Guide to Awesome Miscellaneous Stuff

These are the "little things you learned that can be game changing" collected from the threads on the forum which can found here and here.

The the old archived thread has been looked through onwards from about the start of year 2013 so these things SHOULD be up to date. If some of them are not, feel free to remove them.

Gameplay/Interface

• Have throw active and you will automatically catch things. Dodgeballs are bugged and you can't catch them.

• You can pick up obj/effects like bullets if you time it very well.

• Some things that are normally static and dispense when clicked on (paperboxes, donut boxes) 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. shit saved me once.

• You can button up your labcoat by using the toggle-labcoat-buttons verb (or something like that).

• Fore is north, aft is south, starboard is east and port is west.

• You can stop an admin midi playing if you hit the "hear/silence midis" button 3 times.

• You can drag two things at once, as long as one of them can have the grab intent used on it. Ctrl-click one and grab intent the other. Very useful in Xenobiology where you're trying to drag a bunch of monkey or slime corpses at the same time. You can do something similar with non-grabbable things with telekinesis and ctrl clicking. Added: You can actually move 3 things with grabs-switch to the other hand. If this stop you from pulling, then it's only 2 things.

• Tab, WASD and X, R, F, G, T, Z, Q.

• BYOND's stretch to fit distorts the view. Use 64x64.

AI

• The AI actually can examine things near its core, including the upper area of its upload (so you can examine the freeform module to see what law it is, then watch as they change it to OneHuman in two seconds.) The AI has to right click to examine.

• AI's can CTRL+click APC's to toggle their breaker. The fucking menu pops up in your face though for some reason.

• You can disable the gibber by powering down the kitchen APC as an AI.

• You can quickly look through camera's as an AI or as detective looking through sec camera's by clicking on the first letter of the location you want to look at. example: E goes to engineering, etc.

Malfunctioning AI

• AIs can turn off the APC power or just equipment power. Now, this seems like such an obvious thing, but when an AI actually realizes that it can easily do this, a whole range of options for interacting with the world open up. For instance, the PC Special, as I call it; lockdown and depower the brig and cap's office when we really, really do actually need to be leaving. Chemistry or other high-risk areas, if a traitor busts in or something, can just be temporarily depowered. Etc, etc. Such a basic AI power and a lot of AIs and crew forget that you can do it.

• I think if you drop the bolts in an airlock and then depower the APC, they can't hack the door to raise them. They can hack the APC, but then they still have to hack the door.

• As malfunctioning AI, Machine Overload is your single most potent ability and every instance you buy of it gives you another 2 uses of it. It lets you near-instantly destroy the devices that are most dangerous to you, such as the chem dispensers, the DNA modifiers and the robotics control console.

• The AI can do everything an engineer with a multitool can do if it has camera view of the equipment, and much faster and more efficient. If a bomb or the Singularity destroyed only half the equipment, you can often reroute radio traffic through the devices that remain. As an extension of this, if you can spare the time as rogue AI, rather than switching off the Telecomms APC you can also kill the network links one by one, add filters to 0.1 and then switch all devices off. It'll take engineers forever to fix that.

• For traitor / malf AI's using the plasma atmos spam technique, you can short circuit the lights via a nearby APC to create sparks to light plasma.

Against a Malfunctioning AI

• Cutting power to the powernet is the difference between a malf AI making every door a death trap or a laughable 6 damage stun.

• Cutting power by turning off the SMESes is no longer a good idea. The emitters run directly off the grid, so turning off SMES output will result in the singularity escaping in a short time. Instead what you should do is cut the power line between the SMES output and main grid.

• If an AI shunts into an APC, the pinpointer will begin tracking it instead of the nuclear disk. Unconfirmed, but if true, holy shit.

• Complete deconstruction of a hacked APC will make a malfunctioning AI's victory timer go up, buying you some time.

Borg

• As borg, you can open a locker by clicking on it with an item activated.

You cannot close it tho

• Emagged Engiborgs get an electrified arm, which stuns when you touch something with it. This stun works on other cyborgs. ....but you can already stun other cyborgs with your flash. The stuttering it produces, however, is hilarious. Try zapping the AI with it.

• A borg's flash will not burn out, unless it has been EMP'd while the flash is out, then it's bro-ken forever. Borg flashes recharge overtime, similar to a secborg's taser.

• When I said that borg flashes never burn out, apparently that's not true, BUT! If you recharge, it will be repaired/replenished. The same goes for things like metal and wires for engiborgs. So basically any finite material a borg has can be replenished by recharging.

• Engiborgs and Secborgs can survive being thrown into space: Engiborgs can RCD floors under them and secborgs can walk on their taser shots and change direction (if you're quick enough, otherwise you're stopped in place usually).

• Flashed borgs can still use the door UI, running at an engi borg thats put itself behind two doors isn't a good idea.

• Borgs can trigger flashers by clicking on them. Handy for triggering the flash so you can pass by when a warden or someone sets them up poorly.

• Engiborgs can no longer repair themselves, but two engiborgs can possibly repair eachother over and over (UNTESTED REQUIRE CONFIRMATION).

Atmospherics/Atmospheric Technician

• Setting air vents to 0 kPa internal check (or just turning off the check) will make them pump out air like crazy, which makes it excellent to restore air to an area quickly. But be careful with the pressure on the vent tile itself, if the pressure in the outgoing distro loop is very high it might be dan-gerous.

• Atmos tech is actually an interesting job, disposal tubes give such a wonderful opportunities for killing people ,however it takes shitton of time to build thing you need.

• Any sort of air mix is survivable as long as it has at least 16 kPa of oxygen on the output. This means you can easily compute the release pressure you'd need for a given airmix by dividing 16 by the percentage of oxygen in the mix; i.e. for 20/80 O2/N2 air mix you'd need a release pressure of 16/0.2 = 80 to be fine.

• Steps To Set Up Atmospherics So You Never Need To Worry And It Fucking Helps You Out

1. Turn off and unwrench Air to Distro and Waste In, two pumps in the northern area of Atmos where the distro loop and mixing is done and all that. They are labeled and easy to find. Keep them in place on the floor.
2. Go to the atmos pipe dispenser a few meters away, and vend two volumetric pumps. These are like regular pumps but almost literally better in every way whatsoever. They pump more, faster.
3. Fit your volumetric pumps in place of Waste In and Air to Distro, making sure the red stripe lines up with how the pumps were fitted by default so the flow goes the right way.
4. Volumetric pumps are automatically set to full fucking power so just turn on both of them.
5. Set every scrubber in the loop around the room to 4500 kPa. This is full blast.

• You have now completely set up Atmospherics to be beast mode in, like, three minutes. You can also do other stuff, like fit manual valves to the bad gasses to hamper solo-AI floods, and replace other pumps in the bowels of Atmospherics with volume pumps, but really, that five point checklist will do it. Ninety-plus percent of people don't know jack shit about Atmospherics, and it's so easy to set it up so that it actually does shit. It's so rare to see it happen that the CE actually sought me out for praise for doing it this way.

• For AIs, if no organics are around competent/willing to do this manually and your Engieborgs (if you have any) are busy, which is like a guarantee, you can do a simpler version of this; just turn Air to Distro and Waste In up to 4500 kPa and set each scrubber station to 4500 kPa too. It won't be as effective but it's so much better than nothing. Cranking up the air available in the distro loop poses no threat to safety, and in fact makes it harder to start up harmful floods since there's so much good air in the way in there. And since you're the AI, you can now use air vents (and scrubbers) as they were fucking designed to be used; to scrub, drain, and replace air in rooms as necessary, and it fucking works. It is astonishing how little is required to turn a system so often seen as worthless into a helpful part of the station.

• Minor addendum: A maxed volume pump and a maxed normal pump pump at the same rate given ideal circumstances. The difference is the volume pump won't stop pumping once its output end is at 4500 kpa or more. This makes it excellent for waste in, where no matter how much gas the previous fire/atmos experiment clogged the filtering loop with, Waste In is still pumping waste out of the scrubbers pipes, and by extension, helping keep the scrubbers from getting clogged to the point of uselessness.

• For the record, the advice of adding manual valves to the plasma loop will result in you getting yelled at by an admin if there's no evidence that the AI is rogue. It's "Spacing objectives tier", and for good reason.

• Setting up atmos doesn't really matter that much anyway as long as you give the distro loop some pressure. The entire supply and equipment is designed for a space station that's supposed to last month. There's about two instances in which a proper setup is useful: massive hullbreaches which will drain a lot of air (most of which will then uselessly disappear in space anyway) and station wide plasma fires which might fill the waste loop (in which case you're at fault as an atmos tech for not keeping an eye on the system in the first place).

• If you are an atmos tech and want to greatly reduce possibility of harmful atmos manipu-lations...

• Or if you are an AI and you spotted a guy just turning valves to release plasma to distro

• Open atmospherics console for specific chamber and toggle power on output. 90% of players don't check this console. As AI I laughed many times as sabotagist was running back and forth, checking every pump 3 times, and still no plasma appeared. In this way you can also shut down harmful gases pumping when one is smart and changed pipes under grilles.

• Or put manual valves in front of every harmful gas, switch out some gas pumps for volu-metric pumps, and repipe the mixing pipes to disallow the mix tank to provide into the distro. (Setting up Atmos in such a way it can't be sabotaged by the AI before there's a reason to think the AI might sabotage Atmos is not only metagaming, it is also bannable. If you are AI (especially when you are not antag) and you see this happen, adminhelp it.)

Traitor Atmospheric Technician

• Plasma + N2O is extremely deadly if you can get someone to use it as internals/force them to use it. They won't even be able to scream.

