Mole

#Overview

The Mole is the tier-4 pest of Potato Field, Compost Caves, Mash Swamp and the Crop Circle landmark, and the only tier-4 pest in each. Tier 4 is in the wave table from minute 7 to minute 18; with Normal's two-minute tier lag Moles spawn from about 9:00 to 20:59.

It is a slow, heavy pest. With 110 HP and 16 contact damage it has the most HP and damage of any tier-4 pest, but at speed 30 it moves at less than half Tibo's base speed of 62. It gives 7 XP and has a 12% chance to drop gold.

#How it works

Its tank kind has no behaviour of its own: in movement it is identical to a plain chaser and walks straight at Tibo.^[1] What makes it a tank is its stats, including mass 0.6: knockback moves it only 40% as far as a massless pest.^[2]

Tier 4 is the elite tier from 10:00 to 14:59, so elites in these biomes are Moles then (see Elites).

#Tips

• It is easy to outwalk, and the danger is getting boxed in by a slow wall of them. Keep moving and don't rely on knockback to hold them off.

#Stats

Base values before time scaling and difficulty.

#Where it appears

• Compost Caves, enemy tier 4
• Crop Circle, enemy tier 4
• Mash Swamp, enemy tier 4
• Potato Field, enemy tier 4
• Russet Moor, enemy tier 4
• Vinegar Shoals, enemy tier 4

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": "mole",
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "tank"
  },
  "hp": 110,
  "speed": 30,
  "damage": 16,
  "radius": 9,
  "xp": 7,
  "goldChance": 0.12,
  "mass": 0.6
}