Year - The Binding of Isaac

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Year is a passive item in Damnation, a mod for The Binding of Isaac.

+X damage.

X equals to 12 by default. For every item from Ultra Secret Room itempool, X-1 (will not go below 0).

Year can be found in the following item pools:

Name	Weight
Devil Room	1.0/1.0
Secret Room	1.0/1.0
Greed Devil Room	1.0/1.0
Greed Secret Room	0.5/1.0

The following tags are applied to this item:

Id	Description
offensive	Can appear for Tainted Lost.
summonable	Can be summoned via Lemegeton.

The following special synergies and interactions for Year have been documented.

Mod	Item	Synergy
Reverie	Seija	There are so many red in the Shining Needle Castle =( If Seija has more than 12 items from Ultra Secret Room itempool, additionally grants -0.25 flat damage for every additional red item she has.
Damnation	Chinese Dictionary	Each Ultra Secret Room item only cause X-0.5 instead of 1.
Daydream all Day	Protanopia	Red items no longer reduce damage.

* Note that not all possible synergies and interactions are listed here.

This item is a reference to a Chinese legend:

Once upon a time, there was a monster. He kills people. He destroys houses. He was considered undestroyable. He only occurs every new year's eve, so he was names "Nian" (年), and villagers will escape from their village to survive that night.
That was until one day an old man occurred in the village, announcing that he knows the way to defeat "Nian"!
Nian is afraid of Red color, as it might be considered as flame! Nian is afraid of the sound of explosion!
People discovered these weak points, and they're no longer afraid of monster Nian anymore.
Every New Year's eve, they put New Year scrolls by their doors. They play firecrackers. They keep the light on for all night.
And after that, the monster Nian never occurred anymore.

This can be one of the reason that Chinese people considers red as propitiousness.