Little things you learned that are game changing

segundoblz · Post by **segundoblz** » Sat Jul 14, 2018 6:18 pm #426302

Bottom post of the previous page:

gum disease wrote:With regard to surgery, just do the procedure on a roller bed under a shower! The water will prevent the plasmaman from igniting, meaning that you can operate on them safely.

I just did a couple days ago in medbay.

Plasmamen can breathe oxygen if they get lung transplant (the one from RnD) but it does not stop them from getting on fire hence why I did it ^^

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:57 am #426482

>^^
>we have players who unironically use emoticons
RIP /tg/station

Screemonster · Sun Jul 15, 2018 12:01 pm

kekekekekeke ^_^

Mickyan · Post by **Mickyan** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:26 am #427497

As the janitor, a full water tank backpack only needs 20u of space cleaner to work at full capacity. 10u will work if you only spray 2 tiles at once.

You can take chemicals out of (some) containers that can't be manually accessed (i.e. spray bottles, water misters) by using the ChemMaster in the holodeck

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 2:43 pm #427549

You can partially deconstruct cleaner 'nades to get at the beakers. You can alter the chemicals inside of them, put the beakers back in and to all outward appearances - it looks like a regular cleaner grenade

Grazyn · Post by **Grazyn** » Mon Jul 23, 2018 9:53 am #428602

Artificial limbs can't be healed by cryo, but the machine won't eject you or turn off either when the rest of your body is fully healed. Since there is no way to self-eject while sleeping, if you get put in cryo with a damaged artificial limb your round is over, you may as well ghost out immediately.

XDTM · Post by **XDTM** » Fri Sep 07, 2018 1:02 pm #438046

Breathing tube implants prevent suffocation fron crit, letting you stay alive much longer

D4C · Post by **D4C** » Sat Sep 08, 2018 11:33 am #438268

I don't recall seeing this on the wiki anywhere, but if you're in need of blood you can mix even 1u with any amount of unstable mutagen and all of the mutagen will be turned into blood. 299u of mutagen in a bluespace beaker can be turned into 300u of blood with a single dropper.

Useful if there's no chef, as a quick-fingered chemist can shit out enough synthmeat to feed the station for a whole shift with access to this much blood.

Hathkar · Post by **Hathkar** » Sat Sep 08, 2018 3:10 pm #438280

D4C wrote:I don't recall seeing this on the wiki anywhere, but if you're in need of blood you can mix even 1u with any amount of unstable mutagen and all of the mutagen will be turned into blood. 299u of mutagen in a bluespace beaker can be turned into 300u of blood with a single dropper.

Useful if there's no chef, as a quick-fingered chemist can shit out enough synthmeat to feed the station for a whole shift with access to this much blood.

Hmm, that might also be really handy for making large batches of synthflesh.

Dr_bee · Post by **Dr_bee** » Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:08 pm #438638

Hathkar wrote:
D4C wrote:I don't recall seeing this on the wiki anywhere, but if you're in need of blood you can mix even 1u with any amount of unstable mutagen and all of the mutagen will be turned into blood. 299u of mutagen in a bluespace beaker can be turned into 300u of blood with a single dropper.

Useful if there's no chef, as a quick-fingered chemist can shit out enough synthmeat to feed the station for a whole shift with access to this much blood.
Hmm, that might also be really handy for making large batches of synthflesh.

I did not know this, My usual method of blood collection is using a IV stand on succ-mode with a regular beaker as the container. Bodies hold around 500 units of blud if they died from non-brute damage.

D4C · Post by **D4C** » Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:57 pm #438649

D4C wrote:I don't recall seeing this on the wiki anywhere, but if you're in need of blood you can mix even 1u with any amount of unstable mutagen and all of the mutagen will be turned into blood.

On this note, if you get a little extra blood pumped into your system, it won't normalise to 100%. So long as you don't bleed it back out, you keep that extra blood.

Consider also that a spessman's cardiovascular system can hold up to 2000cl of blood (357%), meaning one could potentially manufacture gallons of the stuff and inject it into oneself for safekeeping, or for giving the janitor hell when you get beaten over the head. Or maybe give a changeling a hard time trying to suck over three and a half times as much blood out of a body to husk you, I don't actually know if that's dependant on blood amount or health.

confused rock · Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:48 pm

Dead wags his tail is the perfect doorstop. kick him twice, shove him in the captain's front door, and when you steal the laser the door stays open.

bandit · Post by **bandit** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:16 pm #440171

confused rock wrote:Dead wags his tail is the perfect doorstop. kick him twice, shove him in the captain's front door, and when you steal the laser the door stays open.

someone kill tactical lizards

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:19 pm #440172

bandit wrote:
confused rock wrote:Dead wags his tail is the perfect doorstop. kick him twice, shove him in the captain's front door, and when you steal the laser the door stays open.
someone kill tactical lizards

WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST FUCKING SAY ABOUT ME YOU LITTLE BITCH

Togopal · Post by **Togopal** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:31 pm #443052

AIs can click on wall-mounted flashes to manually activate them. This, combined with AI core shutters, is an excellent counterplay to a syndi/rogue cyborg rush, and can stall them for long enough for somebody to assist you if you can keep it chained

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:42 pm #443054

Don't those motherfuckers burn out eventually?

