## About The Pull Request
It's just a partial cleanup of
anti-[STYLE](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/blob/master/.github/guides/STYLE.md)
code from /tg/'s ancient history. I compiled & tested with my helpful
assistant and damage is still working.
<img width="1920" height="1040" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/26dabc17-088f-4008-b299-3ff4c27142c3"
/>
I'll upload the .cs script I used to do it shortly.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Just minor code cleanup.
Script used is located at https://metek.tech/camelTo-Snake.7z
EDIT 11/23/25: Updated the script to use multithreading and sequential
scan so it works a hell of a lot faster
```
/*
//
Copyright 2025 Joshua 'Joan Metekillot' Kidder
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
//
*/
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
class Program
{
static async Task Main(string[] args)
{
var readFile = new FileStreamOptions
{
Access = FileAccess.Read,
Share = FileShare.ReadWrite,
Options = FileOptions.Asynchronous | FileOptions.SequentialScan
};
FileStreamOptions writeFile = new FileStreamOptions
{
Share = FileShare.ReadWrite,
Access = FileAccess.ReadWrite,
Mode = FileMode.Truncate,
Options = FileOptions.Asynchronous
};
RegexOptions regexOptions = RegexOptions.Multiline | RegexOptions.Compiled;
Dictionary<string, int> changedProcs = new();
string regexPattern = @"(?<=\P{L})([a-z]+)([A-Z]{1,2}[a-z]+)*(Brute|Burn|Fire|Tox|Oxy|Organ|Stamina)(Loss)([A-Z]{1,2}[a-z]+)*";
Regex camelCaseProcRegex = new(regexPattern, regexOptions);
string snakeify(Match matchingRegex)
{
var vals =
matchingRegex.Groups.Cast<Group>().SelectMany(_ => _.Captures).Select(_ => _.Value).ToArray();
var newVal = string.Join("_", vals.Skip(1).ToArray()).ToLower();
string logString = $"{vals[0]} => {newVal}";
if (changedProcs.TryGetValue(logString, out int value))
{
changedProcs[logString] = value + 1;
}
else
{
changedProcs.Add(logString, 1);
}
return newVal;
}
var dmFiles = Directory.EnumerateFiles(".", "*.dm", SearchOption.AllDirectories).ToAsyncEnumerable<string>();
// uses default ParallelOptions
// https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.threading.tasks.paralleloptions?view=net-10.0#main
await Parallel.ForEachAsync(dmFiles, async (filePath, UnusedCancellationToken) =>
{
var reader = new StreamReader(filePath, readFile);
string oldContent = await reader.ReadToEndAsync();
string newContent = camelCaseProcRegex.Replace(oldContent, new MatchEvaluator((Func<Match, string>)snakeify));
if (oldContent != newContent)
{
var writer = new StreamWriter(filePath, writeFile);
await writer.WriteAsync(newContent);
await writer.DisposeAsync();
}
reader.Dispose();
});
var logToList = changedProcs.Cast<KeyValuePair<string, int>>().ToList();
foreach (var pair in logToList)
{
Console.WriteLine($"{pair.Key}: {pair.Value} locations");
}
}
}
```
## Changelog
🆑 Bisar
code: All (Brute|Burn|Fire|Tox|Oxy|Organ|Stamina)(Loss) procs now use
snake_case, in-line with the STYLE guide. Underscores rule!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Updates the laser gun into four proper subtypes: Standard, Pistol, Rifle
and Carbine.
<img width="229" height="210" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/12c03076-8ebf-4d87-8c98-6a8cce6821db"
/>
Current sprites are pending a palette change.
**Standard:** Functions as you would expect. Same as ever.
**Pistol**: Lower charge, 20 force, normal sized, recharges faster.
**Carbine**: 15 force, 26 mag, two round burst. Projectiles flight
slightly faster. Cannot dual-wield.
**Rifle**: 20 force. 40 mag. Two round burst. EMP resistant (not
immune). Projectiles fly slightly faster. Cannot dual-wield (not that
you need to).
All but the rifle can be sourced from cargo. You can also buy the sovl
version of the laser gun if you're especially nostalgic.
### Armory Changes
The Armory now can potentially spawn either pistols, carbines or
standard. The weighting leans closer to spawning carbines and standard
as opposed to pistols.
### Lore Dump
The laser line of weapons now all have lore. That rich, deep lore that
every game needs and is totally not important at all to the meat and
potatoes of the game. I'm paid by the hour ($0.00)
### Code Tidying
Lasers are old and a total mess code-wise so we've tidied up while we're
here.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Variety is the spice of life and also some of these weapons could have
used a face lift. Especially the laser carbine. Both functionaltiy wise
and appearance wise.
A bit of randomness in the armory means some rounds might have unique
outcomes compared to others. Sometimes, items in cargo don't see
particularly much use, so peppering in a few random potential deviations
can maybe nudge people to utilize variant gear on future rounds.
I'm obsessed with writing too much information. I blame Hatterhat.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Three variants of the laser gun; Carbine (replacing the existing
one), Pistol and Rifle! Find it (possibly) in your armory today!
balance: The armory laser guns might be different variants of the laser
gun, rather than always being the standard. The standard is the same as
ever, even if it looks different.
add: If you care, the sovl version is available as a goodie. And in the
hands of pirates...
spellcheck: Lore! LORE FOR LASER GUNS! LOOOORE! Examine laser guns
closely and you might learn more about them.
balance: The new set of laser guns come with brand new sprites.
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: StaringGasMask <62149527+Exester509@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Moves all blood handling into procs and adds ways to easily hook into
basically every basic blood behavior.
This PR is not meant to fix every single case of janky blood logic in
the game. The main point and motivation of this PR is to add hooks for
blood behaviors. This allows for way more flexibility with blood code.
I am not going to fix our 3000 instances of single-letter vars, wacky
blood transfers, etc. This is just the groundwork for future PRs to
build off of, and by itself, should do very little to change blood
behavior.
