Fry Fly Swarm

#Overview

Fry Fly Swarm is the most frequent scheduled event. The wave table fires it at 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00, 15:00, 18:00 and 20:00, and after 20:00 it alternates with Ring of Hay Bales, taking every even minute. At 8:00 and 15:00 it arrives together with Harvest Moon.

After the announcement, 26 Fry Fly Swarm pests enter from beyond the edge of the view and fly straight across. They are fragile (10 base HP) but fast (speed 100). Each one deals 5 contact damage and gives 1 XP, with a 2% gold chance. Every fly disappears 14 seconds after it spawns. Don't confuse them with the ordinary Fry Fly of Fry-Oil Desert.

#How it works

• Geometry. The game picks a random direction. The flies spawn at the normal spawn distance on the opposite side, in a block 240 units wide (120 to each side of Tibo's position) and up to 60 units deep, and all fly the same way.
• No homing. Each fly keeps flying in a straight line at its own speed and never turns towards Tibo.^[1]
• Count. 26 × the enemy-count multiplier, capped at 2×. With Standard's active late-game scaling, the count multiplier stays 1, so the requested swarm size stays 26 after 20:00 too. Endgame encounters can affect the available enemy pool; this is not a guarantee that all 26 remain alive.^[2][3]
• Despawn. A fly is removed 14 seconds after it spawns, or as soon as it is about 460 units from Tibo, and drops nothing.^[4]
• Full field. The event is skipped (with no announcement) if the enemy pool is at its hard cap (550 on Easy/Normal, 700 on Hard, 850 on Nightmare). If the cap is reached partway through, fewer flies spawn.

Measured (headless tools/play.mjs, build main-B2gf34bA, standard mode, --god, seed wiki; the clock warped to 1 s before each minute, with all pests removed every tick so the 550 cap could not cut a swarm short): the swarm fired at 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00, 15:00, 18:00, 20:00, 22:00 and 24:00. It had 26 flies every time before overtime, on all four difficulties. On Normal the 22:00 and 24:00 swarms had 52; on Easy they had 39 and 52. One run counted 25 at 8:00 because one fly was removed on the tick it spawned. Without the per-tick clearing, a stationary Tibo's field reached the 550 cap and the Normal 22:00 swarm stopped at 49.

#Tips

• The flies don't steer, so moving sideways to their path gets Tibo out of the band. At base speed, Tibo covers the 120 units to the edge of the band in about 2 seconds.
• With 10 base HP, the flies die quickly to area weapons. Standing your ground also works if your build already clears crowds.

#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	苍蝇群
繁體中文 · Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)	zh-TW	蒼蠅群
日本語 · Japanese	ja	フライバエの群れ
한국어 · Korean	ko	튀김 파리 떼
Español · Spanish	es	Enjambre de moscas de fritura
हिन्दी · Hindi	hi	फ्राई मक्खी झुंड
Deutsch · German	de	Fliegenschwarm
Français · French	fr	Essaim de mouches à frites
Português (Brasil) · Brazilian Portuguese	pt	Enxame de moscas
Türkçe · Turkish	tr	Kızartma Sineği Sürüsü
Bahasa Indonesia · Indonesian	id	Kawanan Lalat Gorengan
Русский · Russian	ru	Рой фритюрных мух
Bahasa Melayu · Malay	ms	Kawanan Lalat Goreng
Filipino	fil	Kawan ng Langaw ng Fries
मराठी · Marathi	mr	फ्राईज माश्यांचा थवा
Tiếng Việt · Vietnamese	vi	Đàn Ruồi Chiên
తెలుగు · Telugu	te	ఫ్రై ఈగల గుంపు
தமிழ் · Tamil	ta	ஃப்ரை ஈக் கூட்டம்
বাংলা · Bengali	bn	ফ্রাই মাছির ঝাঁক
ไทย · Thai	th	ฝูงแมลงวันมันทอด
Hausa	ha	Garken Ƙudan Soya
Naijá · Nigerian Pidgin	pcm	Fry Fly Swarm
العربية · Arabic	ar	سرب ذباب القلي
فارسی · Persian	fa	دسته‌ی مگس روغنی
עברית · Hebrew	he	נחיל זבובי צ׳יפס
اردو · Urdu	ur	فرائز مکھیوں کا غول