Busted Television

How to use it

Carry it to the Blacksmith in the Forge (floor 5) to unlock The Robot.

1. Unlock the Gungeon Proper shortcut first — the TV only spawns in that floor's elevator maintenance shaft room.
2. On floor 2, find the elevator shaft room and pick up the TV. Wait until you've found the elevator down to the Black Powder Mine so you spend less time babysitting it.
3. Dodge rolling drops it. In fights, toss it (use the item) somewhere safe, clear the room, then pick it back up.
4. Carry it through the Mine and Hollow to the Forge and give it to the Blacksmith. Let the cutscene finish — The Robot only unlocks once it ends.

Don't lose it

• Once you've entered the shaft room, the Resourceful Rat can steal the TV if you leave it lying anywhere. Don't enter that room until you're ready to take it.
• Scaring the Rat off doesn't stop him — he keeps coming back while the TV is on the ground.
• The TV has hidden health: enemy bullets can destroy it while it's on the floor, with no warning.
• Throwing it into a pit, behind the Wallmonger's wall, into the shaft's neon barricades, or against a wall it clips through loses it for the run.
• Flight (Wax Wings, Jetpack) lets you dodge without rolling, and an Escape Rope skips straight through the Forge to the Blacksmith.
• The Lord of the Jammed can kill you during the handoff cutscene — lose him first.
• It can't be sold to the Sell Creep. If you lose it and a Clone respawns you, it's back in the floor-2 shaft.