Bowling Pin

#Overview

The Bowling Pin is a tier-1 pest found only in Gutterball Lanes, the bowling-alley landmark, where it shares the tier-1 slot with the Crumb Ant. Because the lanes are a landmark, Tibo usually meets pins only after walking into one. On Normal, tier-1 pests make up 8 in 9 spawns until 4:00 and stop spawning at 9:00 (10:00 on Easy), so pins are mostly an early-run sight. As a tier-1 pest it is never an elite.

It shuffles straight at Tibo at speed 30 and hurts only on contact, for 4 base damage. With 10 base HP it is the second-toughest tier-1 pest after the Bog Slime, and its mass of 0.3 is the highest of any tier-1 pest, cutting knockback by 30%.^[1] A kill gives 1 XP and a 3% chance of a coin.

#Tips

• Pins come mixed with Crumb Ants, which are faster (46) but have only 6 HP. The ants reach Tibo first, and the pins arrive later as a slower second line.
• Knockback weapons push pins less far than the ants beside them, so expect pins to bunch up close to Tibo.

#Stats

Base values before time scaling and difficulty.

#Where it appears

• Gutterball Lanes, enemy tier 1

Biome tiers: each biome lists five enemy tiers; higher tiers appear as the run goes on (see Enemy scaling).

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[2] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "bowling-pin",
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "chase"
  },
  "hp": 10,
  "speed": 30,
  "damage": 4,
  "radius": 5,
  "xp": 1,
  "goldChance": 0.03,
  "mass": 0.3
}