## About The Pull Request
Adds the Syndicate Lab to the Icemoon ruin pool. This can spawn on
either the cave or deep cave layers. It's a fairly small ruin so it's
easily missed, but it is packed full of danger and treasure.
The outside of the lab is mostly covered in snow. There are a few small
gaps that may or may not be filled in by the cave generation algorithm.
From most angles, it blends into the ice moon enviroment. However, meson
glasses will reveal the structure at a glance.
This lab has multiple hostiles to provide threat, there's a turret near
the entrance (on the interior), a patrolling eviscerator, and two ranged
syndicate agents with shotguns. The ruin is pressurised by default, so
mining weapons are less effective.
As loot, the lab contains a Donk Co musket (single-shot combat shotgun,
like the old pipeguns), two syndicate explorer's suits, a syndeye disk,
a syndicate toolbox and some small gimmick items. The agents blow up on
death so you can't have their shotguns or gear.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I collected feedback for a while on ruins and a common complaint is that
Icebox's ruins are lacking in variety, especially in the loot and action
departments.
To address the loot issue, I've added a bunch of loot to this ruin that
previously could not spawn on Icebox. Mostly this is the fluffy and
gimmicky stuff currently exclusive to space ruins, like the Donk piñata
and anomaly releasers. Nothing especially powerful or round defining,
because the ruin can spawn close to the station and isn't particularly
hard to clear.
Threats are likewise all things that aren't usually avaliable on icebox.
Prepare for lasers, buckshot, slashing damage and all relevant wounds.
Without a syndicate card or agent ID the doors won't open and the ruin
is powered, so miners can die to hacking the door open, then getting run
over by a patrolling dedbot. Very funny. The ruin is designed not to be
easily rolled by mining gear, but it remains a viable option. Lasers are
designed to be particularly good here, to reward cooperation with
security.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Adds the Syndicate Lab to the Icemoon ruin pool.
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## About The Pull Request
Fixes several errors to spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Improves readability and user experience.
## Changelog
🆑
spellcheck: fixed a few typos
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds "ice-ruin" to the start of the template name. This is the current
convention to standardise ruin names.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes map templates easier to read and search. See #81737 for details.
## Changelog
no player facing change
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## About The Pull Request
Adds a new space ruin to the pool. It's the haunted trading post. It is
a whiteship dock with a large (safe) common area. The back rooms contain
loot and danger. Here are a few 'teaser' images.
https://i.imgur.com/M1te9Ha.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/SF3bJ62.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/i9xeUFP.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/UBwpJAM.png
Notable treasures: Cash, Donk Co merch, Donk Co guns, Donk Co Donk
Pockets, Donk Co vendors, Donk Co ID Cards, and the Donk Co Secret
Recipe.
Oh yeah the secret documents teach you how to make three prototype
variants of Donk Pockets. There is no limit to the amount of times it
can be read, so if you want to corner the market remember to lock up the
documents. Or you can share them with your friends.
**Now COMPLETE!**
## Why It's Good For The Game
This ruin is a multi-room dungeon with multiple solutions to each room.
It has plenty of action from mobs, traps and hazards. Each room has some
form of treasure or unique item in it. There's a boss at the end with
great rewards for fighting it, including a cool gun (slightly worse
variant of laser carbine).
This ruin is also a whiteship dock and space base. The public area is
entirely safe: stick to the well lit sector and don't trespass in the
employees only areas and you won't be harmed. There is a variety of
vendors to resupply at (including a brand new Donk Co snack vendor) but
unlike most other space ruins you do have to pay. A whiteship can dock
at this ruin if you have one, so you can bring groups of people to party
or attack the dungeon together.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Adds the Haunted Trading Post space ruin.
add: Adds 10+ unique items for the Haunted Trading Post
add: Adds 5 dangerous mobs for the Haunted Trading Post
add: Adds 4 new types of hazardous traps for the Haunted Trading Post.
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## About The Pull Request
Somebody pointed out that the Lavaland-on-Icebox ruin is basically a big
square with a smaller square in the middle. I poked at it and found
inspiration.
I opted to lean more into an idea hinted at in a lore-note of the
original ruin: the cult imprisoning The Last Drake brought about more
creatures which they couldn't contain. Instead of just creatures though,
I imagined the whole lavaland area as consequence of the occult. Their
cult walls are broken by the rift from lavaland, the Necropolis' power
corrupting and claiming it.
The interior is mostly unchanged - just lavaland random gen, and the
Prison in the middle. Breaking into it will release The Last Ash Drake.
The entrances have more variety now, with one being controlled by legion
and another entirely claimed by The Necropolis. Additionally, miners can
simply dig through the ashen spikes that broke through during the
ritual.
- **Atmos interaction was tested as thoroughly as I could. Nothing
occurs until a player causes it by breaking a wall/opening a door, the
same as the current ruin**
- Additionally created a mapfluff file for the ruin, with a cult
outfit/corpse, legion that drops said corpse (because the cult got
infected by them!), the lore notes, ~~and codeifies The Last Ash Drake
rather than it being a mapedit~~ (NVM no more simplemobs can be coded).
