## About The Pull Request
Adds a unit test that checks that all designs are accessible through
some source, be it techweb, disks, or innate designs. Certain designs,
like pocket extinguishers, entertainment screens, etc, that have been
present in autolathes but not in the techweb despite having PROTOLATHE
flag assigned have been put into protolathes (where it made sense,
otherwise the flag was removed).
An important change is that restaurant portals are now printable, and
thus can be constructed and deconstructed. Indestructible portals have
been a major gripe of mine for a while, and I don't see a solid reason
for keeping them indestructible if they can easily be printed from the
service protolathe.
Closes#90212
## Why It's Good For The Game
Initial argument for keeping portals unbreakable was to prevent people
from griefing the chef/bartender, but by that logic we can make most
machinery unbreakable too. I don't think that having an unbreakable
portal is good if its locking us out from allowing chefs/bartenders to
reorder or even outright reposition their lunchroom/bar.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Restaurant portals can now be printed, constructed and
deconstructed. They're also no longer completely invulnerable.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR adds several circuit features, and changes several
assembly-related features to make them a bit more logical in how they
work. Included are the following changes/additions:
- Assemblies and wires have been refactored with vars that describe
their behavior:
- Assemblies have an `assembly_behavior` bitflag instead of a
`attachable` var. This var has 3 flags:
- `ASSEMBLY_INPUT`: The assembly is able to pulse the wire it is
attached to.
- `ASSEMBLY_TOGGLE_ARMED`: On activation, the assembly toggles whether
it can pulse the wire it is attached to.
- `ASSEMBLY_FUNCTIONAL_OUTPUT`: On activation, the assembly does
something other than just toggling whether it's armed.
- Wires have a `wires_behavior` bitflag with 3 flags:
- `WIRES_INPUT`: The object the wires are attached to does something
when the wires are pulsed.
- `WIRES_TOGGLE_ARMED`: The object the wires are attached to can
activate assemblies attached to those wires, and is fine if all that
activating that assembly does is toggle whether it's armed.
- `WIRES_FUNCTIONAL_OUTPUT`: The object the wires are attached to
expects that assemblies attached to its wires do something other than
toggling themselves when activated.
- Buttons can only accept assemblies with `ASSEMBLY_FUNCTIONAL_OUTPUT`.
- Pressure plates can now accept any assembly with
`ASSEMBLY_FUNCTIONAL_OUTPUT`, not just signalers. Assembly shells
attached to pressure plates will draw power from the powernet if the
pressure plate is under a tile.
- Adds a new circuit component - the wire bundle.
- This component gives the circuit a number of wires corresponding to
the size of the shell.
- Each wire has a corresponding port on the component that can pulse,
and receive pulses from, that wire.
- A circuit can only have one wire bundle component.
- Assembly shells cannot be attached to these wires, and no wires will
be created if the component is added to an assembly shell.
- Available with roundstart tech.
- Adds two new shells.
- The wallmounted shell is a large shell that can be hung on walls, and
uses power from the area it's placed in.
- Frame icon:
- Constructed icon:
- The undertile shell is a small shell that only works when fit under a
floor tile, but uses power from the area it's placed in.
- Both shells support usb cables.
- The above shells are available with the Advanced Shells techweb node.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The wire bundle component complements the functionality of the assembly
shell by allowing circuits to use assemblies directly in their logic.
The wallmounted and undertile shells provide ways of placing circuits
that don't necessarily take up space for machines. The undertile shell
is particularly useful for relaying usb component data over wirenets.
Pressure plates being able to accept assemblies other than signalers
expands their uses significantly.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Wires and assemblies have been refactored to have
directionality to them. This mostly makes it so that assemblies can only
be attached to wires it would make sense for them to be attached to.
qol: Pressure plates can now also accept igniters, condensers, flashes,
assembly shells, and door controllers.
add: Undertile circuit shells. They only work when placed under floor
tiles, but support USB cables and use APC power instead of cell power.
add: Wallmounted circuit shells. Large shells that support USB cables
and use APC power instead of cell power.
add: Wire bundle component. Adds a number of wires to the circuit
proportional to the capacity of the shell, allowing you to use
assemblies in circuit logic.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Assembly shells now use power from whatever machine/borg/mech/modsuit
they are attached to the wires of, instead of their own power cell, when
appropriate.
