GS13NG/html/changelogs/archive/2016-08.yml

2016-08-01:
  Bawhoppen:
  - rscadd: Added crowns. Make them from gold. Cap gets a fancy one.
  Fox McCloud:
  - rscadd: Adds in generic uplink refund system that potentially allows for even
      regular traitors to refund uplink items
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Soul Vessels can now be used on unconscious or dead humans to extract
      their consciousness, much like a soulstone.
  - tweak: Soul Vessels no longer automatically ping ghosts when created, though they
      can still be used in-hand to ping ghosts.
  - rscadd: Soul Vessels can now communicate over the Hierophant Network
  - experiment: Xenobiology golems enslaved to someone will become convertable if
      their enslaver is converted to the enslaving antag type; this applies to gang
      and both cult types.
  oranges:
  - rscdel: Reverted toolboxes fitting in backpacks due to being incorrectly merged
2016-08-02:
  CoreOverload:
  - rscadd: Pockets in coats!
2016-08-05:
  Arctophylax:
  - bugfix: The Emergency Medical and Winter Wonderland Holodeck programs work once
      again.
  Cruix:
  - bugfix: RCDs can no longer place multiple grilles on the same tile.
  - bugfix: RCDs will no longer use all their ammo if you try to build a wall on the
      same turf multiple times.
  - tweak: RCDs will now inform their user if they do not have enough ammo to complete
      an operation.
  Incoming5643:
  - rscadd: Parrots have been made more robust.
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Clockwork Constructs, including anima fragments, marauders, and reclaimers,
      can now communicate over the Hierophant Network.
  - rscadd: Plasma cutters(normal, advanced, and mech) now have double range in low
      pressure areas, but slightly lower range in high pressure areas.
  - rscadd: Vitality Matrices will consume dead non-servant mobs to gain a large amount
      of Vitality. This doesn't work on mobs that did not have a mind at some point.
  Lordpidey and PKPenguin321:
  - rscadd: Recent studies have revealed that fly amanita can give you a huge trip.
  Lzimann:
  - tweak: Holy water no longers makes you confused.
  ModernViolence:
  - bugfix: 'Photocopier fixes: proper sprites for not empty copies; removing originals
      now does not delete them'
  PKPenguin321:
  - rscadd: Chef, do your station a favor and make a home run baseball burger (TM)
  Robustin:
  - rscadd: The initial supply talisman can now be used to create runed metal, 5 per
      use
  - rscadd: The void torch is now available from the altar, use it to transport any
      item instantly to any cultist! It appears alongside the veil shifter as part
      of the "Veil Walker" set.
  - rscadd: Cult floors no longer appear on mesons!
  - tweak: Flagellant's Robes now increases damage taken by 50%, down from 100%
  - tweak: Veil Shifter has 4 uses, up from 2
  - tweak: Shuttle curse now delays shuttle 3 minutes, up from 2.5 minutes
  - tweak: Cult forges, archives, and airlocks have had their cost reduced by 1 runed
      metal each
  Shadowlight213:
  - rscadd: You will now receive an achievement for winning a pulse rifle at the arcade.
  TheCarlSaganExpress:
  - rscadd: Added lighting effects to the welder.
2016-08-07:
  Arctophylax:
  - bugfix: You can unbuckle mobs from meat spikes by clicking on the spike once again.
  Joan:
  - tweak: Barrier runes will now block air while active.
  - rscadd: Trying to use sleeping carp against the colossus will now anger it.
  frtbngll:
  - bugfix: Fixed Paper Wizard summoning only 9 minions in its lifespan by making
      the dead stickman decrease it's summoned_minions variable
  lordpidey:
  - bugfix: Centcom has received reports of cyborgs electrocuting themselves when
      working on the power grid, and we have decided to stop storing important electronics
      on the wirecutter's blade.
2016-08-08:
  Ergovisavi:
  - rscadd: Added bonfires to botany. Requires five tower cap logs to create, and
      mobs can be buckled to them if an iron rod is added to the bonfire and the mob
      is restrained.