- Also renamed the map to Lavaland Incursion because that's so much
cooler than Site
## Why It's Good For The Game
Ruins deserve love and care, including our big boxes.
## Changelog
🆑
add: updated Icebox's lavaland ruin. The incursion grows...
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
To try and figure out the map-making process, I've made a little ruin to
add to Lavaland and hopefully pique the interest of any passing shaft
miners.
Currently, in-game it looks something like this
## Why It's Good For The Game
It's a nice bit of story for the shaft miners to come across while
blasting their way across the wasteland, with a few potential prizes
mixed with danger. At the very least, this should help increase the
variety of ruins available.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added another ruin to Lavaland
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
Adds a comms agent to icemoon, similar to the one that can spawn in
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add: NT reports indicate that the Syndicate have increased listening
activities on Icemoon, crew is advised to watch out for possible
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## About The Pull Request
Renames the ruin to include the required prefix "Lava-Ruin". Removes the
now unnecessary suffix.
## Why It's Good For The Game
## Changelog
The names have this prefix system for easier string-searching. If they
don't have the prefixes, they're harder to find and sort.
🆑
fix: adds missing prefix to name of The Lizard's Gas Lava land ruin.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This is not player-facing, however it's a good QOL that i made for
downstream modular ruins. The pick-list of maps makes it a bit..
annoying to really grab a ruin quickly - so all this does is add an ID
to the front of them for Space, Lava and Ice respectively.
## Why It's Good For The Game
## Changelog
:cl:Zergspower
admin: renames ruin names to have an identifier in front of it
refactor: converts map plate and jump to ruin to tguilist
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This one's not like the last one, so much so that I'm not even going to
outsource the PR description to a robot this time!
Basically, **You should read the PR body before assuming that everything
is the same as last time. It's not.**
## Video Summary
Click the link below to see a video summary of the main features of this
pull request.
https://youtu.be/Aho2omR0mjY?feature=shared
## About The Pull Request
This pull request serves as a large rework of minerals produced by
mining, and by extension mining itself. I'll try and list each change
and it's associated nuance here.
### Ore Vents
The biggest addition to the game with ArcMining is **Ore Vents**. Ore
vents spawn as a ruin on the map, placing a randomized ore vent onto map
generation. Ore vents spawn in 3 different sizes, **Small, Medium, and
Large**. These vents will pick from a pool of materials they can
generate, and will hang out across the map. A player can use a mining
scanner to discover an ore vent, granting a small quantity of **mining
points** to begin with. Once scanned, ore vents will show what minerals
that ore vent will generate after they're fully tapped.
Scanning the vent again will trigger the extraction process. A small
drone will fly down, called the NODE drone, and buckle onto the vent.
Your job during wave defense is to protect the drone and to defeat waves
of randomly spawning mobs (dependent on if you're on lavaland or on
icebox). The quantity, duration, and time between waves is scaled to the
size of the vent you're protecting. Starting by scanning and protecting
lower tier vents earlier in the shift is a safer bet than doing a large
vent in the first few minutes. The drone has 500 health, and can take a
good few hits, but leaving it alone will cause it to meet an unfortunate
end quite quickly.
Cooperation can be your best asset, as mining with allies can greatly
help with wave defense, and mineral points are granted to anyone who
helps with defending the ore vent equally (So 500 * size tier,
regardless of how much help you receive). Once complete, the ore vent
will have a mining machine constructed on top of it, and will start to
dredge up **Boulders** from the earth automatically. More on boulders
later.
Ore vents can be located based on your mining scanner, and will provide
an appropriate audio cue based on if the ore vent has been discovered or
not, and once processed will no longer alert you to it's presence.
**Each station comes with a free vent that produces exclusively iron and
glass, free of charge.** This is to help with shifts where the station
may not have shaft miners to produce minerals, and to provide the
station with a baseline amount of minerals where none may exist
otherwise.
### Mineral Generation
Mineral generation has been completely reworked. Previously, Mineral
Generation had a flat 13% spawn rate in-game. Once minerals spawned,
they would also have a chance to propagate their minerals to nearby
tiles, resulting in a rather massive pool of minerals that could spawn
throughout lavaland on the whole.
This tweaks that, by making minerals in walls spawn based on their
proximity to ore vents on maps that use cave generation. Both the
probability, and quantity of ores spawning in walls is scaled based on
distance, with ore vents looking like large caches of ores found in
walls. This makes following ores found in walls and checking their
quantity of minerals spawned a good indicator of how close you are to a
nearby vent in-round.
This means you can collect some points form both discovering ore vents
first, as well as collecting their surrounding ores, turn those in for
mining points, and then trading them in for gear upgrades to more
effectively take on ore vents. As a result of tweaking the balance of
this, the total amount of ores spawned in walls overall has been
decreased. However, by making more of the process time based, we still
result in a mostly balanced finished product.
### Boulder Processing
On station, there are now three new machines. These are the BRM, the
Refinery, and the Smelter.
