Simple Questions Thread

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:18 am #168395

Bottom post of the previous page:

No, it does it automatically on any dead body, simple animals included. It doesn't matter if they're alive or not.

stiph · Post by **stiph** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:11 pm #168499

Hello, relatively new to forums,
I have heard tell of clown astroids, listening posts, pirate radio stations, and black market ships.
Any of this ever true, or true anymore?

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 7:38 pm #168503

TheNightingale · Thu Apr 14, 2016 10:29 am

Reece wrote:I'm trying to run it in the single player mode and this keeps happening.
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: SELFLOOPING: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
code\world.dm:8:error: CROSSLINKED: undefined var
The fuck is that?

Sounds like an error with the z-level code. Crosslinked means you can cross between the z-levels (floating in space transitions you to other z-levels), unless a z-level is self-looping, in which case it's excluded from the 'space cube'. You can't reach Z2 - Central Command/Ops base/Wizard den - no matter how far you float in space.

Do you have all the relevant files ticked?

stiph wrote:Hello, relatively new to forums,
I have heard tell of clown astroids, listening posts, pirate radio stations, and black market ships.
Any of this ever true, or true anymore?

Yes, yes, yes and yes. They're all deep in space somewhere; you'll come across them every now and then whilst traversing the endless bounds of the final frontier. The clown asteroid is a bananium shuttle crashed into an asteroid; it's got lots of bananium in there you can use for your own HONK mech. The listening post is a little less noticeable, but if you look hard enough, you'll find a couple of airlocks in a floating asteroid somewhere; inside is a Syndicate agent, and if you can crack the code, a pistol inside a safe. The pirate radio station can let you talk on all comms frequencies, and even has its own supply of solar power; the difficult part is getting back. And the black market ship is large, but out of the way; it was used long ago for selling xenomorph hide, and if you look around, you might find evidence of that.

stiph · Post by **stiph** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 4:55 pm #168624

TheNightingale wrote:
Reece wrote:
stiph wrote:Hello, relatively new to forums,
I have heard tell of clown astroids, listening posts, pirate radio stations, and black market ships.
Any of this ever true, or true anymore?
Yes, yes, yes and yes. They're all deep in space somewhere; you'll come across them every now and then whilst traversing the endless bounds of the final frontier. The clown asteroid is a bananium shuttle crashed into an asteroid; it's got lots of bananium in there you can use for your own HONK mech. The listening post is a little less noticeable, but if you look hard enough, you'll find a couple of airlocks in a floating asteroid somewhere; inside is a Syndicate agent, and if you can crack the code, a pistol inside a safe. The pirate radio station can let you talk on all comms frequencies, and even has its own supply of solar power; the difficult part is getting back. And the black market ship is large, but out of the way; it was used long ago for selling xenomorph hide, and if you look around, you might find evidence of that.

thanks for answering, um are they in per-determined directions from the station or the derelict or other easier to reach spess objects?

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 6:28 pm #168643

Thanks to a real genass everything is randomized each round. So leaving from the station there isn't a reliable way to find you way around. But once you find one place in space you can get an idea about what else is on the z level you're on. Or you could download the repo from github and look at the maps in the byond editor. I wouldn't recommend it though because you only find them once in a sense, once you know where they are that's pretty much it and its probably more exciting/ memerable(autocorrects to meme table??) to find them on you own by accident

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 3:42 am #169438

How does potency affect Killer Tomatoes?

CrunchyCHEEZIT · Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:39 am

Zilenan91 wrote:How does potency affect Killer Tomatoes?

I don't think it does, since the plant item "Killer Tomato" and the mob "killer tomato" are two seperate things. If it does effect it, I would imagine it increases its health, damage or makes it more aggressive or something.

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:02 pm #169640

TheWiznard wrote:Thanks to a real genass everything is randomized each round. So leaving from the station there isn't a reliable way to find you way around. But once you find one place in space you can get an idea about what else is on the z level you're on. Or you could download the repo from github and look at the maps in the byond editor. I wouldn't recommend it though because you only find them once in a sense, once you know where they are that's pretty much it and its probably more exciting/ memerable(autocorrects to meme table??) to find them on you own by accident

That's because it's spelled memorable nerd

InsaneHyena · Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:58 am

Theoretically speaking, if I set up telescience and teleport AI core deep into depowered derelict, will it eventually run out of power and die?

