projectiles in different directions.
Afterwards, they will randomly switch between sliding around the room erratically with small dashes or firing small short-ranged projectiles in random directions. When dashing or firing projectiles, either action has a high chance to be aimed in Isaac's direction instead of being random, and a Buoy will always target Isaac if he is too close to it. Buoys, once on the surface, take greatly increased knockback from Isaac's tears.
While Buoys are almost always found underwater, in some rooms Buoys can be encountered unsubmerged.
Trivia
- Buoys were added in The Spitshine Update.
- Buoy was originally designed during the development of the now-defunct mod, Exile. At the time, Buoy remained as a concept made by one of the Fiend Folio developers, Pixelo, who was tied with the project; however, it was never brought up to the rest of the Exile team to start being developed into an enemy.