Chip Canyons

#Overview

Chip Canyons is a climate biome: it fills the parts of the map that are warm (the second-hottest of four temperature bands) and dry. Because temperature and moisture change smoothly across the map, it usually sits between Potato Field (cooler) and Fry-Oil Desert (hotter), with Mash Swamp on its wet side.^[1] It has no ground hazard, so nothing on the floor slows or burns Tibo.

The pest list leans on chargers and the fryer crowd it shares with the desert. Crumb Ants and Oil Drips open the run, Sand Crabs (tier 2) are the canyon's own pest, then come dashing Field Crows and exploding Sizzle Imps (tier 3), Harvest Mice that split into three Field Rats on death (tier 4), and finally the Grease Fiend, a 200 HP charger (tier 5). Gold is ×1.1 and XP ×1.05.

Compared with the other climate biomes, Chip Canyons has more Fry Carts (weight 3, tied with the desert for the most), plenty of Spud Shrines (3) and Beetle Nests (2, the joint highest), and fewer Crop Patches, Microwaves and Moldy Shrines (1 each).

#How it works

Wave pests pick a tier from the wave table row of two minutes earlier on Normal, Hard and Nightmare, three on Easy (see Wave schedule). On Normal, Crumb Ants and Oil Drips make up most spawns until 5:00 and stop at 9:00; Sand Crabs lead from 5:00 to 8:00; crows and imps join at 6:00 and lead from 8:00 to 11:00; Harvest Mice join at 9:00 and lead until 18:00; Grease Fiends join at 16:00 and are the only wave pest from 21:00.^[2]

The table used is that of the biome about 256–286 units from Tibo in the direction the pest spawns, just off screen, not the biome under Tibo. Near a border you get a mix of both sides.^[3] Elites use the same table at the elite tier (2 until 5:00, 3 until 10:00, 4 until 15:00, then 5), so an elite spawned from here is a Sand Crab, then a crow or imp, then a Harvest Mouse, then a Grease Fiend.^[4]

The gold and XP multipliers use the biome where the pest dies, not where Tibo stands.^[5][6] Standard's late-run XP step multiplies pest XP before this biome bonus.

#Tips

• With no hazard, this is a comfortable place to fight. The danger is dashes: Sand Crabs, Field Crows and Grease Fiends all charge. A charger in range stops for half a second (0.6 seconds from 20:00 in Standard) with its direction locked, then dashes in a straight line, so step sideways when one stops.^[7]
• Kill Harvest Mice where your area weapons can catch the three rats they leave behind.
• The extra Fry Carts make Chip Canyons a good place to shop once you have gold.

#Enemies

Each biome lists its pests in five tiers.

Tier	Enemies
1	Crumb Ant, Oil Drip
2	Sand Crab
3	Field Crow, Sizzle Imp
4	Harvest Mouse
5	Grease Fiend

#Points of interest

Relative spawn weights for points of interest in this biome (poiWeights). Each chunk tries to place up to 2 (poisPerChunk) with 35% chance, otherwise 1; crowded spots and the overtime taper can mean fewer.

#Props

chip-stack, boulder, dry-bush (12 per chunk).

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[8] See Languages.

#Data

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    "kind": "climate",
    "temperature": 2,
    "moisture": 0
  },
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    [
      "crumb-ant",
      "oil-drip"
    ],
    [
      "sand-crab"
    ],
    [
      "field-crow",
      "sizzle-imp"
    ],
    [
      "harvest-mouse"
    ],
    [
      "grease-fiend"
    ]
  ],
  "hazard": null,
  "props": [
    "chip-stack",
    "boulder",
    "dry-bush"
  ],
  "propsPerChunk": 12,
  "poiWeights": {
    "dog": 2.2,
    "paidChest": 4,
    "chargeShrine": 3,
    "crops": 1,
    "vendor": 3,
    "microwave": 1,
    "curseShrine": 1,
    "eliteNest": 2,
    "bossLair": 0.5,
    "botDock": 1,
    "whetstone": 1,
    "dinnerBell": 1,
    "taterSlots": 1,
    "seedVault": 0.5,
    "taterMagnet": 1,
    "rootTunnel": 0.4,
    "taterLantern": 3,
    "spudFreezer": 1,
    "frenzyFryer": 1,
    "goldenShrine": 0.4,
    "dogKennel": 0.5
  },
  "poisPerChunk": 2,
  "goldMult": 1.1,
  "xpMult": 1.05
}