Screemonster · Tue Apr 19, 2016 1:14 pm

InsaneHyena wrote:Theoretically speaking, if I set up telescience and teleport AI core deep into depowered derelict, will it eventually run out of power and die?

As far as I'm aware yes, but you're probably quicker just teleporting a bomb on top of it or its APC. (the boom will be noticed so it depends how stealthy you wanna be I guess)

TankNut · Post by **TankNut** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:42 pm #169859

InsaneHyena wrote:Theoretically speaking, if I set up telescience and teleport AI core deep into depowered derelict, will it eventually run out of power and die?

It'll die and shouldn't be capable of calling for help since the derelict lacks a proper telecomms setup. The only problem you'd run into is actually getting the AI to unbolt itself so you can move it.

Tawsix · Post by **Tawsix** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:08 pm #169861

How do you make sounds as a pAI/borg like the beeping and such? Haven't been able to figure it out and google hasn't been able to help me eitherl

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 3:42 pm #169866

They are like the normal human emotes but different words.

*beep, *buzz, *honk, *ping and so on. I think if you type *help as a borg it will give you the full list

Thundercoot · Post by **Thundercoot** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 5:38 pm #169896

Zilenan91 wrote:How does potency affect Killer Tomatoes?

The code for this is in tomato.dm.
Potency affects just the tomato's melee damage.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue Apr 19, 2016 11:33 pm #170002

How does foam and other such stuff work? Does the foam expand until is has filled a number of tiles, or just until it has hit a timer for expansion? If I set one off down a long thin corridor will it fill up more of the length?

Cavoglave · Post by **Cavoglave** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:22 pm #170749

Maybe not the simplest question, but fuck making a whole topic for this shit.

Spoiler:

That's my plasmeme room atmos setup, and I'm not sure if it's actually properly reventing plasma.
The pipes running south from the filter never have any plasma in them, although the scrubber loop seems to not have any plasma contained either.
What's going on? Is the plasma just getting deleted in the filter, or do I simply not understand how they work?

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:20 pm #170761

Did you remember to turn the filter on?

Cavoglave · Post by **Cavoglave** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 11:59 pm #170779

Malkevin wrote:Did you remember to turn the filter on?

Yes, damnit.

Zilenan91 · Post by **Zilenan91** » Sat Apr 23, 2016 12:03 am #170783

Can you fill fire extinguishers with anything but fire extinguisher fluid?

I'd love to try filling a fire extinguisher with booze or welding fuel + phlog as a chemist so I can have a ghetto fire sprayer

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Apr 23, 2016 7:38 am #170880

Reasonably certain you can fill it with holy water by blessing a watertank, but I haven't checked anything else.

Sat Apr 23, 2016 8:02 pm

Zilenan91 wrote:Can you fill fire extinguishers with anything but fire extinguisher fluid?

I'd love to try filling a fire extinguisher with booze or welding fuel + phlog as a chemist so I can have a ghetto fire sprayer

no, that's only a thing on other servers
here it wouldnt work very well since basically every extinguisher is now a chem sprayer

stiph · Post by **stiph** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:40 pm #171668

TheWiznard wrote:Thanks to a real genass everything is randomized each round.

was this a popular decision, or not?

Luke Cox · Post by **Luke Cox** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:12 pm #171686

I want to blow up as much shit as I can via toxins in a reasonable timeframe, without having to perform autistic levels of tinkering. What do I do?

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:29 pm #171694

Luke Cox wrote:I want to blow up as much shit as I can via toxins in a reasonable timeframe, without having to perform autistic levels of tinkering. What do I do?

If you want a quick, decent bomb do the following.

First, go in the heating chamber and set the two pumps to max pressure.

Grab two plasma canisters and two O2 canisters from the storage, hook both the plasma canisters and one of the O2 canisters to the three port connectors (remove the filter if you're on meta) and hook the other O2 canister to the freezer machine's port, while setting the temperature as low as you can go - the lower the better.

While you do this; hook up an empty yellow can to the heating chamber's output and open the manual valve.

