Gem Catapult

#Overview

Gem Catapult is the evolution of Gem Sling. A chest evolves Gem Sling into it once Gem Sling is at max level and Tibo owns Potato Magnet (see Evolutions). Like the sling, it fires a potato wedge along Tibo's heading for every XP gem he picks up.

The only change from a max-level Gem Sling is damage. Each wedge deals 30.6 instead of 18, 1.7 times as much. Speed (240), flight time (0.9 s, or 1.125 s with Tibo's base +25% duration, about 270 units) and pierce 3 (up to four pests per wedge) stay the same.

#How it works

Firing is the same as on Gem Sling. Only XP gem pickups count. Gems wait in a queue of at most 40, and up to 2 are fired per tick. Each gem fires one wedge per point of amount, two with no amount bonuses, fanned about 9° apart.^[1]

Measured in the headless sim (tools/play.mjs, build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, Standard, Normal, god mode, seeds s1, s2 and s3; normal spawning; the seeded starting weapon removed, Starch Bolt given to level 8 to kill pests and Gem Catapult given with give; Tibo walking in a slow circle for 40 s; level-up cards answered with the first offer that is not an amount bonus): it fired exactly 2 wedges per XP gem collected (14–26 gems per run), each spawned with a 1.125 s lifetime and pierce 3.

#Tips

• Damage still depends on how many gems Tibo collects. Pickup range and XP drops matter as much as damage bonuses.
• Extra amount multiplies the number of wedges per gem, so amount bonuses work well with this weapon.

#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 Gem Sling to level 8 while owning Potato Magnet (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": "gem-catapult",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 30.6,
    "cooldown": 0,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 240,
    "duration": 0.9,
    "pierce": 3,
    "knockback": 0.6,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "bigUpdate",
    "variant": {
      "kind": "sling",
      "fan": 0.16,
      "spread": 0.05,
      "size": 4,
      "perTick": 2,
      "maxQueue": 40
    }
  },
  "from": "gem-sling",
  "catalyst": "potato-magnet"
}