## About The Pull Request
ports https://github.com/DaedalusDock/daedalusdock/pull/1144
ports https://github.com/DaedalusDock/daedalusdock/pull/1147
full credit to @Kapu1178 for the juice
instead of `reacher.CanReach(target)` we now do
`target.CanBeReachedBy(reacher)`, this allows us to give special
behavior to atoms which we want to reach, which is exactly what I need
for a feature I'm working on.
## Why It's Good For The Game
allows us to be more flexible with reachability
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: refactored how reaching items works, report any oddities with
being unable to reach something you should be able to!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#90767
This PR redesigns ice whelps somewhat
As before they have two fire breath attacks, one of which is a line and
one of which is a point blank AOE
Unlike before, the aspect of forecasting that the attack is coming is
now part of the ability and not a component only used by ice whelps (I
didn't like the component) and comes with visuals
Also unlike before, the line breath is longer and comes out faster
(because it's frankly pretty trivial to avoid) and the point blank
effect has been upgraded to effect every tile in a circular area within
3 spaces of the drake
The drake will now use the "every nearby tile" attack if you are close
by when its abilities come off cooldown, and the longer ranged one if
you're not
## Why It's Good For The Game
This fixes Ice Drakes using their breath attack literally once and never
again and might make them slightly more interesting to fight
Their slow speed and inaccurate targeting I think still means that
they're not very threatening on their own, but that'd need a more
substantial redesign to fix
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Ice Whelps now switch between their breath attacks depending on
the situation
fix: Ice Whelps will use their breath attacks more than once per
encounter
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR removes the `basic_mob_attack_telegraph` component from all mobs
which were using it and instead implements an attack delay directly into
the basic melee AI behaviour.
This delay simulates "moving your mouse into position", human reaction
times, and the fact that the previous implentation of simple mobs would
only try to melee attack on a predictable timer you could "juke" around.
The way that this delay works is that it starts as soon as the mob
enters melee range and resets if you are ever out of the mob's reach, so
there will be no delay if you are foolish enough (or unfortunately
preventing from doing otherwise) to continue standing next to a mob but
there is enough of a one to duck in and out of melee range with a
goliath while using a crusher without getting hit, although trying to
run past one usually won't work.
This delay defaults to 0.3 seconds which in my testing experience was
roughly enough to dip in and out of range without getting hit but not
enough to run all the way past a mob without getting hit. It can be
overriden via the blackboard, although currently no mob does this.
I _was_ testing this locally with no latency though so I guess we'll
listen out to see if miners start yelling.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The visible attack broadcast is very cool but its visibility made melee
combat with any mob that had it significantly easier to such a degree
that any mob with it on could not really be expected to do melee damage
to any character that wasn't suffering some kind of immobilisation
effect which was never really the intention.
Removing it also removes any additional handicap that was applied to
sapient versions of these mobs, which was never really necessary or
intended in the first place.
I did not remove the component entirely from the game for two reasons:
- Out of the hope that there is some use for it somewhere, because I
think it's cool, but more importantly:
- Because it's still being used by simple mob megafauna as a workaround
for a bug we couldn't figure out.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Most mobs will now hesitate for a moment before attacking
rather than instantly hitting anything that enters melee range, to
better simulate human behaviour. Please report if this delay seems too
short, or too long.
balance: Most mobs which telegraphed their basic attacks on you now will
not do that
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Some kind of refactor to how AI behaviours work kind of messed this one
up, all of its return values that ended the proc and stopped the suicide
timer were relying on a return value... from a proc called in a timer
that could never possibly get sent as the return value for the relevant
proc.
I fixed it to just call `finish_behaviour` instead.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: AI-controlled ventcrawling mobs (botanical spiderlings and legioned
monkeys) can once more do so without killing themselves shortly
afterwards.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
<details>
<summary> expand to spoil the fun of exploring something for yourself
</summary>
firstly, the new ruin: outpost 31
its layout is vaguely based off an official map of the Outpost 31 from
the Thing movie but i ran out of space halfway
the boss drops a keycard for the storage room that you cant get in
otherwise, containing its own special item, and other stuff probably
useful for crew
crusher loot: trophy that heals you on each hit
the ruin is guarded by like 3 flesh blobs, very resilient (and slow)
masses of flesh that deal 3 brute damage, not harmful in melee but WILL
attempt to grab and devour/assimilate you which is FAR more lethal
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/542cc6d0-f4ee-4598-9677-a03170c6c1c3
Boss: The Thing (with creative liberties otherwise this thing would
instakill you if it was true to source material)
difficulty: medium apparently idk mining jesus beat it with 400ms or so
HP: 1800
It is a much higher ranking changeling than those infiltrating SS13
It has 3 phases, 600hp each. Depleting its phase health will turn it
invincible and it will heal back half in 10 seconds. In order to prevent
this, the two Molecular Accelerators must be overloaded by interacting
with them to blast the changeling with deadly scifi magic or whatever
they do, forcing it to shed its form further and go to the next phase.
