All 270 Items and How to Get Them in Enter the Gungeon

Enter the Gungeon is a shooter where you fight your way down through floor after floor, and each run is shaped by the items you pick up along the way. Items are separate from the guns you hold, and they come in two main kinds. Passive items work on their own once you have them, while active items are used on demand, and each one behaves differently. Knowing where items come from and how to open chests safely makes a big difference early on.

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+1 Bullets

Gives you a steady damage edge across your guns.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Increases damage by 25%.
Unlock Requirement: Purchase from Ox and Cadence for 6 Hegemony Credits.
Synergies: Bluer Guon Stone (with Blue Guon Stone): Blue Guon Stone's size and rotation speed is increased. If Blue Guon Stone blocks a bullet, it deals 15 damage to all nearby enemies.
Clearer Guon Stone (with Clear Guon Stone): Grants immunity to poison, fire, and electricity. Shooting enemies while standing on fire or ice will burn or freeze them, respectively.
Friend to Gun and Bullet (with Potion of Gun Friendship): While Potion of Gun Friendship is active, a copy of the player's current gun appears and automatically fires at nearby enemies.
Greener Guon Stone (with Green Guon Stone): Chance for the Green Guon Stone to heal upon taking damage is raised to 70% if that damage would have killed the player. 20 money also appears whenever Green Guon Stone heals the player.
Nailed It! (with Nail Gun): Nails deal triple damage.
Oranger Guon Stone (with Orange Guon Stone): Orange Guon Stone grows in size, fires more frequently, and deals more damage.
Pinker Guon Stone (with Pink Guon Stone): Enemies that damage the player become temporarily charmed.
Pistol Machine (with Machine Pistol): Machine Pistol shots gain the effect of Angry Bullets and are connected with electricity.
Redder Guon Stone (with Red Guon Stone): Red Guon Stone's size is increased. Player will gain a yellow glow and stat increase similar to that of Macho Brace for a short time whenever Red Guon Stone blocks a bullet.
Reinforced (with Lower Case r): Lower Case r spells out BULLET+1.
Whiter Guon Stone (with White Guon Stone): Increases the size of White Guon Stone. If the player has Daruma, its cooldown is halved.

Alpha Bullet

Gives you a harder opening shot every time you start a fresh magazine.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: The first shot of a weapon's magazine deals 80% more damage.
Unlock Requirement: Construct the Bullet That Can Kill The Past.
Synergies: Added Effect - Fire (with Hot Lead): The first shot of each magazine is guaranteed to be a fire bullet.
Added Effect - Ice (with Frost Bullets): The first shot of each magazine is guaranteed to be an ice bullet.
Added Effect - Poison (with Irradiated Lead): The first shot of each magazine is guaranteed to be a poison bullet.
J am (with Omega Bullets): Reduces reload times by 33%.
Root (with Lower Case r): When firing Lower Case r, adds an alpha letter before each BULLET.

Ammo Belt

Gives you more room to keep ammo-hungry weapons firing.

Type: Passive
Quality: D
Chest Drop: Brown chests
Effect: Increases maximum ammo by 20%.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Buckle Up (with Gungine): Gungine has a chance to not consume ammo upon firing. Continuously moving with Gungine held gives the player a yellow glow, significantly increasing Gungine's rate of fire. The glow disappears if the player stops moving. If the player switches to another gun while outlined, they can keep the rate of fire bonus.
Comammo Belt (with Com4nd0): Com4nd0 gains double magazine size and changes appearance.
Hegemony Special Forces (with Hegemony Rifle): Hegemony Rifle bullets are replaced by piercing lasers.
M1 Multi-Tool (with M1): Decreases M1's reload time by 20% and increases its magazine size, and maximum ammo. Increases movement speed. Changes appearance to resemble an M14.
Not Quite As Mini (with Vulcan Cannon): Increases Vulcan Cannon's maximum ammo by 25% and significantly increases fire rate.

Ammo Synthesizer

Gives you occasional ammo refunds for the gun you are using.

Type: Passive
Quality: D
Chest Drop: Brown chests
Effect: Adds a 10% chance to regain 5% of the currently held gun's maximum ammo (rounded down) upon killing an enemy.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Extreme Operation (with Melted Rock): Using Melted Rock causes corpses to shoot at enemies.
Synthetic Shield (with Heart Synthesizer and Armor Synthesizer): Creates a companion that orbits the player and blocks shots. If the player has two of the three synthesizers, the companion will take the appearance of the third synthesizer. If the player has all three synthesizers, all three companions will spawn.

Amulet of the Pit Lord

Gives you a safer way to cross rooms with pits.

