## About The Pull Request
This PR adds a unit test for boulder processing, which follows these
steps:
Spawns 2 boulders, a refinery, and a smelter.
Confirms that the boulder is spawning with materials (we're using a
subtype that should allow for processing through both machines, by
setting it's mats to iron and glass.)
Moves the boulder into the refinery, then the smelter, and at each
machine makes sure that it's able to enter the machine properly.
Calls Process on the machine a set number of times, to ensure that the
boulder should be finished.
Checks to make sure the boulder has lost it's processed material.
And then, after the moving the processes through the second machine,
makes sure that it qdels the boulder without leaving any mysterious
ghost boulders lingering in this mortal coil.
The test also runs twice, once going refinery -> smelter, and again from
smelter -> refinery.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The intent is to futureproof boulder refinery, as well as to help
prevent issues like #96549, though I'm not confident that this PR closes
the listed issue just yet.
This process seems to be somewhat delicate based on the number of times
that it's broken thus far in the past 2 years, and starting to implement
a unit test is the best way to improve it's reliability going forward.
## Changelog
No player facing changes.
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## About The Pull Request
In similar fashion to what was done with crafting recipes last year,
this year it's time for techweb designs and printed items to be audited.
This is mostly just about consistency, we've a lot of items that can be
printed by protolathes, autolathes, circuit printers and techfab etc.
However they almost all (except most stacks, mainly) have custom
materials that do not match in one way or another with the materials
used by the design, which is what this PR is for.
"But items printed from lathes etc. already get the mats used to make
them." Yes, they do, however that isn't the case for items of the same
type that were spawned in some other way (cargo shuttle, space/maints
loot, mapped, admins), this create a subtle discrepancy. It isn't a huge
deal (in spite of the size of this PR, ton of designs), but given that I
have done something similar with crafting recipes before, I may as well
give it a second arc of some sort and bring things to completion. And
fix a few possible oversights.
TL;DR consistency and stuff
## Why It's Good For The Game
Consistency, unit test checks to make it harder not to be consistent in
the future. Still has a few TODOs like:
- [x] Fixed newly printed, fully charged RCDs costing less than the RCD
cartridges required to fully charge one. EDIT: I had to tweak the newly
added RDD as well because it suffered from the same fundamental issue.
- [x] Fixed plates being made of iron and yet shattering like ceramic
ones. A new subtype for metallic ones has been made.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Refactored a few things with techweb designs (the ones for
autolathes, protolathes, circuit printers, mechfabs etc.) to make sure
that the materials of items that can be made from these designs more
closely match the materials used to make them.
fix: Lizard fries no longer need a plate to be made, like all other
treats that used to require plates in a distant past.
balance: Tweaked the materials cost of RCD, RDD and RCD cartridges.
image: Oven trays now have a more metallic hue.
balance: Plates printed printed from lathes won't shatter like ceramic
ones, in virtue of them being made out of iron instead.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds an option to the view variables dropdown for atoms that lets you
download the sprite (calls `GetFlatIcon` and then uses the `ftp` proc to
send it to the user)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Easy way to rip complex sprites where you can't just check the DMI file
## Changelog
🆑
admin: added download sprite option to view variables dropdown
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
De-hardcodes food/crafting complexity (the stuff responsible for food
buffs) from food items and gives the var to the edible component, so
that objects crafted with pizza or meat sheets can have it as well.
Renamed TRAIT_FOOD_CHEF_MADE to TRAIT_HANDMADE now that it's also given
to the item when crafted through either the stack recipe UI or crafting
UI.
## Why It's Good For The Game
See title. In all seriousness though, it's more flexible code.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Refactored a couple things around food/recipe complexity (what
food buffs depend on). Technically, you can now kiss that pizza toilet,
which you crafted (right?), with the chef kiss skillchip enabled to add
"love" to its reagents.
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
Brought to you by Team Powercrèpe.(same group of people that delivered
the Heretic Overhaul)
This PR ports the TGMC Tacmaps and grants em to our NukeOps.
Code by Me, @Xander3359, @Arturlang, @Absolucy.
