Tater Twister

#Overview

Tater Twister is the evolution of Tater Twirl, made by opening a chest with Tater Twirl at level 8 and Salt Shaker owned. It keeps the same movement-driven wheels but has 5 of them (raw Amount 4 plus Tibo's base +1 projectile), each hitting for 204 instead of 120, on a wider orbit.

Like Tater Twirl, it is strongest while Tibo runs: at walking pace a pest touched by a wheel is hit every 0.2 s, and standing still slows that to about once every 1.7 s.

#How it works

The pace, hit-rate and spin rules are the same as Tater Twirl. With Tater Twister's values:

• Orbit. 36 units × √Area, about 41 units at its Area of 1.3 (Tater Twirl at level 8: about 34).
• Wheel size. Hit circle of 8 × Area, about 10.4 units.
• Spin. 5.6 rad/s (about 0.9 turns per second) at walking pace, up to twice that at maximum pace. Salt Shaker's projectile speed counts at half strength for the spin.^[1]
• Hit rate. Still shared across all wheels: five wheels sweep more ground, but each pest is limited to one hit per hitInterval ÷ pace.

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): 5 wheels on a 41-unit orbit. A pest moved along with a wheel every tick was hit every 12 ticks (0.2 s) while Tibo walked and every 100 ticks (1.67 s) while he stood still. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Move-speed bonuses are the main way to speed it up, since they raise the pace (up to double) and with it both spin and hit rate.
• The wheels only reach about 41 units out, so consider pairing it with a ranged weapon for pests that keep their distance.

#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 Tater Twirl to level 8 while owning Salt Shaker (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": "tater-twister",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 204,
    "cooldown": 0,
    "amount": 4,
    "area": 1.3,
    "speed": 5.6,
    "duration": 0.5,
    "pierce": 99,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "bigUpdate",
    "variant": {
      "kind": "twirl",
      "size": 8,
      "orbitRadius": 36,
      "hitInterval": 0.2,
      "crawl": 0.12,
      "maxPace": 2,
      "riseSec": 0.12
    }
  },
  "from": "tater-twirl",
  "catalyst": "salt-shaker"
}