Type: Passive
Quality: D
Chest Drop: Brown chests
Effect: Falling into pits no longer deals damage.
Unlock Requirement: Kill 100 enemies by knocking them into pits.
Synergies: Bluer Guon Stone (with Blue Guon Stone): Blue Guon Stone's size and rotation speed is increased. If Blue Guon Stone blocks a bullet, it deals 15 damage to all nearby enemies.
Clearer Guon Stone (with Clear Guon Stone): Grants immunity to poison, fire, and electricity. Shooting enemies while standing on fire or ice will burn or freeze them, respectively.
Firing With Flair (with Flare Gun): Flare Gun sets green fire, which leaves enemies permanently burning.
Greener Guon Stone (with Green Guon Stone): Chance for the Green Guon Stone to heal upon taking damage is raised to 70% if that damage would have killed the player. 20 money also appears whenever Green Guon Stone heals the player.
Oranger Guon Stone (with Orange Guon Stone): Orange Guon Stone grows in size, fires more frequently, and deals more damage.
Pinker Guon Stone (with Pink Guon Stone): Enemies that damage the player become temporarily charmed.
Redder Guon Stone (with Red Guon Stone): Red Guon Stone's size is increased. Player will gain a yellow glow and stat increase similar to that of Macho Brace for a short time whenever Red Guon Stone blocks a bullet.
Whiter Guon Stone (with White Guon Stone): Increases the size of White Guon Stone. If the player has Daruma, its cooldown is halved.

Ancient Hero's Bandana

Gives you a much larger reserve for powerful guns.

Type: Passive
Quality: S
Chest Drop: Black chests
Effect: Quadruples maximum ammo.
Unlock Requirement: Complete the Forge 10 times.
Synergies: I need scissors! 61! (with Trank Gun): Trank Gun's fire rate is decreased, damage and reload time are increased, and its bullets will inflict slow and stun.
What A Thrill (with Patriot): Patriot has a chance to transmogrify enemies into snakes.

Angry Bullets

Gives you extra damage as your shots ricochet through a room.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Bullets that hit enemies will bounce off them into a random direction. Reflected bullets can trigger the same effect. Reflected bullets deal half of the original bullet's damage. Piercing weapons will always reflect at nearby enemies, or randomly if no enemies are nearby.
Unlock Requirement: Purchase from Ox and Cadence for 8 Hegemony Credits.
Synergies: Needless Acrimony (with Shotgun Full of Hate): Rage duration is greatly increased if a table is flipped while Shotgun Full of Hate is held.
Rabid (with Lower Case r): Lower Case r spells out LOSER, DORK, CHUMP, NOODLE, and TAFFER.

Antibody

Gives you more healing from every health pickup.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Adds a 50% chance to heal the player for an extra half a heart whenever they receive healing.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Antichamber (with Dark Marker): Dark Marker alternates between firing red and blue shots that become very slow and large after traveling a short distance. If any red and blue shots touch, the blank effect is activated.
Powerhouse of the Cell (with Evolver): Evolver evolves one stage.

Armor of Thorns

Gives you a hard-hitting dodge roll plus a piece of armor.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Multiplies damage dealt by dodge rolling into enemies by 7. (21 damage, normally 3). Grants one piece of armor upon pickup. Negates contact damage with enemies.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Backdraft (with any of Copper Ammolet, Ring of Fire Resistance or Ruby Bracelet): Touching enemies sets them on fire.
Careful Iteration (with Casey): Casey becomes spiked and fires a spread of 6 nails each time it is swung.
Devil's Plaything (with Bullet Idol): Bullet Idol orbits the player, blocking enemy shots.
Thorn Bath, ooh! (with any of Derringer, Nail Gun or Cactus): While one of the guns is held, nails are periodically fired in all directions.

Armor Synthesizer

Gives you a chance to earn armor by clearing rooms cleanly.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: Adds a 10% chance to gain armor upon completing a room without taking damage. The armor will spawn on top of the player.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Synthetic Shield (with Ammo Synthesizer and Heart Synthesizer): Creates a companion that orbits the player and blocks shots. If the player has two of the three synthesizers, the companion will take the appearance of the third synthesizer. If the player has all three synthesizers, all three companions will spawn.

Baby Good Mimic

Gives you a familiar that turns enemy hits into bursts of return fire.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Follows the player around. When in a room with enemies, it will sit still with a lock on it. When it gets hit by an enemy, it opens up and starts firing randomly for a few seconds, before returning to its locked state, repeating until the room is cleared. This also occurs when entering a room. Attacks random enemies with multiple powerful bite attacks. Enemies coming in direct contact with the Baby Good Mimic take contact damage. If the player has other familiars, Baby Good Mimic will transform into one of the familiars, copying any effects and abilities that familiar had. It will copy that familiar even if the familiar is dropped or removed.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Tea for Two (with Teapot): When reloading Teapot, a red aura appears around companions. Every enemy in this aura will be ignited.

Baby Good Shelleton

Gives you a laser-firing companion that keeps pressure on enemies.

Type: Passive
Quality: S
Chest Drop: Black chests
Effect: Follows the player and attacks enemies with a green laser. Laser does 12.5 dps, for 3.86s, with downtime being 4.9s, essentially adding 5.5 DPS.
Unlock Requirement: Finish a run or cause a chest to explode with Baby Good Mimic.
Synergies: Birthright (with Shellegun): While Shellegun is held, Baby Good Shelleton alternates between its laser and a wide-angle shot similar to the Shelleton enemy.
Shell-A-Ton (with Shelleton Key): Baby Good Shelleton moves and shoots much faster.
Tea for Two (with Teapot): When reloading Teapot, a red aura appears around companions. Every enemy in this aura will be ignited.

Backpack

Gives you room to carry a second active item.

