Remove Ants 2022

[Pandarsenic]

• Without GoonStation's full Ant Chem support, you can't do anything with ants and ants can't do anything with you
• Nobody(?) wants to take charge of making them Do Something in a way that doesn't step on GoonChem's toes
• Ants are a nuisance, but not (or barely) a meaningful one
• They have no real interactable RP implication (and it's unrealistic that food on the station rots and gets swarmed by ants so quickly anyway)
• You can still have food rot away if you think it's really important to not leave food items on the floor?
• It turns maintenance mice into annoying piles when they become a food item on the floor by chewing a wire
• Nobody(?) has any positive ants-related experiences

We tried, it didn't work, nothing wrong with that but let's call it a day on ants.

[Shadowflame909]

Antz copied a bugs life

[oranges]

don't leave out food and you wont get ants bro, simple as

[Farquaar]

don't leave out food and you wont get ants bro, simple as

[Mothblocks]

i asked for the mouse thing to be fixed like the days after it was merged but then didn't do anything

[cacogen]

I wish you could cover food. Like, wrapping paper but it's just a plastic wrap overlay. Or actually zip lock bags like evidence bags might look better. Would make more sense than ants that can't climb.

Food should take longer to decompose, too. And temperature should affect decomposure rates. The kitchen has a cold room that sets off the atmos alarm every time the door is opened but as far as I'm aware that's just fluff that probably only affects lizard cooks.

Decomposure should be an overlay when there aren't proper sprites, too. Creating piles of burnt messes looks cheap and bad. Certain things should be blacklisted from becoming piles of shit to begin with.

Instead of ants' nests being caltrops that play a bite sound and cause damage every time you step on them, they should apply the ant reagent like when someone throws it on you if you stand on them for a couple of seconds. A delay and applying reagents could probably be worked into the caltrop component.

[Farquaar]

Instead of ants' nests being caltrops that play a bite sound and cause damage every time you step on them, they should apply the ant reagent like when someone throws it on you if you stand on them for a couple of seconds. A delay and applying reagents could probably be worked into the caltrop component.

This is a good idea. It ought to take a few seconds for the creepy crawlies to climb aboard your pantleg.

[oranges]

seems reasonable, the food stuff is probably fine too, chilling food would be cool, but you should get ab ad moodlet if you eat frozen food.

[Super Aggro Crag]

counterpoint the fuck: my fucking post about eating ants like a gorilla FUCK YOU just LET ME EAT ANTS GOD DAMN IT i want to return to aepe life

[Mothblocks]

someone sprite ant eaters

[GamerAndYeahMick]

someone sprite ant eaters

I have desired this for a long time...

[Pandarsenic]

If someone will actually take responsibility for making ants do something other than be shitty caltrops until you scoop them up and throw them at a wall to kill them and STOP EATING MICE that's fine too

Otherwise please remove

Either outcome is good. Great, even.

[TheFinalPotato]

The kitchen has a cold room that sets off the atmos alarm every time the door is opened but as far as I'm aware that's just fluff that probably only affects lizard cooks.

This is honestly mostly a nitpick, but the cold room actually being cold is a metastation only (Maybe another one?) thing. No idea why.

[Armhulen]

The kitchen has a cold room that sets off the atmos alarm every time the door is opened but as far as I'm aware that's just fluff that probably only affects lizard cooks.

This is honestly mostly a nitpick, but the cold room actually being cold is a metastation only (Maybe another one?) thing. No idea why.

Should be all stations and there should be benefits to cold food storage

[RaveRadbury]

Should be all stations to bully lizard cooks.

[NecromancerAnne]

i asked for the mouse thing to be fixed like the days after it was merged but then didn't do anything

It's a line change at this point. I didn't add it myself because I already had folk on my case about cytology balance.

[cacogen]

The kitchen has a cold room that sets off the atmos alarm every time the door is opened but as far as I'm aware that's just fluff that probably only affects lizard cooks.

This is honestly mostly a nitpick, but the cold room actually being cold is a metastation only (Maybe another one?) thing. No idea why.

Should be all stations and there should be benefits to cold food storage

It's definitely on DeltaStation and Ice Box Station because I've done my best as an atmospheric technician (and once as an AI) to try to keep the room below the threshold to stop it triggering the air alarm and it's either been too cold or it hasn't worked without holofans which don't look very good in that tiny space plus you may need them before research unlocks more projectors.

I agree though, cold should affect the rate at which food degrades and when frozen it shouldn't degrade at all. Like Rimworld. It's the sort of feature I've wanted since noticing fridge closets and freezer crates in the game and wondering why they're even there if they don't do anything.

[Kendrickorium]

Ive seen pax make ant bombs and ant smoke machines

whats the problem

[BrianBackslide]

I have a kill tally of lone ops I've killed with ants. They're good if you're evil enough.