## About The Pull Request
Transforms the minebots into basic robots. You can now command these
minebots to extract minerals for you. To activate automated mining mode,
simply instruct them with the command "mine." They will then proceed to
autonomously mine walls and gather ores. If you wish to make the bot
deposit all the collected ores, use the command "drop." Alternatively,
you can leave it in collection mode, and it will gather all the ores you
mine. Additionally, the bot now responds to several more commands; you
can instruct it to follow you, toggle its lights on or off by saying
"lights." In attack mode, it refrains from mining or collecting ores but
will engage in combat alongside you. If it detects you as deceased or
unconscious, it will alert all miners, request assistance, and relay
your coordinates via the mining communication channel. to power it on u
will need to feed it any type of ore first so it may listen to ur
commands
## Why It's Good For The Game
makes the non sapiant minebots more useful
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: the minebots have been refactored please report any bugs
add: minebots can now mine walls and collect ores automatically and they
will alert everyone if they find u dead
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
'medical beds' in the game were just varedited survival pod beds. This
creates a proper medical bed subtype plus its own sprite for regular and
roller beds. Cleans up little bits of the bed code and adds context
helpers.
- Medical/roller bed is now constructable with titanium and plastic
after research
- Bed will face the correct direction when pulled
- Movable beds can have 'brakes' toggled with alt-click
## Why It's Good For The Game
Medical gets their own bed, new sprites, cleans up varedits on maps.
## Changelog
🆑 LT3
image: New medical bed and emergency roller bed
code: Added context hints for beds
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
replaces all instances of surgical duffels with surgery trays, and all
coroner duffels with morgue surgical trays.
they contain about the same items, with surgical trays/carts also having
bone gel and tape, since their list of holdable items is much more
limited.
the surgery tray is a diagetic storage unit that displays any surgery
tool it's holding in a small, almost world-state esque form on top of
it. it can be carried around by dragging it on to yourself, but it will
slow you down like an unzipped duffel would. it can also be deployed by
activating it, and pulled around, but it will roll noisily in the
process.
currently, all tool tiers are supported - from alien, to advanced, to
cruel, to normal.
here you can see just a few of the possible combinations of tools -
default, default morgue, advanced, and alien. but any combination of
these tools should work together somewhat cleanly, as you can see here:
also adds a medical razor variant, because otherwise they wouldn't fit
with the look of the other tools on the tray, before and after here:
## Why It's Good For The Game
having constantly visible tool storage like this means you don't have to
worry about the one tool you need from the bag being stolen - if it is,
you can see it before an operation starts, and plan around that! it also
gives a little flexibility to mappers - if they'd like a more mobile
cart for their medbay, or if they'd like the somewhat stationary tray.
it also plain looks cool, and isn't quite as clunky as a duffelbag would
be.
## Changelog
🆑
add: adds medical carts and surgery trays
image: gives the surgery razor a unique sprite
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: JohnFulpWillard <53777086+JohnFulpWillard@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
* Various jobs start with more job-related programs preloaded into their PDAs. (#77740)
## About The Pull Request
Engineers now start with the canary and atmosscan program, atmos techs
start with the SM monitor program, and Robotisists start with the
silliconnect program.
## Why It's Good For The Game
it's more convinient than downloadin em roundstart.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Various jobs have gotten additional programs uploaded at
roundstart, engineers now have the canary and atmospheric scanner
programs, atmospheric technicians now have the supermatter monitor, and
Robotisists/RDs now have the silliconnect program.
/🆑
* Various jobs start with more job-related programs preloaded into their PDAs.
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## About The Pull Request
Engineers now start with the canary and atmosscan program, atmos techs
start with the SM monitor program, and Robotisists start with the
silliconnect program.
## Why It's Good For The Game
it's more convinient than downloadin em roundstart.
## Changelog
🆑
qol: Various jobs have gotten additional programs uploaded at
roundstart, engineers now have the canary and atmospheric scanner
programs, atmospheric technicians now have the supermatter monitor, and
Robotisists/RDs now have the silliconnect program.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
the goldgrub is now a basic monster. the goldgrub will now look for
walls to mine and look for ores to eat. if he finds any nearby humans he
will escape and dig away. also if he sense a storm is coming he will dig
away and only come back out when the storm is gone. the goldgrub will
escape from u but u can now befriend the goldgrub. if u feed him ores he
will love u and become ur pet u can ride him or make him follow u. he
will also help u mine, if u leave him to mine for a bit and come back to
him later u can ask him to spit out all the materials he mined and he
will give them to u. also if u feed him a bluespace ore, he will lay an
egg and have a baby. the goldgrub is very protective over this egg he
will drag it around with him. the goldgrub baby will follow his mom or
dad until he grows up to be like his mom or dad
## Why It's Good For The Game
give the goldgrub more character and now he can help miners to mine if
they befriend him
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: the goldgrub has been refactored please report any bugs
add: the goldgrub can now be tamed and he can have babys
/🆑
* Fixes iron floor tiles instances without /base subtype. (#77669)
## About The Pull Request
Closes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/77564.
As it was reskinning into the `/obj/item/stack/tile/iron` it couldn't
merge with the `/obj/item/stack/tile/iron/base` tiles.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Base iron floor tiles now will be able to stack with other base
iron floor tiles after being reskined to the base subtype.
/🆑
* Fixes iron floor tiles instances without /base subtype.
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Co-authored-by: Helg2 <93882977+Helg2@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Closes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/77564.
As it was reskinning into the `/obj/item/stack/tile/iron` it couldn't
merge with the `/obj/item/stack/tile/iron/base` tiles.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Base iron floor tiles now will be able to stack with other base
iron floor tiles after being reskined to the base subtype.
/🆑
* Multi-tile airlock assemblies/pathing [NO GBP] (#77537)
## About The Pull Request
Small fixes after https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/76732
- Creates base large subtype for mapping
- Door assembly naming consistent with other airlocks
- Base subtype large airlock no longer spawns in a normal sized airlock
- Renames station2 subtype to public for consistency
## Changelog
🆑 LT3
fix: Base large airlock subtype no longer spawns a normal sized airlock
image: Added mapping icons for large airlocks
code: Repathed all public airlocks to consistent naming
/🆑
* Multi-tile airlock assemblies/pathing [NO GBP]
* maps
* Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into upstream-merge-77537
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* Basic Watchers & Basilisks (#77630)
## About The Pull Request
This one is a double feature because Watchers and Basilisks share the
same typepath. You might see a couple more of those.
As is tradition I decided to fuck with them rather than just port them.
Here's what's up.
**Basilisks**
- Have a new soulless sprite which looks less like a living blue hedge.
- Walk at you and shoot you while you are not in range (just like
before).
- Become supercharged if they become "heated" by lava, lasers, or
temperature weapons. This was a feature they also previously had but
they would never encounter lava, so now it also works if you use the
wrong gun on them.
- Lose their supercharge if you cool them down.
- Otherwise pretty normal mobs.
**Watchers**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOq_Bf78k5A
Here's a traditional video of me intentionally getting hit by mechanics
(trust me its definitely on purpose)
- They glow emmissively a little bit so you can see them from further
away.
