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Curious build

  • You start with 1 Spyglass
  • 2 additional loot aliens appear every wave
  • All future loot aliens become stronger when you kill a loot alien
  • +2% XP Gain for every different Item you have
  • -10% Damage for every duplicate item or weapon you have
  • +25% Enemy health

Unlock and starting weaponsOpen Combat Shotgun in the calculator

How players win with Curious Community consensus

Avoid duplicate weapons and mostly buy single copies of items; chase loot aliens with high base damage or elemental burn weapons. Javelin, Icicle, Double Barrel Shotgun and Brick are named entry points.

Stats: Luck, Melee Damage, Elemental Damage, Harvesting. Weapon classes: Elemental.

Avoid: Duplicate weapons and items.

Summarised in our own words on 13 November 2026; check the patch date of each source against PC 1.2.

Weapons Curious boosts most Computed from rules

Curious: ordered by how much Curious's modifiers raise each weapon's damage compared with a character without modifiers, then by damage per second; weapons Curious doesn't boost fall back to raw DPS. Reference profile: Curious's own stats plus 20 points bought in the weapon's main scaling stat, both multiplied by Curious's modifiers; one weapon, its highest tier, no items, single target, every projectile hits. 89 of 95 equippable weapons scale with a stat Curious can raise.

#WeaponBoostDPSMain statHitCooldown
1Combat Shotgun IV×1350.6Ranged Damage32 ×80.75 s
2Machine Gun IVStarting option×1250.7Ranged Damage220.09 s
3Minigun IV×1228.9Ranged Damage200.09 s
4Obliterator IV×1223.2Ranged Damage7003.23 s
5Flaming Brass Knuckles IV×1170.3+ burn 7×18Melee Damage1000.59 s
6Power Fist IV×1170.3Melee Damage1000.59 s
7SMG IV×1160.8Ranged Damage240.15 s
8Double Barrel Shotgun IVStarting option×1149.4Ranged Damage29 ×61.20 s
9Fist IV×1143.1Melee Damage840.59 s
10Revolver IV×1138.5Ranged Damage800.59 s

Starting weapons by the same measure

Legendary-only weapons

These exist only at tier IV, cost a Legendary shop slot and carry the Legendary set penalty of −20 Max HP per weapon of the class. At the same profile: Chain Gun 722.9 DPS; Gatling Laser 493.2 DPS; Excalibur 418.2 DPS; Scythe 243.2 DPS.

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

Ranked by points per base material after Curious's multiplier; prices rise each wave. Downsides are listed because they hit other stats.

Ranged Damage main stat of the top weapons

Items that use Curious's effects

+2% XP Gain for every different Item you have

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Curious has no stat multiplier, so the weapon decides the stat. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Combat Shotgun IV (350.6 DPS).

different Item → XP Gain
+2% XP Gain for every different Item you have.
duplicate item or weapon → less Damage
-10% Damage for every duplicate item or weapon you have.

Assumptions and method

  • Damage per hit = round(trunc(base + Σ stat × scaling) × (1 + %Damage/100 + class %Damage/100)); crits average in as chance × round(hit × multiplier). Formulas are datamined from the game code; weapon numbers come from the game-file tables.
  • Cooldown is the tooltip value, which includes the attack animation. Reload weapons average the long cooldown over its shot count. Attack Speed divides the tooltip, an approximation: the game divides only the cooldown frames.
  • Not modelled: pierce, bounce, explosion splash, knockback, on-hit and kill-count effects, structures, and how often the weapon actually reaches enemies. Multi-projectile weapons assume every projectile hits the same target, which favours shotguns.
  • Version: Brotato PC 1.2 with the 12 November 2026 patch. Reviewed .

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