Idk if people have been trying any glitchless speedruns, but I definitely think bows are the way to go.

With the mouse wood relic if you put the arrows pointing at the bow from the other side of the backpack they can use the whole space in the row, you can alternate them such as they aren't adjacent to each other, this added to a 4 blocks long bow can be insane with mouse wood. Another crazy synergy that you could try is the crossbow poison synergy, since the nerf, bows only shoot arrows they can "see" but crossbow kept the ability to shoot all the arrows it points at, with the downside of a 50% damage multiplier, but poison isn't considered damage so you could technically fill a whole row with poison arrows and make the crossbow point at them for some crazy damage, the only downside being coward enemies as they wouldn't leave before attacking unless the non-coward enemy is in the front, this can be specially dangerous with bosses, but it can be solved with tokens of energy or the relic that adds energy.

the short arrow are really great (at the end especially). the -50% damage is additive. meaning if mousewood is giving +500%, on the short arrow it will give +450% so short arrows are totally worth it to fit more in.

Good note for Bows: You can use Duct Tape to fire More Arrows than the bow can covers in slots. Placeing Duct Tape in the path of the bow you can place arrows Above and infront of the duct tape and both will fire :)

This series is awesome Gives me luck be a landlord type vibes

The Kickstarter ends in 9 hours, last chance for anyone to get a copy of the game with the latest updates for a while.

Before 0.16 update every arrow in a row used to be fired, so you could have something like 10 arrows and a single fan(belt?) Of knives and every shot increase your damage by something 150 for the rest of combat. Build was deleted with this "first in a direction" mechanic but arrows got buffed massively

I had just tried my own archer run the day before this video went up. I completely failed to realize that the bow would fire multiple arrows and gimped myself horribly.

Ah yes. Tyler is back from his old ways. Can't wait what's coming...

i remember you complaining about how long items take to use in your cleaver build. Im pretty sure in the options menu on the top right of the screen you can increase item use speed. Hope this helps!

I like seeing the message added at the end.

Fun Fact about the bow and arrow build. The "first arrow" is the first arrow from the right of the bag, not on the right of the bow. So if a row is: Bow, arrow 1, arrow 2. Arrow 2 will be shot.

Don’t know if you hear this enough but I love your content man! You always put out great vids and have a pleasant attitude. I always look forward to seeing your vids! Have a great day Tyler!

Tyler Stocks favorite quotes: "do me a solid (when he killed the reaper in vs he said salid)" "save it for a rainy day"

I've been scratching my head on how anyone can do an archer build so I'm glad this came up. It made me immediately wanna try it out and I wound up with a God run with a similar archer build, but with 3 ninja armors that give a total 3 dodge each turn in exchange for 0 block. I wound up on floor 22: phase 2 floor 2 of my 2nd endless cycle! The archer build + ninja cloth finally lost when I couldn't one shot multi hitting enemies

Thanks for the videos!

Love to see you still uploading, been watching since btd days

a friendly tip, arrows gets bonus damage on empty space where it is pointed. the only thing a bow does is activate arrows in each of its row or column. so you can even point the arrow to the bow and set it to the other side of the backpack and still get the same amount of bonus damage. you can also line the bow facing up/downwards. and arrows to the right/left, for maximum arrow bonus. (at least 1 arrow will hit the fall. just be sure to make a stair so that the first arrow in each column is a different arrow.

Your videos on this are soooo goood! I def plan to play this myself now.

Oh got here quite fast. Probably gonna be a great video as always. Thanks for making content!

hello aliensrock ive been watching since btd battles and i have to say this game is very interresting i showed it to my friends and they love it.

As someone getting into archery it’s pretty funny to think about how the crooked arrow would fly

Gotta love bow builds! My endless record is 18, though I didn’t get as lucky with relics so the endless video will def be interesting

You got me hooked on this game.

Shopkeeper: the ring looks good with u Aliensr9ck with 50 rings: why thank you

it was painful to see that Tyler at first didnt see that the curved arrow gains damage for empty spaces "below" it.

Legendary bow, mousewood, and a nut ton of short arrows. The short arrows could be organized checkerboard, and the damage would be ludicrous.

Even though I haven't watched the whole video yet (obviously) its still amazing, great work Tyler. Those arrows were amazing at doing the things that they do

Beaten the game twice with bow builds, it is absolutely absurd. I think my most recent run I could hit over 500 dmg per shot (after rage necklace added dmg) and had 4 energy. It was definitely a speedrun when you kill everything first turn lol. Mousewood OP

Didn't think about how well consumables and archery build work together

Thanks because this video i finally can get to 19 floors with 2 normal arrow, normal bow, 2 energy gem, windmill, mouse wood, and barbel. If only i got one more energy gem i could go to 20-22 floor

any item with blue text means rotating it changes which directions it affects. the mouse wood can rotate to make arrows above, below or to the left get its 200% same goes for the one gem that gives weapons +2, cant remember the name but I know it is orange

Today I had a bow god run. I had a 4 length bow, 4 electric arrows, metallic wand, knife belt and filled up rest with mana stones. 500+ dmg per 1 energy, plus about 30 uses of a 25ish dmg wand. Even after nerfs, bow remains superior.