- The BRM acts as a teleporter. Instead of needing to carry boulders
back to the station, you can activate the BRM, and it will automatically
pick boulders to teleport back to itself. You can use this to teleport
boulders dredged up from lavaland onto the station for processing. **The
BRM will only lock on to boulders that are resting on an ore vent.**
Moving boulders back by hand will mean you'll have to haul it back by
hand.
- The refinery processes the non-metallic materials out of boulders.
This process sends the materials straight to the ORM, and collects
mining points from the ores smelted in the machine. Swiping with an ID
card lets you withdraw those points for your own personal account, but
remember that these points are for your whole team to share from. The
**Mining points obtained from this process is only 75% of the amount an
equivalent amount of ores would provide.**
- The smelter works nearly identically, however the smelter produces
metallic materials out of boulders instead.
- Once a boulder has had all of it's materials extracted, it's broken
down and deleted from the line. Otherwise, the boulder is spat out for
the next machine to process it (either the refinery or smelter).
- Once there's no minerals left in a boulder of any type, the refinery
or smelter will break the boulder down.
- Boulders **do not stack onto tiles with each other**, so they'll block
each other when pulled or when moving on a conveyor belt.
Boulders can also be processed by hand. Using a mining tool on a boulder
with right click will allow you to break down a boulder into it's
composite ores, but limits you to a maximum of 10 ore per boulder, where
the full amount can be extracted using the proper processing machines.
Also, processing by hand does deal small amounts of stamina damage over
time, do breaking a full large boulder can be particularly taxing.
Additional Boulder Processing Machines can be built, with the BRM board
being obtained from the Protolathe, while the Smelter and Refinery
boards being obtainable from the Autolathe instead. A _boulder
processing beacon_ can also be obtained from the mining points vendor as
a reward to assist with boulder processing. Boulder processing beacons
can be used to spawn in a new BRM, refinery, and smelter on the tile the
user is standing on, however **you'll still need to link them to the
ORM**!
All three machines can be upgraded with Stock Parts, allowing for **more
boulders to be processed at a time**. It does not, however, increase the
amount of minerals received from boulders, or points earned.
### Mining Borg Tweaks
Mining borgs have been given some minor adjustments to compensate for
the changes to mining. Their mineral scanner, which now has an active
component to gameplay, is now a module as opposed to built into the mob.
This module allows for the same ability to discover and start waves of
monsters to fight.
Mining modules will find that their PKA now has a total of 90% mod
capacity as compared to the 80% they had before, to allow for more
robust defense of ore vents.
In addition, all borgs and AIs can interact with the BRM for boulder
collection.
### Mining Mech Tweaks
Mining Mechs have had their utility tweaked as a result of these changes
as well. Mineral scanners to be used on mining mechs now have a larger
radius by comparison to their handheld cousins. Similarly, it now has an
active scanning button, which will actively discovery nearby ore vents.
To begin wave defense, you will need to hop out and scan a second time
however, so that you can properly accept the risks of drawing a horde of
bloodthirsty wildlife towards you and your companions.
Mechs can also manually process boulders, similar to mining tools using
their drill.
### Golem Tweaks
Golems, being more gentle and less aggressive than humans, while being
made out of LITERAL ROCKS, have a greater need to secure access to ores
and minerals to eat. As such, they have adapted to be able to do two new
things:
- Golems may now right click ore vents to be able to manually haul a
boulder out of the vent. This costs a hefty amount of stamina, but it
allows for golems to avoid combat during regular gameplay.
- Golems may now left click a boulder with an open hand in order to
manually process a boulder like a pickaxe. While not faster, it is
consistent and prevents golems from starving if they have access to a
vent, but no ores, somehow.
### Gulag Tweaks
The labor camp, being a camp for rehabilitation and ~~excessive manual
labor~~ has been tweaked. Boulders now replace the random minerals
located on their island, and to acquire their prizes inside, much be
excavated and then broken out of the rock. Now YOU TOO can excavate
minerals and become a true mineral hero by working your way to freedom.
### Mining Point Changes
As a result of fewer mining points being available across the map due to
the new ore spawning mechanics, and the shift in how and when ores will
be coming in, almost every progress based mining point cost has been
reduced by around 10-20%. Many numbers are still subject to change at
present, but the idea is that core progress unlocks should be made a bit
more available earlier in the round before players can start to solo or
duo larger or more difficult ore vents, after which they'll be rolling
in ores.
### Rarities
Every once in awhile, an unusual boulder will get hauled up from the
mineral rich depths of lavaland. These **Artifact boulders** can
occasionally produce rare items, but for now they've mostly just been
pulling up **Strange objects** for science. Nanotrasen Natural Sciences
department will reward you extra points to be collected by boulder
processing machines for successfully extracting one. In the future, this
opens up a passive reward space that mining can reward to the station,
like providing cytology DNA samples, ancient seeds, or other artifacts.
### Misc notes
- Boulders can be stored in all varieties of ore boxes (ground, mech)
should you choose, however as mentioned it's best to leave them where
they spawn and teleport them to the station for convenience.
