Potato Beetle

#Overview

The Potato Beetle is the tier-2 pest of Potato Field, where every run starts, and shares tier 2 of Peel Forest with the Wireworm Larva. Tier 2 is in the wave table from the start, at one pick in nine, and becomes the main tier from minute 3 until it leaves after minute 9. With Normal's two-minute tier lag that means up to about 11:59.^[1]

It is a plain chaser, about twice as tough as the tier-1 pests around it: speed 36, 20 HP, 6 contact damage. It gives 2 XP and has a 5% chance to drop gold.

#How it works

It has no special behaviour: the chase kind just uses the default movement straight towards Tibo.^[2] Its mass of 0.2 means knockback moves it 80% as far as a massless pest.^[3]

Tier 2 is also the elite tier from 1:00 to 4:59, so an elite that spawns in Potato Field before 5:00 is a Potato Beetle, with the elite's much higher HP and 1.6× damage (see Elites).

#Tips

• On its own it is not dangerous. With more than twice the HP of the tier-1 pests, it is where weak early weapons first start to need two or more hits per kill.

#Stats

Base values before time scaling and difficulty.

#Where it appears

• Peel Forest, enemy tier 2
• Potato Field, enemy tier 2
• Duchess Gardens, 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.^[4] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "potato-beetle",
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "chase"
  },
  "hp": 20,
  "speed": 36,
  "damage": 6,
  "radius": 6,
  "xp": 2,
  "goldChance": 0.05,
  "mass": 0.2
}