Mapping by @RipGrayson
Sprites by @KillerOrcaCora
Writing bits by @necromanceranne
Tacmaps are essentially dynamically generated minimaps,
<img width="1711" height="1335" alt="Tac map examples"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f936fac0-fb7c-4b84-970d-7195b4995ca7"
/>
<img width="1274" height="714" alt="Tac-Maps Icons"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0f04e388-af4b-4955-be7a-04650cfd746b"
/>
As you can see from the screenshots above, departments are classified by
color, hovering your cursor over an area or a team mate, will display
their name, the system does allow the user to switch between Multi-Z,
and lastly you can draw and add labels to the map, although the last
option is only available to the NukeOps Leader and OW agents.
The functionality is tied to the Syndicate implants nukies start with,
Cayenne, Syndie borgs and Mechs also have the ability to toggle the map.
Likewise, the tacmaps will display the positioning of the following in
real time!
- Nuke ops agents
- Syndie borgs and Mechs
- Cayenne
- Location of the nuclear fission device (and beer nuke)
- Location of the Nuclear Authentication Disk.
<img width="1274" height="714" alt="SkyBridge OFF"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3915e7d7-644a-4e9a-b213-997834dde2ea"
/>
<img width="1274" height="714" alt="SkyBridge ON"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/13748290-fd16-42ba-a9c4-a6b4f7e69c79"
/>
<img width="566" height="459" alt="Holo table done"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1a43c5b7-ee51-4794-9c09-16b4fb50e2ad"
/>
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/caf38538-ef04-4330-992c-3137a67ea0d0
Lastly The tactiical map implant cannot be be used on the nuke ops
base,If the team wishes to interact with the map they'll have to
Interact with the "Reconnaisance Platform" (Sprite by Orcacora) in the
briefing room, which has seen some mapping changes (Brought to you by
TheLastGrayson).
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## Why It's Good For The Game
Originally this feature was planned for the Upcoming Contractor Rework
our team is currently working on, but given the massive size of it all,
we decided to atomize it.
But without that consideration in mind, I think it makes sense for
Nuclear operatives of all antagonists to have the means to Recon and
plot an assault plan onto the station and actually be able to know the
whereabouts of their teammates.
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have wanted to have functional Maps for a very long time, if someone
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🆑
add: Tactical Maps have been added to the game!
add: Nuclear Operatives implants now grant the ability to open a
Minimap, this map will display and show the names of various areas of
the station, and the positioning of the Nukeops team,borgs,mechs,Cayenne
and the nuke disk in real time!
add: Nukie leaders and OW agents can also draw and apply labels to the
map.
add: the "Recoinassance Platform" has been added to the Nukie Base, it
allows displaying of the Tactical maps while on the Syndicate Base Z
level.
map: The briefing room in the NukeOps base has been remapped to better
accomodate the new Holographic table.
map: Changed the front shutters on the Syndicate Infiltrator to the more
fitting Syndicate Shutters.
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
This PR bumps dreamluau to 0.2.1, which makes
`DREAMLUAU_CLEAR_REF_USERDATA` into a variadic function. As such, we can
replace all of the up to 8 byondapi calls in every call to Destroy with
only 1.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This should significantly improve the performance what is one of the
hottest procs there is.
## Changelog
No player-facing changes.
## About The Pull Request
Transforming weapons could change their sharpness which would break
material force modification as materials modify the force differently
based on item sharpness. Also the force was hard reset every time you
switched it on or off, which would also break the math.
I've rewritten the transforming component to preserve force and
sharpness, and account for different sharpness of the item when switched
on/off. Additionally, I've updated the two-handed component to use the
new system to make it easier to work with/less prone to breaking.
## Why It's Good For The Game
<img width="557" height="218" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/59cfb21a-e97e-4843-9c11-c87ed32384a9"
/>
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Transforming items like eswords should no longer get absurd stats
when metalgenned multiple times in a row
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This adds a new positive quirk called "**Keen Nose**" that costs 3
points.
It lets you examine any open container with reagents to smell them. It
generates the smell based on the taste description. Also added an effect
to pepper spray, where it causes you to lose your sense of smell
temporarily.
This quirk is blacklisted against the Anosmia quirk, which is the
opposite. (no sense of smell)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Since there is a serious lack of positive quirks, I figured this one
might be useful as a utility quirk. It's a niche thing that could come
in handy. Keep in mind, there are several ways to identify chemicals,
like using the bartender's beer goggles, the science goggles, a chem
machine, or just eyeballing the color. Also, many chems have overlapping
taste descriptions (several different things taste like "death") so it's
not foolproof.
