In-game pickup line
“A helping hand”
Mechanics
What Strawman does
- Spawns a Keeper companion who can attack and collect items separately, and changes Devil deals to coin prices while he lives.
- If he dies, Strawman and his collected items are lost permanently, leaving blue spiders behind.
From the game files
What you receive on pickup
Pickup grants
- Bombs
- +1
Achievement #503
How to unlock it
Defeat The Beast as Tainted Keeper.
Unlocking an item and finding it during a run are separate steps.
Explore more unlocksIn a run
Practical note
Protect the companion's coin health before giving him a valuable item.
Reference
Game data and sources
The item ID, quality and pool listings, icon, game-file tags, and short pickup line come from the extracted Repentance files. This effect explanation is an editorial summary checked against the references below. Repentance+ can differ. Charge and pickup values shown above also come from the extracted items.xml.
