Lotus

Not to be confused with item Lotus Petal or entity World Lotus.

Lotus
The icon for the Lotus
INFORMATION
Type	Rebirthing Item
Maximum Stack	1
Shop Price	8 (The Mill, Grampy)
Usage	Rebirths you in the floor that it was planted in, near or at the same door number it was planted at.
SOUND FILES
Sounds PlantedCreated by Grampy/Use Lotus Rebirth

"Binded back together"
- "Rebirth" Achievement description

The Lotus is a placeable item that can be obtained by collecting 8 Lotus Petals in The Outdoors and bringing them to Grampy, who will then take the petals to create the flower (which everyone can obtain individually, one per player).

Appearance

The Lotus is a pink lotus flower with a yellow bud. Upon planting the Lotus, a long green thorny vine extends from its end. When reviving with it, the Lotus glows pink and yellow.

Usage

The Lotus can be placed anywhere on the ground where it will then sprout a flower. Upon dying the player will have the option to "Use Lotus", which will allow the player to see all Lotuses that they or any other dead players had placed. When a Lotus is used it will spawn the player at the location it was placed (starting a new run if in multiplayer). The Lotus will only be used up once the person that placed it decides to revive with it. It works as a checkpoint and a revive.

Notes

• It is possible to have multiple Lotuses placed at once.
• A Lotus can be used between floors, so, for example, if you died in The Mines, you could use your Lotus you placed back in The Outdoors and revive there.
• You can only access your Lotus through dying and clicking the "Use Lotus" icon. They cannot be accessed in the Lobby.
  • This can be easily bypassed by going to The Hotel and using a Modifier such as Seeing Double or Four Eyes to die quickly.
• Items the player was carrying before death will be re-added to the player's inventory when they rebirth through a Lotus.
  • Because of this, the players items will not drop on the floor upon death for others to pick up, preventing duping.
• Permanent status effects like the Green Herb that was applied on the player will be kept when rebirthing through a Lotus.
• Compatible modifiers will also carry when rebirthing through a Lotus into main floors.
• The Lotus can be used to duplicate rare items you want to keep such as the Shakelight or Starlight Jug. If you plant a Lotus at A-1000 for example, you can continue to The Hotel and still be able to use the Lotus to revive to A-1000, which means you can get another Starlight Jug. This also means you can infinitely duplicate the Starlight Jug, as long as you have a Lotus when you die to replant it at A-1000.
  • You can also share these Starlight Jugs with other people, if they die in the same run as you they can take your Lotus to A-1000 and also plant their own Lotus, if they had one when they died, which also allows them to revive at A-1000. If a player doesn’t have the A-1000 achievement, they will sometimes get it when respawning at your A-1000 Lotus, however this isn't guaranteed. To guarantee players get the A-1000 achievement by respawning at your Lotus, you can plant it a few rooms before A-1000 and then run to A-1000, however keep in mind that entities may spawn before you get there.
• When the host of a Lotus clicks the "Use Lotus" icon, other players can vote if they want to choose another player's Lotus. It works similarly to the "Play again" button.
• The Lotus cannot be planted if progress is disabled, either via certain modifiers or in runs with +9 players.
• Unlike the Alarm Clock, this item cannot be get picked up again upon planting it.
• Grampy cannot create more than one Lotus per run. Trying to interact with Grampy after creating the one will only result in normal dialogue seen when not holding a Lotus Petal in hand.
  • However, if the player were to create a Lotus, place it in the Outdoors and rebirth from it, they could get Grampy to create another Lotus as long as they have another eight petals.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Useful to reach certain checkpoints.
• Helpful in saving revives.
• Can be used to skip major sections of floors by planting a Lotus at the final room of a floor, saving time for especially long floors like the Rooms.
• Allows players to be rebirthed while also keeping the items and gold they had prior to their death.
• Multiple players can use the host’s previously planted Lotus to all rebirth in a multiplayer game.
• Can be used to allow players to revive in subfloors, which would otherwise be impossible due to normal revives being disabled in subfloors.
• Can be used across floors, allowing players to skip past floors or go back to certain floors.
• Can be used to give players a second chance at boss fights at the end of floors, unlike revives which can’t be used.
• Players who have already planted a Lotus previously can still die with one in their inventory, allowing them to be rebirthed back with a Lotus in their inventory. This can be useful in creating an ‘infinite checkpoint’ at places such as A-1000, allowing players to infinitely use that Lotus if they die with another one in their inventory.
• Can be useful in farming knobs by planting a Lotus at the end of floors and immediately going through the exit after rebirthing, giving players a free 50 knobs.

