Simple Questions Thread

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 1:22 am #209866

Bottom post of the previous page:

Reyn wrote:
Reece wrote:Can you turn a brain into a phylactry? If so will it then work in an MMI.
As i'm pretty sure the brain is the only thing you DON'T lose when you become a lich, probably not

EDIT: PROBABLY FIXED THOSE SPELLING ERRORS

I meant someone else's brain, so say if I wanted to meme around as a D&D nerd wizard I could steal the caps brain, turn it into a phylactery and have it still function inside the MMI?

Screemonster · Fri Sep 09, 2016 1:32 am

Now thaaaaat's a tough question and probably worth testing

if the object is turned into a different object at any point (like putting the brain in the mmi, or putting the mmi into the borg) then I dunno if the old object is deleted in the process, but if the brain is just stuffed into the borg's contents somewhere it'll probably work

hard to pull off but would make you pretty damn hard to kill if you just ordered the borg to run around jumping between the solars or something

Gamarr · Post by **Gamarr** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 1:34 am #209875

[quote="FantasticFwoosh"
So i can build ashwalker and ash proof personal tribal huts in little caves blocked off with sandstone doors? neat.

Also = Miner just digs sand, collects sand and builds a rock hut instead of using a pod despite no air & pressure.

I assume the thing i just got excited about can't be done and requires real flooring (which would really only require a lever to steal from a ruin then replace the basalt to create pseudo plating)[/quote]
I'm almost certain that clarification is needed. Just putting up walls or airlocks does not make it instantly roofed. Make is specific- you needa landclaim/blueprints to make a room a thing. Also, almost as certain but this may have been changed: stone doors do not count as a seal, only airlocks door. Not to mention the fact stone doors are not atmos-sealed.

Dagdammit · Post by **Dagdammit** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 2:41 am #209903

Before I start trying to brainstorm suggestions: Is there currently any way for plants to generate oxygen? (my own testing with grass, gaia, etc. makes me think no.)

FantasticFwoosh · Fri Sep 09, 2016 10:46 am

Gamarr wrote:
FantasticFwoosh wrote: So i can build ashwalker and ash proof personal tribal huts in little caves blocked off with sandstone doors? neat.

Also = Miner just digs sand, collects sand and builds a rock hut instead of using a pod despite no air & pressure.

I assume the thing i just got excited about can't be done and requires real flooring (which would really only require a lever to steal from a ruin then replace the basalt to create pseudo plating)
I'm almost certain that clarification is needed. Just putting up walls or airlocks does not make it instantly roofed. Make is specific- you needa landclaim/blueprints to make a room a thing. Also, almost as certain but this may have been changed: stone doors do not count as a seal, only airlocks door. Not to mention the fact stone doors are not atmos-sealed.

Are you sure about that? I have distinct recollections that those doors do hold atmos but due to their clunky nature its just too slow to open and close to keep atmos in before the relevant ticks spill anything significiant. It doesn't require to be a room to have a name its just a nameless crevice and hut to hide in/reside in away from the ash or to store personal belongings and expand the ashwalker compound into a little group of away bases.

Im just talking about the quick preliminary verb (create a room)

Ill try a couple of different things. With a crowbar/lever basalt on lavaland can be replaced entirely to create pseudo roofing/flooring out of floor tiles and summary plating/wood floors and a screwdriver, its literally just a hut dug into a rock cave that should god-willing keep the ash out as per being 'seperate' of lavaland if the natural stone walls don't interfere as non valid wall materials. raw basalt floor and rock walls when enclosed and sealed up with a door initially doesn't work i can confirm.

EDIT - Replaced all the floors with floor tile/plating with welded sheet metal and rock walls dont count. Ill try praying for ashwalker blueprint map or something.

yodaman888 · Post by **yodaman888** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 11:40 pm #210493

So being a super stealth traitor janitor I managed to get ahold of a virus crate I then poured a bit of each of the bad virus's into a bucket and splashed it on people but it didnt seem to work.

what was I doing wrong?

