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2016-05-02:
  Joan:
  - tweak: Blob spores spawn from factories 2 seconds faster, but the factory goes
      on cooldown when any of its spores die.
  - experiment: You can examine tomes, soulstones, and construct shells to see what
      you can do with them.
  - rscadd: Releasing a shade from a soulstone now allows you to reuse that soulstone
      for capturing shades or souls, instead of preventing the stone's use forever
      if the shade dies.
  - imageadd: Runes now actually pulse red on failure.
  - rscadd: The Summon Cultist rune no longer includes the cultists invoking it in
      the selection menu.
  - tweak: Imperfect Communication renamed to Emergency Communication.
  - rscdel: You can no longer hide the Nar-Sie rune with a Talisman of Veiling/Revealing.
  Kor:
  - rscadd: Engineering cyborgs now have internal blueprints.
  Lzimann:
  - tweak: Automatic nexus placing time changed from 2 to 15 minutes.
  - tweak: Prophet's gear(hat and staff) prioritizes the backpack instead of automatically
      equipping.
  - rscadd: Divine telepathy and prophet to god speak now have a follow button for
      ghosts.
  - rscadd: Divine telepathy and prophet to god speak now has the god's color.
  - bugfix: CTF spawn protection trap is no longer constructable
  Mercenaryblue:
  - tweak: Drastically reduced the chances of eye damage when throwing a paper plane.
  RandomMarine:
  - tweak: Medical HUDs improved. To better prioritize patients, subjects deep into
      critical condition have a blinking red outline around the entire HUD icon, and
      will blink more rapidly when very close to death.
  TechnoAlchemisto:
  - tweak: Security uniforms have been made more professional, and more tactical.
  TrustyGun:
  - rscadd: By crafting together a legion skull, a goliath steak, ketchup, and capsaicin
      oil, you can create Stuffed Legion! Be careful, it's hot.
  coiax:
  - rscadd: Centcom Department of [REDACTED] have announced a change of supplier of
      [EXPLETIVE DELETED]. As such, for security reasons, the absinthe [MOVE ALONG
      CITIZEN] will instead be [NOTHING TO SEE HERE]. We hope that this will not affect
      the performance of the [INFORMATION ABOVE YOUR SECURITY CLEARANCE].
  nullbear:
  - rscadd: A reminder for crew to avoid mopping floors in cold rooms, as the water
      will freeze and provide a dangerous slipping hazard known as 'ice'. Running
      on it is not recommended.
  - rscadd: Frostoil is an effective chemical for rapidly cooling areas in the event
      of a fire.
  - rscadd: Added X4, a breaching charge more destructive than C4, it can be purchased
      from uplinks.
  - rscadd: C4 can be used with assemblies.
  - bugfix: Fixes chembomb recipe to use any matter bin. Again.
  - bugfix: ARG's disappear once finished reacting.
2016-05-03:
  coiax, Robustin:
  - tweak: Changeling Fleshmend is much less effective when used repeatedly in a short
      time. Changeling Panacea is much more effective at purging reagents, reducing
      radiation and now reduces braindamage.
2016-05-04:
  Fox McCloud:
  - tweak: shock revolver projectiles are now energy instead of bullets
  Joan:
  - rscdel: Cultists no longer communicate via tomes.
  - rscadd: Cultists now communicate via the 'Communion' action button.
  - rscadd: Examining the blob with an active research scanner or medical hud will
      display effects, akin to hitting it with an analyzer.
  - rscadd: Improved medical HUDs to work on all living creatures.
  - rscadd: Drones and swarmers, being machines, require a diagnostic HUD for analysis
      instead.
  TechnoAlchemist:
  - rscadd: You can now craft cloaks from the scales of fallen ash drakes, look for
      the recipe in tablecrafting!
  coiax:
  - rscadd: The Service and the Standard cyborg module now have a spraycan built in,
      for hijinks and passing on important urban messages. The Service cyborg module
      also has a cyborg-hand labeler, in case anything needs to be labelled.
