Ring of Hay Bales

#Overview

Ring of Hay Bales is one of the scheduled events. The wave table fires it at 6:00, 9:00, 13:00, 16:00 and 19:00, and after 20:00 it alternates with Fry Fly Swarm, taking every odd minute. After the announcement, a ring of Hay Bales appears 170 units around Tibo and starts rolling inward.

Hay bales are tanky and very slow: 400 base HP, 14 contact damage and a speed of 9, against Tibo's base speed of 62. Each bale disappears 22 seconds after the event starts. A bale you kill drops ordinary pest loot (3 XP and a 5% gold chance). Bales that time out drop nothing.

#How it works

• Count. 36 bales × the difficulty's wall-pest multiplier, with a minimum of 1. That is 5 on Easy, 11 on Normal and Hard, and 22 on Nightmare (see Modes). They are spaced evenly around the circle.^[1]
• Movement. Bales don't chase Tibo. Each one heads for the spot where Tibo stood when the event fired and stops within 20 units of it. At speed 9, the ring takes about 17 seconds to close from 170 to 20 units.^[2]
• Scaling. The event sets each bale to its base speed of 9, so time and curse never make bales faster. Their HP and damage still follow normal enemy scaling.^[3]
• Despawn. A bale is removed at 22 seconds, or earlier if it ends up more than about 460 units from Tibo. A removed bale gives nothing.^[4]
• Full field. Like other non-gold events, the ring is skipped (with no announcement) if the enemy pool is already at its hard cap (550 on Easy/Normal, 700 on Hard, 850 on Nightmare).

Measured (headless tools/play.mjs, build main-B2gf34bA, standard mode, --god, seed wiki; the clock warped to 2 s before each minute with pests removed first): the ring fired at 6:00, 9:00, 13:00 and 16:00, and on Normal also at 19:00, 21:00, 23:00 and 25:00. Each ring had 5 bales on Easy, 11 on Normal and Hard, and 22 on Nightmare.

#Tips

• The ring closes on a fixed point, so walking out through a gap takes it out of play. On Normal, neighbouring bales start about 97 units apart, centre to centre (about 49 on Nightmare). The gaps shrink as the ring closes, so leaving early is easiest.
• A 400-HP bale is worth only 3 XP, so fighting through the ring usually isn't worth it unless your weapons are already hitting the bales.
• Tibo's dash ignores normal damage, which can carry him through a gap that has become too tight.

#Effect

This event is not tied to a landmark biome in the content tables.

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[5] See Languages.

Show names in 26 languages

Language	Code	Name
简体中文 · Simplified Chinese	zh-CN	干草捆包围
繁體中文 · Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)	zh-TW	乾草捆包圍
日本語 · Japanese	ja	干し草俵の輪
한국어 · Korean	ko	건초 더미 고리
Español · Spanish	es	Anillo de pacas de heno
हिन्दी · Hindi	hi	घास गट्ठरों का घेरा
Deutsch · German	de	Heuballenring
Français · French	fr	Anneau de bottes de foin
Português (Brasil) · Brazilian Portuguese	pt	Cerco de fardos
Türkçe · Turkish	tr	Saman Balyası Çemberi
Bahasa Indonesia · Indonesian	id	Cincin Bal Jerami
Русский · Russian	ru	Кольцо из тюков
Bahasa Melayu · Malay	ms	Kepungan Jerami
Filipino	fil	Bilog ng Dayami
मराठी · Marathi	mr	गवताच्या गठ्ठ्यांचे कडे
Tiếng Việt · Vietnamese	vi	Vòng Kiện Rơm
తెలుగు · Telugu	te	గడ్డి మోపుల వలయం
தமிழ் · Tamil	ta	வைக்கோல் வளையம்
বাংলা · Bengali	bn	খড়ের আঁটির বলয়
ไทย · Thai	th	วงล้อมฟ่อนฟาง
Hausa	ha	Zoben Damin Ciyawa
Naijá · Nigerian Pidgin	pcm	Ring of Hay Bales
العربية · Arabic	ar	حلقة بالات القش
فارسی · Persian	fa	حلقه‌ی عدل کاه
עברית · Hebrew	he	מעגל חבילות חציר
اردو · Urdu	ur	بھوسے کے گٹھوں کا گھیرا