Lost Saucer

#Overview

Lost Saucer is the landmark event of Crop Circle. It fires the first time Tibo walks into a crop circle (radius 460), once per crop circle, and never in Story mode. After the announcement, a Lost Saucer appears 40 units from Tibo in a random direction and flees.

It is a loot runner, like the scheduled Golden Scarab: harmless (0 damage), worth gold on every hit and an item pickup on the kill (see Pickups), plus 10 XP and a coin. The saucer is a little weaker (260 base HP against 300) and gives up sooner, leaving after 20 seconds instead of 25.

#How it works

• Trigger. The landmark is only marked as used once the event actually fires. If the enemy pool is full (550 on Easy/Normal, 700 on Hard, 850 on Nightmare), the game simply tries again while Tibo is still inside the circle.^[1]
• HP. 260 × the current pest HP multiplier (enemy scaling), so a crop circle found late gives a tougher saucer. Curse does not raise it.
• Movement. It runs straight away from Tibo, at its full speed of 40 within 70 units and at 30% beyond that. Tibo's base speed is 62.^[2]
• Gold per hit. Each hit has a 50% chance to drop a coin worth 2 (× gold gain).
• Escape. It vanishes 20 seconds after appearing, or once it is about 460 units from Tibo, without dropping its item.
• Coin value. Coins from pests killed inside the circle use Crop Circle's own gold and XP multipliers (×1.1 gold, ×1.2 XP), which also apply to the saucer's kill coin and XP gem.

Measured (headless tools/play.mjs, build main-B2gf34bA, standard mode, --god, Tibo teleported into the first crop circle found at about 1:06 with pests removed first): one saucer spawned, set to vanish 20 s later, on all four difficulties. With --mode story, entering the circle fired no event.

#Tips

• The event starts as soon as Tibo crosses the edge, so the clock is running from the moment you enter. Chase right away: the saucer starts only 40 units off and is slower than Tibo.
• Because the item is guaranteed on the kill, a crop circle is worth a detour when you see one, if your damage can take 260 × the current HP multiplier off a fleeing target within 20 seconds.

#Effect

This is the landmark event of Crop Circle.

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[3] See Languages.

Show names in 26 languages

Language	Code	Name
简体中文 · Simplified Chinese	zh-CN	迷路飞碟
繁體中文 · Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)	zh-TW	迷路飛碟
日本語 · Japanese	ja	迷子の円盤
한국어 · Korean	ko	길 잃은 접시비행선
Español · Spanish	es	Platillo perdido
हिन्दी · Hindi	hi	खोई तश्तरी
Deutsch · German	de	Verirrtes Ufo
Français · French	fr	Soucoupe perdue
Português (Brasil) · Brazilian Portuguese	pt	Disco perdido
Türkçe · Turkish	tr	Kayıp Uçan Daire
Bahasa Indonesia · Indonesian	id	Piring Terbang Nyasar
Русский · Russian	ru	Заблудшая тарелка
Bahasa Melayu · Malay	ms	Piring Terbang Sesat
Filipino	fil	Ligaw na Platito
मराठी · Marathi	mr	हरवलेली तबकडी
Tiếng Việt · Vietnamese	vi	Đĩa Bay Lạc
తెలుగు · Telugu	te	దారితప్పిన ఎగిరే సాసర్
தமிழ் · Tamil	ta	வழிதவறிய தட்டு
বাংলা · Bengali	bn	হারানো উড়ন্ত চাকতি
ไทย · Thai	th	จานบินหลงทาง
Hausa	ha	Faifan da Ya Ɓata
Naijá · Nigerian Pidgin	pcm	Lost Saucer
العربية · Arabic	ar	صحن تائه
فارسی · Persian	fa	بشقاب‌پرنده‌ی گم‌شده
עברית · Hebrew	he	עב״ם אבוד
اردو · Urdu	ur	بھٹکی طشتری