Garden Slug

#Overview

The Garden Slug is the tier-2 pest of Mash Swamp, and the only one, so every tier-2 spawn in the swamp is a slug. Tier-2 pests trickle in from the first minute, peak around 5:00 and stop spawning at 12:00 on Normal (13:00 on Easy). Between 1:00 and 4:59 the minute's elite is a Garden Slug if Tibo is in the swamp.

Its behaviour is listed as tank, but that label does not change how it moves: the game treats tank exactly like chase, so the slug just crawls straight at Tibo and hurts on contact.^[1] What makes it a tank is its stats. Its 34 base HP is the most of any tier-2 pest, it is larger than most (radius 7), and its mass of 0.4 cuts knockback by 40%. In exchange it is very slow, at speed 22, the slowest pest outside events apart from the Reset Zombie. It deals 7 contact damage. A kill gives 2 XP and a 6% chance of a coin.

#Tips

• At about a third of Tibo's base speed, slugs pose little threat to a Tibo who keeps moving. The danger is getting boxed in by a slow crowd that takes a long time to clear.
• With Bog Slimes and Ketchup Drops at tier 1, Mash Swamp's early game is slow and tanky: lots of HP to chew through, but little that can catch Tibo.

#Stats

Base values before time scaling and difficulty.

#Where it appears

• Mash Swamp, enemy tier 2

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": "garden-slug",
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "tank"
  },
  "hp": 34,
  "speed": 22,
  "damage": 7,
  "radius": 7,
  "xp": 2,
  "goldChance": 0.06,
  "mass": 0.4
}