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Added the clockcult "Global Records" alert, which clock cultists can mouse
      over to check a variety of information on the clockcult's status, including
      living servants, number of caches, CV, tinkerer's daemons, if there's an unconverted
      AI, what clockwork generals can be invoked, and what scripture is unlocked.
  Shadowlight213:
  - rscadd: Ghosts can now see human player's huds when using the OOC -> Observe verb
  WJohnston, Gun Hog:
  - tweak: Xenos are now considered female.
  - tweak: Hunter pounce are now always blocked by shields, and may be blocked more
      often by other protective items.
  - tweak: Alien Queen is now somewhat faster.
  - tweak: Adjusted larva growth sprites.
  - tweak: Removed 20% facehugger failure chance for masks.
  - tweak: Disarm now always forces a person to drop an item in the active hand, and
      if a person's hand is empty/undroppable, Disarm will always result in a tackle.
  - tweak: Cyborgs disarmed by a Xeno will first disable their selected module, and
      if there is none selected, the cyborg will be pushed back and stunned.
  - tweak: Tail Sweep now has a slightly longer stun.
2016-08-10:
  Cruix:
  - rscadd: Sentient minebots can now toggle meson vision, a flashlight, their mode,
      and dump their stored ore.
  - bugfix: Sentient minebots can now be repaired if they were made sentient while
      the AI was active.
  - bugfix: Healing minebots will no longer switch them to attack mode.
  - tweak: Sentient minebots can now shoot at humans.
  - bugfix: The cooldown on wizard lightning will no longer break if you ethereal
      jaunt or RISE! after the initial cast.
  Kor:
  - rscadd: You can now detonate drones with the RD console
  LanCartwright:
  - rscadd: Acute respiratory distress syndrom symptom.
  - rscadd: Toxic metabolism.
  - rscadd: Alkali perspiration
  - rscadd: Autophagocytosis Necrosis
  - rscadd: Apoptoxin filter
  - rscadd: 3 different lategame/Non-roundstart virus reagents
  - rscadd: 4 different lategame/Non-roundstart virus recipes
  MrStonedOne:
  - tweak: Tweaked space wind, it should now only trigger at higher pressure differences,
      but be quicker to become aggressive as the pressure difference gets higher.
      This should alleviate issues where small differences was still moving a lot
      of things.
  - tweak: Paper still moves with any pressure difference.
  PKPenguin321:
  - rscadd: There's now an achievement for managing to examine a meteor as a living
      mob!
  RemieRichards:
  - rscadd: 'Added a new PDA button/app: Drone Phone!'
2016-08-14:
  Cheridan:
  - tweak: Greatly reduced amount of Hydroponics yield multipliers
  - tweak: Somewhat reduced gaia'd tray sustainability.
  - tweak: Mutagen will no longer potentially cause plant instadeath based on RNG.
  Ergovisavi:
  - tweak: Watchers no longer randomly fire beams at you when damaged, and no longer
      beam you at point blank.
  Gun Hog:
  - tweak: The AI's Crew Manifest button now uses the updated styling.
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Sigils of Transgression now glow brightly when stunning a target.
  - rscadd: The Global Records alert now shows the location and countdown time of
      the Gateway to the Celestial Derelict.
  - tweak: Clockcult tooltips now all have the clockcult tooltip style.
  - rscdel: You can no longer become a Reclaimer when clicking on Ratvar. You can
      still become a Cogscarab, however.
  - bugfix: You can no longer invoke Vanguard while under its effects.
  - bugfix: Servants of Ratvar should now always get an announcement when scripture
      states change.
  - tweak: Function Call can be used to summon a Ratvarian Spear once every 3 minutes,
      from 5, but the spear summoned will now only last 3 minutes.
  - rscadd: Belligerent now does minor damage to the legs on each invocation, up to
      a maximum of 30 damage per recital.
  - tweak: Ratvarian Spears will now stun any mob they're thrown at instead of just
      enemy cultists and silicons, though the stun is still longer on enemy cultists
      and silicons.
