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EnterTheJake
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Arcmines The Clarke Exosuit + Tech node changes. (#87936)
## About The Pull Request The Clarke Exosuit has received several adjustments to make it worth using in the Arcmining era. - Clarke no longer requires gold bars to be built. - HP bumped from 200 to 250, melee armor bumped from 20 to 40. - Clarke Ore storage module can now collect boulders and smelt them internally. - Exo mining scanners can now be used in proximity to a vent to start the wave defense event. - Mech Pkas now do more damage and have the AOE upgrade preinstalled. - Mech drills are now a utility module rather than a weapon. - New Internal module unique to the Clarke, It's a rusty sleeper that can be used to recover dead miners, but lacks the ability to inject chems - Fixed Mech sleepers not granting life support. - Plasma cutters and Bluespace satchels tech nodes are no longer locked behind experiments, but they are now discounted by them. ## Why It's Good For The Game Ever since the inception of Arcmining, the Clarke Exosuit has fallen from being niche to straight up irrelevant. The Clarke sits in this weird spot, where, while not being roundstart available, it is an effectively worse fit than your regular Shaft Miner in all aspects of the job. This PR aims to address this by making The Clarke able to be built even if the miners are absent or haven't secured a haul, while making it actually capable of interacting with the new elements introduced by Arcmining. **Arcmining Clarke and Improved Combat functionality** The Mech mining scanner can now be used to trigger the vent wave defense, The internal storage module can now collect boulders and internally smelt them within the Clarke. Video Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtsNK5JbI3o The Clarke is now a more capable fighter on Lavaland, being a bit beefier overall. The mech Pka was also in dire need of some love. It being unable to be upgraded made it frankly underwhelming at dealing with Vent defences. I was considering just having PkA upgrades applicable to the mech itself but ultimately decided against it in fear of having it become a problem on the station. Instead, I just went for a flat damage increase and have the AOE upgrade come preinstalled to better deal with legion swarms. Lastly The drill modules have been reworked to be utility modules instead of weapons. Frankly these shouldn't be weapons, they are nowhere near as valuable as the cutter or the PKA and can't be used at all on moving targets due to the long cost time. **New Clarke Exclusive Internal Module: Mining Sleeper**  Just a bit of extra functionality to aid miners that have tragically fallen, this sleeper is effectively a worse version of the Odysseus, it can stabilize patients but cannot inject chems, I also fixed an issue where Mech sleepers were not putting patients on life support like regular sleepers do. **Tech Node Changes** This is not something super related to the Clarke in and on itself, but I figured I might push my luck and try these anyway. There is just no good reason as to why satchels and cutters should be hard locked behind gas shells. These experiments are fairly trivial, but have a huge impact on lowpop as they usually force people to break into ordinance or the teleporter room just so miners could get their basic tools. The shells still exist but now grant a discount instead of hardlocking tech, so there's still an incentive to do them. ROCK AND STONE! ## Changelog 🆑 add: New internal sleeper module for the Clarke. balance: Clarke Integrity has been bumped from 200 to 250 HP, melee armor bumped from 20 to 40. balance: Exo mining module can now be used to scan vents and begin the wave defense event. balance: The Clarke Ore Storage Module can now collect boulders and internally smelt them. balance: Mech Pka is now bundled within the Clarke tech node, it now does more damage and comes with the AOE upgrade preinstalled. balance: Exo mining drills are now a utility module rather than a weapon. balance: Applied Bluespace Research and Controlled Plasma tech nodes are no longer hardlocked behind surveys, they instead favor from a discount if they are completed. fix: Fixes Exo Mech modules not granting life support to housed patients. /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Xander3359 <66163761+Xander3359@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com> |
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necromanceranne
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Herculean/Atlas implants get a few additional BOULDER/Equipment related benefits. Boulders are more robust. Natural Athletics gains. (#87469)
## About The Pull Request Herculean/Atlas spinal implants allow you to break boulders to process them manually. Doing so also grants athletics experience. They also increase the speed at which you throw objects, and also increase the range further. The Atlas version also allows you to reduce equipment movespeed penalties. (Fikou wanted me to do this for specifically modsuits, but I don't see any reason this can't apply to more than that, modsuits are just generally the slowest equipment you could wear) Boulders have 30 throw force, are by default HUGE, but have no throw range at all and really weak tk throw range. You need a throwing booster to throw boulders around. (They do extra damage to SPECIAL mobs, like lavaland bosses, because it's funny to kill a god-like being with a huge rock while slow as shit) You naturally get athletics experience by doing some actions. Fireman carrying, climbing tables/crates, climbing rope and climbing ladders give you a