Sack of Russets

#Overview

Sack of Russets is the evolution of Spud Lob. To get it, have Spud Lob at level 8 and own Butter Pat, then open a chest. See Evolutions.

Every 2.2 s it throws 5 heavy potatoes (raw amount 4 plus Tibo's base +1, see Stats, 0.1 s apart), each dealing 60 raw damage. They fly in the same up-and-down arc as Spud Lob, but higher and spread wider, and they pierce without limit. Each potato keeps going through every pest in its path for its full life, 3 s or 3.75 s with Tibo's base +25% duration.

#How it works

• Arc. As with Spud Lob, potatoes are launched straight up the screen and pulled back down by gravity (420). At speed 230 a potato peaks about 63 units above Tibo after roughly 0.55 s and comes back level with him after about 1.1 s.
• Scatter. The sideways speed is random, up to spreadX (130) × (0.6 + 0.4 × area). With the base area of 1.6 that is up to about 160 units per second either way, so the five potatoes fan out into a wide spray.
• Unlimited pierce. A weapon pierce of 99 means unlimited pierce.^[1] In exchange, a pest can only be hit by this weapon once every 0.5 s, and that timer is shared by all five potatoes.^[2] A potato that catches a pest on the way up can hit it again on the way down if at least 0.5 s has passed.

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 threw 5 potatoes 0.1 s apart every 2.2 s, each spawned with a 3.75 s lifetime and unlimited pierce. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Against one tough target the shared timer caps the sack at 2 hits per second, however many potatoes pass through it. It does its best work on crowds that fill the wide column above and below Tibo.
• Spud Artillery also uses this arc. Sack of Russets still counts as Spud Lob for that union, so a level 8 Spud Cannon can later unite with it into Spud Artillery, freeing a weapon slot.

#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 Lob to level 8 while owning Butter Pat (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": "sack-of-russets",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 60,
    "cooldown": 2.2,
    "amount": 4,
    "area": 1.6,
    "speed": 230,
    "duration": 3,
    "pierce": 99,
    "knockback": 2,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "lob",
    "size": 7,
    "gravity": 420,
    "spreadX": 130
  },
  "from": "spud-lob",
  "catalyst": "butter-pat"
}