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Enemies
All 6 enemy types in MeatSlicer, plus elites, drops, and the exact difficulty-scaling formulas. Pulled from js/enemies.js and js/rooms.js.
Enemy roster
Shambler
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Base HP | 26 |
| Base speed | 55 |
| Contact damage | 1 |
| Hitbox radius | 18 |
| XP | 1 |
| First appears | Floor 1 (spawn weight 40) |
The basic chaser. Shuffles toward you with a sinusoidal wobble. Individually harmless, dangerous in the packed waves of later floors.
Runner
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Base HP | 12 |
| Base speed | 236 |
| Contact damage | 1 |
| Hitbox radius | 15 |
| XP | 1 |
| First appears | Floor 1 (spawn weight 25) |
Extremely fast, fragile chaser — over 4× the Shambler's speed. They arrive first and force you to keep moving.
Spitter
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Base HP | 20 |
| Base speed | 60 |
| Contact damage | 1 |
| Hitbox radius | 18 |
| XP | 2 |
| First appears | Floor 2 (spawn weight 18) |
Ranged kiter. Holds 190–250 px away from you — approaches if you're farther than 250 px, retreats if you're closer than 190 px. Fires a gore bolt (speed 220, damage 1, 3 s life) when within 420 px, every 1.9 s. Elite Spitters fire a 3-shot fan (0.25 rad spread) every 1.1 s.
Splitter
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Base HP | 30 |
| Base speed | 70 |
| Contact damage | 1 |
| Hitbox radius | 21 |
| XP | 1 |
| First appears | Floor 2 (spawn weight 16) |
Chaser that splits into 2 Minis on death (non-elite Splitters only). Slightly tankier than a Shambler. Explosions and AoE that kill the Minis with the parent are valuable here.
Mini
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Base HP | 6 |
| Base speed | 120 |
| Contact damage | 1 |
| Hitbox radius | 10 |
| XP | 1 |
| First appears | Only from Splitter deaths and boss summons |
Tiny, quick chaser with a small hitbox. Never spawns directly from room waves.
Exploder
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Base HP | 14 |
| Base speed | 110 |
| Contact damage | 2 |
| Hitbox radius | 16 |
| XP | 2 |
| First appears | Floor 3 (spawn weight 14) |
Suicide bomber. Charges at you; within 56 px its 0.5 s fuse lights (it flashes). When the fuse ends — or when it's killed by anything — it detonates: radius 70 (fuse) / 60 (killed), 2 damage. The blast only hurts you, not other enemies. Kill them at range or bait the fuse and back off.
Spawn weights
| Enemy | Floor 1 | Floor 2 | Floor 3+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shambler | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| Runner | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| Spitter | — | 18 | 18 |
| Splitter | — | 16 | 16 |
| Exploder | — | — | 14 |
Weights stay flat once unlocked; floors get harder through stat scaling and wave size, not new mixes.
Elites
Any wave-spawned enemy can roll as an elite (gold ring, HP bar pip):
- Chance:
min(0.03 + floor × 0.02, 0.20)— 5% on floor 1, capping at 20% from floor 9. - HP ×2.6, speed ×0.9, contact damage +1, radius ×1.45, XP ×3.
- Drops: 3× XP plus 3–5 bonus gems, 18% + luck×10% chance of an item pedestal drop, otherwise 60% + luck×20% chance of ammo.
Drops
| Kill | XP | Other drops |
|---|---|---|
| Normal enemy | Its XP value | Ammo: 7% + luck×4% · Heart: 2.2% + luck×3% |
| Elite | 3× XP + 3–5 bonus | Item: 18% + luck×10% · else ammo: 60% + luck×20% |
Your on-kill items (Volatile Bile, Bloodlust, Vampire Dentures, Dead Man's Switch) trigger off every kill — see items.md.
Difficulty scaling
Every enemy's stats are computed at spawn time from three factors: floor, your power score, and pressure.
Power score = (your level − 1) × 0.5 + (sum of all your item tiers)
HP:
base HP × (1 + 0.22 × (floor − 1)) × (1 + 0.05 × power) × (elite ? 2.6 : 1) × pressure
Speed:
base speed × (1 + 0.04 × (floor − 1) + 0.01 × power) × (elite ? 0.9 : 1) × rand(0.9, 1.1) × pressure
Contact damage: flat per type (elites +1) — it never scales with floor. What kills you late-game is volume, speed, and HP pools, not bigger hit numbers.
Pressure (see gameplay.md) ranges 0.75–1.60 and multiplies both HP and speed. Playing flawlessly pushes it up; getting hit pulls it down.
Example: Floor 10 Shambler
Level 8 player (3.5 power) with 8 item tiers (8 power) → power 11.5, pressure 1.2:
HP: 26 × (1 + 0.22×9) × (1 + 0.05×11.5) × 1.2 = 26 × 2.98 × 1.575 × 1.2 ≈ 146
Spd: 55 × (1 + 0.04×9 + 0.01×11.5) × 1.2 ≈ 55 × 1.475 × 1.2 ≈ 97
vs. 26 HP / 55 speed on floor 1. Build damage accordingly.
Wave sizes
Combat rooms spawn 3 + ceil(floor × 1.4) enemies in wave 1, plus a second wave (×0.7) from floor 2 and a third (×0.5) from floor 4. Full table in gameplay.md. Hard cap: 72 enemies alive at once.