slow and steady stream of experience. Rope gives a larger amount if only because the process for doing so is destructive in some way (you have to get more climbing rope eventually, so there is an associated cost). Spinal implants now improve climbing speed for climbing over objects. ## Why It's Good For The Game I just had this strange compulsion to make the spinal implant make you good at throwing boulders at lethal speeds. It already has some cool rock-based special effects around you. Having mastery over rock throwing just kind of made sense. Additionally, I thought it would be a funny method for someone to be able to kill a boss via way of thrown boulders. Or some hapless nuclear operative unprepared for a bunch of assistants lobbing boulders at them. Additionally, I also think it letting you break boulders for ore is a fairly minor but fun addition. Pull boulders out of the vents, smash them. Good work out. Particularly for miners. I talked a while ago with I think Jacq about adding some natural methods for accumulating athletics experience over the course of a round that doesn't involve the dedicated weight lifting machinery/boxing bag. I thought any method for doing that should probably be relatively slow and definitely nonviable for significant athletics gains beyond novice level. Mooost people will hit novice on a multi-z map if they go up and down ladders enough. Or climb a lot of tables/crates. The results aren't going to have much noticeable impact, however, as you only gain appreciable benefits above novice. Probably just greater visibility of fitness in a round. (Rather nice for the RD, who gets to show off how swole they are more regularly). <details> <summary>Spoiler warning</summary>  </details> ## Changelog 🆑 balance: Herculean/Atlas spinal implants make you better at climbing tables, throw objects much faster and throw them much further. You can also break boulders with your bare hands. balance: Atlas implants let you offset the weight of worn/carried equipment (like boulders). balance: Boulders have no throw range, but if you can throw them via throwing range boosters (such as the spinal implant), they deal fairly large amounts of damage. Especially to powerful mobs like lavlaand bosses. balance: You naturally gain a small amount of athletics experience doing some tasks, such as climbing rope, ladders and tables/crates, fireman carrying, or smashing open boulders. /🆑 |
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ArcaneMusic
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47430a4c04 |
A smattering of boulder-related QOL and fixes. (#86834)
## About The Pull Request This pull request does a little bit of cleanup that I came across awhile ago while looking at #85081, then forgot about, then came back up when I was looking at some additional cleanup that needed to be done. Reorganizes the handle_wave_conclusion function such that it can take a force arg, to force a ore vent to be completed for debug purposes. This also fixes a minor bug where vents, when successfully completed, will still show a warning alert that the waves were failed, and that the vent has closed up. Grammar fix to the examine of boulder processing machines. Moves the can-move behavior of boulders on conveyor belts and during regular stacking to an early return over a late return (Thank you Goofball for pointing that out). Artifact boulders will now default to their artifact icon_state whenever possible. Finally, adds an additional sanity check to boulder processing to check for custom material length, to attempt to avoid zero-content boulders existing and running into the afforementioned #85081 ## Why It's Good For The Game Largely applies cleanup to several aspects of the boulder processing system, and a handful of (hopefully) performance related rearrangements to the existing layout of boulder processing code. I can't for sure say that it'll fix the linked issue, due to the fact that I could not for some reason re-create the issue in local testing, but I'm hopeful that it's some kind of nebulous sanity-related issue. Cleans up grammar in some spots, and provides a useful debug tool for admin purposes when you just want a vent to flip. Might be a good justification for a ore-manager admin panel later? 🤷 ## Changelog 🆑 fix: Artifact boulders should keep their alien icon even after a first round of processing. fix: Boulders are less likely to exist with zero materials after processing. fix: Boulders should be slightly less laggy on conveyor belts. fix: Grammar of refinery/smeltery examine is corrected. /🆑 |
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grungussuss
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58501dce77 |
Reorganizes the sound folder (#86726)
## About The Pull Request <details> - renamed ai folder to announcer -- announcer -- - moved vox_fem to announcer - moved approachingTG to announcer - separated the ambience folder into ambience and instrumental -- ambience -- - created holy folder moved all related sounds there - created engineering folder and moved all related sounds there - created security folder and moved ambidet there - created general folder and moved ambigen there - created icemoon folder and moved all icebox-related ambience there - created medical folder and moved all medbay-related ambi there - created ruin folder and moves all ruins ambi there - created beach folder and moved seag and shore there - created lavaland folder and moved related ambi there - created aurora_caelus folder and placed its ambi there - created misc folder and moved the rest of the files that don't have a specific category into it -- instrumental -- - moved traitor folder here - created lobby_music folder