Internal Item Descriptions
✅ Accurate pedestal item descriptions with no extra HUD or further configuration required! ✅
🛠️ Repentance DLC required! Compatible with Patch v1.7.9b (See Bugs section) 🛠️
⚠️ DOES NOT WORK IN CO-OP MODE! ⚠️
Internal Item Descriptions is a simple, newbie-friendly, plug-and-play mod that provides relevant item information inside the native description UI of the game. The External Item Descriptions mod, from which my mod derives its name, exists and fulfills a very similar purpose; however, I personally found it too intrusive and overwhelming for my liking, so I made this instead.
The game already provides players with a basic description of all items, albeit usually cryptic, if not outright misleading. My mod aims to change that. All item info has been taken directly from the Wiki and rewritten for the purpose of this mod (i.e. shortened); I did not copy any existing EID summaries and did not come up with any new terminologies of my own.
Almost every single item in the game has had its description modified.
- Factual information about every single item (effects / stats / pickups or drops); no more vague descriptions like "pray for a miracle", "destined for greatness", "awaken your faith". Descriptions now mostly fully cover what each item does, without the player having to delve into the Wiki to find out what they do on their own.
- Previously unmentioned information, such as:
– Pickups added directly to the player inventory ("+99 pennies").
– Consumables dropped on the ground ("+ 3 heart pickups").
– Devil / Angel deal chances ("Faith up").
– Planetarium chances ("Planetarium chance up").
– Exact amount of gained red heart canisters ("HP up x2").
– Effect timeframes ("temporary" if in seconds, "for current room", "for current floor").
– Conditions for item procs ("on hit", "on dealt damage", "on contact" etc).
– Which items fully heal you ("Full health").
– Size ups and downs, Tear Size included. - Description formula lists up to 3 of the following effects in this specific order:
[1st Effect] > [2nd Effect] > [Stat Up/Down] > [Planetarium/Faith/Evil] > [+Pickups/Drops]Multiple stat ups and downs are always shown in the following order:
[HP] > [DMG] > [Tears] > [Knockback] > [Speed] > [Range] > [Shot Speed] > [Luck] - Wording and phrasing:
– All words and terms inside the descriptions have been properly capitalized.
– Most item names are no longer punctuated (e.g "Kamikaze!" is now just "Kamikaze").
– Items that affect the entire room have "Mass" in their description.
– Items that count towards the Conjoined transformation are described as "baby".
Otherwise they are described as "fly", "orbital" or just "familiar" when relevant.
– All quest items retain their "???" description so as to not spoil new content.
– Descriptions no longer mention both "shots" and "tears" (now only "tears").
– Descriptions no longer mention both "toots" and "farts" (now only "toots").
– Evil up has been preserved to signify the gained black heart and Black Feather synergy.
The modded descriptions display one line of text, just like vanilla Isaac. There is not much space to provide extra information like exact item procs and conditions. Descriptions still mostly contain 8 words or less. Here is a list of some missing information:
– Changes to Tear Height.
– Which eye fires what (Stapler, Eye Drops, Blood Clot etc.).
– How many existing heart containers HP items heal (Dinner, Dessert, Breakfast etc).
– Amount of rooms needed for a proc (e.g. Bag items that activate every X amount of rooms).
– What "low health" means (one red heart, no red hearts, half a red heart etc.).
– Effects of Trinkets, Cards and Runes (WIP).
- 1.7.7a:
⚠️The mod crashes the game when a player dies in Co-op mode. ⚠️ - 1.7.8a:
– Camo Undies doesn’t provide the DMG / Tears Up boosts introduced in update 1.7.8.
– Lazarus’ Rags doesn’t provide the DMG Up boost introduced in update 1.7.8
(the old, halved stat boost remains). - 1.7.9b:
– Isaac’s Tears doesn’t provide the DMG Up boost introduced in update 1.7.9.
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth
The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+
The Binding of Isaac: Repentance
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
