Chives

#Overview

Chives shortens the wait between weapon attacks. Each level adds 0.07 cooldown reduction, so weapon cooldowns are multiplied by 0.93 at level 1 and 0.65 at level 5. At level 5 weapons attack about 1.54 times as often.

It is the catalyst for Tot Gatling, the evolution of Tot Toss.

#How it works

The cooldown multiplier is 1 − total cooldown reduction, and the reduction is capped at 60% (see Stats). Chives reaches 35% on its own. Other sources are GPU (+0.02 per level, 10% at level 5) the Chive Charm item (+0.03 each) and Spud Shrine blessings. Chives and GPU together give 45%, still under the cap.

Measured (build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, headless tools/play.mjs, seed wiki, standard mode, normal difficulty; passives given with give, charms with giveItem): the game's cooldownMult stat read 0.93, 0.86, 0.79, 0.72 and 0.65 for Chives levels 1 to 5. With Chives and GPU both at level 5 it read 0.55; adding 4 Chive Charms gave 0.43, and 5, 6 or 20 charms all gave 0.40. 25 charms alone also gave 0.40, so the 60% cap holds.^[1]

A weapon's cooldown never drops below 0.05 s (15 s for nuke weapons). Weapons with no cooldown at all keep a cooldown of 0.^[2] Two of them read the cooldown multiplier directly instead: Hot Streak slashes faster and Seed Potato throws faster with Chives.^[3] The other base weapons with no cooldown, Steam Vent, Gem Sling, Mash Snowball, Spud Fence, Tater Twirl and Tot Stampede, get nothing from Chives.

Chives does not affect the dash cooldown, which is a separate stat (see Butter Socks).

#Tips

• The fire-rate gain grows with each level: going from 28% to 35% reduction is a bigger relative speed-up than going from 0% to 7%.
• If you also run GPU, remember that a faster cooldown does not reduce GPU heat per second. See GPU.

#Levels

Totals are added to Tibo's stat sum. How each stat turns into a multiplier (caps and diminishing returns) is on Stats.

#Catalyst for

Result	Also needs
Tot Gatling	Tot Toss at max level

#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": "chives",
  "stat": "cooldown",
  "perLevel": 0.07,
  "maxLevel": 5,
  "weight": 100
}