Boom Flies are large flies with small wings and large, beady eyes. They are mainly found in The Caves and The Depths.
Behavior
Boom Flies are much larger than normal Flies. Rather than trying to follow you, they will instead fly around the room diagonally, bouncing off walls. They have considerable health, taking at least six initial tears to go down. They explode upon death, typically killing all other monsters and dealing a full heart of damage in a small radius.
With a correct timing, they can be used to destroy Rocks or open up Secret Rooms.
When fighting a Boom Fly, it is advised to keep your distance from it and maintain considerable range; if you stay too close to it when you kill it, it will explode and deal damage to Isaac. Due to this, fighting a Boom Fly when the player has very low range is quite risky.
Champion Variant
Eternal Bomb Flies cause a gigantic explosion upon death, significantly larger than a Mr. Mega bomb.
This variant was added in the Eternal Edition update but exclusively encountered in Hard Mode.
Notes
- The Skatole item slows down Boom Flies and Red Boom Flies drastically, but they will still explode on death and can damage Isaac.
Bugs
- If you collected Bob's Curse and kill a boom fly after (at any given time), the Boom Fly's explosion will be green, and its the same for all the Boom Flies you encounter after picking up Bob's Curse. Does not apply for Red Boom Flies.
Monsters | ||
---|---|---|
Fly variants | Black Fly • Attack Fly • Moter • (: Eternal Fly) | |
Gaper variants | Gaper • Frowning Gaper • Mr. Maw • (: Gurgle) | |
Mulligan variants | Mulligan • Mulligoon • Hive • (: Mulliboom) | |
Horf variants | Horf • Maw • Red Maw • (: Psychic Maw) | |
Vis variants | Vis • (: Double Vis • Chubber) | |
Maggot variants | Maggot • Charger • Spitty | |
Hopper variants | Hopper • Flaming Hopper • Leaper | |
Boil variants | Boil • (: Gut • Sack) | |
Clot variants | Clotty • Clot • I. Blob | |
Leech variants | Leech • Kamikaze Leech • (: Holy Leech) | |
Spider variants | : Spider • Big Spider • Trite | |
Pooter variants | Pooter • (: Fat Fly) | |
Boomfly variants | Boom Fly • Red Boom Fly | |
Pacer variants | Pacer • Gusher | |
Sucker variants | Sucker • (: Spit) | |
Globin variants | Globin • Gazing Globin | |
Knight variants | Knight • Selfless Knight | |
Eye variants | Eye • Bloodshot Eye | |
Host variants | Host • Red Host | |
Baby variants | Baby • (: Angelic Baby) | |
Eye variants | Eye • Bloodshot Eye | |
Poky variants | Poky • (: Slide) | |
Brain variants | Brain • Membrain | |
Gut variants | Guts • (: Mama Guts) | |
Dople variants | Dople • Evil Twin | |
Grimace variants | Stone Grimace • (: Vomit Grimace) | |
Keeper variants | : Keeper • Hanger | |
Standalone variants | Para-Bite • Fred • Lump • Embryo • Peep Eye • (: Swarmer • Mask + Heart • B. Licker) |