The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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Feb 26, 2022 @ 1:17am
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Randomness Challenge

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Some of my favorite Repentance mods
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Description
I find that I tend to take the same path on most of my playthroughs. This mod tries to mix that up by forcing random paths and characters.

There's over 60 paths, including:
  • Mom
  • Mom -> It Lives
  • Mom -> It Lives -> Isaac
  • Mom -> It Lives -> Isaac -> Blue Baby
  • Mom -> It Lives -> Isaac -> Mega Satan
  • Mom -> Mother
  • Mom -> Mother -> Hush
  • Mom -> Mother -> Hush -> Satan
  • Mom -> Mother -> Hush -> Satan -> The Lamb
  • Mom -> Mother -> Hush -> Satan -> The Lamb -> Delirium
  • Ascent -> The Beast

All paths are vanilla except for the paths that continue past Mother.

You can tap the map button to show your path.

Right now, trapdoors spawn in the center of the room rather than their normal positions. I might leave this or change it. I haven't made up my mind yet. I like that it feels a bit different.

If relevant: The polaroid and negative aren't required. Knife pieces 1 and 2 are required. Key pieces 1 and 2 will be spawned at the start of your run.

I haven't seen a random Void portal show up in a custom challenge recently, but if one does then you can always choose to end your run by fighting Delirium.

Potential mod conflicts:
  • Any mods that can override the chosen path like Coin Flip (Path Randomizer) should be disabled when running this challenge.
  • This mod implements runs continuing past Mega Satan just like AlwaysVoid, NO Mega Satan auto cutscene, and No Auto-Cutscenes. It's recommended to disable those mods so you don't run into any conflicts.
  • This mod implements runs continuing past Mother just like Runs Continue Past Mother. That mod disables itself for custom challenges and should be fine to leave enabled.

There's 6 challenges that are based around character selection...

Randomness Challenge

This challenge will start you with a random character.

#
Regular
Tainted
1
Isaac
Tainted Isaac
2
Magdalene
Tainted Magdalene
3
Cain
Tainted Cain
4
Judas
Tainted Judas
5
???
Tainted ???
6
Eve
Tainted Eve
7
Samson
Tainted Samson
8
Azazel
Tainted Azazel
9
Lazarus
Tainted Lazarus
10
The Lost
Tainted Lost
11
Lilith
Tainted Lilith
12
Keeper
Tainted Keeper
13
Apollyon
Tainted Apollyon
14
The Forgotten
Tainted Forgotten
15
Bethany
Tainted Bethany
16
Jacob and Esau
Tainted Jacob

If you really want to start with a specific character then you can press the corresponding key(s) on your keyboard when starting the challenge. For example:
  • 1 = Isaac
  • T + 1 = Tainted Isaac
  • 0 = 10 = The Lost
  • 0 + 1 = 11 = Lilith

Randomness Challenge (Regular)

This challenge will start you with a random regular character from the list above.

Randomness Challenge (Tainted)

This challenge will start you with a random tainted character from the list above.

Randomness Challenge (Eden)

Eden is already pretty random.

Randomness Challenge (T-Eden)

Tainted Eden is even more random.

Randomness Challenge (Trainer)

This challenge starts you as Isaac with TMTRAINER. It's basically the DELETE THIS challenge with a custom path.
16 Comments
Stlkngne  [author] Apr 25 @ 7:33pm 
This is a weird edge case where the game is reporting that there's a trapdoor there when I spawn it, but clearly it's not there.
vl.3.4.4 Apr 25 @ 12:38pm 
I think I found a problem with this mod, the entrance to the Hush area didn't appear after I used A Card Against Humanity in Mother fight
Xirtsym Dec 30, 2024 @ 5:31am 
That mod looks interesting as it does the character randomization I was intending but your mod choosing a path for you to go down is the most desired feature I wanted. Do you know of a mod that does that for regular runs?
Stlkngne  [author] Dec 30, 2024 @ 2:35am 
If you have repentogon, you might prefer this instead: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3257282571
Xirtsym Dec 30, 2024 @ 12:53am 
I was looking for a mod that does something exactly like this, the only differences I was looking for being the ability to restrict the characters picked and having it in normal runs so that you can track win streak (unless challenges already do that).
Stlkngne  [author] Aug 16, 2023 @ 10:10am 
The only thing I can think of from a mod perspective would be a shader (which can cause issues on some computers), but this mod doesn't use any shaders.
bayers21 Aug 16, 2023 @ 3:40am 
i had a black screen during a run but how can i fix this
Stlkngne  [author] Sep 23, 2022 @ 3:12am 
The default challenge will now pick a random character from regular + tainted.
Bhuster Jul 30, 2022 @ 4:48pm 
Good idea
Would love to have an option to get a random character among all of them (normal+tainted)
Meteor Apr 29, 2022 @ 8:27pm 
Good stuff. It feels really good to start a run without having to decide a character or destination.