Cartridges
Cartridges are special abilities that players can equip to enhance their character. Each cartridge can be obtained multiple times during the game and the abilities will stack (with the exception of the Saddle cartridge).
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Obtaining Cartridges
Cartridges can be obtained in a variety of ways in the middle of a game:
- At a Crate Station
- As a reward from a Slot Machine Station
- At a Cartridge Overwriter Station
- At a Cartridge Vault Station
- At a Biome Junction Station
- As drops from the Cartridge Toaster Wagon
The Cartridge Hub
Cartridge Hub is a building in the lobby where players can purchase and equip their starter cartridges before a run starts. Cartridges can be unlocked by obtaining the cartridge at least once during a session.
Players can have up to 3 starter cartridges by purchasing the additional slots using
Note that you cannot change your starter cartridge once the game begins.
Cartridge Slot Unlocks
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Cartridges
Empty Cartridge
0
Does nothing. Gets replaced first at a cartridge overwrite station.
Cannot be unlocked as a starter cartridge
Turbo-Axe
5
Improve your axe technique to chop down trees 20% faster.
Template:Cartridge caps out at 9, but if you have 18 you can have one multitool and it will give you max pickaxe as well.
Turbo-Pickaxe
5
Improve your pickaxe technique to mine rocks 20% faster.
Heavy Balloon
7
Respawning gets +20% faster!
Torch
7
Increases your light radius at night by +3m for each cartridge of this type. Also burns away spiderwebs in a small radius.
Stand still on top of a spider web for a few seconds to burn it (and cause a chain-reaction to neighboring webs).
Running
10
Walk faster than your friends!
Also affects dashing distance. If the player has more than 3 Running Cartridges, it will have no effect unless you are holding more than 3 commodities. If the player holds more than 3 commodities and does not have a running cartridge, they will be slowed for each item past the 3rd.
Double Dash
10
Gain an extra dash per dash!
You can dash and additional time back-to-back before the normal dashing cooldown. Each cartridge allows you to dash an additional time back-to-back before the dash cooldown begins.
Lollipop
15
Increases the probability of easy maps by 15%.
15% of the maps will be 1 level easier. When combined with Nether, maps are either hard or easy. Cannot be obtained from the Slot Machine Station.
Nether
15
Increases the probability of hard maps by 15%.
15% of the maps will be 1 level harder. When combined with Lollipop, maps are either hard or easy. Cannot be obtained from the Slot Machine Station. This cartridge allows extreme maps to appear more often.
Multitool
20
Mine with the wrong tool with 50% speed (+15% for each extra cartridge).
Multitool allows the axe to be used to mine iron, or the pickaxe to be used to chop wood. This cartridge is versatile as it allows one player to clear a path without needing additional tools.
Bucket
20
Allows you to overfill the bucket up to the number of cartridges of this type.
Brute Force
20
With great power comes accidentally hitting neighboring rocks and trees with a probability of +15%.
The chance of breaking neighboring rocks and trees is 100% with 5 Brute Force cartridges, with the mulittool cartridge, brute force will break neighboring stone while chopping nearby wood.
Stacking
25
It can't hurt to carry just a bit more. +1 carrying capacity.
If the player holds more than 3 commodities and does not have a running cartridge, they will be slowed for each item past the 3rd.
Magnet
25
Use a magnet to pick up commodities around you automatically in a radius of 2m! (+2m for each extra magnet cartridge).
Also works for tracks.
Extra Life
25
Lets you cheat death once for each cartidge of this type.
Applies to your character. Resets at the start of every level or when you die.
Dash Demolition
30
Deal damage with 80% probability while dashing and carrying nothing (+60% for each extra cartridge).
Lucky Punch
30
3% chance to drop an additional commodity when mining resources. It also increases the chance to win at slot stations or with the slot wagon.
The 3% chance to drop additional resources while mining has a chance to drop iron, wood, and even tracks.
Money Maker
30
Increases the probability of double bolt maps by 7%.
Sales Tag
35
Increases the probability of sales at stations by 10%.
See Sale Modifier for details.
Throwing
35
Throw items via to your target! Radius 6m (+2m for each extra throwing cartridge).
Throwing allows players to throw anything they are holding to:
- Train wagons
- Other players
Saddle
35
Learn how to ride on the back of animals.
You cannot hold items when riding an animal, and can you pickup animals, which means you cannot attach animals to the Milk Wagon or sacrifice animals to the Cartridge Toaster.