I also added a rigorous set of unit tests for verifying that all of the
basic blood volume procs work correctly.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Previously, blood was handled via directly reading/writing
[var/blood_volume]. This was INCREDIBLY inconsistent and there was no
way to hook into it. This PR makes blood handling way more consistent,
which is great for all sorts of features.
## About The Pull Request
Adds self-message to the clown pockets spell that lets you pull out
clown items from nowhere. Also, calls `post_created()` in
`/datum/action/cooldown/spell/conjure_item`, which it wasn't before.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I don't like seeing my own name in the chatbox from my own actions.
`post_created()` currently is useless. It's still useless, cause it's
only for this spell, but its a lesser degree of uselessness.
## Changelog
🆑
spellcheck: Adds self-message to clown pockets spell
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
closes#93805
## Why It's Good For The Game
we actually have almost no emp logging at all lol, not even emp chem
reaction, so you barely can track potential griefer?
## Changelog
🆑
admin: EMP logs are improved, additionally chemical EMP reactions are
now logged.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Refactors status effects to track their durations and tick intervals
using counters.
In effect, [var/duration] now directly refers to how many deciseconds
are left on the status effect.
I've also moved the old [var/tick_interval] [world.time] implementation
to a tick-based [var/time_until_next_tick] counter.
There are a couple, less noteworthy changes in here as well. The main
one is that there was an unused bit of bloat code for setting tick
intervals based on a random lower and upper threshold, but that can be
done in tick() now so it's completely redundant, and I thus removed it
entirely. That makes parts of [proc/process] much easier to read.
I added/modified some unit tests (which I expect to fail) to verify that
[var/duration] and [var/tick_interval] are both multiples of the
subsystem wait assigned to the status effect. If the programmer wants a
duration of 2.5 seconds, they expect it to work that way, but it won't
because SSfastprocess only ticks once every 0.2 seconds, which 2.5 is
not a multiple of. This becomes way more apparent when a status effect
is set to use SSprocessing.
The final, perhaps most important unit test I've added, is one that
verifies that the overall tick count and overall accumulated
[seconds_between_ticks] are equal to "[var/duration] /
[var/tick_interval]" and "[var/duration]" respectively.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The main thing this PR fixes is timing inconsistencies. Before this PR,
durations and tick intervals were tracked using world.time, while the
[proc/tick] call timing was dependent on the wait time of the subsystem
the status effect was processing on. Thing is, SSfastprocess and
SSprocessing rarely run completely in one tick during real gameplay.
This led to a continuous desync where status effects were consistently
inconsistent in their overall tick count. This is a big problem as
[seconds_between_ticks] is constant and thus doesn't account for this
difference in tick count.
As an example, Changeling's Fleshmend has a duration of 10 seconds, a
tick interval of 1 second and a healing rate of 4 brute per tick.
Previously, if the server was lagging even slightly and it only ticked 8
times over the course of 10 seconds, you would heal 32 health rather
than the 40 that a full Fleshmend would give you. The total effect
potency of a status effect being reliant on server lag is incredibly
stupid, especially for status effects that have an associated cost.
(like the aforementioned Fleshmend)
As for the refactors, they make status effect code easier to read and
debug. Unit tests also make verifying things are working as intended
much easier.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Status effects now tick consistently, with Fleshmend and such
giving a consistent total healing amount. Report any oddities.
refactor: Status effect code is now easier to read and makes more sense.
Again, report any oddities, the changes are major.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Most screen alerts that use the midnight hud style no longer have the
button baked in their icon. Other screen alerts with their own
background or shape (robot and mech alerts, atmos, heretic buffs or
debuffs etc.) are not affected. Also updated a couple sprites but didn't
spend too much time on them. Mostly reusing existing assets.
Montage of how the alerts look on threee different hud styles
(Operative, Trasen-Knox, Detective, ALSO I FIXED THE BUCKLED ALERT
ALREADY):
<img width="293" height="323" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3a2b972b-aa5a-4c27-a454-c8c39acf6e20"
/>
It looks only a smidge iffy on the syndicate since the top and bottom
borders aren't layered over all the overlays, but it isn't something to
worry about in this PR.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Screen alerts always had the midnight hud button baked in their icon
states (now overlays), which completely disregard the player's hud
setting, much unlike action alerts buttons. Melbert has also said that
it'd be nice if the code for action buttons could also be used in screen
alerts and viceversa, to slim things down. That's obviously not what I'm
doing today, but having most of the screen alerts already without the
baked background will surely help if we ever pursue that objective.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Refactored screen alerts a little. Most should now fit the
player's hud style. Report any issue.
imageadd: A few screen alerts have been polished/updated a little.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Closes#93285
Mood event from the death of a mob spawned "artificially" is 75% weaker,
lasts 80% the duration, and don't compound
An artificial monkey's death will now result
- -8 * 0.25 * 0.5 = floor(1) = 1 strength moodlet for the average crew
member
- ...Lasting 30 seconds (unless refreshed)
- -8 * 0.25 * 1.5 = floor(3) = 3 strength moodlet for animal friends
- ...Lasting 1.5 minutes (unless refreshed)
- -8 * 0.25 = floor(2) = 2 strength moodlet for compassionate crew
members
- ...Lasting 1 minute (unless refreshed)
Artifical spawning includes
- Moneky Cube
- Xenobiology Console
- "Life" reaction
- Summoned rats
- Spawner grenades
- Cult ghosts
Lemmie know if I'm missing any obvious spawns
## Why It's Good For The Game
While funny it was not my intention to have Xenobiology / Genetics /
Virology nuke your mood.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
balance: Death of artifical mobs (such as monkey cube monkeys) result in
a 75% weaker, 80% shorter moodlet that does not compound with more
deaths.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Updates the guns that the event can spawn. Mystery boxes use the same
list.
List now contains all lethal guns currently in the game, besides
cosmetic/downgraded variants of other guns (some exceptions made if the
variants are cool/iconic), craftable guns, and unique heist targets.
Some of the newer guns weren't added to this list and now they're there.