Not necessary for phase 3 because it literally just dies then
it focuses mostly on meleeing you and making certain tiles impassable
for you with 1hp tendrils, all attacks are telegraphed so theres no dumb
instakills here
it alternates between aoe abilities and abilities
melee behavior:
- if too far, charge at target (charges twice on phase 3)
- too close, shriek (unavailable in phase 1) (technically AOE but its
more like a melee ability you know??)
- otherwise just try to melee
Shriek: if the player is too close emit a confusing shriek that makes
them confused and drop items
aoe behavior (phase 2, 3 only):
1: Puts 4 tendrils in a line cardinally
2: Puts tendrils around itself
3. Puts a patch of tendrils around and under the target, 3x3 in phase 3
4. Phase 3 only - spits patches of acid into the air that hurt when
stepped on
_(crusher is hard ok)_
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/cbb98209-d3f0-470d-b0e8-4e310c5b709c
unique megafauna loot for this boss is like 1 AI-Uplink brain
its like a BORIS module but for humans i think you can figure out what
that means
while in a human shell they cannot roll non-malf midrounds and cannot be
converted, and cannot be mindswapped
the human MUST have all robotic organs (minus tongue because its not in
the exosuit fab and that kinda sucks to get)
will undeploy if polymorphed
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/abcc277a-995a-4fa7-b980-0549b6b7cf52
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
icebox is severely lacking in actual good ruins (fuck that one fountain
ruin)
i feel that the loot given by megafauna has been and still apparently is
exclusively to make the victor more powerful, which kinda sucks because
thats just powergaming???? the loot of this boss is more crewsided,
specifically aiding the AI in a VERY limited quantity (1), so its not
anything good for powergamers, good for crew if the AI is not rogue
## Changelog
🆑
add: outpost 31, the icebox ruin. Also its associated mobs, and
megafauna, and loot. Im not spoiling anything, find it yourself.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Ben10Omintrix <138636438+Ben10Omintrix@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
adds repairbots to the game!
this pr serves as a massive rework and buff to floorbots. i was a bit
sad that they dont get built much anymore so ive given them tons of more
utilities and uses.
Repairbots still inherit to place tiles and repair breaches. but they
can now rebuild walls, rebuild windows and repair structure and
machinery. Also Ive given them voicelines to add more character to them.
In short, they are very depressed with their job (however they express
their happy go lucky attitude when u emag them where they will start
deconstructing the station)
to demonstrate capabilities, here's a slightly sped up clip of some
repairbots patching up an area that was maxcapped 4 times:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/bddac3b0-1984-4571-85d3-c5283dd7c0de
When repairbots feel threatened, they will retract into their little
toolbox which u can pick up and hold in ur hand, either to conveniently
carry and plop them down at breached sites, or to bash skull with it
U can build them using a toolbox, proximity sensor, cyborg arm and a
conveyor belt
## Why It's Good For The Game
refactors floorbots and makes them alot more useful tools for engineers
to use
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: floorbots have been refactored, please report any bugs
add: adds repairbots to the game!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
penguins are now able to fish! they will drill water holes in ice using
their beaks and catch fish from there. also expands the fishing ai a bit
to make it a bit more customizable. animals will now fish only when
they're hungry, otherwise there will be a cooldown between every fishing
attempt, defaulted to 45 seconds but can be edited depending on the mob.
## Why It's Good For The Game
makes the fishing behavior alot more generic, before it was only
compatible with lobstrosities but this makes it so it can be applied to
any mob. also reduces lobstrosity fishing frequency by a tad bit as they
were too spammy before.
## Changelog
🆑
add: penguins will now fish from water holes
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
before, if u wanted to make ur animal hunt for food, u had to give them
the find food subtree, the attacking subtree, and had to edit their
targeting stratedgy to include items. this makes it so u only have to
give them just 1 subtree which will handle everything it needs to. also
makes it alot more customizable, u can now set a hunger cooldown for ur
animals, and cute emotes for them to play after eating food
## Why It's Good For The Game
makes it more convenient for future devs to include food hunting
behaviors to their animals, while also making it more customizable
## Changelog
🆑
code: animals' food hunting behavior has been refactored, please report
any bugs
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
refactors all behaviors to work through clicking. also removes some now
redundant behaviors. in the future ill try to generalize more of these
behaviors
## Why It's Good For The Game
makes AI controllers work through clicks which may help with swing
combat implementation
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: basic mob AI interactions has been refactored. please report
any bugs
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
deers now correctly emote with nearby friends
## Why It's Good For The Game
closes#86575
## Changelog
🆑
fix: deers now correctly emote with nearby friends
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Title. Adds two new maps:
- Grasslands Hunt (peaceful)
- Meta Central (easy)
These maps add a new basic revolutionary mob and significantly upgrades
the ai of basic deer.
