Tater Tot Pup

#Overview

Tater Tot Pup gives Tibo tot companions that circle him and shoot at nearby pests. Each pup fires a tot at the nearest enemy within 150 units of itself every second, for 9 damage. You start with 2 pups: the raw amount of 1 plus the +1 base amount bonus every non-aura weapon gets (see Stats). Levels add a third and fourth pup, cut the shot cooldown to 0.8 s, raise damage to 28 and let each shot pierce one extra enemy.

It is one of the 17 weapons a standard run can start with, and it is offered on level-up. It has no evolution. Instead, once both it and Fry Cook Sentry are maxed, a chest can unite them into Fry Brigade, which frees a weapon slot. See Evolutions.

#How it works

• One pup per amount. The weapon keeps exactly as many pups alive as its amount, spawning new ones at Tibo's position or removing extras whenever the amount changes. Extra amount from passives such as Sprouting Eyes therefore adds pups.^[1]
• Movement. Pups circle Tibo on a small oval, 18 units out to the sides and 14 above and below, spaced evenly and slowly rotating. They follow him closely, so in practice they shoot from where Tibo stands.
• Shooting. Each pup has its own timer. When it is ready, it targets the nearest enemy within 150 units of the pup; with no target in range it checks again every 0.1 s. Newly spawned pups start 0.15 s apart so their shots are staggered.^[2]
• Shots. Tots travel at speed 200 for 1.875 s (1.5 s raw, plus Tibo's base +25% duration) and stop at the first enemy unless the weapon has pierce. Projectile speed, duration, area and pierce bonuses apply to them as usual.

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 60 units to Tibo's right): 2 pups existed at level 1 and 4 at level 8. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Pups never need aiming and never run out, which makes Tater Tot Pup a steady single-target weapon. Its short 150-unit range means it does little against enemies that keep their distance.
• Amount is especially valuable here: every extra projectile is a whole extra pup with its own fire timer.

#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 70).
• Listed in the game's player.startWeapons pool (see Level-up).

#Evolution

Result	Requires	Type
Fry Brigade	Fry Cook Sentry + Tater Tot Pup	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": "tater-pup",
  "tier": "base",
  "base": {
    "damage": 9,
    "cooldown": 1,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 200,
    "duration": 1.5,
    "pierce": 0,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "levels": [
    {
      "damage": 3
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "cooldown": -0.2
    },
    {
      "damage": 6
    },
    {
      "pierce": 1,
      "damage": 3
    },
    {
      "amount": 1
    },
    {
      "damage": 7
    }
  ],
  "weight": 70,
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "familiar",
    "size": 3,
    "range": 150
  }
}