This means the sci portal guns are gone, gimmick guns are gone, if you
get a gun from this you can immediately use it to harm someone as
intended. Medbeam stays as the sole "dud" gun.
Tasers and disablers stay in the list because they are used in the same
way as lethal guns. You can shoot someone with them until they fall
over. That counts, IMO.
List now uses the unrestricted guns, for those with firing pins. This
ensures non nukies can actually use them out of the box. Having to
source a firing pin to make the gun that magically appeared in your
hands actually work sucked, and went against the theme of the event.
Alphabetises the list too.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Event did dumb stuff like giving people non-guns or guns they couldn't
use. List was also dated so some of the new cool guns weren't spawned.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Summon Guns event will no longer spawn guns with restricted firing
pins.
fix: Summon Guns event will now only spawn guns that are intended to
harm people (except the medbeam)
balance: Added more guns to the Summon Guns event.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
moves all implementations (im aware of) for "Im a parent type dont spawn
me please" to the datum layer to standardized behavior
adds a standerized proc for filtering out "bad" items that we dont want
spawning. applies to it the subtype vendor, gifts, and a new spawner and
mystery box for a random gun (neither playerfacing)
"port" of https://github.com/shiptest-ss13/Shiptest/pull/4621https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/22f6f0b2-b44e-411a-b3dc-6b97dc0287aa
small warning: I dont have EVERY abstract type defined right now but,
ive done a good enough job for now. Im tired of data entry rn
## Why It's Good For The Game
standardizing behavior. Might be a micro hit to performance however
having this lets us not rely on icon state to determine whether
something is a parent type and makes it much easier to tell something is
a parent type (could be applied further to things like admin spawning
menus and things like that).
need feedback on if this is actually good for the game.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Soda cans show up in the silver slime drink table.
add: Examine tag for items that are not mean to show up ingame.
refactor: Standardizes how gifts rule out abstract types.
fix: gifts no longer check if something has an inhand, massively
expanding the list of potential items.
/🆑
This PR aims to clean or bring up to date portions of code about dna,
the dna console and mutations. This includes taking care of or removing
some of the awful choices like the pratically useless
`datum/mutation/human` pathing, or the class variable, in favor of using
sources to avoid potential issues with extraneous sources of a mutation.
The files changed are over a hundred just because I removed the
`datum/mutation/human` path, but the actual bulk of the code is mainly
shared between the datum/dna.dm, _mutations.dm and dna_console.dm.
Mutation shitcode is hurting my future plans for infusions a little.
Also it's a much needed refactor. Drafted 'till I'm sure it works
without issues.
🆑
refactor: Refactored mutation code backend. Report any issue.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
* When gibbing mobs, spawned gib type is now based on mob's biotypes if
they're not a carbon, or their chest (or first) bodypart if they are,
rather than requiring a proc override for every single mob. This means
that a few robotic mobs no longer drop meaty gibs, and that gibbing
androids now produces cyborg gibs instead of a meaty surprise, plus they
should no longer runtime when trying to gib a robot. Gibs also are now
spawned around the gibber and streak outwards instead of magically
teleporting a few tiles away, for some visual flair.
* Fixed meat not overriding blood DNA on blood_walk component which made
xeno and lizard meat leave behind orange trails instead of proper
lime/dark green blood colors (due to them keeping human meat DNA).
* Brightened up the gibber blood overlay I've missed, so it should be
consistent with old blood colors now.
* Also cleaned up the gibspawner code.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Biotype/chest changes should make devs lives easier and gameplay a bit
more consistent, and streaking just makes the process look slightly
better.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Androids and fully augmented humans now drop robotic gibs instead
of meat
add: Improved gibber VFX
fix: Fixed gibber overlays being darker than intended
fix: Fixed xenomorph and lizard meat leaving orange trails behind
code: Improved gibs and gibspawner code
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR aims to clean or bring up to date portions of code about dna,
the dna console and mutations. This includes taking care of or removing
some of the awful choices like the pratically useless
`datum/mutation/human` pathing, or the class variable, in favor of using
sources to avoid potential issues with extraneous sources of a mutation.
The files changed are over a hundred just because I removed the
`datum/mutation/human` path, but the actual bulk of the code is mainly
shared between the datum/dna.dm, _mutations.dm and dna_console.dm.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Mutation shitcode is hurting my future plans for infusions a little.
Also it's a much needed refactor. Drafted 'till I'm sure it works
without issues.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Refactored mutation code backend. Report any issue.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
* When gibbing mobs, spawned gib type is now based on mob's biotypes if
they're not a carbon, or their chest (or first) bodypart if they are,
rather than requiring a proc override for every single mob. This means
that a few robotic mobs no longer drop meaty gibs, and that gibbing
androids now produces cyborg gibs instead of a meaty surprise, plus they
should no longer runtime when trying to gib a robot. Gibs also are now
spawned around the gibber and streak outwards instead of magically
teleporting a few tiles away, for some visual flair.
* Fixed meat not overriding blood DNA on blood_walk component which made
xeno and lizard meat leave behind orange trails instead of proper
lime/dark green blood colors (due to them keeping human meat DNA).
* Brightened up the gibber blood overlay I've missed, so it should be
consistent with old blood colors now.
* Also cleaned up the gibspawner code.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Biotype/chest changes should make devs lives easier and gameplay a bit
more consistent, and streaking just makes the process look slightly
better.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Androids and fully augmented humans now drop robotic gibs instead
of meat
add: Improved gibber VFX
fix: Fixed gibber overlays being darker than intended
fix: Fixed xenomorph and lizard meat leaving orange trails behind
code: Improved gibs and gibspawner code
/🆑
Refactors most of blood handling code untouched by #90593 and completely
rewrites all blood decals, components and reagents.
- Blood types now have behavioral flags which allow them to control
where they leave decals/DNA/viruses. Oil no longer transfers DNA and
viruses with it, while podpeople water-blood doesn't leave visible
decals on turfs and items, but still can be picked up by DNA scanners.
