Spudzooka

#Overview

Spudzooka is the evolution of Spud Cannon. To get it, have Spud Cannon at level 8 and own Hot Sauce, then open a chest. See Evolutions.

Every 1.4 s it fires 3 potato rockets (raw amount 2 plus Tibo's base +1, see Stats) at the nearest pest, 0.12 s apart. Each rocket bursts like a Spud Cannon shell, for 50 raw damage. Base area 1.8 gives a main blast radius of about 40 units. After the main blast, four smaller cluster bursts go off around it at random angles.

#How it works

• Main blast. As with Spud Cannon, the rocket hits the first pest it touches, then explodes. It also explodes if it reaches the end of its flight, 2 s or 2.5 s with Tibo's base +25% duration. The struck pest takes the impact and the blast.
• Cluster bursts. After the main blast, the rocket triggers cluster (4) extra explosions. Each one is centred 1.1 × the blast radius from the impact point in a random direction, has 0.6 × the blast radius, and deals half damage with half knockback.^[1] At area 1.8 that means four 25-damage bursts of about 24-unit radius, centred about 44 units out. They reach from roughly 20 to 67 units from the impact.
• Overlap. The bursts overlap the edge of the main blast and can overlap each other, since the angles are random. A pest in an overlap is hit by each explosion that covers it.
• Scaling. Area bonuses enlarge the main blast, the cluster bursts and their distance from the centre together.

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 fired 3 rockets 0.12 s apart every 1.4 s, each spawned with a 2.5 s lifetime; hits of 25 (cluster bursts) to 125 (overlapping blasts) were recorded. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• The cluster ring makes the danger zone about 1.7 times as wide as the main blast, so it is at its best against large spread-out crowds.
• Spudzooka still counts as Spud Cannon for the Spud Artillery union. Uniting it with a level 8 Spud Lob replaces it with Spud Artillery and frees 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 Cannon 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": "spudzooka",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 50,
    "cooldown": 1.4,
    "amount": 2,
    "area": 1.8,
    "speed": 200,
    "duration": 2,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 2,
    "interval": 0.12
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "explosive",
    "size": 6,
    "explodeRadius": 22,
    "cluster": 4
  },
  "from": "spud-cannon",
  "catalyst": "hot-sauce"
}