## About The Pull Request
[Adds a visual tick helper, integrates it into SSmove and
such](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/e97035f9f74fad5c67c5bf19d8d5d3bb4bd476b4)
Basically, if we do "stuff" during verb time then the next chance
clients have to actually see it is on the next visual tick (rather then
the normal "this tick"). This is cause clients get their next frame
during maptick, and maptick runs before verbs.
We want to be able to handle this properly because if you say, create an
object and then move it on the same VISUAL tick (NOT game tick), it will
just teleport instead of playing out the move. I don't want this for
stuff like sparks, so we need a way to work around it.
[Moves most users of the _FAST flag to
_INSTANT](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/6f96daac00519c69adc7554f52114798a65f3ad5)
These are the kids that don't immediately spawn something and the move
it, and we want to allow them to move actually as soon as possible
(important for stuff like space)
[Improves basic effect systems, makes their products delete when they
stop
moving](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/172cb25d80ed34e1ec523172a1677fb524239fba)
Moves some stuff out to getters or vars so children can better decide
how long effects should last/how fast they should move. Uses this to
clean up weird dupe code used by explosions.
Makes all these effects delete on contact with something that stops
them. I'm doing this because an effect just hanging in the air looks
really really odd. Does have consequences for sparks that are already
moving at a wall though, might need a better way to handle that.
Makes all these effects use _FAST loops so they don't just hang in the
air for a second on spawn
Adds a setter proc on sparks for their duration, gonna use this to
improve their effects some
[Refactors overlay lights, adds support for animating their
images](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/3ad0083cf2b536df51a6d93dca40eac20c1d62d1)
Implements light_render_source and relevant setters, this allows us to
replace the components of an overlay light with basically whatever we
want
Refactors overlay lighting to handle its images more consistently,
allowing us to hook into an image being modified
Combining the two of these will allow us to consistently copy a light's
image, modify it in some way, and then relay that modification back
down. Allowing us to animate it or do more advanced effects painlessly
Also, fixes ranges of 1 or less not rendering at all on initial set
(thank you kapu)
[In which I get fed up and add a macro helper for UID
generation](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/aab48b03d407104d4f9cf9acb034494237def911)
[adds vv hooking for all existing lighting
vars](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/b81c6200a0d74c36b440aa3f4c1f22c422090a2d)
[Upgrade effect system's dir picking to avoid duplicates when
possible](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/18b622586b509c6be4c4bca4e3e7c175ad75fe91)
[Uses the technique described above to animate spark's lights out as
they
move](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/commit/67ba177982213799984a70e89536c5efb3d17e14)
This is a decently nice effect imo, it allows us to bump their power
(read, alpha) since it'll get animated away. I try to sync the animation
to the actual icon state's flow (it's 0.7s long). I also sped them up
somewhat to hopefully have a nicer looking effect? we'll see.
[Abstracts away intercepting overlay lights into a holder
datum](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/95362/commits/b3f1fe74f2c3bab1d8912ab8a666bd05677ad032)
This should make it far easier to reuse this pattern!
[Fixes overlay lights flashing to double intensity when picked up off
the
ground](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/95362/commits/1d83f2031fa2b33312b2aea4359c0c37c9d04ac7)
We needed to clear out their underlays BEFORE the animation
[Adds a flickering effect to flares and their
children](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/95362/commits/b7a858e04a607c58b6c7fbe1476ffe2239e63bde)
I'm still not 100% happy with this, I was trying to avoid it feeling
like a heartbeat with random noise and I.. THINK it worked? it's
honestly quite hard to tell
[Adds the same flickering to lighters, welding tools and life
candles](https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/95362/commits/3ec44027e17835ae96702cec5f0b12d1f4deb32b)
Also, updated light candles to mirror the appearance of normal candles
and use overlay lighting
EDIT:
I realized while working on flares that I accidentally double applied
color, so if you saw the sparks animations before now it was different
(less vibrant). IDK if I like this better or worse but it is RIGHT and
that's what matters.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I got mad about how bad these looked, and this is a start at improving
them.