I just got this game yesterday and I was surprised at how different this version is to what I played.

Epic

i think you might have a lucky ring addiction

Tyler's starting backpack is so wide, Song for Denise plays when he walks.

The pack is back!

I've recently had my first endless mode run that died on Floor 14, using a stall seasoning/consumable build. It's using a Doru, a shield and 5 seasonings in a single collum (could be placed better).

Speedrun in an Aliensrock video? What?!?!? Excited for this vid Tyler!!! Tyler quote of the day (ik it's been a while): I can get even longer

This run hurt my brain

Interesting thing of note.. the bow is not limited to facing right. If you get a crossbow, its actually better to point it down or up toward the arrows since it hits all arrows in its line.

8:02 ah yes a WATER flask for a RAINY day

Funnily enough I just finished a bow and crimson energy run before this uploaded

Actually curious how you lost here. Did enemies just get too much health to one shot? Could fit two more arrows per shot with the Hawkeye bow eventually, and consumables let you scale even further.

I didn’t know that the curved arrow also used the space in front of the extra bit (I thought it only boosted from the space in front of the arrowhead). Now it makes a lot more sense why it’s a rare item.

Cool

If you rotate the bow the direction it is facing is where the bow would consider the arrows to be for example if the front of the bow faced left then the arrows closest on the left row would shoot this could help with changing consumables and other things

Ah yes youtube, this is definetely binding of isaac

I think you can squeeze a little more out of your bow if you have it pointing up and have arrows pointing across

you can flip the arrow 180 and set it to other end to get the max empty spaces in front of the arrow 😉

That thumbnail literally scares me

This relic, summon arrows, and a bunch or other stuff got me doing 500 per shot per arrow, got me to endless + 1

I face palmed so hard when you sold the short arrows. Because they are short you can fit more of them, thus stacking the elven wood effect.

Fun fact, the arrows don't have to point the same direction as the bow! So you can put them all the way to the right angled back towards your bow

the bow doesn't need to be facing the same direction as the arrows, you can put the bow facing up, with arrows staggered above it facing right

if you face the arrow heads towards the bow youll get bonus spaces with arrows

I did this same run today!

nice to see you playing binding of Isaac

You can rotate bows and the direction in which they use arrows gets changed

F for the king cleaver

I literaly had this run earlier today

I have found that the more I try to adhere to a bow build, the more it tries to tempt me to move to other builds.

f for king cleaver

"I can get even longer." - Tyler

My god his misunderstanding of all info is remarkable

"no arrows" well maybe if you didn't have a bunch of lucky rings increasing the rarity of goods post combat they would drop more :P

holy shit, they turned nuclearcraft fission reactors into a deckbuilder rougelike

12:03 F To pay respects

The duffel bag build

quicc boye

He got the Retomation red hoodie at 6:28

I some how did a whole run with the basic two slot bow and a single slot arrow. The one that gains 1 damage for each slot, I am still not sure how I did it against the fire boss.

15:27 Would turning the crooked arrow upside down and putting it bottom right not work?

1 small problem with this run is that the crooked arrow gains from where the arrow is pointed. He keeps putting things in front of the arrow.

I wonder what happens if you turn the arrow around and point it back Does it count as more spaces and thus more damage?

Can you please post these builds going into the freeplay not just if they beat your record, but also if you don't just immediately die? It would be great to see, how each of your builds evolve

Got 2 hoodies in a run and got 150+ HP but damage output was low so I still died.

The thumbnail is cursed: 3 tall Composite Bow

Have you tried a game called "Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate" yet? If so, what are your thoughts on it?

did you know turning the bow uses arrows the direction its facing it and if you turn arrows each empty space the direction it faces give it damage

At the start he didnt have a backpack he had a duffle bag

Bows might be less broken if the arrows were spent somehow. Maybe if they cost one coin per arrow shot like the original Zelda. Say the bow doesn't cost energy but 1 coin per arrow linked. They'd still be powerful but using them would drain your funds fast. There is the wand that summons arrows but its a bit tedious placing them every combat.

The title is similar to that one talk show 2 girls 1 cup

ah, yes, the new Tboi update

How do you get the blessing in the beginning?

try bringing tsty flies to the frog at the shop

Anyone else noticed how the normal arrow in the thumbnail used up 3 spaces instead of 2? ^^

What is Matthew's Blessing and how do you get it

You're kinda late to the bow meta, but it's nice to see you try it

Cleavers are op

can someone tell me where can i get the game since the one on the steam is not available yet?? i wanna try this game so bad

rage goes up WAY more than 5 damage.. turn 1 is 3 damage, turn 2 is 6, etc; before % increases

i managed to get an earthstone blade with a brick build, but it only adds the first row beneath it for +12 damage instead of the whopping +48 :(

Adding ring of doom and a bunch of mana to this build will take you over 5k dmg/turn

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS SHORT AND FAT?! MY MOOOMMMM!

wouldn't it have been better, in the end, to have the bow facing up in the bottom left with the crooked arrow and the regular arrow shifted 2 to the left?

Where can you play this?

how do you start with this blessing?? I don't see anything about it

Can someone tell me how to get the blessing in the beginning?? I got it one time but whenever i start up the game it doesn't give me the option