The three canisters should eventually level out in an equal ratio of 66% plasma and 33% O2 in each can, hook them up to the heating chambers input port and ignite. Keep doing this until all of the gas in the canisters is depleted. (I like spam-clicking the igniter since it makes me feel like the gas is getting hotter)

Eventually the yellow canister will be unable to accept anymore hot gas, so, disconnect it from the port and let it heat up (this will take several minutes usually). You can fill up other yellow cans too if you wish.

Next, grab an O2 tank, a plasma tank and a TTV from the table. Filter out the O2 tank with the portable air pump (set to "In" and a pressure of 1013kPA). Disconnect the cold O2 canister and slot the tank in. Fill it up with cold O2, this can vary depending on how actually cold the O2 is but the default freezer usually won't affect things too much from normal. (An emergency O2 tank is actually better since you're usually less likely to put too much O2 in)

You needn't bother with removing the existing plasma from the plasma tank (the Hot Gas doesn't actually have a lot of plasma in it, so you need some starting plasma in the tank that the gas will heat up), just put it in the Hot Gas canister and open it on 1013kPA after it's settled down. Ideally at roughly 97,000 celsius.

Assemble the bomb and, if you did it correctly, you should get a decent sized bomb in less than ~10 minutes without any tinkering or upgrades. Bear in mind this is bare minimum stuff, don't expect a maxcap but you should get a stable, decent explosion from this. Maxcap will require more work than this.

mosquitoman · Post by **mosquitoman** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 1:23 pm #171920

How does the tesla engine work? Last time I played was in August last year.

confused rock · Wed Apr 27, 2016 6:54 pm

mosquitoman wrote:How does the tesla engine work? Last time I played was in August last year.

Instead of getting power from radiation it gets it from the bolts it shoots. wrench down the grounding rods and tesla coils where they are. the tesla coils will generate power when shocked, the grounding rods simply stop it form shocking everyone (Set them up in escape if the tesla is loose) make sure to remove the singulo generator from containment before setting a tesla up. obviously you dont need to set up radiation collectors. the tesla generates more power as it grows, but cant escape containment, so leave the PA on 2, hell hack it to set it to 3 for the maximum possible power if you want. a hardsuit or ins gloves gives you 50% protection to teslas. both gives you immunity (as long as you dont sprint into the center, which always dusts you)

Also for some meme reason you are immune to teslas if you hide in lockers/crates/probably body bags so do that in an emergency

kust · Post by **kust** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 7:05 pm #171974

Would it be possibel to make a termal engine in lavaland and heat the gas on the lava for heat loop and for cold loop in space ?

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:03 pm #171980

kust wrote:Would it be possibel to make a termal engine in lavaland and heat the gas on the lava for heat loop and for cold loop in space ?

Yep, it's just a shame you can't build a thermoelectric generator.

(Yes I am mad this is still not doable)

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:37 pm #171985

Is there any particular reason that the TEG parts are not orderable in cargo?

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 8:50 pm #171988

Wyzack wrote:Is there any particular reason that the TEG parts are not orderable in cargo?

I think it's because it's like the PDA painter and not an actual buildable machine.

mosquitoman · Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:53 pm

The unloved rock wrote:
mosquitoman wrote:How does the tesla engine work? Last time I played was in August last year.
Instead of getting power from radiation it gets it from the bolts it shoots. wrench down the grounding rods and tesla coils where they are. the tesla coils will generate power when shocked, the grounding rods simply stop it form shocking everyone (Set them up in escape if the tesla is loose) make sure to remove the singulo generator from containment before setting a tesla up. obviously you dont need to set up radiation collectors. the tesla generates more power as it grows, but cant escape containment, so leave the PA on 2, hell hack it to set it to 3 for the maximum possible power if you want. a hardsuit or ins gloves gives you 50% protection to teslas. both gives you immunity (as long as you dont sprint into the center, which always dusts you)

Also for some meme reason you are immune to teslas if you hide in lockers/crates/probably body bags so do that in an emergency

Thanks for the answer. How do you set it loose? Is a singularity engine still possible to be constructed? And how do the bolts work anyway, are they connected to the SMES storage?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Wed Apr 27, 2016 11:23 pm #172032

Anonmare wrote:
Wyzack wrote:Is there any particular reason that the TEG parts are not orderable in cargo?
I think it's because it's like the PDA painter and not an actual buildable machine.

