## About The Pull Request
Adds a crafting recipe to make Moffers clown shoes, using 2 mothroach
hides and 1 pair of clown shoes, to the entertainment section of the
crafting menu. Only the basic clown shoes can be used to make it, so
other clown shoes like meown shoes won't work.
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/105574010/527424d7-107b-4a62-aa29-92056be2b136
## Why It's Good For The Game
Creates an additional use for mothroach hides so that they're not only
for making moth plushies, giving another mechanical reason to butcher
mothroaches. This will also allow the clown to psychotically pull the
hide of a mothroach over each of their shoes and parade them around
proudly to the horror of anyone watching.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Added Moffers as a crafting recipe in the entertainment section.
/🆑
Stealing from Goon is bad, but stickers are actually a good feature, and
loosing those will be a disappointment. This project aims to recreate
'em from scratch without using Jimmyl's and Goon's code. Also,
suspicious icons were resprited and renamed.
## About The Pull Request
The style meter like, redirected the multitool signal into the component
itself, very odd. Since we hold a ref to the signal itself (kinda cring)
we can just avoid doing that.
Also made it use the new chain since i'm here.
## About The Pull Request
Deals with `/obj/machinery/grill` & its related components & elements.
**1. Qol**
- Adds examines & screen tips for toolacts, adding fuel & food items on
the grill, Converts some chats into balloon alerts
- Grills can be safely deconstructed with a crowbar when not anchored
- Food items can be grilled & re-grilled any number of times so you can
achieve that perfect crispiness. Its also realistic because there is
nothing physically stopping you from putting that item back on the grill
- Monkey fuel & any other reagent(see examines) can be added into the
grill from any open container & not just from glass bottles
- Grills can now be constructed in the crafting menu. Cargo pack cost
for purchasing grill has been halved
**2. Fixes**
- Grills now won't burn foods into a mouldy mess (if that item did that
that on the girdle). You can safely grill any item without worrying
about losing it. This also means grills no longer cook an item like a
girdle does, for e.g. the grill now won't both cook a meat slab into a
steak & grill it at the same time. You need the girdle for that.
This is only realistic because unlike a girdle which exposes the food to
direct heat the grill only exposes it to light heat & smoke so it does
not have that energy to cook/burn that item. Also this creates
immersion, you now need the girddle to cook the item & the grill to
smoke it so you know more gameplay
- The amount of time an item has been grilled for is now stored on that
food item & not as a locale variable in the grill. This means if you
remove & replace that item on the grill or move that item from 1 grill
to another it will correctly remember how long that item has been
grilled for so you don't have to re-grill that item on a different
machine for the same length of time
- Imposes a maximum limit on the amount of fuel you can put into an
grill (roughly 50 coal stacks). Unlimited space for fuel is not
realistic
**3. Code Improvements**
- Moved all non combat interactions to `item_interaction()` to end the
attack chain early before we even reach `attackby()`
- Removed trait `TRAIT_FOOD_GRILLED` no longer needed as we can re-grill
items as many times needed
- Converts some constant values into `SECONDS` for accuracy
- Autodoc for vars & procs
**4. Refactor**
- Grills now process manualy upon placing food or fuel into it & not
round start
## Changelog
🆑
qol: adds examines & screentips for grill (the machine for grilling
food), converts some chats to balloon alerts
qol: foods that can be re-grilled any number of times
qol: grill (the machine for grilling food) can now be made in the
crafting menu. Cargo pack cost for purchasing grill has now been halved.
qol: monkey fuel & other reagents(see examines) can be added from any
container & not just from glass bottles to the grill (the machine for
grilling food)
fix: grills (the machine for grilling food) now don't burn foods into a
mouldy mess unlike the girdle
fix: correctly computes grill times of items that were previously
grilled
fix: grills now have an upper fixed fuel limit
code: autodoc procs & vars for the grill (the machine for grilling food)
refactor: grills (the machine for grilling food) has been refactored.
report bugs on github, also they only start processing after putting
food/fuel into them.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This PR does many things, I'll try to explain the basic/background stuff
to the main thing first:
1. Adds a new remote that allows a human to function like an AI. It
controls a fly that will fly around the station slowly, and when it
reaches a machine then the person can interact with it as if they were
an AI. This required changing a lot of silicon/AI checks with one that
also checks for this remote, and some messing with shared ui state.
2. Moves req_access from the obj and bot to ``/atom/movable`` which lets
it be shared between the two, no more copy-paste and one side lacking
features/checks/signals the other has.
3. Adds a check for AI config for AI-related station traits, which was
lacking prior
Now for the good part...
Adds a new station trait that replaces the AI with a Human.
This person is equipped with an AI headset (including Binary), an
advanced camera console, an omni door wand, the machine controller, and
their laws.
They are immune to the SAT's turrets (even if set to target borgs) and
are slow outside of the SAT, mimicing the actions of the AI.
They interact with the world through their advanced camera console,
which allows them to do most AI stuff needed, and the holopad they can
connect to without having to ring first (like Command can).
They are given a paper with the laws they must follow, but since they
are human they are able to bend it. Cyborgs that run the default lawset
are "slaved" to them via an unremovable law 0, so the Human AI can bend
the laws if they really need to (for their own survival n such), and
make the cyborgs obey their commands above laws, but in general this
shouldn't be a frequent occurrence. This does take into account the
unique AI trait, so it's not guaranteed Asimov.
When this station trait rolls, all Intellicards, AI uploads, and AI core
boards are destroyed and are unresearchable. They can be spawned by
admins in-game if necessary. Maybe in the future we can also exclude
Oldstation from this but I haven't really decided.
Extra perks:
Human AI spawns with a Robotic voicebox (unless they are a body purist)
and teleport blocking implant, so they can't use teleporters to bypass
their on-station slowdown.
They also have an infinite laser pointer that can be used to blind
through their camera console. This is unfortunately nerfed from the
recent borg balance PR that removed its stun. This was meant to be the
alternative to no longer being able to permanently lock borgs down like
AIs can (or more than one, for that matter).
They aren't affected by Roburgers, Acid, and Fuel's toxicity.
Bots salute them like they do Beepsky (which is now a trait)
They spawn with SyndEye to replace the AI's tracking ability
They do not have a bank account
### The machine remote
The machine remote has a little fly in it that flies to the machines it
is pointed to, working as the arms and legs of the Human AI. It scans
the machine and punches in the action the AI does, and is how the AI
accesses basically anything. This fly slowly moves from one machine to
the next, and can be recalled with Alt Click.