- Their eyes light up about 0.5 seconds before they are able to shoot at
you.
- No longer melee attack, instead try to stay out of melee.
- Will occasionally put you into "Overwatch", meaning they will shoot
you rapidly if you move or act while they're staring at you for a brief
time period (after which you become immune for 12 seconds, and during
which other watchers will play fair and stop shooting at you).
- If they start taking damage they will also start using their "Gaze"
attack, look away or suffer some kind of negative effect!
- - Normal watcher gaze flashes and confuses you.
- - Magmawing watcher gaze obviously burns (and briefly stuns) you.
- - Icewing watcher gaze freezes you and throws you backwards.
- Magnetically attract and eat diamonds. They also used to do this, but
just if they happened to coincidentally walk past some.
**Other accompanying changes**
All basic mobs will now adopt the "stop gliding" trait if they get
slowed down too much.
I moved behaviour for "fire a projectile from this atom" into a helper
proc because I was using it in three places and I will probably use it
in more places. There are probably other places in the existing code
which could be using this.
I think I made the basic mob melee attack forecast default a little more
forgiving, they were fucking me up too much and I am the playtester.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Another one off the list.
New tricks for old dogs.
Framework for making mobs with ranged attacks "fairer" (you can see when
they are ready to shoot you).
More (hopefully) versatile AI behaviours which we will reuse later (I
hope I'm not duplicating one someone already made).
If our players "enjoy" them enough we can give more mobs "don't look at
me" mechanics.
Removes some soul sprites.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Basilisks and Watchers now use the basic mob framework. Please
bug report any unusual behaviour.
sprite: Basilisks have new sprites.
add: Basilisks will go into a frenzy if heated by energy weapons or
temperature beams as well as by lava.
add: Watcher eyes will be illuminated briefly when they are ready to
fire at you.
add: Watchers can now briefly put you into "Overwatch" and penalise you
for moving while they can see you.
add: Wounded watchers will occasionally punish players who look at them.
balance: Unusual watcher variants are more likely to appear.
/🆑
* Basic Watchers & Basilisks
* Modular paths
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Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <13398309+vinylspiders@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Small fixes after https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/76732
- Creates base large subtype for mapping
- Door assembly naming consistent with other airlocks
- Base subtype large airlock no longer spawns in a normal sized airlock
- Renames station2 subtype to public for consistency
## Changelog
🆑 LT3
fix: Base large airlock subtype no longer spawns a normal sized airlock
image: Added mapping icons for large airlocks
code: Repathed all public airlocks to consistent naming
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This one is a double feature because Watchers and Basilisks share the
same typepath. You might see a couple more of those.
As is tradition I decided to fuck with them rather than just port them.
Here's what's up.
**Basilisks**
- Have a new soulless sprite which looks less like a living blue hedge.
- Walk at you and shoot you while you are not in range (just like
before).
- Become supercharged if they become "heated" by lava, lasers, or
temperature weapons. This was a feature they also previously had but
they would never encounter lava, so now it also works if you use the
wrong gun on them.
- Lose their supercharge if you cool them down.
- Otherwise pretty normal mobs.
**Watchers**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOq_Bf78k5A
Here's a traditional video of me intentionally getting hit by mechanics
(trust me its definitely on purpose)
- They glow emmissively a little bit so you can see them from further
away.
- Their eyes light up about 0.5 seconds before they are able to shoot at
you.
- No longer melee attack, instead try to stay out of melee.
- Will occasionally put you into "Overwatch", meaning they will shoot
you rapidly if you move or act while they're staring at you for a brief
time period (after which you become immune for 12 seconds, and during
which other watchers will play fair and stop shooting at you).
- If they start taking damage they will also start using their "Gaze"
attack, look away or suffer some kind of negative effect!
- - Normal watcher gaze flashes and confuses you.
- - Magmawing watcher gaze obviously burns (and briefly stuns) you.
- - Icewing watcher gaze freezes you and throws you backwards.
- Magnetically attract and eat diamonds. They also used to do this, but
just if they happened to coincidentally walk past some.
**Other accompanying changes**
All basic mobs will now adopt the "stop gliding" trait if they get
slowed down too much.
I moved behaviour for "fire a projectile from this atom" into a helper
proc because I was using it in three places and I will probably use it
in more places. There are probably other places in the existing code
which could be using this.
I think I made the basic mob melee attack forecast default a little more
forgiving, they were fucking me up too much and I am the playtester.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Another one off the list.
New tricks for old dogs.
Framework for making mobs with ranged attacks "fairer" (you can see when
they are ready to shoot you).
More (hopefully) versatile AI behaviours which we will reuse later (I
hope I'm not duplicating one someone already made).
If our players "enjoy" them enough we can give more mobs "don't look at
me" mechanics.
Removes some soul sprites.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Basilisks and Watchers now use the basic mob framework. Please
bug report any unusual behaviour.
sprite: Basilisks have new sprites.
add: Basilisks will go into a frenzy if heated by energy weapons or
temperature beams as well as by lava.
add: Watcher eyes will be illuminated briefly when they are ready to
fire at you.
add: Watchers can now briefly put you into "Overwatch" and penalise you
for moving while they can see you.
add: Wounded watchers will occasionally punish players who look at them.
balance: Unusual watcher variants are more likely to appear.
/🆑
* Reflavors the Mosin to be a surplus rifle from the past IC 200 years, rather than from 670 years ago in game. Allergy warning: May contain microscopic silverscale buff
* oorah
* im sure more will come up eventually
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Co-authored-by: Paxilmaniac <82386923+Paxilmaniac@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Paxilmaniac <paxilmaniac@gmail.com>
image: The Mosin-Nagant has been given new sprites and a reflavor, looking for the old rifle? Look for the Sakhno Precision Rifle.
balance: The tiniest balance thing, but since Silverscales use the Sakhno-Zhihao rifle, which has a scope on it, their main weapon now has a scope.
* basic ice whelps (#77493)
## About The Pull Request
i have refactored ice whelps into basic mobs. They are now the artistic
sort as theyll mark their territory by seeking out icy rocks and carve
out statues of theirselves using their claws to serve as a warning to
players/animals that this is dragon turf and theyll also go out of their
way to burn any trees in vicinity just for the hell of it. they are now
gruesome cannibals if they find a corpse of one of their kin near them
theyll go eat it for nurishment. AS for combat, they have a new ability
which allows them to release fire in all directions however theyll only
use this ability once their enraged meter is full. to make it fair ive
given them a new component which allows them to telegraph abilities and
only do them after a delay so players can react in time for it.
## Why It's Good For The Game
basic mob refactor
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: ice whelps have been refactored to basic mobs
add: ice whelps have a new dangerous ability which theyll use once their
enraged meter is full
/🆑
* basic ice whelps
* Modular paths
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Co-authored-by: SMOSMOSMOSMOSMO <95004236+SmoSmoSmoSmok@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <13398309+vinylspiders@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
i have refactored ice whelps into basic mobs. They are now the artistic
sort as theyll mark their territory by seeking out icy rocks and carve
out statues of theirselves using their claws to serve as a warning to
players/animals that this is dragon turf and theyll also go out of their
way to burn any trees in vicinity just for the hell of it. they are now
gruesome cannibals if they find a corpse of one of their kin near them
theyll go eat it for nurishment. AS for combat, they have a new ability
which allows them to release fire in all directions however theyll only
use this ability once their enraged meter is full. to make it fair ive
given them a new component which allows them to telegraph abilities and
only do them after a delay so players can react in time for it.
