Thousand Fries

#Overview

Thousand Fries is the evolution of Fry Knives: a near-continuous stream of knives in the direction Tibo faces. Its cooldown is 0.1 s and each volley throws 3 knives (raw amount 2 plus Tibo's base +1, see Stats) 0.03 s apart, 30 knives per second at base values. Each knife deals 24 damage, flies at 320 and hits up to 6 pests (pierce 5). The stream is wider than Fry Knives' (spread 0.25 rad instead of 0.08).

It is made by opening a chest with Fry Knives at level 8 and Salt Shaker at any level (see Evolutions and Chests).

#How it works

• Aiming works as on Fry Knives: along Tibo's facing, first knife ±0.25 rad, later knives ±0.5 rad, no target needed.
• Volley length can limit fire rate. A new volley starts only when the cooldown is over and the previous volley has finished.^[1] Each extra knife adds 0.03 s to a volley, so from about 5 knives per volley the volley itself takes longer than the 0.1 s cooldown and extra projectiles mostly lengthen the stream rather than adding knives per second. In the measured run below the rate peaked at about 40 knives per second.
• Cooldown reduction is capped at 60%, and the weapon cooldown floor is 0.05 s (see Stats).

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; amount raised with 1–3 Extra Eye items granted directly): it threw 30 knives per second with 3 per volley, then 40, 37.5 and 40 per second with 4, 5 and 6 per volley. In the line of 8 pests the 6 nearest took almost all hits (pierce 5), with a few stray hits on the 7th from knives that missed a nearer pest. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Salt Shaker's projectile speed bonus also extends how far each knife reaches within its 1.2 s lifetime.
• As with Fry Knives, the weapon only covers the direction Tibo faces.

#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 Fry Knives 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": "thousand-fries",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 24,
    "cooldown": 0.1,
    "amount": 2,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 320,
    "duration": 1.2,
    "pierce": 5,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.03
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "facingShot",
    "size": 3,
    "spread": 0.25
  },
  "from": "fry-knives",
  "catalyst": "salt-shaker"
}