Bartender

• "OH GOD OH GOD EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE AND I'M THE BARTENDER, WHAT DO I DO" You make iced beers. So many of them. They cool you enough that you can counter a large portion of the heat damage.

Traitor Bartender

• Beepsky smash is 100x more potent then chloral, and can be used on xeno's (last time i checked) to completly halt their movement, allowing you to extinguish / laser them to death. it’s also easier to make, and less suspicious then you breaking into chemistry.

Hydroponics/Botanist

• Botany can make nitro grenades without ever having to step inside chemistry. Corn for corn oil. Nettle for sulfuric acid, and death nettle for poly acid. You'll need at least kitchen access though.

• If you want to be a potato man: go to the hydroponics and say you want to be a plant, grow the podman with your blood, kill yourself come harvest time. (DON’T SUICIDE, POD CHECKS THAT THE BODY IS CLONEABLE)

• The botanist has two ridiculously deadly plants he can grow. Death berries, contain lexorin; I believe it takes 1-3 berries to kill someone, and Destroying Angel. I need to do tests for the latter to see exactly what it does, I just know it fucking kills you.

• You can grow your own carpotoxin in Hydroponics through mutating some soybeans into koibeans. No longer is carpotoxin something restricted to a random event, emagged holodecks or gold slime extracts all of which require you to actually deal with space carp!

Captain

• As Captain, you should ALWAYS have the pinpointer on you. That's the item you use to locate the Nuclear Disk, the guarding of which is your entire job.

• The captains cap is not only armored, it is spaceworthy

• The Nuke Disk can fit in a wallet. Now the ops have to search yet another storage container on your person!

• Oh, and SWAT Helmets? Spaceworthy. They're very good armour, too. Not sure how they compare to the dermal armour patch but I know they're the best thing for the captain to wear.

Head of Personnel

• Lisa is into necrophilia. She can make puppies even if Ian is dead.

• As the HoP remove your access to the ID machine and put it on a blank ID card, when you done with the ID machine ether put it in your box or just leave it in your locker. That way if someone takes your ID from you they can't use the ID machines unless they are very attentive, many traitors and griefers have found themselves screwed over from this.

• I will sometimes split HoP access onto two or more ID's. It slows the HoP down a bit, but slows down their murderer even more as they do not know what is on each card.

Traitor Cargo Tech

• Any lethal projectile will open a crate, from Detective's Revolver (Lots) to Shotgun/TraitorRevolver/Mateba (Two shells) to Emitter. If it's ranged and can kill you, it opens crates. Couple that with the aforementioned Bartender bit, and you've got mutual supply and demand - He wants a useful shotgun, you can provide, you want opened crates, he can provide.

• Emitters can open locked crates.

• Everyone notices emitters, everyone knows "OH CARGO HAS AN EMITTER BETTER GET 'EM" but if you just borrow the shotgun?

• Crates can be trapped: Get a crate, put stuff in the crate, close the crate, apply cable coil, apply Electropack.

Chaplain

• Bibles - bibles have a 60% chance to heal you and a 40% chance to give you 10 branes dumaig, unless... UNLESS YOU ARE WEARING A HELMET (or any child of clothing/head/helmet - so that includes Caps), which will protect you from the brain mushing effects of religion. The bible's effectiveness at healing seems to decrease the more you use it on someone. You'll find yourself beating a lot more and healing a lot less, and the healing subtracting less damage.

• Bibles can't deconvert cultists (the only way to do that is by borging), nor can they disrupt runes (that functionality was moved to the null rod), however the chaplin can whack the floor with his bible and it will reveal any hidden runes nearby.

• Chaplain's hoodie can hold a big air tank in the suit storage. I think hazard vests always could.

• Speaking of the chaplain's bible/whatever you make it upon spawning, it's a container, with space cash and beer. Either RP with the cash or dump it. Beer is beer. And you now have a book that can carry a surprising number of things hidden inside. I like to keep stuff inside related to chaplain duties - candles, holy water, lighter, bodybag (don't get blood all over the hallway just so you can cremate/massdrive someone you heathen.

• Holding a null rod making you unable to be converted to the cult. Found that out after I prepared the cold room for the bartenders conversion in ministation. No way of telling they have the rod as well.

• If you enter 'Homosexuality' as your chaplin religion, your bible will turn into GUYS GONE WILD! Other religions which give specific books and the stupid ones also give 100 brain damage: christianity,satanism, cthulu, islam, scientology, chaos, imperium, toolboxia, homosexuality, lol, wtf, gay, penis, ass, poo, badmin, shitmin, deadmin, cock, cocks.

• You can light stuff with burnt out matches, candles atleast.

Traitor Chef

• A fair amount of food the chef cooks can cause you damage, for instance a full plate of enchiladas will kill you via burn damage. Nettle soup also does immense amounts of damage, (untested, but I saw this happen a number of times) it takes one sip to knock you down possibly to crit.

• If you put a large amount of pure capascin (hot sauce) in Warm Ramen, it becomes hot enough to slowly kill people (Or kill them quite quickly if they're wearing a rig.)

• You can stash stuff in foods like bread. Your traitor buddy get's arrested and you’re the chef? Slip an emag into your freshly baked bread, and send it to your buddy in perma, and hopefully, praying to god, they don’t just eat it themselves, or cut it. But yes, you can put anything but a knife in bread. Anything...

• Another never used reaction, blood on orange, produces capascin. The heat it produces it people can minorly offset space damage, and will burn people standing around in room temperature air. You can use large doses of it like a poison that antitoxin won't clear, though if they're smart they'll take refuge in a cryotube.

Robusting

• 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.

• Kill a ling, drag a weldertank onto it, and then welder/shoot the tank with a laser. This gibs the ling.

• 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.

Security

• Police batons stun borgs.

• As a Security Officer, when you see someone set to arrest, friendly ask them to follow you to the brig first. You'd be surprised how often people cooperate even when they are criminals, and it saves you the hassle of SHITCURITY and HELP ME. You can always stunbuckle them if they refuse.

• If you get stuck in maintenance, summon Officer Beepsky through your PDA to open the door for you.

• You can retrieve the MMI from a beaten-to-death cyborg by welderbombing it, if you want it to fess up to who the potato is that subverted him and you don't have access to the robotics console.

• You can replace the power cell of your stun baton. Meaning you can carry an extra power cell to get an instantly charged baton in a desperate moment. You can also upgrade your power cell to get even more beatings out of it!

• Armor is a fucking lifesaver, even the base officer armor

• Examining shell casing tells you what kind of ammo it is. .38? Detective. .357? Traitor. 12mm? Nuke ops. ADDED: .357 and 12mm could also point to a wizard round. .38 for that matter, too.

• Once you have a combat mech, the only two things that can stop you is high level antags (wiz / nuke ops / ninja), and toxins. If you disable toxins, your a god among men. and yes, a hulk is shit against a gygax spamming ac 2 SMG fire as well as KO punching him at close range. and no, xenos are shit against a gygax due to the KO punch then ac 2 SMG fire.

• Gygax, set to harm intent: KO punch. And gygax can overload in order to go at SANIC SPEED, so it can retreat at the cost of some damage.

• Riot shields block anything. Even hugs.

• EMP'ed stun batons only lose 10% charge, can be a life saver (not that you get EMP'ed often)

• While using the security cameras console you can take a regular camera in your hand and take a picture of the image you are viewing through the console. You can finally get a picture of a suspect for your wanted papers.

• Mesons can detect bombs.

• Soap will keep you down for about 3-4 seconds. Peels for about 8 seconds. Water slips for about 12 s (might be miscount). Detective’s revolver for ~10 seconds. Egun stun is about 18-20 Seconds (again might be miscount). It takes about 4 seconds to cuff someone.

• Giant Pussy? Unrobust? Security? Call beepsky to you, disable his patrol mode, then drag him around everywhere. Shift click anyone who fucks with you and set them to arrest (Hudglasses protip) and beepsky will ensure you never get robusted again.

• Security camera consoles can track borgs.

Head of Security/Warden

• Here is a very secure and working brig setup by Malkevin: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/95696802/dorfbrig2.png

• There is now a muzzle and a box of prisoner ID cards in the perma wing

• If you fill full NO2 tank and put in on changelling ( traitor ) you can give them fate worse then death for time close to eternity.

• Implants:
  • Chem Implants never get used. Fucking use them, ON YOUR OWN OFFICERS.
  • Each Chem implant can be filled up with 50units of chems.
  • I like to fill mine with Tricorder, synaptizine, and dexlin+. When an officer calls out for help over the radio, I can give him a remote injection of a healing, stun resistance and oxygen from my prison management console.
  • Tracking Implants are your friend. Implant the Captain and HoS at least so you can find their naked corpses in space or maint. I wish there was a way to order more of these.
  • Always implant suspected LINGs, this way if they change form you're wise to their bull-shit. (I didn't implant Sally Q. assistant, but oh look, they have a lil blue dot...)
  • You can use tracking implants to give completely private orders to individual officers even while telecomms is down.

• Giving a parole + parole implant: Giving someone a lethal 50u Chloral implant to act as a killswitch in the event that it's reported that they are breaking the law. Fuck up, and the warden presses a button and you die.

• Permabrig's electric razor is impractical; many people can be recognized on sight from their hairstyles and shaving them bald removes that

Detective

• You can put an empty speedloader back into an autolathe to recieve a full refund of materials

Medical

• If you implant a guy with a flashlight, he can still use it as a flashlight, and even toggle it.

• If you are a pAI and your master get cryoed, if you are with him you can instaeject him in case doctors forget him.

