Field Crow

#Overview

The Field Crow is one of the most widespread tier-3 pests. It appears in Potato Field, Crop Circle, Chip Canyons, Frozen-Fries Tundra and Gutterball Lanes, sharing the tier-3 slot with pests such as the Blight Spore, Field Rat and Sizzle Imp. On Normal, tier-3 pests spawn from 6:00 to 16:59 (from 7:00 on Easy), and between 5:00 and 9:59 the minute's elite can be a crow.

It is a charger with a quick approach. It moves at speed 40 between charges, which ties it with the Grease Fiend as the fastest charger, and it dives once Tibo is within 110 units. It has 38 base HP and hits for 12 on contact, a little less HP but almost the same damage as the Bog Toad. Its mass of 0.2 means knockback still pushes it most of the way. A kill gives 4 XP and an 8% chance of a coin.

#How it works

The timings below are before 20:00. In Standard from 20:00, the windup is 0.6 s instead of 0.5 s; the dash and cooldown do not change.^[1]

The charge cycle is the standard one. The crow stops for a 0.5 s windup aimed at Tibo's position when the windup starts, then dashes in a straight line at 190 for 1.3 × 110 / 190 ≈ 0.75 s, about 143 units. It then walks normally for 1.6 s before it can charge again.^[2] The dash only deals ordinary contact damage, and a newly spawned crow waits 0.5–2 s before its first charge can begin.

#Tips

• Because crows walk at 40, they recover the distance after a missed dive faster than slower chargers do. Their 1.6 s cooldown is the window to hit them.
• A sideways step during the windup is enough to dodge, since the dive cannot turn. Watch for several crows winding up at once from different directions.
• Knockback works well on crows, which resist only 20% of it, and buys time between their dives.

#Stats

Base values before time scaling and difficulty.

#Behaviour parameters

#Where it appears

• Chip Canyons, enemy tier 3
• Crop Circle, enemy tier 3
• Frozen-Fries Tundra, enemy tier 3
• Gutterball Lanes, enemy tier 3
• Potato Field, enemy tier 3
• Russet Moor, enemy tier 2
• Duchess Gardens, enemy tier 3

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.^[3] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "field-crow",
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "charger",
    "dashSpeed": 190,
    "dashRange": 110
  },
  "hp": 38,
  "speed": 40,
  "damage": 12,
  "radius": 7,
  "xp": 4,
  "goldChance": 0.08,
  "mass": 0.2
}