It works on machines and bots.
### Video (Low quality to fit Github)
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/53777086/e16509f8-8bed-42b5-9fbf-7e37165a11e8
## Why It's Good For The Game
I've seen a funny screenshot one day of a person replacing the AI by
using a bunch of door remotes, camera console, crew monitoring console,
and a few other things. I've been thinking about that for a few years
and really wanted to make it official if not easier to make possible,
because it is an incredibly funny interaction.
This makes it a reality, and while they aren't as powerful as regular
AIs, I think it makes for better and funnier in-game moments. With the
same weight as Cargorilla (1), I hope this wouldn't be rolling too often
and ruin rounds, but instead show off the different capabilities that
Humans and AIs can do, to do the job of an AI. You win some you lose
some.
## Changelog
🆑 JohnFulpWillard, Tattax
add: Adds a new station trait job: The Human AI.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com>
## About The Pull Request
This list containing the same material values was copy pasted all over.
It's already cached in the subsystem so let's just use that.
Renamed ore category into silo category.
## Changelog
🆑
code: Use a common list for acceptable silo materials for some stuff.
Renamed ore category into silo category.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Adds the Shark and Shork Costume to the game, craftable via carp scales.
In addition, adds the ability to use a shark costume to craft a shark
plushy.
It is five carp scales and five leather to craft the shark costume, take
the costume and craft it with wirecutters to make a shork costume. Take
a shark costume, 10 cotton, and five cloth to craft a shark plush.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Good and funny costumes that give an additional use to pre-existing
crafting materials = good
Giving players another way to craft the shark plushie = good
Todo:
- [x] Make sure shit wont break
- [x] Add the crafting recipe for the costume
- [x] Add the crafting recipe for the shark plushie
- [x] Profit??
## Changelog
🆑 Drag
add: Adds the Shark and Shork costume. Blahaj lovers rejoice!
/🆑
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Another one.
## About The Pull Request
This pull request originally had a design doc that @Fikou and I worked
on, but that was never really polished up for publishing quality so I'll
forgo it for now and be as descript as possible here.
### Core changes
- This pull request adds a new NTOS app to the game, the restock
tracker. The restock tracker shows a comprehensive list of vending
machines across the station, as long as there is a need for that vending
machine to get restocked.
- This has also been pre-installed into the cargo data disks.
(`/obj/item/computer_disk/quartermaster`)
- Vending machines now store a total of 20% of the cost of any purchase
made within themselves into a small pool of cash. This only applies to
premium and normal purchases, not to contraband, as they're technically
not sanctioned by the company.
- The restock tracker app will also track which vending machines have
the most credits stored internally inside them.
- By refilling a vending machine, the stored credits within are paid out
to any crewmember who goes and restocks the station, while also paying
out *half that amount to the cargo budget*, serving as a basic but
otherwise easy tertiary money making method on the same level of
complexity as doing bounties, with the added benefit of actually helping
to assist the station for jobs like... assistant.
### Break Stuff
- Anyway, when you try and smash a vending machine open with a melee
weapon of choice, it can now pay out 50 credits at a time as a way to
make money at zero risk to yourself.
- ~~Except for the horrible risk to yourself.~~
### Cargo Specific Changes
- Restock units may now be sold for a small profit as well, to
incentivize cargo to keep the station stocked further.
- The `STATION_TRAIT_VENDING_SHORTAGE` trait will now add a small amount
of existing credits into the vending machines on station, to incentivize
cargo to fix the issue during the round and not just push for an early
shuttle call. Or, more accurately, provide the crew with a money making
scheme to engage better with the station trait as it stands.
### This also refactors behavior on vending machines
- This pull request also finally changes it so that vending machines now
use the payment component, which as a consequence allows for the
following improvements:
* Vending machines may now pull from physical credits on your person,
not just requiring you to have money on your ID card.
* Vending machines may also use credits being pulled by the player
interacting with the vending machine, allowing for handless mobs to be
able to purchase items from a vending machine.
* Finally makes the "use-for-everything buying things component" used by
the most utilized component of the in-game economy, to reduce the
quantity of unique implementations of purchasing things in the code.
- Existing vending specific checks are retained on before handing off
behavior to the payment component, for behavior such as purchasing
cigarettes/alcohol under the age of 18/21.
Notes:
- Vending machines will lose their internal credits stored when
deconstructed, as a security measure.
- Vending machines will now show the total amount of credits that a mob
has on their person, combining physical credits as well as credits held
in their ID card to accurately portray their total wealth across the mob
in question.
## Why It's Good For The Game
First off, this is largely an excuse to move vending machine behavior
over to the payment component for the purposes to less code copy-paste,
and to try and make the implementation more wide-spread.
Second, this implements a new tertiary economy method to the game, in
the same design space as bounties, which serve as common methods of
making money without necessarily being specific to their job in
question, with the primary goal of providing small amounts of work to
the crew and a basic interaction with the economy system.
Additionally, it gives cargo more things they can do to assist the
station, and a way to know which parts of the station need support as a
result.
It improves the interaction between the vending shortage station trait
as well, making it a challenge with depth as opposed to a more
oppressive round change that players would rather reroll the game over.
Additionally, this makes a few price tweaks to vending restock modules
as well to help incentivize buying some of the more minor restock kits,
and a few select bumps on restocks that cover wide enough territory to
necessitate fewer restocks.
When I made SSpolling, jlsnow gave me his blessing to delete the orbit
polling component [where you orbit something for 20 seconds before it
chooses a ghost from the orbiters]
It's only used in a few places like soulstones replacing
jobbanned/inactive players, etc.
Also upgraded SSpolling; you can now place a little icon on the sides in
the chat message, chat message looks a lot nicer, the alert pic and the
jump target don't have to be the same anymore, and I made it be able to
pre-pick candidates since 90% of the use cases would just want 1
candidate
Also prints to chat who the chosen one was
Also made slime intelligence potions ask the user for a reason, which
will be displayed in the alert poll
## About The Pull Request
I've forgot to register the examine more signal since I moved the info
there.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Title.
## Changelog
N/A . I doubt anyone will notice the blunder so soon.
## About The Pull Request
Food items with kronkaine in it now count as great baits (this is the
case of the "all-natural" bait from that overpriced cargo pack I'm
converting into a less expensive goodie in another PR)
Sufficiently high fishing skill (and the relative skillchip) allows you
to list fishes in a fishing spot by examining it twice.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Little fishing things off the top of my head before I move on bigger
stuff.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Fishes love kronkaine.
qol: Examining a fishing spot twice with sufficiently high fishing skill
(or the skillchip) will get you a list of fishes that can be caught.