  - rscadd: 'Centcom Suicide Prevention wishes to remind the station: Please do not
      kill yourself with a hand labeler.'
  xxalpha:
  - bugfix: Fixed the mk-honk prototype shoes.
2016-05-05:
  Joan:
  - tweak: Revenants are slower while revealed.
  - rscdel: Revenants can no longer cast inside dense objects.
  - tweak: Lying down will cure Blight much, much faster.
  \"Macho Man\" Randy Savage:
  - rscadd: OOOHHH YEAAAAHHHH
  - rscadd: SNAP INTO A JLIM SIM WITH THE ALL NEW WRESTLING BELT
  - rscadd: YOU CAN FREAKOUT YOUR OPPONENTS WITH THE 5 HOT MOVES ON THIS BELT YEAH
  - rscadd: PRAY TO THE LOCAL SPACE GODS TO EXCHANGE YOUR TELECRYSTALS TO ENSURE THE
      CREAM RISES TO THE TOP
2016-05-07:
  Robustin:
  - rscadd: A small pantry has been added to SW maintenance.
  nullbear:
  - rscadd: Makes Shift+Middleclick the hotkey for pointing.
  phil235:
  - rscadd: DISMEMBERMENT! Humans can now lose their bodyparts. Explosions and being
      attacked with a heavy sharp item on a specific bodypart can cause dismemberment.
  - rscadd: You can't be handcuffed or legcuffed if you're missing an arm or leg.
      You can't use items when you have no legs, your arms are too busy helping you
      crawl, unless your are buckled to a chair. You're slower when missing a leg.
  - rscadd: You lose organs and items if the bodypart they are inside gets cut off.
      You can always retrieve them by cutting the dropped bodypart with a sharp object.
  - rscadd: Medbay can replace your missing limbs with robotic parts via surgery,
      or amputate you.
  - rscadd: Changelings do not die when decapitated! They can regrow all their limbs
      with Fleshmend, or just one arm with Arm Blade or Organic Shield.
  - rscadd: Your chest cannot be dropped, but it will spill its organs onto the ground
      when dismembered.
2016-05-08:
  CoreOverload:
  - rscadd: You can now de-power inactive swarmers with a screwdriver to prevent them
      from activating.
  - rscadd: Recycle depowered swarmers in autolathe or sell them in cargo!
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Cultist constructs, and shades, can now invoke runes by clicking them.
  - rscdel: This does not include Manifest Ghost, Blood Boil, or Astral Journey runes.
  - rscadd: Medical huds will now show parasites in dead creatures.
  KorPhaeron:
  - rscadd: Burn weapons can now dismember, and they reduce the limb to ash in the
      process
  - rscadd: Weapons with high AP values will now dismember limbs much easier. These
      values are subject to change depending on how things play out over the next
      week or two.
  - rscadd: Various weapons with high AP values had them lowered (chaplain scythe,
      energy sword, dualsaber) to prevent them taking limbs off in a single hit.
  - rscadd: The chaplain has two new weapons (they are mechanically identical to previous
      weapons, before anyone gets upset about balance). One is dismemberment themed,
      the other is related to a new antagonist.
  Mercenaryblue:
  - rscadd: Throwing a Banana Cream Pie will now knock down and cream the target's
      face.
  - rscadd: You can clean off the cream with the usual methods, such as soap, shower,
      cleaner spray, etc.
  - rscadd: The Clown Federation would like to remind the crew that the HoS is worth
      double points! Honk!
  Robustin:
  - experiment: There are rumors that the Cult's 'Talisman of Construction', which
      turns ordinary metal for construct shells, can be used on plasteel to create
      structures. If the stories are true, the cult has been producing relics of incredible
      power through this transmutation.
  coiax:
  - rscadd: To save credits, Centcom has subcontracted out emergency shuttle design
      to third parties. Rest assured, all of these produced shuttles meet our stringent
      quality control.
