Tractor Beam

**Tractor Beam** is a passive item added in the *Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth* expansion.

## Effects

* A beam appears directly in front of Isaac in the direction that his head is facing. Isaac's tears travel in the path of the beam.
	+ When Isaac moves or turns his head, tears that are mid-flight will snap to the beam.
* +0.5 Tears up.
* +5.25 Range up.
* +0.16 Shot speed.
* +0.5 Tear height.

## Synergies

* Template:I: Both tears are fired along the beam.
* Template:I: Tears that are still hovering can be pushed in the direction Isaac is aiming by walking into them.
* Template:I: All splash tears will follow the beam, effectively tripling damage.
* Conjoined transformation: The 2 split shots will instead follow the beam, making it easier to hit enemies with. Essentially increases DPS.
* Template:I: The tears will re-appear directly in front of Isaac after leaving the room.
* Template:I: After firing a bomb and moving, the bomb will have a homing-style effect towards the beam, but will not stay directly on the beam.
* Template:I: When shooting in the same direction, Isaac's fire rate will gradually increase. Tears stay on the beam.
* Template:I: Explosivo's tears will become "entangled" when sticking on an enemy, causing them to jump from the tractor beam to the enemy and vice versa every frame. The tear will explode only once either at the beam or the enemy.
* Template:I: Tears will bounce as they follow the beam.
* Homing Tears: The tears will stay in the line but slow down at the monsters location.
* Template:I: All three tears follow the beam, overlapping each other, making it easier to hit the same enemy with all of them. This effect also applies to the Keeper.
* Template:I: The Ipecac tear will always travel forwards along the beam, even if Isaac is moving forward as well. This makes it less likely for Isaac to get damaged by his own tear.
* Template:I: Tear barrage and stone will follow the beam.
* Template:I: Tears can still be fed and will still burst. Burst tears will travel along the beam.
* Template:I: Teleports the knife when aiming in a different direction after you shot the knife.
* Template:I: All tears are fired along the beam, but at different heights.
* Template:I: All four tears follow the beam, overlapping each other, making it easier to hit the same enemy with all of them
* Template:I: All splash tears will follow the beam. If combined with Template:I, will result in absurdly strong knockback, capable of pushing almost any boss away with incredible force.
* Template:I: Tears stick along the tractor beam even when they slow down and collide, capable of creating a dense line of shots.
* Template:I: Tears will follow the beam until they bounce off of something, then they will leave the beam.
* Template:I: Tears fired by the sprinkler will follow Isaac's beam, increasing damage output.
* Template:I: The tears will no longer orbit Isaac, but still gain the range increase and spectral tears.
	+ Template:I + Template:I: Tears will travel along the beam and upon hitting a wall will then orbit Isaac.
* Template:I: The tears still follow the beam, passing over obstacles.

## Interactions

* Template:I: Tears cannot be fired diagonally; however, stat effects apply.
* Template:I: Overridden by Brimstone.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Needles fired will follow beam; however, burst needles will not.
* Template:I: The beam will visually follow Isaac's head as it orbits, but tears will still stay centered relative to Isaac's body.
* Template:I: Fired tears will travel along the beam; however, the burst tears will not.
* Template:I: The Incubus tears isn't affected by the beam, but the beam will still be there.
	+ Template:I + Template:I: Incubus's tear barrage will follow the beam.
* Template:I: Tears fired will follow beam; however, tear barrage will not follow the beam.
* Template:I: Overridden by The Ludovico Technique.
* Template:I: Tears will not fire diagonally; only up, down, left, or right based on where Marked is on floor.
* Template:I: The beam only affects the "original" tears, not the duplicate ones (in other words, half of the split tears follow the beam)
* Template:I: Tears travel a short distance, then return to Isaac, before travelling away from Isaac and then disappear while remaining in the beam.
* Template:I: Tractor Beam has no effect on the tears created by Tammy's Head.
* Template:I: Overridden by Tech X.
* Template:I: Overridden by Technology.
* Template:I: When Isaac is damaged, the ten tears that fire will not follow the beam.
* Template:I: The beam overrides the worm's tear movement effect, but keeps the +10 range.

## Notes

* This item prevents the player from firing tears at angles using momentum.
* The primary effect is not applied for Azazel and Lilith, although they can still profit from the increased Tear rate.

## Trivia

* This item is a reference to tractor beams in science fiction, often depicted as beams of energy that can be used to move objects.

## Seeds

 PC  9333 LT34 - Treasure room adjacent to spawn on normal, to the west on hard

 PC  2J1M 978K - Treasure room below to spawn on normal

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