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Repentance · Coin health and unlocks
Manage Coin Hearts, check permanent starting upgrades and use Wooden Nickel without assuming it guarantees a healing coin.
Understand the system
A Penny restores a missing Coin Heart without also adding that Penny to the money counter. At full health an ordinary Penny adds money. Normal HP upgrades can bring Keeper to three Coin Heart slots; Birthright adds another maximum slot.
Defeating Isaac as Keeper adds Wooden Nickel to later starts. Defeating Satan adds Store Key. Defeating Hush raises starting Coin Heart capacity from two to three and adds a starting Penny. Check your actual unlocked setup.
A ready Wooden Nickel can drop a coin, but it can also produce nothing. A spawned coin still has to be collected to heal. Keeper does not have Tainted Keeper's regular short-lived enemy coin drops.
Wooden Nickel becomes a starting item after the Keeper-versus-Isaac unlock. Birthright is optional. Penny art identifies ordinary coin healing.
Practice the decision
These are fixed teaching examples with stated conditions. Choose an action and compare what you have before and after it.
Keeper
Before
1 of 3 Coin Hearts filled; 8 coins; ordinary Penny; no modifiers
After
2 of 3 Coin Hearts filled; still 8 coins
The Penny fills one missing Coin Heart. It does not also increase spending money.
Check before acting: Check the health count before calculating purchase money.
Wooden Nickel becomes a starting item after the Keeper-versus-Isaac unlock. Birthright is optional. Penny art identifies ordinary coin healing.
This reference does not read your save, calculate a crafting recipe or simulate an arbitrary inventory, health bar, queue or combat state.
