Can't level bouncy weapons

[pastel depot]

If you get offered a bouncy weapon from getting bronze with a golden finger, but you aren't ready to take it and discard it, because you want to prioritize filling your weapon slots with other weapons first, and then you later take that same bouncy weapon from a candy box, you won't be able to level it if you have nothing else left to level.

-You get bouncy weapon from golden finger and discard it.
-All weapons and passives are brought to max level.
-You take previously discarded bouncy weapon from candy box. It acts like it's banished, but it's not.
-It will not level from chests and the level up menu will not appear when getting enough exp.
-The level up menu will only open for the previously discarded bouncy weapon if you have at least 1 other weapon or passive you can level. So getting another item from candy box or arma dio will let you now level the bouncy weapon.

This might be the case for all items that are picked up and discarded and then later obtained through other methods. Can't level it unless you have at least 1 other thing to level. Haven't tested it with stage items.

[pastel depot]

Here's a video where I previously discarded Bone from Golden Finger. I picked it up with Candy Box later. I show it's level 1 and not banished. It won't let me level it. I get the exp to fill the bar and the level up menu won't pop up. I pick up another Candy Box and take Celestial Dusting that was not discarded from Golden Finger in this run. Get more exp and the level up menu does appear with the previously discarded Bone also available to level.

[vapid forge]

ah, its because you are in an adventure, since you obtained it while it was still "locked" it acts like this, its still a bug though

[pastel depot]

Not necessarily. It's not locked, because i already had access to them in this adventure before obtaining them and discarding with Golden Finger.

I can replicate this consistently.

Basically it has to do with discarding the item from golden finger (whether it's still locked or not when you get it is irrelevant) and picking it up later with candybox. You'll only be able to level it if you have 1 other item to level that had not also been discarded.

I think discarding an item might put it in a semi-banished state, where the game won't offer it from level up options on its own, but it can appear if there's another item appearing alongside it.

I have seen a variation of this in the main game too, where you take an item you already had and got rid of from a candybox or the librarian. You can do this after evolving the castlevania spell tombs and librarian weapons, getting a second copy of the base weapon. But the level up window won't appear unless you have another item to level.