Togopal · Post by **Togopal** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:45 pm #443055

DemonFiren wrote:Don't those motherfuckers burn out eventually?

Don't we all?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:47 pm #443056

Togopal wrote:
DemonFiren wrote:Don't those motherfuckers burn out eventually?
Don't we all?

that's the most real thing I read all day

somerandomguy · Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:34 pm

Togopal wrote:AIs can click on wall-mounted flashes to manually activate them. This, combined with AI core shutters, is an excellent counterplay to a syndi/rogue cyborg rush, and can stall them for long enough for somebody to assist you if you can keep it chained

You don't need help for syndieborgs, AI core lasers shoot them

Post by **zxaber** » Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:35 am #443130

Togopal wrote:AIs can click on wall-mounted flashes to manually activate them. This, combined with AI core shutters, is an excellent counterplay to a syndi/rogue cyborg rush, and can stall them for long enough for somebody to assist you if you can keep it chained

On a similar note, Malf AIs can directly control turrets, which is like your one solid defense against desynced borgs (unless they know the map enough to path around your wall flashes).

confused rock · Thu Oct 11, 2018 1:50 am

You can directly cure romerol zombies with a hypospray if you turn the zombies into lizards.

Also, using the summon thingy spell, whatever the thing that recalls an item to your hand is, while your summonable item is in a locker, summons the whole locker (at least if it's locked) I can see use for this, especially for when a shaft miner gets wizard gear as a reward for doing his job for five minutes.

somerandomguy · Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:20 am

confused rock wrote:You can directly cure romerol zombies with a hypospray if you turn the zombies into lizards.

It's even better with zombie mutation toxin when you could get it
The zombies can't tell who's an ally or enemy

Post by **zxaber** » Fri Oct 12, 2018 1:30 am #444834

confused rock wrote:Also, using the summon thingy spell, whatever the thing that recalls an item to your hand is, while your summonable item is in a locker, summons the whole locker (at least if it's locked).

You can really have fun with this. If the locker is loaded in a mech, then summoning the item moves the whole mech over. You can also use it on an MMI or battery inside a borg to summon the borg to your side.

somerandomguy · Fri Oct 12, 2018 3:31 am

zxaber wrote:
confused rock wrote:Also, using the summon thingy spell, whatever the thing that recalls an item to your hand is, while your summonable item is in a locker, summons the whole locker (at least if it's locked).
You can really have fun with this. If the locker is loaded in a mech, then summoning the item moves the whole mech over. You can also use it on an MMI or battery inside a borg to summon the borg to your side.

It also worked on machines before it was changed
Mark a beaker, put it in a cryotube, have your own personal healing chamber that doesn't work because you forgot about the o2 pipe

Farquaar · Post by **Farquaar** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 10:18 pm #445716

You can use the chaplain's starting Bible in your hand to change it's sprite.
How did nobody ever tell me this?
How could nobody ever tell me this!?

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Oct 14, 2018 11:38 pm #445732

how come he didn't know this

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:08 am #445751

Farquaar wrote:You can use the chaplain's starting Bible in your hand to change it's sprite.
How did nobody ever tell me this?
How could nobody ever tell me this!?

Next you're gonna tell me you don't know how to change the detective's revolver's skin

Farquaar · Post by **Farquaar** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:19 am #445764

Anonmare wrote:
Farquaar wrote:You can use the chaplain's starting Bible in your hand to change it's sprite.
How did nobody ever tell me this?
How could nobody ever tell me this!?
Next you're gonna tell me you don't know how to change the detective's revolver's skin

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Swindly · Post by **Swindly** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:17 pm #446040

You can power the station by clicking on a false uranium wall next to some radiation collectors for a few minutes.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:30 pm #446104

Farquaar wrote:
Anonmare wrote:
Farquaar wrote:You can use the chaplain's starting Bible in your hand to change it's sprite.
How did nobody ever tell me this?
How could nobody ever tell me this!?
Next you're gonna tell me you don't know how to change the detective's revolver's skin

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next you're gonna tell me you dont know how to change your face with mirrors during the round