• On that note, if you are cryoed and the doctors forget about you, you can eject yourself by right-clicking on the pod and clicking eject-occupant. It takes 2 minutes. I find it that it's generally a good idea to start the ejection process as soon as you're put in a tank since 2 minutes is enough to heal from whatever clone damage you have suffered.

• You can use a health analyzer on a body to see the time of death.

• Cryo won't work on you if you have cold resistance. You still get knocked out though. This is something EVERYONE should know:
  • Insulating items like hardsuits, ins. gloves, gasmask, firesuits - they all slow down cryo or even stop it from working entirely.
  • You do not have to strip people to the bone, but please, for the love of god(s), dont throw engineers in a spacesuit into cryo for 10 minutes before you realize that SUITS DESIGNED TO PROTECT ONE FROM THE COLD OF SPACE actually, really, protect from the cold.
  • If the patient in question has cold resistance, you may want to try go old-school and actually apply some medicine yourself, lazy bum.
  • That is, of course, if there's only cryoxadone or clonexadone in the tubes, since those need cold body temperatures to work.
  • Also: just don't fill cryo with ONLY clonex. A mixture of cryox and clonex works faster because a) clonex requires an even lower temperature than cryox before it starts to work and b) given it's cold enough, they both work at the same time.

• If you're a field doctor and chemistry are too busy making space lube to fuck each other up the arse you can ghetto make tricord using the medivend: A bottle each of inapprov and antitox will give you a full syringe and beaker.

• Wearing ear muffs will heal ear damage.

• Wearing a blind fold will heal eye damage.

• You can clone people that have been turned into an alien, by extracting the alien's brain and shoving it into a human body.

Chief Medical Officer

• Tips for the CMO:
  • Put inaprov or Dex plus in your hypo. The most dangerous thing on the station is idiots pushing you away from dying guys, thinking it's more important they can make out with their cold, dying lips than you inject them. Inject the wrong guy with the hypo and he will meta and scream CMO IS A CHANG, so just put inaprov/dex plus and use it for dying dudes.
  • Medical doctor and CMO players should try to learn a few basic chem recipes, the HoP will usually give you access.
  • Tricord: Set the output to ten and press: carbon, oxygen, sugar. Then scroll all the way down: silicon, potassium, nitrogen = 60 units of tricord
  • Then go beg the bartender for Lime Juice, Orange Juice, Tomato Juice, and Milk Cream, mix it with your tricord to make Doctors delight. You can mix the doctors delight 50 50 with tricord to make faster acting medicine, or just use Doctor's Delight for more potent medicine.
  • For Bicard (heals brute damage): Set it to ten and do: carbon, oxygen, sugar, then set the output to 30 and press carbon.
  • For Dermaline (heals burns): Set output to 20 then do: carbon, silicon, then set the output to 30 and do: oxygen, phosphorus. It'll have 10 kelo left over to just take that shit out.
  • Dex Plus (use it instead of inaprov, instantly heals all suffocation damage): put 5 or 10 (depends on if you're too lazy to find the dropper) of plasma in a beaker, switch the output to 30 and press oxygen twice, then press: carbon, iron. (Always re-bottle the plasma using the ChemMaster, as chemistry only gets 40 units) Congrats.
  • ADDED: I prefer a mixture of dex plus and doctor's delight. Unless the patient has been damaged while in crit, most of the damage below 0% health is due to oxygen loss. Dex plus effectively restores the patient to almost non-critical level, giving you plenty of time to get him to medbay or use medicine - medicine like DD. Usually, after an injection with the hypo with DD and dex plus, the patient comes out of crit by himself. I havent used inapprovaline in ages (except in sleepers).

Chemistry/Chemist

• The effects of chloral don't work if you drink coffee beforehand. You'll still take damage if the dose was high enough but you don't get knocked out. Anti-toxin completely negates chloral, however.

• Stimulants will wake you up from an overdose of chloral

• If you are planning to make a medicine that has tricord and doc's delight, if you use the DD made by the bartender, proportions will fuck up. If you drop 10 tricord and 10 DD you get 13 tricord and 7 DD. Instead, if you use the DD you get from grinding Syndicakes, proportion will remain. You drop 10 and 10, you get 10 and 10.

• Also, 1 pill with 10 Derma, 10 Tricord, 10 Bicard, 10 Dex+ and 10 DD will keep you alive in a raging fire or in space for a good amount of time (10 seconds completely unharmed)

• N2O knocks out in low amounts, suffocates in high amounts.

• Don't waste your Dexalin Plus, just do 1u of Dex Plus and whatever amount of Inaprov. It's the same effect as just Dexalin Plus.

• If you're going to be in chemistry and have five minutes, I find it's often easiest to just create a couple of 10/10/10/10/5/5 tri/dex+/bic/derm/antitox/hyperzine pills. Sure it's a bit more effort, but they'll work in nearly all situations, and are great at popping people out of crit, and getting them moving again. For a more combat based one, you can always scale down on the antitox and put in synaptizine too. If you can get DD, you can put that in 10 of that instead of the hyperzine and 5 of the dex+. Only issue is that they are a bit of effort to make and that people will never actually use them unless you falsely label them as tricordrazine pills or whatever.

• You can grind up the Delaxlinpills for an easy thirty units to fix up more cryoxadone without using plasma. Just snag a blue first aid kit out of an oxygen closet.

• You can inject cigarettes/cigars with 15u of chemicals to provide a steady dose while it's lit. A cigar will hold more, 30u IIRC. A cigar full of Synaptizine and Bicard or tricord makes for a pretty robust dude.

• 1u pills of vaccines work. More than one virus released? Mix two vaccinations together and make the 1u pills. cure 30 people with one batch.
  • You can stretch that even further by just dilluting the vaccines. Inject 5 units into an empty beaker and top it off with water, you now have 10 injections with 0.5 units of vaccine each that still cure perfectly well. Unfortunately, dilluting it again to achieve 0.05 unit injections is not enough to cure anymore, or at least it wasn't when I last tried.
  • Similarly, you can dillute the virion cultures you have, and end up with 0.5 unit injections of infected blood that still guarantee infection. Injecting this into a glass of water causes it to remain a glass of water, only dangerous, which you can then feed to people to easily infect them after they slip for a second or so. Strangely enough the added dillution for this case doesn't seem to affect the infection chance.
  • In contrary to this: you can't dillute virus food / mutagen / plasma / synaptizine to stretch their usage. It's hardcoded to require 5 units for a reaction, so you gotta bug the chemist a bit more.

• A quick way to make clonex and dex plus in one swoop is:
  • Grind a dexalin pill, giving 30 dexalin
  • Add 10 carbon and iron, 20 water and oxygen
  • Make dex plus bottle and one cryoxadone bottle, keep 30 cryoxadone in the beaker
  • Add 30 sodium
  • Put the beaker into the grinder, add plasma, and grind
  • Results in: a bottle of dex plus and cryoxadone, 2 bottles of clonexadone.
  • Takes about a minute and I always found it a hassle to mix clonex (put plasma in, plasma out, plasma in, plasma out...)

• Medbay sabotaged? Need to save those patients but no cryo tubes? Inject them with cryox/cloneox and stick them under a wrenched shower. It will actually cool them off enough for the meds to work.

• Also, 10u mixtures of cryox/cloneox/bicarid/derma/DD is robust as fuck in the tubes.

• Desperate for precious plasma? Miners absent, slimes dead, chemistry being stingy? Take apart an r-wall and grind it! Not like the gateway room is using those things, anyway. Two sheets of plasteel are worth forty liquid units.

• The chemical reagent cap is 1000. Tricordizine 500 and synaptizine 500 in your system at start of round and you’re a walking ling. Take them in pills, in 5 minutes you can get both of them if you use both chem dispensers. By default, chemicals will be consumed at 0.4 units EACH per tick. So the above example of synaptizine + tricord is 500 / 0.4 * 1.8, giving 2,250 seconds, or 37.5 minutes.

• ChemMasters, and the chef's condiment thing, work on Star-Kist and other drinks. Also glasses and bottles.

• Chemists have what may be the easiest access to space in the game: Make large amounts of Lepo-razine - Copper, Silicon and a 5u plasma catalyst. Then make a bunch of doctor's delight (it's easy to get ingredients from the bartender, they're usually more than happy to trade for some tricord). You can find the red spacesuit pretty quickly on the derelict or mining station too.

• You can navigate space without a suit or internals. Just pack a ton of dexalin+, leporazine, and DD in several pills.

Traitor Chemist

• A mixture that's four times as lethal as Cyanide:

Five units of the following in one pill (damage of each roughly):

• Plasma (~40 toxin damage)
• Sulphuric acid (~13 toxin damage, ~5 brute damage)
• Polytrinic acid (~26 toxin damage, ~10 brute damage)
• Chlorine (~15 brute damage)
• Thermite (~15 burn damage)
• Lexorin (~40 oxygen damage, 5~ brute damage)
• Plant-B-Gone (~15 toxin damage)
• Welding fuel (~15 toxin damage)
• Toxin (~19 toxin damage)
• Arithrazine (~3 brute damage)

• Beepsky smash + hypo/syringe gun = robust. You can get bar access pretty easily as chemist/CMO by telling the HoP you want doctors delight ingredients. Beepsky Smash knocks the victim down again if someone tries to shake them back up. 5 units in an eyedropper lasts about as long as the ole parasting did.

• A polyacid/sulphuric acid mix shot from a spray bottle does not do any more damage than just straight polyacid. Likewise, a 5 unit spritz hurts just as much as a 10 unit spritz.

