Tater Mines

#Overview

Tater Mines buries spuds around Tibo's feet. Every 2.5 seconds it drops 2 mines that stay armed for 15 seconds; when any pest comes within 14 units of a mine, it bursts for 30 damage to everything within 26 units, with heavy knockback. The stat tables show the raw values (amount 1, duration 12 s); every non-aura weapon gets +1 amount and +25% duration from Tibo's base stats (see Stats).^[1] Levels add mines per drop (5 at level 8), raise damage to 65, enlarge the blast by 20% and shorten the cooldown to 2.1 s.

It is offered on level-up. At level 8 a chest evolves it into Landmine Harvest if you own Rotten Spud. See Evolutions.

#How it works

• Placement. Each mine lands at Tibo's position, shifted randomly by up to 14 units on each axis. Multiple mines from one drop are laid 0.1 s apart.^[2]
• Trigger and blast. A mine checks for enemies within its trigger radius of 14. When one is found it explodes, hitting every enemy within the blast radius (size 26 × area), and is removed. Area enlarges the blast but not the trigger radius.^[3]
• Expiry. A mine that is never triggered disappears quietly when its duration runs out. Further duration bonuses keep mines armed longer.
• Mines are dropped on cooldown whether or not enemies are around, and extra amount adds mines to each drop.

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; one pest held 250 units away so no mine triggered): at level 1 it dropped 2 mines 0.1 s apart every 2.5 s, each lasting 15 s with a 26-unit blast; at level 8 it dropped 5 every 2.1 s with a 31.2-unit blast. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Mines only work where pests walk. Kiting in a loop, so that the crowd following Tibo crosses the spots where mines were dropped, gets the most out of them.
• Because a mine blasts a wider area than its trigger, the explosion usually catches the pests bunched up behind the first one.

#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).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Landmine Harvest	Tater Mines (max level) + Rotten Spud	Evolution

#Names in other languages

Verified: the name the game shows when another language is selected in Settings, from its translation files.^[4] See Languages.

#Data

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  "id": "tater-mines",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 30,
    "cooldown": 2.5,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 0,
    "duration": 12,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 2,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 15
    },
    {
      "area": 0.2
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "cooldown": -0.4
    },
    {
      "damage": 20
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    }
  ],
  "weight": 80,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "mine",
    "size": 26,
    "trigger": 14
  }
}