Permafrost Fries

#Overview

Permafrost Fries is the evolution of Frozen Fries. Every 1 s it fires a volley of 5 frozen fries (raw amount 4 plus Tibo's base +1, see Stats) at the nearest pest, 0.08 s apart. Each fry deals 48 damage, flies at 230 and hits up to 4 pests (pierce 3). Pests it hits are frozen for 2 s instead of 1 (2.5 s and 1.25 s with Tibo's base +25% duration), and its hits deal double damage to pests that are already frozen.

It is made by opening a chest with Frozen Fries at level 8 and Thick Skin at any level (see Evolutions and Chests).

#How it works

• Targeting, volley spread and freeze rules are the same as on Frozen Fries. Bosses still cannot be frozen.
• Shatter: each fry carries a shatter multiplier of 2.^[1] When it hits a pest that is frozen at that moment, the damage is multiplied by 2.^[2]
• Damage is applied before the hit's own freeze, so the first fry to hit an unfrozen pest deals normal damage and freezes it; the next fries of the volley, and any fry within the next 2 s, deal double.
• Only Permafrost Fries' own projectiles shatter. Pests frozen by other sources (for example Waffles) also take double damage from it, because the check is on the pest's freeze, not on who froze it.

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): it fired 5 fries every 1 s and only the 4 nearest pests were ever hit. Hits dealt 48 or 96, the 96s landing on pests that were already frozen, and the freeze timer peaked at 2.5 s. With the clock warped to 9:58 and the Great Wireworm boss held 40 units away, the boss was hit 27–41 times in 21 s and never frozen, while over 100 ordinary pests were. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• With 5 fries per volley, most of the volley hits already-frozen targets, so expect close to double damage against groups of ordinary pests and elites.
• Against bosses neither the freeze nor the shatter bonus applies; it deals its plain 48 per hit.

#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 Frozen Fries to level 8 while owning Thick Skin (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": "permafrost-fries",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 48,
    "cooldown": 1,
    "amount": 4,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 230,
    "duration": 1.5,
    "pierce": 3,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.08
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "targetShot",
    "size": 3,
    "onHit": {
      "kind": "freeze",
      "seconds": 2
    },
    "shatter": 2
  },
  "from": "frozen-fries",
  "catalyst": "thick-skin"
}