## Why It's Good For The Game
basic mob refactor
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: ice whelps have been refactored to basic mobs
add: ice whelps have a new dangerous ability which theyll use once their
enraged meter is full
/🆑
* Refactors Morphs into Basic Mobs (there is now a swag action for morphification) (#77503)
## About The Pull Request
I was bored, so did this. Probably one of the neatest refactors I've
done, sorry if there's some oddities because I was experimenting with
some other stuff in this so just tell me to clean them up whenever I
can.
Anyways, morphs are basic mobs now. We are able to easily refactor the
whole "eat items and corpses" stuff in the basic mob framework, but the
whole "morph into objects and people" turned out to be a bit trickier.
That was easily rectified with a datum mob cooldown action and
copy-pasting the old code into that code, as well as doing some nice
stuff with traits and signals to ensure the one-way communication from
the action to the mob.
Old Morph AI didn't seem to be existant whatsoever, they inappropriately
leveraged some old procs and I have no idea how to make it work with new
AI. They DEFINITELY don't spawn outside of admin interference/ the event
anymore, and will always be controlled by a player, so this shouldn't be
too bad of an issue. I gave them something to seem alive just in case
though, but I think adding legitimate prop-hunt AI would be such a
laborious task that I am unwilling to do it in this PR.
## Why It's Good For The Game
If admins want to add the ability for Ian to assume the form of the HoP,
they can do that now! The datum action cooldown is quite nice for simple
and basic mobs... but it is currently not compatible with carbons. That
is not within scope for this PR, but I am dwelling on ways to extend it
to carbon but they all sound really awfully bad.
Also morphs are smarter, and we tick another simple animal in need of
refactoring off the list.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Morphs are now basic mobs with a nice new ability to help you
change forms rather than the old shift-click method, much more
intuitive.
admin: With the morph rework comes a new ability you can add to mobs,
"Assume Form". Feel free to add that to any simple or basic mob for le
funnies as Runtime turns into a pen or something.
/🆑
~~Does anyone know if there's a (sane) way to alias a cooldown action as
a keypress? I can't think of a good way to retain the old shift-click
functionality, because that does feel _kinda_ nice, but I think it can
be lived without.~~ I added it. Kinda fugly but whatever.
* Refactors Morphs into Basic Mobs (there is now a swag action for morphification)
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* convert the eyeball a basic monster (#77411)
## About The Pull Request
I have created a basic eyeball monster with new abilities and behaviors.
The eyeball has a unique power that allows it to glare at humans and
make them slow for a short period. However, this ability only works if
the human can see the eyeball monster. If a person is blind or unable to
see the eyeball, the ability won't affect them. Also, if someone turns
their back to the eyeball, it cannot use the ability on them. But be
cautious because the eyeball will try to position itself in front of the
person's face to use its power.
The eyeball is hostile towards all humans except for the blind ones and
those with significant eye damage. It has a compassionate side too, as
it loves to help people with eye damage by providing small healing to
their eyes.
Furthermore, the eyeball has a fondness for eating carrots, which not
only satisfies its appetite but also grants it a small health boost. To
add to its appearance, I've given it a new, larger, and scarier sprite.
However, I am open to changing it back to the old sprite if the player
prefers it that way.
Additionally, the eyeball displays emotions, and if you hit it, it will
cry tears as a sign of pain or sadness.
## Why It's Good For The Game
the eyeball now have more depth and character to his behavier.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: the eyeball is a basic monster, please report any bugs
sprites: the eyeball now is bigger and scarier and now he will cry when
u hit him
/🆑
* convert the eyeball a basic monster
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Co-authored-by: Ben10Omintrix <138636438+Ben10Omintrix@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
I was bored, so did this. Probably one of the neatest refactors I've
done, sorry if there's some oddities because I was experimenting with
some other stuff in this so just tell me to clean them up whenever I
can.
Anyways, morphs are basic mobs now. We are able to easily refactor the
whole "eat items and corpses" stuff in the basic mob framework, but the
whole "morph into objects and people" turned out to be a bit trickier.
That was easily rectified with a datum mob cooldown action and
copy-pasting the old code into that code, as well as doing some nice
stuff with traits and signals to ensure the one-way communication from
the action to the mob.
Old Morph AI didn't seem to be existant whatsoever, they inappropriately
leveraged some old procs and I have no idea how to make it work with new
AI. They DEFINITELY don't spawn outside of admin interference/ the event
anymore, and will always be controlled by a player, so this shouldn't be
too bad of an issue. I gave them something to seem alive just in case
though, but I think adding legitimate prop-hunt AI would be such a
laborious task that I am unwilling to do it in this PR.
## Why It's Good For The Game
If admins want to add the ability for Ian to assume the form of the HoP,
they can do that now! The datum action cooldown is quite nice for simple
and basic mobs... but it is currently not compatible with carbons. That
is not within scope for this PR, but I am dwelling on ways to extend it
to carbon but they all sound really awfully bad.
Also morphs are smarter, and we tick another simple animal in need of
refactoring off the list.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Morphs are now basic mobs with a nice new ability to help you
change forms rather than the old shift-click method, much more
intuitive.
admin: With the morph rework comes a new ability you can add to mobs,
"Assume Form". Feel free to add that to any simple or basic mob for le
funnies as Runtime turns into a pen or something.
/🆑
~~Does anyone know if there's a (sane) way to alias a cooldown action as
a keypress? I can't think of a good way to retain the old shift-click
functionality, because that does feel _kinda_ nice, but I think it can
be lived without.~~ I added it. Kinda fugly but whatever.
## About The Pull Request
I have created a basic eyeball monster with new abilities and behaviors.
The eyeball has a unique power that allows it to glare at humans and
make them slow for a short period. However, this ability only works if
the human can see the eyeball monster. If a person is blind or unable to
see the eyeball, the ability won't affect them. Also, if someone turns
their back to the eyeball, it cannot use the ability on them. But be
cautious because the eyeball will try to position itself in front of the
person's face to use its power.
The eyeball is hostile towards all humans except for the blind ones and
those with significant eye damage. It has a compassionate side too, as
it loves to help people with eye damage by providing small healing to
their eyes.
Furthermore, the eyeball has a fondness for eating carrots, which not
only satisfies its appetite but also grants it a small health boost. To
add to its appearance, I've given it a new, larger, and scarier sprite.
However, I am open to changing it back to the old sprite if the player
prefers it that way.
Additionally, the eyeball displays emotions, and if you hit it, it will
cry tears as a sign of pain or sadness.
