Butter!

**Butter!** is an unlockable trinket added in *The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth † (Booster Pack #1)*.

## Effects

* Using an active item will drop it onto a pedestal on the ground.
* When Isaac takes damage, there is a 2% chance one of Isaac's passive items will drop on the ground.

## Strategy

* Butter! allows the transportation of active item pedestal from room to room. On its own this ability is useless, but can be used to set up plays involving room-wide pedestal effects; after gathering all available active item pedestal in a single room, Isaac can then:
	+ Use , ,  etc., to re-roll every single item pedestal in the room.
	+ Use , , or  to consume all pedestal for their respective benefits.
	+ Use  (or more riskily ) to double all item pedestals before doing any of the above.
	+ Isaac can also damage himself to try to fish for the 2% chance of dropping a passive item in the same room as well.

## Synergies

* : Using Esau Jr. while holding Butter! will spawn another copy of Esau Jr.
* : Items that are normally unusable when holding Butter! can still activate their effects if absorbed by Void.

## Interactions

* Consumable actives: Active items that remove themselves upon use do not drop and are consumed as normal.
* Controllable actives: Active items that require additional input to control after being used (like  or ) create no effect and are dropped on the ground. They retain charge when picked up.
* Familiar spawning actives: Active items that spawn Blue Flies, Blue Spiders, or items like  will spawn those familiars before dropping.
	+ This applies to active items that spawn pickups.
* Tainted characters with active items in their consumable slots can drop them from getting hit, however they will only be able to pick it back up into the active item slot.
* : The flight granted by the Bible persists even though the item is dropped.
* : Dropped active items will not cause extra item pedestals to spawn, nor can getting hit cause Isaac to drop an activated Damocles.
* : Is removed from Isaac and dropped, but is given back to Isaac discharged upon going back in time to the previous room. The room in which Glowing Hourglass was used will not contain another Glowing Hourglass.
* : Isaac animates a jump but his movement remains normal and he cannot go over any obstacles.
* : Effect from the Metronome is immediately canceled beyond the gain of hearts, coins, bombs, or keys. Visual effects may persist until leaving the room.
* : Butter! provides one of two available methods for getting rid of Missing No. The other being .
* : Notched Axe is dropped when the charge bar is empty.
* : The flight granted by The Pinking Shears persists, but the body familiar is immediately canceled.
* : Deals damage to Isaac as normal but does not increase damage for the current room.

## No Effect

Butter! will immediately cancel the effects of and discharge these active items when dropped, unless they are consumed with .

## Gallery

* Butter!'s appearance prior to Booster Pack #4.
* Concept for the Butter item on the top left corner, along with other trinkets and items, by Edmund McMillen.

## Trivia

* Butter! was made by Florian Himsl (developer and programmer of the original *The Binding of Isaac* game).
* Butter!'s effect may be a reference to the English slang "butterfingers," which is used to describe a person who has difficulty holding or catching things.