Cons

• Requires 8 Lotus Petals to be given to Grampy in order to get a Lotus.
• Lotus Petals spawning in The Outdoors is RNG dependent, and it is not guaranteed that 8 petals will spawn prior to meeting Grampy.
• Can't be planted if progression is disabled, either via the use of modifiers or playing with 9+ players.
• Players with Lotuses planted with the ability to rebirth at any moment will not drop items when dying.
• Can't be picked back up once planted.
• It is very easy to misclick and accidentally plant while holding the item, leading to unfavourable rebirth spawn points.
• Can't be planted in The Backdoor due to the lack of a way to obtain a Lotus there.
• Each planted Lotus can only be used once.
• Unlike normal revives, Lotuses used to rebirth are not refunded to the player if they die immediately after rebirthing.
• It is not possible to get two Lotuses from Grampy in the same run, even with enough Lotus Petals.
• Requires the player to die first before they can use a Lotus to rebirth.

Bugs

• If placed inside a Seek chase, it has a chance to spawn the players right in the middle of the chase without Seek.
• The remaining distance mentioned in the sign in the Lotus rebirth room in The Outdoors might not be correct.
• When rebirthing into a guaranteed room, there is a chance players don't spawn in the Lotus room.
• If a player selects a planted Lotus, and then exit and reopen the Use Lotus menu, that player won't have a checkmark. This is only visual.
• Entities can rarely instantly spawn upon Rebirthing into The Rooms.
• There was a bug in The Outdoors where Eyestalk kills every player during the cutscene at the end of its chase. This made the subfloor unbeatable and the Lotus unobtainable.

Trivia

• The Lotus seems to be connected to Curious Light.
  • The World Lotus and the Lotus Petal (from which the Lotus is crafted) emit the same color particles as the Starlight items, the Rifts and the skies of A-1000. These particles & their previously seen locations are all heavily associated with Curious Light.
  • This can also explain why the Lotus works in subfloors, which the World Lotus can't normally enter.
• The Lotus was in the Admin Panel on the release of The Great Outdoors Update, but was removed shortly after, as it can't even be used with progression disabled.
• The Lotus used to be able to be rebirthed multiple times from one flower on the release of The Great Outdoors Update, this was patched several hours after it released.
• The Lotus can be planted in The Dining Hall and The Bridges when encountering Halt.
  • As long as Halt is not crucified, the Lotus will appear blue.
• Originally, players could obtain Modifier Achievements by rebirthing through a Lotus. This has been changed in the fourth patch of The Great Outdoors Update.

Related achievements

		Picking Flowers Still got it! Have Grampy create a Lotus for you.

		Rebirth Binded back together. Become reborn through a Lotus.

Gallery

• Lotus
• Rebirth Rooms

The Lotus planted. (Inactive)

The Lotus planted. (Active)

Ditto, but animated.

El Goblino's reaction to a Lotus.

The animation when using a Lotus.

Ditto, but animated.

The "Use Lotus" button after dying during a run.

Giggle in one of the rebirth rooms.

The Lotus can't be planted if progression is disabled.

The Lotus disallowing the Modifier achievements.

A Lotus planted in an enclosed space of The Hedge Maze which is inaccessible.

The Hotel

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The Mines

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Ditto (Bright)

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Subfloors

The Outdoors

The Rooms

The Backdoor (Concept Art & Upcoming feature)