/🆑
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Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
## About The Pull Request
I fixed 2 instances of procs having multiple arguments with the same
name. BYOND does not error on these, instead ignoring all but the last.
It's best to remove these for clarity.
## Why It's Good For The Game
N/A
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Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com>
## About The Pull Request
Updates shield sprites to new more polished and 3/4 perspective ones.
<details>
</details>
Adds 2 new shield types:
- **Improvised Shield.** Made out of 10 iron sheets and 2 sticky tape
pieces. Weaker then buckler shield and breaks after 2 gunshots or 4
baton hits, but has a 50% (BASE FOR ALL OTHER SHIELDS) blocking chance
instead of 30% that buckler has. Bulky
- **Ballistic Shield.** Printed at Security Techfab for a lot of
titanium after getting weapon research. Strong against projectiles, but
weaker than riot shield against melee. Bulky
Both of these shields break, and both of them are their own subtype. As
such you can still only craft strobe shield with a riot shield.
## Why It's Good For The Game
The sprites of shields were very ancient and extremely flat, this gives
them a more refreshed look.
Ballistic Shield is added because Riot Shield was weakened against
projectiles, Ballistic Shield gives the crew a way to get access to
protection against projectiles at some point in the round.
Improvised Shield adds a second improvised shield in the game (after
Buckler Shield). It's balanced by being weaker than Buckler, but higher
block chance, this adds an interesting choice for players on which
shield to craft.
## Changelog
🆑
add: Adds 2 new shields to the game! Ballistic Shield - researched by
Science, and Improvised Shield - made out of iron and sticky tape
image: Riot, Strobe, Telescopic, Energy shields got new less flat
sprites!
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
removes IEDs, these are its replacement
this recipe produces a finished pipebomb
you can craft pipes (of the atmos kind) with some metal
then you can make it into a pair of halved pipes with a welder
then you stuff in items for extra effect (optional, only works if it
does something)
then you put in welding fuel OR gunpowder (no other options as of now,
gunpowder is a better explosive)
cable finishes that part
after that, you can attach an unsecured assembly to finish the bomb
also this is the math for the explosion, power is decided by fuel
using it in-hand activates the assembly, using it off-hand allows you to
configure the assembly
## Why It's Good For The Game
IEDs suck and stuff and this would be a better upgrade/replacement
because with assemblies you could make a circuit sentient pipebomb or
gift a pipebomb via cargo or something and gimmicks i guess
## Changelog
🆑
add: Pipebombs
del: Improvised Firebombs
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This will fix#81626.
## Why It's Good For The Game
See above or below.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Meat and other bloody things will not spread blood forever.
/🆑
players can now download their very own virtual pet through a new PDA
app. this pet is called orbie and u can interact with him in alot of
unique ways
happiness can be increased by regularly grooming ur pet, feeding him, or
u can arrange with other players playdates for ur pets, they can play
with each other and both their happiness will increase
u can get food from ur pet through ur pda, it will assign u a random
drop zone location in the station u need to go to, after which u can
obtain ur pet's food then ur PDA will spawn a virtual chocolate bar that
ur pet loves to eat. it wont assign u dropzone locations that are
restricted or hard to reach, however if the area it assigns u is a bit
difficult to get to, u can reroll the location after a small cooldown
u can also level up ur pet to make it gain new helpful abilities and
more cosmetic options. the main way to level up ur pet is by walking it,
so u can have it follow u while u are doing ur job on the station and it
will passively get exp. u get an increased exp modifier per step if ur
pet is happy and not hungry. At level 2, ur pet will gain an ability to
toggle lights and will also read outloud to u any PDA messages u
recieve. at level 3, ur pet gains a camera ability. u can command it to
take a photo afterwhich the picture will be saved directly in ur pda
u also have alot of customization options for ur pet!
u can change its color, name, gender, and u can make it wear hats! u can
unlock more hats for ur pet if u level it up further. these
customizations change ur pet's hologram appearance as well as its
profile picture on the pet network.
u can view how other player's virtual pets are progressing through the
pet network. each time ur pet reaches a new milestone, an update will
automatically be sent out on the network
if ur pet's milestones gets likes from other players, it will become
happier
this app also allows u to program new tricks for ur pet. U can create a
custom trick sequence, and change the trick's name. If u say the trick's
name outloud to ur pet it will do the sequence u programmed.
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#81691
Tackling was making the tackler grab themselves.
I took this opportunity to cut down on some of these weird typecasts.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Fixes grabbing yourself when you tackle someone.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This has been coming up in almost every PR and I'm sick of it.
Fixes it for good. Also fixes an unrelated issue, where it was
previously adding the `alternate_appearance` to the cutout object
instead of the mob. Then when it tried to remove it, it was trying to
remove it from the mob rather than the cutout object, causing it not
actually be removed.
<details><summary>Still works fine</summary>
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
Bugfix
## Changelog
🆑
fix: fixes cardboard cutouts not updating when held and using the crayon
on them to change their appearance, and fixes the alt_appearance being
added to the cutout instead of the mob holding it
/🆑
---
EDIT: #81657 was merged before this and it introduces a new issue where
the cardboard cutout does not update when you change it with a crayon
while holding it. This should fix that, revised changelog.
## About The Pull Request
Closes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/81329
Closes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/81538
I made some improvements to tactical and twohanded in general, but
here's the fixes I made:
- Two-handed now unregisters signals for fantasy bonuses
- Tactical was registering signals for update icons, which in the case
of kirbyplants was called every time the item was picked up due to
two-handed's ``update_appearance`` call, so every time you picked up the
plant it would actually register signals twice, applying overlays twice,
etc. I removed the signal to update icon because it didn't really make
sense, we update on equip/move/z move, which should be all the cases we
need.
For some reason someone made Monkeys able to hold two-handed items now,
and it appears that in monkey business a monkey can try to pick up a
kirby plant, causing this CI error to be sporadic.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Fixes a CI error by removing a useless signal that was causing kirby
plants to register a bunch of signals twice over every time you picked
one up.
## Changelog
Nothing player facing.
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## About The Pull Request
### Riot Armor and Helmets (including SWAT armor and plate armor;
partially includes Syndicate modsuits and other suits with a module)
TRAIT_SHOVE_KNOCKDOWN_BLOCKED is now called
TRAIT_BRAWLING_KNOCKDOWN_BLOCKED. This is possessed by riot suits, SWAT
suits and now **plate armor**. Not the chaplain variety, because fuck
them I guess. (this was apparently deliberate so don't complain to me,
okay?)
