Overgrowth

#Overview

Overgrowth is the evolution of Seeker Sprouts. To get it, have Seeker Sprouts at level 8 and own Fertilizer at any level, then open a chest. See Evolutions.

It fires 6 homing sprouts (raw amount 5 plus Tibo's base +1, see Stats) every 1 s, 0.08 s apart. Each deals 40 raw damage and flies at speed 200 for 3.75 s (3 s plus the base +25% duration). Sprouts steer the same way as Seeker Sprouts but turn faster (8 radians per second instead of 5). Each sprout has 1 pierce, so it can hit two pests, and every hit splits off two smaller shards.

#How it works

• Launch and steering. These work as on Seeker Sprouts: sprouts leave in Tibo's facing direction with up to about 69° of random spread, then chase the nearest pest within 200 units. Fast turning keeps the turning circle at about 25 units even at speed 200.
• Split shards. When a sprout hits a pest, it spawns 2 shards angled 0.6 radians (about 34°) to each side of its own heading.^[1] A shard has 80% of the sprout's size and half its damage, and lasts 0.8 s.^[2] Shards fly straight, do not home, hit one pest each and do not split again. They ignore the pest that spawned them.
• Per sprout. The sprout splits on each of its two hits, so one sprout can produce up to 4 shards. A full volley is 6 sprouts, up to 12 sprout hits and up to 24 shards.

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 launched 6 sprouts from Tibo every 1 s, each with a 3.75 s lifetime; the shards appeared away from Tibo with a 0.8 s lifetime, about 240 of them in 10 s. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Shards fan out forward from the pest that was hit, so they do the most in dense crowds where something is behind the first target.
• Extra pierce adds one more hit per sprout, and each extra hit also makes two more shards.

#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 Seeker Sprouts to level 8 while owning Fertilizer (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": "overgrowth",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 40,
    "cooldown": 1,
    "amount": 5,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 200,
    "duration": 3,
    "pierce": 1,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.08
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "homing",
    "size": 4,
    "turn": 8,
    "split": 2
  },
  "from": "seeker-sprouts",
  "catalyst": "fertilizer"
}