Also, adds a framework for more dynamic effects applied to overlay
lights (you could use this to apply a sort of "emergency rotating"
effect, or flicker/buzz for example).
<details>
<summary>Before</summary>
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/66437f27-ee3c-4f14-a7ee-4a1c3e68533ahttps://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ed14fff8-a7eb-47fe-bab5-9a490ac96629
</details>
<details>
<summary>After</summary>
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fb24ff2e-c745-42a5-8e11-c8a1eeef35a5https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/fd8c2116-cb92-4fe6-ad3e-786a6538e52a
</details>
## Changelog
🆑
add: Reworks how sparks render. They're now a bit brighter, will fade
out as they move/if they hit something, will stack with each other less
and also won't start hang in the air on spawn.
add: Added a flickering effect to lighters, welding tools, flares,
torches and candles (since they're flames).
fix: Overlay based lights (think flashlights) will no longer flash to
double intensity while being picked up.
refactor: Reworked how some effects (explosion particles, sparks, some
reagent stuff) function, report any bugs!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This lets people ride and tame spiders by feeding them mouse, lizard,
moth, fly, and worm meat. You can only do this when a spider is a
spiderling or young; once it's fully grown, it's no longer possible.
This also refactors some tameable code to use `TRAIT_TAMED` instead of
setting variables on mobs individually.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It looks cool.
<img width="1920" height="1080" alt="dreamseeker_97k7fgzdhv"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/87d53102-468d-4dd7-b0a7-004f9a98df17"
/>
## Changelog
🆑
add: Spiders can now be tamed and ridden. They eat mouse, lizard, moth,
fly, and worm meat and can only be tamed when they are spiderlings or
young.
code: Refactored tameable code to use TRAIT_TAMED instead of setting
individual variables on each mob.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR sort-of brings back old IEDs, albeit much more freeform compared
to their previous iteration. Using #94861's ``spark_act`` interactions
they can now be made by filling up a soda can with a variety of
chemicals (welding fuel being the easiest to obtain), dunking in a piece
of wire, taping it up (optional, required if using welding fuel or
plasma) and lighting it on fire with a lighter or welding tool (anything
that's hot enough works, really)
They have a random delay of 2-4 seconds, and can be disarmed by snipping
the fuse with wirecutters in time before they detonate (or don't,
depending on the mixture)
There's also a new, more "professional" improvised chemical explosive in
the form of beakerbombs. These can be assembled by putting a lid on a
beaker (alt-click, prevents the beaker from spilling its contents when
thrown) and attaching an assembly with an igniter or a condenser to it.
<img width="150" height="90" alt="dreamseeker_2OKpZeN7ay"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/599e75ea-9653-4db9-a915-b2ca6307635f"
/>
When triggered, igniters will heat the reagents up by a bit while
condensers will cool them down. However, you can also attach and wire up
a power cell, which will cause it to dump all of its power into the
beaker when the igniter fires off, triggering ``spark_act`` interactions
potentially causing a larger explosion.
<img width="534" height="447" alt="dreamseeker_k9Uzf18Eoa"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4cfed5b4-3875-4522-9bfa-5f6a3c8e0864"
/>
Decently sized boom from The Contraption.
Plasma and welding fuel's potency inside of beakerbombs/soda cans is
significantly reduced compared to other riggable objects (strengthdiv is
3 times higher) as they're very easy to obtain and would make for very
powerful explosives, considering their very strong strengthdiv as most
rigging interactions use very little fuel/plasma to cause a large
explosion, which was carried over to the new system. (Don't worry, this
still leaves them at sensible values with welding fuel being about as
strong as old IEDs on average)
Closes#94990 via having plasma's electrical power modifier have a
decline past a certain point based on its volume
## Why It's Good For The Game
#81529 didn't justify IED removal whatsoever and I think with new
mechanics these can be used as easier (but weaker) to make improvised
bombs, being much less clunky to make and use than pipebombs.