and placed our songs there (title0 not used anywhere? - server-side modification?) -- items -- - moved secdeath to hailer - moved surgery to handling -- effects -- - moved chemistry into effects - moved hallucinations into effects - moved health into effects - moved magic into effects -- vehicles -- - moved mecha into vehicles created mobs folder -- mobs -- - moved creatures folder into mobs - moved voice into mobs renamed creatures to non-humanoids renamed voice to humanoids -- non-humanoids-- created cyborg folder created hiss folder moved harmalarm.ogg to cyborg -- humanoids -- -- misc -- moved ghostwhisper to misc moved insane_low_laugh to misc I give up trying to document this. </details> - [X] ambience - [x] announcer - [x] effects - [X] instrumental - [x] items - [x] machines - [x] misc - [X] mobs - [X] runtime - [X] vehicles - [ ] attributions ## Why It's Good For The Game This folder is so disorganized that it's vomit inducing, will make it easier to find and add new sounds, providng a minor structure to the sound folder. ## Changelog 🆑 grungussuss refactor: the sound folder in the source code has been reorganized, please report any oddities with sounds playing or not playing server: lobby music has been repathed to sound/music/lobby_music /🆑 |
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tgstation-ci[bot]
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9a9b428b61 |
Wallening Revert [MDB Ignore][IDB Ignore] (#86161)
This PR is reverting the wallening by reverting everything up to
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Ghom
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83e1a58529 |
[NO GBP] Fixing Clarke's ore box the proper way (#85954)
## About The Pull Request #85924 did it in a bad way, but I was too hasty and merged it anyway, so it's on my shoulders to rectify that. ## Why It's Good For The Game Code guidelines compliance. ## Changelog N/A |
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TwistedCicrularConvexLens
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886d1aecbb |
Fixes Clarke ore box breaking upon collecting boulders (#85924)
## About The Pull Request Ever since Clarkes could pick up boulders they've been broken if you ever collected one. The UI would break and all your precious minerals would be trapped inside the Clarke, only being obtainable if you broke the Clarke itself. This also updates the Clarke Storage to differentiate by ore name rather than icon, as otherwise the lower quality boulders would be mixed with normal boulders with no way to differentiate them in the UI. ## Why It's Good For The Game Fixes https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/issues/84364 Before: <details> <summary>Before</summary> https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f90daf35-733a-42bd-8af5-7e6712f09fba </details> <details> <summary>After</summary> https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4510803c-6dee-403e-a051-966a8a66c17c </details> ## Changelog 🆑 TwistedSilicon fix: Clarkes will no longer become unable to dump ores upon picking a boulder up. Mine away. /🆑 |
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YesterdaysPromise
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fec946e9c0 |
/Icon/ Folder cleansing crusade part, I think 4; post-wallening clean-up. (#85823)
Hello everybuddy, your number three rated coder-failure here to clean up some mess. This PR accomplishes some of the more major structural clean up changes I wanted to do with /obj/ folder, but decided to wait on until wallening gets merged, and so, time has come. Several things to still be done, although I know these cleaning PR's are quite a load, so will wait for this one to get done with first. ## Why It's Good For The Game Saner spriters, better sprites, less annoyance. Also deleted a whole load of redundancy this time around, a lot of sprites which existed simultaniously in two places now got exit their quantum superposition. |
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Jacquerel
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98153ad983 |
Adds an achievement for pushing a boulder up a hill (#82813)
## About The Pull Request Credit to Melbert for this idea. Adds a new achievement awarded for carrying a boulder from Lavaland to the Centcom Rescue Wing (via the Escape Shuttle). If the boulder ever leaves your hands you will not gain the achievement. If the boulder is not outside on Lavaland when you pick it up you will not gain the achievement. If you arrive at the Rescue Ship (via pod) you will not gain the achievement. If you drop the boulder If the shuttle is hijacked and you do not arrive at Centcom you will not gain the achievement (perhaps try hitting the hijacker with the boulder you are not allowed to drop?). If you arrive at Centcom via the Escape Shuttle but fail to exit the shuttle holding the boulder (for instance, because a max cap bomb is detonated next to you one second after the shuttle arrives) you will not gain the achievement. As the achievement is rewarded after the round-end report is generated, you also will not be represented on the round-end report. This is a personal struggle. Also carrying a boulder slows you down. Dragging it already did, so I'm not sure why carrying one did not. It feels like an oversight, and just makes sense. People rarely have any particular need to manually carry them anywhere so this should be fine, right? 🙂 ## Why It's Good For The Game Making players do pointless and weird bullshit is the reason to have an achievement system. It's a social experiment. I think that it is funny. ## Changelog 🆑 Jacquerel and Melbert add: A new achievement for moving a boulder from one place to another, at great effort. balance: Hauling a boulder around makes you move slower, as it does when dragging it. /🆑 |
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ArcaneMusic
