## LTS Document
Check this document before making any significant future changes to
blood worms, please.
https://hackmd.io/@RikuTheKiller/H1AHQSKNZx
## About The Pull Request
THIS PR SHOULD ABSOLUTELY BE TM'D FIRST
Blood worms are a new progression antag. When the event runs, 2
candidates are picked from ghosts and spawned in as blood worm
hatchlings, which then have to grow up, do a couple objectives and take
over the station.
Hatchlings are weak outside of a host, while juveniles can stand their
own reasonably well. Adults have high offensive power and can only be
dealt with using the right gear or a lot of luck and robustness. They're
meant to be a moment of glory for achieving maximum progression and they
can bootstrap the next hatchlings by gathering corpses before cocooning.
Each growth stage requires 30 seconds in a cocoon, which can only be
created after consuming a lot of blood. There's a falloff curve on a
per-blood-type basis, meaning you can't drain the same person over and
over again to reach adulthood. The medbay freezer is a priority target
for the blood worms and can get one of them to the juvenile stage if
fully ransacked.
It takes 500 blood to mature from hatchling to juvenile, and 1500 blood
to mature from juvenile to adult. You can only get up to 1000 blood from
synthetic sources like monkeys, and consuming synthetic blood is 30%
less efficient. Blood worms can also examine living targets to see how
much blood a target has, and how much growth the blood worm would gain
for consuming that blood.
Blood worms spawn in vents and have night vision for maneuvering in
maintenance. Hatchlings can ventcrawl, while juveniles can move around
by breaking things. Optionally, you can take over a host with a lot of
access like the Captain to go basically anywhere, especially if nobody
knows you killed the captain.
Behind the scenes, host-taking kicks the host's original mind to a
backseat mob. This needs the most testing in practice, but it's
confirmed that it returns the host's mind back to their body, at least
in testing.
All mob, ability and action sprites are made by INFRARED_BARON. Legal
rights were transferred to me after I paid for the commission.
Note, I've been working on this massive PR for quite a while, so
documenting every small change is really hard! Apologies for anything
I've missed. There's a lot.
Final note, admins can spawn these by either:
A. Trigger the midround event via the dynamic-panel verb, under the
Rulesets tab.
B. Giving someone the Blood Worm antag datum via the Traitor Panel in
the Player Panel for the target player. This will transform their mob
into a valid Blood Worm, with all of the associated objectives and such.
### Active Abilities
1. Leech Blood (No Host) - Lets the blood worm drain blood from living
targets and reagent containers. Uses an aggressive grab to restrain
living targets until leeching is over, which takes around a second to
initiate. Causes oxyloss during the leeching. NPC monkeys can't escape
from this and it floors targets as well.
2. Spit Blood (Both) - Multi-function ability, lets the blood worm fire
ranged corrosive blood spit at targets, melt restraints on their hosts
by right-clicking, and as an adult, shoot a burst of blood spit at a
target by right-clicking. Note of the right-click abilities, shooting
bursts can't be done while in a host. (to avoid unfair stealth kills)
Shooting a burst has a much longer cooldown than shooting normally. All
spit types cost blood to use.
3. Invade Corpse (No Host) - Lets the blood worm take a host for
themselves, consuming all of the host's blood and in essence, "becoming"
the host. Any bloodloss inflicted on the host is taken as damage to the
blood worm, and the blood worm retains its weakness to fire even in this
state. Burn damage itself no longer has any extra damage, though.
4. Leave Host (Host) - Title, literally just leaves the host after a
delay. Notably works even while the host is moving, dead, incapacitated
or otherwise fucked up in any way, shape or form.
5. Inject Blood (Host) - Lets the blood worm heal its host. The potency
of this increases as the worm grows up, but so does the cooldown and
blood consumption. This works on organ damage, injuries, etc.
6. Mature (No Host) - Makes the blood worm enter a cocoon for 30
seconds, emerging as the next growth stage. Requires an increasing
amount of consumed blood / growth as the blood worm uses it.
7. Reproduce (No Host, Adult Only) - Makes the blood worm enter a cocoon
for 30 seconds, with 4 hatchlings emerging out of it, including the
original blood worm, now reverted back into a hatchling as well.