Beakerbombs are essentially a somewhat weaker (even with metamat
beakers, you're still 20u short of a normal large beaker grenade at
200u) form of grenades, but have access to new interactions involving
charged up explosions, which could make for some variety among chemists'
weaponry.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added back IEDs made by attaching some wire and tape to a soda can
filled with fuel, plasma, or any other explosive of your choice. They
need to be lit on fire with a lighter or a welding tool.
add: You can now attach a lid to beakers with alt-click, preventing them
from being spilled when thrown.
add: Added beakerbombs, made by attaching an assembly (with optional
power cell and wiring) to a lidded beaker.
balance: Rigged explosions now create flames.
balance: Plasma explosions now limit their explosion potency past a
certain point based on their volume
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Heretic rusted tiles do not apply any effects to things which are
jaunting or inside vents.
They also don't apply any _negative_ effects to things that are flying
(but they do apply positive ones, just because flight is a cool thing to
have earned and it would be sad to lose your bonuses because you have
wings).
I also renamed the element so that it isn't named after the rust passive
(in fact, the rust heretics with that passive don't use the element) and
simply describes what it does, and removed a subtype in favour of just
passing in some arguments.
I also added a trait which bypasses the negative effects of standing in
rust, in case an admin creates a non-heretic creature and gives it rust
healing. They shouldn't have _both_ healing _and_ gain disgust and minor
damage from starting in rust (possibly the heretical harvester was being
effected by this?)
Finally I adjusted the `rust_heretic_act` and `rust_turf` procs to
remove a footgun I saw a developer fall into recently where they didn't
realise that the generically named "rust turf" proc actually assumes a
wizard did it, now if we add anything else that wants to non-magically
rust a turf then it will work the way you expect.
As a side effect this changes the two item sources of rust that heretics
get to actually use rust resistance rather than rusting every turf, I
set them to effect all inorganic turfs as a default.
And finally I noticed that rust heretic ascension was passing
"RUST_RESISTANCE_ABSOLUTE" as a value into its proc which reads `Should
not be rustable. EVER.` in its comment, which smelled like a bug. So I
changed it to just "things which should be rustable ever".
## Why It's Good For The Game
It is the logical way you would expect these things to work;
Heretics crawling in vents or (for instance) using space crawl should
not be healed for touching rust that they aren't touching, as they are
not readily accessible to other players. The idea of the rust healing is
that it's a tradeoff for exposing yourself in a visible "territory", so
you shouldn't be able to avoid it by being in that territory but
untouchable and invisible.
Similarly, players who have gained the ability to fly would not expect
to get sick from flying over rusty flooring. They're out of range.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Eldritch rusted tiles don't apply their effects to anyone who
is jaunted or in vents, and don't apply negative effects to people who
are flying.
balance: Heretic items which apply rust (grenades and eldritch reagent)
check the rust resistance level of the turf rather than always rusting
it.
fix: Rust Heretics ascending don't rust unrustable turfs, like space
tiles.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Just improves the new material unit test, making it more copy-paste
friendly when dealing with large amounts of things to change.
It now also calculates the appropriate sheet material value for you too
so you quite literally just have to copy paste the line and you're done,
no more having to do math yourself.
<img width="2104" height="155" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b605e423-0418-46b7-b40c-c65fac920af9"
/>
## Why It's Good For The Game
Developer qol.
## Changelog
Nothing player-facing
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## About The Pull Request
If you are **within**
(inside)
(as in you climb into a disposal bin)
(like if you're about to be flushed)
a disposal bin or chute, and drop something, the item goes into the bin
(with you)
(inside the bid)
(like if you put an item in a bin like normal)
(it will also be flushed)
rather than onto the floor around the bin
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/40723 added a bunch of
snowflake `Bumped` calls to mimic this effect - they have been removed.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Seems logical to me. It might break a bunch of stuff but it probably
won't.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
qol: If you are within a disposal bin or chute, and drop an item, the
item will go into the bin, rather than onto the floor outside of the
bin.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Extends the part of the crafting unit test that ensures consistency
between the total mats of the components of a recipe (or rather, the
result of said recipe) and a generic instance of the same type as its
result, previously only implemented on food recipes.
## Why It's Good For The Game
This ensures a degree of consistency with the material composition of
various objects in the game. I couldn't do it in the original PR as that
one was too big already and it took months to get it merged, and have
the relative bugs fixed.
Currently a WIP as I slowly deal with the unit test reports.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Follow-up to the crafting/material refactor from months ago.
All objects crafted with stacks now inherit their mat composition (not
necessarily the effects and color) by default, while previously only a
few things like chair, sinks and toilets did. Report any object looking
or behaving weirdly as a result.
fix: The material composition of ammo boxes is no longer a 1/10 of what
it's supposed to be. It was a shitty hack to make it harder to recycle
empty ammo boxes. Instead, they lose materials as they're emptied now.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Macros that are strings do not need to be doing this.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Less improper things to copy paste existing in the codebase
## About The Pull Request
renames Debug2 and kills Debug as its last use (atleast the one
described in its comment) was removed
added it to the check to print to print stack traces to chat in the
instance your debugging without a debugger attached for some reason (if
this var is enabled on live it already causes random to_world messages,
kinda fuck it we ball at that point)
## Why It's Good For The Game
The first one was ENTIRELY unused now
this name makes more sense
## Changelog
N/A
## About The Pull Request
Heretic has received a complete overhaul. This PR touches nearly every
aspect of the antagonist. For readability's sake, not every change is
going to be listed in this pull request.
For the full list of changes please refer to the design doc:
https://hackmd.io/@BiST8PJVRjiwVPY86U3bLQ/B11HyChz1g.
Code by Me, @Xander3359 and @Arturlang
TGUI by @Arturlang
Sprites by OrcaCora and GregorDM
Writing bits by @necromanceranne
### Core changes
- Cross-pathing has been removed. Main knowledge spells are now
exclusive to their path (for the most part).
- For every main knowledge unlocked (save for the robes and the blade
upgrade), Heretics can choose one option from a draft of 3 random side
knowledges (this is a free point).
- Heretics can now purchase side knowledges from a new tab, the
"Knowledge Shop". Side-knowledges have been divided by tier (Stealth,
Defense, Summons, Combat and Main). Tiers are unlocked as you progress
toward your main path.
- Heretics now gain the grasp and mark upgrade immediately, but their
main knowledge choices cost twice as much (except for the first spell,
the robes and the blade upgrade).
- Path specific robes have been introduced! They come with their own set
of quirks.
- Each Path has received a passive ability. This passive is upgraded
when you first create your robes, and again when you complete the Ritual
of Knowledge.
- Paths have been rebalanced as a result of the removal of cross-path
progression. Cosmic and Moon paths have received soft reworks.
- Upon unlocking the path 2nd level or reaching a total of 8 points
worth of knowledge, Heretics will lose the ability to blade break (and
the limit on blades all together).
- Ascension now automatically calls the shuttle with no possibility of a
recall.
- Late join Heretic has been removed.
### New UI
<img width="750" height="635" alt="moon path ui"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/184ef783-5c9c-48a1-a2f7-4807ca93e990"
/>
### Knowledge shop
<img width="787" height="669" alt="Knowledge shop"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3dc89b84-8c70-4d47-b612-54396e3ea6e7"
/>
### Quality of life //General balance changes
- Heretics will now gain X-ray vision for a few seconds when nearby an
eldritch essence (this effect has a cooldown).
- Ritual of knowledge now requires 1 uncommon item instead of 2. You may
now use a stunprod instead of a baton to complete the ritual. Beartraps
have been removed from the list of possible reagents.
- The maximum number of possible sacrifices required to ascend has been
reduced from 6 to 5 while the minimum has been upped to 4.
- Codex Cicatrix no longer requires a special pen to be made.
### Passive abilities
- Heretics now start with a passive ability. You can find what it does
on the path info tab after a path has been selected, and what they gain
when upgraded.
- Crafting your first set of Eldritch robes will bump your passive to
level 2.
- Unlocking the 2nd level will subsequently unlock your "Ritual Of
Knowledge"
- Completing the ritual of knowledge or ascending will net you the final
level.
### Path Specific Robes
- Armorer's Ritual is no longer a side knowledge. Each path will have
their own unique version of the ritual. This is placed after the 2nd
spell in the tree.
- Robes can no longer be destroyed by fire and acid, grant t4 flash
protection (Moth Heretics stay winning) and protection against basic
syringes, to bring them on par with other antagonist's armor sets.
- The recipe to craft the robes is now a set of armor/vest, a mask (any
mask will do now, not just gas masks), plus the unique reagent required
for the blades (Plasma for Cosmic, Trash For Rust, match for Ash and so
on)
- Wearing the robes as a non-heretic may yield some unfortunate
side-effects.
### Moon Path Rework
Moon path rework.
Moon Heretics gain immunity to brain traumas and slowly regenerate brain
health. Equipping the moon amulette channels its effects through the
moon blade; making it unblockable and cause sanity damage instead of
brute. Ring leader's Rise now summons an army of harmless clones that
explode when attacked; the explosion briefly stuns non-heretics and
cause sanity and brain damage to them. Moon blade can also now be used
when pacified and Moon spells are no longer blocked by regular anti
magic, only mind magic protection.
**Cosmic Path Rework**
Cosmic path has received the biggest batch of changes alongside Moon.
The path has been dead last in ascension and pickrate (less than 5%) for
almost 2 years. It did gain some popularity over the last few months,
reaching the highest ascension rate in the game (12%) while mantaining a
relatively low pickrate.
Cosmic sits in a weird spot, where pretty much every knowledge
surrounding the path is either mediocre or, in the case of the
ascension, dysfunctional. Yet it has maintained a smidge of relevancy
due to how quickly Cosmic heretics can capture and sacrifice targets
thanks to Star Touch.
As a result, the best course of action would be to rebalance the
entirety of the kit; granting the heretic more tools to manipulate space
and dictate the flow of a fight, while lessening their ability to end a
confrontation by instantly sleeping their opponents.
lastly The Star Gazer is now ghost controlled ; And they shoot lazers!
<img width="636" height="451" alt="gazer gag 3"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/601d6881-c042-4e42-8ce6-ac90cd27848b"
/>
## Why It's Good For The Game
### Ok...but why do we want this?
Again, if you want my full reasoning, please check my doc
https://hackmd.io/@BiST8PJVRjiwVPY86U3bLQ/B11HyChz1g.
To keep it short and concise; Heretic is too complex and unintuitive for
its own good. Too impenetrable for new players and too abusable for
experienced players. This can be chalked up to a lot of poor design
decisions. But ultimately, what I believe being the biggest contributor
to the current status of Heretic is the ability to move into different
paths, also known as "Cross-Pathing".
### Cross Pathing my beloathed.
Cross-pathing, while cool in theory, overcomplicates the antagonist and
overloads them with power. Players dealing with the heretic are
incapable of working out what a given heretic can do. This also leads to
late game heretics having 3 rows Worth of action buttons and virtually
no weakness.
Over the last year, I've often received the understandable but also kind
of unfair accusations of making Heretic too powerful without a clear aim
or purpose.
My goal with the paths I've reworked over the last year (Rust,Void and
Blade) wasn't necessarily to just make them stronger (although that was
also part of the goal, as they were paths that were underperforming),
but for them to have more interactions with the sandbox and to better
live up to the fantasy presented to the player.
If an harbringer of frost gets countered by a cup of coffee, we probably
messed something up.
Unfortunately, the current incarnation of Heretic doesn't really allow
for surgical balance changes to specific paths. Every time a knowledge
gets buffed, we make every path that can easily tap onto that knowledge
stronger by default. It doesn't take a genius to understand why this
system is ultimately unsustainable.
### Blade Breaking
I feel that after a heretic has reached the near peak of their power,
they no longer need the ability to instantly escape any encounter. Check
my doc for my full reasoning.
## Less versatile, more specialized paths.
By removing cross-pathing, we remove a huge maintainability burden from
the antagonist. Paths can now be designed around clearer strengths and
weaknesses. They become easier to balance and less of an headache to
understand for everyone.
It also means we can give paths some needed quality of life quirks
without having to worry how such a change might have a knock-on effect
for other paths.
Ash heretics can finally let loose without dying by their own flames.
Cosmic Heretic can go to space without having to carry a modsuit. Moon
Heretic can use their abilities without fear of one random trauma
ruining their day, and so on.
### What a horrible night to have a curse...., wait how do I curse
people again?
As of right now the heretic tree has quite a hefty amount of trinkets
that pretty much never see use.
Partly because the tree itself is a nightmare to navigate. And partly
because why would anyone set up an elaborate plan or scheme when they
can unleash 2 rows of spell in the span of bunch of seconds.
Heretics mostly gravitate towards powers that push them towards greater,
more potent combat strength. If it doesn't contribute to killing people
quicker, it isn't worth doing for most. And given the opportunity cost
associated for taking those powers, they will remain that way so long as
there are better choices to be poached.
