Little things you learned that are game changing

[Wyzack]

Bottom post of the previous page:

But not double E swords, which I think is a bug

[Anonmare]

Only cool kids light their smoke on a chunk of SuperMatter

[confused rock]

welding tool+50 stack of plasma = EZ plasma fire

[bandit]

lizard gas in one item

[InsaneHyena]

Holoparasites can be converted by cult.

[confused rock]

monkey and unmonkey somebody to grow them new limbs + a new tail possibly

[InsaneHyena]

So, I've persuaded Oldman to do a little testing on thunderdome, and we've found out:

1) Xenomorphs can be converted by cult. They can also use cult telepathy just fine and understand people through it too.
2) Holoparasites can be converted by cult
3) Cyborgs and AI can be converted by cult
4) MMI, intellicards, positronics can't be converted.

I wonder how does it work with gangs and other conversion antags. In the next episode of mythbusters, we'll find out!

[Anonmare]

I was under the impression Cyborgs and AIs couldn't be converted? Sacced yes, but conversion wasn't doable unless I missed a memo

[Remie Richards]

4) MMI, intellicards, positronics can't be converted.

Well these 3 are items, so of course they can't be converted.
(Everything else you've mentioned is a mob primarily, these 3 are 3 mobs sat INSIDE of an item, thus you can't get to them to convert them)

[InsaneHyena]

What about blob?

[Remie Richards]

Blobs are /obj/effect/blob, the overmind is an invisible eye camera, it's not /living so it can't be converted, plus it would have to WANT to be converted (or you get lucky and catch it in the rune as it moves, which is hard as you can't see it)

[stiph]

Oh, and as roboticist, you can augment any body part with any cyborg body part. That means if you don't want to spend ridiculous amounts of metal on people, you can augment everything they've got with a stack of arms. They're also quicker to produce than torsos or heads, and the surplus can be used to make bots.

Is this still true?

[Reece]

Survival capsules work in space, Mining spess fort is doable with some lattices and a couple of survival pods.

[Laharl Monthy]

Due to the way bomb processing works now, it's possible to survive being in OBLITERATION range of the bomb, or avoid any damage.

The bomb processes row by row - if you're lucky enough, you can actually run between two processing, and not get damaged, apart from space cold.

Seems like a serious bug to me, but there we go.

[Reece]

Borgs can be culted.
Plant DNA manipulator lets you add bannana slipperynessto anything, as well as Polyacid production.

[PKPenguin321]

Borgs can be culted.

got removed

[Anonmare]

Borgs can be culted.

got removed

You should be able to still sac them, if not then it's a bug and you ought to report it to Git. There's a freeze on so it ought to get fixed.

[Drynwyn]

Due to the way bomb processing works now, it's possible to survive being in OBLITERATION range of the bomb, or avoid any damage.

The bomb processes row by row - if you're lucky enough, you can actually run between two processing, and not get damaged, apart from space cold.

Seems like a serious bug to me, but there we go.

Survive explosions by running towards them? PERFECT REALISM

[Wyzack]

JUST LIKE MY JAPANESE ANIMES

[Malkevin]

Due to the way bomb processing works now, it's possible to survive being in OBLITERATION range of the bomb, or avoid any damage.

The bomb processes row by row - if you're lucky enough, you can actually run between two processing, and not get damaged, apart from space cold.

Seems like a serious bug to me, but there we go.

Survive explosions by running towards them? PERFECT REALISM

I'm sure I said this would happen when I heard about the explosion calculations getting freed from MC

[DemonFiren]

You probably didn't.

But yeah, this is definitely a feature.

[Meijerivoi]

You can drink 20 units at a time from a molotov, more per drink than from anything else.

[Gun Hog]

Due to the way bomb processing works now, it's possible to survive being in OBLITERATION range of the bomb, or avoid any damage.

The bomb processes row by row - if you're lucky enough, you can actually run between two processing, and not get damaged, apart from space cold.

Seems like a serious bug to me, but there we go.

