Tot Gatling

#Overview

Tot Gatling is the evolution of Tot Toss: instead of a few tots every second, it fires a nonstop stream at the nearest pest. Each tot deals 24 damage, flies faster than Tot Toss's (speed 230) and passes through 2 enemies before stopping. Its raw amount is 1, but like every non-aura weapon it gets +1 from Tibo's base amount bonus (see Stats), so each 0.13 s cycle throws 2 tots. That works out to about 15 tots per second, or roughly 360 damage per second on one target before other bonuses. A maxed Tot Toss throws 5 tots of 30 per second, 150 damage.

You get it by opening a chest while Tot Toss is level 8 and you own Chives at any level. See Evolutions and Chests. It is a different weapon from Locked Gatling, which fires tots in fixed-angle bursts.

#How it works

Targeting and spread follow Tot Toss: every tot is aimed at the nearest enemy when it leaves, and the second tot of each pair gets a small random spread.

Frame timing. The game simulates 60 frames per second and rounds every cooldown to whole frames, so 0.13 s becomes 8 frames (0.133 s).^[1][2]

Volleys limit the fire rate. A new volley only starts after the previous one has finished, and tots within a volley leave 0.1 s apart.^[3] On most weapons that gap is far shorter than the cooldown, but Tot Gatling's cooldown is already close to it. As a result, cooldown reduction past a point stops helping, and extra amount makes the stream slower. Working through the timing rules gives these fire rates (tots per second, without fire-rate effects such as Frenzy Fryer):

With more tots per volley the rate keeps falling toward 10 per second. With 2 tots per volley, cooldown reduction stops adding anything once the cooldown rounds to 7 frames or less (below 0.125 s, about 4% reduction). These figures are this wiki's calculation from the code above, not numbers the game shows.

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; amount raised with 1–3 Extra Eye items and cooldown cut with Chives level 5, plus 9 Chive Charm items for the 60% cap, all granted directly): tots per second, counted over 10 s, were 15.0 / 17.1 / 17.1 with 2 tots per volley (base cooldown / Chives 5 / cap), 13.9 with 3, 12.6 with 4 and 12.0 with 5 in every cooldown column. That matches the table: 3 tots per volley is 3 tots every 13 frames, 13.85 per second. Each tot spawned with a 2.5 s lifetime and pierce 2, and in a line of 8 pests only the nearest 3 were ever hit. All three seeds gave the same figures.

#Tips

• Extra amount from Sprouting Eyes, GPU or Extra Eye lowers Tot Gatling's damage. If it is your main weapon, think twice before taking amount for another weapon.
• A little cooldown reduction helps (Chives level 1 already reaches the 17.1 tots per second ceiling); beyond that, damage and pierce are better investments.
• Pierce 2 lets the stream cut through pests that step in front of the target, which makes it a good boss and elite weapon.

#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 Tot Toss to level 8 while owning Chives (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.^[4] See Languages.

#Data

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  "id": "tot-gatling",
  "tier": "evolved",
  "base": {
    "damage": 24,
    "cooldown": 0.13,
    "amount": 1,
    "area": 1,
    "speed": 230,
    "duration": 2,
    "pierce": 2,
    "knockback": 1,
    "interval": 0.1
  },
  "behavior": {
    "kind": "targetShot",
    "size": 4
  },
  "from": "tot-toss",
  "catalyst": "chives"
}