Blank

Blank
Statistics
Type:	Pickup
Ammonomicon Entry
Banish Bullets
Erases all enemy projectiles in the room. Pushes enemies back, and deals a small amount of damage.

Blanks are important pickups that appear in Enter the Gungeon, Exit the Gungeon, and Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead. Blanks serve as a players last resort when dodge rolling has failed, and the enemies or bullets are closing in rapidly.

Effect

Blanks are stored on the players HUD below their health. There is no limit to how many blanks the player can hold.

Blanks have a dedicated button input required to trigger them, which triggers the following effects:

• Erases all enemy bullets in the room.
• Prevents enemies from firing bullets for a brief time.
• Pushes back all enemies near the player.^ETGXTG
  • This effect has a 7 tile radius.^ETG
• Deals 10^ETG damage to all enemies near the player.
  • This effect has a 7 tile radius.^ETG
• Opens all secret walls in the room.

How to Acquire

Because blanks are such a vital part of the Gungeoneers toolkit, there are many ways to obtain them.

Enter the Gungeon^ETG

• If the player has fewer than two blanks upon entering a new Chamber, they will be restocked to two blanks. This minimum number of blanks per floor can be increased by some items, namely all Ammolets and the White Guon Stone.
• Random room clear reward pickups have a 10.64% chance to be a blank.
• The Shop will sometimes stock blanks for sale. The Blacksmith, Old Red, and Cursula may also occasionally have blanks for sale.
• Secret Rooms and Mini-Reward Rooms may sometimes contain blanks.
• The Dog and Knight's Gun can occasionally dig up a blank.
• The 'Blanked' effect of the Chance Shrine gives 1-10 blanks.

Exit the Gungeon^XTG

• If the player has fewer than two blanks upon entering a new Chamber, they will be restocked to two blanks. This minimum number of blanks per floor can be increased by some items, namely all Ammolets with the exception of the Ammolet of Endurance.
• Random room clear reward pickups have a chance to be a blank.
• The Shop will often stock blanks for sale.

Item Interactions

• Full Metal Jacket - Automatically triggers a blank when the player would take damage, preventing it. Unlike other blank triggering effects, this item actually uses a blank from the players stockpile and cannot activate if the player has no blanks.
• Gold Ammolet - Greatly increases the amount of damage dealt to enemies by blanks.
• Chaos Ammolet - Blanks have a chance to poison, freeze, or ignite enemies.
• Lodestone Ammolet - Increases the knockback force applied to enemies by blanks.
• Uranium Ammolet - Blanks have a chance to poison enemies.
• Copper Ammolet - Blanks have a chance to set enemies on fire.
• Frost Ammolet - Blanks have a chance to freeze enemies.

Items That Mimic Blank Effects

There are a myriad of different items, guns, and mechanics that can trigger blank effects or blank-like effects in response to different triggers. Many of these effects may not trigger 'full' blanks, instead performing miniature blanks with more subdued VFX and limited radius.

• Armor - Triggers the effect of a blank when broken by damage.
• Old Crest^ETG - Triggers the effect of a blank when broken by damage.
• Clown Mask^ETG - One of the Clown familiars summoned by the mask will occasionally perform a mini-blank effect.
• Daruma^ETG - Can be used after dodge rolling over a bullet to trigger a blank effect.
• Blank Bullets^ETG - Adds a small chance that any bullet fired will trigger a mini-blank effect upon hitting a wall or enemy.
• Holey Grail^ETG - Triggers the effect of a blank when the player takes damage.
• Table Tech Blanks^ETG - Triggers the effect of a blank when the player flips a table.
• Owl - Occasionally triggers a mini-blank effect.
• Blank Companion's Ring^ETG - Triggers the effect of a blank when the player uses an active item.
• Elder Blank^ETG - Triggers the effect of a blank when used.
• Ser Junkan^ETG - Will sometimes trigger the effect of a mini-blank when at Holy Knight rank.
• Composite Gun - The charged shot of this gun triggers a blank effect upon hitting a wall or enemy.
• Dark Marker^ETG - The charged shots of this gun trigger a blank effect upon colliding with each other.
• Grasschopper^ETG - The shots of this gun trigger small blank effects upon hitting a wall or enemy.
• Blown Fuse^XTG - Triggers the effect of a blank when the player collects a powerup.
• Whisper Gem^XTG - Triggers the effect of a mini-blank whenever the players Blessed Gun switches forms.
• Tables - Triggers a tiny, short range blank when with no visual effects by default when flipped. This effect cannot be modified by items that interact with the players blanks.

Notes

• Blanks have a unique icon on the map, showing up as
• It is never explained how Blanks function in-universe, with various dialogues and ammonomicon entries suggesting they emit a sonic frequency, while others state that they send bullets to another plane of existence. There are also some hints that blanks may be psychological in nature, clearing enemy bullets from the players mind.
• Blanks, like other pickups, can be carried over in the the pasts of various Gungeoneers, potentially offering an advantage if the player is able to amass a stockpile.
  • Blanks do not carry over into the Pilots past however, as the ship is technically considered a different player character and the act of switching characters resets the players held blanks.
• During the second phase of the High Dragun the radius of blanks bullet-destroying capabilities is limited to 7 tiles.
• The Merchant NPC Old Red appears to be a large living blank, and sells blank themed merchandise.
• The Blank Shrine depicts Old Red, and requires the player to use Blanks to potentially trigger its effect of spawning a chest.
• Ser Manuels tutorial in the Halls of Knowledge has a dedicated segment about how and when to use Blanks.
• According to Ser Manuel, the reason why blanks are automatically picked up by walking over them is because they are sticky from being commonly handled.
• A plushie called the Cobalt Blue was, for a time, sold on the official Devolver Digital Merch Store along with other Bullet Kin variants, and was advertised on dodgeroll.com long after it was no longer available for purchase. This Cobalt Blue Bullet Kin plush highly resembled a Blank.
  • The gun held by the Cobalt Blue Bullet Kin was bright gold.

In Other Media

• Blanks appear as a 'Warp Zone' card in The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, where they can be used to negate damage and redirect it to another player or monster.

Gallery

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  The appearance of Blanks in Enter the Gungeon and Exit the Gungeon

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  Where blanks are located in the HUD

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  The appearance of Blanks in Enter the Gungeon: House of the Gundead

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  The dedicated blank button in touchscreen versions of Exit the Gungeon

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  The Cobalt Blue official Bullet Kin plushie, which resembles a Blank

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  The 'Blanks' card in The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls.