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Notched Axe item
Notched Axe is an active item in The Binding of Isaac.
Description
When used, replaces Isaac's tears with a pickaxe that can be swung like The Forgotten's club.
It can damage enemies, break obstacles and blow open doors.
Using the item again holsters the pickaxe and allows Isaac to shoot tears again. This can be done repeatedly without wasting any charges.
The item has a total of 64 charges and cannot be recharged normally by clearing rooms or picking up batteries or battery-related items. It will fully recharge upon going down to a next floor or picking up Iron Bar.
Each swing deals 3x Isaac's damage and depletes 2 charges.
Destroying an obstacle or blowing open a door depletes 1 charge.
Once the item runs out of charges, the pickaxe breaks and cannot be used again until recharged.
Note
This page shows the latest information as of the new Repentance+ (Online Co-op) DLC.
To see information about this item for the previous Repentance version, check this page instead.
Item pools
Notched Axe can be found in the following item pools:
| Name | Weight |
|---|---|
| Shop |
1.0/1.0
|
| Greed Shop |
1.0/1.0
|
| Crane Game |
1.0/1.0
|
Tags
The following tags are applied to this item:
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| offensive | Can appear for  Tainted Lost. |
| nocantrip | Not available as card effects during the Cantripped! challenge. |
Special synergies
The following special synergies and interactions for Notched Axe have been documented.
| Mod | Item | Synergy |
|---|---|---|
| --- | Book of Virtues | Breaking obstacles has a chance to generate wisps that have different effects based on the 'mineral' mined, ranging from most common to least common:
Black wisp: fires black tears that have the  A Lump of Coal effect and deal 2.5 damage.
Silver wisp: fires metallic tears that have the  Iron Bar effect and deal 4 damage.
Golden wisp: fires penny tears that have the  Midas' Touch effect and deal 3.5 damage.
Red wisp: fires laser tears similar to  Technology that deal 3.5 damage.
Blue wisp: fires diamond tears similar to  Crown Of Light that deal 7 damage. |
| --- | The Book of Belial combined with Judas' Birthright | The pickaxe receives a purplish glow and the following upgrades:
Increased durability: each use of the pickaxe has a very high chance not to use a charge. Faster usage: the pickaxe can be swung faster. Higher knockback: enemies are knocked back when hit, receiving 8 + 0.2 × CurrentFloor damage if they collide with a wall, an obstacle or another enemy. Fire effect: the pickaxe sets enemies on fire. The burn damage is equal to Judas' damage stat. Increased luck: • destroying poops will spawn pickups much more frequently. When combined with  Petrified Poop the chance goes up to 100% and will often result in multiple pickups from a single poop.
• destroying tinted rocks will drop more consumables than usual. • destroying urns has a higher chance to drop more coins. The coins can be of different variants. • destroying mushrooms, skulls and other alternative rock variants has an increased chance to drop their respective rewards. • destroying fool's gold rocks will drop significantly more coins. |
* Note that not all possible synergies and interactions are listed here.
Internal item description
Below is the Internal Item Description as shown in-game.
Note that some stat changes are not displayed here. Please see the main description for the full effects.
Notched Axe
• Wield the pickaxe. Press attack buttons to swing it
• Can break rocks and damage enemies but has limited uses per floor
• Abyss: x1 stone locust .75x Isaac's damage
• Book of Virtues: Chance to spawn various wisp types when destroying obstacles
External links
- Check out the item description on the external Isaac Wiki.
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