As for the meat of this PR, circuit wirenet components function like
NTnet and NFC components, but their signals are transmitted across
whatever cable network the shell (or in the case of assembly shells, the
machine or button it's inserted into) is connected to. These components
are available with roundstart tech.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Provides a somewhat intuitive way to make circuit networks that aren't
dependent on external factors to continue functioning.
NTnet components require a functional NTnet relay, which usually means
they need telecomms to be working. NFC components have a range limit,
and you need to provide a specific reference to the circuit being
communicated with. Wirenet components, on the other hand, just need the
shell to be anchored (or for assembly circuits, the thing whose wire it
is attached to), and for the shell to have a cable under it.
Also might indirectly provide a reason to use cable layers other than
the default one.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Adds circuit wirenet components, allowing data to be transmitted
and received over cable networks.
qol: When attached to a machine, mech, modsuit, or borg, assembly
circuit shells will use power from those instead of the circuit's own
cell.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
1. Techweb strings are now defined in
`code/__DEFINES/research/techweb_nodes.dm` many thanks to @ShizCalev
2. All places that used those strings have been updated with the
definitions as well.
3. `code/modules/research/ordnance/scipaper_partner.dm` had some old
boosted ids, they have been updated as well along
with their values.
## Why It's Good For The Game
fixes#84153
- I found this through a runtime, but basically the boosted nodes missed
unit test checks. Having them defined should in future ensure that any
changes to them alert the maintainers. This will help in furthur
modularizing the code.
- As for the nodes themselves, I have put the exact nodes as much as
possible so they dont differ much from previous gameplay and how they
worked. Researched nodes that used to give points to those experiments,
will continue to do so, but albeit at a slower rate. This is because the
research point generation rate overall now has been increased.
## Changelog
🆑 ShizCalev, SpaceLove
refactor: Techweb strings are defined now so to maintain modularity
balance: Research papers will have less overall point generation.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: ShizCalev <ShizCalev@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
Reshuffles the tech tree nodes, adding reagent purity and cybernetic
organ scan experiments. The total point requirements barely changed.
Made the discount experiments unlock nodes for free, instead of
providing partial discounts, to provide more incentive to actually do
them.
Also devided all points by the amount generated per second, for
convenience. Now points correspond to seconds.
<details>
<summary>New tech tree</summary>
<img width="4320" alt="Tech New"
src="https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/3625094/77afdec7-9df3-47b7-8df0-5b9261e9e0d6">
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
- Breaks bloated general nodes into more specialized nodes, making the
tree more balanced
- Combines scattered nodes dedicated to a single design into specialized
nodes, reducing the number of nodes
- Reshuffles the unlocks within specialized tree to adjust progression
on some trees to follow the idead: Cheap nodes first, then nodes that
require experiments or nodes of neighbouring trees, then expensive nodes
with end-game tech.
- You no longer need a dissection experiment to unlock a microwave,
every experiment is relevant to the tree unlocked by it
- With specialized nodes, it is easier to pick a node for the new things
that people add
- Better foundation for potential per-department point system. It will
be easier to put it on top of a cleaner tree
- The nodes are separated in tiers, with progressively increasing costs,
so that early tech is cheap and easy to research with just points, but
later tech is more expensive, making the discount experiments for those
more likely to be performed.
## Changelog
🆑
balance: Reshuffled tech tree, making nodes more specialized
qol: Research points devided by the amount generated per second, so now
research points correspond to seconds
add: Introduced reagent purity scan experiments (required for Cryostasis
node)
add: Introduced synthetic organ scan experiment (required for top tier
cyber organs)
add: Added a variant of machinery scan experiment that accepts any
machines with upgraded parts (required for tier 3 parts)
del: Removed material scanning experiments from the tech tree
/🆑
