2 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
ArcaneMusic	b1ae4ddce9	Diamonds and Bluespace Crystals ore vent rebalance. (#96135) ... ## About The Pull Request A few tweaks regarding diamonds and bluespace crystals with regards to ore vents. With the quantity of bluespace crystals and diamonds that have been reintroduced to the game, in an attempt to maintain their status as the rarest tier of material to obtain for the station, both materials have been removed from the standard pools of ores that can spawn into boulders. What this **means** is that it can't roll as a primary material for a boulder, providing 25-10 sheets worth of material. **However,** diamonds and BS crystals are now available from all tapped vents as an artifact boulder spawn. These artifact boulders will spawn at a flat 7% chance, previously set as a random range of 0-10% randomly per vent. Because this chance was never communicated to players, I think it's fine at this point to split the difference, lock it in at 7% (Considering that we're adding more things onto the artifact boulder outcomes as is, I've elected to throw it to a slightly higher chance, based purely on vibes). For clarity, these two artifact boulders add a flat 1-5 sheets of their respective material to the boulder on spawn, the same as mining a single tile of their respective ore from a wall. Additionally, the overlays when scanning an ore vent will now show a flashing icon to represent the rare chance that these two materials may spawn. Text has been added to the examine for ore vents to explain this behavior. Boss vents may still spawn diamond and bluespace crystals, but at a lower weighting than all other materials. Due to diamonds and BS crystals being removed from the standard ore vent weightings, their distributions within the ore vent mineral distribution used on roundstart has been shifted, while otherwise keeping a similar distribution of minerals across vents, according to the rough intent of what minerals should show up at what rarities. As previously stated, these two artifact material boulders add their ore to the boulder itself, meaning that you may also want to pick out artifact boulders in order to do limited chemical boosting for up to 50% more materials. ## Why It's Good For The Game Diamonds and bluespace crystals are intended to be rare, valuable, and desirable enough to go out of your way to obtain. Ore vents ideally should have had some sort of built-in scaling that tweaked the amount of that specific material they produced, but I never got around to implementing that and as a result they've been really, REALLY common for the last while. One of the design goals of the new mining PRs that have been released recently as to try and reintroduce some rarity and desirability into these high tier minerals by adjusting their availability while not completely locking them off from the rest of the game. This was a compromise to also still provide some utility to doing ore vents with the reintroduction of ores being more common from wall-mining. Wall diamonds and bluespace crystals will still exist, but this way completing a small collection of ore vents will help to supply the station with materials, where it's the quantity, not the quality of vents that provides the best value, while noting you're still going to be recieving these drops somewhat rarely unless optimizing your factory output. ## Changelog 🆑 balance: Non-boss ore vents may no longer contain bluespace crystals and diamonds. balance: All ore vents now have a flat 7% chance to spawn an artifact boulder. balance: There are now 2 new artifact boulder types, which may contain 1-5 sheets worth of bluespace crystals or diamonds respectively. These boulders may have their rare ore boosted via chemical boosting. balance: ore distribution in vents have been adjusted to accommodate for bluespace and diamonds being removed from vents accordingly. spellcheck: Ore vents now explain the artifact boulder mechanic on examine. /🆑	2026-05-29 23:13:26 +02:00
ArcaneMusic	ed31397cc4	Fixes ore vents spawning without ores on icebox, sets up map specific ore configurations (#81103) ... ## About The Pull Request In short, we used a static list previously within the ore_generation subsystem that held the amount of each ore that we expected a single map to uniformly need. We held this number constant, since we were spawning 15 vents per map. **Pros:** This worked flawlessly for Lavaland since 15 vents on a single Z level makes it pretty densely packed map with a good amount of map-based ore spawns, and it worked consistently. **Cons:** 15 vents did not work well on Icebox however, even when split so that the majority of the ores were spawning on the lower levels, players did not feel like icebox spawned nearly enough ores and reported the map spawning empty. **Result:** As a result, we adjusted the ratio, so that we spawned vastly more ores on the lower levels, now up to 4 vents on the upper level, and 21 vents on the lower level. However, as we were still using the ore distribution list based on lavaland, icebox vents were quickly running out of ores to distribute between them, resulting in empty vents -> which produced empty boulders -> which not only don't really let you process them properly, but also just result in a metric ton of runtimes. Icebox now has it's own list of ore distributions. These distributions are now moved to a set of global lists as opposed to being saved on the subsystem as a static list, which will make going and setting up new ore distribution lists very very easy. Additionally, we've moved the setting and getting of those ore_distributions over to the seedRuins proc, so that we're actually setting the list of ores right before we actually place them to make sure that the order that it's set is roughly as it's needed, while still setting the list at the same time the map-appropriate ruin placements are dropped in. **Plus some misc cleanup fixes:** `var/list/ore_vent_sizes` in SSore_generation wasn't being treated as a similar budget list as `ore_vent_minerals`, since it `pick()`s off it's own static size list. Which is honestly fine for this five seconds, I can handle that later while we make sure the rest of the code code is stable. In the meantime, I've just tweak it so that it's easy to see at a glance how many of each random vent has spawned into the map. Tweaked the description to not include anything about chemical processing, as I'm planning on hitting on that in a part 2 PR that I'll be picking back up after the freeze. ## Why It's Good For The Game Cleans up the code a bit, but primarily fixes ores not spawning on icebox as they should. Should fix #81058. Improves description to not mention mechanics that aren't in game. Also, cleans up a piece of code that currently isn't serving much of a purpose. ## Changelog 🆑 fix: Icebox should have it's ore distribution and it's ore vents fixed, so that vents should now produce ore. spellcheck: Boulder processing machines now don't mention things they don't do. /🆑	2024-02-07 05:20:25 +01:00