From 8e28ca63f46ae65b8b5f2cb221027692992da561 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: VMSolidus <evilexecutive@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:39:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Remove Shower Processing (#23134)

There's about ~5500 processing entries in the Machinery subsystem, at
any given point showers are about 50 of them. This PR just makes it so
that showers that aren't on automatically remove themselves from
processing to free up time for the machinery subsystem.
---
 code/game/objects/structures/watercloset.dm            | 3 ++-
 html/changelogs/hellfirejag-kill-shower-processing.yml | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 html/changelogs/hellfirejag-kill-shower-processing.yml

diff --git a/code/game/objects/structures/watercloset.dm b/code/game/objects/structures/watercloset.dm
index d7c985f1dfb..3afa61428a0 100644
--- a/code/game/objects/structures/watercloset.dm
+++ b/code/game/objects/structures/watercloset.dm
@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@
 	on = !on
 	update_icon()
 	if(on)
+		START_PROCESSING(SSmachinery, src)
 		if (M.loc == loc)
 			wash(M)
 			process_heat(M)
@@ -271,7 +272,7 @@
 
 /obj/structure/machinery/shower/process()
 	if(!on)
-		return
+		return PROCESS_KILL
 	wash_floor()
 	if(!mobpresent)
 		return
diff --git a/html/changelogs/hellfirejag-kill-shower-processing.yml b/html/changelogs/hellfirejag-kill-shower-processing.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a11cbcdeadc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/html/changelogs/hellfirejag-kill-shower-processing.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+author: Hellfirejag
+delete-after: True
+changes:
+  - bugfix: "Made showers no longer require always processing."