Type: Passive
Quality: D
Chest Drop: Brown chests
Effect: Allows the player to hold an extra active item. The active items are switched by default by pressing Shift (keyboard) or up on the D-pad (controller).
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: M1 Multi-Tool (with M1): Decreases M1's reload time by 20% and increases its magazine size, and maximum ammo. Increases movement speed. Changes appearance to resemble an M14.
Mak Pak (with Makarov): Increases Makarov's maximum ammo by 30%. While holding Makarov, it occasionally fires a homing bullet at an enemy for free.
MM6 Mini Rocket (with Jetpack): Activating Jetpack fires a rocket in the direction of the crosshair. This has an approximate 5 second cooldown.
Whale of a Time (with GuNNER): Also has a chance to spawn a healing skull if a weapon other than GuNNER is equipped when the player takes damage.

Backup Gun

Gives you extra coverage from shots fired behind you.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Guns simultaneously shoot forwards and backwards. The backwards firing shots will be significantly less accurate.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Gruber's Bane (with Shadow Bullets): Backup Gun has a 100% chance of firing shadow bullets.
Like Shooting Fish (with Barrel): A fish pops out of the barrel and fires bullets. The last shot of each magazine fires a fish that flops around on the ground and fires at enemies.

Badge

Gives you a police companion who fights beside you and can absorb hits.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: Summons a police officer that follows the player, firing bullets that do 5 damage each at enemies. The officer can be talked to. The officer blocks enemy attacks if hit, though this damages him. The officer is also damaged by other things that hurt the player, such as explosions and electrified water. The officer will collapse if dealt too much damage. He will die if the player talks to him in this state; this removes the Badge from your inventory and provides 2 points of Curse, but it also grants a 20% damage bonus. The officer will heal to full health at the start of each map, though not after having collapsed.
Unlock Requirement: Kill Blockner.
Synergies: Detective Mode (with 38 Special): Increases 38 Special's maximum ammo to 600, halves reload time, and increases damage by 20%. The police officer will also reveal the contents of nearby chests.
Tea for Two (with Teapot): When reloading Teapot, a red aura appears around companions. Every enemy in this aura will be ignited.
To Serve Android (with any of The Judge, Full Metal Jacket, Mass Shotgun, Bionic Leg, Deck4rd or Grasschopper): Police Officer turns into a robot and becomes unkillable.

Ballistic Boots

Gives you faster movement for weaving through bullet patterns.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Increases movement speed by 2.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Knight Time (with Gunknight Greaves): Taking damage will briefly stop time.
Triple Jump (with Springheel Boots): Grants three consecutive dodge rolls.

Ballot

Gives you more active-item uses and better room-clear rewards.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Increases Coolness by 3, which decreases the cooldown of active items and increases the chance of items dropping upon clearing a room.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Paperwork (with Origuni): The first shot after reloading Origuni fires three planes.
Revolution (with Dueling Pistol): Increases the damage of Dueling Pistol by 25%, and allows its bullets to bounce five times instead of twice.

Battery Bullets

Gives you tighter aim and electrified water hazards for enemies.

Type: Passive
Quality: D
Chest Drop: Brown chests
Effect: Causes water that bullets pass over to become electrified, damaging enemies. Decreases shot spread by 50%, doubling accuracy. Grants immunity to electrified water. Gives a 1/100 chance to deal 1.25x more damage.
Unlock Requirement: Defeat the High Dragun with The Robot.
Synergies: -

Battle Standard

Gives you stronger, longer-lasting companions and charms.

Type: Passive
Quality: D
Chest Drop: Brown chests
Effect: Increases the damage of companions and charmed enemies by 80%. Increases the duration of the charm effect. Increases the chance of finding companions.
Unlock Requirement: By the end of a floor, have two companions at once, or upgrade Ser Junkan to Angelic Knight.
Synergies: -

Bionic Leg

Gives you faster movement with a piece of armor for protection.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Increases movement speed by 1.5. Grants a piece of armor.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Brave New World (with Siren): While Siren is held, spawns a fish companion which shows what items are inside chests without opening them.
Future Gangster (with Thompson Sub-Machinegun): Thompson Sub-Machinegun fires lasers. Each laser does 6.5 damage instead of the normal 5 damage.
Neo Tech, Yo (with Mutation): Mutation's beam turns blue and creates electrified water. The player is immune to electricity while Mutation is held.
Pistol Machine (with Machine Pistol): Machine Pistol shots gain the effect of Angry Bullets and are connected with electricity.
Square Brace (with Polaris): Increases Polaris ammo capacity to 700, increases its magazine size to 30, increases damage by 20%, increases fire rate when leveled up, and changes its appearance.
To Serve Android (with Badge): Police Officer turns into a robot and becomes unkillable.

Blank Bullets

Gives you a chance to clear nearby threats when your shots connect.

Type: Passive
Quality: S
Chest Drop: Black chests
Effect: Bullets have a chance of triggering a short-range blank when they hit obstacles or enemies. Doubles the damage of beam style Guns. Increases curse by 1.5.
Unlock Requirement: Purchase from Doug for 28 Hegemony Credits.
Synergies: Elder Blank Bullets (with Elder Blank): Blank Bullets's blank effect reflects bullets instead of deleting them.

