Coal-Baked Spud

#Overview

Coal-Baked Spud is an Uncommon item that sets enemies on fire. When one of Tibo's weapons hits, there is a 15% chance to ignite the target. The fire burns for 80% of that hit's damage per second for 3 seconds, and the duration is multiplied by Tibo's duration stat. With no duration bonuses the multiplier is already 1.25 (the base +25%), so one ignite lasts 3.75 s and deals roughly three times the triggering hit.

It has weight 8 out of 78 among Uncommon items, about 2.6% of item rolls at luck 0. With Hot Sauce at level 5, the next chest turns it into Bonfire Spud.

#How it works

• Only Tibo's weapon hits can trigger it. Dog bites, burn ticks, explosions and other item procs cannot.^[1]
• The burn is based on the hit's final damage after crit and the elite/boss bonus, so a crit leaves a bigger fire.
• Burns do not stack. An enemy keeps the highest burn damage it has received and the longest remaining burn time.^[2]
• Burn damage lands every 0.5 s as a separate hit, each worth half the per-second value. These ticks can crit and get the elite/boss bonus again.^[3]
• Copies stack: with N copies the ignite chance is 1 − 0.85^N, limited to 30 × N ignites per second.
• Measured (build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, headless tools/play.mjs, standard mode, normal difficulty; copies added with giveItem; Peeler, Small Fry, Tot Toss, Chip Shuriken, Starch Chain and Seeker Sprouts each given 5 times with give; warp(240); HP refilled every tick; Tibo walking a slow circle; later level-ups taking the first offer; 180 s on seeds s1–s5): 14.8% of 23,410 ignite rolls succeeded with one copy (expected 15%), and 38.4% of 22,875 with three (expected 38.6%). The 30-per-second limit was not reached: even with the chance set to 100% in the scenario, these weapons and a second set (Steam Vent, Whisk Vortex, Sprout Satellites, Gravy Boat, Salt Line, Butter Streak) gave only 19–22 ignites per second.
• Measured, burns not stacking (same build and settings, one copy with its chance set to 100%, Tibo standing still, 120 s on seeds s1–s3): enemies that were already burning were re-ignited 964 times. Their burn damage per second stayed exactly the same 905 times, rose only when a bigger hit re-ignited them, and never fell. Burns that added up would have raised it on every re-ignite.

#Tips

• It suits weapons that hit hard and not very often. A single big hit leaves a big fire, while many small hits keep overwriting each other with weak burns.
• Slow Cooker lengthens every burn, but it is not this item's catalyst. The catalyst is Hot Sauce.

#Effect

Trigger: onHit (when a weapon hits an enemy). Raw parameters:

#Obtaining

• Items come from points of interest such as the Fry Cart vendor, Potato Crates, the Microwave and Tater Slots, and from loot runners (Golden Scarab, Lost Saucer). Ordinary chests never give a new item; they can only evolve one you already hold. Rarity weights: Common 59, Uncommon 25, Rare 10, Epic 4, Legendary 2.

#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": "coal-baked-spud",
  "tier": "base",
  "rarity": 1,
  "mods": {},
  "weight": 8,
  "effect": {
    "kind": "onHit",
    "chance": 0.15,
    "perSec": 30,
    "proc": {
      "kind": "burn",
      "share": 0.8,
      "seconds": 3
    }
  }
}