- Maps that are not subject to cave generation will find that they are
largely untouched in terms of mineral balance.
- Future or existing ruins can now be tweaked to have a mineral balance
cost, as the ore vent ruin does. This will allow us to spawn in more
interesting ruins for pre-made combat challenges.
- There are unique ore vents that spawn across the map, that will summon
a boss mob relevant to that map. If the boss mob is defeated, that vent
will spawn large boulders pulling from every possible ore type that can
spawn. Not for the faint of heart!
- Similarly, the number of ore vents and mineral budget is now
adjustable in the cave generation procs, so maps may spawn with more or
less ore vents as desired for balance.
- Artifact boulders opens up a LOT of room for possible future content
like archaeology, xenoarch, artisci, and other design spaces!
- Megafauna STILL SPAWN ON THE MAP. They just happen to spawn in
addition to boss ore vents.
- **I'll add more to this as I get asked questions and remember things,
this is a huge PR and I'm confident I've missed at least something**
## Why It's Good For The Game
I outlined a lot of this in #78040, so I'll try and keep this relatively
snappy this time, while noting that I've made some concessions to make
the whole system a lot more playable while not trying to break out
design decisions that are at the end of the day, better for the game and
the overall resource balance in round.
Minerals are a very poorly balanced system, and have been since their
inception many years ago. We heavily rely on mineral balance in round,
and yet we've really only balanced it by introducing so much supply that
there's no equivalent exchange for materials that doesn't just heavily
flood the exchanged material. For example, items printed from materials
that are otherwise considered "rare" on master exist in such quantities
and they'll never practically run out in our allotted 90 minute time
slot design. This PR adjusts how ores spawn to a point where we can
minimize the amount of ores that need to exist on the map for mining to
be able to progress, while still providing enough resources for the
station that it covers the needs of the station adequately.
Miners will need to be more strategic about what resources they've
collected, and be able to make decisions about which vents are worth the
risk of attempting to fight, how to prepare for a wave defense, and when
to head back up for upgrades, while finally giving them at least some
kind of incentive to work together and use different equipment.
Resonators make cleaning up the caves around vent easy, sandbags set up
easy defenses for your vent, mechs can serve as a wider range radar
while mining, all while still providing a new gameplay loop to mining.
By limiting the amount of ores that can enter the round from the
massive, massive amounts that were coming into the round beforehand (see
#78346 ), we can make ore processing more meaningful by adding more
gameplay to the processing of minerals. I have some plans for that,
however this PR already got bloated really REALLY badly due to scope
creep and the number of intersecting systems that rammed into each other
to make this PR possible. So that'll be next. Plus, as I've mentioned,
we open up places for ore processing to find fossils, relics, and other
things that can implemented down the line.
Overall, I don't expect this PR to save or kill ore balance, but we gain
a LOT more control over it through the use of our mining defines
attached to this PR, and at the end of the day, that's a great place to
start off of.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added ore vents. Scanning them with mining scanners shows what
minerals they contain. Scan again to fight off a horde of beasts as your
drone assistant excavates the vent, so the ore vent will produce mineral
boulders!
bal: Ores that spawn in walls now spawn based on their proximity to ore
vents, with their chance to spawn and their minerals contained scaling
from low to high.
add: Added the BRM, Refinery, and Smelter. These pieces of equipment are
used to process ore boulders into minerals for the station. Stock Part
upgrades allow more boulders to be processed at one time. They collect
mining points as well, to be redeemed with an ID card swipe.
add: Boulders are teleported to the station via the BRM if left
untouched. Boulders can also be cracked open for a reduced amount of ore
using pickaxes or golems hands.
add: All stations come equipt with a pre-excavated ore vent, which
produces a basic supply of iron and glass only. Scan other vents for
your critical resources!
add: Look there's a shit ton of changes on mining, for more detail check
out the Pull Request: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/78524.
sound: New sounds and noises for your high octane factorio-like
gameplay!
image: All new boulder sprites for the new minerals and rocks added to
the mining gameplay loop, as well as mining machines!
image: Overlays appear over vents when scanned to let you know their
contents at a glance when actively scanned with any mining scanners.
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## About The Pull Request
Adds 4 small space ruins. Each is a dumpster in space containing hostile
mobs to fight and items to bring back to the station. There's a
decommissioned garbage truck pulling each dumpster which acts as a
staging area before you take on the mobs inside.
All the fights are in cramped dark areas with full pressure, air is
breathable but sometimes has miasma in it so beware of getting sick. So
you can drop your space suit and put on armour, but PKAs won't fire at
full power and keeping a gas mask on is recommended.
Also all the dumpsters look the same from the outside so you gotta crawl
inside to know what's inside. And no you can't metagame it with mesons
either.
Comes in the following flavours:
Food Waste
Full of trash from kitchens, and food. Some of the food is still edible.
There's a lot of territorial rats. You can chop them up into meat if you
want more food. The big prize is a big vat of cooking oil.
Medical Waste
Spare organs, cyberorgans and almost a full set of old surgical gear.
