Just in time for the feature freeze, a big change that will introduce bugs! Yay!
Mob verb is called verb/examinate(target), which just calls target.examine(user) and face_atom(target)
For explanation why, see http://www.byond.com/forum/?post=1326139&page=2#comment8198716
Long story short, mob verbs are much faster than object verbs. The goal is to make right-click menus populate faster.
Also changes a bunch of examine() procs to always, ALWAYS call the parent. Except mobs, but you have 1 guess why I'm not touching them. Mostly this affects obj/item/examine().
And also remove a whole shitload of pointless set src in view(2) kind of crap. Also span classes.
*Adds unique sprites for the staves of door creation and chaos
**Item sprites
**Inhands
**Onbacks
*Fixes #3232 in a way that isn't terrible
*Basically this is the part of 1.5 that should have been done back when it was added
*Please raise wizard rates :3
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A Few New Wizard Items
Staff of Chaos: Shoots random magic bolts. Charges faster and can hold more shots than other staves.
Staff of Door Creation: Works the same as the wand of door creation. There is apparently demand for this! Charges faster and can hold more shots than other staves.
Wand Assortment: A belt that comes of one of each useful wand, generated with the highest number of shots possible.
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Cleaning Up the Spellbook
The spellbook was getting REALLY long, so it's been segmented into pages for spells, items, and one time use spells (aka the fun page). The spellbook also highlights the fact that you can upgrade spells better now.
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Summon Magic Rebalancing
There's now a new catagory of magic items that are especially potent. These have a very low chance of showing up now and only one can spawn during a casting of summon magic, if one even spawns at all. The person who gets it is not guarenteed to be a surivor either.
In this category: Staff of Animation, Staff of Change, Staff of Chaos, Wand Assortment, Contract of Apprenticeship.
Additionally the staff of door creation is now in the normal pool and the staff of change is no longer in the normal pool.
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Misc Stuff
Adds Bats and Goats to the staff of change.
Changes the charge spell so if you charge something that can charge on its own there's no chance of degradation.
Bugfix: Dead player mice won't be converted to items so they can still be revived.
Bugfix: Players playing chicks won't die by developing into chickens anymore
Bugfix: Fixes an edge case where a poor soul struck by multiple polymorphing shots at once ends up in a state where they can't move.
Feature: Renames the wand of resurrection to the wand of healing to drive home the fact that it does the same things the staff of healing can do
Balancing: Gives the wand of healing more shots. 10, 5, 5, 4 up from 3, 2, 2, 1
Adds new functionality where wands will look different once they're out of charge for at a glace judgements
Adds a wand of nothing to the hacked item list for the autodrobe, by popular request
*Removes zapping oneself by attackselfing a wand, leaving clicking yourself while holding the wand the only way to do it because...
*Removes the warnings for zapping yourself with bad wands. Careful with that wand of death, kids!
*Removed some redundant lines
*Adds logging/sounds to zapping yourself
*Removed the change to wizard_continuous_rounds. It will become it's own PR
*Removed some redundant lines
*Uses the mob/living revive() proc to heal/raise people using the wand/staff of animation
*Span classes the whole update
*Spellbooks no longer vanish after being used, instead used spellbooks now have various bad effects should they be attempted to learned from again (the original reader won't acidentally fall to this, as they will just say "I've already read this"). Leave em out as traps for people or properly dispose of your trash! Or...
*The charge spell can now attempt to recharge one use spellbooks so someone else can learn the spell. This only has a 20% success rate and will destroy the book should it fail (even if the book was actually unused). You can't attempt this on the wizard's spellbook
*The "staff of nothing" (functional) placeholder now uses the generic staff sprites
*Spellbooks can now be placed in bookshelves just like normal books
*The teleport spell won't yank anchored things anymore, but as a consolation it will warp the entire contents of a tile should it be targeted. The code has been tweeked so this shouldn't effect the server too bad even if large numbers of items are warped to unique locations this way
the teleport wand now uses do_teleport
the polymorph wand now uses wabbajack in both instances
You can now click on yourself while holding a wand to cast it on yourself in addition to clicking on the wand itself.
Changed how guns/magic are given out slightly. Previously no antag could get a gun/magic thing (including survivors made by the spell in the case of multicasting) but now antags who aren't the wizard or an apprentice of the wizard also get one.
Fixed a few bugs on accidentally burning charges by click in places tht wouldn't actually fire the wand/staff
Fixes an issue where someone spamming a wand might lose charges without actually firing the bolt
Removes a few missed bugtesting lines
Adds a var (variable_charges) to be disabled for wands with assured max charges for future use
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Summon Magic:
This new wizard spell works much like summon guns except it instead brings the crew magical tools and weapons. There are preexisting artifacts (minus some that would cause huge confusion/balance issues) as well as new spellbooks, wands, and a staff. The chance of survivor antag is the same as summon guns.
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Charge:
This new spell allows for the recharging of otherwise unrefillable wands, but there's a heavy chance that the total number of charges will decrease with each casting until eventually they're impossible to keep recharging. As a bonus the charge spell can also be used to charge batteries and things that run on batteries (such as energy weapons). This carries the same max charge weardown penalties however. Lastly this spell allows a wizard to charge other wizards with a grab, reseting their spell cooldown. They cannot use it to charge themselves. It has a 60 second cooldown.
The wizard cannot buy this spell himself, it only comes randomly to the crew during Summon Magic and with the new apprentice loadout.
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Wands&Staffs:
Magic weapons have been overhauled into their own catagory so there won't be any more weirdness with batteries in staves or apparent magic resistance on things that reflect energy weapons.
Wands have been added, these wands come precharged with a number of shots that can be fired off at their leasure but cannot be recharged once emptied (unless the charge spell is used). They come in a varity of exciting flavors:
*Death: Slays instantly but has very few shots (1 to 3)
*Resurrection: Revives and/or heals instantly but has very few shots (1 to 3)
*Polymorph: Same function as the staff of change
*Teleport: Weaponized blink spell that doesn't respect space tiles and can also warp away machinery or items (but not turf)
*Door Creation: Puts easy access wooden doors in walls
*Fireball: Same function (but slightly lower damage) as the fireball spell
*Nothing: Lame and useless
Wands can also be used on the user (unlike staves) by clicking on them. Warning messages have been added to a few wands so people don't accidentally zap themselves with the wand of death unless they really want to.
Wands cannot be aquired by the wizard directly, and are only spawned during castings of summon magic.
There is also a new staff, the staff of healing, which works as a recharging version of the wand of resurrection. The new apprentice starts with one of these, and they can also be found during summon magic. The wizard cannot purchase it directly, and as a stave he could not use it on himself anyways.
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One time spellbooks:
Found exclusively in summon magic are one time use spellbooks that can teach any player a robeless spell. Once read the book vanishes.
Books come in the following flavors:
*fireball
*smoke
*blind
*mindswap
*forcewall
*knock
*curse of the horsemen
*charge (described above)
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New apprentice:
A fourth loadout for apprentice wizards has been added. This wizard is intended as a support role and comes with forcewall (for cover) and charge (used to keep him and the wizard well stocked in laser weaponry or to restore the wizard's cooldowns). It also comes equiped with a free Staff of Healing for keeping the wizard alive. Shoot the medic first folks.