Huh, that seems kinda shit. I suppose it would be quite a bit of work to get it to function like the PA though

Post by **Armhulen** » Mon May 02, 2016 6:50 pm #173094

simple question go

is there a way to buy a random spell as a wizard? you know, to mix it up.

Mon May 02, 2016 9:58 pm

Armhulen wrote:simple question go

is there a way to buy a random spell as a wizard? you know, to mix it up.

there is not afaik, but this is a really really good idea and you should put it in the ideas forum somewhere

Post by **Armhulen** » Tue May 03, 2016 3:36 am #173246

I was asking because I wanted to put it on the ideas forum

wish me luck

Smeller · Post by **Smeller** » Sat May 07, 2016 9:11 am #174648

Is there a way to build conveyor belt?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat May 07, 2016 9:13 am #174649

Smeller wrote:Is there a way to build conveyor belt?

Order them.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Tue May 10, 2016 4:31 pm #175443

Any up to date R&D guides?

TheNightingale · Tue May 10, 2016 7:03 pm

Taking into account the efficiency nerfs Kor introduced, no (I don't think so, at least) - but mine and Lati's are both pretty efficient and usable.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Thu May 12, 2016 11:45 am #175948

As a slime person how do you get more mass to split your body,.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu May 12, 2016 12:27 pm #175952

Same way as a human or lizard.

InsaneHyena · Post by **InsaneHyena** » Thu May 12, 2016 1:21 pm #175957

Is there any way to get plasteel that doesn't invole a shitty conveyor belt that nobody uses anymore (and I'm not sure even exists after lavaland) or ordering it at cargo?

srifenbyxp · Post by **srifenbyxp** » Thu May 12, 2016 1:29 pm #175960

How do you "ASSUME THE LEG SWEEP STANCE" or any of this new kung fu shit

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu May 12, 2016 2:08 pm #175968

You can smelt plasteel from the ore redemption machine, there should be a button for it at the bottom as long as plasma and iron are both loaded

I tried to Krav Maga implant in the thunderdome once, all the powers were buttons in the top left you had to press to active the different moves. Might be different for the gloves though

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Thu May 12, 2016 2:23 pm #175972

Exactly the same way for the gloves.

You want jew jitsu, you're gonna need an item for it and climb the incredible learning curve of "click button, click spessman".

Okand37 · Post by **Okand37** » Thu May 12, 2016 5:10 pm #176019

You can also use the new and improved championship belt to gain new-literally broken-wrestling moves!

Fri May 13, 2016 1:29 am

Reece wrote:As a slime person how do you get more mass to split your body,.

get real fat

srifenbyxp wrote:How do you "ASSUME THE LEG SWEEP STANCE" or any of this new kung fu shit

wear krav maga gloves/get krav maga implant (currently admin-only), click the magical action buttons that reveal themselves in the top left of your screen, you'll know what to do from there

InsaneHyena wrote:Is there any way to get plasteel that doesn't invole a shitty conveyor belt that nobody uses anymore (and I'm not sure even exists after lavaland) or ordering it at cargo?

if plasma and i think metal are both present in the ore redemption machine you can select Plasteel

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon May 16, 2016 3:24 pm #176887

If you add a property to Kudzu via the DNA manipulator does that property carry on throughout any mutation the kudzu undergoes? Or does it get altered away when the kudzu mutates.

Jazaen · Post by **Jazaen** » Mon May 16, 2016 4:39 pm #176903

PKPenguin321 wrote:
Reece wrote:As a slime person how do you get more mass to split your body,.
get real fat

If you are doing xenobio, you might as well get silver slimes.
Another way of quickly getting the slime jelly is to inject purple slimes with sugar, and then injecting it into yourself. This won't turn you fat. You'll have LOTS of them, since they are a mutation of grey slime and the one leading to green slimes, the ones you used to transform yourself.

Fistofbrick · Post by **Fistofbrick** » Wed May 18, 2016 8:06 am #177364

So, uh. I haven't actually touched the game since around 2014, and I'm wondering how much shit's changed. I used to mainly fuck around with mining, robotics and engineering. What kinda changes can I expect to encounter from then to now? I'm aware mining's been overhauled, but that's about all I know.