Anyone with this trait is now unable to be knocked down by;
- Pure RNG on blunt objects attacks to the chest (Probability is
otherwise altered by melee armor already)
- Unarmed punches, both RNG and deterministic
- Bodies thrown at them. Instead, dealing stamina damage and causing
them to become staggered.
A new trait called TRAIT_HEAD_INJURY_BLOCKED, which protects from
various head injury related effects. This is possessed by riot helmets,
SWAT helmets, plate helmets, hardhats and applied to MODsuits with armor
boosters activated/the infiltrator suit while active.
The trait is also granted to anyone wearing a modsuit with the Head
Protection module installed. This can be printed from round start, and
comes pre-installed into all the engineering modsuits, security moduits,
research modsuit and magnate modsuit. (I had to bump up the security
modsuit complexity a bit to put it in iunno if we have a policy about
that)
Anyone with this trait is protected against:
- Bottle smashes to the head.
- RNG Blunt force trauma to the head by blunt objects (Probability is
otherwise altered by melee armor already)
- Partially protects against getting your spine snapped during a bad
tackle (this used to be a check ONLY for the riot helmet or hardhat)
### Bottle Smash
The bottle smash's chance of a knockdown is based on the force and
knockdown duration of the bottle, altered by relevant head melee armor.
It's no longer basically guaranteed due to weird math that would
determine whether or not you were knocked down only if your armor
exceeded certain values or not.
### Misc Changes
Any instance that would check either for riot armor or riot helmets
instead checks for the new traits.
## Why It's Good For The Game
People weren't particularly happy with the possibility of getting
ownzoned by a naked assistant or random toolbox-wielding tider while in
dedicated melee protection armor as a result of pure RNG jank. [There
was a whole thread here about
it](https://tgstation13.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=35645) with
regards to unarmed combat.
If you're in riot gear, you should feel like you can confidently combat
improvised/blunt weapons at a cost of general protection from the more
serious dangers to your wellbeing (AKA lead poisoning or heatstroke. Get
it....it's bullets and lasers...)
For some reason, bottle smash knockdowns, despite using the values
just...conveniently don't get blocked by armor except for extreme
values? If at all? I felt like this was really weird for something with
such a hefty and fairly powerful knockdown effect, particularly one you
can lob at someones head at range. I remember, way back when I first
started playing, that this was a feature that used to stun, and one I
used a lot to get cheap kills. The amount of bullshit stuns I got on
people with it still haunt me to this day. It hasn't improved in the
current era, despite being a knockdown, simply because any knockdown
still takes several seconds to exit. An arbitrarily low knockdown is
still a several second one. It's time to bring this in line with similar
equipment.
Rather than using flat values that are _clearly_ meant to be only
applicable to riot armor the decade ago that the code was written, let's
use traits instead. That's way better than relying on magic numbers that
may become irrelevant when the code around it changes, which anyone
touching that code may not even be aware existed.
Since we're using a trait, we can actually allow modsuits to
occasionally fill defensive niches that aren't strictly armor values.
Handy.
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balance: Nanotrasen, in direct response to the increasing danger posed
by wannabe martial artists and rioters in the fringes of the Spinward
Sector, have upgraded the impact dampeners found in their riot armor.
Staff have also started to rediscover the value of medieval armor; it
isn't particularly easy to topple a knight in a suit of plate with just
your fists.
balance: Melee-focused armor is now more able to protect you from
various RNG-based knockdowns, such as critical hits from punches (as
well as the ones applied through the staggered status), shoves, critical
hits with a blunt weapon to the chest, and body throws.
balance: Melee-focused helmets also protect you from head injuries, such
as bottle smashes, accidentally hitting something dense during a tackle,
and critical hits from a blunt weapon to the head.
balance: Bottlesmash knockdowns are less reliable in general.
add: A new module, the Safety-First Head Protection module, protects you
from head trauma! Available in most modsuits expected to take hits to
the head often. And from roundstart exofabricators.
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
Bodytypes like BODYTYPE_HUMANOID, BODYTYPE_MONKEY, etc that have to do
with the shape of a human body and sprite handling, now have their own
"bodyshape" var instead of being in bodytype along with stuff like
BODYTYPE_ORGANIC, BODYTYPE_ROBOTIC; which have nothing to do with shapes
and sprites
## Why It's Good For The Game
the way these are used in the code is totally different to
BODYTYPE_ROBOTIC, which determine whether you can heal a limb with
medicine etc.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Bodytypes to do with character sprite shape now have their own
bodyshape var, all sprite handling is done with bodyshape and not
bodytype anymore
/🆑
Footprint sprites no longer have to be the same "shoe" sprite, they are
now based on what shoes you're wearing and what legs you have
They are also renamed, i.e., if they're paws, they're called pawprints
and not footprints
Shoes have priority over legs
I have changed monkey legs to have paw footprints
Code is from https://github.com/DaedalusDock/daedalusdock/pull/813,
except I renamed some defines and vars and tweaked it a bit
A future use for this is, adding human FOOT (not shoe) print sprites, so
people without shoes would make actual FEET print sprites
I didn't do this cuz I can't sprite, but it's possible now
Also didn't do this cuz I'd like to replace the existing footprints with
the more grimy Baystation footprints, they look much better, but that's
for a separate PR
Any lizard superfans could also sprite something for lizards, the
possibilities are endless
## About The Pull Request
Split this off from https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/81598 in
hopes to keep it as atomic as I can.
Genericizes the things that holographic monkey species existed to
replace, so now we don't have to worry about having to copy paste this
to any future mob later down the line.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Removes a monkey species subtype, and a pretty bad one at that.
Preferably makes hologram mobs more consistent with eachother and
prevents copy paste happening everywhere in the future if any new mobs
ever gets added to the holodeck.
## Changelog
🆑
refactor: Holographic mobs now gives better feedback to players and
should more consistently not give any drops.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
This should fix#81560 and fix#81561,
## Why It's Good For The Game
Oh no, another invisibility exploit.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: fixed an issue with tactical appearance (potted plants / cardboard
cutouts) not going away after giving the item to someone else.
fix: Fixed slaughter demon cutouts being invisible. Also fixed another
issue with the tactical appearance not going away when the cardboard
cutout is pushed down.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Basically, this means players holding cardboard cutouts will now assume
their appearance, just like for potted plants. Good for pranking.