8. Revive Host (Host) - If the host is in a viable state to be revived,
revives them after an animation sequence plays out.
### Passive Abilities
1. Space Immunity - Blood worms are immune to the cold, low pressures
and a lack of oxygen. Only the immunity to a lack of oxygen carries on
to hosts from this.
2. Organ Insertion - Blood worms can insert organs into their hosts by
right-clicking on them with the organ in-hand. This mainly exists to
deal with hosts that lack organs, and avoids the gotcha where an adult
blood worm ends up gutting their host by hitting them too hard, as they
can simply fix it on the spot.
3. Life Support - Blood worm hosts don't need a heart, lungs or a liver
to survive. Lungs are useful for speaking, and a liver is necessary to
process reagents.
4. Regeneration - Blood worms slowly heal over time. This is nowhere
near enough to overcome bleeding or heat damage, since it's 0.3 hp/s for
a hatchling, 0.4 hp/s for a juvenile and 0.5 hp/s for an adult.
5. Night Vision - Blood worms can see in the dark. This doesn't extend
to hosts.
6. Ventcrawling - Hatchling blood worms can ventcrawl.
7. Doorcrawling - Hatchling and juvenile blood worms can slide under
doors. Doing so takes 3 seconds for a hatchling and 5 seconds for a
juvenile.
8. HUD - Blood worms can tell how much blood targets have at a glance,
via a blood HUD bar exclusive to them. They can also tell apart other
blood worm hosts from normal people via an antag HUD. There's also an
examine message they can use on living targets for even more info.
### Weaknesses
1. Heat and Fire - Blood worms quickly die to heat, their bodies are
flammable and their blood will burn up if their host's core temperature
is too high. The main counter to this is getting a host with
flame-resistant gear.
2. Bleeding - While in a host, bleeding wounds will directly damage the
blood worm itself. How much a host needs to bleed before the worm dies
depends on their growth stage. Blood worm hosts keep bleeding even while
dead, so just keep hitting them and they'll die. Blood worms
automatically leave their hosts when they hit 10% health or lower, and
their hosts bleed 50% faster than normal people.
3. Stuns - Blood worms have no way of dealing with a stunned host other
than getting out. They can deal with any restraints by melting them,
though.
4. Testing - Security can order a blood worm testing crate from cargo,
either for a 20 minute cooldown via the security cargo interface
console, or for 10000 credits via the supply console. It contains 4
single-use testers that hurt a bit when applied, but are instant to use
and 100% accurate. The stopgap is that they're really fucking expensive
and only work once per item.
### Screenshot
<img width="280" height="132" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/00d22361-997e-4347-a0bf-aa240de40727"
/>
## Why It's Good For The Game
Antagonist variety, mainly. This is basically Cortical Borers 2:
Electric Boogaloo.
Currently, we lack any antagonists with mind control abilities. That
really sucks!
I've also gotten a lot of positive feedback about the antagonist while
working on it.
This antagonist also has great potential for roleplay, as they can take
over hosts, surprise attack people by getting out of a dead corpse, talk
to each other using Wormspeak, etc.
I think we're also itching for variety on "pest" antagonists. Right now
we just have spiders and xenos. Everybody knows these two, so why not
mix it up a bit?
And as for balance? Blood worms are relatively easy to dispatch when you
know their weaknesses, which are extremely clear. Bleeding for hosts,
fire for either one, lasers for the worms themselves. As long as you get
the host in crit and keep hitting, you've pretty much won, and they
can't keep spamming Inject Blood forever since they'll quickly run out
of blood to use.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added a new heavy roundstart/midround antagonist, the Blood Worm.
Credit to INFRARED_BARON for the sprites!
fix: Removing traits based on a source no longer causes issues with
trait signals.
fix: High-priority effects no longer double-trigger due to subsystem
issues.
fix: Weighted averaging in reagent merging code has been band-aid fixed.
It's not the best, but it works.
/🆑
Robotic voiceboxes allow you to speak EAL, and you can understand it as
normal for knowing a language when said voicebox is installed.