## Why It's Good For The Game
the eyeball now have more depth and character to his behavier.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: the eyeball is a basic monster, please report any bugs
sprites: the eyeball now is bigger and scarier and now he will cry when
u hit him
/🆑
* Spiders don't automatically grant an antag datum (#77523)
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#77501
Spider egg ghost role spawners grant the spider antag datum, rather than
the act of being a spider.
This means that gold core, mapstart, polymorph belt, and other spiders
will not have an antagonist datum.
While doing this I also made a new abstract `mob/living/basic/spider`
type which all three kinds of spider life stage (`spiderling`, `young`,
`giant`) extend from, because there was a gross amount of copied code.
Now there isn't.
Also the Flesh Spider and Event Midwife eggs now simply hatch adult
spiders instead of child ones.
This is because there is no reason for either of these to have a two
minute wait time before they get going. Midwife spiders spawned by the
event should just start spidering immediately, and Flesh Spiders are
made by changelings and shouldn't be effected by measures introduced to
balance the spider gamemode.
Eggs which are laid during a round and _can_ hatch into midwife spiders
still hatch baby spiders.
Also I swapped some white pixels on the animation of the ambush
spiderling for a different colour because they looked bad.
## Why It's Good For The Game
While the policy is always "if you turn yourself into something, you're
not an antagonist" the presence of the antag datum still confuses
people. Plus that code was gross and I didn't like it.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Giant Spiders only have an antag datum if created by the round
event.
balance: Flesh spider eggs hatch into adult spiders instead of baby
spiders.
balance: The eggs spawned by the start of the spider infestation event
hatch into adult Midwife spiders instead of baby ones.
/🆑
* Spiders don't automatically grant an antag datum
* Modular paths
* Modular paths
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Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <13398309+vinylspiders@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#77501
Spider egg ghost role spawners grant the spider antag datum, rather than
the act of being a spider.
This means that gold core, mapstart, polymorph belt, and other spiders
will not have an antagonist datum.
While doing this I also made a new abstract `mob/living/basic/spider`
type which all three kinds of spider life stage (`spiderling`, `young`,
`giant`) extend from, because there was a gross amount of copied code.
Now there isn't.
Also the Flesh Spider and Event Midwife eggs now simply hatch adult
spiders instead of child ones.
This is because there is no reason for either of these to have a two
minute wait time before they get going. Midwife spiders spawned by the
event should just start spidering immediately, and Flesh Spiders are
made by changelings and shouldn't be effected by measures introduced to
balance the spider gamemode.
Eggs which are laid during a round and _can_ hatch into midwife spiders
still hatch baby spiders.
Also I swapped some white pixels on the animation of the ambush
spiderling for a different colour because they looked bad.
## Why It's Good For The Game
While the policy is always "if you turn yourself into something, you're
not an antagonist" the presence of the antag datum still confuses
people. Plus that code was gross and I didn't like it.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Giant Spiders only have an antag datum if created by the round
event.
balance: Flesh spider eggs hatch into adult spiders instead of baby
spiders.
balance: The eggs spawned by the start of the spider infestation event
hatch into adult Midwife spiders instead of baby ones.
/🆑
* make the hive bot a basic bot (#77274)
## About The Pull Request
i make the hivebot a basic bot also the old hivebot simple bot he was
chaneged apperence when he finded a target so i maked a new element to
allowed this behavier so now when the basic finded a target he apperence
can also changed and this elememt can be gived to another basic monsters
so they can changed apperence when they found a target. i give him new
behaviers now the hivebot will look for ech other and when he finded ech
other they will comunicated with binyary messages and now the mechanic
hivebot he will go to look for broked machines so he can repair him
## Why It's Good For The Game
the hivebot is a basic and he have a better behaver
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: the hivebot is now a basic please report any bugs
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@ users.noreply.github.com>
* make the hive bot a basic bot
* Update salvagepost.dmm
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Co-authored-by: Ben10Omintrix <138636438+Ben10Omintrix@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@ users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <13398309+vinylspiders@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
i make the hivebot a basic bot also the old hivebot simple bot he was
chaneged apperence when he finded a target so i maked a new element to
allowed this behavier so now when the basic finded a target he apperence
can also changed and this elememt can be gived to another basic monsters
so they can changed apperence when they found a target. i give him new
behaviers now the hivebot will look for ech other and when he finded ech
other they will comunicated with binyary messages and now the mechanic
hivebot he will go to look for broked machines so he can repair him
## Why It's Good For The Game
the hivebot is a basic and he have a better behaver
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: the hivebot is now a basic please report any bugs
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Fikou <23585223+Fikou@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Massively overhauls and standardizes the nuclear operative uplink.
### Weapon Kits
Essentially, all the main weapons of the uplink have been changed to
instead come as 'weapon kits', which are essentially cases containing a
weapon loadout to enable operatives to easily start operating on only
just one item purchase, without the fuss of worrying whether or not
operatives are getting spare ammo, or getting relevant equipment for
success. Consider this a pseudo-loadout, though without necessarily
restricting the purchasing of more weapon kits.
All kits come in three categories: Low Cost (8 TC), Medium Cost (14 TC)
and High Cost (18 TC). This is also matched by categorized ammo costs;
Basic Ammo (2 TC), Hollow Point and Armour Penetrating (4 TC),
Incendiary (3 TC) and Special (or anything that does not easily fit
these categories and does something real extra) (5 TC). Weapons that
lacked these ammos have gained these ammo types to fill the gaps.
<details>
There is may one exception to this in disruptor ammo, which is priced as
basic ammo if only because it isn't _quite_ good enough to justify
pricing at 5 tc and I can see an op wanting to use it as a basic ammo
type instead of normal .50 BMG against, say, a silicon/mech heavy
opposition. Since it cannot kill organics on its own, I'll consider this
mostly basic-adjacent
</details>
The kits have also been labelled based on potential difficulty. This
reflects possible difficulties in using the item, how conducive it is to
success for how much game knowledge needed to actually use it, and how
likely an op is to succeed using it. I don't expect ops to win using
nothing but a rocket launcher, but I think ops should get a fair shake
at trying, yeah?
The kits are as below:
#### **Low-Cost**
_Bulldog (Moderate):_ Shotgun and three magazines of standard ammo.
_Ansem (Easy/Spare):_ Pistol and three spare magazines of standard ammo.
#### **Medium Cost**
_C-20r (Easy):_ SMG and three spare magazines of standard ammo.
_Energy Sword and Shield (Very Hard):_ Energy sword and shield. (Also a
special hat)
_Revolver (Moderate):_ Revolver and three speedloaders of standard ammo.
_Rocket Launcher (Hard):_ Rocket launcher with three spare rockets.
#### **High Cost**
_L6 SAW (Moderate):_ LMG, and that's it. No spare ammo.
_M-90gl (Hard):_ Rifle, two spare magazines of standard ammo and a box
of rubber grenades.
_Sniper (Hard):_ Sniper rifle, two spare magazine of standard ammo, and
one magazine of disruptor ammo. Also suit and tie.
_CQC (Very Hard):_ Comes with a stealth implant and a bandana.
_Double-Energy Sword (Very Hard):_ Double-energy sword, syndicate soap,
antislip module, meth injector and a prisoner jumpsuit.
