Seeker Sprouts

#Overview

Seeker Sprouts is a homing weapon. Every 2 s Tibo sends out a volley of 4 sprouts (raw amount 3 plus Tibo's base +1, see Stats), 0.12 s apart. Each sprout flies at speed 120 for 3.75 s (3 s plus the base +25% duration) and steers toward the nearest pest. At level 1 a sprout hits one pest and is gone; the level 7 upgrade adds 1 pierce, so it can hit two.

It is offered on level-up cards and is in the starting-weapon pool. At level 8 it has 42 raw damage, 6 sprouts per volley (raw amount 5 plus 1), a 1.5 s cooldown, speed 160 and 1 pierce. Owning Fertilizer at that point lets a chest evolve it into Overgrowth. Fertilizer is also the catalyst for Big Fry.

#How it works

• Launch direction. Sprouts are not aimed at a pest. Each one leaves in the direction Tibo is facing, plus a random offset of up to 1.2 radians (about 69°) to either side.^[1] The weapon fires on cooldown even when no pests are around.
• Steering. In flight, a sprout picks the nearest pest within 200 units every 6 ticks (0.1 s) and turns toward it.^[2] The turn value (5) caps the turn rate in radians per second. At speed 120 that gives a turning circle of about 24 units radius. A sprout sent off in the wrong direction needs about 0.6 s to swing all the way around.
• Targets. Each sprout chases the pest nearest to itself, not to Tibo, and switches whenever a closer one appears.

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): at level 1 it launched 4 sprouts 0.12 s apart every 2 s, each spawned with a 3.75 s lifetime and pierce 0; at level 8 it launched 6 every 1.5 s with pierce 1. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Sprouts leave in Tibo's facing direction, so walking toward a pack gets them to it fastest. Running away sends them off backwards first.
• The level 5 and level 8 upgrades (+1 sprout each) and the cooldown cuts at levels 5 and 7 add the most volume. Pierce bonuses matter more after level 7, once each sprout can hit two pests.

#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.

#Level progression

Each level-up adds the listed change to the weapon's raw values. Totals are cumulative.

#Base 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

• Offered as a card on level-up (offer weight 80).
• Listed in the game's player.startWeapons pool (see Level-up).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Overgrowth	Seeker Sprouts (max level) + Fertilizer	Evolution

#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

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  "id": "seeker-sprouts",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 12,
    "cooldown": 2,
    "amount": 3,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 120,
    "duration": 3,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.12
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "damage": 4
    },
    {
      "damage": 6
    },
    {
      "speed": 40,
      "damage": 4
    },
    {
      "amount": 1,
      "cooldown": -0.3
    },
    {
      "damage": 10
    },
    {
      "pierce": 1,
      "cooldown": -0.2
    },
    {
      "amount": 1,
      "damage": 6
    }
  ],
  "weight": 80,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "homing",
    "size": 4,
    "turn": 5
  }
}