Blank Companion's Ring

Gives you a blank effect that can trigger whenever you use an active item.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: Spawns a blank familiar that activates a blank effect whenever an active item is used. The familiar has a 10-second cooldown between activations. It turns other companions into copies of itself.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Blank Generation (with Elder Blank): Companion changes appearance to be older, automatically fires a second blank after Elder Blank's blank duration ends.
Keep The Change (with M16): Blank Companion's Ring will sometimes activate when M16 empties its magazine.
Tea for Two (with Teapot): When reloading Teapot, a red aura appears around companions. Every enemy in this aura will be ignited.

Blast Helmet

Gives you safer explosions and more punishing dodge rolls.

Type: Passive
Quality: D
Chest Drop: Brown chests
Effect: Decreases the radius of explosions that can hurt the player. Provides immunity to enemy contact damage. Multiplies damage dealt by dodge rolling into enemies by 3. (9 damage, normally 3).
Unlock Requirement: "Rescue" the Ledge Goblin multiple times.
Synergies: Blast Crown (with Crown of Guns): Crown of Guns has a chance to fire explosives.
Fightsabre Training (with Fightsabre): While Fightsabre is held, an orbital appears that blocks enemy shots.
Nailed It! (with Nail Gun): Nails deal triple damage.
Spelunker (with Gunboots): Replaces the bullet spread of Gunboots with a short-ranged explosion.

Blood Brooch

Gives you a risky damage-to-health trade that rewards steady fire.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: Increases curse by 1 while held. Heals the player for half a heart for every 1200 damage they deal.
Unlock Requirement: Reach the Abbey of the True Gun.
Synergies: blade (with Kruller Glaive): Kruller Glaive's damage is increased by 20%, enemies hit will visually bleed, and jammed enemies will revert to normal on hit.
Fear the Old Blood (with Trick Gun): Decreases the reload time of Trick Gun by 33% and increases fire rate by 20%.
Venom Veins (with Mutation): Gives Mutation poison effect.

Bloodied Scarf

Gives you a teleporting dodge for players who like precise repositioning.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Replaces the dodge roll with a teleport. Pressing the dodge button teleports the player a short distance in the direction they are moving. This can be used as a pseudo-dodge roll for players using controllers. The distance traveled is about the same as a dodge roll, but a timing adjustment is needed. The regular timing for dodge rolling will not work, because unlike regular dodge rolls, the player is not invincible until the trigger is released. Holding down the dodge button allows the player to teleport to the location of the cursor, shown by a shadow of the player's character. With a controller, the shadow gets created at the player's current position, and is controlled by the right analog stick (so any aiming will displace the teleport target). If the player attempts to blink into a solid object or off a ledge, the shadow will turn red, and the player will be teleported as far as safely possible in that direction. This safety also exists for flying players. This also means that if the flying player is already over a pit, then dodging will be entirely disabled unless there is solid ground in range. This also prevents the player from blinking onto rails that run over pits in Black Powder Mine, and blinking onto the spine bridge that appears after defeating the Dragun. Blinking onto bullets will cause them to dissipate, and they won't cause damage. Decreases reload times by 30%.
Unlock Requirement: Defeat the Old King.
Synergies: Raizo's Stuff (with Grappling Hook): Bullets shot while being pulled with Grappling Hook gain homing.
Venom Veins (with Mutation): Gives Mutation poison effect.

Bloody 9mm

Gives you occasional homing shots that ricochet through a room.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Adds an 8% chance per second for a bullet to be replaced by a fast, homing, piercing, and bouncing bullet that flies around the room damaging enemies.
Unlock Requirement: Use Lament Configurum 20 times.
Synergies: Venom Veins (with Mutation): Gives Mutation poison effect.

Bloody Eye

Gives you slower enemy bullets that give you more time to react.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Decreases enemy bullet speed by 15%. This effectively makes the player 17.647% faster relative to enemy bullets. For example, for a Gungeoneer with just the base movement speed of 7, it would be like their movement speed had increased by 1.235. Does not slow down enemy movement.
Unlock Requirement: Purchase from Ox and Cadence for 7 Hegemony Credits.
Synergies: Fear the Old Blood (with Trick Gun): Decreases the reload time of Trick Gun by 33% and increases fire rate by 20%.
Hidden Tech Time (with Table Tech Sight): Flipping a table briefly stops time.
Tears of Blood (with Tear Jerker): Tear Jerker's tears turn red and inflict slow.
Venom Veins (with Mutation): Gives Mutation poison effect.

Blue Guon Stone

Gives you a fast orbiting shield with a short slowdown after you are hit.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Upon taking damage, decreases enemy shot speed by 33% for 5 seconds. Orbits the player, blocking enemy shots on contact. The stone orbits around the player faster than the other Guon Stones.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Bluer Guon Stone (with any of +1 Bullets, Bullet Time or Amulet of the Pit Lord): Blue Guon Stone's size and rotation speed is increased. If Blue Guon Stone blocks a bullet, it deals 15 damage to all nearby enemies.
Tile Match (with Tetrominator): When the player fires Tetrominator, each Guon Stone has a chance to shoot a Tetromino corresponding to the type of Guon Stone.