The new draft system encourages Heretics to play more with the tools at
their disposal. If you want to go for a specific combo from the side
path options, you may now do so by tapping into the knowledge shop.
Yes, the shop does include a few knowledges from the other paths. But
these are limited to 1 per path, are very expensive and can only be
unlocked very late into the shift.
## Drip Of the Mansus
The iconic heretic robe is actually sequestered to a side path that is
most easily access by only two paths at a time. Since heretic paths are
being made to be much more specialized, the most obvious way in which
this can be showcased is through an easily
identifiable outfit.
By using the robes, we can both telegraph WHAT heretic you are looking
at, and just how much power they've accumulated and when it is
reasonable to take the kid gloves off and treat them as a genuine
threat. If a heretic is in their
robes, that heretic is now a significantly more prominent danger to the
station.
It also serves as a useful means for gating some of the more powerful
effects of a heretic's path behind the robes, AND enable options for
disarming them of that power should they be captured without making it
something endemic to their mob.
A major problem with heretics is a lack of certainty as to how powerful
they have become. A heretics robes is one of the milestones to help
players dealing with heretics identify that.
### Will this be 100% fair and balanced?
This is a massive overhaul to a pretty complex and bloated antagonist.
I've done my best to show the changes to several maintainers and other
members of the community for their feedback. But at some point we'll
have to see how this behave in the environment to get a feel if
something is over or undertuned. (that's my way of saying, yes this is
likely gonna require a testmerge or two).
What I will say is that I'm not trying to change the core identity of
Heretic.
Heretics should have the upperhand in single encounters early on, be
able to joust a small group of players after they unlock their final
spell, and end the round when they ascend. They're a progression
antagonist. They should retain their payoff as well as pose a danger as
they grow stronger.
But if more players feel like they are more reliably able to play the
antagonist in more varied and interesting ways, rather than the
antagonist largely existing as a measuring stick for 'robustness' due to
its elitist design philosophy, then the rework has been a success. There
should be something for
everyone in the antagonist, as is true for all of our antagonist roles.
## About The Pull Request
Projectile refactor pulled armor check above the pre-hit comsig, this
fixes that. No need to check armor before you're hit when you
potentially will not be.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Sleeping Carp and Cain & Abel no longer tell you about armor
penetration when you reflect projectiles with them
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
EMPs can now affect any hologram items from the holodeck. The stronger
the EMP, the higher chance for an object to fade away. Also there is no
visible message for objects fading away while they are already inside
the holodeck to avoid message spam.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Consistency. This also gives an increased risk to using holodeck
equipment in combat when the holodeck is emagged.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Holograms objects will fade away when affected by EMPs.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR allows golems or anyone with the genetic mutation to benefit
from the effects of golem food if what they're eating is made of a
material tied to ore or sheets with golem food effects.
In layman terms, this means you can deepfry a chair and get golem buffs
that way. The duration also scales with the amount of material consumed,
which also depends on the bite size of the food. Smaller doses translate
to a shorter duration of the effect, while the viceversa is also true
(however with diminishing returns).
Also, you won't take immediate damage from biting, food with items made
of metals and glass stuffed into it if you've the rock eater trait (come
on dude, you eat literal raw diamonds). This has nothing to do with
golem food, but it's one less peeve off the list as I slowly and
occasionally work on material datums and their presence in the game.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Adding some depth to materials and food, albeit not much.
## About The Pull Request
This fixes custom materials not appearing for things like structures. It
also adds a bunch of new tags:
- bomb-proof
- flammable
- holograhic
- ~~unpaintable~~
- ~~supermatter proof~~
- ~~recolorable~~
- crush-proof
- conductive
Also use hyphens for multi-word examine tags.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Better UX
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Add several new examine categories for objects descs that include:
bomb-proof, flammable, holograhic, crush-proof, and conductive. Also use
hyphens for multi-word examine tags.
fix: Fixes custom materials not appearing for things like structures
when examined.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
After refactoring this, I realized that baking honorifics into all
voices had side effects
Honorifics only needs to be included in voice when speaking, not when,
say, storing names for later use
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Honorifics will no longer interfere with voice detectors and
similar things
/🆑
## 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.
/🆑
Alexis