
Wounded
Effects
- This character dies in One Hit
- You start with 1 Tardigrade
- +5% Speed
- +8 Harvesting
- Shop items and crates are cleared of items focusing on Max HP, HP Regeneration, Life Steal and Armor
Build
- Community build
- One hit ends the run, so use long-range high-DPS guns: SMG, Double Barrel Shotgun, Icicle or Rail Gun, prioritising Ranged Damage and Range. Laser Guns are advised for Nightmare, where a mutated enemy releases bullets when struck by ranged attacks.
- Core weapons and items
- Stats to buy
- Melee Damage
- Top weapons at the reference profile
- Boomerang IV, Sickle IV, Jousting Lance IV
Starting weapons
Pick one of 33 weapons. Weapons marked with a DLC name appear only when that DLC's Item Set is on.
Awl Primal Dread
Blowgun Primal Dread
Boomerang Primal Dread
Cacti Club
Carbon Bow Primal Dread
Chopper
Crowbar Primal Dread
Double Barrel Shotgun
Fist
Flail Primal Dread
Ghost Flint
Hatchet
Icicle
Knife
Lute Abyssal Terrors
Machine Gun Primal Dread
Meat Tenderizer Primal Dread
Molotov Cocktail Primal Dread
Pan Flute Primal Dread
Pistol
Quarterstaff
Rail Gun
SMG
Shovel Primal Dread
Slingshot
Spiky Shield
Stick
Sticky Grenade Primal Dread
Taser
Tranq Rifle Primal Dread
Wand
Whip Primal Dread
Wrench
Shop restrictions
- Never offered: Acid, Alien Baby, Alien Magic, Alien Worm, Baby Squid, Bat, Blood Donation, Blood Leech, Bloody Hand, Broken Mouth, Butterfly, Cake, Coral, Cute Monkey, Decomposing Flesh, Esty’s Couch, Extra Stomach, Fairy, Fresh Meat, Fried Rice, Goblet, Grind's Magical Leaf, Helmet, Jelly, Jerky, Kraken’s Eye, Lemonade, Medikit, Metal Plate, Mushroom, Octopus, Padding, Penguin, Plant, Regeneration Potion, Sad Tomato, Shmoop, Spicy Sauce, Stone Skin, Sunken Bell, Torture, Warrior Helmet, Weird Food, Weird Ghost, Whetstone, Alien Eyes, Garden, Doc Moth, Fruit Basket, Medical Turret.
- Level-up upgrades never offered: upgrade armor, upgrade max hp, upgrade hp regeneration, upgrade lifesteal.
- Pocket Watch can no longer appear (12 November patch).
How Wounded plays
The Wounded dies to any hit and starts with a Tardigrade, which blocks one hit. Shops and crates never offer Max HP, HP Regeneration, Life Steal or Armor items, and since 12 November never the Pocket Watch. It unlocks by winning a Nightmare run; see danger levels.
Sources
- Brotato Wiki, Wounded: effects, unlock and starting weapons from the game files.
- All Pain No Gain update (Steam, 12 May 2026)
Reviewed against PC 1.2 and the 12 November patch.


