## About The Pull Request
In #89619, I removed the mech PKA's mining AOE and reduced the damaging
AOE to a fraction of the damage.
I have restored both of these aspects, but I have also applied this
change to the standard PKA's mining and damage AOE. I have also included
the mob biotype limitations as well.
AOE modkits take 10% capacity, now allowing miners to use them in more
setups. However, they conflict with one another. You can only have one
AOE mod until you can get the dual AOE mod from tendrils.
The AOE damage/mining effect is now a 2 tile effect rather than 1 tile
effect.
## Why It's Good For The Game
My intent in the previous PR was to bring mech PKA's down to standard
mining limitations. So, why not improve those standards for everyone
instead? The new state of mining expects you to be dealing with a lot of
mobs at once. Even small vents can, on occasion, decide to spit out
several goliaths back to back. That's a lot of mobs with a lot of
health.
Miners need AOE options more than ever. They have very little that are
actually meaningful, sadly. So my intent here is that this should be an
expectation for our miners to be seeking out and can fit into their
current, standard gameplay.
Certainly I've only felt like shit having to sacrifice a damage or
cooldown mod for an AOE mod, only to get a very minor amount of damage
splash for my efforts. That, and the radius doesn't usually impact most
mobs as they spawn and attack from awkward angles or distances from one
another where they are JUST out of reach of one another. Trying to use
the splash to hit multiple enemies is often not worth it compared to
just hitting one enemy at a time with a lot of damage.
So, let's just go with the standard of 'Good AOE is fundamentally needed
now' and worth from that premise.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Mech PKA now once again mines turfs and does full damage on its
AOE explosion (still only hitting mining mobs).
balance: The standard PKA AOE mods are now by default 10% capacity. But
they cannot be used with one another.
balance: The standard PKA offensive AOE mod now does the PKA's full
damage in its AOE.
balance: Mining AOEs will affect everything within a 2 tile radius
around the point of impact, up from a 1 tile radius.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: SmArtKar <44720187+SmArtKar@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Splits up tendril_loot.dm and megafauna_loot.dm (both over a thousand
lines long) into group/item specific files, and megafauna-specific files
respectively. Also pulls a few loot items scattered around the codebase
into those files as well.
Additionally while doing so I've cleaned up the code for some of them,
and rewrote the hierophant club's code because it was abominable and a
potential source of harddels.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Its absolutely unnavigateable.
## Changelog
🆑
code: Split and cleaned up mining loot's code
refactor: Refactored the hierophant club.
fix: Hierophant club's beacon no longer can go missing (until you try
using it)
/🆑
Ladies, Gentlemen, Gamers. You're probably wondering why I've called you
all here (through the automatic reviewer request system). So, mineral
balance! Mineral balance is less a balance and more of a nervous white
dude juggling spinning plates on a high-wire on his first day. The fact
it hasn't failed after going on this long is a miracle in and of itself.
This PR does not change mineral balance. What this does is moves over
every individual cost, both in crafting recipes attached to an object
over to a define based system. We have 3 defines:
`sheet_material_amount=2000` . Stock standard mineral sheet. This being
our central mineral unit, this is used for all costs 2000+.
`half_sheet_material_amount=1000` . Same as above, but using iron rods
as our inbetween for costs of 1000-1999.
`small_material_amount=100` . This hits 1-999. This covers... a
startlingly large amount of the codebase. It's feast or famine out here
in terms of mineral costs as a result, items are either sheets upon
sheets, or some fraction of small mats.
Shout out to riot darts for being the worst material cost in the game. I
will not elaborate.
Regardless, this has no functional change, but it sets the groundwork
for making future changes to material costs much, MUCH easier, and moves
over to a single, standardized set of units to help enforce coding
standards on new items, and will bring up lots of uncomfortable balance
questions down the line.
For now though, this serves as some rough boundaries on how items costs
are related, and will make adjusting these values easier going forward.
Except for foam darts.
I did round up foam darts.
Adjusting mineral balance on the macro scale will be as simple as
changing the aforementioned mineral defines, where the alternative is a
rats nest of magic number defines. ~~No seriously, 11.25 iron for a foam
dart are you kidding me what is the POINT WHY NOT JUST MAKE IT 11~~
Items individual numbers have not been adjusted yet, but we can
standardize how the conversation can be held and actually GET SOMEWHERE
on material balance as opposed to throwing our hands up or ignoring it
for another 10 years.