• If you inject chemicals into someone and gib them, their meat will inherit a portion of that chemical. Parapen someone, grind them into meat, grind that meat with your grinder, make a condiment bottle of zombie powder, squirt that into people's eyes with an eyedropper..... Always remember to recycle, folks.

• 15u of Plasma is a lethal dose. Meaning a single syringe gunshot and the target will die without anti-tox treatment. You'll be dead within 30 seconds with 15u of plasma.

• If you buddy up with a botanist and make them tons of mutagen, they can get you koibeans, which contain carpotoxin. this lets you make zombie powder, which is literally parapen juice.

Virology/Virologist

• Virology can turn you into just as much as a superhuman as Genetics.

• Coughing as a symptom makes people drop grabs and can thus be used to make changelings miserable as they keep dropping absorbs.

Genetics/Geneticist

• If the cloning process changed your looks, you can stuff your old (dead) body in a DNA modi-fier, scan the UI/UE, and inject those into yourself to get your old looks back. It's probably a good idea to delete the record after that or the geneticists start turning everyone into you.

• If someone has a cavity implanted item, you can instantly remove it by monkeying them.

• Geneticist, eject half-cloned body, put in cryo which has clonexadone and cryoxadone beaker inside and save loads of time.

• If you have access to genetics, change your identity if you're caught being a shitler. Keeps people off of you.

• Monkeying someone who is impregnated will cure them.

• The Genetics DNA altering console can spit out injectors for UEs and UIs as well as SEs. This means that, if you get a willing volunteer or even just human a monkey, you can run around the station changing everyone into the same person (if you do this without being antag or having people’s con-sent, you will get banned).

• You can put disks into the cloning computer to save the UI, UE and SE of people scanned with it.

Traitor Geneticist

• Monkey SE's are a hell of a weapon.

• TK is still very OP. With Xray it's nigh-unstoppable if used correctly. You can:
  • Bash people with items. If they pick the item up you can still hit them with it.
  • Steal ID's out of computers
  • Steal guns out of charging stations
  • Steal items across desks
  • Kill people through cameras
  • Operate basic machinery (unfortunately you can't use the chemmaster but you can put things into it)
  • Be an all around douchebag
  • And if you have x-ray you're even more unstoppable than before. You can hide in lockers in maint and dick around all you want.

ADDED: If you use TK on a fire extinguisher cabinet anywhere the extinguisher will teleport straight into your hand, as well.

• XRAY + TK can be used to onehuman the AI from outside the upload. Unfortunately, you can-not activate the freeform module correctly. Shame.

Science/Scientist

• Slimes will glomp you if you hug them enough times.

• Golems cannot slip. A golem with a spray bottle or a bucket is one of the most dangerous things in the game.

• You can easily kill slimes with TK. You don't even have to get close to them to kill them. Just tele-throw something like floor tiles or metal sheets at them from another room.

• Friendly Spiders will produce hostile spiders after eating from a corpse and laying a clutch of eggs. Xenobio can easily breed a freakish spider army, and then if for some reason the power goes out...Honk.

• Lamarr can be used for internals.

• If you are doing srs research as RD, remember that you can delete each technology from each server. So, end research, sync servers, go to this little room of mysteries and freezed air and delete them durands from robotics server. Or better, just mech weapons.

• Black extracts turn people into actual slimes, green extracts only turn people into googirls/guys.

• Also black/green slime work even in fairly minute amounts, you can throw 1 unit of green/black extract in 40 units of water and the resulting 5 unit injections would still have an effect

• You can change the timer on C4 to be extremely high, it tops out at 60000 seconds (1000 minutes = 16.7 hours). Scare the ba-jesus out of someone by planting them with irremovable C4 that will probably never detonate or hang a live explosive on your wall for a stylish conversation piece.

• If you have bluespace slimes and large grenades you can use them together to make a weaponized teleport. Space all the beacons you can and then make more and space them as well. Huck the gre-nade in confined spaces (i.e. the shuttle) and delight as large portions of the crew are probably thrown into deep space. Just make sure you're out of the grenade's range. ADDED: Stash the grenade in one of the shuttle's medikits/lockers and activate with a signaller.

• Tank transfer valve will accept any color of large tank, and it will be reflected accurately in the sprite. It even accepts jetpacks.

• The slime processor and the chef's food processor are the same thing. So you can grind slimes in the chef's food processor and make fries in the slime processor!

• Using water on a silver slime core will produce large quanties of booze, including those in large bottles that can be smashed for weapons with an equivalent damage output to a circular saw.

• You can now research and build cyborg rechargers.

• You can change the timer on C4 to be extremely high, it tops out at 60000 seconds (1000 minutes = 16.7 hours). Scare the ba-jesus out of someone by planting them with irremovable C4 that will probably never detonate or hang a live explosive on your wall for a stylish conversation piece.

• If you have bluespace slimes and large grenades you can use them together to make a weaponized teleport. Space all the beacons you can and then make more and space them as well. Huck the gre-nade in confined spaces (i.e. the shuttle) and delight as large portions of the crew are probably thrown into deep space. Just make sure you're out of the grenade's range. ADDED: Stash the grenade in one of the shuttle's medikits/lockers and activate with a signaller.

• Tank transfer valve will accept any color of large tank, and it will be reflected accurately in the sprite. It even accepts jetpacks.

• The slime processor and the chef's food processor are the same thing. So you can grind slimes in the chef's food processor and make fries in the slime processor!

• Using water on a silver slime core will produce large quanties of booze, including those in large bottles that can be smashed for weapons with an equivalent damage output to a circular saw.

• You can now research and build cyborg rechargers.

• You can scan Slime Jelly with the Odysseus and have it produce more.

Robotics/Roboticist

• Losing a mech to an explosion will eject you completely unharmed. (Probably a good idea to be in space gear though.)

• Mechs are space worthy as long as you enable the air inside your cabin. This can be useful if you don't have a space suit and you need to cross dangerous breaches.

• The Odysseus can scan a stupidly robust assortment of chemicals with its syringe gun, from the laughable to the freakishly deadly. One such chemical is Plasma. Unlimited liquid plasma can be generated.

• Mech drills can bust open lockers to get the goodies inside.

• RIPLEYs are a Roboticist's BEST FRIEND.
  • They are Relatively Cheap
  • They Have Storage Capability
  • Their Internal Airtank, when activated, negates the effects of both hot and cold environ-ments and holds enough air to last the entire round. Literally hours.
  • Their Drill can cut through almost anything including most items, walls, even blast doors. If upgraded to diamond the drill can even cut through Reinforced walls. It is a fairly robust weapon and can gib bodies.
  • If caught in a singularity the mech will be destroyed first giving you the chance to flee.
  • It has fairly robust armor and can resist continuous laser fire from multiple sources for several seconds.
  • It blocks line of sight.
  • When it is destroyed turrets cannot target anyone standing on the same square as it IE the person who was inside when it went boom.
  • A good roboticist should have one on hand at all times.
  • As a side note: An intelligent roboticist in a RIPLEY can rob the vault in 3-5 minutes.

Traitor Roboticist

• People can't tell who you are when you are inside a mech and have to go by the mechs name... which you can change at any time. Changed your mechs name to some other mech and you can walk across the station as a conferred traitor.

• An oddysseus's syringe gun can scan many reagents. I’ve promised an admin on another server not to reveal what it is, but i can tell you, it makes a fully upgraded and armed gygax look like a joke when it comes to killing humans if you figure out what i mean. (Advanced Slime Toxin and frost oil?)

Engineering/Engineer

• Using Wirecutters to snip a grille yields one Metal Rod, which is not enough to reconstruct it. Kicking it down, then kicking down the remnants will yield two, which is enough to reconstruct it.

• To get maximum camera coverage, you only have to place one camera every fifteen tiles. If there's a wall between them, use a carrot on the assembly after you weld it to the wall to create an xray camera. Otherwise, count seven tiles from where the previous camera disappears from view and build a camera there.

• CE’s hardsuit is fireproof.

• Firesuits protect between 60 to 30,000 kelvin.

• By placing Arcade machines next to the singularity in engineering, every time the singularity spits out an EMP, the arcade machines will spit out toys. I'm not sure if it's necessary, but you can simply screw and unscrew it again to reset the EMP check so you can spawn more toys from the same arcade cabinet. Engineering toy factory ahoy!

• How to make an airlock with selected access: Get a hold on the airlock control circuit and click it in your hand, use your engineer ID to change settings on it and pick the access you want it to have.

• Had a power sink? Found and removed it? Good, now turn the output of every SMES off - and then turn the output back on. Sounds silly and IT-Crowdish, but it works. If you do not do that some APCs may not recharge correctly.

• Currently having a power sink? Wire the singularity into the grid! Stage 3 (purple) and up can counteract a power sink. Although I must admit I'm not quite sure how much MW is needed exactly to do this.

• A stage 2 (red) singularity is enough to power the 3 engineering SMES at max input. I don't know why everyone wants the singularity to be stage 3. Having it at stage 2 gives you a bit more time to spot particle accelerator sabotage.

• With the current setup of field generators, a stage 4 singularity can be contained without a problem. Stage 5, however, is coded to dislodge structures, i.e. it WILL eat the field generators by simply pulling them apart.

• Emitters will still work even after wiring in engineering as been destroyed by a bomb. Only cutting a power cable with wirecutters will cause them to stop working.

• Arriving half an hour into the round and no one cba to setup the engine? Engineering SMES are drained entirely, thus the emitters just won't go online? Grab the plasma from engineering storage, put it into the pacman. Drag the PACMAN to the tile south of the engineering APC, use a wrench on it, set the output to 10000 and turn it on. With the 30 sheets the game starts with, you now have a good while to supply enough current to the emitters to get the engine working.