  - tweak: Lavaland ruins spawning chances have been modified. Expect to see more
      smaller and less round affecting ruins, and no duplicates of major ruins, like
      ash walkers or golems.
  lordpidey:
  - rscadd: Infernal devils have been seen onboard our spacestations, offering great
      boons in exchange for souls.
  - rscadd: Employees are reminded that their souls already belong to nanotrasen.  If
      you have sold your soul in error, a lawyer or head of personnel can help return
      your soul to Nanotrasen by hitting you with your employment contract.
  - rscadd: Nanotrasen headquarters will be bluespacing employment contracts into
      the Lawyer's office filing cabinet when a new arrival reaches the station.  It
      is recommended that the lawyer create copies of some of these for safe keeping.
  - rscadd: Due to the recent infernal incursions, the station library has been equipped
      with a Codex Gigas to help research infernal weaknesses.  Please note that reading
      this book may have unintended side effects.  Also note, you must spell the devil's
      name exactly, as there are countless demons with similar names.
  - rscadd: When a devil dies, if the proper banishment ritual is not performed on
      it's remains, the devil will revive itself at the cost of some of it's power.  The
      banishment ritual is described in the Codex Gigas.
  - rscadd: When a demon gains enough souls, It's form will mutate to a more demonic
      looking form.  The Arch-demon form is known to be on par with an ascended shadowling
      in power.
2016-05-09:
  Joan:
  - tweak: Sporing Pods produces spores when expanding slightly more often.
  - tweak: Replicating Foam now only expands when hit with burn damage, from all damage,
      but does so at a higher chance. Free expansion from it is, however, more rare.
  - tweak: Penetrating Spines does slightly more brute damage, and Poisonous Strands
      does its damage 50% faster.
  KorPhaeron:
  - rscadd: The AI no longer has a tracking delay because artificial lag is the most
      miserable thing in the world.
  Razharas:
  - tweak: crafting can now be done everywhere, little button near the intents with
      hammer on it(its not T) opens the crafting menu, if you are in a locker or mech
      only things in your hands will be considered for crafting
  coiax:
  - tweak: Skeletons now have bone "tongues"
2016-05-11:
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Shades can move in space.
  - rscadd: Artificers can now heal shades.
  coiax:
  - tweak: Added action button to chameleon stamp
  - rscadd: Added APPROVED and DENIED stamps to Bureaucracy Crate
  - rscadd: Added the cream pie closet to various maps. Added contraband Cream Pie
      Crate to Cargo.
  pudl:
  - rscadd: The armory has been redesigned.
2016-05-12:
  Shadowlight and coiax:
  - rscdel: Due to numerous reports of teams using human weapons instead of stealth
      when carrying out their assignments, future teams have been genetically modified
      to only be able to use their assigned blaster and are unable to use human weapons.
2016-05-13:
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Cultists can now unanchor and reanchor cult structures by hitting them
      with a tome. Unanchored cult structures don't do anything.
  KorPhaeron:
  - rscadd: Drake attacks are now much easier to avoid.
  - rscadd: Player controlled drakes can now consume bodies to heal, and alt+click
      targets to divebomb them.
  TechnoAlchemisto:
  - rscadd: More items have been added to the mining vendor, check them out!
2016-05-14:
  Cruix:
  - bugfix: Fixed foam darts with the safety cap removed being reset when fired.
  - rscadd: Added the ability to remove pens from foam darts.
  - bugfix: Foam darts with pens inside them are no longer destroyed when fired.
  - bugfix: Foam darts no longer drop two darts when fired at a person on a janicart.
  Joan:
  - rscdel: The Raise Dead rune no longer accepts dead cultists as a sacrifice to
      raise the dead.
  Metacide:
  - rscadd: 'A small update for MetaStation, changes include:'
  - rscadd: Added extra grounding rods to the engine area to stop camera destruction.
  - rscadd: Added canvases and extra crayons to art storage and some easels to maint.