- Multiple blood types have received unique handling - liquid
electricity blood now glows in the dark, oil trails are flammable and
lube ones are slippery. Oil blood can be restored with fuel, lube with
silicon and slime with stable plasma (as normal plasma already passively
regenerates their blood), instead of everything using iron. Saline
solution only supplements on iron-based blood and won't do anything to
help with bloodloss for species who rely on different blood types.
(Roundstart this applies only to Ethereals)
- All blood logic has been moved away from the blood reagent itself into
a blood element that is assigned to the blood reagent by default, and to
any reagent that's drawn from a mob as their "blood" (in
``transfer_blood_to``). This means that blood you draw from lizards will
be green and have lizard's blood description instead of mentioning red
blood cells, Ethereal "blood" will actually contain their DNA and genes,
etc.
- Refactored all blood decals. Blood states are no more, everything is
now handled via blood DNA. Credits to MrMelbert and Maplestation, as a
significant amount of code has been taken from
https://github.com/MrMelbert/MapleStationCode/pull/436 and many of his
followup PRs. Oil and xenomorph splatters are now subtypes of blood,
blood drying is now animated, blood trails now curve and can be
diagonal.
- Rewrote bloodysoles and bloody_spreader components, credits to Melbert
again for the former, while latter now makes more sense with its
interactions. Bloody soles no longer share blood DNA with your hands.
- Ported Melbert's bloody footprint sprites and bot-blood-spreading
functionality.
- Removed all species-side reagent interactions, instead they're handled
by said species' livers. (This previously included exotic blood
handling, thus the removal)
- Slightly optimized human rendering by removing inbetween overlay
holders for clothing when they're not needed.
- Blood-transmitted diseases will now get added to many more decals than
before.
- Cleaned up and partially refactored replica pods, fixed an issue where
monkeys/manipulators were unable to harvest mindless pods.
- Exotic bloodtype on species now automatically assigns their blood
reagent, without the need to assign them separately.
- Clown mobs now bleed (with colorful reagent instead of blood during
april fools), and so do vatbeasts (lizard blood)
- Implemented generic procs for handling bleeding checks, all sorts of
scanners now also correctly call your blood for what it is.
- Podpeople's guts are now lime-green like their organs, instead of
being weirdly greyish like their water-blood. (Their bleeding overlays
are still grey, as they're bleeding water)
- Slimepeople now can bleed. Their jelly is pale purple in color, but
their wound overlays copy their body color.
- Injecting/spraying/splashing/etc mob with a reagent preserves its
data, so you could theoretically recycle fine wines from someone's
bloodstream
- Fixed burdened chaplain's sect never actually giving a blessing when
applying effects, and giving a blessing when nothing can be healed.
Inverted check strikes again.
- Closes#91039
A lot of blood here has dried, visually the blood colors are almost
exactly the same as before either of the blood refactors.
## About The Pull Request
Refactors most of blood handling code untouched by #90593 and completely
rewrites all blood decals, components and reagents.
- Blood types now have behavioral flags which allow them to control
where they leave decals/DNA/viruses. Oil no longer transfers DNA and
viruses with it, while podpeople water-blood doesn't leave visible
decals on turfs and items, but still can be picked up by DNA scanners.
- Multiple blood types have received unique handling - liquid
electricity blood now glows in the dark, oil trails are flammable and
lube ones are slippery. Oil blood can be restored with fuel, lube with
silicon and slime with stable plasma (as normal plasma already passively
regenerates their blood), instead of everything using iron. Saline
solution only supplements on iron-based blood and won't do anything to
help with bloodloss for species who rely on different blood types.
(Roundstart this applies only to Ethereals)
- All blood logic has been moved away from the blood reagent itself into
a blood element that is assigned to the blood reagent by default, and to
any reagent that's drawn from a mob as their "blood" (in
``transfer_blood_to``). This means that blood you draw from lizards will
be green and have lizard's blood description instead of mentioning red
blood cells, Ethereal "blood" will actually contain their DNA and genes,
etc.
- Refactored all blood decals. Blood states are no more, everything is
now handled via blood DNA. Credits to MrMelbert and Maplestation, as a
significant amount of code has been taken from
https://github.com/MrMelbert/MapleStationCode/pull/436 and many of his
followup PRs. Oil and xenomorph splatters are now subtypes of blood,
blood drying is now animated, blood trails now curve and can be
diagonal.
- Rewrote bloodysoles and bloody_spreader components, credits to Melbert
again for the former, while latter now makes more sense with its
interactions. Bloody soles no longer share blood DNA with your hands.
- Ported Melbert's bloody footprint sprites and bot-blood-spreading
functionality.
- Removed all species-side reagent interactions, instead they're handled
by said species' livers. (This previously included exotic blood
handling, thus the removal)
- Slightly optimized human rendering by removing inbetween overlay
holders for clothing when they're not needed.
- Blood-transmitted diseases will now get added to many more decals than
before.
- Cleaned up and partially refactored replica pods, fixed an issue where
monkeys/manipulators were unable to harvest mindless pods.
- Exotic bloodtype on species now automatically assigns their blood
reagent, without the need to assign them separately.
- Clown mobs now bleed (with colorful reagent instead of blood during
april fools), and so do vatbeasts (lizard blood)
- Implemented generic procs for handling bleeding checks, all sorts of
scanners now also correctly call your blood for what it is.
- Podpeople's guts are now lime-green like their organs, instead of
being weirdly greyish like their water-blood. (Their bleeding overlays
are still grey, as they're bleeding water)
- Slimepeople now can bleed. Their jelly is pale purple in color, but
their wound overlays copy their body color.
- Injecting/spraying/splashing/etc mob with a reagent preserves its
data, so you could theoretically recycle fine wines from someone's
bloodstream
- Fixed burdened chaplain's sect never actually giving a blessing when
applying effects, and giving a blessing when nothing can be healed.
Inverted check strikes again.
- Closes#91039
#### Examples
A lot of blood here has dried, visually the blood colors are almost
exactly the same as before either of the blood refactors.