If the Star-Wars and 40k guys can learn to intelligibly interpret robot
whirring, I'm sure we can too.
## About The Pull Request
Adds the Spinwarder language, and grants it to Space Russians (including
the mobs, Fugitive Hunters, and the BODA machine).
<details>
<summary>Lore Be Here, Abandon All Hope</summary>
**Spinwarder Russian**, also known simply as **Spinwarder**, was the
official language of the Third Soviet Union, and following the collapse
of that state, has remained the primary spoken language in its former
lands, including the Spinward Stellar Coalition, which is the closest
stellar governing body to SS13. This means its the language spoken by
your average Space Russian who you might find nearby to the station;
it's also the language used by devices made in and around the former
Third Soviet Union.
As an additional tidbit, the icon for the language:
is the state flag of the SSC.
</details>
## About The Pull Request
This PR adds a treasure chest that can be fished from the ocean if
you're lucky enough (or have enough explosives or lobstrosities to do it
for you). The treasure chest is basically a mystery box (like the ones
from the deathmatch) with a couple catches; the treasure chest can be
opened up to 18 times in total before breaking down, however, it can
only be opened up to 3 times per spaceman, encouraging the player to
share it with others.
Here the possible loot by the by:
- A toolbox containing a master fishing rod, all the hooks and reels,
fish feed, an experi-scanner, an aquarium kit and a can of super baits
- A box containing a lazarus injector, a cup and a bottle of strange
reagent which you can use to revive fish now
- A circuit board for a pre-emagged fishing portal generator
- A master fishing rod
- A can of super fishing baits
- A fish case containing Tiziran fish
- A fish case containing Syndicate fish
- An old, yet fairly strong cutlass
- An old laser gun which fires only 5 shots before running out
- A crank laser musket
- A smoothbore disabler
- A surplus bolt action rifle
- A ration pack
- A can of squid ink
- A bottle of aged rum that forces you to switch to the piratespeak
language
- A money bag with some doubloons inside
- A piratespeak manual
- Pirate armored coat
- Pirate armored hat
- A pre-loaded cannon
- Four trash cannon balls
- Four cannon balls
## Why It's Good For The Game
Mystery boxes are fun, from the little fanfare they play to the
potential loot they can give, and I had an old treasure chest I had
sprited for fun years ago around so I've come up with an entertaining
idea. If you think the loot list is a bit too hot, I can cool it down a
bit.
Also yeah, I wanted to make fish revivable with strange reagent, since
you can already do it with lazarus injectors even though using a lazarus
injector for this would be a severe waste of mining points.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added a treasure chest you can rarely fish from the ocean/beach,
with loot being a mix of fishing and piratey stuff.
add: You can revive fish with strange reagent now.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Refactors a lot of the unused defines.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Refactors a lot of the unused defines.
## Changelog
Nothing player facing
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Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
## About The Pull Request
Part of the "throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what happens" series
of changes.
We were discussing player bots and there was some small support for
"what if bots couldn't talk except to other bots and primarily
communicated via emoting and playing their prerecorded lines".
I coded this but I'll be honest, my heart wasn't in it, especially
because we have _already_ released sapient bots who can talk so I'd have
to justify taking it away in a better way than "I want to see what would
happen", so I'm not doing that (feel free to revert the last commit in
this PR if you want to carry that cross yourself).
But I'm keeping the button that plays the prerecorded voice messages.
No these lists _aren't_ alphabetised, that's because I wanted to vaguely
order them in order of "this is something the bot regularly says" to
"this is something the bot rarely says (because it is rude or mean)".
This priority is possibly the inverse of how players will want to use
the button, but perhaps they should try being politer.
Additionally this PR ensures that if you put a pAI in a bot then it will
be able to speak any languages the pAI could.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Saying "I should have been a plastic surgeon" is iconic medbot behaviour
and players should be able to do it.
We don't currently have bot TTS voices which directly sound like the
bots themselves to apply, and it might be mildly concerning if we did
because I believe at least one of the voices is the IRL voice of a
community member with some filters added?
