Guide to Awesome Miscellaneous Stuff - Revision history

imported>Remuluson2: Vending machines no longer accept coins as payment. removed the tip regarding that

2019-05-28T09:56:23Z

Vending machines no longer accept coins as payment. removed the tip regarding that

imported>CrasCrea: forgot a ==

2019-05-28T00:45:57Z

forgot a ==

imported>CrasCrea: for some reason when i saved the page the tabs stopped working so i changed the page to just not have weird formatting

2019-05-28T00:45:31Z

for some reason when i saved the page the tabs stopped working so i changed the page to just not have weird formatting

imported>CrasCrea: Updated some stuff, fixed other stuff, removed some doubled stuff.

2019-05-28T00:42:14Z

Updated some stuff, fixed other stuff, removed some doubled stuff.

imported>W65 at 19:51, 9 May 2019

2019-05-09T19:51:43Z

imported>PotatoMasher: Clown + Singulo tip

2018-11-24T17:19:21Z

Clown + Singulo tip

imported>Xhuis: Forgot a closing tag!

2017-11-14T01:14:07Z

Forgot a closing tag!

imported>Xhuis: Formats the page with tabs

2017-11-14T01:13:41Z

Formats the page with tabs

imported>XDTM: No lasering hulks to death!

2017-09-07T19:54:23Z

No lasering hulks to death!

imported>Xhuis: /* File:AI.gif File:Generic_borg.png Silicons */

2017-09-06T09:12:06Z

File:AI.gif File:Generic_borg.png Silicons

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 * Dead mice are now considered items, so that means you can: Stuff one into a cake, implant it into someone you don't like, throw it as a projectile, <s>beat Runtime to death with one</s>.
 * You can teleport into an escape pod mid-travel using a beacon. This is incredibly useful for those meteor rounds. This also doesn't work on the escape shuttle.
 * You can eat crayons to unleash your inner two year old. Rainbow crayons make you especially colourful.
 * You can lean on (hitting the resist command when welded in a locker) lockers to try to get out of them.

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 * Steal an empty bottle from the bar, fill it with welder fuel and grab a lighter. Smash the bottle on your target's head and use the lighter on them while they're stunned. Now they are on fire. This is particularly effective as a self defence measure assuming you can't get your hands on some proper weapons. While fire will take several seconds before doing serious damage, most people won't be carrying anything to extinguish it. They can resist to put it out but resisting out of being on fire is an auto stun, otherwise they can keep fighting and all you'll have to do is keep your distance untill they burn to death. Their only option is running away. The added benefit of fire is that armors don't generally have fire protection, that makes it a great weapon against better equipped foes like nuke ops with their pesky armor and shield, assuming you can get close enough, but once you manage it's going to ruin their day.
 * There's a roman shield in the premium items of the autodrobe. It has all the same benefits as a normal riot shield from the armory.
-== Silicon Tips
+== Silicon Tips ==
 [[File:AI.gif]] [[File:Generic_borg.png]]
 * Shortcuts for quickly controlling things:

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-<tabs>
-<tab name="Gameplay/Interface Tips">
+== Gameplay/Interface Tips ==
 [[File:Hud-inventory.png]]
 * You can use period or a # instead of colon for non general chat. No more accidents!
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 * You can just drag headsets to your screen too to open them, like PDAs.
 * You can fit more people on a tile if you rest and slide onto that tile. Great for escape pods!
-</tab>
+== Combat Tips ==
 [[File:Hud-target.gif]]
 * Punching people in the mouth has a random chance of stunning and/or KO. It's the same for punching to the head, though mouth might have a slightly higher weaken chance.
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 * Steal an empty bottle from the bar, fill it with welder fuel and grab a lighter. Smash the bottle on your target's head and use the lighter on them while they're stunned. Now they are on fire. This is particularly effective as a self defence measure assuming you can't get your hands on some proper weapons. While fire will take several seconds before doing serious damage, most people won't be carrying anything to extinguish it. They can resist to put it out but resisting out of being on fire is an auto stun, otherwise they can keep fighting and all you'll have to do is keep your distance untill they burn to death. Their only option is running away. The added benefit of fire is that armors don't generally have fire protection, that makes it a great weapon against better equipped foes like nuke ops with their pesky armor and shield, assuming you can get close enough, but once you manage it's going to ruin their day.
 * There's a roman shield in the premium items of the autodrobe. It has all the same benefits as a normal riot shield from the armory.
-</tab>
+== Silicon Tips
 [[File:AI.gif]] [[File:Generic_borg.png]]
 * Shortcuts for quickly controlling things:
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 * Flooding a mix of plasma and oxygen is much more effective than pure plasma alone.
 * You can override the safeties on various bots to subvert their purpose as if you emagged them. Beepsky will arrest everyone they see and Cleanbots will lube the floor, for instance.
-</tab>
+== Miscellaneous ==
 [[File:Unknown.png]]
 * '''Help intent: People run through you. Other intents: People bump into you.'''
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 * People should know the origin of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZBDNQ3gas lobby title theme.]
 * In dire situations when a [[Singularity]] has been unleashed upon the station, you can throw the [[Clown]] into it as a sacrifice. Doing so will either halve the size of the singularity... or double it.
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 * Control + arrow key makes you face that direction so long as you are not clicked into the chat bar.
 * Have throw active and you will automatically catch things thrown at you, such as pies, or bombs.
-* You can open containers like boxes and bags by standing next to them and drag and dropping their sprite onto your character's sprite.
+* You can open containers like boxes and bags by standing next to them and alt + clicking them or dragging them onto your sprite.
 * Some things that are normally static and dispense when clicked on (paperboxes, donut boxes) or have other functionality (body bags) can be picked up by dragging to your character, which will put them in your active hand should it be empty (wonderful bonus for security officers needing to centralize their donut stock or arms-dealer cultists when they're mass-producing stun and teleport runes).
 * You can click the internals on/off status display thing to turn your internals off or on, without having to fiddle with the tank in your belt.
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 * In the job selection menu, from the lobby, you can use right click on the "Low/Medium/High" priority button to make it cycle backwards.
 * Double click to teleport as ghost.
-* As a ghost you can orbit the Nuke Disk during nuke ops.
+* As a ghost you can orbit the Nuke Disk, the AI eye, and the nuclear fission explosive.
 * Alt + Click on a tile near you to open a list of its items in a tab. Useful when trying to find a specific item in a big pile.
 * BYOND's command-enter bar has autocomplete. Sui will autocomplete to Toggle-Suit-Sensors, sa will autocomplete to Say ". Type "id" or "pen", hit space and enter to remove said item from your PDA. This doesn't work if you have more than one ID on your person.
 * Right clicking the chat box brings up a menu. You can use that menu to get logs.
 * You can just drag headsets to your screen too to open them, like PDAs.
 </tab>
 <tab name="Combat Tips">
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 * Punching people in the mouth has a random chance of stunning and/or KO. It's the same for punching to the head, though mouth might have a slightly higher weaken chance.
 * Bomb suits function as ghetto riot gear.
-* Disarm intent is very, very, very good. If you don't have a stun weapon, or they do, disarm them quickly, steal it, and use it against them. This is really easy against officers who just have a baton, or really anyone with that status.
+* Disarm intent is very, very good. If you can't down somebody with anything you have, shoving someone into a wall OR shoving them twice quickly will knock them over. You can also shove people if they're in the way.
 * Lit welding tools two- or three-hit carp.
 * Steal an empty bottle from the bar, fill it with welder fuel and grab a lighter. Smash the bottle on your target's head and use the lighter on them while they're stunned. Now they are on fire. This is particularly effective as a self defence measure assuming you can't get your hands on some proper weapons. While fire will take several seconds before doing serious damage, most people won't be carrying anything to extinguish it. They can resist to put it out but resisting out of being on fire is an auto stun, otherwise they can keep fighting and all you'll have to do is keep your distance untill they burn to death. Their only option is running away. The added benefit of fire is that armors don't generally have fire protection, that makes it a great weapon against better equipped foes like nuke ops with their pesky armor and shield, assuming you can get close enough, but once you manage it's going to ruin their day.
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 * Using wirecutters or a kitchen knife on a book lets you hide stuff inside said book.
 * PDA Messenger serves as a handy ghetto crew manifest.
-* You need just 16 kPa of oxygen to survive. As long as whatever you're breathing contains that, you won't suffocate. Currently, your prefilled emergency tank in your internals box is set to 16 kPa and filled with O2. If you refill your tank from an AIR canister, you won't be able to breathe from it unless you adjust the pressure up!
+* You need just 16 kPa of oxygen to survive. As long as whatever you're breathing contains that, you won't suffocate. Currently, your prefilled emergency tank in your internals box is set to 16 kPa and filled with O2. If you refill your tank from an AIR canister, you won't be able to breathe from it unless you adjust the pressure up to around 101 kPa.