_**NEW** Grenadier's Kit (Hard):_ Grenadier's belt and grenade launcher
(the one that launchers chem grenades). (I replaced the shit acid
grenade with another flashbang in the belt)
Surplus SMG (Flukie difficulty) has been unchanged. It just now comes
with two rations.
Includes two new revolver ammo types: Phasic, which goes through walls
and armor, but has significantly less damage as a result (I've equalized
the revolver damage and the rifle version's damage to 30 for both). And
Heartseeker, which has homing bullets. Both are Special ammo, and are
priced at 5 TC a speedloader.
### Other Gear
The other items in the uplink have also been consolidated and
standardized in various ways.
#### Grenades
Most now cost 15 TC for three grenades of any given type (including the
full fungal tuberculous). This is pretty much identical to the previous
price, just more consistent overall and front-loaded in cost.
#### Reinforcements
All the various reinforcements now cost 35 TC and all refundable,
equalizing cost to the average across the reinforcements. This is
primarily because I feel like all these options should be weighed
equally, and not one of these options are necessarily worse or better
than the other in their current balance. They're largely inaccessible
for normal ops regardless, and typically come out when there is a
discount or war ops. I took the average value and went with it. Not much
more to say.
#### Mechs
They're just cheaper. These things still suck and they need help.
They've always needed help. A slightly less excessive value for the
mechs may help see people willing to spend the TC on them. I doubt it. I
seriously suggest not buying these still. I keep them in primarily
because they are big stompy mechs and are kind of iconic 'war ops' gear.
#### Bundles
Since I've implemented weapon kits, gun bundles are rather redundant. So
the bulldog weapon and ammo bundle, the c20-r weapon and ammo bundle and
technically the sniper bundle were removed. The sniper bundle is now the
weapon kit, obviously.
Nothing else here really. Except for one....
#### Implants
Not much changed here. I standardized the implant prices to 8 TC a pop.
This is in accordance with traitor implants, which ops also get. So
everything in this category bar a few exceptions (like macro/microbombs)
are around 8 TC. Makes sense to me, really.
Importantly, I made the Implant bundle 25 TC, and I unrandomized the
contents. Who in the right fucking mind would spend 40 TC just to get
five reviver implants is beyond me. But instead, you get one of each of
the cybernetic implants except thermal eyes (you can just buy thermals
and get the benefit of both vision types; x-ray and thermal vision, if
you want to use smokescreens a lot).
#### Base Keys
They're all now 15 TC, except the fridge which is 5 TC. It's weird
they're valued differently when they are taken mostly to do gimmicks
like xenobio and toxins in a hurry before hitting the station. So we've
standardized it.
## Hat Crate
**YES, GOOD SIR, YOU TOO CAN ORDER A HAT CRATE FROM THE SYNDICATE STORE
FOR ONLY 5 TC!**
**NO NEED FOR A KEY, JUST BUY IT AND PULL IT OPEN WITH YOUR STANDARD
ISSUE CROWBAR!**
**ENJOY YOUR NEW CRATE! ENJOY YOUR NEW HAT!**
**PUT IT ON USING THE FREE HAT STABILIZERS WE INCLUDED WITH THE HATS!**
~~**NO REFUNDS IF YOU GET BLOOD ON YOUR HAT!**~~
<details>
There is a 1% chance to instagib people with direct hits from a rocket.
This does the crit effect.
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
The uplink needed more spring cleaning and standardization.
With this, I've partially implemented my older idea for ammo consistency
and initial allowance for nukies. Ammo is kind of over-priced and often
where a good chunk of TC goes towards without really pushing nukies
towards meaningful success. And it is often what is tripping up new
players who didn't think to get any. Now, when they get a gun, they get
ammo in their case. On top of this, the weapon kit category is both at
the top of the uplink AND has a little label to say 'Recommend', so that
these new players will hopefully know they should be looking there
first.
In addition, it is the gateway towards a concept that is currently being
worked on. Nuclear operatives having some degree of predefined loadouts
for players to select if they aren't sure what they want, or don't know
what to get. Nukies is very confusing for many players. So giving them a
fighting chance with some premade setups can help ease them into the
role without needing too much player knowledge in how to apply the
items. This is only one step towards that, so that players can identify
what gear they need to help succeed based on their skill.
I wanted to implement a difficulty warning so that players can choose
gear loadouts that are actually conducive to their skill and knowledge.
I based it on how much players would need to know to engage in combat
with it, and how much fiddling is required to get something to work
properly (overly involved reloading is a consideration, for example, as
well as precise button presses). In addition, how much of a force
multiplier some weapons can be for their ease of use.
Most people recognize the c20-r as the most new player friendly weapon,
as an example. So it would be good to steer players towards taking that
gun because of how easy it is to use, understand and succeed with it.
And most importantly of all; Having standards within the uplink is
important. Most of the values in the uplink are just completely random.
Nobody has a good grasp of what is too much or too little. Even just a
hint of consistency, and people will stick to it (see implants for what
I mean). And there is still some work to be done even there. A good
start is weapons. Price for power can be meaningful when decided whether
we want some weapons to come out more often than others. Players do
enjoy making informed decisions and choices, and having affordability be
a draw to some otherwise less powerful weapons (looking at you, Bulldog)
can actually be a worthwhile and meaningful difference.
~~I thought it would tick off the gun nerds to change the calibers on
the guns.~~
~~I also thought adding hats would be funny given the release of TF2's
most recent update.~~
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Standardizes some of the nuclear operative entries to have more
consistent pricing within their respective categories.
add: Adds some new categories so that players have an easier time
navigating the nuclear operative uplink.
balance: Many items have had prices reduced or adjusted to make them
more desirable or more consistent within their category.
add: Weapon kits have replaced almost all the individual weapons in the
uplink. You now buy these instead of the individual weapon. These often
come with spare ammo or relevant gear for success.
add: Most ammo types have been standardized in price.
refactor; Removes a lot of redundant item entry code and tidies up the
actual code part of the nuclear uplink so that it is much easier to find
things within it.
add: Added 40 new cosmetic items to the Syndicate Store. Buy them now
from the Hat Crate, only 5 TC!
code: Updated the nuclear operative uplink files.
/🆑
* Basic Lobstrosity (#77253)
## About The Pull Request
I'm slowly chipping away at mining mobs. These ones also got some new
sprites because the old ones were a bit weird except when facing South.
Arctic Lobstrosities are now hairy to give them a little more visual
distinction from Lavaland ones.
In terms of behaviour, they're now a little faster and can charge you
from further away.
They will _only_ attack players who are incapacitated in some way
(primarily from being hit by their charge, but could be from a Goliath
or something too) and will otherwise keep their distance until they can
charge again. They move slower for a short duration after charging
though, so you have time to slap them a bit.
If a Lobstrosity downs you then it will try to snip off one of your
arms, then retreat in order to eat it.
Obviously nobody likes losing an arm, but this does give you an
opportunity to get away while it is distracted? Funnily enough the way
our health system works means that sometimes losing that arm actually
takes you out of soft crit so you can stumble back to the station for a
replacement (or try to wrestle yours back?)
