Spud Lob

#Overview

Spud Lob throws heavy potatoes up into the air every 2.7 s: 2 at level 1 (its raw amount of 1 plus Tibo's base +1 amount, see Stats), 0.1 s apart. They arc back down past Tibo, hitting pests along the way. A potato deals 25 raw damage to each pest it touches, going up or coming down. At level 1 it can hit 4 pests (pierce 3) before it is used up. It is not aimed and fires whether or not pests are nearby.

It is offered on level-up cards, is in the starting-weapon pool, and is one of the weapons poteto can hand out. At level 8 it throws 4 potatoes (raw amount 3 plus 1, 0.1 s apart) for 70 raw damage, each able to hit 8 pests. With Butter Pat owned, a chest evolves it into Sack of Russets. It also unites with Spud Cannon into Spud Artillery, whose lobbed potatoes explode. See Evolutions.

#How it works

• Launch. Every potato goes straight up the screen (toward the top of the play area) at the weapon's speed times a random 0.85–1.1. It also gets a random sideways speed of up to spreadX (90) × (0.6 + 0.4 × area) units per second, either way.^[1]
• Arc. gravity (420 units/s²) pulls the potato back down every tick.^[2] At the base speed of 210 it peaks about 52 units above Tibo after 0.5 s, comes back level with him after about 1 s, and keeps falling below him for the rest of its life, 3 s or 3.75 s with Tibo's base +25% duration.
• Hits. A potato damages every pest it overlaps, rising and falling. Each potato hits a given pest only once and is used up after pierce + 1 pests.
• Stat effects. Projectile speed raises the arc, area widens the sideways scatter, and pierce bonuses add hits per potato.

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 threw 2 potatoes 0.1 s apart every 2.7 s, each spawned with a 3.75 s lifetime and pierce 3; at level 8 it threw 4 every 2.7 s with pierce 7. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• The potatoes always cover a column above and below Tibo, not the direction he faces. Lining up so pests are directly north or south of him gets the most out of each throw.

#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 90).
• Listed in the game's player.startWeapons pool (see Level-up).
• Can be given by poteto's visit (listed in poteto.newWeapons).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Sack of Russets	Spud Lob (max level) + Butter Pat	Evolution
Spud Artillery	Spud Lob + Spud Cannon	Union

#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": "spud-lob",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 25,
    "cooldown": 2.7,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 210,
    "duration": 3,
    "pierce": 3,
    "knockback": 1.5,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 15
    },
    {
      "pierce": 2
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 15
    },
    {
      "pierce": 2
    },
    {
      "damage": 15
    }
  ],
  "weight": 90,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "lob",
    "size": 7,
    "gravity": 420,
    "spreadX": 90
  }
}