Loaded Dice

#Overview

Loaded Dice is the evolution of Spud Dice. To get it, have Spud Dice at level 8 and own Four-Eyed Spud, then open a chest. See Evolutions.

It throws 4 dice (raw amount 3 plus Tibo's base +1, see Stats) every 1.4 s, 0.08 s apart, each dealing 26 raw damage. Base area 1.4 gives a blast radius of about 34 units. The faces have the same effects as on Spud Dice (dud, freeze, burn, split, gold, blast). The difference is the roll: in the game's words, “Rolls two dice and keeps the higher. A pair doubles the throw.”

#How it works

• Roll. Each die rolls two d6 and keeps the higher. If the two rolls match, the throw's damage is doubled on top of the face effect.^[1][2] The doubling applies to damage only, not to the blast radius.
• Split dice. A split face fires two extra dice with the weapon's normal damage. They are not doubled by a pair and have no face effect.
• Luck. Despite the Four-Eyed Spud catalyst, the roll is plain random; luck does not change it.

#Face odds

Keeping the higher of two rolls shifts the odds toward high faces:

A pair comes up 1 time in 6. The best result, double sixes (1/36), deals 6× damage over a 1.6× radius. Double ones still give a dud, at half damage instead of a quarter.

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; pests held 40 to 110 units to Tibo's right): it threw 4 dice every 1.4 s, each spawned with a 2.5 s lifetime, plus 2 more for every die that rolled a split. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Duds become rare (under 3%) and the big 6 face comes up almost a third of the time, so Loaded Dice is much more consistent than Spud Dice. Averaged over all rolls, the damage multiplier from faces and pairs works out to about 1.8× per throw (split extras not counted).

#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 Spud Dice to level 8 while owning Four-Eyed Spud (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.^[3] See Languages.

#Data

{
  "id": "loaded-dice",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 26,
    "cooldown": 1.4,
    "amount": 3,
    "area": 1.4,
    "speed": 160,
    "duration": 2,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 1.5,
    "interval": 0.08
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "explosive",
    "size": 6,
    "explodeRadius": 24,
    "dice": {
      "rolls": 2
    }
  },
  "from": "spud-dice",
  "catalyst": "four-eyed-spud"
}