• How to wire singulo straight to grid: If you look at the complete station map thing, you'll see that the three Engineering SMES units receive input together and send their output out across each other. Wire the inputs across each other and into the output. You should virtually NEVER do this EXCEPT to counteract a power sink because if anyone gets shocked anywhere they’ll go straight to crit.

• For most construction/deconstruction operations (Mining, wrenching chairs/tables, deconstructing walls) you can click on multiple spaces to take things apart or build multiple things at a time. Works when drawing with crayons as well if you move through the UI fast enough.

• You can put windows directly on grilles.

• All that is needed for telecomms is: reciever->mainframe->processor->mainframe->server->broadcaster. Just make sure everything is linked to each other properly and you won't need a hub. Mining and people on the DJ station are still fucked though without a hub.

• Poly kills spiders in 2 to 3 seconds and cant be hit by them. who's the useless pet now? Works on carps too!

• Monitor key allows you to use the message monitoring computer to read all of the pda messages that have happened during the round.

• You can also pry up 4 floor tiles and weld them together to get a metal sheet, which you can grind down for iron. Glass for silicon. Reinforced glass for metal and silicon. Wood for carbon.

• Cell chargers give power to inserted cells faster than it takes power from the APC, meaning it generates some power from nothing, and you can alternate between two cell and keep an APC running forever.

• Power testing:
  • The most power the system will drain seems to be around 225000 W. (Tested this by using the Make All Areas Un-powered secret, then the Power All SMES secret.) With most of the station's lights shut off, except for medical and security areas the system drains around 150000 W. (Tested that by shutting off lighting for every APC except for those areas.)
  • I've also been messing around with the PACMAN type generators and have discovered that, if created with the best parts you can make, each generator will produce:
  • P.A.C.M.A.N generator = 60000 W
  • S.U.P.E.R.P.A.C.M.A.N generator = 180000 W
  • M.R.S.P.A.C.M.A.N generator = 480000 W (Probably enough to power Meta on it's own, but I dunno.)
  • They will also hold 450 sheets of fuel. Meaning, if you've maxed out research you can power the entire station with one SUPERPACMAN and a PACMAN (240000 W), or the entire station minus lights with one SUPERPACMAN.
  • So if you're playing sandbox and you wanna power your own station, put those solar panels away.
  • Also, the solar panel crate in engineering only starts with 13 solar assemblies instead of 21 like solar crates ordered from cargo. A proper solar array is made up of 61 solar panels (including the tracker), so it takes 60 supply points to completely replace one.

• Powersinks explode when they've drained a certain amount of power. This explosion is only slightly smaller than that of a proper syndicate bomb, but it'll make an obnoxious and largely unique sound for the last few seconds before the blast.

Mining/Miner

• Always go with at least 2 other people when mining. Not only can you mine faster together, the chance that they could both be 'lings/traitors is rather low. Pickaxe to the skull tends to put down most people.

• If you have access, there are two first-aid kits and a sleeper on the mining station.

• You can view the contents of a mining satchel as if it were a backpack.

• Durands only require uranium and silver, which are abundant. Gygaxes require diamond, which is very rare in most cases. So if you find just 5 diamond, to get yourself a diamond drill, and mine out shit tons of metal, uranium and silver, you can make it durand station 13!

• Wish soup is made of 20 units of water and nothing else, but sometimes (~25% of the time) will actually be generated with nutriment you can actually get full on. Meaning it's one of the only things you can make with the non-kitchen microwaves once the donk pockets run out. It's also the only thing you can make on the DJ station at all without importing ingredients (provided you bring something to hold the water in).

Clown

• The clown's mask can be used for internals.

• The clown's PDA cartridge has less than 5 charges (sendable viruses which make someone’s PDA honk every time they push a button) left, someone who isn't the clown can slip on it to restore 1 charge per slip. Have fun with that.

• Eating the rainbow crayon completely is impossible. If you're a clown and starving you can just nibble on your crayon, for infinity.

Mime

• The Bottle of Nothing actually does something and will heal a mime when drunk. The healing rate is 1 burn and 1 brute damage every tick; that's better than Tricord!

• Mime's suspenders can hold all assortments of things, such as emergency tanks.

• The mime’s mask can be used for internals.

• The mime starts with a force 15 weapon in his inventory that also heals him (Bottle of Nothing, can be smashed for weapon).

Cult

• You can stack Blood Drain runes infinitely, but stacking more than two is a death sentence to yourself due to the debuff that is applied to you afterward, but instantly sending someone into crit with one click is fairly hilarious.

• Engineering staff during cult are top-priority converts, as they can sabotage telecomms for you.

• Are you cult? Got talismans? You can store them on a clipboard, and nobody ever checks clipboards, especially if you're QM or another role that spawns with them. Use a hand labeler to keep track of which is which.

• Now, are you CHEF cult? Set up an imbune talisman rune in the back room, bake your talismans into fortune cookies and hand them out to cultmates.

• Drag paper bins onto you to pick them up. Dump all that shit out - Talisman storage!

• I was exploring old cult code and found that if you use a see invisible rune then smack ghosts with your tome they become visible to everyone.

Wizard

• While knocked down, you can still change your "facing" direction by clicking on a tile or at-tempting to move. This means you can aim fireball while knocked down.

• Someone in the "Unconcious" state can be instantly Soul Sharded, regardless of health. Anyone under 50% HP can be KO'd by a briefcase with 100% reliability. See that assistant that burned himself to shit on the door? Briefcase bonk, shard.

• The scroll of teleportation doesn't need to be in your hands to cast teleportation.

• If you use the scroll of teleportation, put it in your pocket and leave the teleportation win-dow open, when you select "Okay" on the window, you'll still teleport, even if it's not in your hands. You can also do this while stunned. So if your escapades as Gas-Mask Wizardtington the "Greyshirt" with a stolen ID ends up getting you tased, you can SCRYAR NILA INCINERATOR 3 times before they'll be able to cuff you, instead of throwing out a panic fireball and hoping he gets KO'd. This is far more useful to a robeless wizard than a robed wizard...as the robed one will likely just cast teleport/blink/jaunt if he ever gets stunned.

• Suicide bombing is a very easy way to kill a wizard. Welderbombings can also knock the wizard out if he's not very good.

• Removing a wizard's hat will often render him completely impotent, as very, VERY few wiz-ards carry spare hats in their backpack. Polyacid smoke grenades work well for stripping their hats.

• You can label constructs, so please please please steal a hand labeler as a wizard so that your artificers actually know which juggernaut to heal.

• The Staff of Animation can animate holographic objects. They retain their 'force' and do not disappear when they leave the holodeck/the holodeck is shut off. So you can load up the thunder dome simulation over and over for infinite E-sword buddies.

Xenomorph

• Xenos can grab and throw Cyborgs. They can even throw dead cyborgs into doors to open them.

Against Xenomorphs

Xenomorphs have "eye protection" but they don't have "eye protection", meaning you can't stab them in the eyes with a screwdriver, but you CAN use an eyedropper on them as a hypospray, meaning you can inject stun chems into them to stun-hand them just like they stun-hand you. There's three chemicals right now of value to use on xenomorphs, Beepsky Smash, Neurotoxin, and Chloral. Beepsky smash and Chloral requires the chem dispensor, but Neurotoxin does not. Neurotoxin is also an INSTANT stun. All it takes is sleep toxin and a pan galactic gargle blaster, which can both be gotten from vending machines. Of the many types of cyborg, only one borg has access to vending machines. This borg also has access to a reagent container (Shaker) and an eye dropper. The Service borg is the ONLY CYBORG CAPABLE OF STUNNING ALIUMS AND BEATING THEM TO DEATH, aside from engieborgs cheating with welderbombs.

-Disclaimer-

You are ALWAYS at a disadvantage when fighting aliums except when in a combat mech. If you're in a combat mech, shame on you. Furthermore, if the aliums TRULY know what they're doing, the only way you're going to win is badminnery or a combat mech.

Facehugger protection THE MOST IMPORTANT FUCKING THING TO HAVE WHILE FIGHTING ALIUMS IS FACEHUGGER PROTEC-TION. DOESNT MATTER IF YOU HAVE HULK IF YOU DON'T HAVE FACEHUGGER PROTECTION.

Helmets that grant protection from Facehuggers Welding Helmet (Mass produced by autolathes, but only protect while down and obscure vision) -They're everywhere around the station Any space helmet (Engineer rig helmet, Standard EVA helmet, Security Hardsuit helmet, etc) - No-body will give a shit if you steal these during a xeno breakout Pumpkin Helmets (Don't block vision, and can be created en masse by botany by using a knife/hatchet on a pumpkin) - Beg hydroponics Bio Suit Helmets (Don't block vision, but are limited in number.) - Take em from medical.

EQUIP THIS SHIT

Stunning Aliums

There's two ways to stun aliums. Chems and Knockouts.

Chemicals that stun aliums: Beepsky Smash Neurotoxin Chloral (Shit tier, do not use unless you can't get bar access)

Delivery methods: Syringe Gun Hypospray Smoke Grenades (Neurotoxin smoke thrown into a hive can be quite effective.) Eyedroppers (Aliums have "eye protection" but not "eye protection", you can't stab them in the eyes with screwdrivers, but as of this posting, eyedroppers work on them like hyposprays do. Likely to get nerfed because we can't have nice things.)