  Jordie0608:
  - rscdel: Removed clicking clown mask to morph it's shape, use action button instead.
  Kor:
  - rscadd: Added support for projectiles which can dismember
  - rscadd: Added a new wizard sword, the spellblade, which fires dismembering projectiles.
      Sprites from Lexorion.
  - rscadd: Plasmacutter blasts can now take limbs off, but they still do pitiful
      damage in a pressurized environment.
  - rscadd: Humans and drones now have a UI button that allows them to create new
      areas, in the same manner as blueprints. Unlike blueprints, this button does
      not allow you to edit existing areas.
  - rscadd: You can now use mineral doors (or any other object that blocks atmos)
      to complete rooms with blueprints
  - rscadd: Players created by sentience potions, mining drone upgrades, or Guardian/Holoparsite
      summoners will now automatically join the users antagonist team, if any.
  - rscadd: Mobs created in this manner will no longer be convertable/deconvertable
      unless their creator is first converted/deconverted.
  - rscadd: Cayenne will now officially become an operative when given a sentience
      potion.
  LanCartwright:
  - bugfix: Fixes the recipes not working.
  - tweak: Changes Stable uranium virus food recipe from Plasma virus food to just
      plasma.
  RemieRichards:
  - bugfix: You can no longer use the incorrect limb type during augmentation
  - bugfix: You can no longer use the incorrect limb type during prosthetic replacement
  Shadowlight213:
  - rscadd: Security has two new weapons in their arsenal. The security temperature
      gun, and the DRAGnet capture and recovery system.
  optional name here:
  - bugfix: The syndicate uplink ui has been refactored to majorly reduce lag
2016-08-15:
  Joan:
  - rscadd: The Ark of the Clockwork Justicar can now be constructed even if Ratvar's
      rise is not the objective.
  - experiment: Accordingly, its behavior is different; instead of summoning Ratvar,
      it will convert a massive amount of the station, and should effectively instantly
      complete the clockwork cult's objectives.
  MrStonedOne:
  - tweak: Tweaked the lag stop numbers to hopefully reduce lag during 80+ population
  - tweak: Fixed the blackbox not blackboxing.
  OSCAR MIKE:
  - rscadd: CONTACT ON THE LEFT SIDE!
2016-08-16:
  MrStonedOne:
  - rscadd: Automated the granting of profiler access to admins
  oranges:
  - rscadd: Nanotrasen is an all right kind of company
2016-08-17:
  Basilman:
  - rscadd: Added an admin-spawnable only "Cosmohonk" hardsuit that has the same protection
      values of an engineering hardsuit. Comes with built-in lights and requires clown
      roundstart role to be equipped.
  Ergovisavi:
  - rscadd: Adds the "Proto-Kinetic Crusher", a new melee mining weapon. Available
      at a mining vendor near you!
  Gun Hog:
  - tweak: Nanotrasen has improved the coolant system in the stations automated robots.
      They will no longer violently explode in hot rooms.
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Once the blob alert message is sent in the blob game mode, all mobs get
      to see how many tiles the blob has until it wins, via the Status tab.
  - rscdel: Removed/merged a bunch of blob chems, you probably don't care about the
      specifics.
  - tweak: The remaining blob chems should, overall, be more powerful.
  - tweak: Shield blobs soak brute damage less well.
  - tweak: Flashbangs do higher damage to blobs up close, but their damage falls off
      faster.
  - experiment: Shield blobs now cost 15 resources to make instead of 10. Node blobs
      now cost 50 resources to make instead of 60.
  - experiment: Expanding/attacking now costs 4 resources instead of 5, and blobs
      can now ATTACK DIAGONALLY. Diagonal attacks are weaker than normal attacks,
      especially against cyborgs(which may be entirely immune, depending), and they
      remain unable to expand diagonally.
  - rscadd: Shield blobs no longer block atmos while under half health. Shield blobs
      are still immune to fire, even if they can't block atmos.
  - tweak: Blobs should block explosions less well.
