Biscuit

#Overview

Biscuit the Golden Retriever is one of the eight ordinary breeds and one of the two most common (weight 12 of 80, tied with the Jack Russell Terrier). Tibo recruits it by walking onto a Stray Dog; another Retriever stray later levels it up.

Every 3 seconds Biscuit fetches. Every loose pickup within 120 units of Tibo starts flying to him, the same way pickups do when a magnet is collected. Chests and items are left alone. Its aura adds +10% pickup range (+40% at level 5). Training widens the fetch to about 203 units and shortens the interval to about 1.6 s at level 5.

#How it works

• The circle is centred on Tibo. Its radius grows with the square root of power (120 × √power).
• Everything except chests and items is fetched: XP gems, coins, snacks, magnets, rerolls, skips, banishes and Bot Beacons.^[1]
• Fetched pickups fly to Tibo at 300 units per second and are collected on arrival.^[2]
• A fetch only counts if it moved at least one pickup. Otherwise Biscuit checks again every 0.25 s, so a new drop inside the circle is pulled in almost immediately once the interval has passed.

Measured (build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, headless tools/play.mjs, seed wiki, standard mode, normal difficulty; Biscuit 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; fetches timed from the game's dogAbility events): Biscuit fetched every 3 s at level 1 (46 of 47 gaps) and every 1.55 s at level 5 (91 of 92), the 1.555 s interval rounded to whole ticks.

#Tips

• Tibo's base pickup range is 40 units, so even a level 1 fetch reaches three times as far. The pickup-range aura works like a smaller Potato Magnet (+25% per level).
• A fetched magnet pickup still fires when it reaches Tibo, pulling in every gem and coin on the map.
• Snacks are fetched too, and a snack collected at full HP heals nothing. If you are saving a snack for later, keep Tibo more than Biscuit's radius away from it.
• Biscuit pairs well with dogs that drop loot on the ground: the Dachshund and the Beagle.

#Ability

Verified (dog ability code in sim-BkfBhQfw.js and run-extras-l2haGSVw.js): Pulls gems, coins and snacks within 120 × √power to Tibo (not chests or items). power is the training multiplier below; damage is Tibo's damage multiplier.

#Aura

While in Tibo's pack, Biscuit adds: Pickup range +0.1 (magnet).

#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.^[3]

#Obtaining

Stray dogs appear as Stray Dog points of interest; walk onto one to recruit it. Biscuit's breed weight is 12. See Dogs.

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[4] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "retriever",
  "ability": {
    "kind": "fetch",
    "radius": 120,
    "every": 3
  },
  "aura": {
    "magnet": 0.1
  },
  "levelUps": [
    {
      "every": 0.8,
      "power": 1.3,
      "aura": 1
    },
    {
      "every": 0.8,
      "power": 1.3,
      "aura": 1
    },
    {
      "every": 0.9,
      "power": 1.3,
      "aura": 0.5
    },
    {
      "every": 0.9,
      "power": 1.3,
      "aura": 0.5
    }
  ],
  "weight": 12,
  "speed": 95,
  "size": 6
}