This fixes an issue where modular maps were not correctly spawning mobs
or adding them to the "mutable candidates" for antagonists.
There's also some balance changes to bitrunning vendor prices, which are
generally now lower. This change is unrelated to the PR as a whole so
I'm okay with removing it if there's concern
### photos
<details>
<summary>expand</summary>
</details>
### todo
- [x] Fix the revolutionary death anim
- [x] Make deer run when injured
## Why It's Good For The Game
New maps as a general positive for bitrunning
Bug fixes
Makes vendor choices for bitrunning-exclusive items generally less of a
chore to get
## Changelog
jlsnow301, MMMiracles, KikoWen0, Ben10Omintrix
🆑
add: Added two new bitrunning maps: Grasslands Hunt and Meta Central.
add: Deer are now more complex animals, granting them enhanced ability
to run amok and chew your favorite plants.
balance: Reduced the cost of most BR vendor items.
fix: Fixes an issue where modular virtual domains spawned less mobs than
intended.
fix: These modular spawns are now valid mutation targets to become an
antagonist.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Carps, frogs and young lobstrosities now fear legendary anglers wearing
the legendary fishing hat and will flee. The item is skill-locked, so
only those that have maxxed out the skill can wear it.
Differently, adult lobstrosities and megacarps (and suicide frogs, which
are used nowhere) do not flee but will still prioritize them over the
rest.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I'm putting some emphasis on the "fish fear me" _(lobstrosities and
frogs aren't exactly fish but it'd been quite boring to only include
carps)_ and also making the hat a bit more than just some cosmetic
novelty.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Carps, frogs and young lobstrosities now fear people wearing
fishing hats! Adults and megacarp favour the 'fight' part of the fear
reflex however.
fix: The hat stabilizer module now inherits the clothing traits of the
attached hat.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Lobstrosities can now be raised from aquarium icemoon/lavaland chrabs.
First of all, you've to get a live chrab, an aquarium, and some fish
feed. Second, you place the chrab inside the aquarium and turn the
'allow breeding' settting on (should probably rename it to a more apt
name now). Keep the chrab well fed, and possibly with some friends and
props in the same aquarium until it develops into a hopefully calm
juveline lobstrosity and plops out of the aquarium (it can take some
time). From there you can tame it by feeding it its favorite food: arms
and lavaloop fish, and wait another dozen minutes for it to mature into
a fully grown lobstrosity.
Juveline lobstrosities are basically smaller and weaker lobstrosities,
if not slightly faster in some ways. Unlike their taller counterparts,
they can be tamed. Once done so, they'll retain their tamedness once
grown up. Regardless, tamed lobstrosities can be given the pet command
to fish for things by pointing at them. Thanks BenMatrix for the
profound fisher component, woo.
The chrab's weigth and size influence the growth speed of the first
stage faster, meaning bigger chrabs (may require crossbreeding) will
turn into juveline lobstrosities quickly. Amongst other things
influencing the resulting mob are fish traits:
Several traits have been given effects that apply to the mob, such as
nocturnal regeneration, being venomous or being able to fly akin space
carps. Also a new one that prevents the resulting lobstrosity from fully
developing
Now tested.
## Why It's Good For The Game
I'm building upon fishing and aquarium stuff, which has been an interest
of mine in a good while, though most of it doesn't have that many
practical uses, I'm slowly trying to make it cooler, and chasm chrabs
growing into lobstrosities is pretty much in line with the fluff texts
for the fish.
Eventually I'll have to add tips inside fishing toolboxes, otherwise
people won't know even half of it.
## Changelog
🆑
add: You can raise lobstrosities from chasm chrabs inside an aquarium
with the 'allow breeding' setting on. Keep the fish well fed, healthy
and not lonely if you don't want an hostile one.
add: Juveline lobstrosities (from chasms, plasma rivers, or aquariums,
xenobio too) can be tamed with arms and lavaloop fishes.
add: For lobstrosities grown from aquariums, they can have additional
effects based on the fish traits they had in the aquarium, like being
venomous or even flying.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
fixes#82964 , fixes#82866
## Why It's Good For The Game
fixes several problems with ai targetting. this pr resolves civil war
that was brewing between several mobs. also fixes a major problem where
mobs would only search for targets and not perform any other behaviors.
