I don't get the point of tainted cadaver at all. His allies are so slow, weak and constantly teleport to him if you use his item.
His item scales to his damage, but he starts with < 1 attack, so you have to spam it to kill anything. Not using it makes everything absurdly slow.
You can get items to fix this, but you're very limited in actually getting items because he can only get
- Bone hearts (so lost when they break)
- Filled with rotten heaerts (so his bone hearts break in 2 hits)
- And only 4 of them
So if you walk into and out of a curse room, that's a hp down
Use a blood bank, hp down
Simply get hit twice in any room in the game on a guy who starts with next to no damage, hp down
He's bad at everything and he's basically incapable of leveraging any mechanic to his advantage

@ali Most mods that don't require Repentogon should be functional in Rep+

does this work with rep +?

Tainted cadaver + athame is a bit too broken, all criters can proc it when recalled using halitosis

Don't take something like Abaddon cuz' it straight up kills you.

Here is a sample list of where unlocks should probably be

Cadaver:
Probiotics - Complete Boss Rush
Some New Baby familiar (Dead Embryo?) - Defeat Mom's Heart on Hard Mode
A New Item - Defeat Satan
Vestments - Defeat Isaac
Forbidden Fruit - Defeat The Lamb
A New Item - Defeat ???
A New Item/A New Card - Defeat Ultra Greed
A New Item/A New Trinket - Defeat Ultra Greedier
A New Item/A New Trinket - Defeat Hush
Rotten Chest - Defeat Mega Satan
Cadaver's Left Eye - Defeat Delirium
Hydrochloric Acid - Defeat Mother
A New Item - Defeat The Beast
Some New Baby familiar (Lil Cadaver?) - Earn all Hard mode Completion Marks
Tainted Cadaver - Use Red Key to open the hidden closet in Home

Tainted Cadaver:
A New Trinket - Defeat Satan, Isaac, The Lamb and ???
A New Card - Defeat Ultra Greedier
Soul of Cadaver - Complete Boss Rush and Defeat Hush
Golden Soul - Defeat Mega Satan
Halitosis - Defeat Delirium
Tech Drones - Defeat Mother
Morgue Key - Defeat The Beast

Okay, I really like the sprites update. With such visuals the mod really may start competing with other charachter mods as the mechanics are pretty interesting. However I think you should consider adding more unlocks and moving them is a way that will match the unlocks of the main game (Like Soul of Cadaver being unlocked by beating Hush and Boss Rush). If I recall correctly before it wasn't done cause you couldn't code it, but now with UnlockAPI existing I think this is totally doable. I just really want this to be a fully completed charachter. Maybe you should create a discussion there for Ideas for unlocks if you don't have anything in mind. Maybe you can instead add more unlocks so Tainted Cadaver would also have an unlock for each boss (Like Tainted Andromeda or Tainted Charachters with Repentance+ installed).

New sprites look great!

Cadaver update! awesome

is there an "unlock all" command for this mod? I ask because I got a new PC and don't want to do everything again with Cadaver and Tainted Cadaver?

{Obligatory fiend folio compatibility question}

also, does Golden Soul support modded souls?

question. do Rotten Chests use the Rotten Beggar pool, or do they have their own unique pool?

I added Halitosis and Cadaver's Left eye to the rotten beggar pool in the last update.

can we add some of the items here to the rotten beggar pool to make it less shitty? that would make rotten beggars worth using

I never thought I'd see another update, this is awesome! Thank you!

Update pog

I've pushed out an update which addresses tons of co-op related bugs. There are still some caveats:

- Item unlock progression is only tracked if Player 1 is Cadaver/Tainted Cadaver.
- Morgue Key will only remember items held by Player 1.
- Heart drop conversions to Rotten + Bone hearts are only done if Player 1 is Cadaver/Tainted Cadaver.
- Multiple Tainted Cadavers share one army that respawns when any Tainted Cadaver uses Halitosis.

I don't play much multiplayer so I very likely missed some stuff, but it should be much more functional than before. Please let me know if you notice anything!

Head to the change notes to see a full list of non-multiplayer changes/fixes.