All of these things are achievable also by a player if you make one
sapient, they will pull arms off mobs they attack which are in crit and
can eat arms if they see them lying around if they want.
I added an element to let you dismember people with your bare hands,
maybe someone evil can use it to add a beheading attack some day.
Here's a video of their new behaviours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKxsH7hD7Q
## Why It's Good For The Game
Gives mobs more character.
Reduces our list of frozen simple mobs.
Replaces some ugly side sprites.
Medbay enrichment?
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Lobstrosities are now basic mobs and have different AI
behaviour. Please report anything which seems like it shouldn't be
happening.
add: Lobstrosities will now only opportunistically attack things they
have knocked over with their charge, and are otherwise timid.
add: Lobstrosities are hungry for fingers and will steal one of your
arms if they defeat you in combat, although this gives you time to crawl
away.
sprite: New sprites for Lobstrosities.
/🆑
* Basic Lobstrosity
* Modular paths
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Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <13398309+vinylspiders@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
I'm slowly chipping away at mining mobs. These ones also got some new
sprites because the old ones were a bit weird except when facing South.
Arctic Lobstrosities are now hairy to give them a little more visual
distinction from Lavaland ones.
In terms of behaviour, they're now a little faster and can charge you
from further away.
They will _only_ attack players who are incapacitated in some way
(primarily from being hit by their charge, but could be from a Goliath
or something too) and will otherwise keep their distance until they can
charge again. They move slower for a short duration after charging
though, so you have time to slap them a bit.
If a Lobstrosity downs you then it will try to snip off one of your
arms, then retreat in order to eat it.
Obviously nobody likes losing an arm, but this does give you an
opportunity to get away while it is distracted? Funnily enough the way
our health system works means that sometimes losing that arm actually
takes you out of soft crit so you can stumble back to the station for a
replacement (or try to wrestle yours back?)
All of these things are achievable also by a player if you make one
sapient, they will pull arms off mobs they attack which are in crit and
can eat arms if they see them lying around if they want.
I added an element to let you dismember people with your bare hands,
maybe someone evil can use it to add a beheading attack some day.
Here's a video of their new behaviours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eKxsH7hD7Q
## Why It's Good For The Game
Gives mobs more character.
Reduces our list of frozen simple mobs.
Replaces some ugly side sprites.
Medbay enrichment?
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Lobstrosities are now basic mobs and have different AI
behaviour. Please report anything which seems like it shouldn't be
happening.
add: Lobstrosities will now only opportunistically attack things they
have knocked over with their charge, and are otherwise timid.
add: Lobstrosities are hungry for fingers and will steal one of your
arms if they defeat you in combat, although this gives you time to crawl
away.
sprite: New sprites for Lobstrosities.
/🆑
* Refactors Slaughter/Laughter Demons into Basic Mobs (#77206)
## About The Pull Request
On the tin, the former "imp" is now refactored into basic mob code. Very
simple since these are only meant to be controlled by players, and all
of their stuff was on Signal Handlers and Cooldown Actions anyways. Just
lessens the amount of stupidity.
Did you know that we were trying to make demons spawn in a `pop`'d cat
named "Laughter"? Embedded in the list? I've literally never seen this
cat, so I'm under heavy suspicion that the code we were using was broken
for the longest time (or may have never worked), and we now instead just
do it a much more sane way of having a cat spawn on our demise.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Cleaner code! Less simple mob jank to deal with. Trims down the list of
simple animals to refactor. No more duplicated code that we were already
doing on parent! It's so good man literally everything was seamless with
a bit of retooling and tinkering. The typepath is also no longer `imp`,
it's actually `demon`, which I'm happy with because there's no other
demons to have it be confused with anymore.
We were also doing copypasta on both the demon spawner bottle and the
demon spawning event so I also just unified that into the mob. I also
reorganized the sprites to be a bit clearer and match their new
nomenclature
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Slaughter and Laughter Demons have been refactored, please
place an issue report for any unexpected things/hitches.
fix: Laughter Demons should now actually drop a kitten.
/🆑
* Refactors Slaughter/Laughter Demons into Basic Mobs
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Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
## About The Pull Request
On the tin, the former "imp" is now refactored into basic mob code. Very
simple since these are only meant to be controlled by players, and all
of their stuff was on Signal Handlers and Cooldown Actions anyways. Just
lessens the amount of stupidity.
Did you know that we were trying to make demons spawn in a `pop`'d cat
named "Laughter"? Embedded in the list? I've literally never seen this
cat, so I'm under heavy suspicion that the code we were using was broken
for the longest time (or may have never worked), and we now instead just
do it a much more sane way of having a cat spawn on our demise.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Cleaner code! Less simple mob jank to deal with. Trims down the list of
simple animals to refactor. No more duplicated code that we were already
doing on parent! It's so good man literally everything was seamless with
a bit of retooling and tinkering. The typepath is also no longer `imp`,
it's actually `demon`, which I'm happy with because there's no other
demons to have it be confused with anymore.
We were also doing copypasta on both the demon spawner bottle and the
demon spawning event so I also just unified that into the mob. I also
reorganized the sprites to be a bit clearer and match their new
nomenclature
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Slaughter and Laughter Demons have been refactored, please
place an issue report for any unexpected things/hitches.
fix: Laughter Demons should now actually drop a kitten.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
the bear now a basic and he have a new behaviers. the bear now can go to
climbed the trees! he will looked for a tree to climbing and if he
founded a tree he will go climb him. also the bear now love honey he
will look for a bee hives to stole the honey from it so botanists must
be care. the bear will drag the honey behind him so u must chased him to
get the honey back again
## Why It's Good For The Game
the bear is a basic now so he and have more behavier for more depth
mechanis
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: the bear is a basic now. please report any bugs
add: the bear will climb trees and search honey
/🆑
* Converting crabs to basic mobs (#77109)
## About The Pull Request
Exactly what it reads on the tin. As a bonus, they will flee from
attacking targets, hunt tiny critters (crabs are now small-sized) and
actually move sideways (it's an element that covers both client and
basic movement)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Another simple to basic mob refactor.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Crabs refactored into basic mobs. They now hunt tiny critters
and flee from attackers.
fix: Fixed crabs not crab-walking.
/🆑
* Converting crabs to basic mobs
* UpdatePaths
* More path changes
* Update simple_animal_freeze.dm
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Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <13398309+vinylspiders@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Exactly what it reads on the tin. As a bonus, they will flee from
attacking targets, hunt tiny critters (crabs are now small-sized) and
actually move sideways (it's an element that covers both client and
basic movement)
## Why It's Good For The Game
Another simple to basic mob refactor.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Crabs refactored into basic mobs. They now hunt tiny critters
and flee from attackers.
fix: Fixed crabs not crab-walking.