also fixes a small problem where mobs would constantly stop and start
while chasing targets
## Changelog
🆑
fix: mobs in the same faction will no longer be at odds against one
another
fix: mobs can now perform behaviors alongside searching for targets
fix: mobs will no longer be starting and stopping when chasing targets
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
i noticed almost all ai controllers were being hard deleted, its because
the controller itself was being addedto the behavior_cooldowns list
rather than the behavior itself
## Why It's Good For The Game
fixes hard deletes
## Changelog
🆑
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Nother bit ripped out of #79498
[Implements a get_cooldown() proc to get around dumb manual overrides
and empower me to optimize the findtarget
logic](7047d294dd)
[Adds modify_cooldown, uses it to optimize find_potential_targets
further](4ebc8cedce)
No sense running the behavior if we're just waiting on its output, so
let's run it once a minute just in case, then push an update instantly
if we find something
[Optimizes connect_range and
promxity_monitors](bcf7d7c5b3)
We know what turfs exist before and after a move
We can use this information to prevent trying to update turfs we don't
care about.
This is important because post these changes mobs with fields will be
moving a lot more, so it's gotta be cheap
[Implements a special kind of field to handle ai
targeting](80b63b3445)
If we run targeting and don't like, find anything, we should setup a
field that listens for things coming near us and then handle those
things as we find them.
This incurs a slight startup cost but saves so much time on the churn of
constant costs
Note:
We should also work to figure out a way to avoid waking ais if none is
near them/they aren't doing anything interesting
We don't need to do that immediately this acts as somewhat of a stopgap
(and would be good regardless) but it is worth keeping in mind)
## IMPORTANT
I am unsure whether this is worth it anymore since #82539 was merged. As
I say it was done as a stopgap because ais didn't know how to idle.
If not I'll rip er out and we'll keep the other
refactoring/optimizations.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Cleaner basic ai code, maybe? faster basic ai code, for sure faster
proximity monitors (significantly)
## About The Pull Request
this pr buffs non-sentient minebots a bit to make them more helpful with
the new arcmining changes.
Minebots now have a better overall AI, they will maintain distance from
enemies and shoot while running. they will also plant landmines while
theyre running away from enemies. these landmines are carefully
programmed by the bot not to trigger when any of its miner friends step
on it. u no longer need to feed minebots an ore to get them to listen to
you, as they now automatically listen to any miners around.
minebots can now repair damaged node drones
they also have a new autodefend feature, which makes them automatically
attack any mob that attacks its miner friends or the drone. They also
have some new upgrades!
First is the regenerative shield, this shield allows minebots to tank a
limited amount of hits before breaking. minebots will then need to wait
sometime before the shield re-activates.
Second is the rocket launcher remote control, this allows players to
direct minebots to fire anti-fauna missiles at their target
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/138636438/3ec3605e-8e11-4a31-acaa-1382bed98294
Also minebots are now highly customizable, you can rename them, change
their colors, or program their AI through their new user interface
## Why It's Good For The Game
Improves minebot AI a bit, and makes it a more viable option for mining
solo players
## Changelog
🆑
balance: minebots have been buffed and have recieved new upgrades
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
cultists can now convert pets on their side. when you convert a pet, it
will become much more dangerous and obedient to you, it will also gain a
new dangerous AI. cultist pets will look for fellow dead cultists, and
revive them by dragging them to nearby revival runes and activating it.
if there is no revival runes around them then they will create their own
and drag u to it. u can give them commands to follow, attack, or to
create revival runes. they will also go around to crit non cultists so
cultists can convert them
they will also now feed on organs and blood for healing
## Why It's Good For The Game
adds a extra layer to cult, u can now command non-sentient pets to aid
you
## Changelog
🆑
add: cultists can now convert pets to their side
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
## About The Pull Request
fixes pokemon AI still being active while inside the pokeball closes
#81669
## Why It's Good For The Game
fixes pokemon AI still being active while inside the pokeball
## Changelog
🆑
fix: fixes pokemon ai still being active when inside the pokeball
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
fixes the flaky error that would happen in cleanbot controllers. i
discovered thru the profiler that a proc i was using to stop tracking
unreachable targets and caching them to a blacklist in selectbehavior
had a bit of a high real time cost, so if the mob got deleted midway
through for any reason would cause a runtime error. ive moved this proc
off selectbehavior and im instead letting the move loop cache this
target into the blacklist if it reaches the max pathing attempts
## Why It's Good For The Game
fixes a runtime that sometimes happens in ai controllers
## Changelog
🆑
fix: fixes a runtime that sometimes happens in ai controllers
/🆑
`find_potential_targets/perform` currently has a pretty bad self cost in
part due to it running a second "loop over everything in range" check to
find turrets and mechs. This doesn't drop it down by as much as I'd like
because it still needs `hearers`, it still shows up pretty high, but
this at least cuts out some unnecessary work.
