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## About The Pull Request adds turtles to the game! but these aren't your typical turtles.  these are flora-turtles, with giant trees growing on their shells. These trees can emit fields which affects nearby hydroponic plants. Initially, the trees start out as young buds, from there the tree can evolve into different types depending on what you feed the turtle. Feeding them pesticides causes the tree to blossom to be purple. this tree's fields will help kill some pests and weeds in nearby plants. Feeding them nutrients gives you the green tree, the fields will heal nearby plants Feeding them mutators like uranium or left 4 zed gives you the yellow tree. the fields increase instability of plants The turtle will emit these fields every once in a while, ONLY when its feeling happy. therefore you'll have to pet it, clean it and feed it every once in a while to keep it satisfied. You can view the turtle's happiness by shift clicking it. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a47136a1-06a1-419e-acc2-2f6f4468e296 The turtle only eats seeds. after eating a seed, itll process it and spit out its corresponding fruit! (for example, feeding it an apple seed gives you an apple). itll also sometimes playfully headbutt your legs and it loves going around smelling the scent from nearby plants you can get these turtles by fishing the hydroponics tray or by ordering them through cargo. ## Why It's Good For The Game adds a new fun way for botanists to take care of their plants. While these turtles alone arent enough to fully replace plant dedicated nutrients, they add small extra support. ## Changelog 🆑 add: adds flora-turtles. obtainable through cargo or by fishing from the hydroponics tray /🆑
AI controllers
Introduction
Our AI controller system is an attempt at making it possible to create modularized AI that stores its behavior in datums, while keeping state and decision making in a controller. This allows a more versatile way of creating AI that doesn't rely on OOP as much, and doesn't clutter up the Life() code in Mobs.
AI Controllers
A datum that can be added to any atom in the game. Similarly to components, they might only support a given subtype (e.g. /mob/living), but the idea is that theoretically, you could apply a specific AI controller to a big a group of different types as possible and it would still work.
These datums handle both the normal movement of mobs, but also their decision making, deciding which actions they will take based on the checks you put into their SelectBehaviors proc.
If behaviors are selected, and the AI is in range, it will try to perform them. It runs all the behaviors it currently has in parallel; allowing for it to for example screech at someone while trying to attack them. As long as it has behaviors running, it will not try to generate new plans, making it not waste CPU when it already has an active goal.
They also hold data for any of the actions they might need to use, such as cooldowns, whether or not they're currently fighting, etcetera this is stored in the blackboard, more information on that below.
Blackboard
The blackboard is an associated list keyed with strings and with values of whatever you want. These store information the mob has such as "Am I attacking someone", "Do I have a weapon". By using an associated list like this, no data needs to be stored on the actions themselves, and you could make actions that work on multiple ai controllers if you so pleased by making the key to use a variable.
AI Behavior
AI behaviors are the actions an AI can take. These can range from "Do an emote" to "Attack this target until he is dead". They are singletons and should contain nothing but static data. Any dynamic data should be stored in the blackboard, to allow different controllers to use the same behaviors.
Guides:
Making Your AI: Quickly runs through how to make an ai controller for anything with a step by step development of one.