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Repentance reward guide
Room clear rewards
Getting nothing, seeing two pickups, or finding another locked chest can all have different explanations. Start with the event that produced the drop.
Identify the event first
Where did your reward come from?
Choose when the drop appeared and the mode you are playing. The same-looking pickup can come from different reward rules.
This is an ordinary room-clear award.
Clearing an eligible enemy room can produce a pickup, but getting nothing is a normal possible outcome.
- Luck affects the award roll. Lucky Foot and Lucky Toe also have direct reward effects, so their benefit is not only their +1 luck stat.
- Normal mode does not apply Hard mode's extra heart-award suppression.
- Layout contents, enemy drops and chest contents are separate sources. A modifier may replace, duplicate or add a choice to the award rather than change every source.
Relevant effect references
This identifies reward systems and exceptions. It does not read your save, calculate combined drop odds or predict the next seeded reward.
An ordinary clear is one reward source
The last enemy does not promise a pickup.
An eligible enemy room can generate an award when it is cleared. Loose supplies, pocket consumables, chests and no award are possible outcomes. Existing layout contents and enemy-specific drops are separate from that completion event.
A modifier changes a stage
Lucky Foot improves award chances. Guppy's Tail can replace an award. Humbleing Bundle can increase an eligible pickup's value. These are different checks.
Collection has its own rules
A paired pickup, a choice group and a chest do not grant the same permission. Read the pickup value, collection rule or opening cost before taking it.
Do not treat every award as an item pedestal. When a collectible is generated, its pool, unlocks and item-specific effects matter. Read the separate item-pool rules.
Similar symptoms, different rules
Luck is not a universal reward multiplier.
Ordinary awards
Luck affects ordinary room awards, but it is not a blanket percentage bonus to all drops. Lucky Foot and Lucky Toe also improve awards through direct effects. More luck does not guarantee a key when you need one or improve every item's quality.
Luck stat and effect-specific rulesHard mode hearts
In Repentance, Hard mode removes one third of heart-type room-clear awards and replaces them with nothing. This is an extra rule for that award type, not a statement that every resource's drop chance is reduced by one third.
Check how a heart helps your characterChampion pickups
A champion's special pickup comes from killing that enemy. Hard mode makes those pickups less reliable. Greed mode suppresses most of them, with Golden Hollow and rare rainbow-champion exceptions. D7's respawned champions cannot drop their special pickups. None of these cases is the same check as the final ordinary award.
Chance, replacement, value and choices
These effects change different parts of the reward.
Read each effect separately. A replacement, a doubled pickup and a second option are different benefits. Their percentages describe their own checks, not a combined chance for your whole build.
| Item or trinket | What changes | Before relying on it |
|---|---|---|
 Lucky FootAward chance | Adds +1 luck and directly improves the chance of receiving a room-clear award. | Its pill conversion and specific gambling-machine bonuses are separate effects. It does not turn every source into a guaranteed payout. |
 Lucky ToeAward chance | Adds +1 luck and improves room-clear award chances, with additional container and object effects. | Its Locked Chest bonus and chances for extra pickups from Tinted Rocks or destroyed machines are separate from the ordinary clear roll. |
 Guppy's TailReplacement | Can replace a clear award with a Chest or Locked Chest, or replace it with nothing. | More chests can mean fewer loose keys and more locked rewards. Plan your key supply; an item inside is not guaranteed. |
 Safety CapReplacement | Adds a 10% chance to replace a clear award with a pill, plus extra pill chances from specified containers and machines. | It changes reward type, not pill identification or safety. Check your pill rules before using the result. |
 Ace of SpadesReplacement | Adds a 10% chance to replace a clear award with a card, plus possible extra card/rune drops from specified sources. | This is the Ace of Spades TRINKET. The consumable card with the same name converts pickups and enemies and uses a different effect. |
 Contract from BelowDuplication | Doubles eligible clear awards, with about a one-third chance to remove the reward instead. | This is not a guarantee of two payouts every room. Trinkets and Greed wave pennies are excluded from its doubling effect. |
 Broken ModemDuplication | Has a 25% chance to double eligible room-clear pickups. | Ordinary chests, pills and cards are excluded. Chests generated by Options? are a specific exception; do not apply a blanket rule to every drop. |
 Humbleing BundlePickup conversion | Eligible new pennies, bombs, keys and red hearts have a 50% chance to become their paired pickup variants in Repentance. | It improves an eligible pickup's value when it appears. It does not create a clear award when the roll gives nothing. |
 Deep PocketsEmpty-award fallback | If an eligible room would pay nothing, spawns 1–3 coins. Also raises the coin limit to 999. | The fallback does not operate in Greed mode. It is not a bonus coin payout on every already-successful award. |
 Options?Clear-award choice | Offers two ordinary room-clear rewards, of which one can be taken. | Choosing one normally removes the other. A Troll Bomb option is an exception and is not removed by collecting the other reward. |
 There's OptionsBoss-item choice | Offers a choice between two boss item rewards where its effect applies. | Taking one removes the other. Mini-boss drops and Mom's special reward are excluded; it also supplies a choice after Boss Rush. |
 More OptionsTreasure-item choice | Offers two item pedestals in Treasure Rooms, with only one available to take. | This is a Treasure Room effect. It does not provide a second loose pickup after every ordinary fight. |
 D7Another clear | Respawns enemies in an eligible cleared room so another clear can award a pickup. | No effect in Greed mode, Boss Rooms, Devil or Angel Rooms, or rooms with no enemies. Respawned champions do not drop their special pickups. |
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Very similar names
Three Options items, three reward sources.
Options?
Clear-award choice
Ordinary room-clear pickups. Collect one reward and the other normally disappears. A Troll Bomb option is an exception.
Effects and unlockThere's Options
Boss-item choice
Eligible boss item rewards, plus the reward after Boss Rush. Mini-boss drops and Mom's special reward are excluded.
Effects and unlockMore Options
Treasure-item choice
Treasure Room item pedestals. This changes the item offer, rather than the pickup awarded after an ordinary room clear.
Effects and unlockAn extra option lets you choose a better fit. It normally does not let you take two rewards. Contract from Below and Humbleing Bundle instead change quantity or pickup value, so do not read their paired drops as an Options choice.
Risk another fight
D7 offers another clear, not a free promised reward.
D7 restarts enemies in an eligible previously cleared room. Winning the new fight can produce another ordinary award. It does not guarantee a pickup, open chest contents for free or repeat a floor boss's pedestal reward.
- It has no effect in Greed mode, Boss Rooms, Devil Rooms or Angel Rooms.
- A room that had no enemies is not a free D7 reward source.
- Respawned champions do not drop their special pickups.
- Weigh the next fight against your health, build and remaining charges.
Turn a drop into a useful decision
Spend for the run you are playing.
Money
A coin can pay toward a useful shop purchase. Check its value and whether the next shop is worth visiting.
Access
A key can open a Treasure Room or a Locked Chest. Compare the guaranteed access with a chest's uncertain contents.
Exploration
A bomb can reveal an entrance or break profitable objects. Weigh the expected benefit against the health risk and your remaining supply.
Recovery
A Red Heart refills capacity you already have. Whether it can be collected or converted depends on your current character and health.
Repentance version and references
Reviewed October 7, 2026 for Repentance. Repentance+ and mods can differ. The guide separates reward sources and explains individual effects. It does not simulate the full award pipeline, stacked modifiers, challenge exceptions or a live seed. Item, pickup and HUD art is from the extracted game files.