  - rscadd: Added formal security uniform crate for parades to the warden's gear area.
  - rscadd: The armory securitron now starts active.
  - rscadd: The genetics APC now starts unlocked.
  - rscadd: Other minor changes and fixes as detailed on the wiki page.
  coiax, Nienhaus:
  - rscdel: Unfortunately, the Belowyarn toys have been withdrawn from distribution
      due to Assistants choking on the batteries. Centcom has sent their condolences
      to the battery manufacturing plant.
  - rscadd: We are introducing Oh-cee the original content skeleton figurines. Pull
      its string, and hear it say a variety of phrases. Not suitable for infants or
      assistants under 36 months.
  - tweak: Note that pulling the string of all talking toys is now visible to others.
  - rscadd: Talking toys produce a lot more chatter than they did before. So do some
      skeleton "tongues".
  pudl:
  - rscadd: Adds normal security headsets to security lockers
  xxalpha:
  - bugfix: Fixed drone dispenser multiplying glass or metal.
2016-05-15:
  Iamgoofball:
  - rscadd: Nanotrasen is short on cash, and are now borrowing escape shuttles from
      other stations, and Space Apartments.
  Mercenaryblue:
  - rscadd: Turns out a bike horn made with Bananium is flipping awesome! Honk!
2016-05-18:
  Cruix:
  - bugfix: unwrapping an item with telekinesis no longer teleports the item into
      your hand.
  Metacide:
  - rscadd: 'MetaStation: the library and chapel have had windows removed to make
      them feel more isolated.'
  MrStonedOne:
  - tweak: Tesla has been rebalanced.
  - tweak: It should now lose balls slower, increase balls faster, and be a bit more
      aggressive about finding nearby grounding rods.
  - tweak: additional zaps from it's orbiting balls should be a bit more varied, but
      a touch less powerful.
  Robustin:
  - rscadd: Lings have a new default ability, Hivemind Link. This lets you bring a
      neck-grabbed victim into hivemind communications after short period of time.
      You can talk to victims who are in crit/muted and perhaps persuade them to help
      you, give you intel, or even a PDA code. The link will stabilize crit victims
      to help ensure they do not die during the link.
  Shadowlight213:
  - bugfix: Cleanbot and floorbot scanning has greatly improved. they should prioritize
      areas next to them, as well as resolve themselves stacking on the same tiles.
  coiax:
  - rscadd: Kinetic accelerators only require one hand to be fired, as before
  - rscdel: Kinetic accelerators recharge time is multiplied by the number of KAs
      that person is carrying.
  - rscdel: Kinetic accelerators lose their charge quickly if not equipped or being
      held
  - rscadd: Kinetic accelerator modkits (made at R&D or your local Free Golem ship)
      overcome these flaws
2016-05-19:
  Razharas:
  - rscadd: HE pipes once again work in space and in lava.
  - rscadd: Space cools down station air again
2016-05-20:
  KorPhaeron:
  - rscadd: The HoS now has a pinpointer, the Warden now has his door remote.
  bgobandit:
  - rscadd: Nanotrasen has begun to research BZ, a hallucinogenic gas. We trust you
      will use it responsibly.
  - rscadd: BZ causes hallucinations once breathed in and, at high doses, has a chance
      of doing brain damage.
  - rscadd: BZ is known to cause unusual stasis-like behavior in the slime species.
  coiax:
  - rscadd: Neurotoxin spit can be used as makeshift space propulsion
2016-05-21:
  Iamsaltball:
  - rscadd: Heads of Staff now have basic Maint. access.
  NicholasM10:
  - rscadd: The chef can now make Khinkali and Khachapuri
  coiax:
  - rscdel: NOBREATH species (golems, skeletons, abductors, ash walkers, zombies)
      no longer have or require lungs. They no longer take suffocation/oxyloss damage,
      cannot give CPR and cannot benefit from CPR. Instead of suffocation damage,
      during crit they take gradual brute damage.