I've had to tweak the tactical component and the waddling element a bit
to get them to work as intended while dealing with the multiple sources
of the waddling element.
## Why It's Good For The Game
## Changelog
🆑
add: Players holding cardboard cutouts will now assume their appearance,
just like for potted plants.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
- Fixes#81486
Happens only with items that are Indestructible like the pai card, It's
a 2 part fix
- First display error message saying the item was rejected
- If the item is indestructible but was put inside another object like
an bag or anything else, then move the object to turf where this object
was inserted(`context`) & not the ore silo(`parent`) thus fixing the
teleportation bug
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Indestructible items like the pai card don't teleport to the ore
silo when you insert them into silo linked machine & also displays a
message saying it was rejected.
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
This is a REALLY hot proc, takes up to like 2% of total cpu at highpop
Let's micro it then
First, clients do not go null at random. It's not predictable per say
but it is consistent.
We can use this understanding to remove a bunch of null checks here
For loops are expensive. So rather then doing one each keyLoop, let's
cache the client's intended move direction on the client. Simplifies
some other code too
There is no sense running a turn call if it would have no effect, let's
be more intelligent about this
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refactor: Fucks with how movement keys are handled. Please report any
bugs
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## About The Pull Request
[Fixes static lights not
moving](ffef43c05a)
Worked fine when the owner moved, but if the owner was inside something
else, it would try and trigger an update on the PARENT's lights, which
are obviously not us.
[Renames MOVABLE_LIGHT and STATIC_LIGHT to better describe what they
do](de73a63bd4)
People keep trying to change the lighting system of lamps and it makes
me mad.
I choose OVERLAY_LIGHT and COMPLEX_LIGHT here, I couldn't figure out a
better name for turf matrix lighting. Suggestions welcome
## Why It's Good For The Game
Closes#80005
Hopefully improves understanding of lighting at a glance
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Fixes fancy lights not updating their source location when picked
up and moved
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
adds a new gateway map, the Nanotrasen Museum it is filled with
""""Mannequins"""" and Common Core lore
im not putting the preview here because you really should explore it
yourself but if youre that curious i think the Checks tab in mapdiffbot
would have it
this gateway map contains no combat unless you count falling into chasms
because you did not carry a light
or going into the boarded room with no loot or any incentive with
obvious signs that there is the sole enemy on the map in there
the loot is the lore ok thanks
also makes mines detonate if theyre detonated by a non-mob im pretty
sure this couldnt have been intentional
trams stop chasms
and also the relevant items
<details>
<summary>on second thought if you want spoilers check this</summary>
</details>
## Why It's Good For The Game
more gateway maps = good
## Changelog
🆑
add: nanotrasen museum gateway map
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
Adds a signal when someone buys an item from the uplink and removes
single-letter vars from the ``spawn_item`` proc, and adds/standardizes
add/removing of telecrystals from uplinks (and admin setting how much TC
they have) to ensure the UI always has the right amount of telecrystals
displayed in it.
## Why It's Good For The Game
There are reasons why someone would want to hook up to a traitor's
uplink and listen to items they purchase to do any special effect
on-purchase, so this adds support to do anything in the future with it.
Also tells players how much TC they actually have without forcing them
to close/reopen the UI every time they insert some TC in it by hand.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Uplinks now update their UI when you add telecrystals in them, so
you don't need to close and reopen it.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
settlers can now rename their tamed pets
## Why It's Good For The Game
adds another fun and harmless interaction between settlers and their
pets
## Changelog
🆑
add: settlers can rename their pets
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
I recently played a game where I rotated my skeleton model while
rotating my own character at the same time and it being in sync gave me
the realization on how cool it would be if the Coroner was able to
simply control the skeleton body.
I find skeleton displays very funny and I want to see more funny things
happen with them, so I thought this would be a good place to start, with
the benefits that it also works on mannequins and statues too so they
aren't left out.
Basically, while it is unanchored, if you have a statue/mannequin
grabbed, it will change its direction as you do, and speak the same
words you do. Your own messages can only be heard if the person is
directly next to you, revealing that it was you talking through it all
along.
I was originally gonna add this to the simple rotation component but
moved off when I decided to add talking through it, I left in the code
improvements I made to the component though since it is one of the
oldest components and hasn't been touched in a while.
Video demonstration (before I added the person also talking, just ignore
that missing)
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/53777086/27242fc3-9649-418d-95cb-b31619319e97
While fixing the Toilet bong's rotation stuff I noticed a lot of it
wasn't up to proper code standards so I went over it and fixed issues I
had with it. It now doesn't give text saying you found something nasty
to species that still likes mice (like flypeople), and fixed its update
appearance to match the codebase standard set by the introduction of
``update_appearance`` many years ago.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It's a funny small idea I had and got inspired to add, it's a niche
mechanic that I think fits the aesthetic I am going for with Coroner and
also give a funny interaction with the human-like inanimate objects.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: Species that can eat mice don't get disgusted from seeing one in
the toilet bong.
add: Grabbing an unwrenched statue/mannequin/skeleton model will now
move its direction as you move yours, and you can talk through it.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Fixes#79318
- See the issue for more information. I fixed the runtimes as expected,
and then removed `SURGERY_REQUIRE_LIMB` from some surgeries which don't
actually require a limb, such as implant removal, dissection, and living
revival. I could've easily missed some, and as a result some surgeries
are lost to the void and unselectable, but from what I could tell in
testing it seems... fine.
- Adds `SHOULD_CALL_PARENT` to surgery `can_start`. Cleans up some
surgery `can_start` overrides.