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dafacb8b4b |
Converts ore_mined talley into only recording typepaths. (#82098)
## About The Pull Request This Pull request makes it so that the blackbox `ore_mined` talley will now only record the mineral stack's typepath as opposed to a 50/50 mix of names and typepaths. ## Why It's Good For The Game Fixes #82042. Logging should be as descriptive as possible while also avoiding the possibility for misunderstanding, so using the typepath for logging on the blackbox is preferred. ## Changelog 🆑 code: Mineral logging now collects ore names more cleanly. /🆑 |
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Jacquerel
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be2f292253 |
Gulag boulder mining adjustments (#81971)
## About The Pull Request This PR does two fairly simple things. Firstly, it triples the gulag point value of every material except glass. Secondly, it allows mining skill increases to effect the speed of boulder breaking and reduce the stamina "exertion" you take. I tried this out personally on Lavaland and Icebox and while this is very much dependent on RNG (and storm timing) this got earning 1000 points purely from mining and smashing boulders down to _about_ ten minutes of work, which I believe is the rough estimate of how much effort it was before that. It may skew a bit higher than that if the ash storm happens at a bad time or the game gives you predominantly iron, but not a _lot_ higher. The mining skill = faster smashing thing is... barely perceptible after ten minutes of mining to be honest but it's saving _some_ time and I think if it gives you the exp it might as well benefit from it too. I didn't do anything for _glass_ because you can just pick that up off the ground in Lavaland and I didn't want to make _that_ the ideal route to getting your sentence finished. ## Why It's Good For The Game Since ArcMining was merged, the gulag has changed to a system primarily about digging up boulders and smashing them with a pickaxe for random rewards. I think the chain gang thing is pretty flavourful, but the inability to just target high-value materials (because you could see them on the mining scanner) and the overall decrease in output has made it take a lot longer to get a similar amount of points. People are sending prisoners out to mine for 1000 points of materials assuming this is about 10 minutes work, when in reality it was more like 30-35 minutes. Longer on Lavaland, where you need to take breaks for ash storms. This was not an intentional "nerf" to prisoner miners and should hopefully bring it back down to somewhere closer to the previous level. ## Changelog 🆑 balance: All materials except glass are now worth more gulag points than before. balance: Mining skill decreases the time it takes to break boulders, and makes it less tiring. /🆑 |
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SyncIt21
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df2ce692ee |
General maintenance for all things boulder related. (#81358)
## About The Pull Request **1. Qol** - Adds screen tips & examines for screwdriver & crowbar acts on BRM, Refinery & Smelter - Adds examines to display number of boulders stored inside a refinery & maximum number of boulders it can hold. Right click screentip to remove boulders - Adds examines to display maximum number of boulders than can be teleported by a BRM & screentips for interacting with wires - More audio & visual feedback for refinery processing. If a boulder requires multiple steps you will get a balloon alert saying "crushing" for refineries & "smelting" for smelters along with a sound per process tick(which is every 2 seconds so no need for cooldown) giving you a better idea of what's happening in the pipeline - BRM now will display all lights when the "Automatic boulder retrieval" is on & turn off the lights when disabled along with examines giving you a visual indicator of its state **2. Code Improvements** - Splits types of boulders into its own file `boulder_types.dm` for easy maintainability - Moves beacon for refinery machines into its own file `boulder_processing/beacon.dm` for easy maintainability - Moves the cooldown for processing a boulder `processing_cooldown` into the refinery machine itself. Since 100's of boulders can be created per round this var can take up memory quickly so by moving them into the refinery machine it gives us some savings - Compressed & merged procs such as `create_mineral_contents()` , `flavour_boulder()` etc with the vent code. These procs were only used by the vent 1 time & by merging the code we removed if conditions to check if a parent vent was passed or not(since now that's always the case). Helped in removing boilder plate code **3. Fixes** - **Fixes vents always spawning "Small size boulders" & not medium, nor large boulders.** Once a vent generates a boulder it calls `flavour_boulder()` |
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ArcaneMusic
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ArcMining Pr Beta: Version 1.2 (#78524)
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 🆑 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. /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: Time-Green <7501474+Time-Green@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: SyncIt21 <110812394+SyncIt21@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Jacquerel <hnevard@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Ghom <42542238+Ghommie@users.noreply.github.com> |