Hot Sauce

#Overview

Hot Sauce adds 0.06 crit points per level, which become a chance for each hit to be a critical hit. Crit chance has diminishing returns, so the actual chance is 5.7% at level 1 and 23.1% at level 5, not 6% and 30%. A crit multiplies the hit's damage by ×2, or more with Sour Cream.

It is the catalyst for Gratin Arc (from Starch Chain), Spicy Hot Potato (from Hot Potato) and Spudzooka (from Spud Cannon). At level 5 it also evolves Coal-Baked Spud into Bonfire Spud.

#How it works

Crit points are converted with x / (1 + x) (see Stats):

Measured (build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, headless tools/play.mjs, standard mode, normal difficulty): after Hot Sauce was given 1 to 5 times with give, the game's own critChance stat read 0.0566, 0.1071, 0.1525, 0.1935 and 0.2308. In play, with Hot Sauce given 5 times, Peeler, Small Fry and Tot Toss each given 5 times, warp(240), HP refilled every tick, Tibo standing still and later level-ups taking the first offer, 4,065 of 17,724 hits were crits over 180 s on seeds s1–s5 (22.9%, expected 23.1%). A control run without Hot Sauce (seed s1) had 0 crits in 3,817 hits, so those weapons have no crit bonus of their own.

Each hit then rolls against that chance plus the weapon's own crit bonus.^[1] The weapon bonus is added after the curve, so it is not reduced. Gratin Arc has a crit bonus of 0.25 (“crits often”), so with Hot Sauce at level 5 its hits crit 48.1% of the time.

Other crit sources are Hot Pepper and Spud Shrine blessings. Their points are added to Hot Sauce's before the curve.

#Tips

• With a ×2 crit multiplier, a 23.1% crit chance raises average damage by 23.1%. With Sour Cream at level 5 (×3), the same chance gives +46%. The two passives are worth more together than apart.
• Because of the curve, extra crit points from items add less once you already have Hot Sauce.

#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
Gratin Arc	Starch Chain at max level
Spicy Hot Potato	Hot Potato at max level
Spudzooka	Spud Cannon at max level
Bonfire Spud	Coal-Baked Spud

#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

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  "id": "hot-sauce",
  "stat": "critChance",
  "perLevel": 0.06,
  "maxLevel": 5,
  "weight": 85
}