- Adds missing sounds to puncture repair surgery.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
fix: Fixed Puncture Repair surgery not having surgical sounds
fix: Fixed Surgery Initiator potentially showing invalid surgeries
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
1. **Qol Stuff**
- Screentips & examines for screwdriver, crowbar acts, multiool &
wirecutter Also for Alt click
- Techfabs can now also use the Mouse drag functionality to set drop
target for items
- Lathe printing animation now plays on loop instead of just flicking
once till printing is finished for more visual feedback
2. **Code Improvements**
- Merged `start_making()` with `do_make_item()`. That proc was like only
3 lines long and used only in 1 place so let's just move that code to
`ui_act()`
- Merged `user_print_item_id()` with `ui_act()`. Again was used only in
1 place so let's just move that code in to save some proc overhead
- Sets `processing_flags` for autolathe to `NONE` cause we don't use
`process()`
- Autodocs vars such as `hacked` , `shocked` etc & procs
- `maxmult` is now computed client side saving backend bandwidth,
`construction_time` is removed from lathes which did not use it
- Removed all usages of lathe taxes and their related vars, removed
engineering lathe no tax from ice moon, replaced with normal engineering
lathe
3. **Fixes**
- Lathe sheet insertion animations are now linked & work again for all
material types inserted via remote silo/local storage,
silver/titanium/plastic all play the same animation(that is
`protolathe_shiny` overlay). Other materials have their own respective
overlays
- Fixes#81243. Calling `update_static_data_for_all_viewers()` is too
expensive for the UI. We should instead use `SStgui.update_uis(src)`
which will report the `busy` status to the UI more immediatly
- Fixes#81236. Some problems with the params passed to the timer
callback. It should now print the correct number of requested items
- Fixes#81192. `design.materials` would runtime for custom material
items as they were list of texts not materials. We have to pass our
manually parsed list of materials for an specific item to ensure they
are set & used correctly. Same fixes apply for techfabs as well
## Changelog
🆑
qol: adds screentips & examines for screwdriver & crowbar acts & alt
click.
qol: techfabs can now use the mouse drop functionality to set drop
target.
qol: lathe printing animation plays on loop while printing rather than
flicking once for more visual feedback
fix: lathe sheet insertion animations are now linked & work again for
all material types inserted via remote silo/local storage
fix: printing custom materials items from autolathe works again.
fix: printing multiple items from lathes will actually print that
correct quantity of items requested.
fix: printing items the 2nd time around from lathes won't cause the UI
to reload each time.
code: autodoc for some vars & procs, merges procs.
refactor: Optimized code for autolathe & techfabs in general. Report
bugs on github
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
- Fixes#81289
It has nothing to do with `dump_contents()` but with the material
container that drops its materials on `Destroy()` causing side effects.
Now it only drops sheets when an object is deconstructed but not
destroyed.
For this to work properly on all instances we have to ensure
`deconstruct()` is not overridden at least on machines for now, so they
can send `COMSIG_OBJ_DECONSTRUCT` signal. That comes in the next PR
## Changelog
🆑
fix: deleting objects with local material storage(autolathe, drone
dispenser etc) no longer drops sheets, they only drop materials when
deconstructed
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Burning a bible now gives you 1 curse, instead of INFINITY curses.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It looks like https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/78899 forgot
about bible curses.
I think this was an oversight.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: burning a bible no longer gives you INFINITY curses
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
- Kicks Martial Arts out of the attack chain.
- All Martial Arts attacks are now handled via unarmed attack or grab
signals
- This means all martial arts are now technically on the living level,
allowing any mob that can unarmed attack to martial arts. Sort of. YMMV.
- All martial arts block checking is now handled by the arts themselves,
meaning you can selectively decide for a martial arts strike to not be
blocked. Maybe good for the future.
- A comprehensive cleanup of all existing martial arts. Improving var
names, code, adding some missing animation calls, etc.
Fixes#74829
## Why It's Good For The Game
Untangles the mess that is martial arts, making it a lot easier to work
with the attack chain and making it overall a ton more consistent.
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Big martial arts refactor, they should now overall act a ton
more consistent. Also technically any mob can do martial arts. Let me
know if something is funky.
/🆑
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## About The Pull Request
`ingredients` seems to hold a reference to all the food in our atom's
contents that are used to make up our custom food, but it doesn't clear
it anywhere.
So I implemented `Exited`, as well as cutting the list on component
`Destroy`.
## About The Pull Request
- Jukebox is refactored into a datum that the rave visor and the jukebox
uses.
- Jukebox UI is now typescript.
- How the Jukebox delivers sound to players has been rewritten.
- Now it adjusts the sound's position in accordance to where the
listener is.
- This implementation was loosely inspired by that done by Baystation
half a decade ago, so kudos to them.
- Additionally, being deafened will temporarily mute the jukebox.
- And sorry, in refactoring this I snuck in one tiny feature.
- You can now toggle looping on Jukeboxes to play the song
foreeeverrrrr.
## Why It's Good For The Game
It sounds wayyyyyy better. Overhead isn't even that bad, though it could
be tested on a live server to make sure.
https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/assets/51863163/ec1321b6-bf1c-4c33-9663-83f2c23a4277
## Changelog
🆑 Melbert
refactor: Jukebox has been refactored. Jukebox music now updates as the
player moves, mutes when the player is deafened, and overall sounds
wayyy better. You can also now toggle song repeat on jukeboxes.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
When using the biopsy tool on something that doesn't have a swabbing
result it would say:
> "You do not manage to find a anything on [target]!".
The "find a anything on [target]" is incorrect and reads off, so this pr
just changes the respective statement in
`code/datums/components/swabbing.dm` to remove that a, becoming:
> "You do not manage to find anything on [target]!".
## Why It's Good For The Game
Minor grammar fix.
## Changelog
🆑
spellcheck: You no longer fail to find "a anything" when swabbing
something for cytology that doesn't have swabbing results.
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
Attempting to fix this hard del here:
I think the cause is from the turf changing, which
`/datum/elements/connect_loc` does not seem to take into consideration.
Now it should.
Also cleans up the signals in `/datum/component/infective/` which may be
another potential cause of issues.
## Why It's Good For The Game
Code that cleans up after itself is nice.
## Changelog
🆑
fix: fixes a hard del with decals
/🆑
## About The Pull Request
1. **Qol**(Hopefully not an issue for feature freeze)
- Adds Screen tips & examines for screwdriver, crowbar & multitool acts
- Examining ore silo will now display its stored materials
- Location name is attached to the machine name and it greys out when
pausing the machine to make it more noticable that it is paused
- Made window wider
2. **Code Improvements**
- Auto docs procs & vars for ore silo log entry
- Fixed return values of all tool acts i.e. no more returning
`TRUE/FALSE` but the actual item interaction flags
- UI no longer computes `REF` for each machine which is expensive but
instead uses the index value in the list
- Moved global variables to their corresponding files
- Ore silo no longer starts processing round start. That proc just ended
itself anyway so why even bother registering
3. **Fixes**
- If a machine was disconnected via the ore silo UI, attempting to
reconnect that machine would cause a runtime at `RegisterSignal` in
`multitool_act` because it was already registered in `Initialize`. It
now unregisters the signal when disconnecting so that's fixed
- Each machine element in the UI does not have a unique key because it
used `key={machine.name}`. This meant after disconnecting a machine the
UI buttons would get grouped together and the pause & disconnect buttons
would not function properly. Now it uses `index` which is unique thus
fixing that problem
## Changelog
🆑
qol: added more screen tips & examines for ore silo, made UI wider,
attach location name to each machine & grey out paused machines to make
it more noticeable.
code: auto docs proc & vars for silo log entry. Fixed return values of
all tool acts
fix: ore silo UI now functions correctly after removing an entry from
the UI
fix: no runtimes when connecting a machine to silo that was previously
disconnected via the ore silo UI
/🆑
This one's not like the last one, so much so that I'm not even going to
outsource the PR description to a robot this time!