This mechanic has another flaw: If you happen to be caught in the center of a high devastation blast with bomb armor, you will be thrown at high speed away from it (but stripped and killed). There is a chance that you can be hit again by the explosion as it loops outwards as you are traveling away from the first blast. This leads you to be gibbed, completely negating your bomb armor. I reported this a long time ago, but I was dismissed and the issue was declared as not a bug. https://github.com/tgstation/-tg-station/issues/12758

[MMMiracles]

how to kill literally any blob that has a core exposed to space:



do your part, exterminate the blob menace as quickly as possible so we can actually play a good gamemode.

[Armhulen]

how to kill literally any blob that has a core exposed to space:

Spoiler:

do your part, exterminate the blob menace as quickly as possible so we can actually play a good gamemode.

holy shit

[MMMiracles]

i'm guessing if you're strapped for diamond you can probably do some manipulation with corner reflectors to squeeze a few more emitters in there if you really hate the blob and want it over quickly.

spread the message, end the blubber.

[Okand37]

That is actually a super impressive emitter set up. We don't see much of anything like that on basil, jolly show!

[PKPenguin321]

you wouldnt see that on sybil either since that looks pretty blatantly staged, especially since the emitters have no wiring

it would be extremely impressive to see a setup like that in game though

[Actionb]

how to kill literally any blob that has a core exposed to space:


do your part, exterminate the blob menace as quickly as possible so we can actually play a good gamemode.

I have been trying to do that ever since those reflector boxes were added. Whenever I got close to completing the setup, the blob had already died - or the crew failed completely/I never got a diamond.
For added fun, have a few emitters feed into a reflector loop, collecting hundreds of emitter beams before sending them off onto the core all at once.

[Ezel]

Emp flashlight of 2tc
-Can emp doors open
-Can emp borgs
-Can emp robotic parts
-Can emp lockers open
-Can emp other shit like defib medibots etc
-recharges itself

[Xhuis]

You can use irrigation hoses in hydroponics trays to distribute nutrients as well as water. Just pour the contents of your nutrient bottle into your bucket and use the bucket normally. This works to a degree but isn't entirely reliable and some trays won't receive any nutrients because of how BYOND handles the division and because hydroponics trays aren't very well-coded.

[PKPenguin321]

grinding a sheet of plasteel yields 20u of iron like a metal sheet would, in addition to 20u of PLASMA, like a plasma sheet would.


edit: oh and you can use the chef's food cart to separate chemicals provided that you have drinking glasses

[ShadowDimentio]

Once upon a time I was doing xenobio and was bragging about how great I am when some cuck that was watching me laughed at me not knowing you can dilute your plasma and have it still work by grinding one bar and filling the rest with water.

WELL NOW I'M POSTING THE SECRET EVERYWHERE! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

(My patented monkey technique will remain a secret though)

[XDTM]

Speaking of xenobio, when you're a slimeman and want to split quickly, using sugar on two purple slime cores and injecting yourself with the contents will fuel about 25-30 splits. Not hyperbole. Use with caution.

[TheWulfe]

For a while I didn't know how melee combat actually worked

Basically, there's only two actual spots you're going to want to hit in melee (Even with dismemberment code, probably still applies)

Aiming for the chest has your melee weapons base damage plus ten chance for knockdown (Weaken)
Aiming for the head is just the base damage's chance to knock them out unconscious

Since a single knockdown is usually enough to flat out win a fight, most of the time you're just going to want to keep targeting the chest for the knockdown

Going for head KO's is generally better if you have another stun but your melee is your follow up, which has uses from just silencing the guy to just proccing the KO and moving on to another person against multiple people.

I used to just keep it at the head all the time because hurr durr that's where you would whack a cunt in real life, probably making me lose melee fights compared to if I just had the bonus knockdown chances from chest hits.

[Anonmare]

I think the groin has a good chance at knockdown. I once punched two guys in the dick and they both went down in one hit each.

[Remie Richards]

I think the groin has a good chance at knockdown. I once punched two guys in the dick and they both went down in one hit each.