Explosives: Welderbombs (Best if done by an Engieborg) Shit-tier Potas+Water grenades (Dont even bother, use Neuro smoke instead) Cuban Pete tier transfer valves (Honk)

Killing Aliums

Xenos take double burn damage. This means lasers and welders are stupid effective on them. On the other hand, many of them travel at SANIC speeds and will seriously slap your shit, so don't pull out the welder unless you absolutely have to. If you don't kill an alium, and he gets away, he won the fight, because he's just going to heal up back to full, while you have to dick around getting your laser recharged, or getting more chems. DONT STOP KILLING EM TILL YOU HEAR THAT SCREAM.

Your Weapons: Welders (15x2) Lasers (20x2) Mo'Fuckin Laser Cannon (35x2) (The odds of you getting your hands on this are downright pathetic) Revolvers (Steal em from those faget taters) Combat Shotguns (ALL HAIL CARGONIA, but I think you're better off just getting more lasers, but they work well.)

Abuse your range. Don't stand still. And for fucks sake don't go it alone, unless you're damn sure you know the amount of aliums and know you can win.

HALK

If you're one of those dickwads in genetics that loves to ruin rounds, now's your time to actually be the hero the station deserves without ruining everything for everbody! Grab a welder, grab a facehugger proof helmet, and COVER YOUR SKIN SO THEY DON'T KNOW YOU'RE A HULK. Otherwise those hunters are going to swap to harm intent and MURDER YOUR ASS. Your punches cannot stun aliums, but your punches do cause them to move incredibly slowly. Your call if it's worth it or not.

If you're a true "master" of genetics, you can simply abuse the DNA modifiers to mass produce hulks to get rid of the alium menace instead of relying on SE injectors.

Riot Shields

Actually do protect against alium attacks. If you can grab one, do so.

Silicons

There's two borgs of any value in an alium outbreak. If you're not one of these and you're not an Emagged Secborg, prepare to get shit on, and HARD.

Engineering Borg - Can welderbomb enemies, can repair himself if he manages to get away, welder for damage. Service Borg - With his eyedropper and shaker, he can mix Neurotoxin and beat aliums to death with his tray, slowly, after stunning them.

Plasma Fires

Plasma fires are for clearing out hives, not killing aliums. You will never kill an alium with plasma fire unless they are mindbogglingly retarded. They will ALWAYS have an exit out into space some-where. This is great for cutting off some of their facehugger supply, however.

Mechs

GET OUT. COMMIT SUDOKU, YOU BRING GREAT SHAME UPON YOURSELF BY BUILDING A COMBAT MECH EVER

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• Sleep toxin is pretty robust against aliens

• Bio suit robusts face huggers and acid spits

• You can lock down sleeping alien in morgue tray and it can’t get out of it.

• Aliens don't just grow better in plasma, they actually slowly convert it to oxygen. Two things to take from this: 1. You can use a horde of xenos as an extremely high risk toxins scrubbing system. 2. Aliens in a pure plasma environment can still be ignited from their own breath

• Xenomorphs have no set interval limit on how many times they can use emotes, so they can *deathgasp and *roar spam all day long. ADDED: Okay, official new admin policy. Any xeno that emotes more than five times in the space of a minute or two can be gibbed at will. ADDED: If the admins present can reach the ban button through either laughing, or bleeding to death through their ears.

Changeling

• The changeling's paralysis sting does not do anything to hulks, xenos, or slimes. However, the changeling's death sting still knocks them all out.

• Aliens can get fat. This slows them down like every other crew member.

• Alien queen projectiles are some OP thing which can’t get blocked by biosuits.

• Lings can ALWAYS sting unless they are made asleep with N02/sleep toxin /chloral hydrate , are in critical state , don’t have enough chemicals to sting ,dead .

• You can sting monkeys with a transformation sting to get a fresh human with a random name that you can absorb. Free death sting for virologist lings! ADDED: And scientists, with the bonus of spacing your monkeyhusks. Bonus points if you can get a grey slime farm going.

• I've been stung, pricked, and stunned all in view of other people and been dragged into maintenance while literally in the middle of a crowd and nobody bats an eye. And I've done the same to others. There's your game-changing thing for the day: people are fucking unobservant as hell. Unless you do something that actually shows up in the text, like hitting something, in which case everyone who was AFK and clueless will promptly read back in the chat, see that they missed something important, and descend upon you like locusts.

• As much as the changelings powers are meant for ambush, you can use them for offensive purposes in combination with normal methods of killing people. A deathsting along with a few lasers from a laser gun and etc can put a stop to groups in mere seconds.

• As a changeling, the absolute best item for you to get is a wallet (From the crew quarters, in either cabin's personal closet, in the leather satchel.) It goes in your ID slot and holds up to 4 ids, all of which work for automatic access and none of which change your mouse over identity.

Nuke Ops

• Saying *deathgasp will gib you if you're a nuke ops, so if you're stunned, and they're trying to strip you, be a pal and *deathgasp, that way the rest of your team (Who isn't awful) doesn't have to deal with the enemy having your shit. The explosion automatically gibs you and creates a small explosion where your body was. The gibbing deletes all items in your inventory.

• Praying for Clown Mask as a nuke op is the best thing.

• If the nuclear device is armed, you can examine the pinpointer and it will tell you how long before it explodes.

Traitor

• Emaging a borg to give it a Law 0 has a chance of failure.

• Emag any janiborg you can for their infinite lube reserves.

• Security cameras see as far as you do (7 tiles). This means that if you can't see a regular camera, it can't see you. Xray cameras see through walls. You can differentiate them from normal cameras by the name, and the curved protrusion on the side.

• Having a bomb in your backpack and setting it off while in a sleeper, will blow up all the shut and the sleeper, but leaving you perfectly unharmed.

• If you inject a good power cell with plasma, it'll explode and create a hole in space when it is used for anything.

• Janiborgs are very effective thieves due to being able to pick up items with their trash bag. Emag one, tell it to brig you the AI Upload board and a module of your choice from the upload chamber, etc.

• When you take something from your bag, or put something in it, it creates a message that everyone around you gets. How far this message goes depends on the size of your item. Here's a cheat sheet:
  • If the item can't be placed into a box, then when you put it in your bag it'll show to everyone that can see you.
  • If the item can be placed into a box, then when you put it in your bag it'll only show to people who are directly next to you.
  • This also means that only the people next to you can see what you put into your box, as the box uses the same code as the bag. There are also a few exceptions, like the e-bow, that don't show any message at all.

• Scanning IDs with an agent card produces no special message for spectators, so you can do it pretty much anywhere in full view of everyone. Have fun standing in the HoP's line by queuing up behind someone with large amounts of access and copying that access on the diagonal while the ID is placed on the table. Also scanning two cards with an agent card give the agent card the permissions of both, you can create a ghetto captains ID with a few low level ID's you just find laying around

• You can hide things in the back of a toilet by removing the cap with a crowbar.

• If you grab someone and use them on a open toilet, you give them a swirly that drowns them. If it is closed, it slams the affected person into the toilet seat.

• The chameleon projector is the best item to get as a traitor, it will easily allow you to hide in plain sight and you can use it to dodge shots, just run with it in your and spam it to have bolts go over you. The default item, it turns into, is probably the best (cigarette bud) but if you know an item that is one pixel wide, and camouflages into the ground, then you are basically untouchable. (Unable to find one yet)
  • A hilariously effective use of the cham projector is something slippery, like the clown's PDA or a banana peel. Saw one in medbay once and everyone just walked around it until I decided to get rid of the workplace hazard and WILD CLOWN MATERIALIZES.
  • You can't drag items that are people with cham projectors on, giving you a way to check an item without immediately sending the cloaker into a panic.
  • Floorbots won't try to collect people disguised as floor tiles or metal
  • While pretending to be an item you can move out of closets without opening them. This is useful if you've accidentally been locked in a closet while guised
  • Pretending to be an item in space gives you perfect movement, but you'll still die of exposure if you're not prepared
  • If you ghost your catatonic body will remain cloaked
  • You can cloak as things in the holodeck and use them elsewhere on the station, no one ever suspects the beachball.
  • You can wrench apart a table or rack and rebuild it under you and disguise for a more convincing ploy.
  • Item cloaked people are immune to the mass driver
  • Hiding as an item in a doorway will let the door close harmlessly on you, giving total concealment.
  • Buy an uplink implant, if you get brigged buy a projector and inspire the wild goose chase of the century as you hide there. If sec is being meta shitlords they'll probably assume there's a cult about due to the lack of evidence of any escape route besides a straight up teleport.

• Glass shards can be “prepared” to be 15 damage pocket-fitting weapons:
  • Glass shards can be force 15 if you prepare them.
  • Throw them against the wall. Each time you do it, there is a 20% chance the force will change to 15. Otherwize it will change to 4
  • Test it on yourself with a health analyzer until you notice yourself taking 15 damage.
  • Melee damage on the shard will not change if you don’t throw it.

• No-Slip syndie shoes are the most cost effective thing you can possibly buy, and probably the most powerful thing you can purchase.

• The CE Rigsuit, HoS armor, Captain's Armor, and Bomb Suits can stop someone being gibbed by C4. If you're going to para c4 someone (YOU DICK) wearing these, strip em, or if might not finish the job.

• The entirety of Disposals can easily be routed into space in certain maint areas, really makes rev quite useful when you need only stun and drag sec/a head to a disposal bin to instantly kill them.

• Putting a tracking beacon in space makes the hand teleporter a instantly lethal weapon in-stead of a convenience.

• Disposals can be routed to go into the captain's office.

• A banana peel slip is long enough to quickchoke someone.... not as devastating as it once was, but they'll be down for the count unless someone assists them.