Book of Chest Anatomy

Gives you better rewards from chests you have to break.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Improves the contents of broken chests. It removes Junk and Explosions from the destruction table while replacing them with Pickups (such as,,, etc.), it also improves the quality of dropped items.
Unlock Requirement: Attack a mimic before it attacks.
Synergies: Research (with Lower Case r): Lower Case r spells out CHEST and MIMIC. Can be used to open locked chests.

Bouncy Bullets

Gives you extra ricochets that help shots reach enemies around corners.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Allows the player's bullets to bounce off of objects twice.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Absent Minded (with The Membrane): The Membrane's shots bounce 4 times and become homing.

Brick of Cash

Gives you a subtle hint when a secret room entrance is nearby.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Reveals secret room entrances with a small brick gesturing towards the wall.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Cash Rules Everygun Around Me (with Briefcase of Cash): When firing any gun, occasionally fires money which charms enemies.

Briefcase of Cash

Gives you a large cash boost plus a few Hegemony Credits.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: Grants 250. Grants 3 Hegemony Credits.
Unlock Requirement: Kill The Convict's past.
Synergies: Cash Rules Everygun Around Me (with Brick of Cash): When firing any gun, occasionally fires money which charms enemies.
Wicked Sister (with Magnum): Magnum gains a bayonet that blocks bullets when reloading, similar to Huntsman.

Broccoli

Gives you a useful mix of damage, speed, and a chance to avoid a hit.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: Increases damage by 10%. Adds a 10% chance to negate damage. Increases movement speed by 1.
Unlock Requirement: Purchase from Ox and Cadence for 25 Hegemony Credits.
Synergies: Cactus Flower (with Cactus): Cactus has a chance to shoot out a prickly pear that bounces off walls and shoots needles all around.
Hardwood (with Mahoguny): Mahoguny fires four explosive shots at a time.
Pea Cannon (with Pea Shooter): Pea Shooter shots become larger, deal more damage, and explode.
Plant Power (with Triple Gun): Triple Gun reaches its laser beam phase earlier.
Vegetables (with any of Cactus or Pea Shooter): Shots from the guns deal triple damage, are doubled in size, pierce enemies, and bounce off of obstacles.

Bug Boots

Gives you poison trails that make dodge rolls useful for offense.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Dodge rolling leaves a trail of poison goop. Grants immunity to poison.
Unlock Requirement: Purchase from Professor Goopton for 7 Hegemony Credits.
Synergies: Buggin' Out (with Gungeon Ant): While Gungeon Ant is held, Bug Boots spread oil instead of poison, and the player is immune to fire.

Bullet Idol

Gives you a room-wide burst of damage when you take a hit.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Deals 45 damage to all enemies in the room upon taking damage.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Criticaliber (with Vorpal Gun): After taking damage with Vorpal Gun held, the next Vorpal Gun shot is guaranteed to be a critical shot.
Devil's Plaything (with Armor of Thorns): Bullet Idol orbits the player, blocking enemy shots.
Just Like The Real Thing (with Shotgrub): Shotgrub fires a wide spread of five bullets, which bounce back and split into waving bullets after hitting a wall, similar to the Shotgrub enemy's attack.

Bumbullets

Gives you homing bees that add extra damage to your shots.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Upon firing, adds a chance to fire a bee which homes in on and damages enemies.
Unlock Requirement: Purchase from Doug for 26 Hegemony Credits.
Synergies: BEES (with Bee Hive): Doubles the size of Bee Hive's bees and increases their damage by 25%, but decreases Bee Hive's rate of fire by 34%.
Hidden Tech Bees (with Table Tech Blanks): A swarm of bees replaces enemy bullets when a table is flipped.

Cartographer's Ring

Gives you a chance to reveal most of a new floor at a glance.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: New floors have a 50% chance to be mapped out. Does not reveal secret rooms.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: -

Cat Bullet King Throne

Gives you flight plus a ring of bullets whenever you dodge.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Grants flight. Shoots bullets around the player upon dodge rolling. This has a 2-second cooldown. The bullets benefit from all bullet modifiers.
Unlock Requirement: Defeat Bullet King 10 times.
Synergies: Mad Cats (with 3rd Party Controller): The bullets shot from Cat Bullet King Throne home in on enemies.
Usurper (with Crown of Guns): Crown of Guns fires more bullets, and Cat Bullet King Throne fires full-sized bullets instead of mini-bullets.

Chance Bullets

Gives you free chances to fire shots from guns in your inventory.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Upon firing, adds a chance to fire projectiles from the player's other guns. Shots fired this way from other guns do not consume ammo from that gun.
Unlock Requirement: Reach the Black Powder Mine in challenge mode.
Synergies: Maximize Spell (with Flame Hand): Flame Hand becomes green and creates pools of green fire. Green fire does not damage the player, and enemies that touch green fire are permanently aflame.
Turret Link (with Portable Turret): Portable Turret will sometimes fire shots from guns in the player's inventory.

Chaos Ammolet

Gives you blanks that can inflict several different status effects.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: Blanks have a chance to poison, freeze, ignite, or stun enemies. The chance for each status effect is independent of each other, and thus enemies will likely be afflicted with multiple statuses at once. Grants an additional blank at the start of each floor.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Don't Worry About The Vase (with The Kiln): Destroying small breakable objects (vases, barrels, etc.) has a small chance to activate a blank effect.
Relodestar (with Relodestone): After Relodestone's effect ends, the bullets that were absorbed are shot out of the player dealing damage to enemies.