FantasticFwoosh · Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:05 am

yodaman888 wrote:So being a super stealth traitor janitor I managed to get ahold of a virus crate I then poured a bit of each of the bad virus's into a bucket and splashed it on people but it didnt seem to work.

what was I doing wrong?

If you were using the culture bottle directly you likely diluted it too much, throwing too little actual virus to take effect with the larger quantity of water being scooped up

10 to 90 virus to water wont work. You were better off emptying the water all-together and just straight (also know that some viruses travel in different ways, without a symptom they usually travel directly between blood transfusions/syringes.) up putting it in drinks or using a spray-bottle/smoke bomb since soaking isnt very effective.

DrWoofington · Sun Sep 11, 2016 1:32 pm

Here's a simple question:
Who hacked lzimann?

confused rock · Sun Sep 11, 2016 5:32 pm

who the fuck made it impossible to use signallers with your c4

TechnoAlchemist · Sun Sep 11, 2016 8:27 pm

The unloved rock wrote:who the fuck made it impossible to use signallers with your c4

They use assemblies because they're technically grenades now, however they can't be signaled after they are planted anymore due to an oversight when they were repathed. The fully functional c4 is a shorter path and still exists on the nuke ops shuttle.

confused rock · Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:31 pm

ah shit is there any way to put a signaller on them at all

Onule · Post by **Onule** » Tue Sep 13, 2016 2:37 pm #211130

Are teleporters bugged out? When trying to build one in the free golem ship, 90% of the time it will just say hub not linked or the power station not working at all.

Tue Sep 13, 2016 11:04 pm

iirc you have to screwdriver open the monolith-looking middle part (i think its the hub) and use wirecutters on it to link it to nearby consoles. or maybe a multitool idk. it's really unintuitive

TheNightingale · Wed Sep 14, 2016 12:24 am

It's wirecutters. Build it so the console is adjacent to the station (the big monolith-looking one), and the station is adjacent to the hub (the one you walk through). Then screwdriver open the station, wirecut it to link it, and screw it closed. Don't forget to calibrate the teleporter if the hub (the one you walk through) hasn't been upgraded, or you might turn into a flyperson and/or take damage.

Dagdammit · Post by **Dagdammit** » Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:12 am #211310

Is there a way for a ghost to not see deadchat? better yet, to only see (hear) what someone they're orbiting sees?

Wed Sep 14, 2016 5:33 pm

Dagdammit wrote:Is there a way for a ghost to not see deadchat? better yet, to only see (hear) what someone they're orbiting sees?

Check the ooc and ghost tabs, there are a bunch of options to mute or unmute various thing as a ghost.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 5:14 pm #216409

i forget, how do you give someone a swirly? is it aggressive grab + face target + click toilet while they're close to it?

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 6:18 pm #216427

Before the grab refactor it used to be:- Choke hold + use hold on open-lid toilet + repeat ad nauseum until nauseum
I think I nearly swirlied one guy to death.

TheWulfe · Post by **TheWulfe** » Fri Oct 07, 2016 9:38 pm #216481

How do the Servant of Ratvar's cache-to-wall generation work. Can I honeycomb a single clock-wall and all the caches generate parts, or does it need to be one-for-one

Where X=Clockwork Wall and C=Cache
Will
C
XC
C
Have 3 caches generating parts
or

XC
XC
XC
Have to be used for generating parts?

killerx09 · Post by **killerx09** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:25 pm #217776

How do I put stuff in my fedora?

Okand37 · Post by **Okand37** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:28 pm #217777

killerx09 wrote:How do I put stuff in my fedora?

Click on the fedora while wearing it and it should open up one backpack slot, take an item in your hand and put it in. Alternatively, clicking and dragging it to your sprite while in hand should open it up too.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Oct 11, 2016 11:32 pm #217779

Unless it has recently changed you can't put stuff in the regular fedora, just the brown detective one. #endnoirdiscrimination

bubbaray9000 · Wed Oct 12, 2016 11:44 pm

can you refill vapes?

Okand37 · Post by **Okand37** » Thu Oct 13, 2016 12:35 am #218038

bubbaray9000 wrote:can you refill vapes?

