Frank

#Overview

Frank the Dachshund is one of the eight ordinary breeds. Tibo recruits it by walking onto a Stray Dog that rolls Dachshund (weight 10 of 80). Another Dachshund stray later levels it up.

Every 6 seconds Frank digs and scatters 6 coins around itself. Each dig also has a 20% chance of an extra find: a snack that heals 30 HP (70%) or a reroll (30%). Its aura adds +8% gold gain, which applies to all gold Tibo collects, including Frank's own coins. At level 5 Frank digs 17 coins every 3.1 s and the aura is +32% gold gain.

#How it works

• The coin count is round(6 × power): 6, 8, 12, 14 and 17 at levels 1 to 5. Each coin is a normal gold pickup worth 1 gold before gold gain. That is 1 gold per second at level 1 and about 5.5 per second at level 5.
• The 20% bonus chance does not grow with training, but faster digging means more rolls. At level 1 that is about 1.4 snacks and 0.6 rerolls a minute; at level 5 about 2.7 snacks and 1.2 rerolls.^[1]
• A dig always succeeds, so Frank's timer never stalls.

Measured (build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, headless tools/play.mjs, seed wiki, standard mode, normal difficulty; Frank added at Tibo's side and trained with the sim's own dog-join and dog-level-up functions; HP refilled every tick; Tibo standing still; level-ups taking the first offer; 150 s; digs timed from the game's dogAbility events): the first dig came 1 s after joining, then one every 6 s at level 1 (24 of 24 gaps) and every 3.11–3.12 s at level 5 (47 of 47). The level 5 interval is 3.11 s rounded to whole 1/60 s ticks. The timer never stalled.

#Tips

• Frank is the only dog that produces rerolls. The other sources are pickups, elite kills, the Seed Vault and Tater Lanterns. See Reroll, skip and banish.
• Training pays for itself quickly. Taking Frank from level 1 to 4 at a Dog Kennel costs 120 + 240 + 450 = 810 gold before the purchase-price multiplier. It raises the dig rate from 1 to about 4 gold per second, so the cost comes back in roughly four and a half minutes, sooner with gold gain.
• Coins land on the ground and still have to be collected. A Golden Retriever or Potato Magnet helps.
• Gold buys items at the Fry Cart, opens Potato Crates, spins Tater Slots and trains dogs, so an early Frank compounds over the run.

#Ability

Verified (dog ability code in sim-BkfBhQfw.js and run-extras-l2haGSVw.js): Digs up round(6 × power) coins; 20% chance of an extra find (70% a 30 HP snack, otherwise a reroll). power is the training multiplier below; damage is Tibo's damage multiplier.

#Aura

While in Tibo's pack, Frank adds: Gold gain +0.08 (greed).

#Training levels

Each level multiplies the ability. every multiplies the time between uses (lower is faster), power multiplies its strength and aura scales the aura bonus. The multipliers below are copied from the game data.

Verified: ability power is the product of power multipliers, the interval is ability.every × the product of every multipliers, and the aura is multiplied by 1 + sum of aura values.^[2]

#Obtaining

Stray dogs appear as Stray Dog points of interest; walk onto one to recruit it. Frank's breed weight is 10. See Dogs.

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[3] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "dachshund",
  "ability": {
    "kind": "dig",
    "every": 6,
    "gold": 6,
    "bonusChance": 0.2
  },
  "aura": {
    "greed": 0.08
  },
  "levelUps": [
    {
      "every": 0.8,
      "power": 1.4,
      "aura": 1
    },
    {
      "every": 0.8,
      "power": 1.4,
      "aura": 1
    },
    {
      "every": 0.9,
      "power": 1.2,
      "aura": 0.5
    },
    {
      "every": 0.9,
      "power": 1.2,
      "aura": 0.5
    }
  ],
  "weight": 10,
  "speed": 80,
  "size": 5
}