## About The Pull Request
This adds basic mining scanners to the `Mining Technology` node
## Why It's Good For The Game
A mining scanner is a basic tool, much like mesons or a bag.
It should be available to any person who wishes to mine for ore. There
are a limited number of them on the station that can run out and this is
a good way to encourage more people to mine since it's apart of the
basic kit.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Add mining scanners to techweb
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds the pickaxe to basic tools techweb that can be printed the cargo
lathe or autolathe.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This is a basic mining tool and should be available at roundstart.
It wasn't possible to create pickaxes, despite it being a T1 item. It
should be as easy to make as a shovel since these usually are mapped
together. I was tempted to put this into mining technology, but that
already has advanced drills that are T2 versions of the pickaxe.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Add pickaxe to basic tools techweb
/🆑
When the big nice rework went through i think an oversight happened and
the PKA upgrades were lost to the void even though they could be
researched, this just re-adds them back to the exofab. The values were
taken from pre-change so nothing really changed from a cost/time
perspective.
I recategorized EVERY /datum/design/ IN THE GAME to be more UX friendly and I HATE MYSELF FOR IT
I refactored techfab UI to WORK ANYWHERE for ANY MACHINE THAT USES /datum/design as a SET OF MODULAR COMPONENTS
I moved a lot of DESIGNS EXCLUSIVE TO THE AUTOLATHE to also work IN PROTOLATHES
I made MATERIAL ICONS animate between ICON STATES for STACKS
I PUT ICONS IN ALL OF YOUR FABRICATORS
I SOMEHOW DID ALL OF THIS WITHOUT LOSING ANY PERFORMANCE
ALSO SUPPORTS COMPONENT PRINTERS AND MODULE DUPLICATORS
Other garbage:
Fixed numerous spelling and consistency issues in designs
Removed Machine Design (<x>) and Computer Design (<x>) from all relevant designs
All designs are now in title case
Numerous designs that were formerly autolathe exclusives can now also be printed at a protolathe (but not all); this is mostly just service equipment like drinking glasses and plates and silverware
Circuits components can no longer be printed at a circuit imprinter (fixes
Integrated circuit components printed in the component printer/module printer cost twice as much than from an un upgraded circuit printer #67758)
Designs that are not sensible for a department to have are no longer accessible to that department (read: medbay printing turbine parts)
Why It's Good For The Game
Improved UX for techfabs, but also for mechfabs and autolathes, and oh look it's pretty!
also I spent like eight hours doing nothing but categorizing /datum/designs and I'll cry if some version of this doesn't get merged eventually
Changelog
cl
refactor: mechfabs, autolathes, component printers, and module duplicators now use techfab tgui components
refactor: every single design is now categorized and subcategorized
refactor: mechfabs and autolathes are now in typescript
qol: techfabs now have icons for what you're about to print
qol: techfab material icons are now animated
qol: techfab material icons now fade when no materials are available
qol: techfab searching no longer lags like hell
qol: techfab searching now searches all recipes instead of just the current category
qol: techfabs now have subcategorization (stock part users rejoice)
qol: techfabs now announce when new recipes are available
qol: numerous other techfab ui tweaks
balance: some designs that were formerly autolathe exclusive can now be printed at some departmental techfabs
Lathes and designs now use departmental flags rather than some random misc define that wasn't used anywhere else (which this PR is deleting), this allows us to cross-reference it with job bitflags to check whether or not a job should pay lathe taxes. Nothing else is effected by this change. Important changes are in code/modules/research/machinery/_production.dm if you want to get straight to the point.
Researching an upgrade disk from RnD allows you to upgrade the Express Supply Console (#33436).
Instead of normal drop pods, which crash then stick around until you dissassemble them, the console will call down new Bluespace Drop Pods, which will teleport out after crashing (and bring about a slightly smaller crash-explosion too!)
🆑 MrDoomBringer
add: The RnD department can now develop firmware upgrades to the Express Supply Console, unlocking advanced cargo drop pods!
/🆑
why: adds a little bit more techweb-integrated progression to cargo, also part of a compromise from #34374.
oh, also repaths bsdroppod.dm to supplypod.dm