You can add reagents to a vape by filling it from a beaker or reagent container.

FantasticFwoosh · Thu Oct 13, 2016 10:43 am

Okand37 wrote:
bubbaray9000 wrote:can you refill vapes?
You can add reagents to a vape by filling it from a beaker or reagent container.

Bowls work for vapes too.

aranamor · Post by **aranamor** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 4:02 am #218707

will ingesting potassium alongside water cause an explosion if done immediately?

XDTM · Post by **XDTM** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:16 am #218737

Yeah, don't eat potassium and water pills. Normal drinking only gives 5 units at a time though so it's mostly safe.

Not-Dorsidarf · Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:37 am

XDTM wrote:Yeah, don't eat potassium and water pills. Normal drinking only gives 5 units at a time though so it's mostly safe.

Thats why you use the Lethal Injection syringes to put in 50u at once

aranamor · Post by **aranamor** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 2:00 pm #218770

The clown was a rude asshole to me once as a botanist so I ground up some bananas and got a bucket of water and kept trying to get him to drink or mix them but someone else lynched him anyway. Didn't know if pills worked or not, awesome that they do.

XDTM · Post by **XDTM** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 8:11 pm #218846

You can buy two sleepypens, empty them on a monkey or something, then fill one with water and one with potassium and jab them both into someone to instacrit him.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Oct 15, 2016 9:49 pm #218877

I don't think sleepy pens are refillable any more.

Raphaella · Post by **Raphaella** » Thu Oct 27, 2016 3:13 pm #221688

Is the Chameleon Armour from the Chamkit actually armoured? I'd presume it is, but the Chameleon Gloves aren't even insulated, so I'unno.

EDIT: answering my own question because i'm retarded and forgot i could just codedive

chameleon armour's values are melee = 10, bullet = 10, laser = 10, energy = 0, bomb = 0, bio = 0, rad = 0, fire = 50, acid = 50

whereas normal armour's is melee = 30, bullet = 30, laser = 30, energy = 10, bomb = 25, bio = 0, rad = 0, fire = 50, acid = 50

so it's -okay- and better than nothing i guess good to know

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Thu Oct 27, 2016 3:21 pm #221690

All the Chameleon stuff is armoured but apart from the jumpsuit, actual sec armour is superior. (The chameleon jumpsuit offers 10 resistance to melee, bullets and lasers while the sec jumpsuit/Tactical Turtlenecks just gives 10 resist to melee)

Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:30 pm

yeah i added that a while back, chameleon suit armor is identical to tactical turtleneck armor (unless goof changed it when he did the chameleon kit)

XDTM · Post by **XDTM** » Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:34 pm #221808

Sleepy Pens are refillable even if in game it says they're not; just use a beaker on them, they hold 45 reagents. To empty them you need to stab something, though.

Onule · Post by **Onule** » Thu Oct 27, 2016 10:47 pm #221816

What is the current maxcap size? Is it 7,15,31?

ChangelingRain · Thu Oct 27, 2016 11:13 pm

TheWulfe wrote:How do the Servant of Ratvar's cache-to-wall generation work. Can I honeycomb a single clock-wall and all the caches generate parts, or does it need to be one-for-one

Where X=Clockwork Wall and C=Cache
Will
C
XC
C
Have 3 caches generating parts
or

XC
XC
XC
Have to be used for generating parts?

It's the second example.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Fri Oct 28, 2016 2:41 am #221880

screen keeps getting black tiles only when im alive, its all normal when im ghost. whenever i ask in ooc or anything i just get memed so ill ask here. my byond version is up to date.

Raphaella · Post by **Raphaella** » Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:55 am #222206

Security cameras - how do? I set up the assembly, wire it, etc, set it to 'SS13' when I screwdriver it... and the AI can't see me.

The first time I did it, I set up one in maintenance and they could see through that, but not the ones I'd set up in the abandoned bar. Does it have something to do with how it's set up on the station blueprints? Do I need the CE to march down and add the abandoned surgery/bar/whatever to something, or am I just stupid? (a very real possibility!)

