Fry Lance

#Overview

Fry Lance thrusts very long fries at the nearest pest, each hitting every pest along a 170-unit line at once. At level 1 it throws 2 lances (its raw amount of 1 plus Tibo's base +1 amount, see Stats), 0.15 s apart, every 2.4 s for 22 damage per pest, with no limit on how many pests in the line it hits. The lance is 6 units wide and appears for a moment before vanishing.

By level 8 it deals 57 damage, fires every 2.1 s, throws 3 lances 0.15 s apart (raw amount 2 plus 1), and is wider and longer (area 1.5). Fry Lance is one of the possible starting weapons of a standard run (see Level-up) and is also offered on level-up cards (offer weight 80). At level 8, a chest opened while Tibo holds Spud Sneakers evolves it into Railfry.

#How it works

• Trigger and aim: it fires only when a pest is within 224 units (0.7 × the 320-unit play field), and aims at the nearest pest within 1.2 × the lance length.^[1] If no pest is that close, it points the way Tibo faces.
• Extra lances fan out: the second lance of a volley is turned 0.35 rad (about 20°) to one side, the third 0.35 rad to the other, and so on, each re-aimed at the nearest pest when it fires.
• Size: length is length × √area and width is size × area, so area bonuses widen the lance faster than they lengthen it.^[2] At level 8 (area 1.5) the lance is about 208 units long and 9 wide.
• Hits: every pest whose body touches the line takes one hit; pierce is not used. duration (0.25 s) only sets how long the lance is drawn.^[3]

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 the nearest pest was hit twice per firing, 0.15 s apart, and the other 7 pests in the line once (the second lance is turned off the line), every 2.4 s; at level 8 the nearest pest was hit 3 times per firing, every 2.1 s. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Lances are strongest against pests that line up, such as a column chasing Tibo. Moving so the crowd is directly behind the nearest pest puts more of it on the line.
• Only the first lance of a volley aims at the target; the others go 20° or more off to the sides, so the extra lances are most useful against wide groups.

#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 80).
• Listed in the game's player.startWeapons pool (see Level-up).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Railfry	Fry Lance (max level) + Spud Sneakers	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": "fry-lance",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 22,
    "cooldown": 2.4,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 0,
    "duration": 0.25,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 0.8,
    "interval": 0.15
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "damage": 10
    },
    {
      "area": 0.25
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 10
    },
    {
      "cooldown": -0.3
    },
    {
      "area": 0.25
    },
    {
      "damage": 15
    }
  ],
  "weight": 80,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "beam",
    "size": 6,
    "length": 170
  }
}