Mycopunk Carver Upgrades: Paths

The Carver is Mycopunk's chainsaw: 32 upgrade nodes, a 100-round magazine, 21.85 damage per tick and a 4–5 m falloff window. Its node pool is the most thematically consistent in the game — almost every node either generates blood, spends blood or rewards standing still inside something's hitbox.

Carver stat block

The 3 s reload is the slowest in the game and it happens while you are standing next to whatever you were sawing. That single number explains why the Carver's node pool is full of survivability: the gun forces a trade that only its own upgrades can pay for.

Level rewards

Note the difference from other weapons: the Carver gives a Standard node at level 2, then Rare at 5, Epic at 7, Exotic at 12 and another Exotic at 20. Two Exotics in one weapon's track is unusual and it is why a Carver at level 20 already feels finished.

The blood package

Four nodes form the core loop:

• Blood Bucket (Standard) — hold more stacks of blood
• Blood Efficiency (Standard) — kills give more blood
• Blood Rampage (Rare) — damage up per stack
• Blood Coating (Rare) — damage resistance up per stack

Two more convert stacks into movement: Bloody Jumping (Epic) raises jump height per stack, and Slippery Blood (Epic) consumes all stacks at a threshold to trigger your movement ability. Turkey's Bloodlust (Exotic, added in 1.0) spends the whole pool on a damage window instead.

Deflector and survivability

Deflector (Exotic) makes you deflect incoming projectiles and gain damage resistance while sawing. Big Deflector (Epic) increases the size and resistance but slows you down. Nutritious Cores (Exotic) drops health chunks on kill, and Sharing Lunch (Epic) turns those chunks into ally heals.

The 2.0.2 patch fixed Sharing Lunch so its health chunks actually healed allies; before that the node was dead weight.

Range and area nodes

• Blade Extenders (Standard) — range up
• Aim For The Liver (Rare) — much smaller area, more damage
• Swinging Technique (Rare) — damage area up
• Rush (Rare) — faster movement while sawing, more damage taken
• Safety Warning (Rare) — more damage, more damage taken

Aim For The Liver and Swinging Technique pull in opposite directions and cannot both be maxed on a 7×6 grid, which is the closest the Carver gets to a build decision.

Element and status nodes

Overheat System (Epic) applies fire with potency that grows the longer the saw runs. Blood Lightning (Epic) fires a shocking bolt on kill. Ignition Recharge (Rare) refunds ammo while you are ignited, and Corrosive Coating (Rare) extends range after you are corroded. Shocking Adrenaline (Epic) speeds up sawing after you are electrocuted.

That is a weapon that gets stronger the more status effects are on the player, which pairs unusually well with the elemental grenades.

Grid notes

The Carver uses the same 5×5 grid as every other gear entry and grows with player level to 7×6. Its patterns lean toward wide three-cell shapes, so a full grid holds slightly fewer nodes than a Cycler grid with the same cell count. Heavy Pockets (Epic) is the one stackable Carver node.

FAQ

How many upgrades does the Carver have?

32 in the 1.0 build, more than the Jackrabbit (33 is close) and fewer than the Cycler (41).

How do you unlock the Carver?

Through The Broken Frame achievement, which is tied to assembling the frame the saw is built on. See /guides/mycopunk-secret-weapons.

Does the Carver stack with heavy weapons?

Heavy Pockets generates reserve ammo for your equipped heavy weapon when you kill a core, so the Carver is the only primary that directly feeds the A16 Beam Ripper.

For the rest of the reference set, the enemy database lists every body and breakable part, and the resources guide explains where each map material drops.

Sources

Upgrade shapes, rarity tiers and cost values were read from the live upgrade inventory in Mycopunk 1.0 and cross-checked against the official patch notes and the Steam store page. Community reports on rolled nodes come from the Steam guide index.