Chaos Bullets

Gives you unpredictable shots with a mix of random projectile effects.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: Bullets gain random effects and can travel at different speeds. Each shot has a 10% chance to bounce and a 10% chance to pierce. Each additional bounce lets a bullet bounce one more time, while each additional pierce lets it pass through two more enemies, up to 10 applications of either effect. There is a 10% chance for a bullet to grow between 25% and 75% larger; this changes size but not damage. There is an additional 10% chance for a bullet to gain another effect from the weighted effect table.
Unlock Requirement: Defeat the High Dragun in Challenge Mode, or attempt Challenge Mode and fail 30 times.
Synergies: Kaliber's Grip (with Abyssal Tentacle): Abyssal Tentacle grabs two enemies at a time.

Charming Rounds

Gives you a chance to turn enemies into temporary allies.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Adds a chance to fire bullets that charm enemies. The chance is 7.5% for projectile weapons and 10% per second for beam weapons.
Unlock Requirement: Purchase from Doug for 14 Hegemony Credits.
Synergies: Ravishing (with Lower Case r): Lower Case r spells out HANDSOME, CHARM, and CUTE.
Unbelievably Charming (with Shotgun Full of Love and Charmed Bow and Pink Guon Stone): While holding either the Charmed Bow or Shotgun Full of Love, all shots fired by the player (even shots fired via items other than either gun) and any companions are guaranteed to charm enemies. In addition, the player is followed by a fairy that blocks bullets and displays the contents of chests.

Chicken Flute

Gives you a chicken companion that can call in a whole flock.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Spawns a chicken that follows the player, blocks bullets, and deals 2.5 contact damage to enemies it touches. After the chicken takes a certain amount of damage, an army of chickens spawns that attacks all enemies in the room. This of course doesn't kill the original chicken companion, who can trigger the effect multiple times in the same room, should it take enough damage again.
Unlock Requirement: Kill The Bullet's past.
Synergies: Bullet or the Egg (with The Scrambler): Scrambler shots become larger and split into 10 seekers instead of 5.
Tea for Two (with Teapot): When reloading Teapot, a red aura appears around companions. Every enemy in this aura will be ignited.
The Elephant in the Room (with Elephant Gun): Elephant Gun becomes an elephant head and shoots elephants instead of bullets.

Clear Guon Stone

Gives you a poison-proof orbiting shield against enemy shots.

Type: Passive
Quality: D
Chest Drop: Brown chests
Effect: Negates poison damage. Orbits the player, blocking enemy shots on contact.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Clearer Guon Stone (with any of +1 Bullets, Amulet of the Pit Lord or Bottle): Grants immunity to poison, fire, and electricity. Shooting enemies while standing on fire or ice will burn or freeze them, respectively.
Gungeonite (with Gamma Ray): Gamma Ray leaves poison on the ground.
Tile Match (with Tetrominator): When the player fires Tetrominator, each Guon Stone has a chance to shoot a Tetromino corresponding to the type of Guon Stone.

Clone

Gives you a second chance that brings your whole loadout back with you.

Type: Passive
Quality: S
Chest Drop: Black chests
Effect: Upon death, the player is revived in the starting room of the first floor, retaining all items and guns.
Unlock Requirement: Transport Ox's replacement arm back up to The Breach.
Synergies: -

Cloranthy Ring

Gives you faster dodge rolls with less recovery time.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Improves dodging by making the roll faster and shortening its recovery time. The overall dodge speed is improved by 20%.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Hot Rolls (with Ring of Fire Resistance): Rolling creates a trail of fire.

Clown Mask

Gives you one of several distinct combat companions.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Summons one of the following clown-masked familiars. Wolf (the clown with the red mouth) will attack enemies close up with a taser, continuously stunning them. Houston (the clown with the pink eyelids) will guard the Gungeoneers by occasionally activating mini Blanks that negate enemy bullets. Chains (the clown with blue slits over his eyes) wields a shotgun which he will use to attack opponents. Each shotgun pellet does 5 damage. If the player carries the Loot Bag or Drill, an additional familiar will be summoned for each.
Unlock Requirement: Pick it up from a shop, either by stealing it or angering the shopkeeper
Synergies: Tea for Two (with Teapot): When reloading Teapot, a red aura appears around companions. Every enemy in this aura will be ignited.

Cog of Battle

Gives you a timed reload that powers up your next magazine.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: When reloading, pressing the fire or reload buttons when the indicator passes a certain mark on the reload bar will instantly reload the weapon. The mark on the reload bar is set to be at 2/3 of the length of the reload bar/reload time. This effectively decreases the reload time whenever you hit the mark. This effect also increases the damage of the next magazine by 75% and also increases the accuracy of the next magazine. Missing the mark will lengthen the reload time to normal. While the player is mid-air during a dodge roll, the player can activate the mark's reload only using the "reload" button, but not by using the "fire" button. This is due to the fact that the player normally cannot shoot mid-air during a dodge roll.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Chest High is the Best High (with Mourning Star): Increases damage by 25% and activates the Macho Brace effect after flipping a table. This version of the Macho Brace effect is different to the actual item's, as it increases damage by 100% for a brief time rather than Macho Brace's 30%.
HIDDEN (with Klobbe): In addition to its standard bonuses, upon successfully activating an active reload, Cog of Battle multiplies Klobbe's damage and knockback by 10 and removes all spread for a random portion of the current magazine. This is a hidden synergy. It doesn't have a name and the blue arrow won't appear.
Ruby Carbine (with Hegemony Carbine): Hegemony Carbine shots light enemies on fire and bounce.