Best case is likely to minimize work AIs need to do when there are no
players on their z-level, as there are a lot of calls from Lavaland.
## About The Pull Request
Consider this a continuation of
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/80202
~~It seems I missed a few.~~
Edit: Modified per request to handle this more broadly. If a pawn gets
`qdel`'d, the ai controller should be set to off and get removed from
the list of active controllers, and all their actions should be
canceled.
Also adds some qdeleted checks to `finish_action()`, which can still run
after the pawn gets qdeleted as part of the `CancelActions()` chain.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Less spurious CI failures.
## Changelog
Nothing player facing really.
## About The Pull Request
this pr refacotrs cleanbots into basic bots. also adds a new skillchip
for janitrs. this skillchip will allow janitors to communicate with
cleanbots and order them around, like pointing at something and telling
them to clean it. also now the cleanbot has an inbuilt mop which it will
use to smack mice and cockroaches
## Why It's Good For The Game
refactors cleanbots into basic bots and fixes them getting stuck
sometimes while patrolling. also janitors being able to order them
around can make them a bit more useful as tools for the janitor
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: cleanbots are refactored into basic bots. please report all
bugs
fix: fixes cleanbots getting stuck sometimes while patrolling
add: janitors get a new skillchip which allow them to communicate with
cleanbots
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Finishing what https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/79513/
started, removes 'targetted' typo from code. Also updates the basic mob
guide with the new updated var names.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Typos bad. Accurate guides good.
## Changelog
🆑
code: gets rid of the rest of the instances of 'targetted' typo from
code
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
[Implements the backend required to make targeting datums
global](6901ead12e)
It's inconsistent with the rest of basic ai for these to have a high
degree of state, plus like, such a waste yaknow?
[Implements
GET_TARGETING_STRATEGY](d79c29134d)
Regexes used:
new.*(/datum/targetting_datum[^,(]*)\(*\)* -> GET_TARGETING_STRATEGY($1)
Renamed all instances of targetting to targeting (also targetting datum
-> targeting strategy)
I've used GET_TARGETING_STRATEGY at the source where the keys are
actually used, rather then in the listing. This works out just fine.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Not a misspelled name through the whole codebase, very slightly less
memory load for basically no downside (slight cpu cost maybe but not a
significant one.
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Co-authored-by: John Willard <53777086+JohnFulpWillard@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
This PR converts the two trader mobs into basic mobs, these being the
basic debug trader that buys ectoplasm and sells ghost burgers, and Mr
Bones, who buys empty milk cartons and bones, and sells bone relate
paraphernalia.
Traders now use dynamic appearance generation. The old sprites still
exist as hallucinations, and as shop signs.
Trader UI is now summoned via `COMSIG_ATOM_ATTACK_HAND`, which properly
cancels the attack chain, so there is no longer need to put it on
Interact.
I kept most of the original behaviour, but moved them off into a
component. I have also cached all the images generated for the radials,
I hope I have not overengineered it. I have also created a new datum,
which stores the trader's wares, needs, and speech patterns.
Admins can put the component along with the trader data on any living
mobs with an AI controller, turning them into traders. Keep in mind that
most AI has random idle movement, meaning they have a chance to walk
off, closing your trader radial.
The trader AI consists of the following, first, when a trader sees
someone, they will deploy their shop, if one does not already exists.
The shop consists of a chair, and a holographic sign. If you attack
them, they will chase you with their weapons, and then return to their
chair when victorious. If the chair is somehow destroyed, they will
create a new shop when they see a new potential customer.
Mr Bones uses a variant of the AI, where they will run at you, and
deploy their shop when they reach you. I call this the jumpscare
variant. Below you can see me getting actually jumpscared because Mr
Bones has stepped on a yelling frog when I opened the maintenance door.
I have also made an element that toggles an ai controlled combat mode
when it gains a target, and when it loses it. I am using it to make
Traders unable to trade while they are trying to kill a robber. To aid
this, I a have made
`/datum/ai_controller/proc/sig_remove_from_blackboard` send the
`COMSIG_AI_BLACKBOARD_KEY_CLEARED` signal, in case the trader kills a
mob that deletes itself on death. This means I could remove a signup
`/datum/component/appearance_on_aggro` was doing towards Qdeleting.
Below you can see Mr Bones shooting me with candy corn.
Traders actually only shoot you until you are conscious, so I survived
here in crit. Most mobs don't have crit state, so they just die, so I am
sticking by this voice line.
Thank you @CoiledLamb for help with the sale sign!