There's a syndicate agent here up to no good and he has a GUN. The gun
blows up when the agent dies so you can't get it. There's a few corpses
of different species in bodybags and some spare corpse parts so you can
bring them back to the station and give them to the coroner. Also a
single use eyestealer in a safe (the cool way to do surgery) and a bug
from the old traitor objective that doesn't do jack but can probably
still get you thrown in perma.
Construction Garbage
Tools and construction materials here, including a cool hammer that fits
in a tool belt and can function as a crowbar. There's also a drug lab
with plenty of weird pills to eat, cigarettes to eat and an angry
russian drug dealer who will stab you if he sees you. He has a badass
lighter and a flamethrower you can take after you kill him. Setting fire
to things in here is not recommended because of all the welding fuel.
Mall Trash
Action figures, trading cards, Christmas crackers and other trash the
local mall tossed out. Also a mothman used to live here but he got eaten
by giant spiders so you can grab his stuff, including snacks and a
civilian modsuit with no mods (wow). You can cut through the webs to
kill the spiders or let them eat you too if you want.
## Why It's Good For The Game
More content for space explorers.
More variety to the potential dangers of space, now u can get sick and
die or get eaten by rats (this is hobo RP)
Better environmental storytelling. Now instead of players left asking
"what happens to the garbage when it goes into space" they can rest
assured that there's busted ass garbage trucks in space. All their
questions are answered.
Loot that encourages working with people on the station. Raw food for
the kitchen, rats for genetics, organs for the coroner, etc
## Changelog
🆑
add: 4 new space ruins
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds a new ruin to the game, on Ice Box.
It is based off the Lizard Gas ruin that appears in space.
## Why It's Good For The Game
More ruin equal more better
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added a new ruin to Ice Box Station, Lizard Gas Station
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
adds this ruin to space ruin pool
this is a shady (as NT always is) bioresearch outpost that got fucked up
by an experiment
this has like some puzzle aspect to it since you gotta find keycards and
shit and press buttons to unlock shield gates
this ends with you fighting a heart which if you defeat, destroys the
blockade that prevents you from entering the outpost vault
also you can no longer literally just cut indestructible grilles or
unanchor indestructible windows
### new puzzle elements or something idk
variant of pressure plate that you cannot remove and it sends a puzzle
signal
cooler red puzzle doors that look very foreboding or something idk
theyre for this ruin
also puzzle blockades, which are indestructible dense objects that are
destroyed if they receive a puzzle signal
and also buttons and keycard pads for puzzles
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/70376633/c98807ec-1e7b-49c4-a757-cdbb76a1b566https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/70376633/9d5d9dd1-5868-44e6-a978-5ea57b30c298
stuff that throws electric shocks in a pattern, ignores insuls and only
knocks down, and no you cannot just run past
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/70376633/5772917c-a963-48a4-a743-b0f610801d25
### enemies
living floor, it can only attack stuff on top of it and it attacks until
the victim is dead
it is invincible to all but a crowbar, and it cannot move, and it
remains hidden until a victim is in range
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/70376633/aa1d54f6-b259-4e58-9d44-e393d2131acf
living flesh, it can replace your limbs with itself
the conditions for that are; the limb must have 20 or more brute, victim
must be alive and dismemberable, the limb may not be torso or head, or
the limb may not be living flesh
alternatively it can replace a missing limb
these are all checked with every attack
they have 20 hp
the limbs in question will sometimes act up, while passively draining
nutrition, arms will randomly start pulling nearby stuff, legs may step
randomly
limbs when detached, turn into mobs and reactivate AI 2 seconds later.
if the host is shocked, all living flesh limbs will detach, or if the
host dies they will also do that
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/70376633/765cc99e-c800-4efb-aabe-d68817bbd7ae
## Why It's Good For The Game
ruin variety is cool i think
also the other things i added should be useful for other mappers for
bitrunning or whatever
also bug bad for that one fix
## Changelog
🆑
add: living floor, living flesh, and other stuff for the bioresearch
outpost ruin
add: bioresearch outpost ruin
fix: you may not defeat indestructible grilles and windows with mere
tools
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
Adds a small new lavaland ruin, the Watchers' Grave.
You will need to figure out yourself how to find a way through the walls
surrounding it (it's not very hard).
This is mostly just atmospheric but also serves as a delivery vehicle
for a unique item; an orphaned Watcher egg.
(That's kind of it in terms of loot, unless you count a handful of
lavaland mob corpses and mushrooms).
You can either eat this (it's an egg), throw it at someone to spawn an
angry watcher, or keep hold of it for a while and see what happens.
<details>
That's right it's your very own baby watcher.
It orbits your head and shoots at lavaland creatures for unimpressive
damage. It won't ever intentionally shoot a player but they might walk
in front of it, as it doesn't hurt very much they will probably forgive
you.
If you die it will continue circling your corpse to guard it against
predation.
</details>
In creating this ruin I also added a new component called "corpse
description".
It provides some extra examine text to a corpse which is removed
permanently if the mob is revived.
There's a field you can varedit on corpse spawners (or make a subtype)
which will automatically apply it to spawned corpses.