  - rscdel: NOBLOOD (golems, skeletons, abductors, slimepeople, plasmamen) species
      no longer have or require hearts.
  - tweak: NOBREATH species that require hearts still take damage from heart attacks,
      as their tissues die and the lack of circulation causes toxins to build up.
  - rscdel: NOHUNGER (plasmamen, skeletons) species no longer have appendixes.
  coiax, OPDingo:
  - tweak: Renamed and reskinned legion's heart to legion's soul to avoid confusion;
      it is not a substitute heart, it is a supplemental chest organ.
  - rscadd: Legion's souls are now more obviously inert when becoming inert.
  nullbear:
  - tweak: Wetness updates less often.
  - rscadd: Wetness now stacks. Spraying lube over a tile that already has lube, will
      make the lube take longer to dry. Likewise, dumping 100 units of lube will take
      longer to dry than if only 10 units were dumped. (lube used to last just as
      long, regardless of whether it was 1u, or 100u) There is a limit, however, and
      you can't stack infinite lube.
  - tweak: Hotter temperatures cause water to evaporate more quickly. At 100C, water
      will boil away instantly.
  - rscadd: About 5 seconds of wetness are removed from a tile for each unit of drying
      agent. Absorbant Galoshes remain the most effective method of drying, and dry
      tiles instantly regardless of wetness.
2016-05-22:
  coiax:
  - rscdel: Lavaland monsters now give ruins a wide berth.
  - bugfix: Glass tables now break when people are pushed onto them.
2016-05-23:
  CoreOverload:
  - rscadd: New cyberimplant, "Toolset Arm", is now available in RnD.
  coiax, OPDingo:
  - rscadd: Crayons and spraycans are now easier to use.
  - rscdel: Centcom announce due to budget cuts their supplier of rainbow crayons
      has been forced to use more... exotic chemicals. Please do not ingest your standard
      issue crayon.
  kevinz000:
  - rscadd: 'Peacekeeper borgs: Security borgs but without any stuns or restraints!
      Modules: Harm Alarm, Cookie Dispenser, Energy Bola Launcher, Peace Injector
      that confuses living things, and a weak holobarrier projector! It also comes
      with the ability to hug.'
  - rscadd: 'Cookie Synthesizer: Self recharging RCD that prints out cookies!'
  - tweak: Nanotrasen scientists have added a hugging module to medical and peacekeeper
      cyborgs to boost emotions during human-cyborg interaction.
2016-05-24:
  Joan:
  - rscdel: You can no longer scribe the Summon Nar-Sie rune under non-valid conditions.
  Kiazusho:
  - rscadd: Added three new advanced syringes to R&D
2016-05-26:
  Xhuis:
  - rscadd: Purge all untruths and honor Ratvar.
  coiax:
  - bugfix: Fixes bug where bolt of change to the host would kill an attached guardian.
  - bugfix: Fixes bug where bolt of change to laughter demon would not release its
      friends.
  - bugfix: Fixes bug where bolt of change to morphling would not release its contents.
  - bugfix: Fixes bug where bolt of change transforming someone into a drone would
      not give them hacked laws and vision.
  - bugfix: Blobbernauts created by a staff of change are now "independent" and will
      not decay if seperated from a blob or missing a factory.
  - rscadd: Independent blobbernauts added to gold slime core spawn pool.
  - rscadd: Medical scanners now inform the user if the dead subject is within the
      (currently) 120 second defib window.
  - rscadd: Ghosts now have the "Restore Character Name" verb, which will set their
      ghost appearance and dead chat name to their character preferences.
  - bugfix: Mob spawners now give any generated names to the mind of the spawned mob,
      meaning ghosts will have the name they had in life.
  - bugfix: Fixes interaction with envy's knife and lavaland spawns.
  - bugfix: Fixes a bug where swarmers teleporting humans would incorrectly display
      a visible message about restraints breaking.
