Black candle

[Worthless Weeaboo Garbage]

I think I may have discovered a glitch concerning this item.
It makes you immune to curses, and it even clears amnesia if you got it before getting the black candle.
However, if you get amnesia after you picked up the black candle it still clears out your map, even though when you press tab the game says that you have curse of the lost.

[Worthless Weeaboo Garbage]

Originally posted by Joki the Disco Bandit:

Amnesia is from a pill, though, so I guess the game doesn't consider it the same as the Curse, even though they have the same effect.

If you press tab it will say that you have curse of the lost.

[Rmxa]

how is this supposed to be a glitch?
the effect of black candle is to make you immune to curses which you have gotten on this floor or get at the beginning of a new floor, that's why the pill effect is still working on a floor after you got the candle

[wckowalski]

Originally posted by Rmxa:

how is this supposed to be a glitch?
the effect of black candle is to make you immune to curses which you have gotten on this floor or get at the beginning of a new floor, that's why the pill effect is still working on a floor after you got the candle

You misread it. If the pill comes first it clears it. The effect shouldn't differ depending on which comes first.

Also, btw it doesn't clear curses that are caused by the special conditions of a challenge.

[Worthless Weeaboo Garbage]

Originally posted by Rmxa:

how is this supposed to be a glitch?
the effect of black candle is to make you immune to curses which you have gotten on this floor or get at the beginning of a new floor, that's why the pill effect is still working on a floor after you got the candle

Where did you get this very specific item information exactly?
How do you know it's working as intended?

[Rmxa]

http://bindingofisaacrebirth.gamepedia.com/Black_Candle
the way it works I guess it's preventing the generaton of a curse when a new floor is generated and removes the current curse
but since amnesia from the pill is in fact not a curse it does not get blocked by candle, but it is stored in the curse information of the floor I think, that's why it's getting removed when you pick black candle up which removes the curse of the floor

[0Dd1]

A pill effect is no curse.

[Worthless Weeaboo Garbage]

Originally posted by Rmxa:

http://bindingofisaacrebirth.gamepedia.com/Black_Candle
the way it works I guess it's preventing the generaton of a curse when a new floor is generated and removes the current curse
but since amnesia from the pill is in fact not a curse it does not get blocked by candle, but it is stored in the curse information of the floor I think, that's why it's getting removed when you pick black candle up which removes the curse of the floor

Originally posted by MrBungle:

A pill effect is no curse.

Well, the game specifically says that it's a curse, but from what I've gathered from these answers it seems that the black candle is not an active effect or an effect that triggers as a response to a curse existing, but it's just an effect that triggers at the start of each floor and when you pick it up.