Farquaar · Post by **Farquaar** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:04 pm #446187

Deitus wrote:
Farquaar wrote:
Anonmare wrote:
Farquaar wrote:You can use the chaplain's starting Bible in your hand to change it's sprite.
How did nobody ever tell me this?
How could nobody ever tell me this!?
Next you're gonna tell me you don't know how to change the detective's revolver's skin

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Spoiler:

Swindly · Post by **Swindly** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:23 pm #449619

Mechs can be connected to ports.
The pressure of the internal tank can be changed.
There is no upper limit to the pressure that the internal tank can be set to.
Epic prank idea: fill a mech with nitrous oxide, toggle internal tank usage, set tank to 999999 kpa, and leave the mech in a public area.

confused rock · Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:10 pm

problem is swindly that once the guy gets in there's no way to eject them so it only works on one person at a time

Swindly · Post by **Swindly** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:32 pm #449628

Occupants get ejected when they die, which won't take long given the contents of the tank.

confused rock · Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:03 pm

I retract my statement

Mickyan · Post by **Mickyan** » Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:38 pm #449657

chemical reactions can happen inside mobs which can make for some interesting if unnecessarily roundabout tactics such as the ultimate clown prank: feed someone bananas then use a syringe gun to shoot them with a syringe full of water

somerandomguy · Fri Oct 26, 2018 10:23 pm

Mickyan wrote:chemical reactions can happen inside mobs which can make for some interesting if unnecessarily roundabout tactics such as the ultimate clown prank: feed someone bananas then use a syringe gun to shoot them with a syringe full of water

Separated chemicals 100pot potass+water bananas

delaron · Post by **delaron** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 1:51 am #449704

As chef I make gut cheese in a similar fashion for any kitchen intruders

Post by **gum disease** » Sat Oct 27, 2018 2:45 pm #449801

More silly than game-changing, but if you're a mediborg with the hypo upgrade that gives you rezadone you can keep monkeys being succ'd by slimes alive for ages.
One jab of rezadone will cure the cellular damage, so the slime can keep feeding off of the same monkey. I did this once with a friendly sentient slime and they were able to split so many times. We ended up making the area look like a bootleg xenobio lab until someone rushed in and killed them all.

Mickyan · Post by **Mickyan** » Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:53 am #450363

As a zombie, since the advent of crawling you can now truly be a zombie movie cliché and play dead until someone is careless enough to stand next to you and get clawed

ThatGuyWhoLikesSpace · Wed Oct 31, 2018 6:55 pm

You can make LSD with 0 access rights using salt, paper, and lightbulbs.

For when you want the Walter White experience but are too lazy to make actual meth.

Post by **gum disease** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 7:57 pm #451442

If someone's in hard crit and bleeding out, pop them on a roller bed/in a locker and drag them to safety. It'll stop them from losing more blood/leaving blood trails all over.

It's also a good way to dispose of bodies if you don't have space cleaner/soap on hand. I've recovered a lot of dumped bodies simply from following blood trails.

Nabski · Post by **Nabski** » Fri Nov 02, 2018 7:58 pm #451443

Vampires are shit and I can't wait for Halloween to be over.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:55 pm #451568

Roller beds are criminally underutilised. They can even be folded up and carried in your backpack.

Deitus · Post by **Deitus** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:06 pm #451940

Nabski wrote:Vampires are shit and I can't wait for Halloween to be over.

*raids ur armory round start*
LMAO nottin personnel

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:08 pm #451941

>Wait in the armoury locker
>Bat nigger vent crawls in
>Taze and laze
>Body is ashed
>Cries about being killed in dsay

Spoiler:

RogueSteampunker · Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:27 pm

It's still possible to make soap without chem access, simply by burning paper for the ash needed in the lye recipe. Genuinely awesome for when you're forced to play box for the eleventh time in a row, and you don't mind grinding up a few rats

confused rock · Mon Nov 05, 2018 6:23 pm

First encounter with a batnigger was as warden with them in the locker room. I shot one laser to scare him off, only for im to immediately die with the crew’s approval. Pleasantly surprised!

Swindly · Post by **Swindly** » Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:16 pm #452460

Floorbots can be used to farm infinite metal.

Erik489 · Post by **Erik489** » Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:34 am #452482

Swindly wrote:Floorbots can be used to farm infinite metal.

I was the one who figured this out, it’s on the GitHub as an issue. I wouldn’t recommend using it since it is an exploit.

confused rock · Thu Nov 08, 2018 2:35 am

I wouldn't recommend using it since you're waiting for a floorbot to do 4 floors for one fucking metal you're crazy lmao slimes or engiborgs give you infinite metal way faster why would you ever use floorbots