Hot Pepper

#Overview

Hot Pepper is a Common item that adds 0.03 crit points per copy. Crit points become a crit chance through the curve x / (1 + x) (Stats). One Hot Pepper alone gives 2.9% crit chance, and a crit deals ×2 damage unless you add crit damage.

It has weight 10 out of 80 among Common items, about 7.4% of item rolls at luck 0, which makes it one of the items you will see most often. Copies stack with no cap. It has no evolution.

#How it works

Crit points add to Hot Sauce (0.06 per level) before the curve is applied. Maxed Hot Sauce gives 0.30 points (23.1%), and one Hot Pepper on top raises that to 0.33 points (24.8%). The crit roll applies to every damage instance, including burn ticks and item blasts (Stats).

Measured (build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, headless tools/play.mjs, seed wiki, standard mode, normal difficulty; copies added with giveItem): the game's critChance stat read 0.0291, 0.0566, 0.0826 and 0.1071 for 1 to 4 copies. Each copy adds less than the one before, as the curve predicts.

#Tips

• On its own, Hot Pepper is a small bonus. It is worth more when crits are already strong, for example with Crit Chip or Sour Cream.

#Stat changes

#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.^[1] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "hot-pepper",
  "tier": "base",
  "rarity": 0,
  "mods": {
    "critChance": 0.03
  },
  "weight": 10
}