Eternal Sprouts

#Overview

Eternal Sprouts is the evolution of Sprout Satellites. To get it, have Sprout Satellites at level 8 and own Slow Cooker, then open a chest. See Evolutions.

Six sprouts (raw amount 5 plus Tibo's base +1, see Stats) circle Tibo all the time, with no off phase. Each hit deals 80 raw damage with knockback, and a pest can be hit by this weapon once every 0.35 s. The orbit is wider than Sprout Satellites' and the sprouts are bigger and faster.

#How it works

• Always on. The weapon is flagged permanent, so its active state is set every tick and the duration/cooldown cycle never runs.^[1] That is why its definition has 0 cooldown and 0 duration. Duration and cooldown bonuses do nothing for it.
• Ring size. The orbit radius is 54 × √area and each sprout's hit radius is 6 × area. With the base area of 1.3 that is about 62 units out, with a hit radius of about 7.8. Area bonuses widen the ring and enlarge the sprouts.
• Rotation. 4.4 radians per second, a lap about every 1.4 s. Orbit weapons get only half of the projectile speed bonus.
• Hit timer. As with Sprout Satellites, the 0.35 s timer is per pest for the whole weapon. Six sprouts cover more of the ring but do not hit one pest more often: at most about 2.9 hits per second.

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; Tibo standing still; for the ring test the clock was first warped 200 s and played 20 s to have enough pests): with 24 pests held in a ring on the 61.6-unit orbit, at most 6 separate spots were hit on the same tick, one per sprout. A pest moved along with a sprout every tick was hit exactly every 21 ticks (0.35 s). All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Once the evolution is done, Slow Cooker has nothing more to do for this weapon, though it still lengthens other weapons' durations.
• The ring sits at a fixed distance. Pests that get inside it, right up against Tibo, are out of reach, so staying on the move and making pests walk through the ring gets the most out of it.

#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 Sprout Satellites to level 8 while owning Slow Cooker (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

{
  "id": "eternal-sprouts",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 80,
    "cooldown": 0,
    "amount": 5,
    "area": 1.3,
    "speed": 4.4,
    "duration": 0,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 1.4,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "orbit",
    "size": 6,
    "orbitRadius": 54,
    "hitInterval": 0.35,
    "permanent": true
  },
  "from": "sprout-satellites",
  "catalyst": "slow-cooker"
}