Spare Ribs

Spare Ribs
Flavor text	"Return to sender"
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Item Pool	Devil Room Treasure Room Devil Room Treasure Room
Quality	2
Item Tags
Unlocked By	Complete The Real Jon

Spare Ribs is a passive item added in the initial release of Fiend Folio.

Effects

• Grants an empty Bone Heart.
• When Isaac takes damage, a set of 6 rib projectiles will be released from his body, attempting to return to him shortly after.
  • The ribs will pierce through enemies, dealing damage equivalent to Isaac's damage stat, and will destroy any enemy projectiles they collide with.

Notes

• The effect will trigger only if there are no ribs currently orbiting Isaac, meaning it won't activate if at least 1 rib is on the screen.
• Moving in a certain way while any ribs are on screen can cause the ribs to orbit Isaac indefinitely if he stays still. Moving again can change their inertia to allow them to return.
  • However, each rib will deal its damage only once to each enemy, no matter how many times the rib and the enemy touch each other, which means keeping the ribs on screen for too long is mostly pointless.
• Getting multiple copies of Spare Ribs will add an empty Bone Heart every time the item is picked up, and the number of released rib projectiles will be increased by 6 for each copy collected.