Now we know why chainsaw-man so strong. He has no cast delay.

"I hope I'm not overwhelming you with information..." -Man who just uploaded the best chainsaw guide on KZfaq

When i downloaded this game i didn't realize i needed a college level course to understand the spells

I’ve never been confused about a noita mechanic after watching one of your tutorials. Great work man

Something this impactful, I feel, probably shouldn't be a hidden tooltip. Especially one as vague as "has some magical properties" which could easily be interpreted as "is a chainsaw made of magic" for the passive reader.

adding mechanical parts to a wand to increase rate of fire makes alot of sense

I wanted to have fun, now I got a degree in Wizardy

noita devs: "haha lets make a funny chainsaw spell that fires quickly and cheaply, but in a very close area noita players:

Now I understand why double > lightning > chainsaw Is faster than double > chainsaw > lightning

I have never even fucking heard of this game but this ruled. Weirdly fascinating, love these games that forgo extreme graphics in favor of extreme complexity.

Wow, i had no idea chainsaw set cast delay to zero. Thanks for this in depth explanation

this is probably the most important video anyone has ever made for a beginner noita player

I just bought the game yesterday and was trying to figure out how the spell system works. This video was probably the best explanation I could have gotten

I love how the purpose of using chainsaw is not to cut things up, but to override the limits of a wand.

After watching this and your beginner's guide, I did a run and I was actually feeling pretty good about it, I managed to make a wand that was doing some work, it wasn't great or anything, but it was miles ahead of anything I had made prior to watching your videos. Then I got teleported by a potion to a spot near a chest, which turned out to be a mimic, something I had no idea was even in the game, and completely ate it.

Over 800 hours and I'm learning how recharge time works. I always thought it added the cast delay. These tutorials have been helping even seasoned players. Thanks for the advice, and the livestreams! That copium shit during your last twitch integration had me lmao.

This guy would be a great teacher

I just realised a different way to think about cast delay is translating the time to frames. Noita runs at 60fps, that means 1 frame takes 16.(6)ms which rounds up to 17ms. Chainsaw removes 0.17s recharge time, which curiously comes out to 10 frames. Similarly thunder bolt adds 50 frames cast delay, lumi removes 35f CD, and 10f RT, and spark bolt adds 3f CD. All wands I've seen also seem to have stats as multiples of 60th of a second rounded to nearest 1/100s. It would be interesting to have a mod or an option to display these as frames so you'd be working with whole numbers not decimals calculating these. Do with that what you will.

I like your funny words, magic man

145 deaths later and I just got my first win after coming back to this video again. Thanks for all the advice.

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING I had no idea chainsaw got rid of all cast delay,, holy shit, can't wait to make some extra busted wands using what I learned in this video >:)

Bro THANK YOU! I couldn't for the life of me figure out a wand interaction I was having yesterday, and this explained it perfectly. Best Noita content on the internet, and it isn't even close. Keep it up!

i made a wand with these tips and put a bomb on it an got instakilled

this little puppy can fire like a damn minigun "It's... a musket" [gets mowed down by my chainsaw-powered musket]

Was just messing around with this on some wands and got a build made for proof of concept. Instantly spawned 50 exploding rocks and blew myself up in the holy mountain. I love this game. Love your explanation videos!

Listening to your explanations feels like watching one of those CS tutorials that make you understand an entire lecture in just 10 minutes

As soon as I found out about this digging bolts and chainsaws vanished from the game lmao.

Most helpful Noita video I have ever watched.

TLDW: • There's a delay in moving between the slots with spells. • There's another delay when cycling from the last spell to the first spell. • Chainsaw removes the delay of moving into the next spell slot. • Double/Triple/Quadruple Spell "combine" the spells into one slot. • By putting a chainsaw in a "combined" slot, you remove the cast delay from that slot. Now all you need is low recharge time and some "add mana" spells and you're ready to go with infinite power!

Thank your for finally clearing up if there is also cast delay after a wand finishes. What I still dont get is: you said in another video that any spell that is triggered by a ontrigger spell (like sparkbolt with trigger) will not modify cast delay or recharge time. You are triggering 4 chainsaws with your sparkbolt and they clearly help. Are only negative effects on cast delay and recharge time ignored? You are the best source for noita tuts on here. Clear, concise and not rambly with good examples! Thanks so much!

I have never played the game, and barely watched any content for it and I still understood everything you said. If that isn't good teaching i don't know what is. Also grats on the youtube reccomendation algorithm blessing!

picked up the game on winter sale and been binging your videos a ton. this one is the one that finally makes me realize add mana is a projectile mod and not some weird wand mod lmao. I figured it was +30 max mana or something, not adding mana per shot.