Mervill · Post by **Mervill** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 5:18 am #222779

What's the air scrubber supposed to look like? Like what is the sprite supposed to resemble?

calzilla1 · Post by **calzilla1** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 4:48 pm #222849

If you hit a person with the EMP flashlight, will it disable their head set?

D&B · Post by **D&B** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 4:58 pm #222851

calzilla1 wrote:If you hit a person with the EMP flashlight, will it disable their head set?

It would be extremely painful

Isane · Post by **Isane** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 4:59 pm #222852

calzilla1 wrote:If you hit a person with the EMP flashlight, will it disable their head set?

Yes, it will.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:43 pm #222888

calzilla1 wrote:If you hit a person with the EMP flashlight, will it disable their head set?

It turns their headset off and they have to turn it back on manually (which they can't until 15 seconds have passed). It'll also completely drain any energy gun they have (including tasers), burn out flashes, turn off flashlights, drain 1/4 charge from a stun baton and, I think, 3/4 charge from a stunprod. If they have NVGs/mesons/thermals or HUD implants, they'll get flashed and blinded.
If they have a reviver implant, they'll get a heart attack and if they have augmented limbs they'll take burn damage (fully augmented people take 30 burn - the same amount of force damage as an e-sword). EMP flashlights also stun and damage cyborgs as well as drain their cell and won't burn out like a flash does

EMP flashlights can also be used as pseudo emag on an airlock but you're gonna have to game the odds before you'll randomly make an airlock open and you're way more likely to just electrify it.

letshavecake · Thu Nov 24, 2016 9:10 am

Lavaland mushrooms have some unique(as far as I can tell) chemicals in them that aren't listed on the wiki. What do they do?

Thundercoot · Post by **Thundercoot** » Fri Nov 25, 2016 2:08 pm #229938

Leafy mushrooms and cactus fruits contain vitrium froth, which is nutritious and heals brute and burn damage.
Tall mushroom caps contain entropic polypnium, which paralyses after 10 cycles (ticks?), and has a chance of dealing brain, suffocation and toxin damage.
Glowing mushroom stems contain tinea luxor, which make you glow when consumed.

FantasticFwoosh · Fri Nov 25, 2016 2:24 pm

Thundercoot wrote:Leafy mushrooms and cactus fruits contain vitrium froth, which is nutritious and heals brute and burn damage.
Tall mushroom caps contain entropic polypnium, which paralyses after 10 cycles (ticks?), and has a chance of dealing brain, suffocation and toxin damage.
Glowing mushroom stems contain tinea luxor, which make you glow when consumed.

All of these compounds can be put through a grinder like any other plant and used as chems for stuff like smoke (entropic polypnium smoke anyone?)

> It used to be that leafy plants gave the froth, but now its rebalanced that cactus fruits are 100% froth, while leaves are diluted with nicotine.

Tall mushrooms (the big round caps) don't activate the side effect, and initially on the first bite, you will get a druggy effect, which in moderation is a fun way to spend your time inside the ashwalker den/miner pod between storms off your face on shrooms without dying.

You can attach a bowl (mushroom made or default ashwalker bowl) to the IV drip when full of gutlunch milk, to quickly and directly pump fluids into ashwalkers for intensive healing. Saline from gutlunch milk also substitutes for any blood loss when you eventually heal so dont make gauzes

confused rock · Mon Dec 12, 2016 8:53 pm

I want to use the guitar to play the nutshack, how would I go about this?

Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:59 pm

The unloved rock wrote:I want to use the guitar to play the nutshack, how would I go about this?

you'd have to translate this to the notes format that the guitar uses. https://musescore.com/user/3542636/scores/2608016

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Mon Dec 12, 2016 11:15 pm #234827

What about the midi-to-piano app that comes with the repository, is it still shit?

confused rock · Tue Dec 13, 2016 2:18 am

darn, I was hoping that somebody would just flat out do it for me because I'm lazy but I sound like less of an asshole for just asking how. thanks though.