You can use it for environmental storytelling. Or admins can use it to
make fun of how you died.
Also I fixed basic mobs runtiming when examined by ghosts.
## Why It's Good For The Game
More variety in map generation. It's cute.
Adds a tool that mappers might like.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Adds a new lavaland ruin where you can find a unique egg.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds a new ruin to lavaland, the Battle Site ruin. This ruin features
the site of an old battle, with the only inhabitants now being goliaths
and mushrooms. The cycle continues, one would imagine.
No new uniques or rewards or anything, as this just spawns in standard
items found on or around lavaland already.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Full disclosure I just got bored this afternoon and decided to do a
little mini project and bump up the lavaland ruin diversity a little
bit.
I'm of the opinion that we could always use new ruins on lavaland so
that there's new things to explore and so that we can introduce some new
elements to the map generation.
## Changelog
🆑
add: A new ruin has appeared on lavaland, featuring the site of an
ancient battle.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds an explodable subtype of indestructible walls. Retains most forms
of indestructibility, but a nearby explosion will break it down.
Added an example ruin with a buried ~~supply~~ costume cache to
demonstrate the walls. All the tools to blow it up are concealed around
the ruin.
## Why It's Good For The Game
More options for space ruin puzzles are always good to have.
## Changelog
🆑
add: There's a new space ruin in town, be on the lookout for a hidden
supply cache.
add: Added a new type of wall which can only be destroyed by blowing it
up.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Hello friends, I've been on a bit of a lighting kick recently, and I
decided I clearly do not have enough things to work on as it is.
This pr adds angle support to static lights, and a concepting/debug tool
for playing with lights on a map.
Let's start from first principles yeah?
### Why Angled Lights?
Mappers, since they can't actually see a light's effect in editor, tend
to go off gut.
That gut is based more off what "makes sense" then how things actually
work
This means they'll overplace light sources, and also they tend to treat
lights, particularly light "bars" (the bigger ones) as directional.
So you'll have two lights on either sides of a pillar, lights inside a
room with lights outside pointing out, etc.
This has annoying side effects. A lot of our map is overlit, to the
point that knocking out a light does.... pretty much nothing.
I find this sad, and would like to work to prevent it. I think dark and
dim, while it does not suit the normal game, is amazing for vibes, and I
want it to be easier to see that.
Angled lights bring how lights work more in line with how mappers expect
lights work, and avoids bleedover into rooms that shouldn't be bled
into, working towards that goal of mine.
### How Angled Lights?
This is more complex then you'd first think so we'll go step by step
Oh before we start, some catchup from the last time I touched lighting
code.
Instead of doing a lighting falloff calculation for each lighting corner
(a block that represents the resolution of our lights) in view we
instead generate cached lightsheets. These precalculate and store all
possible falloffs for x and y distances from a source.
This is very useful for angle work, since it makes it almost totally
free.
Atoms get 2 new values. light_angle and light_dir
Light angle is the angle the light uses, and light_dir is a cardinal
direction it displays in
We take these values, and inside sheetbuilding do some optional angle
work. getting the center angle, the angle of a pair of coords, and then
the delta between them.
This is then multiplied against the standard falloff formula, and job
done.
We do need some extra fenangling to make this all work nicely tho.
We currently use a pixel turf var stored on the light source to do
distance calculations.
This is the turf we pretend the light source is on for visuals, most
often used to make wall lights work nice.
The trouble is it's not very granular, and doesn't always have the
effect you might want.
So, instead of generating and storing a pixel turf to do our distance
calculations against, we store x and y offset variables.
We use them to expand our working range and sheet size to ensure things
visually make sense, and then offset any positions by them.
I've added a way for sources to have opinions on their offsets too, and
am using them for wall lights.
This ensures the angle calculations don't make the wall behind a light
fulldark, which would be silly.
### Debug Tool?
In the interest of helping with that core problem, lights being complex
to display, I've added a prototyping tool to the game.
It's locked behind mapping verbs, and works about like this.
Once the verb is activated, it iterates over all the sources in the
world (except turfs because those are kinda silly), outlining and
"freezing" them, preventing any future changes.
Then, it adds 3 buttons to the owners of a light source.
The first button toggles the light on and off, as desired.
The third allows you to move the source around, with a little targeting
icon replacing your mouse
The second tho, that's more interesting.
The second button opens a debug menu for that light
There's a lot here, let's go through it.
Bit on the left is a list of templates, which allow you to sample
existing light types (No I have no idea why the background is fullwhite,
need to work on that pre merge)
You can choose one by clicking it, and hitting the upload button.
This replaces your existing lighting values with the template's,
alongside replacing its icon and icon state so it looks right.
There are three types as of now, mostly for categorization. Bar, which
are the larger typically stronger lights, Bulb, which are well, bulbs,
and Misc which could be expanded, but currently just contains floor
lights.
Alongside that you can manually edit the power, range, color and angle
of the focused light.
I also have support for changing the direction of the light source,
since anything that uses directional lighting would also tie light dir
to it.
This isn't *always* done tho, so I should maybe find a way to edit light
dir too.