Melee attack chain now has a list passed along with it,
`attack_modifiers`, which you can stick force modifiers to change the
resulting attack
This is basically a soft implementation of damage packets until a more
definitive pr, but one that only applies to item attack chain, and not
unarmed attacks.
This change was done to facilitate a baton refactor - batons no longer
hack together their own attack chain, and are now integrated straight
into the real attack chain. This refactor itself was done because batons
don't send any attack signals, which has been annoying in the past (for
swing combat).
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Batons have been refactored again. Baton stuns now properly
count as an attack, when before it was a nothing. Report any oddities,
particularly in regards to harmbatonning vs normal batonning.
refactor: The method of adjusting item damage mid-attack has been
refactored - some affected items include the Nullblade and knives.
Report any strange happenings with damage numbers.
refactor: A few objects have been moved to the new interaction chain -
records consoles, mawed crucible, alien weeds and space vines, hedges,
restaurant portals, and some mobs - to name a few.
fix: Spears only deal bonus damage against secure lockers, not all
closet types (including crates)
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Melee attack chain now has a list passed along with it,
`attack_modifiers`, which you can stick force modifiers to change the
resulting attack
This is basically a soft implementation of damage packets until a more
definitive pr, but one that only applies to item attack chain, and not
unarmed attacks.
This change was done to facilitate a baton refactor - batons no longer
hack together their own attack chain, and are now integrated straight
into the real attack chain. This refactor itself was done because batons
don't send any attack signals, which has been annoying in the past (for
swing combat).
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Batons have been refactored again. Baton stuns now properly
count as an attack, when before it was a nothing. Report any oddities,
particularly in regards to harmbatonning vs normal batonning.
refactor: The method of adjusting item damage mid-attack has been
refactored - some affected items include the Nullblade and knives.
Report any strange happenings with damage numbers.
refactor: A few objects have been moved to the new interaction chain -
records consoles, mawed crucible, alien weeds and space vines, hedges,
restaurant portals, and some mobs - to name a few.
fix: Spears only deal bonus damage against secure lockers, not all
closet types (including crates)
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
When created, each instance of Summon Cheese has a 50% chance of its
invocation being changed to use the actual ref string for
`/obj/item/food/cheese/wheel`, instead of Skyrim's item id for cheese
wheels.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The invocation for Summon Cheese is itself a reference to a debug
feature from another video game. Why not add an extra layer of
meta-humor by occasionally using the actual ref string for the summoned
object's typepath in the invocation?
## Changelog
🆑
spellcheck: The invocation for Summon Cheese is sometimes more
representative of the realities of life aboard the station.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
When created, each instance of Summon Cheese has a 50% chance of its
invocation being changed to use the actual ref string for
`/obj/item/food/cheese/wheel`, instead of Skyrim's item id for cheese
wheels.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The invocation for Summon Cheese is itself a reference to a debug
feature from another video game. Why not add an extra layer of
meta-humor by occasionally using the actual ref string for the summoned
object's typepath in the invocation?
## Changelog
🆑
spellcheck: The invocation for Summon Cheese is sometimes more
representative of the realities of life aboard the station.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This improves the code surrounding the Dice Servant, as well as the
summoning behavior, to make it WAY more intuitive. "But what IS a Dice
Servant?" well...
If you roll a 16 on a Die of Fate, you get a unique "Dice Servant" spell
that lets you summon a butler from wherever they may be. The issue is
that the role itself is polled for a mere 5 seconds, and if nobody signs
up for it, the role is never offered again and the caster gets no
servant.
Now, the spell will attempt to gather candidates, and if it fails, it
will continue trying to do so upon your next cast. This also makes it so
the spell can be applied to players through VV or other unimplemented
means.
The code has been cleaned up a bit, and the "dice servant" spell has
been converted into a generic "servant" role. The Dice Servant, however,
retains the old role name (and now plays a service bell "ding!" when you
summon your butler!)
There are some other, very minor changes like reducing the smoke from
each summon, or adding an apostrophe to the incantation (I think that's
all).
## Why It's Good For The Game
Rolling a Die of Fate (RARE), and landing a 16 (1/20), and having
someone scoop up the ghost role in 5 seconds or less (I hope pop is
above 50) has made this role a very uncommon sight. I saw it for the
first time about a week ago. It's been in the game for a very very long
time.
It's a cool, unique role that should be much more accessible and
intuitive than it currently is.
The code improvements also lay a great groundwork for other mob summon
spells to be made off of.
## Changelog
🆑 Rhials
code: The Dice Servant role will now re-poll itself until a candidate is
found.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This improves the code surrounding the Dice Servant, as well as the
summoning behavior, to make it WAY more intuitive. "But what IS a Dice
Servant?" well...
If you roll a 16 on a Die of Fate, you get a unique "Dice Servant" spell
that lets you summon a butler from wherever they may be. The issue is
that the role itself is polled for a mere 5 seconds, and if nobody signs
up for it, the role is never offered again and the caster gets no
servant.
Now, the spell will attempt to gather candidates, and if it fails, it
will continue trying to do so upon your next cast. This also makes it so
the spell can be applied to players through VV or other unimplemented
means.
The code has been cleaned up a bit, and the "dice servant" spell has
been converted into a generic "servant" role. The Dice Servant, however,
retains the old role name (and now plays a service bell "ding!" when you
summon your butler!)
There are some other, very minor changes like reducing the smoke from
each summon, or adding an apostrophe to the incantation (I think that's
all).
## Why It's Good For The Game
Rolling a Die of Fate (RARE), and landing a 16 (1/20), and having
someone scoop up the ghost role in 5 seconds or less (I hope pop is
above 50) has made this role a very uncommon sight. I saw it for the
first time about a week ago. It's been in the game for a very very long
time.
It's a cool, unique role that should be much more accessible and
intuitive than it currently is.
The code improvements also lay a great groundwork for other mob summon
spells to be made off of.
## Changelog
🆑 Rhials
code: The Dice Servant role will now re-poll itself until a candidate is
found.
/🆑
People can now pet held mothroaches and pugs if they want to, or use
items on them, hopefully without causing many issues. After all, it only
took about a couple dozen lines of code to make...
