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* Converts Spiderlings from Structures to Basic Mobs (#75001) If I could've made this more atomic, I would have in a heartbeat, trust me. ## About The Pull Request Hey there. People were mocking us for having spiderlings still be a subtype of `/obj/structure`. I decided to take a lot of time to fix that. A lot of behavior it was implementing was just pseudo-mob stuff, so it was actually easier than it looked for the raw conversion. A lot of the footwork on spider stuff in the basic framework was already done previously by Jacquerel, so that was pretty nice. However, there are two new things that weren't introduced in the code that had to be put in. A) A component to handle growth and differentiation into a mob. This may have already existed, no clue. If it does (and it's NOT evolutionary_leap), let me know. B) AI Behavior to handle seeking out a vent, entering a vent, and then exiting out of a different vent. I may have gone a bit wacky on the code, but it certainly works as expected (spiderling goes in one vent, exits the other). Let me know if you can think of a way it can be better optimized, but it was deliberately written to be very failsafey in case shit goes yonkers. One fundamental difference between structure spiderlings and basic mob spiderlings (beyond the AI and not just a random prob() check for movement) is the fact that they had vent movement coded in... but we _really_ don't need stuff like that for our intents and purposes. If the range turns out to be too OP in the current framework, we can always change it up a bit, but also there's a _lot_ of vents we can end up in the station (my testing had one spiderling end up in the AI sat to get obliterated). ## Why It's Good For The Game Spiderlings aren't structures! They behave like a mob should! Players can possess spiderlings! They work seamlessly with differentiating into a giant spider! Better AI! More room for people to add into this very under-utilized buggers! ## Changelog 🆑 refactor: Spiderlings are now basic mobs, report any complete weirdness/deviation from known behavior. They should be a lot more intelligent now though. add: AI Spiderlings are super fragile, but they're also super fast, especially when they get into a vent. Once they're in circulation, they could end up everywhere! Maybe in the armory, maybe in a locked closet in maintenance. Be sure to be vigilant and splat them whenever you can to save the station from a whole lotta heartache! /🆑 --------- Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@ users.noreply.github.com> * Converts Spiderlings from Structures to Basic Mobs --------- Co-authored-by: san7890 <the@san7890.com> Co-authored-by: MrMelbert <51863163+MrMelbert@ users.noreply.github.com>