Fry Knives

#Overview

Fry Knives fires sharp fries straight ahead in the direction Tibo is facing. It does not aim: every 0.9 s it throws its knives along Tibo's last movement direction, whether or not a pest is there. At level 1 it throws 2 knives (its raw amount of 1 plus Tibo's base +1 amount, see Stats), 0.07 s apart, for 8 damage each, and each knife hits 2 pests; by level 8 it throws 8 knives per volley (raw amount 7 plus 1), each dealing 35 damage and hitting up to 4 pests.

Fry Knives has the highest offer weight of this group of weapons (100), so it shows up on level-up cards often, and it is one of the possible starting weapons of a standard run (see Level-up). At level 8, a chest opened while Tibo holds Salt Shaker evolves it into Thousand Fries.

#How it works

• Direction: knives follow Tibo's facing, which is updated whenever he moves and kept when he stops. The first knife of a volley gets a random spread of ±spread (0.08 rad); later knives get twice that.^[1] Each knife also starts up to 4 units to the side of Tibo, so a volley forms a narrow stream.
• Always fires: facing-shot weapons do not wait for a target in range.
• Pierce: a knife with pierce N hits N + 1 pests.
• Range: with speed 260 and duration 1.2 s (times Tibo's duration stat, base +25%), a knife travels about 390 units before disappearing (see Stats).

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 threw 2 knives about 0.07 s apart every 0.9 s, each spawned with a 1.5 s lifetime, and the hits landed on the 2 nearest pests (one stray hit on the third in one seed, from a knife that missed the second); at level 8 it threw 8 knives every 0.9 s and the 4 nearest pests took the hits. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Steer with movement. Walking toward a group, or turning to face it before stopping, points the knives at it.
• Pests coming from behind are not covered; pair Fry Knives with a weapon that hits around Tibo.

#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 100).
• Listed in the game's player.startWeapons pool (see Level-up).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Thousand Fries	Fry Knives (max level) + Salt Shaker	Evolution

#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": "fry-knives",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 8,
    "cooldown": 0.9,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 260,
    "duration": 1.2,
    "pierce": 1,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.07
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "amount": 1,
      "damage": 5
    },
    {
      "amount": 1,
      "damage": 4
    },
    {
      "pierce": 1,
      "damage": 4
    },
    {
      "amount": 2
    },
    {
      "amount": 1,
      "damage": 8
    },
    {
      "pierce": 1,
      "damage": 6
    }
  ],
  "weight": 100,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "facingShot",
    "size": 3,
    "spread": 0.08
  }
}