/🆑
* made the bee a basic insect (#76971)
## About The Pull Request
the bee now a baisc insect he will now go to find his home and he will
go and pollinated the plants and helped the queen make children by
polliniting the plants and he will. the queen will leve the hive more
rarely than the normal bees so she can stay in the hive to make kids
## Why It's Good For The Game
the bee now is a basic insect so it means he have a better ai
## Changelog
🆑
balance: the bee now can fly over the machines so its easy for him to go
to the hydroponics machine
fix: player bees now will not be stuck inside the hive if he entered it,
they can now leave it
fix: fixed a har deleted when the hive is deleted all the bees still
have a refence to the hive now its fixed
fix: now when a player interacted with the bee hive the bees will now
leave the hive to defend the hive (it was glitched)
refactor: the bees now are a basic insect.
/🆑
* made the bee a basic insect
* Merge conflict
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Co-authored-by: Ben10Omintrix <138636438+Ben10Omintrix@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <13398309+vinylspiders@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
the bee now a baisc insect he will now go to find his home and he will
go and pollinated the plants and helped the queen make children by
polliniting the plants and he will. the queen will leve the hive more
rarely than the normal bees so she can stay in the hive to make kids
## Why It's Good For The Game
the bee now is a basic insect so it means he have a better ai
## Changelog
🆑
balance: the bee now can fly over the machines so its easy for him to go
to the hydroponics machine
fix: player bees now will not be stuck inside the hive if he entered it,
they can now leave it
fix: fixed a har deleted when the hive is deleted all the bees still
have a refence to the hive now its fixed
fix: now when a player interacted with the bee hive the bees will now
leave the hive to defend the hive (it was glitched)
refactor: the bees now are a basic insect.
/🆑
* makes the pinguin a basic animal (#76790)
## About The Pull Request
the penguin now is a basic animal and also now he can go and layed
penguin eggs to make penguin babys also the baby have a new behavier he
will now go and looked for his mom and when he found his mom he will
went to her and be happy when he close to his mom or if he mom is died
he will went to her body and he will be sad and also i putted this
behavier in the baby chicken. also now the pinguen mom will go and
looked for her eggs and when she find a egg she will putted it in the
middile of her legs and walked with it
## Why It's Good For The Game
the pinguen now is a advance ai
## Changelog
the pinguen now have a more advance
🆑
refactor: the penguin is a basic animal
add: the penguin now layed eggs
add: the penguin and the chicken babys will go look for adult penguin or
chicken and be happy when he is near the adult
/🆑
* make the pinguen a basic animal
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Co-authored-by: Ben10Omintrix <138636438+Ben10Omintrix@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
the penguin now is a basic animal and also now he can go and layed
penguin eggs to make penguin babys also the baby have a new behavier he
will now go and looked for his mom and when he found his mom he will
went to her and be happy when he close to his mom or if he mom is died
he will went to her body and he will be sad and also i putted this
behavier in the baby chicken. also now the pinguen mom will go and
looked for her eggs and when she find a egg she will putted it in the
middile of her legs and walked with it
## Why It's Good For The Game
the pinguen now is a advance ai
## Changelog
the pinguen now have a more advance
🆑
refactor: the penguin is a basic animal
add: the penguin now layed eggs
add: the penguin and the chicken babys will go look for adult penguin or
chicken and be happy when he is near the adult
/🆑
* Adds a new heavy weight space pirate variant: The space IRS!
* Fix merge conflicts, UpdatePaths
* Fixes some path changes
* Updates icon files, adds a new sprite for breacher slug box illustration
* Removes some skyrat edits and puts them in modular overrides instead
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Co-authored-by: Giz <vinylspiders@gmail.com>
* transform the paper wizard from a simple to a basic (#76688)
## About The Pull Request
i transfered paper wizard from simple to a basic and i also gaved him
new fetures he can go and do. now when he will go and walked when he
walks there will be a paper effects when he goes to walk. also he will
he will now go to look for paperes on the floor and then he will write
stuff inside the paper, so a player can maybe distracted the wizard with
a paper because the wizard will stop atacked him for a bit until he
finished writted stuff inside the paper. i follow the instrucions in the
learn-ai md to maked this to a new ai subtree behavier.
## Why It's Good For The Game
the paper wizard is now a basic so he is a better ai and he also have
more feture to gaved him depth mechanics
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: paper wizard have been refactored, please report any
bugs/unintended behavior
refactor: refacted the datum/elememt/trial to an bespoken element
add: paper wizard now have effects when he walking and he will now go
and look for paperes and write stuff in them
/🆑
* transform the paper wizard from a simple to a basic
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Co-authored-by: Ben10Omintrix <138636438+Ben10Omintrix@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
i transfered paper wizard from simple to a basic and i also gaved him
new fetures he can go and do. now when he will go and walked when he
walks there will be a paper effects when he goes to walk. also he will
he will now go to look for paperes on the floor and then he will write
stuff inside the paper, so a player can maybe distracted the wizard with
a paper because the wizard will stop atacked him for a bit until he
finished writted stuff inside the paper. i follow the instrucions in the
learn-ai md to maked this to a new ai subtree behavier.
## Why It's Good For The Game
the paper wizard is now a basic so he is a better ai and he also have
more feture to gaved him depth mechanics
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: paper wizard have been refactored, please report any
bugs/unintended behavior
refactor: refacted the datum/elememt/trial to an bespoken element
add: paper wizard now have effects when he walking and he will now go
and look for paperes and write stuff in them
/🆑
* Goliath basic mob (#76754)
## About The Pull Request
Converts Goliaths to the basic mob framework and gives them some new
moves because I can't leave things well enough alone.
I am planning on touching all the lavaland fauna and then maybe even the
icebox ones if I haven't got bored. The Golaith is the first because it
is iconic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNcKvMwT4-Q
Here's me getting killed by one as a demonstration. Despite my poor
performance I would contend that they aren't a _lot_ more dangerous, but
they are a little more dangerous.
The chief difference here is that they have two new attacks which they
will only use in response to being attacked.
If fired at from range, they will target the attacker with a line of
tentacles (it doesn't track you, so is easily sidestepped).
If attacked in melee, they will surround _themselves_ with tentacles, on
a longer cooldown.
Something else you may notice in this video: I discovered that basic
mobs are actually _too smart_ to be Lavaland fauna.
Typically (unlike their old form) a mob on our new AI system is smart
enough to attack someone _the moment they come into range_ rather than
only checking on predictable ticks, which would make using the Crusher
an essentially unviable prospect.
To counteract this, Goliaths now have a delayed attack component which
gives you a visual warning and short duration to get out of range before
they swing at you. I will probably put this on all mining fauna that get
reworked, it wouldn't be a terrible thing to put on other mobs to be
honest.
Other changes: The goliath stun is now a status effect with _buckles_
you to the tentacle as if grabbed, as well as its previous effects.
While this seems purely worse, any nearby helpers can now help-click on
you to instantly remove the debuff.
Experiencing the effect of a Lobstrosity Rush Gland makes you immune to
being grabbed by tentacles and an implanted one will automatically
trigger and free you if you are hit, and the explosive effect of
Brimdust also causes the tentacle to retract (although you'd need to
take damage for this to happen). Using the tools of the land, you can
make these creatures less threatening.
The ability for a Goliath to chain-apply the ability has now also been
reduced, it won't refresh its duration if you are hit when already
buckled.
When not occupied hounding miners, Goliaths will intermittently dig up
the asteroid sand and eat any worms that this produces.
