Hash Brown Shield

#Overview

Hash Brown Shield is a defensive weapon. Hash browns circle close around Tibo, and each one takes up to 20 damage off a single hit or bullet. The hash brown then bursts into shards that hit every pest nearby. Broken hash browns grow back one at a time.

It is offered as a level-up card. At max level, with Starch Plating owned, a chest evolves it into Hash Bulwark: more hash browns that soak 30 damage, regrow faster, and freeze pests with their shards.

#How it works

• Soak. When a hit would hurt Tibo, one hash brown is used up and 20 is subtracted from the damage before armor. If the hit was 20 or less, it is cancelled entirely; a bigger hit goes through for the rest.^[1] Invulnerability and a successful dodge are checked first, so they don't use up a hash brown. Damage from biome terrain and hazard pools skips the shield. See Armor for how the rest of the hit is reduced.
• Shards. The used hash brown bursts where it was on its orbit, dealing the weapon's damage plus Tibo's thorns (times his damage multiplier) to every pest within 60 × Area units. The burst happens even when the soak blocked the whole hit. The Thorny Jacket item adds thorns.
• Count and regrowth. The shield holds Amount hash browns. Tibo's built-in +1 amount (see Stats) gives 2 at level 1 and 4 at level 8. While one or more are missing, one grows back every cooldown (3 s at level 1, 2 s at level 8). Once the shield is full, the timer waits.
• Orbit. The hash browns circle at 15 × √Area units from Tibo. Speed (2.4) is how fast they spin, and projectile speed bonuses raise it. They have no other attack: the shield only deals damage when Tibo is hit.

Measured in the headless sim (tools/play.mjs, build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, Standard, Normal, god mode, seeds s1, s2 and s3; clock warped 60 s, normal spawning, Tibo standing still for 60 s; the seeded starting weapon removed and the shield given with give; level-up cards answered with the first offer that is not an amount or cooldown bonus. Level 1 used seeds s4–s6, because in s1 the shield itself was levelled to 4): at level 1 (and level 2, which has the same cooldown and amount) the shield held 2 hash browns and a used one grew back every 180 ticks (3 s); at level 8 it held 4 and regrew every 120 ticks (2 s).

#Tips

• The shield is strongest against many small hits. Early pests and bullets often deal 20 or less, so each hash brown cancels a whole hit. Late hits get through for most of their damage.
• Starch Plating (armor) is the catalyst and also stacks well with it: the soak comes off first, then armor reduces what is left. Starch Plating is also the catalyst for Cast Iron.

#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).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Hash Bulwark	Hash Brown Shield (max level) + Starch Plating	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": "hash-brown-shield",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 56,
    "cooldown": 3,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 2.4,
    "duration": 0,
    "pierce": 99,
    "knockback": 2,
    "interval": 0
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "damage": 10
    },
    {
      "cooldown": -0.5
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 18,
      "area": 0.15
    },
    {
      "cooldown": -0.5
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 22
    }
  ],
  "weight": 80,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "guard",
    "size": 5,
    "orbitRadius": 15,
    "burst": 60,
    "soak": 20
  }
}