@ Jelweryzs : What do you mean? If this is in response to my last comment 2 and a half years, I published the Repentance version of this ages ago. Just check my mods page or search for "No more useless items".

And you will found it or just this will be dead...?

@ HaVeNII7 Hey, I'm afraid I haven't found the time/motivation to complete a Repentance version of this yet, but it will definitely be done. Thanks for your interest!

Hey, any progress on an update for Repentance? This looks like it will make the game significantly better, definitely curious to try it out once updated.

@ tomasiukas21212 Coolgum15 I don't know for sure, I haven't tested it. My suspicion is that it should broadly work, but none of the changes or additions in Repentance (co-op will only consider player 1, no new characters are covered etc.).

I will be working to update this when I get the time, but due to the number and nature of the changes it won't be possible to update this mod for Repentance but keep it backwards compatible. For that reason, I'll likely publish the Repentance version as a separate mod, and keep this one unchanged for Afterbirth+.

Does this still work in repentance?

does it work in rep?

i will test this in rep to see if works

Yeah, thanks.

@ Mr.Guest : It doesn't. This is because Stop Watch triggers even when the player takes a hit but is protected from damage by Holy Mantle, and The Lost starts with that. So, not a useless item.

Does this mod removes stop watch for the Lost?

@Sacky Eyes : It's more likely Repentance will make it obsolete in the "needs major updates to work properly" sense than the "is pointless now" sense, but you never know. ;-)

Crossing my fingers Repentance makes this mod obsolete- er, No offense, of course!

Hey @ tarobubbletea, sorry it took so long for me to read your comment! Epiphora is actually already on Lilith's blacklist, you'll be glad to hear. :-)

epiphora should be added to the blacklist for lilith imo

Oh nevermind, I just read it dows. Awesome.

After many a Lost run being stifled from not finding enough defensive items, I'm glad to have installed this mod.
By the way, does this also work with D4/Missingno/other items that randomly reassign your items?

@ Diet Ridge : This mod doesn't add any new content to the game or meaningfully alter existing content, so it's exactly as recommended/appropriate for under 7s as The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is in general.

I wouldn't personally regard TBoI as being suitable for children under 7 (it's rated 'Mature' or '16+' on other platforms), but that's obviously a judgement call for their guardian.

Would you recommend this mod for children 7 and under?

@ valdismax : I haven't tested it, but most probably it doesn't. For player-specific item replacements, it should only work for Player 1, and for common item replacements, it should replace all items which are useless for Player 1's character, even if they're useful for other players.

That's my guess, anyway.

Hello, do it works whit true coop? thanks

@ princess : Hey, unfortunately I wasn't able to reproduce your game crashing issue. The Never Breakfast mod and this mod don't seem to conflict with each other as far as I can tell.

If there's a very specific scenario in which crashing occurs, let me know, but otherwise I'm afraid there's not really anything I can do about it.

But Bob's brain isnt useless

does it get rid of bobs brain

@ flap_jack im currently keeping no more breakfast on and turning this one off, because i break the game way too much to give up the former :p I'm gonna stay subscribed to this mod though so hopefully ill be able to use it!

@ princess : I'll look into it but I won't promise anything!

In the meantime I hope you're OK with just disabling the No Breakfast mod when you're playing as The Lost, as this mod already stops Breakfast from spawning when you're that character.

could you make this compatible with "no more breakfast" ? currently it crashes the game when you play as the lost with both mods. maybe get rid of the thing where it changes breakfast to boom, or give us an option to get rid of that?

Alright, problem stopped occuring. Thanks!

@ spaghetti-dude : Thank you so much for telling me this! I made the basic error of putting the wrong API version number in my mod file, which should now be correct.

Let me know if the [old] issue still occurs, because I can't directly test it myself.

The mod appears as "[old]" in the mods list

Ah ok
also its fine lmao

@ its shooketh time (EpicGirl) : Hey, apologies for how long it took me to respond to this! I could do that, but I won't, because the scope of this mod is just in blocking items which are ALWAYS useless for a character, not items which are useless only when combined with other items.

