Spicy Hot Potato

#Overview

Spicy Hot Potato is the evolution of Hot Potato. Get Hot Potato to level 8 while you own Hot Sauce, then open a chest.

Every 2 s it throws 3 potatoes (2 plus Tibo's built-in +1 amount, see Stats), 0.3 s apart. Each one hits up to 6 pests, hopping to targets up to 110 units away, and then explodes for 3× damage in a 39-unit radius (30 × its 1.3 Area). Each blast throws two new potatoes in opposite directions, so one throw can hit many more pests than the base weapon.

#How it works

• Hops, homing and the blast work as on Hot Potato: one pierce is used per hit, the potato turns to the nearest pest it has not hit yet within hopRange (110 here), and it explodes on the last pest or when its flight time runs out.
• Respawn. On exploding, the potato spawns fuse.respawn (2) copies, spaced evenly around a random angle. Each copy has the original's damage, the full hop count it was launched with and a full flight timer.^[1]
• The copies do not respawn again: a new projectile starts with no respawn value and the copy does not inherit it. So each thrown potato makes at most three blasts: its own and one per copy.
• The copies start with an empty hit list, so they can hit pests the first potato already hit.

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 threw 3 potatoes 0.3 s apart every 2 s, each spawned with a 3.75 s lifetime and pierce 5; respawned copies appeared away from Tibo. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• One volley can produce up to 9 blasts (3 potatoes plus 2 copies each). That makes the weapon best in dense waves, where the copies find new pests to hop to right away.
• Pierce bonuses help twice, since the copies also get the extra hops.

#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 Hot Potato to level 8 while owning Hot Sauce (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": "spicy-hot-potato",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 12,
    "cooldown": 2,
    "amount": 2,
    "area": 1.3,
    "speed": 160,
    "duration": 3,
    "pierce": 5,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.3
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "homing",
    "size": 6,
    "turn": 8,
    "fuse": {
      "blast": 3,
      "radius": 30,
      "hopRange": 110,
      "respawn": 2
    }
  },
  "from": "hot-potato",
  "catalyst": "hot-sauce"
}