Coin Crown

Gives you occasional extra shells for clearing rooms.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Adds a chance to gain money upon clearing a room. If Coin Crown triggers, it will spawn a 5 shell on top of the player.
Unlock Requirement: Carry 300 casings at one time.
Synergies: Great Queen Ant (with Gungeon Ant): Gungeon Ant becomes an ant queen and shoots rocket ants.
King Bomber (with Lil' Bomber): Lil' Bomber's bombs become gold and spawn money every time they hit an enemy.
Queen of Hearts (with Heart Purse): When at full health, picking up hearts will turn them to coins.
Two Heavy (with Crown of Guns): Doubles the chance for Coin Crown to spawn money upon completing a room.

Copper Ammolet

Gives you blanks that can ignite enemies and refill your blank supply.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Blanks have a chance to ignite enemies. Grants an additional Blank at the start of each floor.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Backdraft (with Armor of Thorns): Touching enemies sets them on fire.
Don't Worry About The Vase (with The Kiln): Destroying small breakable objects (vases, barrels, etc.) has a small chance to activate a blank effect.
Firing With Flair (with Flare Gun): Flare Gun sets green fire, which leaves enemies permanently burning.
Hot Ones (with Hot Lead): Significantly increases the chance of firing fire bullets.
Phoenix Up (with Phoenix): Changes the look of Phoenix and summons a Phoenix companion that fires at enemies.
Relodestar (with Relodestone): After Relodestone's effect ends, the bullets that were absorbed are shot out of the player dealing damage to enemies.

Crisis Stone

Gives you a brief window of invulnerability when reloading an empty gun.

Type: Passive
Quality: A
Chest Drop: Red chests
Effect: Grants invulnerability while reloading an empty magazine.
Unlock Requirement: Defeat High Dragun in Turbo Mode.
Synergies: Human Shield (with Melted Rock): Upon use, Melted Rock spawns a Betrayer's Shield shield on every corpse.

Crutch

Gives you slightly curving shots that help keep aim on moving targets.

Type: Passive
Quality: B
Chest Drop: Green chests
Effect: Bullets slightly curve towards enemies.
Unlock Requirement: -
Synergies: Pea Cannon (with Pea Shooter): Pea Shooter shots become larger, deal more damage, and explode.
Smart Bombs (with any of Ice Bomb or Bomb): Bombs home in on enemies.

Cursed Bullets

Gives you damage that scales with your curse, at the cost of more curse.

Type: Passive
Quality: C
Chest Drop: Blue chests
Effect: Increases damage by 10% per point of curse the player has. Increases curse by 1. Makes bullets purple and gives them a dark blue smoke trail.
Unlock Requirement: Defeat the Shadow Magician 5 times.
Synergies: Blessing and a Curse (with Silver Bullets): Every jammed enemy killed grants a persistent, additive 0.0025 (0.25%) damage buff.
Kaliber k'pow uboom k'bhang (with High Kaliber): The split soul initially moves towards the player instead of away.
Noxin Cannon (with Luxin Cannon): Luxin Cannon and its shots turn grey, and the lasers deal 25% more damage.

Passive and Active Items in Enter the Gungeon

Passive items take effect the moment you pick them up and stay with you for the rest of the run. Most of them give a steady boost, such as more damage, faster movement, extra armor, or a heart container that raises your maximum health. Some change how your bullets behave, and others bring along a companion, like the Wolf that chases enemies or the Dog that follows you around.

Active items are used when you press the button for them, and each one works in its own way. Some attack, like bombs, mines, and a Molotov that sets an area on fire. Others heal you, make you invincible, or help you find your way around a floor. Every active item has its own charge or use rule, so learning how each one behaves is part of getting good at the game.

How to Get Items in Enter the Gungeon

Chests are the biggest source of items. You will find them in chest rooms, after you clear a room, and in secret rooms. Shooting a chest to break it usually gives you junk you can sell, and now and then a half heart or something better, so stand back, since broken chests can explode. The Book of Chest Anatomy item improves what broken chests give you.

Shops are the other steady source, and most floors have one. They sell items, guns, keys, healing, and blanks, all paid for in Shells, the game's currency. Shells are limited, so look over the whole floor before you spend any.

Some active items can also help you steal from a shop. Smoke Bomb, Decoy, Chaff Grenade, and Box all grant invisibility, which lets you take a shop item. You only get one try per shop, because a second attempt fails and angers the shopkeeper, who refuses to sell to you after that.

Bosses and NPCs are also sources of items, and some items only open up after you deal with them.