## Why It's Good For The Game
Two more mobs off the list. The AI and Componentized behaviours allows
us to set up new kind of traders.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Traders are basic mobs now. Please alert us of any strange
behaviours!
code: If there is only one option, radial lists will autopick it. This
behaviour can be turned off via a new argument.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Converts wraith constructs to basic mobs. The last of the "mainline"
constructs, though there's still one to go after this.
Wraiths are pretty much the same as they've always been - speedy
constructs that pack a bit of a punch, built around doing hit-and-run
tactics with their ability to ethereal jaunt. Notably, I've converted
their ability to recharge their jaunts with attacks into a new
component, `recharging_attacks`. This can be placed on any basic mob to
let them recharge a cooldown action by landing hits, which could
possibly be useful in the future.
NPC wraiths are pretty straightforward, with a twist - they will always
chase down and beat to death the lowest-hp mob they can see. Happening
upon one of these while wounded will end very badly! While I originally
wanted them to be more flighty and use hit-and-run tactics, I couldn't
figure out a way to do this that didn't look kind of silly and make them
less effective overall.
In addition to the wraiths, I've done some much-needed cleanup to basic
constructs as a whole, improving some things and covering some things I
missed along the way.
- Ectoplasm drop types from constructs is now properly based on their
theme. I _believe_ I've done this in a way that will pass unit tests
this time, but we'll see if my local tests were being honest with me.
- Player-controlled constructs now attack faster. I didn't realize that
being basic mobs capped them to attacking once every 2 seconds, which is
a gigantic nerf over the simple animal version. I cut this to just 1
second, which should be much closer to how it originally was.
- Artificers actually seek out and heal the most damaged ally they can
find, instead of the least damaged. Turns out the sort was doing the
exact opposite order from what I thought, which became much more obvious
when using the same targeting behavior on wraiths.
- I put the PR number in the juggernaut update script, which I somehow
missed on that one.
- Removed the extraneous "noncult" construct subtypes that didn't do
anything. The Artificer one, which does something, is still around.
## Why It's Good For The Game
For the same reasons as the previous three. 5 more simple animals gone,
and only one construct to go until I can nuke simple constructs from the
codebase entirely. Other than that, the new component could possibly
come in handy in future designs, and the NPC behavior should hopefully
be a little scary - even if just a little.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Wraith constructs have been converted to the basic mob
framework. NPC wraiths are now extra cruel and will attack the
lowest-health mob they can see at any given time. Make sure this isn't
you! Please report any bugs.
fix: Artificers and juggernauts no longer attack significantly more
slowly than intended.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Really getting into the meat of the constructs now. Artificers have
become basic mobs.
On the whole, this was a pretty rote conversion, with no significant
gameplay changes other than the switch to using healing hands rather
than a unique heal ability. The player experience as an artificer is
more or less identical.
The _interesting_ part comes with the AI for the seldom-used "hostile"
variant. Hostile artificers, being squishy and laughably weak, are now a
dedicated "medic" role for constructs. They will perform triage, always
seeking the most wounded construct (or shade!) to give healing to. They
will not attack at all, but they _will_ flee with great speed if
attacked and not busy healing. If they are healing another construct,
they will remain even if they are beaten to death.
I've added some more AI functionality that may come in handy in the
future, and done some refactoring to keep things from getting out of
hand:
- A planning subtree for finding targets that will always select the
most heavily wounded living target that the mob can see (or rather, the
one with the least health). Useful again for medical triage, or for
making a particularly cruel mob that always attacks whoever is easiest
to kill. I plan to use this for NPC wraith constructs when I convert
them.
- Targeting datums can now check a blackboard key to see if they should
only target wounded mobs. This is particularly useful for "medic" type
mobs such as this one.
- I've refactored the "minimum stat" behavior of targeting datums to be
stored in a blackboard key. This removes the need to have unique
subtypes for each different minimum stat we might want. Which... for the
most part, weren't even used, leading to proliferation of several
completely identical targeting datums in a bunch of different files.
Hopefully this change will make things cleaner.
In addition, this PR fixes a pair of bugs from #78807 that I didn't
catch:
- Healing constructs can now actually heal shades. Turns out I forgot to
add the correct biotype.
- Healing hands, when set to print the target's remaining health, no
longer does so as a visible message.