  - rscadd: Blob cores and nodes are no longer immune to fire and no longer block
      atmos.
  - rscadd: Blobs can only auto-expand one tile at a time per expanding thing, and
      should be easier to beat back in general.
  - tweak: Blobbernauts now attack faster.
  - tweak: Blob Overminds attack mobs slower but can attack non-mobs much faster.
  - rscadd: Blob Overminds start with some amount of resources; in the gamemode, it's
      80 divided by the number of overminds, in the event, it's 20 plus the number
      of active players, and otherwise, it's 60.
  - bugfix: You can no longer move blob cores into space, onto the mining shuttle,
      white ship, gulag shuttle, or solars.
  - bugfix: Blob rounds might be less laggy, if they were laggy?
  - tweak: Blobs don't heal as fast, excluding the core.
  - experiment: Blobs are marginally less destructive to their environment.
  MrStonedOne:
  - rscdel: The server will no longer wait until the next tick to process movement
      key presses. Movements should now be ~25-50ms more responsive.
  Shadowlight213:
  - rscadd: Adds modular computers
2016-08-21:
  Ergovisavi:
  - tweak: Consolidates the fulton packs into a single item and makes them more user
      friendly
  Google Play Store:
  - spellcheck: Minor Text Fixes.
  Incoming5643:
  - rscadd: Smuggler satchels left behind hidden on the station can now reappear in
      a later round.
  - experiment: There's absolutely no way of knowing when exactly it will reappear
      however...
  - rscadd: Only one item in the satchel will remain when the satchel reappears.
  - rscadd: Items are saved in their <b>initial</b> forms, so saving things like chemical
      grenades will only disappoint you.
  - rscadd: The item pool is map specific and needs to be a certain size before satchels
      can start reappearing, so get to hiding that loot!
  - rscadd: The staff of change has been expanded to turn you into even more things
      that don't have hands.
  Jalleo:
  - bugfix: Gulag Teleporter of two issues any more please report them.
  Jordie0608:
  - rscadd: Advanced Energy Guns once again have a chance to irradiate you if EMPed.
  Kor:
  - rscadd: Kinetic Accelerators are now modular. You can find mod kits in the mining
      vendor and in RnD.
  - bugfix: Chaplain's dormant spellblade is no longer invisible.
  Papa Bones:
  - rscadd: A new, scandalous outfit is now available as contraband from the clothesmate
      vendor, check it out! Fulfill your deep, dark fantasies.
  Shadowlight213:
  - tweak: Service and cargo have lost roundstart tablets and engineering has gained
      them
  - tweak: you can now charge battery modules in cell chargers. Use a screwdriver
      on a computer to remove them. As a note, tablets and laptops can be charged
      directly by placing them in a security charger.
  WJohnston:
  - rscadd: Metastation and Boxstation now boast auxillary mining construction rooms
      in arrivals. These allow you to build a base and then launch it to wherever
      you want on lavaland.
  Wjohnston, Gun Hog:
  - rscadd: Aliens with Neurotoxic Spit readied will now have drooling animations.
  - rscadd: Hunters may now safely leap over lava.
  - tweak: Hulk punches no longer stun Xenos.
  - tweak: Alien evolve and promotion buttons updated to current Xeno sprites
  - bugfix: Handcuff sprites for Xenos now show properly.
2016-08-22:
  Bawhoppen:
  - rscdel: Stock computers have been temporarily removed due to imbalances.
  Ergovisavi:
  - bugfix: Bubblegum's charge indicator should be significantly more accurate now.
  ExcessiveUseOfCobblestone:
  - rscdel: Reverts getting partial credit for discovered seeds.
  - tweak: 'Tweaks Money Tree Potency Values [For instance: 1000 Space Cash requires
      98-100 Potency]'
  Lzimann & Lexorion:
  - rscadd: Adds a bow to the game, currently not craftable
  Shadowlight213:
  - bugfix: The efficiency AI sat SMES will now charge the APCs instead of itself.
  XDTM:
  - rscdel: Removed the Longevity symptom.
