PSA: The Super Secret room heart trick

[burn1none]

Hey there I just wanted to share a cool trick I recently learned while watching Albino's stream after over 1000 hours in the game I was amazed to learn something new. Anyways the heart trick is a way to generate a ton of special hearts using items and consumables that normally only make red hearts.

Its' very simple actually and will make you think twice before immediately popping The Lovers card or Hematemesis pill. All you have to do is find a Super Secret room that already has a special heart on the ground such as a black heart like in this screenshot:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2884018580
then in this case I used a Queen of Hearts which normally makes a ton of red hearts and voila:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2884018583

this also works in other Super Secret rooms like the ones with Eternal Hearts. I hope this helps some of you and improves your runs

[kofdmf]

hmmm. actually, i have already known this. thanks for sharing.

just add some notes for it:
it works for all heart spawning mechanism including the hierophant and the hierophant?, not only red hearts can be changed. heart spawning item such as old bandage with self damage item such as IV-bag could also take some advantage in this kind of room.

[Virgil]

Holy hell. I did not know this. Thank you, OP. It would have taken me ages to find this out through trial and error.

[Danizk0]

Old news, but I guess some people didn't know about it.

The best part about this trick is that it gives The Jar a very niche use. It's still a garbage item, but if you use it to pull this off in front of someone, they're going to be very impressed by your intellect.

[burn1none]

It may be old news but I didn’t see any mention of it in the Guides section. Like Kofdmf said it works with any heart generating method, I was playing T Laz in the screenshots and my other character had IV bag and Bloody Penny so I was able to top both them off before even using the Queen of Hearts. Still satisfying to pop one card and watch a ton of Black Hearts appear