...Oh, did the 527 files changed or the 850~ lines added/removed perhaps
catch your eye? Made you wonder if I accidentally pushed the wrong
branch? or skewed something up big time? Well, nuh uh. I just happen to
be fed up with the melee attack chain still using stringized params
instead of an array/list. It was frankly revolting to see how I'd have
had to otherwise call `list2params` for what I'm trying to accomplish
here, and make this PR another tessera to the immense stupidity of our
attack chain procs calling `params2list` over and over and over instead
of just using that one call instance from `ClickOn` as an argument. It's
2025, honey, wake up!
I also tried to replace some of those single letter vars/args but there
are just way too many of them.
Improving old code. And I want to be able to pet mobroaches while
holding them too.
🆑
qol: You can now interact with held mobs in more ways beside wearing
them.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Holy constructs are now part of a new Holy faction, that all Chaplains
get once they choose a sect.
Wizard constructs are now part of the Wizard faction
Juggernaut's Gaunlet Echo spell now respects factions (so ignores cult
as cult, wizards as wizard, and their creator as holy)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e56f958d-fffa-4534-8b39-a95f9d160865
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes constructs less likely to friendly fire and makes holy constructs
able to use their spells to fight Cult.
## Changelog
🆑 Ezel/Improvedname, JohnFulpWillard
fix: Constructs now have their proper factions, so Wizard constructs
can't hit Wizard Apprentices.
fix: Juggernaut's Gauntlet echo spell now respects factions.
/🆑
Wizard and Cult armors were all thrown in randomly with all the rest of
the cult items so I moved them into their own files for organization,
documented each one, and made the hoodies copy the armor from the suit
they are apart of.
I also made 3 balance changes here:
1- Hardened cult armor (the spaceproof one), if worn by a non-cultist,
will cause random pierce and dislocation wounds to the wearer until they
take it off. From my personal testing this killed me in sub-3 minutes
while I was slower due to the dislocations.
2- Hardened cult armor can now be blessed with a bible, which will turn
it into a new set of chaplain armor. If the chap selected one already
then it'll be a new set, otherwise a random set.
3- The hardened cult armor found as icemoon loot has been replaced with
a new item, the wolf cloak, which is a hooded neck item that gives you a
wolf transformation spell
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/597e259a-3de2-4d2e-a43a-7953ba5482dc
Hardened cult armor is the only type of cult suit that can be worn by
non-cultists, while every other gear has some way of stopping you
(including the blindfold and the flagellant's robes), this gives you
about 3 minutes time to use it and isn't a straight up "drop it lol".
For the blessing, it's a small interaction that gives one more thing
Chaplains can bless. Once Chaplains start blessing cult equipment we see
balance tipping in the station's favor, usually balance is not that much
of a concern, but this does give the Chaplain a way of expanding their
own experience (especially if they're Honorbound) in a round opening
more funny ways of roleplaying around a cult round.
🆑 Toriate, JohnFulpWillard
add: Adds a Wolf pelt cloak as an icemoon drop, replacing the hardened
Cult armor.
balance: Cult's hardened armor now deals bleeding and dislocating limbs
to non cultists who wear it, and can also be blessed into holy armor.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Recent events on the station have left me very - unimpressed, as it
comes to our spells.
Some have backticks, most use apostrophes. Some have punctuation, many
don't. Some are in all caps, others aren't.
So I went through and basically just tweaked all the invocations
slightly to make them more consistent. They're all punctuated now, with
whispered invocations preferring periods and shouting invocations
preferring exclamation (though this is not a set rule, as sometimes a
period gets the message across stronger than an exclamation point."
I also made it a bit easier to work with emote invocations. Which in
turn involved me touching the human `p_x` procs.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Spell invocations are wildly inconsistent style wise, tightening them up
helps towards muh immersions. Makes it feel more like a system and less
like stuff thrown together.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
qol: All spell invocations have been made a bit more consistent - some
have changed slightly, some are now punctuated. "Dragon Form" and "Bear
Form" are now emotes invocations.
qol: "Unknown" mobs are now properly referred to as they/them
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
People can now pet held mothroaches and pugs if they want to, or use
items on them, hopefully without causing many issues. After all, it only
took about a couple dozen lines of code to make...
...Oh, did the 527 files changed or the 850~ lines added/removed perhaps
catch your eye? Made you wonder if I accidentally pushed the wrong
branch? or skewed something up big time? Well, nuh uh. I just happen to
be fed up with the melee attack chain still using stringized params
instead of an array/list. It was frankly revolting to see how I'd have
had to otherwise call `list2params` for what I'm trying to accomplish
here, and make this PR another tessera to the immense stupidity of our
attack chain procs calling `params2list` over and over and over instead
of just using that one call instance from `ClickOn` as an argument. It's
2025, honey, wake up!
I also tried to replace some of those single letter vars/args but there
are just way too many of them.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Improving old code. And I want to be able to pet mobroaches while
holding them too.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: You can now interact with held mobs in more ways beside wearing
them.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Holy constructs are now part of a new Holy faction, that all Chaplains
get once they choose a sect.
Wizard constructs are now part of the Wizard faction
Juggernaut's Gaunlet Echo spell now respects factions (so ignores cult
as cult, wizards as wizard, and their creator as holy)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e56f958d-fffa-4534-8b39-a95f9d160865
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes constructs less likely to friendly fire and makes holy constructs
able to use their spells to fight Cult.
## Changelog
🆑 Ezel/Improvedname, JohnFulpWillard
fix: Constructs now have their proper factions, so Wizard constructs
can't hit Wizard Apprentices.
fix: Juggernaut's Gauntlet echo spell now respects factions.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Wizard and Cult armors were all thrown in randomly with all the rest of
the cult items so I moved them into their own files for organization,
documented each one, and made the hoodies copy the armor from the suit
they are apart of.