The one thing I didn't do that I kind of wanted to is make NPC
artificers heal themselves when wounded and not busy doing something
else, but it ended up being kind of annoying to make a mob willingly
target itself. NPC artificers never had this behavior before, so I
consider it okay, but maybe I'll circle back to it later.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Another basic conversion, another 5 items off the checklist. Very little
should change in-game, though I think the new NPC AI could make for
interesting challenges in ruins or bitrunning or something.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Artificer constructs have been converted to the basic mob
framework. This should change very little about them, but please report
any bugs. NPC artificers are now smarter, and will focus on healing
nearby wounded constructs - if you see them, take them out first!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
this adds a new item for traitor botanists they can buy for 4 tc. it
releases smoke which hypnotizes bees to follow ur every command, it can
be used on a single bee or it can be used on a hive to hypnotize all the
bees who live there. u can command the bees to enter or exit their
beehive, and u can also command them to spiral around u where they will
follow u and swirl around u to confuse whichever opponent u are
fighting, and u can also command them to attack people. the bee smoker
comes with some fuel but u can recharge it by putting cannabis into it.
the stronger the weed the more fuel it will provide
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/138636438/18c9a350-8e24-4c49-abfa-dffb7622502f
## Why It's Good For The Game
adds a traitor item which gives a new gameplay alternative for botanist
and pacifist players. also i noticed the pet targetting datum was using
some copy paste code so i made it a subtpye of the basic targetting
datum
## Changelog
🆑
add: added a new syndicate item - the bee smoker
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
This PR does three things:
- Fixes fleeing, I broke it in a recent PR so mobs would walk to a
location then sort of stand there doing nothing. This is due to using
`>=` instead of `>`.
- Makes lobstrosities stop running and charge at you more responsively
(when they detect they can charge).
- Inverts the `BB_BASIC_MOB_FLEEING` blackboard key to
`BB_BASIC_MOB_STOP_FLEEING` so that the default behaviour is "to perform
the behaviour that you put on the mob" instead of to not do that.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Makes commonly used behaviour work properly.
Removes footgun we hand to ai developers.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Cowardly mobs will consistently run away from you instead of
getting tired and just sort of standing there after an initial burst of
movement.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Raw Prophet and Armsy had fun stuff going on and merited their own PRs,
but the rest of these guys are basically just statblocks with abilities
so I converted them all at once.
Rust Walkers are present in a ruin and so have new AI which will
actually use their abilities. They rust the area around where they spawn
and throw their rust blast at people.
I also gave Flesh Stalkers AI even though nobody has put them in a map
because I thought it would be cool. This adds an AI behaviour where if
they're not doing anything else they will turn into an animal and chill
until someone's been around them for a bit, before attacking. They will
also use EMP almost immediately upon performing their ambush, which
kills the lights in that room. Spooky!
To support this I needed to make some changes to let AI continue
processing and targetting correctly while shapeshifted.
I didn't give Maids or Ash Spirits AI because they'd be really boring.
Other changes:
I made the maid in the mirror flicker when it takes examine damage
because the `visible_message` says it does but despite having the power,
nobody made it actually flicker...
## Why It's Good For The Game
No more simple mob heretic summons.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Rust Walkers, Ash Spirits, Flesh Stalkers, and The Maid in the
Mirror now use the basic mob framework. Please report any unusual
behaviour.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
I remembered today that blob code is ass, especially blob spores.
There's still a lot to improve but I cleaned up _some_ of it by
converting these mobs.
Now they use a newer framework and more signal handling as compared to
circular references.
I _expect_ the behaviour here to largely be the same as it was or
similar. I haven't added anything fancy or new.
This is a reasonably big PR but at least all of the files are small?
Everything here touched every other thing enough that it didnt make
sense to split up sorry.
Other things I did in code:
- Experimented with replacing the `mob/blob` subtype with a component.
Don't know if this is genius or stupid.
- AI subtree which just walks somewhere. We've used this behaviour a lot
but never given it its own subtree.
- Blob Spores and Zombies are two different mobs now instead of being
one mob which just changes every single one of its properties.
- Made a few living defence procs call super, because the only thing
super does was send a signal and we weren't doing that for no reason.
Also added a couple extra signals for intercepts we did not have.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Blob spores will respond to rallies more reliably (it won't runtime
every time they try and pathfind).
fix: Blobbernaut pain animation overlays should align with the direction
the mob is facing instead of always facing South
refactor: Blob spores, zombies, and blobbernauts now all use the basic
mob framework. They should work the same, but please report any issues.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
## About The Pull Request
basic mobs can check for friends in the way before firing a attack. if
they find someone in the way they will try to adjust their position so
their friends dont get hit by the projectiles
## Why It's Good For The Game
nice optional feature people can put on the monsters they create
## Changelog
🆑
add: added ranged attack friendly fire checks for basic mobs. minebots
and hivebots will now try to avoid shooting their friends
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#71330
The brimdemon was basically already perfect (well, it has a novel means
of attacking) so I didn't get too fancy with this one, it's _largely_
just a straightforward conversion.
Following this change it's a little slower to back off, but better at
lining up with people in order to blast them. Additionally, its beam is
now a mob ability so you can give it to other mobs if you so desire.