Me after realising all that chainsaw I thrown away

I didn't fully understand the chainsaw did that, I was just using it as a melee weapon but that looks fucking terrifying thanks for the info

Lessons learned from this: Spellcasting is parenthetical, multicast spells nest inside each other like parentheses in math. Chainsaw deletes casting time for its entire parenthetical function block, even when nested at the bottom of a nested spellblock, the entire nested function inherits the casting time deletion. Multicast spells at the end of a wand's spells can "wrap around" to the beginning of a wand's spell slots, casting virtual clones of the spells that defacto double up those spells, defacto increasing the number of spell slots via virtual clones. (maybe allows recursive looping?) Frames matter, each spell block uses game time frames to cast, nesting multicast spells make the game treat multiple spells as one spellblock, removing the game frame per spell delay. Add Mana spell adds 30 mana to the wands mana pool WHEN CAST!!! This is HUGE, because i misread it as "so this increases a given wand's maximum mana by 30 at the cost of a spell slot, sounds pointless" holy shit were the devs seriously trying to troll me with that spell description?!!?

This was super well made, I only vaguely understood how this worked but now I feel like I have a solid grasp on it

Thank you! I always saw chainsaw as a useless spell until I saw this video, now the game has become a lot more interesting. I also now understand how wands work, so thank you!

You know, I never really understood why I would build a wand with tons of modifiers and such, and even when I thought I had the chainsaws/lumi drills setup right it would still fire slowly. Now I’m confident I can transform my slow firing death cannon into a PC melting abomination. Thanks for the video!

Spell: chainsaw Thumbnail: The power of Thor

This is incredibly helpful! I knew about the spell stacking with double, triple, and quad casts but I didn't know it would roll over to the start if you didn't have enough spells equipped. I also had no idea about the chainsaw's magical property! That's so good to know, thank you!

I have a couple wins in noita using some of these techniques, but listening to your in-depth explanations are super helpful! I like how you explain how the mechanics actually work

ive played noita for a bit now and this I dint know what the "magical properties" meant

Easy to follow, succinct, and cleared up a bunch of misconceptions I had about wand mechanics. Thanks for the vid!

"i dont want to overwhelm you with information" B i want even more information

These videos are a treasure! Thanks for making these with so much consideration for people learning the mechanics of the game for the first time.

Didn’t know that cast delay was by spell chunks instead of cumulative that explains a lot

i don't have enough IQ for this game

I just wanted to let you know that despite not ever watching any Noita or having much interest in it, when I found your videos I was just so entertained by your comedy, intelligence in many of the tricks you pulled off, and the ways you explained things in the game that I could understand despite not knowing anything. You've earned a sub and I see great growth in your future

Spell wrapping blew my mind. Adds a lot of options.

600 hours in and I'm still finding I know nothing, great video!

The real trick is not dying to a snipuhiisi because you paused in the wrong spot... But yes the guide to build better wands is helpful.

My life is changed. I will conquer

Holy shit, I didn't know that the order inside the double/triple/whatever cast block still mattered :0 I learned so much from this video, thank you!

I thonk its important to remember that you may get 100 bullshit runs before you get a machine level rin

I love that even when cast delay is 5 sec, he is unconsciously pressing W to get higher. That's a typical Noita habit.

This channel is such a gold mine for learning Noita, it's saved me so many headaches. Is there a video about any sort of tricks or mechanics behind shuffle wands? I feel like so many of the wands I find in Noita are rendered completely useless because they're shuffle.

Years later and this is still helping Noita newbies. Thanks!

I have almost 500 hours in this game and still learn stuff from a lot of your videos. thanks!

I've played 400+hours noita and... after 15 min vid, i finally understand chainsaw ! :) Ty a lot (i'm lying, it's still blurry for me, but i understand a bit more how it works ^^ )

Ive been relying on just wand stats and multicasts for a while and learning about this and wrapping is really gonna get me turbo mode

When recently starting out with this game, I wanted to discover all mechanics on my own by messing around with wands. But it would probably have taken me hundreds of hours to realize that the multicast wraps over to the start. Thanks a lot for this video!

Your tutorials are by far the best of any Noita youtuber out there. The way you explain things is so easy to understand and you don't take longer than necessary to explain it just to pad video time. Keep up the good work!

I have been watching tutoriais about this for like half an hour, but you were the only one that could quickly and simply explain how to make OP wands. Thanks!

wow I was just watching this for fun because I have a pretty good handle on wand crafting already, but that trick of making the wrapping chainsaw get double use of the add mana is something I never knew about. Always more to learn in this game

Hey man really love your videos! You have a great way of explaining the esoteric mechanics of noita. These are excellent for both new & experienced players, I learn something everytime I watch! Thanks so much dude!