 * WGW readers can have their humanity disregarded by the AI and borgs under standard lawset, and this comes directly from SoS. They're not obligated to, but they can.
 * You can use the dresser located in dorm four to change your underwear. This includes changing into the opposite sex's underwear.
 * Holding certain items, like a knife or C4, change what happens when you suicide. Crayons... how horrifying ):
-* Your signature CANNOT be copied. (using the [sign] tag on a paper)
+* Your signature CANNOT be copied. (use %s on a paper)
 * Your most powerful tool in Space Station 13 is communication. As any head role you can order about your underlings, a lot of the time they will actually do it, and a lot of the time you can trade goodies for them following your orders. As RD, if you want to get into tech storage but the HoP didn't give you access like the pansy he is, you can go hunt down tools yourself. Or you can order an assistant to do it (clown often works as well), and it's often done faster than you could have with no effort on your part. Two chemists can spend a round not once talking, but a "Hey dude, what's up?" or a "I like your hair, Alisen~" can gain you a valuable resource: a friend, the most important protection against changeling attacks. Detectives gain a surprising amount of information just by chatting with people like the bartender and the mime.
-* You can often have food delivered to you via the disposals system with just a PDA, not once leaving your office. Speaking of orders, always give an order to a person, not the department. Ordering your department to do something is rarely carried out, ordering a person to do something is more often than not followed.(although still not followed that often).
+* You can often have food delivered to you via the disposals system with just a PDA, not once leaving your office. Speaking of orders, always give an order to a person, not the department. Ordering your department to do something is rarely carried out, ordering a person to do something is more often than not followed (although still not followed that often).
 * If you use a Cup Ramen on a sink twice, it becomes warm.
 * You're more likely to get cleared for offenses by security if they feel like you're someone who's trustworthy and more likely to get close to the heads as well. You may even find yourself promoted to head positions just by taking the initiative to do seemingly mundane tasks that nobody gives a shit about like repairing minor damage from PDA bombings.
 * An amazing method of exploring space: Get your volunteer, then shotgun as many tracking beacons as you can protolathe into space with the mass driver. Give the explorer a hand tele; send him to the beacon where you want, then set it to home so he can loot stuff through tele to the teleporter room or bridge. ADDED: Easier way: Get exactly one tracking beacon. Put it by the mass driver. Get an explorer (or yourself) with EVA gear and a first-aid kit, play mass-drive roulette, teleport back, repeat. ADDED: Definitely cheaper. Maybe faster. Works solo. But the beacon shotgun allows you to select the structure you want to arrive at.
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 * Going to space? No jetpack? Drag a paper bin onto your character and put it in your bag for 30 easy access throwing papers.
 * Instruction books/sheets of paper can be opened and left open even if you get rid of the book/paper.
-* Dead mice are now considered items, so that means you can: Stuff one into a cake, implant it into someone you don't like, throw it as a projectile, beat Runtime to death with one.
+* Dead mice are now considered items, so that means you can: Stuff one into a cake, implant it into someone you don't like, throw it as a projectile, <s>beat Runtime to death with one</s>.
 * You can teleport into an escape pod mid-travel using a beacon. This is incredibly useful for those meteor rounds. This also doesn't work on the escape shuttle.
 * Use a coin on the tool vending machine in tool storage to get access to insulated gloves.
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 * When being attacked by a space carp / space bear, go to sleep and they'll think you've gone to crit and leave you alone!
 * You can weld yourself into a locker as well as escape a locker you're welded into by using a welder from the inside. You can also lock lockers from the inside.
 * Wearing a face concealing mask while copying your ass will cause your ass to appear as unknown in the photo.
-* You can stick a pAI into a PDA.
+* You can stick a pAI into a PDA, as well as bots.
 * Some things about The Orion Trail:
 ** Food is the number one killer; I've pretty much never won with all four settlers still alive. Going to the next stop (assuming nothing happens) eats up 2 food for every settler, and some events need you to 'wait', which is the same except for three stops; eating up 6 food for every settler. Losing a few settlers during 'accidents' increases your odds of winning substantially. Thankfully, waiting doesn't consume any fuel, but the 'go around' option for black holes does. The base consumption for fuel is 5 units for one stop. 'Slowing down' in an Interstellar Flux event eats up one extra stop of food and fuel, but doesn't carry the 75% chance of engine failure.
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 * A laser pointer has the same optics disrupting effects of a flash. And stuns Borgs on use. Combine it with a fully upgraded pointer you can stop any rogue Borg before they get remotely close. It also EMPs cameras and flashes people even if they are wearing sunglasses.
 * Just about anything that can be made out of a protolathe/autolathe can be put into an autolathe and recycled into new materials. This includes broken objects such as blown light bulbs and spent shotgun rounds.
-* You can do that thing with Salt Shakers where you unscrew the lid so the next time someone uses it they get 100 units of salt in their food.
+* You can do that thing with Salt Shakers where you unscrew the lid so the next time someone uses it they get 100 units of salt in their food. In the event that someone touches a salt shaker for food use.
 * EMPs keep you from interacting with your headset for about 15 seconds.
 ** If your headset gets emp'd, interact with it in your hand and just turn the channels back on.
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 * Doorbell systems are fun.
 * People should know the origin of the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZBDNQ3gas lobby title theme.]
-* In dire sutuations when a [[Singularity]] has been unleashed upon the station, you can throw the [[Clown]] into it as a sacrafice. Doing so will either halve the size of the singularity... or double it.
+* In dire situations when a [[Singularity]] has been unleashed upon the station, you can throw the [[Clown]] into it as a sacrifice. Doing so will either halve the size of the singularity... or double it.
 </tab>
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 [[Category:Guides]]