Because I can't help doing a _little_ tinkering, Brimdemons now explode
2.5 seconds after they die, after a brief warning animation.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Simple mobs must die
## Changelog
🆑
add: Brimdemon corpses release an explosion shortly after death, just to
keep you on your toes.
refactor: Brimdemons now use the basic mob framework which (should)
improve their pathfinding somewhat. Please bug report any unusual
behaviour.
admin: The brimdemon's beam ability can be given to any mob, for your
Binding of Isaac event
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
I like for things that mobs do to be consistent regardless of whether
they are controlled by a player or by the AI.
One big offender of this is the melee behaviour cooldown. Basic mobs
piloted by AI have arbitrary melee attack cooldowns which are not
reflected when they are controlled by players who can generally attack
much faster (but in _two_ instances, slower).
To remedy this I added `melee_attack_cooldown` as a var on
`living/basic` (sinful) and the ai now uses NextMove to not click too
often, meaning that players can only bite things as often as the AI can
and also that if you VV the cooldown it can speed the AI up (or slow it
down) as well as a player.
This also gets rid of a lot of subtypes of that datum, as we mostly made
them to change the cooldown.
I also hunted down a few places where there was behaviour placed inside
an AI behaviour which wasn't easily replicable by a player piloting the
same mob, preferably a player should be able to do everything that the
AI can.
Fixing this was largely a simple case of moving code from
`ai_behaviour/melee_attack/perform` to `basic/mob_subtype/melee_attack`
and also adding an element for one thing shared by three different mobs.
Strictly speaking I didn't need the element that much because a player
is perfectly capable of clicking on something they attack to drag it,
but it's nice for it to be automatic?
## Why It's Good For The Game
If you see a mob do something then you should also be able to do it.
Mobs shouldn't have significantly different capabilities when controlled
by a player (aside from usually being smarter).
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Player-controlled basic mobs attack as fast as those mobs can
when controlled by the AI
balance: Player-controlled Faithless can paralyse people they attack,
like the AI does
balance: Player-controlled Star Gazers (if an admin felt like making
one) apply the star mark on attack and deal damage to everything around
them, like the AI does
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
the burst attacks wasnt working because a cooldown in the ranged
component qwas added recently. this now moves the burst attacks option
to the component itself so even sapiant player mobs can use these burst
ranged attacks
## Why It's Good For The Game
fix basic mobs ranged burst attacks
## Changelog
🆑
fix: basic mobs can now use ranged burst attacks
/🆑
## 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
if the victim is outside the shooting distance the mob will go through
an endless cycle of finding the target and deleting the target instead
of chasing them
## Why It's Good For The Game
fix basic ranged mobs not chasing the targets
## Changelog
🆑
fix: basic ranged mobs will now chase victims
/🆑
## 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
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Goliath's sand digging behaviour could potentially target a turf that's
actually unreachable by the goliath, e.g.
```
G#
#T
```
where G - goliath # - wall T - target turf. fixed that, but i think
there could be something easier here, maybe instead grabbing turfs in
goliath's `view()`? unsure
The component goliaths use to telegraph their attacks
(`basic_mob_attack_telegraph`) casts a `do_after()` to perform the
attack, but it was not actually checking for the target staying in melee
range, as it was using the source goliath as both `user` and `target`,
so it didn't actually care at all for the target. Implemented an
`extra_checks` to `Adjacent()` since that's the closest we get for melee
range shenanigans I suppose
This still allows the source basicmob to attack the target if the target
moves around the source basicmob.
`!`Goliaths were also able to summon tentacles on a target that moved
into cover and still stayed in the `find_potential_targets` target
range. Which meant more wallhacks. This was a thing for the base
`find_potential_targets`, meaning that every basic mob using it was a
dirty haxxor (or very vengeful). Fixed that by making
`find_potential_targets` also check for `can_see()` before proceeding
further down `find_potential_targets/perform()`. `!` The only exception
to this check currently are bileworms.
`!`Goliath tentacles were not spawning in mineral turfs as their
`Initialize()` checked for closed turfs before handling mineral turf
mining. Fixed that as well.
## Why It's Good For The Game
## Changelog
🆑
fix: fixed goliaths digging sand that they can't actually reach (behind
windows or inbetween closed turfs)
fix: fixed goliaths melee attacking their target despite the target
running away from goliath melee range
fix: fixed goliath tentacles not spawning in mineral turfs
fix: fixed goliaths summoning tentacles on targets that moved behind
cover but stayed in their targeting range. this applies for most basic
mobs, really, so if any basic mob was targeting you despite you hauling
ass behind cover, they shouldn't anymore
/🆑
## 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.
/🆑
## 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
/🆑