  - rscdel: Emagging the emergency shuttle computer with less than ten seconds until
      launch no longer gives additional time.
  - rscadd: The emergency shuttle computer now reads the ID in your ID slot, rather
      than your hand.
2016-05-27:
  coiax:
  - rscdel: Gatling gun removed from R&D for pressing ceremonial reasons.
  phil235:
  - tweak: Pull and Grab are merged together. Pulling stays unchanged. Using an empty
      hand with grab intent on a mob will pull them. Using an empty hand with grab
      intent on a mob that you're already pulling will try to upgrade your grip to
      aggressive grab>neck grab>kill grab. Aggressive grabs no longer stun you, but
      they act exactly like a handcuff, preventing you from using your hands until
      you escape the grip. You can break free from the grip by trying to move or using
      the resist button.
  - tweak: Someone pulling a restrained mob now swap position with them instead of
      getting blocked by the mob, unable to even push them.
2016-05-29:
  GunHog:
  - rscadd: The CE, RD, and CMO have been issued megaphones.
  Paprika, Crystalwarrior, Korphaeron and Bawhoppen:
  - rscadd: Pixel projectiles. This is easier to see than explain, so go fire a weapon.
  Xhuis:
  - rscadd: Ratvar and Nar-Sie now actively seek each other out if they both exist.
  - tweak: Celestial gateway animations have been twweaked.
  - tweak: Ratvar now has a new sound and message upon spawning.
  - tweak: Ratvar now only moves one tile at a time.
  - bugfix: The celestial gateway now takes an unreasonably long amount of time.
  - bugfix: God clashing is now much more likely to work properly.
  - bugfix: Function Call now works as intended.
  - bugfix: Break Will now works as intended.
  - bugfix: Holy water now properly deconverts servants of Ratvar.
  - bugfix: Deconverted servants of Ratvar are no longer considered servants.
  pudl:
  - rscadd: Chemicals should now have color, instead of just being pink.
2016-05-30:
  coiax:
  - rscadd: A new Shuttle Manipulator verb has been added for quick access to probably
      the best and <strike>most</strike> mostly bugfree feature on /tg/.
  - rscadd: Spectral sword is now a point of interest for ghosts.
  - bugfix: Clicking the spectral sword action now orbits the sword, instead of just
      teleporting to its location.
  - bugfix: Gang tags can again be sprayed over.
  - bugfix: Fixes bug where the wisp was unable to be recalled to the lantern.
  xxalpha:
  - rscdel: Engineering, CE and Atmos hardsuits no longer have in-built jetpacks.
2016-05-31:
  CoreOverload:
  - rscadd: 'Cleanbot software was updated to version 1.2, improving pathfinding and
      adding two new cleaning options: "Clean Trash" and "Exterminate Pests".'
  - experiment: New cleaning options are still experimental and disabled by default.
  Kiazusho:
  - bugfix: Changeling organic suit and chitin armor can be toggled off once again.
  Kor:
  - rscadd: The Japanese Animes button is back,
  - rscadd: 'The chaplain has three new weapons: The possessed blade, the extra-dimensional
      blade, and the nautical energy sword. The former has a new power, the latter
      two are normal sword reskins.'
  - rscadd: The chapel mass driver has been buffed.
  coiax:
  - rscdel: Zombies can no longer be butchered
  - rscadd: If you encounter an infectious zombie, be cautious, its claws will infect
      you, and on death you will rise with them. If you manage to kill the beast,
      you can remove the corruption from its brain via surgery, or just chop off the
      head to stop it coming back.
  - rscadd: Adds some stock computers and lavaland to Birdboat Station.
  - bugfix: Free Golem scientists have proved that as beings made out of stone, golems
      are immune to all electrical discharges, including the tesla.
  - rscadd: Nuclear bombs are now points of interest. Never miss a borg steal a nuke
      from the syndicate shuttle again!
  - rscadd: Alt-clicking a spraycan toggles the cap.