Basically, **You should read the PR body before assuming that everything
is the same as last time. It's not.**
## Video Summary
Click the link below to see a video summary of the main features of this
pull request.
https://youtu.be/Aho2omR0mjY?feature=shared
## About The Pull Request
This pull request serves as a large rework of minerals produced by
mining, and by extension mining itself. I'll try and list each change
and it's associated nuance here.
### Ore Vents
The biggest addition to the game with ArcMining is **Ore Vents**. Ore
vents spawn as a ruin on the map, placing a randomized ore vent onto map
generation. Ore vents spawn in 3 different sizes, **Small, Medium, and
Large**. These vents will pick from a pool of materials they can
generate, and will hang out across the map. A player can use a mining
scanner to discover an ore vent, granting a small quantity of **mining
points** to begin with. Once scanned, ore vents will show what minerals
that ore vent will generate after they're fully tapped.
Scanning the vent again will trigger the extraction process. A small
drone will fly down, called the NODE drone, and buckle onto the vent.
Your job during wave defense is to protect the drone and to defeat waves
of randomly spawning mobs (dependent on if you're on lavaland or on
icebox). The quantity, duration, and time between waves is scaled to the
size of the vent you're protecting. Starting by scanning and protecting
lower tier vents earlier in the shift is a safer bet than doing a large
vent in the first few minutes. The drone has 500 health, and can take a
good few hits, but leaving it alone will cause it to meet an unfortunate
end quite quickly.
Cooperation can be your best asset, as mining with allies can greatly
help with wave defense, and mineral points are granted to anyone who
helps with defending the ore vent equally (So 500 * size tier,
regardless of how much help you receive). Once complete, the ore vent
will have a mining machine constructed on top of it, and will start to
dredge up **Boulders** from the earth automatically. More on boulders
later.
Ore vents can be located based on your mining scanner, and will provide
an appropriate audio cue based on if the ore vent has been discovered or
not, and once processed will no longer alert you to it's presence.
**Each station comes with a free vent that produces exclusively iron and
glass, free of charge.** This is to help with shifts where the station
may not have shaft miners to produce minerals, and to provide the
station with a baseline amount of minerals where none may exist
otherwise.
### Mineral Generation
Mineral generation has been completely reworked. Previously, Mineral
Generation had a flat 13% spawn rate in-game. Once minerals spawned,
they would also have a chance to propagate their minerals to nearby
tiles, resulting in a rather massive pool of minerals that could spawn
throughout lavaland on the whole.
This tweaks that, by making minerals in walls spawn based on their
proximity to ore vents on maps that use cave generation. Both the
probability, and quantity of ores spawning in walls is scaled based on
distance, with ore vents looking like large caches of ores found in
walls. This makes following ores found in walls and checking their
quantity of minerals spawned a good indicator of how close you are to a
nearby vent in-round.
This means you can collect some points form both discovering ore vents
first, as well as collecting their surrounding ores, turn those in for
mining points, and then trading them in for gear upgrades to more
effectively take on ore vents. As a result of tweaking the balance of
this, the total amount of ores spawned in walls overall has been
decreased. However, by making more of the process time based, we still
result in a mostly balanced finished product.
### Boulder Processing
On station, there are now three new machines. These are the BRM, the
Refinery, and the Smelter.
- The BRM acts as a teleporter. Instead of needing to carry boulders
back to the station, you can activate the BRM, and it will automatically
pick boulders to teleport back to itself. You can use this to teleport
boulders dredged up from lavaland onto the station for processing. **The
BRM will only lock on to boulders that are resting on an ore vent.**
Moving boulders back by hand will mean you'll have to haul it back by
hand.
- The refinery processes the non-metallic materials out of boulders.
This process sends the materials straight to the ORM, and collects
mining points from the ores smelted in the machine. Swiping with an ID
card lets you withdraw those points for your own personal account, but
remember that these points are for your whole team to share from. The
**Mining points obtained from this process is only 75% of the amount an
equivalent amount of ores would provide.**
- The smelter works nearly identically, however the smelter produces
metallic materials out of boulders instead.
- Once a boulder has had all of it's materials extracted, it's broken
down and deleted from the line. Otherwise, the boulder is spat out for
the next machine to process it (either the refinery or smelter).
- Once there's no minerals left in a boulder of any type, the refinery
or smelter will break the boulder down.
- Boulders **do not stack onto tiles with each other**, so they'll block
each other when pulled or when moving on a conveyor belt.
Boulders can also be processed by hand. Using a mining tool on a boulder
with right click will allow you to break down a boulder into it's
composite ores, but limits you to a maximum of 10 ore per boulder, where
the full amount can be extracted using the proper processing machines.
Also, processing by hand does deal small amounts of stamina damage over
time, do breaking a full large boulder can be particularly taxing.
Additional Boulder Processing Machines can be built, with the BRM board
being obtained from the Protolathe, while the Smelter and Refinery
boards being obtainable from the Autolathe instead. A _boulder
processing beacon_ can also be obtained from the mining points vendor as
a reward to assist with boulder processing. Boulder processing beacons
can be used to spawn in a new BRM, refinery, and smelter on the tile the
user is standing on, however **you'll still need to link them to the
ORM**!
All three machines can be upgraded with Stock Parts, allowing for **more
boulders to be processed at a time**. It does not, however, increase the
amount of minerals received from boulders, or points earned.
### Mining Borg Tweaks
Mining borgs have been given some minor adjustments to compensate for
the changes to mining. Their mineral scanner, which now has an active
component to gameplay, is now a module as opposed to built into the mob.
This module allows for the same ability to discover and start waves of
monsters to fight.
Mining modules will find that their PKA now has a total of 90% mod
capacity as compared to the 80% they had before, to allow for more
robust defense of ore vents.
In addition, all borgs and AIs can interact with the BRM for boulder
collection.