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 * '''Help intent: People run through you. Other intents: People bump into you.'''
 * Disposal units with stuff in them have a little blue light at the bottom, which is dark when the disposal unit is empty (disposal units can be toggled not to eject their stuff).
-* You can check how long a round has been going on for. Open a PDA and check the time, every round starts at 12:00; find the difference by taking 12 hours away from what the time currently says on the PDA. I.e.: 13:37 - 12:00 = 1:37 --> The round has been going on for an hour and thirty seven minutes.
+* You can check how long a round has been going on for in a place other than the "status" tab. Open a PDA and check the time, every round starts at 12:00; find the difference by taking 12 hours away from what the time currently says on the PDA. I.e.: 13:37 - 12:00 = 1:37 --> The round has been going on for an hour and thirty seven minutes.
 * You can change your in-game hairstyle (and facial hair) by clicking on a mirror (like in the dorm bathrooms). Incredibly useful to get your looks back after being cloned, and even to disguise yourself (because some disguises won't cover your hair, especially long hair).
 * Pete the goat will eat Space Vines instantly. In a similar vein, robust enough tools, such as fire axes, circular saws, and surgical drills, are just as effective as welders against the vines. (unless they mutated a resistance)
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 * Using wirecutters or a kitchen knife on a book lets you hide stuff inside said book.
 * PDA Messenger serves as a handy ghetto crew manifest.
-* You need just 16 kPa of oxygen to survive. As long as whatever you're breathing contains that, you won't suffocate. This means you can put your emergency oxygen tank from default 21 kPa to 16 kPa, having 24% more time to breath your tank empty!
+* You need just 16 kPa of oxygen to survive. As long as whatever you're breathing contains that, you won't suffocate. Currently, your prefilled emergency tank in your internals box is set to 16 kPa and filled with O2. If you refill your tank from an AIR canister, you won't be able to breathe from it unless you adjust the pressure up!
 * WGW readers can have their humanity disregarded by the AI and borgs under standard lawset, and this comes directly from SoS. They're not obligated to, but they can.
 * You can use the dresser located in dorm four to change your underwear. This includes changing into the opposite sex's underwear.

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 * If a fully-powered engine is wired directly to the grid, the power can sometimes be enough to send anyone touching a shocked airlock into critical condition instantly.
 * In the rare event that another AI is remotely turning off your APC, re-enabling the main power but keeping the lights off will give off the appearance that you're still depowered. This won't often work on observant AIs, but if they're trying to kill you then things are generally too hectic to pay close attention.
-* ''Hulks are not considered human under Asimov.'' Feel free to laser them to death as they punch into your core.
+* ''Hulks are not considered human under Asimov.'' Feel free to laser them as they punch into your core. '''Be careful, after hulks fall in crit they become human again and start suffocating, meaning you will then be required to help them immediately.'''
 * If you disable the safeties on an airlock, you can open and close it on someone for a chainstun and potential guaranteed kill.
 * Flooding a mix of plasma and oxygen is much more effective than pure plasma alone.
 * You can override the safeties on various bots to subvert their purpose as if you emagged them. Beepsky will arrest everyone they see and Cleanbots will lube the floor, for instance.