Cast Iron

#Overview

Cast Iron is the evolution of Frying Pan. You get it by opening a chest with a max-level Frying Pan and Starch Plating at any level. It keeps the pan's two tricks, swatting enemy bullets back and charging on elite kills, and improves both. Its base stats are also higher: 34 damage, a 1.1 s cooldown and 1.3 area.

#How it works

• Swings. Cast Iron's own Amount is 2, and Tibo's built-in +1 amount (see Stats) adds one more, for 3 swings per volley. They go front, back, then front again 10 units lower, 0.12 s apart. The swing box is 50 × Area wide and 34 × Area tall (Frying Pan: 46 × 30).
• Swatted bullets. A returned bullet deals 2.5 × Cast Iron's damage (Frying Pan: 1.5×). It passes through 4 pests instead of 2, flies at speed 240 for its Duration, and homes in on pests instead of flying straight back.^[1]
• Elite charge. It works as on the Frying Pan: each elite death adds a charge (cap 3), and the next volley spends it. Each charge gives +35% size and +75% damage (the pan gives +60%), so a full charge means 2.05× size and 3.25× damage on every swing of that volley.

Measured in the headless sim (tools/play.mjs, build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, Standard, Normal, god mode, seeds s1, s2 and s3; the seeded starting weapon removed, the weapon given with give, spawning stopped after 4 s of play and the pests already on the field held at fixed spots with 10⁹ HP; pests held 28 units to each side of Tibo): it swung right, left and right again, 0.12 s apart, every 1.1 s, for 34. Bullet swatting and elite charge were not measured. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Homing swats are the main change from the pan: you don't need to be lined up with the shooter for a swatted bullet to hit something.
• Cast Iron and Hash Bulwark share the Starch Plating catalyst, so one passive slot can serve both evolutions.

#Stats

Values are the raw numbers from the game's definitions, before Tibo's global stat multipliers, difficulty and time scaling. In play, Tibo's base stats add +1 amount to every weapon except aura, cone, nuke and ring weapons, and make every duration ×1.25 (see Stats). Field names in code are the game's internal names. Attack descriptions such as “Melee slash” are this wiki's summary of the internal attack kind.

Evolutions have no level-ups in the game data; they use these fixed raw values.

#Behaviour parameters

Raw parameters of the attack (behavior), copied from the game definition. What they do in play is explained under How it works above.

#Obtaining

• Get Frying Pan to level 8 while owning Starch Plating (any level), then open a chest. See Evolutions.

#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": "cast-iron",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 34,
    "cooldown": 1.1,
    "amount": 2,
    "area": 1.3,
    "speed": 240,
    "duration": 2,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 2.5,
    "interval": 0.12
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "slash",
    "size": 50,
    "height": 34,
    "reflect": {
      "mult": 2.5,
      "pierce": 4,
      "homing": true
    },
    "charge": {
      "cap": 3,
      "area": 0.35,
      "damage": 0.75
    }
  },
  "from": "frying-pan",
  "catalyst": "starch-plating"
}