Sprout Mite

#Overview

The Sprout Mite is a tier-1 pest of Potato Field, where every run starts, and of Peel Forest. It shares the tier with the Aphid in both, so it is among the first pests of most runs. Tier 1 makes up most spawns in the opening minutes and leaves the wave table after minute 6; with Normal's two-minute tier lag that means up to about 8:59.^[1]

It walks straight at Tibo at speed 34 and has 8 HP and 3 contact damage. It gives 1 XP and has a 3% chance to drop gold.

#How it works

It has no special behaviour: the chase kind just uses the default movement straight towards Tibo.^[2] With mass 0 it takes full knockback.

#Tips

• With 8 base HP (about 5 at the start of a Normal run, after the ×0.65 pest HP multiplier), most weapons kill it in one or two hits. Its threat is numbers: the opening wave rows pick tier 1 for 8 of every 9 spawns.

#Stats

Base values before time scaling and difficulty.

#Where it appears

• Peel Forest, enemy tier 1
• Potato Field, enemy tier 1
• Duchess Gardens, 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.^[3] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "sprout-mite",
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "chase"
  },
  "hp": 8,
  "speed": 34,
  "damage": 3,
  "radius": 5,
  "xp": 1,
  "goldChance": 0.03,
  "mass": 0
}