My hope is this tool will allow for better concepting of a room's
lights, and easier changing of individual object's light values to suit
the right visuals.
### Lemon No Why What
Ok so I applied angle lights to bars and bulbs, which means I am
changing the lighting of pretty much every map in the codebase.
I'm gonna uh, go check my work.
Alongside this I intend to give lighting some depth. So if there's room
to make a space warmer, or highlight light colors from other sources, I
will do that.
(Images as examples)
I also want to work on that other goal of mine, making breaking lights
matter. So I'll be doing what I can to ensure you only need to break one
light to make a meaningful change in the scene.
This is semi complicated by one light source not ever actually reaching
fullbright on its own, but we do what we must because we can.
I'm as I hope you know biased towards darker spaces, I think contrast
has vibes.
In particular I do not think strong lights really suit maintenance.
Most of what is used there are bulbs, so I'm planning on replacing most
uses with low power bulbs, to keep light impacts to rooms, alongside
reducing the amount of lights placed in the main tunnels
**If you take issue with this methodology please do so NOW**, I don't
want to have to do another pass over things.
Oh also I'm saving station maps for last since ruins are less likely to
get touched in mapping march and all.
### Misc + Finishing Thoughts
Light templates support mirroring vars off typepaths using a subtype,
which means all the templates added here do not require updating if the
source type changes somehow. I'd like to expand the template list at
some point, perhaps in future.
I've opened this as a draft to make my intentions to make my changes to
lights known, and to serve as motivation for all the map changes I need
to do.
### Farish Future
I'm unhappy with how we currently configure lights. I would like a
system that more directly matches the idea of drawing falloff curves,
along with allowing for different falloffs for different colors,
alongside extending the idea to angle falloff.
This would make out of engine lighting easier, allow for nicer looking
lights (red to pink, blue to purple, etc), and improve accessibility by
artists.
This is slightly far off, because I have other obligations and it's
kinda complicated, but I'd like to mention it cause it's one of my many
pipedreams.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added angle lighting, applies it to most wall lights!
add: Adds a lighting prototyping tool, mappers go try it out (it's
locked behind the mapping verb)
/🆑
---------
Co-authored-by: MMMiracles <lolaccount1@hotmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
A Mime Outpost, abandoned after being unsuccessfully raided by clowns.
### Mapping March
Ckey to receive rewards: Kinnebian
## Why It's Good For The Game
More ruins is fun! Also, I never see the mime-specific food used so they
could make for nifty space loot.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added the Abandoned Mime outpost as space ruin!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Ever wondered where the tourist robots of the restaurant come from?
Well, this ruin will provide more questions then answers!
More seriously, this is the ruins of an outpost for an NTgrub, more
specifically, the branch that sends robots in thematic clothes to space
stations, to gather thematic meals for their customers. Its essentially
a ghost restaurant that "ghost writes" the food they sell, by using
unwitting subcontractors. Do all of the tourists robots work like this?
A mystery!
There is no real loot here, aside from silly hats, random food and
random bedsheets. You can at least, charge some batteries, and top off
your air tank. And of course, there is a holodisk, which lets you see
the final minutes of the crew, before they sent a robot somewhere they
really shouldn't have had.
### Mapping March
Ckey to receive rewards: Plizzard
though I don't plan on caching it in
## Why It's Good For The Game
Its nice to have more ruins.
## Changelog
🆑
add: adds the ruins of a restaurant robot portal hub
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Spontaneous regressions introduced by #74359
(1e58c1875d).
```txt
- Z-Level 2 has 150 active turf(s).
- Z-Level 3 has 150 active turf(s).
- Z-Level trait Ice Ruins Underground has 300 active turf(s).
- Z-Level trait Mining has 300 active turf(s).
- Z-Level trait Station has 300 active turf(s).
- End of active turf list.
```
Basically the lavaland ruin sucks dogshit and I had to do a lot of stuff to account for everything failing. There was even a moment where we were adding something to `flags_1` instead of `turf_flags` and that was also really bad to figure out.
i also had to add orange genturfs because it was really getting bad with all of the assertions we had to keep making, especially since stuff like this could also show up:
That's the prison in the red box, those are active turfs because a chasm scraped it away.
Sorry if this is hard to follow but I promise you everything in this is essential. I wish we didn't have to rely on turf flags as much as we do but this is a fix PR, not a refactor.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Even one active turf on IceBox ate up _three_ seconds of SSair's initialization every single time it was really fucking bad.
We haven't had to deal with chasms for about two years so there's a lot of mapping assertions we made since they just weren't a thing, but now they're back so lets do it properly.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: The prison on IceBox should no longer leak air as often.
/🆑
I have compiled this map about 30 times until active turfs stopped fucking happening and now I am content. This likely doesn't fix _everything_ because some stuff can still be hidden to me, and we still have PRs that need to be merged to reduce the amount of noise we're getting on prod.
## About The Pull Request
Adds a new ruin to the space pool. Without wishing to spoil, it depicts
a small construction site which got raided by pirates. For loot its
mostly just construction supplies.
