Hash Bulwark

#Overview

Hash Bulwark is the evolution of Hash Brown Shield. You get it by opening a chest with a max-level Hash Brown Shield and Starch Plating at any level. It works like the shield: orbiting hash browns soak part of a hit on Tibo, then burst into shards. It has more hash browns, a bigger soak, faster regrowth and much stronger shards that also freeze pests.

#How it works

• Soak. Each hash brown takes 30 off one hit before armor (the shield takes 20). A hit of 30 or less is cancelled. As with the shield, invulnerability, dodge, terrain and hazard pools are handled before or outside it.
• Count and regrowth. Its own Amount of 3 plus Tibo's built-in +1 (see Stats) gives 4 hash browns. A missing one grows back every 2 s before cooldown bonuses.
• Shards. A burst deals 240 damage plus Tibo's thorns (times his damage multiplier) to every pest within 86 × Area units (about 112 units at the base 1.3 area). Each pest hit is frozen for 0.8 s × Tibo's duration stat (1 s with no bonuses). Bosses are not frozen; the freeze is skipped for them.^[1]
• Orbit. The hash browns circle at 17 × √Area units and spin at 2.8 (faster with projectile speed bonuses).

Measured in the headless sim (tools/play.mjs, build 41 main-B2gf34bA.js, Standard, Normal, god mode, seeds s1, s2 and s3; clock warped to 9:58 so the Great Wireworm boss spawns, then the boss held 40 units from Tibo for 30 s; the seeded starting weapon removed and Hash Bulwark given with give): the shield held 4 hash browns, its bursts froze 13 ordinary pests in each run, and the boss's freeze timer never left 0. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Each burst both damages and freezes the crowd that just hit Tibo, which gives him a moment to step away.
• Starch Plating stays useful after the evolution: armor reduces whatever damage gets past the 30 soak.

#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 Hash Brown Shield to level 8 while owning Starch Plating (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

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  "id": "hash-bulwark",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 240,
    "cooldown": 2,
    "amount": 3,
    "area": 1.3,
    "speed": 2.8,
    "duration": 0,
    "pierce": 99,
    "knockback": 3,
    "interval": 0
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "guard",
    "size": 6,
    "orbitRadius": 17,
    "burst": 86,
    "soak": 30,
    "onHit": {
      "kind": "freeze",
      "seconds": 0.8
    }
  },
  "from": "hash-brown-shield",
  "catalyst": "starch-plating"
}