Farmer’s Pitchfork

The Defences · File #15

Farmer’s Pitchfork

Backstory, stats, upgrade paths and how it gets destroyed.

Farmer's Pitchfork
Service record

At a glance

Cost🥚 18
Rating🥚🥚🥚 (3/5)
Hits till destroyed6
ClassDistraction
PlacementAny unused tile

PUSH

Official file: “Stabs the nearest chicken every couple of seconds. Farmers’ rights.”
The story so far

Backstory

Every revolution needs a symbol, and the farm’s symbol is the pitchfork. It is the tool that started it all — the one every farmer knows how to hold and every chicken has learned to fear. The Farmer’s Pitchfork stabs the nearest chicken every couple of seconds, with the quiet dignity of someone defending their property and their rights. The farm’s rights. Farmers’ rights.

It is cheap, it is reliable, and it pushes as well as it stabs — every hit shoves the flock back a step, keeping the line honest. It is not the most elegant defence, but it is the most principled. A pitchfork in the right hands is a statement. In the farm’s hands, it is a statement with a very sharp end.

Short range is its only real limit — it has to be close enough to make the point. Chaos Marketing makes the shove harder, and Rapid Fire keeps the stabbing steady. The flock has learned to give the pitchfork’s corner a wide berth, which the farm considers a victory for organised agriculture.

What it’s good at

Cheap damage and push — the classic tool of farm justice.

Weakness

Short range

Make it stronger

Power-ups & upgrade paths

📈 Perks that boost it

Chaos Marketing, Rapid Fire

🔱 SUPER fusion

Eight of this defence fuse into one SUPER unit — x10 damage and double lifetime. Only one SUPER on the board at a time; extra sets feed it to power it up.

🔧 Upgrades & buffs

Hover a tower and press U for +25 seconds of lifetime per level. Overclock boosts all damage and fire rate by 50% for 25 seconds, and when the door drops below 15% HP every tower fires 25% faster. Press H for buff mode — towers beside a SUPER boost it 5% each.

How it gets destroyed

Durability

💥 Smash hits

6 hits before it falls apart. 6 smash hits and the pitchfork gets bent.

🍗 Who smashes it

Demolition Drumsticks take 50–75% of a structure’s max HP per swing, and Heavy Metal Chickens and Bureaucrat Elites knock things down too.

☢️ Friendly fire

Your own Nuke and explosive chain reactions don’t care whose side it’s on — keep fragile towers out of the blast radius.

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