## Changelog
🆑
add: Player-controlled bots can now play the prerecorded lines
associated with that bot.
add: Placing a pAI into a bot temporarily teaches that bot all the
langauges the pAI could speak.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
#76305 removed the knowledge of every language from silicons, but this
had a couple of oversights.
This language set was not only used by cyborgs but also bots and vending
machines.
A couple of effects relied on them knowing all of those languages,
specifically their emp_act and also the station trait which rerolled
their languages.
Now they actually _learn_ a random language and start speaking it
instead.
Also I fixed a related runtime which I noticed in testing where a bot
would die as a result of being EMPed, delete itself, and then try and do
a bunch more shit after it stopped existing. Annoying.
Why was I looking at bot languages? Haha don't worry about it 😇
## Why It's Good For The Game
Restores function of a funny feature.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Station traits can once again allow vending machines and bots to
speak a random language
fix: EMPed bots and vending machines once again speak a random language
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR refactors mind language holders into non-existence
As a result, `update_atom_languages` is no longer necessary
Mind-bound languages are transferred via `/mind/proc/transfer_to`
Species changing no longer deletes and re-creates the mob's language
holder, allowing them to keep any languages they have.
Species languages are sourced from `LANGUAGE_SPECIES` now, meaning they
are removed when they change species. If the mob is not a human with a
species datum, these are effectively just atom level languages.
Makes a bunch of unit tests to ensure language transfer over certain
events works as intended
## Why It's Good For The Game
Mobs with minds having two independent language holders results in a
good few bugs, and simply doesn't make sense when we have sources
(`LANGUAGE_MIND`).
Instead of tracking two language holders, we can simply use sources
better and only track one.
This means that the language holder you start with is your language
holder, period. It doesn't get deleted or re-instantiated or whatever.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Refactored language holders, making species changes not delete
all of your known languages
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds a few new quirks so allow for some more individuality from players!
~~They're set to 0 right now for TM purposes.~~ No TM, thus spoke
Melbert.
To-do:
- [x] Bilingual - Random extra language
- [x] ~~Mutated - Random mutation~~
- [x] Big Hands (fetish content???) - Big hands trait (can't use guns)
- [x] Soft-Spoken - Whisper permanently
- [x] Clumsy (not a packet dropper) - Clumsy trait (clown shit)
- [x] ~~Paroled Convict - Spawn with a tracking implant + prisoner
armband.~~
- [x] ~~Fashionista (headmins made me do it) - Lets you pick a scarf
roundstart.~~
- [x] The more the merrier.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Small changes at the cost of a negative quirk or two are a fun way to
develop the story. It's fun! These aren't game breaking and might lead
way to some interesting interactions!
## Changelog
🆑 Chadley
add: Adds some new quirks!!
add: Adds the bilingual quirk, which gives a new random language.
add: Adds the big hand quirk which stops the usage of most guns.
add: Adds the soft spoken quirk which forces you to whisper.
add: Adds the clumsy quirk enabling the clumsy trait.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Mothblocks <35135081+Mothblocks@users.noreply.github.com>
About The Pull Request
This adds a new status effect called - Tower of Babel
Any carbon mob afflicted by the status effect will lose knowledge of every known language and gain a randomized one as a replacement. The affected mob will also be hit with a depressing moodlet that lasts for 15 seconds. Silicons are immune to all effects.
This effect is implemented in several ways:
Tower of Babel wizard event (all crew on the station z level are affected. The wizard is not and gains mastery of every language to taunt their victims)
Admin smite option
Admin secret event (can be reversed)
Staff of Babel (formerly the Staff of Sapping) will spawn during spawn magic wizard event
Magicarp will randomly shoot bolts of babel
Staff of Chaos will randomly shoot bolts of babel
Overdosing on Mushroom Hallucinogen will temporarily and sporadically acquire the effect
The effect can be blocked or cured in several ways:
Curators are given immunity
Reading a book of babel (via lavaland loot) cures and gives immunity
Reading a language book cures and gives immunity ONLY for that particular language
Note - The Tower of Babel does not allow tongueless, mute, or tongue tied people the ability to speak
Apparently we have had this thoughtless (like many other small features) language datum ever since late 2018 that only costume pirate hats use: Piratespeak . Space pirates don't even use it also because their hats aren't a subtype of the costume pirate hat for good reasons like armor and EVA. Yea, this is also an oversight since space pirates were added before the language.