  - rscadd: Added Viral Aggressive Metabolism, which will make viruses act quickly
      but decay over time.
  - rscadd: Cloning can now give bad mutations if unupgraded!
  - rscadd: Cloning can, however, give you good ones if upgraded!
2016-08-24:
  Bones:
  - rscadd: The detective's closet now contains a seclite, get sleuthing!
  Cargo Intelligence Agency:
  - rscdel: You don't get to bring traitor items.
  Ergovisavi:
  - rscadd: Adds "Sacred Flame", a spell that makes everyone around you more flammable,
      and lights yourself on fire. Share the wealth. Of fire.
  - tweak: Replaces the fireball spellbook as a possible reward from a Drake chest
      with a book of sacred flame.
  Gun Hog:
  - rscadd: The Aux mining base can now call the mining shuttle once landed! The mining
      shuttle beacon that comes with the base must be deployed to enable this functionality.
  - tweak: Multiple landing zones may now be set for the mining base.
  - tweak: The coordinates of each landing zone is shown in the list.
  - rscadd: Miners now each get a remote in their starting lockers. tweak The Aux
      mining base now requires lighting while on station.
  - tweak: The Aux Mining Base now has a GPS signal.
  - tweak: The Aux Mining Base now has an alarm for when it is about to drop.
  Incoming5643:
  - rscadd: 'A slight change to the secret satchel system described below: If a satchel
      cannot be spawned due to there not being enough hidden satchels to choose from,
      a <b>free</b> empty satchel will spawn hidden SOMEWHERE on the station. Dig
      it up and bury it with something interesting!'
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Using a resonator on an existing resonator field will immediately detonate
      that field. Normal resonators will reduce the damage dealt to 80% of normal,
      while upgraded resonators will not reduce it at all.
  - rscadd: Adds a KA mod that does damage in an AoE, found only in necropolis chests.
  - rscadd: You can now install any KA mods into a mining cyborg, though its mod capacity
      is slightly lower.
  - tweak: Mining cyborgs now have a crowbar to remove mods from their KA.
  - tweak: Kinetic Accelerators now have a larger mod capacity, though most mods can
      still only be installed the same amount of times as they can currently.
  - tweak: You can now hit modkits with Kinetic Accelerators to install that modkit
      into the accelerator. Mining cyborgs are unable to do so.
  - rscadd: Added white and adjustably-coloured tracer round mods to the mining equipment
      vendor, so you can see where your projectile is going(and look cool).
  - rscadd: Added the super and hyper chassis mods to the mining equipment vendor,
      so you can use excess mod space to have a cool-looking KA.
  MrStonedOne:
  - rscdel: Removes check on lights preventing you from turning them on while in a
      locker
  PKPenguin321:
  - rscadd: Xeno queens now have an action button that makes them appear to themselves
      as the old, small queen sprite. Now they should be able to interact with things
      that are above them more easily.
  Shadowlight213:
  - tweak: Reviver and nutriment implants are far easier to get and have lower tech
      origins.
  - rscdel: Centcom has cut back on their cat carrier budget and will now only be
      able to bring kittens along with runtime.
  - rscadd: A new event has been added. The automated grid check. All apcs in non
      critical areas will be shut off for some time, but can be manually rebooted
      via interaction.
  Yackemflam:
  - tweak: Boxes are worth >26 tc at LEAST
2016-08-28:
  CoreOverload:
  - tweak: You can now use sheets from any hand, not just the active one.
  Iamgoofball:
  - tweak: Station and Character names are now allowed to be longer.
  - rscdel: Gender Reassignment surgery has been removed.
  Incoming5643:
  - experiment: 'Due to a bad case of "being terrible" the save system for secret
      satchels has been reworked. All saves are now unified in a single data file:
      /data/npc_saves/SecretSatchels'
  - rscdel: 'Old savefiles such as: /data/npc_saves/SecretSatchels_Box Station can
      now be safely removed.'
  - rscadd: A new slime reaction has been found for pink slimes using blood. The potion
      produced from this reaction can be used to change the gender of living things.