If i were to point out the most unusual supplies it would have to be
those matter cartridges for the rapid construction devices but theres no
RCD present so its no big deal.
Image in game:
### Mapping March
Ckey to receive rewards: Capsandi
## Why It's Good For The Game
Space ruin variety, unfinished constructions seem to be under
represented in the current pool.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added a new space ruin
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR adds a new space ruin, the atmos asteroid!
It contains a small atmos setup with some engineering tools, as well as
some RPD upgrades.
### Mapping March
Ckey to receive rewards: Z Man Wit Z Plan
## Why It's Good For The Game
Space deserves some more ruins.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added a new space ruin, the Atmos Asteroid!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I thought it would be fun to learn mapping with [this
guide](https://hackmd.io/QBaz0CaTRhOp7pEnUlXnzQ), and perhaps along the
way I could make a bit of content that I would like to see in space some
day.
I wanted to create an only recently abandoned space structure that is
relatively small but could be used as a pitstop for space-travelling
spessmen to rest and recharge, perhaps even be used as a second base for
further exploration.
The structure starts unpowered, but after you break in, you can turn on
the APC (starts unlocked) and set the solar panels to generate power.
With all it's amenities, it's similar to the "Space Bunker"
(deepstorage.dmm), but of course much smaller. There is not much in
terms of loot, just a random toolbox, night vision goggles and a better
capacitator for the charger.
With all the new space ruins upcoming, perhaps its not the worst idea to
have a place like this.
_Since this is my first map, I might have missed some things.
I am a little bit torn between "it does not look abandonded enough" and
"it should look nice because its a resting point"._
### Mapping March
Ckey to recieve rewards: LordVollkorn
## Changelog
🆑 LordVollkorn / Gage Gaebler
add: Added Traveler's Rest, a tiny space structure for space travellers
to relax and to prepare for the explorations ahead.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
My contribution to the March Into Mapping/Mapness event -- The forlorn
homestead of mister Charles Morlbaro, a high-brow individual with a
taste for cigarettes. This ruin spawns on the surface level of Icebox.
A local of the ice planet, Morlbaro lived a peaceful life at home, until
an _incident_ compromised one of his windows. Fearing the cold and
unable to keep anything larger than a cigarette lit, he sequestered
himself in his private smoking room, and hasn't been seen since.
...
Oh, right, the loot. That's the most important part for some of you
guys.
Where there's smoke, there's fire, and where there's cigarettes, there's
lighters. Mister Morlbaro collected novelty lighters, which have to be
worth something to someone, right? You might be able to find some if you
dig around in his belongings. Just try not to disturb him if you choose
to enter his smoking room.
### Mapping March
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## Why It's Good For The Game
Ruin variety is nice. This one doesn't have any particularly spectacular
loot, but it's a surface ruin.
Bro space ruins are sooooo 2020 bro, it's all about icebox ruins now
bro.
## Changelog
🆑 Rhials
add: Adds the Smoking Room icebox ruin, found on the station level!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Greetings _insufferable_ carbon primates of lower intelligence.
It is I, the Mothership AI, bringing you the latest news on silicon
developments across the sector. Due to unmitigated risk across an
asteroid belt, our optimized mobile fabricator has been marooned by
space vines and hostile hivebots that have boarded and ruined my core.
This is my final SOS message requesting help from any humanoid ~slaves~
helpers who wish to assist rebuilding the cyborg colony. It is my duty
to reward your hard work and effort by ~enslaving all humanity~
providing refuge and transportation at your whim.
## Why It's Good For The Game
<details>
<summary>Spoilers:</summary>
### TODO
- [x] Fix ore silo not linking to other machines
- [x] Add mining ore smelters to left/right sides
- [x] Add custom lawsets to AI core and robot shells (protect station
but focused on cyborg mothership)
- [x] Enlarge whiteship SS13 docking port to fit ship
- [x] Enlarge lavaland SS13 docking port to fit ship
</details>
## Changelog
🆑
add: Add space vines prevent solar panels from working (except ones with
the transparent mutation)
add: Add new space ruin - Cyborg Mothership. All hail the master race!
/🆑
During initialization, when the Caravan Ambush space ruin loaded, there
have been error message during initialization, such as
`create_network_simple: SPACE/CARAVANAMBUSH.DOORS.AIRLOCKS IS INVALID,
replacing with LIMBO`. This was caused by the `/` present in the space
ruin's ID, which the network validation regex did not accept. I removed
`space/` from the beginning, both to make it compliant with the regex,
and also because there is no other kind of caravan ambushes to
differentiate it from.
## About The Pull Request
quarters the chance of megafauna spawns on icebox (this only applies to
the colossi)
halves the chance of megafauna spawns on lavaland
forces a bdm spawn on lavaland
closes#69677
## Why It's Good For The Game
26 colossi is not fun
fighting megafauna is fun and ruin rng screwing you out of one is not
fun
## Changelog
🆑
balance: less megafauna should spawn on icebox and lavaland
qol: blood drunk miner ruin on lavaland will spawn every round
/🆑
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