I also made some new sprites for riding a Goliath because they've been
broken since the Lavaland mob update and also kind of were ugly before
then anyway:
Other code changes:
- I made an element which only lets an attached object move every x
seconds. This is because Goliaths are far too slow to use the speed
system (the glide just looks bugged as hell) but one thing I am invested
in when converting these is to make sure that they share the same
behaviour when player or AI controlled. This is disabled while you're
riding them because it was interminably slow.
- The Goliath tentacle trail uses a supertype object now shared with the
Meteor Heart which did something kind of similar.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It begins the process of moving one of our larger subsets of NPCs onto
the newer framework for NPC behaviour.
It adds a little bit more life to an iconic but slightly uninteresting
foe which mostly just walked at you slowly.
This PR contains a few components I expect to apply more widely to other
mobs in the future.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Goliaths now use the Basic Mob framework, please report any
unusual behaviour.
add: Goliaths learned a couple of new attacks which they will use in
self-defence.
balance: Help-clicking a miner grabbed by Goliath tentacles will
immediately free them, as will the effect of several items you can
scavenge from around Lavaland.
image: New sprites for the Goliath saddle.
/🆑
* Goliath basic mob
* Update ash_rituals.dm
* fixes icon diff
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Co-authored-by: Pinta <68373373+softcerv@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Giz <vinylspiders@gmail.com>
## About The Pull Request
Converts Goliaths to the basic mob framework and gives them some new
moves because I can't leave things well enough alone.
I am planning on touching all the lavaland fauna and then maybe even the
icebox ones if I haven't got bored. The Golaith is the first because it
is iconic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNcKvMwT4-Q
Here's me getting killed by one as a demonstration. Despite my poor
performance I would contend that they aren't a _lot_ more dangerous, but
they are a little more dangerous.
The chief difference here is that they have two new attacks which they
will only use in response to being attacked.
If fired at from range, they will target the attacker with a line of
tentacles (it doesn't track you, so is easily sidestepped).
If attacked in melee, they will surround _themselves_ with tentacles, on
a longer cooldown.
Something else you may notice in this video: I discovered that basic
mobs are actually _too smart_ to be Lavaland fauna.
Typically (unlike their old form) a mob on our new AI system is smart
enough to attack someone _the moment they come into range_ rather than
only checking on predictable ticks, which would make using the Crusher
an essentially unviable prospect.
To counteract this, Goliaths now have a delayed attack component which
gives you a visual warning and short duration to get out of range before
they swing at you. I will probably put this on all mining fauna that get
reworked, it wouldn't be a terrible thing to put on other mobs to be
honest.
Other changes: The goliath stun is now a status effect with _buckles_
you to the tentacle as if grabbed, as well as its previous effects.
While this seems purely worse, any nearby helpers can now help-click on
you to instantly remove the debuff.
Experiencing the effect of a Lobstrosity Rush Gland makes you immune to
being grabbed by tentacles and an implanted one will automatically
trigger and free you if you are hit, and the explosive effect of
Brimdust also causes the tentacle to retract (although you'd need to
take damage for this to happen). Using the tools of the land, you can
make these creatures less threatening.
The ability for a Goliath to chain-apply the ability has now also been
reduced, it won't refresh its duration if you are hit when already
buckled.
When not occupied hounding miners, Goliaths will intermittently dig up
the asteroid sand and eat any worms that this produces.
I also made some new sprites for riding a Goliath because they've been
broken since the Lavaland mob update and also kind of were ugly before
then anyway:
Other code changes:
- I made an element which only lets an attached object move every x
seconds. This is because Goliaths are far too slow to use the speed
system (the glide just looks bugged as hell) but one thing I am invested
in when converting these is to make sure that they share the same
behaviour when player or AI controlled. This is disabled while you're
riding them because it was interminably slow.
- The Goliath tentacle trail uses a supertype object now shared with the
Meteor Heart which did something kind of similar.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It begins the process of moving one of our larger subsets of NPCs onto
the newer framework for NPC behaviour.
It adds a little bit more life to an iconic but slightly uninteresting
foe which mostly just walked at you slowly.
This PR contains a few components I expect to apply more widely to other
mobs in the future.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Goliaths now use the Basic Mob framework, please report any
unusual behaviour.
add: Goliaths learned a couple of new attacks which they will use in
self-defence.
balance: Help-clicking a miner grabbed by Goliath tentacles will
immediately free them, as will the effect of several items you can
scavenge from around Lavaland.
image: New sprites for the Goliath saddle.
/🆑
* Converts foxes to basic mobs. (#76662)
## About The Pull Request
As the title says, foxes are now basic mobs.
Foxes have a few new behaviors now, rather than the zero behaviors they
had before. Foxes, being very skittish animals, will flee from anything
that damages them. Additionally, they now have hunting behavior,
tracking down and killing anything of their size or smaller - regardless
of faction. They will not, however, hunt as long as someone is watching
them - which is to say, if any living humans are within 7 tiles of them.
Don't leave a fox and a chicken together while you're transporting your
grain to Lavaland! Also, make sure you don't leave Renault and Ian on
their play date unsupervised...
## Why It's Good For The Game
Gets rid of another simple animal. We grow ever closer to ascension.
Also, makes foxes a little more interesting rather than simply another
animal that does literally nothing. Renault will now flee from anyone
trying to kill her, for instance. Also opens up unique avenues of pet
murder if you want to make it look like an accident.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Foxes are more crafty now. They will run from danger, and hunt
small prey when no one is keeping an eye on them. Don't leave Renault
alone with Ian!
/🆑
* Converts foxes to basic mobs.
* Run UpdatePaths
* Fixes a renalt objective modular override
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Co-authored-by: Giz <vinylspiders@gmail.com>
It seems the station has attracted the attention of a local polity! They
have sent a friendly reminder to pay their taxes, should the station
respond not in time or refuse to pay their taxes the polity will send a
heavily armed vessel to ensure they would pay their taxes. peacefully or
otherwise.
Gameplay aims: A different playstyle of pirates. most pirates (with the
exception of the greytide) have the same gameplay loop of raiding
vulnerable spots within the station and scurrying away and waiting out
their cooldown in the relative safety of their ship with turrets and
space to hamper the crew's attack my intention of this pirate variation
is to force them to actively fight the crew by making their armor
non-space worthy instead of hiding behind the wall of space
breaching shells for the space IRS to use and recode ammo box code to be
less snowflakey. Also my English isn't the very best and I wrote most of
it at 1AM. please point out any messages that feel strange or out of
place.
Notable Equipment list:
Combat:
1. 2 WT-550's with 6 normal mags + 6 AP
2. M911 with 2 mags
3. 2 combat knifes and a telebaton
4. breaching shotgun with breaching shells
5. Grenade launcher with 6 smoke shells and flashbangs
Armor:
2 Highly armoured sets of tactical vests and helmets and 3 EVA suits for
emergency
Engineering:
1. Sandbags
2. Jaws of Life
3. Syndicate toolbox
Medical:
1. Surgery tools and disk
2. Variety of medkits
3. Blood packs
