Frankenstein Station 13: Introducing dissections and alien organs to xenobiology #29093
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found and fixed |
hard to pinpoint that without being in round to diagnose, but make sure you're targeting the chest |
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My previous issue was likely that I wasnt targeting the chest. On round 44854 right now, the dissection surgery wont give me the organ after minutes of doign the final step over and over on three watcher bodies. OTher Xenobiologist says that the Basilisk didnt require the usual basilisk surgery to extract from, but it did work. NEither of us are gettign surgery step prom;pts (Step fail/success red/blue text) only stopping the surgery gives prompt text. IMS is also not auto repeating failed steps. |
I can confirm this, I was the other Xenobiologist, With the Basilisk it was I would get the surgery ui to choose surgery but then when I click confirm the window stays instead of closing but the surgery starts and instead of the usually "Drill, retractor, hemo, incision, hemo, retractor, Dissect" it was the "Incision, hemo, retractor, dissect" Surgery. |
So I also found out that the Purple Eyed giant spiders are also borked and to be more specific in what Bagel said it was the watcher corpses that weren't working (All we had that shift was watcher corpses and a basilisk) So far everything I tried worked as normal like Morph, the red eyed Giant spider, Creature (The portal mob), Killer tomato and Mi Go |
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Co-authored-by: warriorstar-orion <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kyani <[email protected]>
What Does This PR Do
The PR page should be primarily for issue reporting. Please direct general chatter to:
https://discord.com/channels/145533722026967040/1362583282692395058
for a list of all organ abilities, functions, and progress, refer to the excel document here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19WGbyGu1gzqhWUTsYu4SBNqetkCBr8vkhoc-zyoaXUY/edit?usp=sharing
Here are some wiki pages for the upcomming features:
https://www.paradisestation.org/wiki/index.php?title=Xenobiologist_Temp_Page
https://www.paradisestation.org/wiki/index.php?title=Xenobiology_guide_Temp_Page
Xenobiology has lacked content for a long time. Slimes are neat, but it gets pretty boring and many times is abandoned halfway through the shift. Now, xenobiologists have a handfull of new things that they can pursue over the course of the shift: Xeno organs! (not xenomorph. Okay well, not specifically xenomorph). This PR introduces the ability to dissect organs out of alien life, and allows them to be revitalized via slime therapy to turn into useful organs. These organs can then be implanted into others, or simply processed in the new Organ Analyzer machine to turn into research credits and potentially high-tier research disks!
Dissecting
Dissecting is a fairly straightforward process. All dissections begin with the dissection manager, though this can only be started on creatures that contain a xeno organ at all. This then follows normal surgical steps: Scalpel, hemostat, retractors, and finishing by pulling out the organ with the dissection manager. While there is a standard dissection procedure, not all creatures are created equal! Some creatures have different steps to open their surgical site. If you're ever unsure, just examine the creature after the initial dissection step and it will guide you. Ash drakes, for example, will require a bone saw to cut through their mighty scales, then removing said scales via a hemostat before you can reach its squishy flesh. Blobbernaughts, on the other hand, require retracting the incision back open every other step because THEIR GOOPY BODY KEEPS CLOSING THE DAMNED INCISION SITE!
The Organs
After dissection, the scientist will be rewarded with an unidentified organ. This organ, while currently useless, can have its potential unlocked by revitalizing it via slime therapy in xenobiology (listed below). Each creature will have a list of possible organs available to them, with each most creatures having at least one unique organ available to them. Seeing as only one can be pulled from each creature, multiple corpses may be required to obtain a desired organ. Each organ will have a randomized icon, so good luck telling them apart!
Each organ also has one of three quality levels: Damaged, normal, and pristine. This is nfluenced by two factors: The dissection manager level used, and any smith tool bit modifications attached to the device. Tools with a better failure rate chance will net, on average, higher quality organs! Most of the time this will only marginally make that organ function better, however occasionally a pristine (or even damaged) quality will have unique effects.
Slime Revitalization Therapy
Unidentified organs will be unusable in their current state, being pulled from a corpse and all. These organs will need to be inserted into a slime in order to revive it. However, not any ol slime will do. Slimes must be befriended before they will accept foreign object inside of them. First one needs to discipline a slime, which can be done a few ways. A slime that tries to eat someone out of hunger, then shoved off will have a chance to discipline it. A slime hit by an object of sufficient force will have a low chance a disciplining it, but beware of retaliation! Spray bottles filled with water are also a great way to discipline slimes, however this only works if they are chasing someone or are trying to eat them. Extinguishers wont work for this, itll just make them mad. Especially trained slimes! The most consistent way to discipline however, is to feed a slime 5 sheets of plasma, which will make it very happy!
After a slime is sufficiently disciplined, it will require an additional 5 sheets of plasma to cement its training. A trained slime will be able to take xeno organs into itself and revitalize them. A trained slime will be noticeable by the ":3" big smile on its face! happy slime! After a while itll eject the revitalized organ, ready to be implanted or analyzed! Additionally, trained slimes are less likely to become aggressive when abused or hungry.
Would you believe most this slime behavior was already in the game before this PR?
Organ Analyzer
The organ analyzer is fairly straight forward. A newly revitalized is slotted into the machine, after which it can be activated with an empty hand to start the process. When its done after a few seconds, the organ will be destroyed, but will grant the science department credits based off of what organ was destroyed, and potentially generate a high-level research disk based off of what kind of organ it was. Its a give-and-take!
New Job Role
With these expanded changes, its been agreed that xenobiology will be made its own proper job slow now, consisting of two job slots. This role will not have RnD Access, however it will have the benefit of mining, EVA, and teleporter access to compensate for the more mobile playstyle of xenobiologists going into the field. Likewise, xenobiology will be gaining its own access, with their work area being solely accessible by the biologists. They will retain sci-chem access.
As a side effect from this PR several changes have occured:
Why It's Good For The Game
Xenobio and science in general has needed content. Xeno bio needs more reasons to get out into the station/world and do more and have more reasons to talk to people. From shift start, xeno can get every color slime in 30-40 minutes and then they have nothing else to do. (at least I can). Slime ranching is alright, its pretty cathartic, but theres not much at the end of the road to achieve. Now, we can make HORRIBLE MONSTROSITIES out of crew!
Images of changes
Thank you to Ell Good (audrey) on discord for basically every single sprite given to this PR
Todo:
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Changelog
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add: Added xeno organs, which can be revitalized for unique effects
add: Added the ability to dissect xeno organs out of alien creatures
add: added the organ analyzer machine
add: added the dissection manager surgery tool
add: Added slime behavior for training and revitalization therapy for xeno organs
tweak: Tweaked a few items into the new xeno organ system (Xenomorph organs)
tweak: maint loot spawners rarely spawn organ mesh and dissectors
soundadd: Added a sound for the organ analyzer
imageadd: Added megafauna corpse sprites
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