I also made 3 balance changes here:
1- Hardened cult armor (the spaceproof one), if worn by a non-cultist,
will cause random pierce and dislocation wounds to the wearer until they
take it off. From my personal testing this killed me in sub-3 minutes
while I was slower due to the dislocations.
2- Hardened cult armor can now be blessed with a bible, which will turn
it into a new set of chaplain armor. If the chap selected one already
then it'll be a new set, otherwise a random set.
3- The hardened cult armor found as icemoon loot has been replaced with
a new item, the wolf cloak, which is a hooded neck item that gives you a
wolf transformation spell
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/597e259a-3de2-4d2e-a43a-7953ba5482dc
##### - Code bounty by Ezel/Improvedname
## Why It's Good For The Game
Hardened cult armor is the only type of cult suit that can be worn by
non-cultists, while every other gear has some way of stopping you
(including the blindfold and the flagellant's robes), this gives you
about 3 minutes time to use it and isn't a straight up "drop it lol".
For the blessing, it's a small interaction that gives one more thing
Chaplains can bless. Once Chaplains start blessing cult equipment we see
balance tipping in the station's favor, usually balance is not that much
of a concern, but this does give the Chaplain a way of expanding their
own experience (especially if they're Honorbound) in a round opening
more funny ways of roleplaying around a cult round.
## Changelog
🆑 Toriate, JohnFulpWillard
add: Adds a Wolf pelt cloak as an icemoon drop, replacing the hardened
Cult armor.
balance: Cult's hardened armor now deals bleeding and dislocating limbs
to non cultists who wear it, and can also be blessed into holy armor.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Recent events on the station have left me very - unimpressed, as it
comes to our spells.
Some have backticks, most use apostrophes. Some have punctuation, many
don't. Some are in all caps, others aren't.
So I went through and basically just tweaked all the invocations
slightly to make them more consistent. They're all punctuated now, with
whispered invocations preferring periods and shouting invocations
preferring exclamation (though this is not a set rule, as sometimes a
period gets the message across stronger than an exclamation point."
I also made it a bit easier to work with emote invocations. Which in
turn involved me touching the human `p_x` procs.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Spell invocations are wildly inconsistent style wise, tightening them up
helps towards muh immersions. Makes it feel more like a system and less
like stuff thrown together.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
qol: All spell invocations have been made a bit more consistent - some
have changed slightly, some are now punctuated. "Dragon Form" and "Bear
Form" are now emotes invocations.
qol: "Unknown" mobs are now properly referred to as they/them
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
adds the Cain & Abel to the lootpool of the colossus!
these are a set of angelic twinblades bound together by some chains. The
long chains allow u to attack mobs from a distance (2 tiles max) and at
very FAST speed, and come with a few new mechanics:
-Attacking a mob with the cain and abel grants you a special whisp that
follows your character. these whisps empower ur next melee attacks u can
collect a maximum of up to 6 whisps, (their bonuses stack), after which
they reset. If u get hit by a mob once, you'll lose ur whisps (and ur
melee bonus), so ull have to regain them by rebuilding up ur combo. u
can also choose to sacrifice ur whisps by firing them at mobs (by right
clicking them) for some hefty damage (this again means u'll lose them)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0a1738db-9fa4-4226-ac80-334f5e97cfa5
-u can also choose to hurl one of ur daggers at enemies, there's 2 throw
modes u can toggle between by pressing Z while holding ur weapon.
1- On launch mode, u can throw one of ur daggers at a tile, afterwhich
the chains will rapidly pull u towards it, making for some cool getaways
in tense situations. this puts throw mode on a 7 second cooldown
2- On crystal mode, u can hurl a dagger at an enemy or at a tile. Spiked
crystals will errupt on nearby floors, dealing some damage to nearby
mobs and stunning them for 2 seconds (bosses dont get stunned tho). puts
throw mode on a 15 second cooldown
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/665b9cf4-c5a1-4263-a36b-86e3f35d0ae5
-Lastly is the swing ability. This will swing ur daggers around u,
dealing AOE damage to nearby mobs, and makes u block all melee attacks,
tentacle attacks, and deflect incoming projectile attacks (could for
example be used to deflect the colossus' shotgun blast back to it). ull
only block attacks while the animation is active, which lasts a good
1.75 seconds, and is at a 20 second cooldown.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/073e5324-af5b-45ab-912e-5bcaa13fc728
Here's a short clip of me using them to fight a colossus and a bubblegum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp5Hu16dHPQ&ab_channel=Kobsa
## Why It's Good For The Game
adds a new fun weapon with a few deep mechanics to the game. also makes
taking down colossi alot more rewarding.
## Changelog
🆑
add: adds the cain and abel to the colossus lootpool!
/🆑
# Conflicts:
# icons/mob/inhands/equipment/kitchen_lefthand.dmi
## About The Pull Request
adds the Cain & Abel to the lootpool of the colossus!
these are a set of angelic twinblades bound together by some chains. The
long chains allow u to attack mobs from a distance (2 tiles max) and at
very FAST speed, and come with a few new mechanics:
-Attacking a mob with the cain and abel grants you a special whisp that
follows your character. these whisps empower ur next melee attacks u can
collect a maximum of up to 6 whisps, (their bonuses stack), after which
they reset. If u get hit by a mob once, you'll lose ur whisps (and ur
melee bonus), so ull have to regain them by rebuilding up ur combo. u
can also choose to sacrifice ur whisps by firing them at mobs (by right
clicking them) for some hefty damage (this again means u'll lose them)
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0a1738db-9fa4-4226-ac80-334f5e97cfa5
-u can also choose to hurl one of ur daggers at enemies, there's 2 throw
modes u can toggle between by pressing Z while holding ur weapon.