Always knew chainsaws made wands faster, never knew why. Knowing they remove cast delay is gonna make my pollen wands more destructive than ever

casta lay

I don't know if my question on the last video inspired this one, but I really appreciate all the good info in a concise, lucid format.

thank you! i would generally just keep tweaking my spell order until i got it exactly right, but the way you explain it here makes it much easier for me to conceptualize

Basically Find slow-firing wand>add chainsaw>wand go bbrrrrr>profit Just think of the chainsaw as a type of projectile modifier but for wand cast delay and recharge time.

This was a great video! Only thing I'm left wondering is how exactly spell wrapping works... so I'm glad that explanation is the first video in the recommendeds!

Ya, your explanation is very clear, at least for people who understood cast delay and recharge time. Chainsaw >> set cast delay to zero and 1 mana cost but not good for digging Luminous Drill >> very good for digging but only reduce cast delay by 0.58s and 10 mana cost Add Mana >> reduce mana cost but +0.17s cast delay So, before getting familiar in noita, simply re-arrange these spells in your wands until it can rapid fire. lol

I wish that school was as easy to understand as this beautiful magic system

Ah yes the Wand-ology lecture.

I need to give you a big old thank you, your videos have led me to getting my first two wins back to back. The videos in question that helped me the most are, well, this video actually, and the spark bolt crit stack video.

Damn, i never quite understood why chainsaw could do what it did. That hidden magical propperty makes everything so clear. Also i feel its important to mention that even a wand with 0 cast delay still has to use 1 frame to actually cast, so every chainsaw outside of a block could be considered +0.01 cast delay

I've watched many of your videos recently getting into this game, thank you so much

Golly!! I tried chainsaw early on, before I understood multicasts and modifiers, and was so underwhelmed that I've been just passing on it every time I see it. Time for some more interesting wands..

I’ve never been confused about a noita throw mechanic after watching one of your runs. Great work man

Just got my 1st win with a little help from this video. Didn't think it would come after over 1100 deaths but the Salt never tasted so sweet! 🧂👍

The people who made this game know how coders document stuff! "Also has some magical properties..." == 16 minute youtube video explaining it ^_^

This video is from 2 years ago, I just started Noita and it was really usefull.

I like adding speed up and lifetime to a chainsaw to turn it into a laser

I'm so excited I just got my first win and the chainsaw combo completely carried me to the end! Thank you very much for sharing this! I've been avoiding your other videos so I didn't get spoilers, but now I can finally watch them "D

You explained it super clearly! I'd watch a part two that goes more in-depth

MY BRAIN WILL NEVER HURT, FEED ME MORE SEYMOURE!

150 hours and I thought the chainsaw was just a kind of lame digging spell that got you to get more blood/slime from deceased enemies on the ground :/ lol

i have to rewatch this every few months because i forget spell wrapping exists

Thanks a bunch for this! I didn't know that chainsaws made the cast delay 0 until the next spell and was always confused why their small reload reduction seemed so highly coveted. Now all I need is a PC that can run Noita real-time and then I'll be so much more prepared! :P

wow dude i just started playing and this helps heaps and very well explained. thank you kind sir

Hey, I know I'm a year late, but in case you're reading this I want you to know that I've payed more attention to this video than I have to any of my professionally taught college courses. You're a very good teacher, man

I remember when chainsaw was 0 mana cost... good old times

I just bought noita and I passed chainsaw spell like 9 times cause I thought it was pure melee spell

One thing thats always messed me up with wrapping chainsaws is i think that modifiers take up a multicast slot, but they dont! Great video by the way, ill be making machine guns easier than ever now!

for me the completely dark area of noita is what happens when you _don't_ have enough mana to rapid fire a wand. by what seems like a completely random behaviour sometimes it still does rapid fire (even while having 0 mana) and sometimes it absolutely breaks down. even worse, sometimes you reload the game and this behaviour changes.

This is just pure insanity. You can make OP build by using cheap spells, wow.

Thank you so much! I am currently trying my fist 11 orbs run and your wand tinkering lessons are amazing! I didn't know so much about those spells.

Cool! Now if only I could get that many chainsaws...

thank you, i now suck slightly less

I have always struggled with how the chainsaws work. I didn't realise they set the cast delay to zero. I know how to use the spells, including wrapping and grouping, but I've never quite understood how chainsaws were affecting things. I would just try all the variations until it did what I wanted. Now I actually understand, it makes sense why some wands were rapid fire and some slow. Cheers!