Chest Colors and Item Quality

Every chest has a color, and that color tells you the quality of what is inside. From lowest to highest, the standard colors are brown, blue, green, red, and black. Brown chests are the most common, blue chests lean toward items more than other chests do, and red and black chests hold the strongest rewards. Some items have no quality rating at all, and they never turn up in chests, so there is no point looking for them there.

Rainbow Chests sit above all of these. They are very rare, never locked, and hold a set of strong guns and items. Deeper floors make better colors more likely, so Forge chests are far more likely to be red or black than chests from the early floors. When a floor produces several red and black chests, later top-tier rewards can be downgraded, so they may come out weaker than their color suggests.

After you rescue Synergrace, some normal chests turn into Synergy Chests, which always come with a fuse. A blue one holds a gun or item that completes a synergy with something you already carry, while a red one holds a random pick that may or may not complete one. Defeating the Old King guarantees one Synergy Chest, except in Classic mode.

Mimics and Fused Chests

Chests can come with two hazards worth knowing. A chest can spawn with a lit fuse, and if you don't open it in time, it explodes and the contents are lost. Items that spray liquid, other than oil, can put the fuse out. Your Curse makes both fuses and mimics more likely, and some items, such as Blood Brooch, raise it.

The second hazard is the mimic, an enemy disguised as a chest that attacks once it is revealed. Any standard chest can be one. The safe test is a single low-damage shot, which doesn't cost a key and makes a mimic reveal itself. Avoid explosions and multi-bullet attacks, since they can break ordinary chests too.

A mimic's mouth moves slightly, as if it's breathing, and a Dog barks when you walk up to a disguised one. In a chest room, an unlocked brown chest is always a mimic. Opening a locked mimic still uses a key, and it attacks anyway, so test before you spend one.

Trusty Lockpicks never sets off a mimic, whether the pick works or fails. Defeating a mimic drops its contents plus extra loot, but a high-quality mimic hits much harder than a low-quality one. Mimic Tooth Necklace turns every standard chest into a mimic with no lock, and Ring of Mimic Friendship stops mimics from attacking. Carry both, and you can open every standard chest without a key or a fight.

How to Unlock Items You Don't Start With

Not every item is open from the first run. Some unlock as you rescue NPCs, and some are bought in the Breach shop with Hegemony Credits. Rescuing NPCs is one of the best early goals, since each one can open up new items.

The Resourceful Rat is a good example. After you beat him, Rat Chests appear and hold items including Partially-Eaten Cheese, Resourceful Sack, and Rat Boots. You need the Rat Keys dropped during his fight to open them, and if you got one of those items before beating him, the chest gives an A-quality item instead.

Brother Albern, found in a secret room, offers a Truth Chest. Answer his question, which can't be answered wrongly, and the chest opens for free. Synergrace also sells Synergy Chests directly.

Synergies Between Items

A synergy is when two or more things work better together than they do apart. Items and guns can pair up this way, but the game rarely spells out which pairs are strong, so you often find them by testing. Lich's Eye Bullets is a special case, because it makes every gun act as if it has all of its synergies with other items and guns.

Some items share a trigger. The Table Tech items all respond to flipping a table, each with its own result. Several Ammolets add a status effect such as poison, freezing, or fire when a blank goes off.

Checking what you already carry before taking something new is a habit worth building. A new pickup might be the piece that completes a combination you have been missing.

Items Worth Knowing Early in Enter the Gungeon

Each starting character comes with an item of their own. The Marine has Military Training, which lowers reload times by 20 percent. The Convict begins with Enraging Photo, which doubles damage for four seconds after a hit, plus a Molotov. The Pilot starts with Trusty Lockpicks, and the Hunter starts with a Dog.

Keys are limited, and some items help you stretch them. Shelleton Key opens most locked chests and doors without a key, and Trusty Lockpicks has a 50 percent chance to open a lock. Map shows the full layout of a floor, including secret rooms, and Gungeon Blueprint maps out every floor after the one you pick it up on.

For health, Medkit restores four hearts when used, Ration restores two full hearts, and Orange heals you completely. Other items, such as Heart Locket, add a heart container as well. Master Round raises your maximum health by one heart for the rest of the run, which makes it extremely valuable.

FAQ

How do you earn a Master Round in Enter the Gungeon?

You earn one by defeating a boss in the first five chambers without taking any damage. Secret floor bosses never drop one, so don't count on them. Each Master Round belongs to a different chamber.

Can Shelleton Key open Rat Chests?

No. Shelleton Key and AKEY-47 can't open Rat Chests, though Trusty Lockpicks and Drill can. Rat Chests also can't be destroyed, so shooting them open won't work. In co-op, if the Resourceful Rat is killed while your partner is down, every Rat Chest can be opened without a key, but that won't revive your partner.

What is a Glitch Chest in Enter the Gungeon?

A Glitch Chest is a very rare chest that only appears on floors one to three. Before one can show up, you need to have entered the game more than ten times and defeated The Beholster at least once. Opening one sends you to a glitch version of the next floor, which holds only a boss room with two Glitch The Beholsters. Beating them rewards a set of guns or items, plus the usual boss drops and a floor full of pickups.

Can you carry more than one active item?

Yes. Backpack, Hidden Compartment, and Utility Belt each give you an extra active item slot. The Pilot's passive also adds an extra slot, so a Pilot can carry two active items at once.