False, knockdown does not consider any zone besides head and chest.

• chest is (force+10%) chance (eg: 30 dmg weapon = 40% chance knockdown when aiming at the chest)
• head is (force%) chance (eg: 30 dmg weapon = 30% chance knockdown when aiming at the head) BUT the victim's armour must be below 50.

HOWEVER! the groin is considered the chest! so while it's not special, it follows all the rules of the chest (force+10%)

So no, the "groin" doesn't have a good chance, the chest does

[Zilenan91]

So knockouts can't happen if armor is too high?

[Remie Richards]

So knockouts can't happen if armor is too high?

specific to the head, the chest (and consequently, groin!) does not check for armour at all (besides the fact armour reduces stuns)

[confused rock]

what has 50 armor anyways? a helmet? a riot helmet?

[Zilenan91]

Explorer suit does if you put 2 goliath plates on it

[Remie Richards]

ninja hood is 60
nar-sien hardened helmets have 60
the cult hoodie (from the "cult_shield" suit?) has 50
riot helmets have 41 (weird) so they get stuns

too lazy to point anymore out, search the github for "armor" and look at the lists, specifically the "melee" value.

[One Seven One]

(F) DEAD: Daisy Holmes says, "beekeeping suits are for plebs podpeople are immune"
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You can flash people through windoors
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Dental implants accept patches since they're a child of pills
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Buckets can be attached to IV drips to slowly drip their contents, anything else will probably work too.
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(F) DEAD: Morgan Cucker yells, "> wearing a fire suit and being fully augged stops ash damage!!
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RCD can be loaded with Metal instead of the modules meaning you can get nigh infinite use if you weld the walls down and deconstruct the girder.
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you can use Wirecutters to take posters/signs off of walls
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Speaking of signs, you can use a pen on them to change them entirely
Turn that 'Chute leads to space' to a 'No smoking' sign
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OOC: TheNightingale: You can emag a cigarette machine to get four or five packets, too.
[Of healing traitor cigs]
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You can milk pete
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You can repair an emagged or ninja drained APC by crowbarring it open and applying an APC frame to it, which is a lot faster than entirely replacing it. This doesn't work for hacked APCs, though.

[DemonFiren]

You can milk pete

Spoiler:

[Anonmare]

You can weld a disconnected camera to make it disappear from the network list and prevent a traitor AI from simply re-activating it.
You can eat someone as a xeno by grabbing them aggressively and dragging their sprite onto yours. This takes a while so it's probably best you use it on monkeys to take back to your hive to regurgitate and facehug.
You can make turrets from laser tag guns that will only shoot people wearing an opposite coloured vest
Disabling the holodeck safeties makes the holographic swords do real damage
You can dunk people in the basketball hoops

[Reece]

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RCD can be loaded with Metal instead of the modules meaning you can get nigh infinite use if you weld the walls down and deconstruct the girder.
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This is really useful to know.

[One Seven One]

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RCD can be loaded with Metal instead of the modules meaning you can get nigh infinite use if you weld the walls down and deconstruct the girder.
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This is really useful to know.

I'm pretty sure it also works with glass, forgot to mention that.

[Anonmare]

I just remembered the recipe for single tank bombs.
Get an igniter, a signaler, a screwdriver, a welding tool and an internals tank. Create a signaler and igniter assembly from screwdrivering the igniter and signaler and putting them together. Attach the assembly to the internals tank, then weld it. This let's you remotely detonate it.
Making the gas composition is still on you though lad. I don't remember the optimal gas mixtures anymore so you'll have to experiment. You'll want a good mixture of oxygen, plasma and hot gas. But not too much hot gas or else the tank will rupture.

[BeeSting12]

You can ghost on a pod and greentext. Fun to ghost and hear their salt before you dock at centcomm.

[Remie Richards]

You can ghost on a pod and greentext. Fun to ghost and hear their salt before you dock at centcomm.

Thanks for the bug report!
We'll be sure to fix this within 2-3 working days.

[Whoisthere]

That's not a bug though.