Gravy Boat

#Overview

Gravy Boat pours pools of scalding gravy under nearby pests. A pool stays on the ground for a few seconds and keeps hurting every pest standing in it, so it suits crowds that walk into Tibo.

In Standard runs it is one of the weapons Tibo can start with: when no starting kit is set, the run picks one from the game's player.startWeapons list using the run seed. Otherwise it is offered as a level-up card. At max level, with Potato Magnet owned, a chest evolves it into Gravy Flood. Gravy Flood's pools are bigger, grow over time and drift after Tibo.

#How it works

• Targeting. The boat fires only when a pest is within 100 units of Tibo.^[1] Each pool is centred on a random pest in that range, so pools land in the crowd around Tibo, not on far targets.
• Pools. A pool has a radius of 22 × Area units and lasts Duration × Tibo's duration stat. With no bonuses, that is 3.125 s at level 1, because the duration stat includes a base +25%. Every 0.4 s it deals the weapon's damage to every pest inside it. Gravy has no knockback, so pests are not pushed out of the pool.
• Amount. Each cast pours Amount pools, 0.1 s apart. Each pool picks its own random target, so two pools can land on the same pest. Tibo's built-in +1 amount (see Stats) gives 2 pools per cast at level 1 and 5 at level 8.

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 poured 2 pools 0.1 s apart every 4 s, each with radius 22, a 3.125 s lifetime and a 0.4 s tick; at level 8 it poured 5 pools with radius 30.8 and a 4.375 s lifetime. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Because the range is short, the boat is a close-defence weapon. It does nothing while Tibo is clear of pests, and it starts its cooldown only once it has actually fired.
• Area raises the pool radius directly, so Big Bowl makes each pool cover more of the crowd.

#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 85).
• Listed in the game's player.startWeapons pool (see Level-up).
• Can be given by poteto's visit (listed in poteto.newWeapons).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Gravy Flood	Gravy Boat (max level) + Potato Magnet	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

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  "id": "gravy-boat",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 8,
    "cooldown": 4,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 0,
    "duration": 2.5,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 0,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "area": 0.2,
      "damage": 4
    },
    {
      "duration": 0.5
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 6
    },
    {
      "duration": 0.5,
      "area": 0.2
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    }
  ],
  "weight": 85,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "pool",
    "shape": "splat",
    "size": 22,
    "hitInterval": 0.4,
    "range": 100
  }
}