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I am exhausted, people. The dangers of going places is that you...see and do things? And, unfortunately, get home increasingly late, with no down time to post. Maybe I will crack and automate things soon (gasp), but until then, late post! Hope everybody enjoyed a wonderful Saturday, and I am sure your eve (or morn) will be made all the better by installment #7 of Boss Discussion.

We've knocked out many much-maligned menaces & monstrosities, so today I'm dialing it back with one of my personal favorite bosses. This cutie has been immortalized by my flair for years, and now they're freaking official. Yes, you may have to endure a minecart or a brimstone bomb to the kisser, but darn if I don't have a rip-roaring time nonetheless. It's Hornfel!

[Hornfel]

HP: 240

Behaviors

• Hornfel is encountered in a special boss room with walls covered in boss doors, and minecart tracks between them

• Hornfel rides a minecart through a door (occassionally accompanied by 2 Fly Bombs), and performs various attacks on entering the room:

• Throws 1–2 bombs at Isaac, which have a small chance of being Hot Bombs (which spawn a flame) or Sad Bombs (which spawn a burst of projectiles)

• Throws 3 Brimstone Bombs that resemble mines, detonating after a few moments

• Accelerates along one set of tracks, throwing bombs out for the duration; Hornfel slows down after multiple cycles, and throws up a fireball which releases trails in the cardinal directions on landing

• Sends out 1–2 decoy dummies with 4 HP, which burst into 3 Troll Bombs if killed (and deal a full heart of contact damage, as does Hornfel)

• Minecarts can occasionally appear on the tracks independent of Hornfel, containing fire, TNT, or various enemies (Bonies, Facelesses, Dannies, Gurgles, Quakies)

• After taking enough damage, Hornfel loses his minecart and attempts to flee via one of the boss doors; defeating Hornfel before they escape will drop one of: 3 Bombs, Boom!, Brimstone Bombs, Remote Detonator (and unlocks Brimstone Bombs if not unlocked)

Hornfel (A boss you can encounter) rides a mine cart. He will also go through multiple boss doors to go to different tracks. If you were to kill him while he was in the door he’d crash the game.

Free gold and other minerals can be recovered from this formation. There are preserved worm tracks.

In my opinion the boss moves around the screen too fast, and in the rooms where the fight is in a 1x1 room, it gets too crowded when combined with all the extra enemies showing up in minecarts.

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Heyo, how're you nerds doing? I'm...doing alright! Thursday is Republic Day for us in India, so hey, that's a day I don't need to attend school. So that's pretty rad. Anyways, welcome back to another Antibirth Workshop, because heck, I'm really feeling it when it comes to Antibirth content. So today, we return for our second installment of Boss Workshop to discuss my personal greatest fear for a run: Hornfel. This little bastard rides around in his mine cart raising cain, tossing bombs at you and generally being a real thorn in your side. Or should I say...horn in your side? Puns aside, Hornfel is very bomb-centered, and is most likely to ruin any and all of my lost runs of all bosses in the game. Love him or hate him, what could be done to improve Hornfel as a fight, or make him more interesting? Without further ado...

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HP: 450 (350 First Phase, 100 Second Phase)

Champion Variants: None

• Hornfel rides around in a minecart for the majority of the fight going in and out boss doors. He will do one of the following actions as he enters the room:

• Throws one to two bombs at Isaac. These bombs can be regular bombs, but can also be special bombs, such as Hot Bombs, Sad Bombs and Stone Bombs. He can throw any combination of these at Isaac.

• Pulls out three black mines with red blinking parts and throws them around the arena, that will fire brimstone beams in the cardinal directions after a delay.

• Goes faster and faster on a single track while throwing regular bombs. Afterwards, he gets sick and vomits a fireball that will release fire in the cardinal directions.

• A fake Hornfel can appear instead of Hornfel, and hitting this dummy will spawn several troll bombs. These bombs detonate faster than regular troll bombs.

• Several enem

FUCK BOTH OF EM.

I can't find anything online; I know it will vary and depend on the precise mineral makeup, but I was wondering if there is a range out there, at least.

Need a little help answering this, hornblende hornfels vs. greenschist in the field. Found several links, but nothing with the ability to distinguish in the field. Thank you for your help!

Well so I was fighting hornfell. I had quad shot and Dr. Fetus. Anyway. I killed him. And right as I killed him he got into a door where he drives in with his minecart (I think the door got closed as I killed him) and then. It crashed my game quickly.

Cut & pasted from this Steam thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/250900/discussions/0/5017567849303206071/

Credit to the Steam user Blind, The Bound Demon for putting this together

YouTube link of the AMA's audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yP-g4AYNuY

• Kil will try to release the void revamp in 2022 and a fix for custom rooms on Monday, but no promises
• Mortis coming eventually
• More synergies for t.Apollyon's locusts coming eventually
• New resprites on their way if NotYourSagittarius and SnakeBlock (two Repentance spriters and artists) are up to it
• A new character could come out eventually
• More small patches will come out regularly
• Kil really likes the concept of subthemes to floors, like Fiend Folio does
• Kil is talking with LeatherIceCream (room and enemy designer) about a complete greed mode rework, but nothing set in stone
• Kil will move on to other projects eventually, but for now he's enjoying working on Isaac
• Fixing bugs and working on the mod system is top priority rn
• More reworks to items are probably coming
• Kil is going on vacation next month
• Devil deals were probably over-nerfed. There are a few devil deal items that could need a buff
• Using Lazarus Rags with t. Forgotten and becoming THE THING was intentional
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• There's an unimplemented quality system concerning items as t. cain? (Not sure, haven't really understood this one well)
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• Cut bosses will be added eventually
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

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