• Targeting the eyes with a flashlight and attacking someone with it will cause their screen to flash white for a moment... This works on cyborgs as well, and can be used to blind and seriously inconvencience them if you don't have access to a flash and have someone to assist you in beating them to death.

• Lockers do not protect from space and atmosphere. So stun locker weld space is a valid strategy.

• The entirety of Disposals can easily be routed into space in certain maint areas, really makes rev quite useful when you need only stun and drag sec/a head to a disposal bin to instantly kill them. Disposals can be a very potent weapon if used correctly, and there are plenty of correct ways. You just need to find them

• When security is chasing you, occassionally do a 180° and sprint back past them. If theyre space lagging enough, they wont see you run by. This is especially effective if your being chased by the dreaded security mob, mainly because such mobs have a pack mentality. If you manage to throw off one officer, chances are good someone will follow him as well. Also, unless they are right on your ass, close doors you go through and open doors you dont. People will chase open doors if they lose a visual on you. Also, tasers cant go through doors and you cant open a door during its closing animation, which can give you another extra second to duck into a maintence tunnel.

• There's an ID console near arrivals. If you get all-acess when you really shouldn't, you should use this to make extra ID's to stash somewhere for when Sec inevitably takes your original ID.

• Shoving a corpse into a locker or body bag or buckling to a chair/roller bed then dragging that object about leaves no blood trail.

• With an emag and a chameleon projector, you can go anywhere on the station, fulfill any objective (murder objectives become easy if you break into the armory, after all), and evade capture forever. And if you play your cards right, the crew will think you have a goddamn hand tele.

• Shooting syringes of black slime juice works and will turn the person into a slime. Combine this with that one icy reagent or a docility potion and bam, you just murdered someone.

• You can absorb with only a passive grab. So you can absorb people handcuffed to chairs.

• Diamond drills can break through r-walls though, in record time. It's great.

• Already named your agent ID? Out of points? Your voice changer is still useful! Make that guy you murdered blame somebody else! Make him say he's committing suicide! If you have access to an ID modification console and/or spare IDs, it's EVEN MORE FUN. HoP traitor (or equivalent) with a voice changer can impersonate anyone he wants, including entirely new people, from the comfort of his own office or his escape pod.

• You should hide off cameras when impersonating someone with a normal ID, as the AI can track you.

• You can always turn that Box of Spare IDs into a Box of Fake IDs, find a nice place in maint....

• I don't know if it's been said already, but agent IDs make you untrackable by the AI and you can click an ID with one to steal its access.

• If you ever need a place to hide something make a false wall to the ballons secret spot and put the stuff into that area to get later when the heat has died down. All you need to worry about is some-body wantong a ballon and finds a tonne of weapons or something else instead. For extra points use the secret spot right by sec for the irony if they ever find out. ADDED: You can also use the little construction area next to security if you don't mind a little damage. Few people check there unless there happens to be a powersink/hidden comms console.

• NOBODY expects freedom implants.

• Nobody checks the lockers in the locker room. Like, ever. And you need a fairly high level of ID (I can do it with all-access) to open lockers that aren't already coded to a specific PDA, so no worries about Joe Schmoe Assistant running in and stealing your hand tele.

• How to quickly and easily disable tcomms permanently (99% of the time) as a traitor, at the cost of four telecrystals: That maintenance door there is the Incinerator door. Equip internals while you wait for it to go off. This will destroy the telecomms APC, which will depower comms. Nobody will be able to use headsets. With your internals on obviously, slap a block of C4 on the hub in the middle of the room. If you didn't get tased and then lasered and dragged out onto a solar by an engineer who's packing, you will be able to enjoy your disabled comms and everyone walking around with constantly broadcasting station bounced radios in their pockets. ADDED: Destroying the hub does stop communication through headsets on the station.

• How to get to the Captain’s Quarters through disposals: There is a disposals tunnel outside the mining dock. Just weld and then wrench the sorting pipe, then right-click it once it's free and click flip. With a bit of luck, it'll be facing the opposite way. Wrench and weld it. Any disposal "upstream" from that pipe will now take objects and people to the HoP's office. I like to break into the construction area above tcomms, because it has a disposal in-between the pipe you need to flip to get into the captain's office and the previous one we flipped. To get into the Captain's office, you need to crowbar the floor here below the teleporter, then weld, wrench and flip the pipe. When the arrow is pointing right, wrench and weld the pipe and lay the floor tile back over it. Any disposal "upstream" from there will take you to the captain's office. The rest will take you to the HoP's. The only question is, if there's no ID and no hand tele, how do you get out before security gets there?

• Emagging a coms console with captain access allows you to contact the syndicate. Use this to demand new objectives, which they will often give you more telecrystals to help you do this

• Eswords disable bolts on doors.

• You can't get out of package wrapped lockers. I don't even know if you can resist out of them.

• Spaced bodies can husk, but it's pretty slow. Burned bodies husk much better.

• You can be free people from perma without using space. ADDED: If you go through brig maint, get through the window and grill near where they keep Sec's atmospheric canisters. Walk up near evi-dence, cut down the evidence Rwall, Go over to the wall that is behind the table in perma, make it into a hidden wall. Wrench the table and Tada! Sneak in and out of perma while only having to worry about the AI!

• The AI cannot examine anything except things it can see in its chamber.

• You can strip someone's pockets without a message appearing, if they don't move during it, otherwise they'll get a message that says their pockets are being touched. The item will still drop on the floor so you'll have to be quick about picking it up.

• Instead of putting ignited lighter near your plasma tank bomb so it ignites the plasma ,you can wield your plasma tank bomb with wielding tool so you would not need to make such a complicated scheme.

• Grilles break in four clicks with your bare hands. I.e., it's a LOT faster to kick down grilles than smack them down with a crowbar or fire extinguisher. Relatedly, single r-windows break after about four throws of a body. It's less handy now that you have to grab a guy twice to throw him, but if you're ever stuck, fire-extinguisherless, and have a buddy, it's probably the fastest way through.

• You can take out a combat mech with just an axe if you circle it well enough. Since they turn around slowly and must face you to fire, they can't do shit. The only issue is getting close enough. Also, if you intend to give someone a combat mech (not yourself) stick on a bunch of mech beacons and build yourself an exosuit computer. If they start to rampage, EMP all the beacons and ruin their mech. Then laugh at them and smash their face in real good.

• PDA holds a pen by default. Remove it and stow your parapen there if you take it. No one carries pens in their bag.

• Are you a traitorous sort lucky enough to have HoP-level access? Don't want security on your dick? CLOSE THE FUKKEN POSITIONS. An understaffed security team is a shit security team. Note that you can only open or close one position per 5 minutes per console. That's why you use multiple consoles.

• Latex gloves don't stop you from leaving your fingerprints everywhere. They leave partial prints.

• Strapping a man to a chair while throwing floor tiles at him, is a surprisingly quick death on his part.

• If your objective is to steal the nuke disk, steal the pinpointer as well. The reason should be self-evident.

• The suspicious toolbox does fifteen damage instead of ten, making it as strong as a circular saw or a null rod.

• Borgs are always stunned by flashes, but the amount of time they're stunned varies.

• Grenades can be activated from backpack with mousetraps.

• Space Suit Dispensers can hold any type of space suit, even hardsuits. You can hide hardsuits in them and nobody will ever think of checking there. Well, unless the power goes out and the SSU forcibly ejects its contents, of course.

• The nuke blocks projectiles.

• You can move contraband posters by using wirecutters on them. It'll remove them from the wall and you'll get the rolled up poster back.

• Black gloves are fireproof. That means you can take whatever lights you want without getting burned.

• Pulse rifles can actually break tables, racks, girders, and pretty much anything, provided you aim at it with your mouse. Except airlocks.

• You can accomplish most non-murder objectives by asking nicely.

Hacking

• Hacking a camera:
  • If you cut the Focus wire on a camera, it can only see two tiles.
  • If you cut the Camera wire, it will show up as Cut on a Camera monitor and static for the AI.
  • If you deconstruct the camera completely, it will not show up at all on the camera monitor. You don't need to cut the alarm wire, but you need to cut every other wire. Either way it doesn't matter, due to smashing/turning off lights being infinitely more effective without attracting attention.

• You don't need to cut a camera's power wire to disable it, you can just pulse it. This means you can attach a remote signaller to that wire and use a second signaller set to the same frequency and code to toggle the camera off and on.

• Hacking doors: Cutting the power wire does 10 seconds to back up power. But pulsing also switches to back up power after 10 seconds, meaning if you want to open the same door for your exit you need to pulse the BACKUP wire to interrupt power. I think it switches back to primary after 1 minute again. Best thing is pulse both the primary and backup then crowbar - that should give you the old style 1 minute window.

• To restore primary power to a door immediately, cut then mend the primary power wire. Cutting + mending is incredibly useful when you've accidentally electrified a door, or shorted APC power.

• Use screwdriver on mousetrap, attach to an igniter instead of a timer when making a grenade assembly, you've just made a landmine. combine with a 100-100 potassium-water mix and anyone who steps on it will regret it.

• Singularity’s EMP can be abused to short out lockers.

• Inject plasma into a battery and insert it into a stun baton/prod. The next time someone attacks with the baton on it will blow up on them, seriously wounding both the holder and the stun target. Doing it with a high capacity battery or better will create a blast strong enough to turn the floor under the attacker to space, which will suck in the people caught in the blast and crit them before they can wake up. Use it as a suicide weapon or place it in the halls for some gullible fool to get himself killed with. The blast of a high or better will delete the stun baton too, leaving no scanable evidence. Prods won't delete though for whatever reason.

