Thorny Jacket

#Overview

Thorny Jacket is an uncommon item that adds 8 thorns. Copies stack additively. With no luck it is about 2.6% of random item rolls (25% Uncommon × 8/78). It is the only item that gives thorns.

#How it works

• Contact damage. When an enemy's body touches Tibo and its contact attack is ready, it takes damage equal to Tibo's thorns. Each enemy's contact attack has a 0.5 s cooldown, so a touching enemy takes thorns at most twice a second. Bosses count too. Enemy shots do not trigger thorns.
• Dodges still count. Thorns are dealt whenever the contact attack goes off, even if Tibo dodges it or is invulnerable.^[1]
• Measured (build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, headless tools/play.mjs, standard mode, normal difficulty; one Thorny Jacket and 200 Ghost Skins (90.9% dodge) added with giveItem; HP refilled every tick; Tibo standing still from 0:00; later level-ups taking the first offer; 180 s on seeds s1–s3). Each dodge was traced to the attack that caused it. All 159 dodged body contacts dealt thorns in the same tick. The 8 dodged enemy bullets and area attacks dealt none.
• Flat damage. Contact thorns are not multiplied by damage bonuses, so 8 thorns stay 8 damage all run. Crits and elite damage still apply to the hit.
• Other uses. Thorns also add to Porcupine Spud fries (×1) and Fry Volcano fries (×1.5), and to the shards of Hash Brown Shield and Hash Bulwark. In all of those, thorns are multiplied by the damage multiplier.

#Tips

• On its own, 8 flat damage falls behind enemy HP within minutes (see Enemy scaling). Its value is mostly in boosting Porcupine Spud, Fry Volcano and the hash brown shields, where it adds to every projectile or shard.

#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.^[2] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "thorny-jacket",
  "tier": "base",
  "rarity": 1,
  "mods": {
    "thorns": 8
  },
  "weight": 8
}