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The Stairway item
The Stairway is an unlockable passive item in The Binding of Isaac, added in the Repentance DLC.
Description
Generates a ladder that leads to a special Angel Room Shop at the start of each floor.
These shops will always contain the following:
• An item from the Angel Room item pool.
• Eternal Heart.
• Soul Heart.
• Key.
• Holy Card.
• Angel statue that can be fought for a Key Piece.
• Beggar or Rotten Beggar next to the entrance.
• Confessional, if unlocked.
Items and pickups can be on sale just like in normal shops.
The ladder will disappear once Isaac leaves the starting room.
The ladder will also appear in Greed Mode.
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.
How to unlock?
Defeat Isaac as Jacob and Esau.
Item pools
The Stairway can be found in the following item pools:
| Name | Weight |
|---|---|
| Angel Room |
1.0/1.0
|
| Greed Angel Room |
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. |
| lazarussharedglobal | Passive effects (except direct stat changes) are shared between  Tainted Lazarus' forms. |
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.
The Stairway
• Spawns a ladder in the starting room of each new floor, leading to a special angel shop
• The ladder disappears after exiting the starting room
• Abyss: x1 locust 1.5x Isaac's damage
YouTube video
External links
- Check out the item description on the external Isaac Wiki.
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