If I blocked Mr. Boom whenever you had Dr. Fetus, there are countless other combinations of items I ought to consider blocking too, and doing that would go against the very core idea of the game.

Can you make it so if you pick up Dr Fetus or Epic Fetus things like Mr Boom or Pyro dont appear anymore? (Not including things like Sad Bombs or Butt Bombs)

@ brossi1 Yep, because Lord of the Pit grants +0.3 to Speed as well as flight, so it's not useless for Azazel, just less useful.

You can always check the Google Sheet linked in the mod description to check whether an item appearing is a bug or by design.

I was playing azazel and I found lord of the pit?

fair enough

@ Darky: Because Keeper can benefit from health ups. It's kind of annoying, because it's a fringe benefit, but if you've used your second coin heart container on a devil deal (or you got rid of it by picking up an item such as Dead Cat), then a health up will restore it. It'll also fill your second coin heart container if it's empty.

just curious, why can the keeper still recieve health ups?

You are beautiful, thank you for saving my runs.

@ ItsNate: Hey, thanks for the comment!

The decision to remove coin-consuming familiars for Keeper was definitely the most difficult and subjective one I made, but ultimately Bum Friend and Bumbo hurt Keeper notably more than they help him, and making them work requires either very high skill or incredible luck with synergies, so that's why I blacklisted them.

I do get your point though, and although I'm not convinced enough to change it, I absolutely encourage you to whitelist those items in your local version of the mod if you like. Let me know if you want any help with doing this!

you shouldnt remove coin consuming familiars from the Kepper, because things like Bumbo can sometimes save your run if you have gnawed leaf or something and just wait out a hard fight

Oh. Okay. Well, it was okay because I beat Delirium in that run somehow. I didn't know about the shot speed thing, thanks!

@ [S2] Snore : Stem Cells isn't blacklisted because it gives a slight boost to shot speed as well as the HP Up. Still a crappy item for The Lost for sure, but it isn't ~useless~.

I was confused there for a minute because Stem Cell, the trinket, is blacklisted.

As always, if you want to add or remove items to the lists of blacklisted items in your own copy of the mod file, you're welcome to do so. Let me know if you need any pointers.

I uh got the Stem Cells as lost. Are you only not supposed to be able to get breakfast or what?

@ play for story k? : I'm afraid not. The only way to do this for Afterbirth would be to make 5 separate mods which all modify itempools.xml, and then you'd have to manually add/remove the correct mod every time you change character.

Also you wouldn't be able to blacklist trinkets, cards or pills, just collectibles.

Is there version for afterbirth?

@ cain: Ah, in that case I'm glad it's working well for you. :D

@Flap_Jack
Yeah, I did notice a few health-container items cropping up. But even with those remaining, that's fine - as you say, they're useful if you get a bad pill proc or use a devil deal/black market - it was mostly the ones that were focused around heart drops and soul hearts that were giving me grief. Things like the relic and PJs and stuff which essentially just turned into "here's some flies you'll lose in the next room with enemies" items. Noticeable improvement all around! Thanks for the heads up on how to edit the .lua file, though. I'll keep it in mind!

@ cain: Oh, and heart container items also give Keeper his second coin-heart (if he's missing the health but not necessarily the container). So that's the other reason they're not blacklisted: because they save you a coin, and can even save your run if you're only at 1HP when you find it, and you get hit again before finding the next coin.

@ cain: Great to hear! But... I'm going to have to apologize in advance. Items which give you heart containers aren't blacklisted for Keeper, because they're useful if you've lost your second coin-heart container in a devil or black market deal. Sorry. :/

However, the blacklisted items are defined in the main.lua file by simple lists of enumerations (called "CollectiblesKeeper" and "PassiveItemsKeeper"), which you are absolutely welcome to add to or remove from for your local version of the mod. Those health items are already blacklisted for The Lost, so hopefully it's not too tricky to copy them over. (Just remember to make a back up in case of updates.) If you want to do that and need further guidance, just let me know!