Done using this command sed -Ei 's/(\s*\S+)\s*\t+/\1 /g' code/**/*.dm
We have countless examples in the codebase with this style gone wrong, and defines and such being on hideously different levels of indentation. Fixing this to keep the alignment involves tainting the blames of code your PR doesn't need to be touching at all. And ultimately, it's hideous.
There are some files that this sed makes uglier. I can fix these when they are pointed out, but I believe this is ultimately for the greater good of readability. I'm more concerned with if any strings relied on this.
Hi codeowners!
Co-authored-by: Jared-Fogle <35135081+Jared-Fogle@users.noreply.github.com>
* HARK! THERE ARE SOME MAIDENS THAT NEED SAVING!
* claymores, chairs
* mapmerge, price increase, no losing the flag, no teleporting in, other small stuff
* oldworld language, medieval mutation, reviews
* see desc for full changelog
huge improvements to how medieval speech feels, CTF now fully lit, json beautified, bugs squashed and more NOTELEPORT exploits also quashed. (I NEED TO UNDO THIS FOR ATOMIZATION)
* removes my fixes? also bugfixes and CTF separation
* dumb json mistake, starting work on reality simulators
* BOWS ARE BROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKEN
* br
* getting closer to working
* well, mostly everything now.
* finally ready
* removes languages stuff as it is buggy and does not work, fixes more bugs, fixes more bugs, fixes more bugs
* conflict fix
* linting
* more lint
* bow buff, speech fix, TON of ctf fixes
* oh fuck year
* NO MORE INSTA DELETING CREW
* whoops
* review handled
* pooosh
* conflict fix
Its all over the place, messy, and overall a bad enough gamemode to be removed from rotation.
A rework would have to tear out everything as is so there is no reason to allow the shitcode to live beyond tripping up everything.
* Ghosts now have a language menu
🆑 coiax
add: Ghosts can now modify their own understood languages with the
language menu.
/🆑
- Language menu is now on /atom/movable, and can be opened by any atom
with the `open_language_menu` proc.
- Used for testing, and simulating what various station members hear.
* Language holders, I
* Language holder, II
* Dos line endings
* MIND LANGUAGES
* Fixes some mobs not having language holders in their minds
* Shadow languages
* How did you lose the holder?
* Mob level IC->Open Language Menu verb
* Gives draconic to silicons
* Lazy breeki
* Use of pre-initialized global lists for languages
* Fixes bugs with lazy holders
* Initial burst of languages
* Scratchings of beginnings
* Code review I
* Compilation!
* You can now understand your own speech
* Fixes whispering
* Gets typecaches working again
* Remie's `PASS`ing
* Back to pass() to stop the compiler whining
* Why can't drones check their languages
* Everyone speaks how they should
* Removes world string debug stuff
* Currently failing to massage radio code into working
* The radio transmits the languages!
* ,0 to talk common
* Replaces speech wheel with language menu
* Observers can speak all languages
* pAIs now speak languages FOREVER
* New action button for language menu
* pAIs have an action button to open their language menu
* AIs can talk and all that
* AIs have a language menu button
* Fixes supermatter making strange noises
* Fixes AI holopads
* Fixes request consoles
* Fixes bots making strange sounds
* Meaningless MMI change
* Some caching of datums
* Brains in MMIs speak common
* Ratvarian AIs can only speak Ratvarian
* Tables can speak common, apparently
* Removes var in args
* Fixes the (AI Eye) problem
Thanks to Shadowmobile for their help with this one.
* Fixes tape recorders
* Fixes humans being able to speak in languages they did not know
* Adds some new posibrain names
Honk.
* The voice analyzer replies in the language you spoke to it
* Gives swarmers only swarmer language
* `initial_languages` var.
* OMNITONGUE, clockwork restrictions
* Fixes barmaid and bardrone language abilities
* Code review I
* Omnitongue correction
* Code review II
* Removes force_compose var