YOOOOO

Hello all, wanted to provide an update since I've been very quiet. For those of you asking for updates, I have good and bad news:

I consider this mod to be content complete. Meaning there will be no new items, or new major features. I am currently working on a significant update to fix some bugs and provide some decent co-op support. I may have that out some time today or tomorrow.

Compatibility with other mods is also not a high priority for me, as my main priority is providing an expansion that feels like it slots into the vanilla game as much as possible. I do not personally use other major mods in conjunction with Cadaver. I'm sorry if this is disappointing news, but this is just a hobby project for me!

Perhaps the best news is that I am in the early stages of creating a second expansion with a new character and new unlocks, a project very similar to this mod. I will post more about it when I can. Thanks for all your support!

One thing, There isn't any icon for both the cadaver and the tainted form for multiplayer

Man it's been almost a year since this mod was released,do you ever feel like doing an update for this? You don't have to,I'm just saying.

Dude, are you still working on the mod? I love the mod, so hope you could continue to update it.

Mod definetly broken, star of behelem alone gets me 300 damage

For some reason I have 2 Cadavers in my Character Selection, does anyone know what the reason could be?

even if it isn't updated again, I'll keep playing cause I love tainted cadaver

So um,you feel like working on an update for this mod?

I've felt pretty fine while I was playing some Cadaver runs,but I felt like he and his Tainted version could have some hints to his perks. And he could also be compatible with POG for good items,Unique co-op ghosts,& the Encyclopedia mod. Oh,and let's not forgot about the Tech Drones,because they could have upgrades with the Sewing Machine mod!

Tech drones don't work :/ in coop they just don't show up

Do you think that this mod will ever be updated? It hasn't gotten one for a while, and I fear that it will be lost to time as the Base game updates.

Probably "The Festered"

Does Tainted Cadaver have a "Tainted" name? Like The Broken, The Dauntless, etc?

Absolutely phenomenal! Has an incredibly accurate genuine vanilla feeling, and you captured the concept of Tainted characters absolutely perfectly! The items are also quite unique. The character design and mechanics are very clever. Overall, easily in my top three mods ever. Great job, internet person!

Can you make Cadaver & T Cadaver compatible with POG for good items mod ?

Pleeease consider adding Encylopedia support!! fantastic fleshed out expansion that feels natural to the game and would lend itself well to it! :)

Does the game count Golden Soul and Soul of Cadaver as runes? Just wondering if they worked Rune Bag and Blank Rune.

Hi, i was wondering if i could resprite the cadaver as like a fun project, nothing i would claim as my own, just try my shot at how it would look like in my style

Holap como hago para ver el post it de cadaver? xd

@cadetpirx forbidden fruit is a tidepod. it's a reference to how a few years ago there was a trend of people eating tidepods, and people joked that they were the "forbidden fruit" you weren't supposed to eat. This is also why the item kills you lmao

I'm thinking that you should add Cadaver & Tainted Cadaver a greed mode unlock.
Here are my examples for good greed mode unlocks:
Defeat Ultra Greed as Cadaver to unlock the Book of Decay ,a 3-charge active item that spawns a group friendly critters upon use.
Defeat Ultra Greedier as Tainted Cadaver to unlock the Rotten Shell Game ,a variant of Shell Game based off of a Rotten Beggar. Picking the right skull can give you an item from the Rotten Beggar pool,while picking the wrong skull can spawn 2 small maggots instead.

Okay,I see.

Say,wouldn't Forbidden Fruit have an alternate sprite so that it would look more like an actual fruit?

Forbidden Fruit is a detergent packet (tide pod) for clothing. Dishwasher packet would work just as well.

Basically something that a small kid like Isaac would find appealing because of the bright colors but ultimately would get poisoned by. (Hence the item's effect)

Forbidden Fruit looks like a Dishwasher thingy,is it actually?

any chance of compatibility with the encyclopedia mod?

out of the few characters with unlocks, of course one of them needs to be one of the hardest characters for download XD love it, keep up the good work, but also please have mercy on us

the completion mark sheet doesnt seem to be showing up?

That's an issue with almost all mods, game issue.

for me, the game crashes occasionally when I attempt to retry a run

Could Tainted Cadaver be made into a standard Tainted unlock? The Job mod does it, so it should be possible.

Really neat idea for the tear up = damage up. Got Kidney Stone and Rock bottom and broke the game exactly as expected!