Salt Flats

#Overview

Salt Flats is the evolution of Salt Line. A chest can evolve it once Salt Line is at max level and Tibo owns Spud Sneakers (see Evolutions). Tibo still trails salt while he walks, but the patches are bigger and stronger. Every 0.12 s it drops 2 patches 0.1 s apart (raw amount 1 plus Tibo's base +1, see Stats), so new salt appears almost every 0.06 s. Each patch has a radius of about 18.7 units (11 × 1.7 area) and lasts 3 s, or 3.75 s with Tibo's base +25% duration. Pests on the salt take 80 damage every 0.25 s and are slowed by 55% for 1.2 s (1.5 s with the base bonus). Patches also push pests outwards.

#How it works

• Like Salt Line, it lays salt only while Tibo is moving. A pest takes damage from the trail at most once per hitInterval (0.25 s), however many patches overlap.
• Push. Each time a patch ticks, every pest on it gets a knockback push of 60 away from the patch centre. The push is reduced by the pest's mass, and bosses are not pushed. Patches drop just behind Tibo, so pests that step onto his trail are shoved off it.^[1]
• Slow. factor 0.55 means slowed pests and bosses move at 45% speed.

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 walking right for 8 s past 12 pests held at fixed points on his path): patches appeared in pairs 6 ticks apart, one pair every 7 ticks (0.12 s), each with radius 18.7 and a 3.75 s lifetime, and a pest on the salt was hit every 0.25 s (15 ticks) for 80. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• The push and slow together make the trail work as a wall. Circling a crowd leaves a ring of salt that damages pests and holds them back as they try to cross.
• Spud Sneakers levels make Tibo faster, so the trail covers more ground.

#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 Salt Line to level 8 while owning Spud Sneakers (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

{
  "id": "salt-flats",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 80,
    "cooldown": 0.12,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1.7,
    "speed": 0,
    "duration": 3,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 0,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "pool",
    "size": 11,
    "hitInterval": 0.25,
    "range": 0,
    "trail": {
      "push": 60
    },
    "onHit": {
      "kind": "slow",
      "factor": 0.55,
      "seconds": 1.2
    }
  },
  "from": "salt-line",
  "catalyst": "spud-sneakers"
}