1- On launch mode, u can throw one of ur daggers at a tile, afterwhich
the chains will rapidly pull u towards it, making for some cool getaways
in tense situations. this puts throw mode on a 7 second cooldown
2- On crystal mode, u can hurl a dagger at an enemy or at a tile. Spiked
crystals will errupt on nearby floors, dealing some damage to nearby
mobs and stunning them for 2 seconds (bosses dont get stunned tho). puts
throw mode on a 15 second cooldown
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/665b9cf4-c5a1-4263-a36b-86e3f35d0ae5
-Lastly is the swing ability. This will swing ur daggers around u,
dealing AOE damage to nearby mobs, and makes u block all melee attacks,
tentacle attacks, and deflect incoming projectile attacks (could for
example be used to deflect the colossus' shotgun blast back to it). ull
only block attacks while the animation is active, which lasts a good
1.75 seconds, and is at a 20 second cooldown.
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/073e5324-af5b-45ab-912e-5bcaa13fc728
Here's a short clip of me using them to fight a colossus and a bubblegum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp5Hu16dHPQ&ab_channel=Kobsa
## Why It's Good For The Game
adds a new fun weapon with a few deep mechanics to the game. also makes
taking down colossi alot more rewarding.
## Changelog
🆑
add: adds the cain and abel to the colossus lootpool!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR adds the fearful component which acts as a unified handler for
terror effects. This currently includes nyctophobia and claustrophobia
quirks, terrified status effect from nightmare's spell, and the
monophobia brain trauma. The component processes terror handler datums
which act both as terror sources and effects - jittering, stuttering,
vomiting, panic attacks, etc.
This means that nyctophobia and claustrophobia now act more like
terrified status/monophobia - causing jitters, stuttering, periodic
panic attacks, etc, and their effects stack (i.e. being in a closet in
the dark will increase your fear much quicker).
Closes#37492Closes#57121Closes#69684
## Why It's Good For The Game
Terrified status is very immersive and its effects perfectly fit
nycto/claustrophobia quirks, enough to be impactful to owner's gameplay,
but not roleplaying for them, which is what we want quirks to be. It
also makes them share their stress, which is how you'd expect them to
act. (I would also love to see monophobia moved from a brain trauma to a
quirk, as it perfectly fits latter instead of former, and acts as a
great incentive to interact with other people instead of doing autism
projects by yourself.)
I haven't moved phobias to this system yet, but it could be done in the
future without too many issues - should make phobias less painful to
deal with, and maybe make people actually interested in playing around
them instead of rushing a lobotomy because of how debilitating they are
(currently only interaction is getting hugged by someone you're afraid
of, which will increase your terror)
## Changelog
🆑
add: Nyctophobia and Claustrophobia quirks now have proper terror
effects instead of making you walk/suffocate. Immersion!
refactor: All sources of "terror"/"fear" now use a common component,
meaning they share their counters.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR removes the temporary immobilisation applied to users of Phase
Shift and Ashen Passage upon casting it.
Having to wait 0.6 (or 1.6 for phase shift) seconds before moving is
basically just sort of annoying and doesn't provide any particular
benefit that I can see, as it does not really add any additional time
where anyone can do anything about you jaunting away.
This does not effect the visuals, which still play, or buff the duration
of the spell, as the timer would only start once the immobilisation had
ended.
This also doesn't effect the immobilisation when you _exit_, which still
exists unchanged and _is_ necessary for the animation to look good.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This delay made the spells more annoying to use than necessary and I
personally don't think it added anything visually to have this
synchronised with an animation which will continue to play at the space
you left, _especially_ in the case of Ashen Passage.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Users of Ashen Passage and Phase Shift will be able to move
instantly upon cast rather than after a delay
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I was fucking around testing the Voidwalker earlier for a different
issue and didn't like that I couldn't see myself while in space.
This PR makes it so that Voidwalkers and also any variant of Ethereal
Jaunt place an icon visible only to you at your current position (it's
like your _soul_) so that you can see where you are going.
Nobody else can see it.
There are almost certainly some other sources of being invisible which
could use this so let me know if you are aware of one.
Although if you do that I may need to make my code more generic.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It's nice to be able to see where you are precisely rather than just it
being the centre of the screen
## Changelog
🆑
qol: It is now easier to see where you currently are while jaunting
/🆑
…ing silently
## About The Pull Request
While reviewing the recent sound optimization PR I noticed that a bunch
of checks here really make no sense to just fail silently when nobody
should be doing this in the first place
Immediately started screaming on run so thats a good sign
## Changelog
🆑
code: previously silent failures due to empty sounds or too low volumes
will now create a runtime in the runtime log
fix: some footstep sounds like robotic or slimes are no longer silent
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: TiviPlus <572233640+TiviPlus@users.noreply.com>
This PR allows you to extract tail organs from xenomorphs and surgically
attach xenomorph tails to people.
(Despite being a carbon the xenomorph sprite is not built out of
component overlays so this technically does not remove the tail from its
corpse sorry).
Having a xenomorph tail makes you better at tackling, changes your
tackle verb to "pounce" like if you are a felinid, and also gives you
the parkour benefits of the Freerunning quirk.
You can also surgically attach a xenomorph _queen_'s tail to someone.
This arguably is a bad idea because it makes you slower (it's much too
heavy) but it does give you access to the queen's tail spin attack
(after which you will fall over if you aren't inhumanly strong). Also
more importantly, it is comically large.
Look I'm racking my brain but this one really mostly comes down to "it's
funny to do this".
But let's pretend that it also increases the depth and complexity of the
sandbox and promotes interesting interactions between crewmembers or
something like that.
Ideally sometimes in the future we will either decide that xenomorphs
are not carbons (is it purely because they have organs?) or decide that
they _are_ carbons and build them accordingly. In the latter case this
will have been a useful addition.
🆑
add: You can transplant xenomorph tails onto people.
/🆑
Converts `/datum/player_details` into `/datum/persistent_client`.
Persistent Clients persist across connections. The only time a mob's
persistent client will change is if the ckey it's bound to logs into a
different mob, or the mob is deleted (duh).
Also adds PossessByPlayer() so that transfering mob control is cleaner
and makes more immediate sense if you don't know byond-fu.
Clients are an abstract representation of a connection that can be
dropped at almost any moment so putting things that should be stable to
access at any time onto an undying object is ideal. This allows for
future expansions like abstracting away client.screen and managing
everything cleanly.
nevimer