### Mining Mech Tweaks
Mining Mechs have had their utility tweaked as a result of these changes
as well. Mineral scanners to be used on mining mechs now have a larger
radius by comparison to their handheld cousins. Similarly, it now has an
active scanning button, which will actively discovery nearby ore vents.
To begin wave defense, you will need to hop out and scan a second time
however, so that you can properly accept the risks of drawing a horde of
bloodthirsty wildlife towards you and your companions.
Mechs can also manually process boulders, similar to mining tools using
their drill.
### Golem Tweaks
Golems, being more gentle and less aggressive than humans, while being
made out of LITERAL ROCKS, have a greater need to secure access to ores
and minerals to eat. As such, they have adapted to be able to do two new
things:
- Golems may now right click ore vents to be able to manually haul a
boulder out of the vent. This costs a hefty amount of stamina, but it
allows for golems to avoid combat during regular gameplay.
- Golems may now left click a boulder with an open hand in order to
manually process a boulder like a pickaxe. While not faster, it is
consistent and prevents golems from starving if they have access to a
vent, but no ores, somehow.
### Gulag Tweaks
The labor camp, being a camp for rehabilitation and ~~excessive manual
labor~~ has been tweaked. Boulders now replace the random minerals
located on their island, and to acquire their prizes inside, much be
excavated and then broken out of the rock. Now YOU TOO can excavate
minerals and become a true mineral hero by working your way to freedom.
### Mining Point Changes
As a result of fewer mining points being available across the map due to
the new ore spawning mechanics, and the shift in how and when ores will
be coming in, almost every progress based mining point cost has been
reduced by around 10-20%. Many numbers are still subject to change at
present, but the idea is that core progress unlocks should be made a bit
more available earlier in the round before players can start to solo or
duo larger or more difficult ore vents, after which they'll be rolling
in ores.
### Rarities
Every once in awhile, an unusual boulder will get hauled up from the
mineral rich depths of lavaland. These **Artifact boulders** can
occasionally produce rare items, but for now they've mostly just been
pulling up **Strange objects** for science. Nanotrasen Natural Sciences
department will reward you extra points to be collected by boulder
processing machines for successfully extracting one. In the future, this
opens up a passive reward space that mining can reward to the station,
like providing cytology DNA samples, ancient seeds, or other artifacts.
### Misc notes
- Boulders can be stored in all varieties of ore boxes (ground, mech)
should you choose, however as mentioned it's best to leave them where
they spawn and teleport them to the station for convenience.
- Maps that are not subject to cave generation will find that they are
largely untouched in terms of mineral balance.
- Future or existing ruins can now be tweaked to have a mineral balance
cost, as the ore vent ruin does. This will allow us to spawn in more
interesting ruins for pre-made combat challenges.
- There are unique ore vents that spawn across the map, that will summon
a boss mob relevant to that map. If the boss mob is defeated, that vent
will spawn large boulders pulling from every possible ore type that can
spawn. Not for the faint of heart!
- Similarly, the number of ore vents and mineral budget is now
adjustable in the cave generation procs, so maps may spawn with more or
less ore vents as desired for balance.
- Artifact boulders opens up a LOT of room for possible future content
like archaeology, xenoarch, artisci, and other design spaces!
- Megafauna STILL SPAWN ON THE MAP. They just happen to spawn in
addition to boss ore vents.
- **I'll add more to this as I get asked questions and remember things,
this is a huge PR and I'm confident I've missed at least something**
## Why It's Good For The Game
I outlined a lot of this in #78040, so I'll try and keep this relatively
snappy this time, while noting that I've made some concessions to make
the whole system a lot more playable while not trying to break out
design decisions that are at the end of the day, better for the game and
the overall resource balance in round.
Minerals are a very poorly balanced system, and have been since their
inception many years ago. We heavily rely on mineral balance in round,
and yet we've really only balanced it by introducing so much supply that
there's no equivalent exchange for materials that doesn't just heavily
flood the exchanged material. For example, items printed from materials
that are otherwise considered "rare" on master exist in such quantities
and they'll never practically run out in our allotted 90 minute time
slot design. This PR adjusts how ores spawn to a point where we can
minimize the amount of ores that need to exist on the map for mining to
be able to progress, while still providing enough resources for the
station that it covers the needs of the station adequately.
Miners will need to be more strategic about what resources they've
collected, and be able to make decisions about which vents are worth the
risk of attempting to fight, how to prepare for a wave defense, and when
to head back up for upgrades, while finally giving them at least some
kind of incentive to work together and use different equipment.
Resonators make cleaning up the caves around vent easy, sandbags set up
easy defenses for your vent, mechs can serve as a wider range radar
while mining, all while still providing a new gameplay loop to mining.
By limiting the amount of ores that can enter the round from the
massive, massive amounts that were coming into the round beforehand (see
#78346 ), we can make ore processing more meaningful by adding more
gameplay to the processing of minerals. I have some plans for that,
however this PR already got bloated really REALLY badly due to scope
creep and the number of intersecting systems that rammed into each other
to make this PR possible. So that'll be next. Plus, as I've mentioned,
we open up places for ore processing to find fossils, relics, and other
things that can implemented down the line.
Overall, I don't expect this PR to save or kill ore balance, but we gain
a LOT more control over it through the use of our mining defines
attached to this PR, and at the end of the day, that's a great place to
start off of.
## Changelog
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add: Added ore vents. Scanning them with mining scanners shows what
minerals they contain. Scan again to fight off a horde of beasts as your
drone assistant excavates the vent, so the ore vent will produce mineral
boulders!
bal: Ores that spawn in walls now spawn based on their proximity to ore
vents, with their chance to spawn and their minerals contained scaling
from low to high.
add: Added the BRM, Refinery, and Smelter. These pieces of equipment are
used to process ore boulders into minerals for the station. Stock Part
upgrades allow more boulders to be processed at one time. They collect
mining points as well, to be redeemed with an ID card swipe.
add: Boulders are teleported to the station via the BRM if left
untouched. Boulders can also be cracked open for a reduced amount of ore
using pickaxes or golems hands.
add: All stations come equipt with a pre-excavated ore vent, which
produces a basic supply of iron and glass only. Scan other vents for
your critical resources!
add: Look there's a shit ton of changes on mining, for more detail check
out the Pull Request: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/78524.
sound: New sounds and noises for your high octane factorio-like
gameplay!
image: All new boulder sprites for the new minerals and rocks added to
the mining gameplay loop, as well as mining machines!
image: Overlays appear over vents when scanned to let you know their
contents at a glance when actively scanned with any mining scanners.
/🆑
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