Frozen Fries

#Overview

Frozen Fries shoots frozen fries at the nearest pest, freezing each pest it hits in place for 1 s. At level 1 it fires 2 fries (its raw amount of 1 plus Tibo's base +1 amount, see Stats), 0.12 s apart, every 1.6 s for 9 damage; each fry passes through one pest and hits a second. Levels add fries and pierce: by level 8 it fires 5 fries per volley (raw amount 4 plus 1) every 1.3 s, each dealing 21 damage and hitting up to 4 pests.

Frozen Fries is one of the possible starting weapons of a standard run (see Level-up) and is also offered on level-up cards. At level 8, a chest opened while Tibo holds Thick Skin evolves it into Permafrost Fries.

#How it works

• Targeting: it fires only when a pest is within 0.7 × the larger side of the play field (224 units on the 320 × 320 field) and aims at the nearest one.^[1]
• Volley spread: the first fry of a volley flies straight at the target; each later fry gets a random angle offset that grows with its place in the volley (up to ±0.08 rad × its index), so bigger volleys fan out.^[2]
• Freeze: a frozen pest stops moving. The freeze lasts 1 s times Tibo's duration stat, and a new freeze never shortens one already running. Bosses cannot be frozen: the freeze status is skipped for them.^[3]
• Pierce: a fry with pierce N hits N + 1 pests, as with other projectiles.

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, facing right, with 8 pests in a line 20 to 90 units to his right): at level 1 it fired 2 fries 0.12 s apart every 1.6 s and only the 2 nearest pests were ever hit; at level 8 it fired 5 fries every 1.3 s and only the 4 nearest pests were hit. Each hit set the pest's freeze timer to 1.25 s (1 s × the base duration stat). In a separate run with the clock warped to 9:58 so the 10:00 boss (Great Wireworm) spawns, and the boss held 40 units from Tibo, Frozen Fries hit the boss 6–7 times in 21 s and its freeze timer never left 0, while 24–27 ordinary pests were frozen. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• The freeze is crowd control, not boss control. Against a boss it is just a projectile.
• Pierce makes the freeze spread through a line of pests, which matters more than raw damage early on.

#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.

#Level progression

Each level-up adds the listed change to the weapon's raw values. Totals are cumulative.

#Base 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

• Offered as a card on level-up (offer weight 75).
• Listed in the game's player.startWeapons pool (see Level-up).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Permafrost Fries	Frozen Fries (max level) + Thick Skin	Evolution

#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

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  "id": "frozen-fries",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 9,
    "cooldown": 1.6,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 200,
    "duration": 1.5,
    "pierce": 1,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.12
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 4
    },
    {
      "pierce": 1,
      "damage": 1
    },
    {
      "amount": 1,
      "damage": 1
    },
    {
      "cooldown": -0.3,
      "damage": 1
    },
    {
      "pierce": 1,
      "damage": 2
    },
    {
      "amount": 1,
      "damage": 3
    }
  ],
  "weight": 75,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "targetShot",
    "size": 3,
    "onHit": {
      "kind": "freeze",
      "seconds": 1
    }
  }
}