      Decently useful for animal husbandry, but otherwise mostly just for pranks/"""roleplay"""/enforcing
      a brutal regime composed entirely of female slime people.
  Joan:
  - bugfix: Bumping the AI on help intent will no longer cause it and you to swap
      positions, even if it is unanchored. If unanchored, it will properly push the
      AI around.
  - rscadd: The staff of lava can now turn lava back into basalt.
  - bugfix: Placing a singularity or energy ball generator directly in front of an
      active particle accelerator may be a bad idea.
  Kor:
  - rscadd: Added Battlemage armour to the spellbook. The armour is heavily shielded,
      but will not recharge once the shields are depleted.
  - rscadd: Added armour runes to the spellbook, which can grant additional charges
      to the Battlemage armour.
  MrStonedOne:
  - rscadd: The game window will now flash in the taskbar on incoming admin pm, and
      to all admins when an admin help comes in.
  PKPenguin321:
  - rscadd: The tesla is now much more dangerous, and can cause electronics to explode
      violently.
  - rscadd: It now hurts to get thrown into another person.
  Shadowlight213:
  - tweak: The radiation storm random event will automatically enable and disable
      emergency maint.
  - rscadd: The radiation storm random event is now a weather type that affects the
      station.
  - bugfix: The security temperature gun now has a firing pin making it 0.0000001%
      more useful!
  - rscadd: Added config option to use byond account creation age for job limits.
  WJohnston:
  - imageadd: Lavaland lava probably sorta looks better I guess.
  Yackemflam:
  - rscadd: Sniper kit have been given as a syndicate bundle set. Be warned though,
      they are not as equipped as the nuclear agent kits.
  kilkun:
  - rscadd: Adds a shielded deathsquad hardsuit. it has four charges and recharges
      after 15 seconds of not being shot (compared to the syndicate 3 charges and
      20 second recharge rate)
  - tweak: All death commandos now spawn with this new hardsuit. The previous hardsuit
      was not removed.
  pubby:
  - rscadd: Mining scanner module to standard borgs
  - rscdel: Sheet snatcher module from standard borgs
  xxalpha:
  - rscadd: Cigarette packs, donut boxes, egg boxes can now be closed and opened with
      Ctrl+Click.
  - rscadd: Lighters are now represented in cigarette packs with a sprite of their
      own.
  - rscadd: You can now remove a lighter from a cigarette pack quickly with Alt+Click.
  - bugfix: Reduced the amount of cigars that cigar cases can hold to 5 because the
      cigar case sprite doesn't support more than that.
2016-08-29:
  Cruix:
  - rscadd: Space floppy-disk technology has advanced to the point that multiple technologies
      or designs can be stored on a single disk.
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Lava bubbling up from basalt turfs now glows if in sufficient concentration.
  - rscadd: Necropolis tendrils now glow.
  - rscadd: Lava rivers now have riverbanks, and should overall look much nicer.
  Shadowlight213:
  - bugfix: The revenant ectoplasm sprite is no longer invisible.
  Xhuis:
  - rscadd: Highlander has been revamped. Now you can butcher your coworkers in cold
      blood like never before!
2016-08-30:
  oranges:
  - tweak: The ed209 can now only fire as fast as the portaturrets
2016-08-31:
  Iamgoofball:
  - rscadd: Adds a new experimental gas to the game. Check it out!
  Joan:
  - rscadd: Vanguard now has a tooltip showing the amount of stuns you've absorbed
      and will be affected by.
  MMMiracles:
  - bugfix: Xenomorphs can now actually damage barricades.
  Shadowlight213:
  - bugfix: Fixed runtime preventing access locked programs from being downloaded
  XDTM:
  - rscadd: Metal slimes now spawn a few sheets of glass when injected with water.
  xxalpha:
  - tweak: Opening and closing of donut boxes, etc. is now done with clicking the
      object with itself.
  yackemflam:
  - rscadd: The standard rounds now blow off limbs. Happy hunting!