• You can emag the light replacer, which causes all of the lights to be filled with plasma which will ignite if the light bulb's turned on.

• There is a single power cable supplying the entire station with power. If you don't feel like spending crystals for a power sink and you don't get seen for a minute near engineering, you can disable the power grid so that only very competent engineers will spot your sabotage. Though this only works if the solars arent set up.

• You can emag buttons to remove access from it.

• Find one of the wires that shortens the APC's power when pulsed. Attach a signaller to that wire at the telecomms APC. You can now disable coms any time you want for a few minutes - and unless someone checks the APC and/or doesnt look too closely or asks the AI, they will think it was an ionospheric anomaly.

• Wall-mounted flashers and portable flashers can be disabled with wirecutters

• If you screwdriver a heater you can take out its really crappy battery or adjust the temperature it outputs. The highest setting, 90 C, will actually hurt people extremely slowly if they aren't wearing internals.

• You can hack eva space suit containment things, change settings to make it mime fryer, stuff mime inside, turn on and get fried mime.

• You can screwdrive detectives revolver and load .357 in it, but you can get blown up by this revolver. ADDED: Remember to unload the thing while you're doing it, or you'll shoot yourself in a similar manner to sawing a loaded shotgun.

• As a traitor engineer, you could easily do the following:
  • Go to a room, like a construction room, and find the APC's wire that shorts out the power.
  • Grab two signalers and adjust their frequencies.
  • Go to telecomms, in a hardsuit, and attach a signaler to the APC's power wire, which you found before. Close the APC and leave no traces.
  • Now you have an instant way to disable telecomms for a short time, useful for taking down your assassination target or for annoying the station. HONK.

• A good way to manually disable tcomms temperately is to set the filtering frequency on the hub to some number like 0.1 . It'll block everything and most engineers don't know how to fix it.

• If you want tcomms down for good, disconnect the network links. There are -very- few engineers who can fix that, and it'll take over ten minutes if they're experienced with how tcomms works. It'll probably force a shuttlecall.

• The Telecomms NTSL Scripting can REALLY Add to a Traitor AI round, Kill off someone important, Pretend to be them, Someone is Saying "Rogue" and "Kill" and "Traitor" over the radio? Replace those words with "Apple" or "Crayon" Someone found your BLUE APC? Make it so they can't say Blue, or better yet change it so they say Green instead. TL;DR NTSL Scripts are AWESOME.

Other

• Lightswitches can be used to sabotage a room if you inject plasma into the lightbulbs. Also works if there is a power outage or for griefing the janitor.

• Disposals with stuff in them have a little blue light at the bottom, which is dark when the disposal is empty (disposal units can be toggled not to eject their stuff).

• Various objects can be hidden (glitched or badmind) underneath the floortiles, this works very well with soap and bombs

• You can throw people into windows to break them faster than you can smash them down with your emergency tank, and you can kick down grills faster than any other way of smashing them down

• Not sure if it's been posted yet, but packaging paper lets you wrap things like space suits and they'll fit in your bag.

• You can actually change your ingame 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)

• Clicking a spray bottle while it's in your hand actually changes the pressure knob to use less of the content when sprayed.

• Sprays can be sprayed up to 3 tiles away, cleaning 3 tiles at once.

• Right-Clicking on a spray bottle gives you the option to empty it.

• Pete 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.

• Apply a welder to solid plasma to turn it into plasma gas (not 100% sure)

• Plasma cutters (AKA infinite welders) can cut through regular walls without causing damage to your eyes.

• You can wrench showers to make them either retardedly hot or retardedly cold. One time I used a cold shower to survive a raging plasma fire.

• You can shoot medibots with tasers to disable them briefly. Go figure.

• You can tase fire alarms to drop the doors.

• If you see a pAI with a great reputation who you like, and someone else has claimed it first, use an emag to unbind it.

• EMP silences radios.

• Holo-eswords can deflect projectiles like a normal esword.

• :l, :r, and :i are some of the most important things to know how to use in the event of radio issues. :r and :l will attempt to speak into radios held in either your right or left hand, and :i can be used to speak into an intercom if you're adjacent to it.

• Using wirecutters or a kitchen knife on a book lets you hide stuff inside said book.

• You can stab Cyborgs with pens to annoy them with "You feel a tiny prick." messages.

• You can right click on a tile to see what area it is assigned to. If you can't see it, then you're looking at an area you are not in. If you can see it, then you are in that area. Good for locating where shuttles will dock, or where a pod used to be.

• Do U-turns when running away. It can confuse a lot of people. Works even better if areas are dark. Run towards engineering after opening one of the airlocks in the above intersection. It makes people go the wrong way.

• The Shotgun can be sawed down to fit on armor or in a pack with a circular saw. Remember to unload it first, or you'll just shoot yourself in the face (What did you think would happen with hot sparks and a loaded gun?)

• PDA Messenger serves as a handy ghetto crew manifest.

• You need 17 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 21 kPa to 16 kPa, having 24% more time to breath your tank empty!

• 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.

• If you do a roleplay-heavy female character, expect ERP attempts. Best solution: File sexual harassment reports with security and one lawyer when the other lawyer is a creep (it is also a permabannable offense, so contact the admins and tell them what happened).

• If you have a pickaxe in either hand you can walk into ores and walls to automine them. This means you can use your active hand for satchels!

• You can use the dresser located in dorm four to change your underwear. Upon further investigation you can use the dresser to change into the opposite sex's underwear.

• Are you an annoyed chef who wants meat? Just ask Xenobio, who is usually sitting on around fourty or more monkey corpses depending on how late in the round it is.

• Holding certain items, like a knife or C4, change what happens when you suicide. Crayons... how horrifying ):

• Can uncuff while in a disposal.

• Your signature CANNOT be copied.

• The mime's wall blocks tasers. But it doesn't block lasers.

• 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. Detective's 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).

• It's probably old news, but if you use a Cup Ramen on a sink twice, it becomes warm.

• If you confirm people are antags without them knowing and you have a free moment, adminhelp your intent to robust them to establish records of your knowing they're antag before they adminhelp you for dealing with them. That way, you won't have to explain yourself at a crucial moment.

• The abandoned ship, abandoned satellite, and AI satellite teleporter room are all on one z-level. The DJ station, derelict, and crashed clown ship are all on another.

• You can add items to boxes even if the box is already in your backpack. No need to Tetris.

• You can also open containers like boxes and bags by standing next to them and drag and dropping their sprite onto your character's sprite.

• If someone is hacking a door and you want to keep them from following you, and you know all or most of the wires:

1. Cut 1-3 useless wires (typically some combination of Door Control, ID Wire, Timing, Safety)
2. Cut the bolt lights wire
3. Cut the bolts wire
4. Cut every other wire except the shock wire
5. Cut the shock wire

This makes it incredibly obnoxious to follow you - if they don't know the wires and don't have insulated gloves, they're SOL because even the AI can't help them pursue.

• Cutting the shock wire doesn't shock you, as far as I have been able to tell. Mending it, on the other hand....

• If you want to test hacking doors without pissing off sec for breaking in somewhere and you have maint, you can make your own airlock with the aux tool storage thing and make it somewhere obscure.

• You can use your ID to open doors with unscrewed panels.

• 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. I've had several occasions where I've found myself 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.

• Sleeping heals you.

• Actually the best way to counter lings to hang around in groups of three. The ling is an ambush predator and will only attack prey that is weak and isolated. ...Except if the lings are working in groups as well.

• 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.

• You can enable your suit sensors as long as you aren't in crit, ie when a changeling paras you

• Universal recorder's print transcript translates other species

• You can put a box of body bags in your bag. ADDED: You can drag a closed body bag to your character to pick it up.

• Using a lighter on a fire alarm will activate it. Not actually very game-changing... Actually hitting it with any item will, even shooting them sets them off.

• As long as you can talk and you're within 1 tile of an intercom, you can type :i in front of what you say to say it over the intercom. Even when you're stunned and/or on the ground. This saved my life on more than one occasion, such as when a changeling tried to absorb me on a pod and the silence sting wore off before he killed me.

• Tracking beacons, used for the teleporter, can be used as station bounced radios if you use :l or :r for each hand.

• Going to space? No jetpack? Drag a paper bin onto your character and put it in your bag for 30 easy access throwing papers.

• But any instruction books/ sheets o paper can be opened and left open even if you get rid of the book.

• It's fun to get the janitor's box of mousetraps, activate them all, put them all in your backpack and then get arrested and searched. Screaming "THAT ONE WAS THE LAST ONE, I SWEAR!!" while crying from laughter, only to see them fall for it and activate another. A glorious sight. Works quite well with your normal greyshirt finding a sec backpack too - they cant resist the urge. ADDED: Mouse traps in a bag don't hurt if you're wearing gloves.

• 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

• Lit welding tools two- or three-hit carp.

• You can scan pieces of paper with your PDA to add them to your PDA notes. Useful as a CE, just scan your monitor key and then hide it in the paper bin.

• You can teleport into the shuttle mid-travel using a beacon. This is incredibly useful for those meteor rounds.

• Hydroponics, the Bartender and Cook have a common service radio channel with :v.

• Use a coin on the tool vending machine in tool storage to get access to insulated gloves. Only 1 in stock so hurry. This is huge since gloves are one of the most important items on station.

• Communication is the most important part of this game: Whether it's trying to manage your team as a Head or the Captain, conveying important information as the AI, or even dealing with accusations that you're a traitor malf cultist changeling nuclear cultist revolutionary monkey, saying the right thing can make all the difference. Especially let's talk about when someone calls you rogue. Whether it's true or not, remaining silent is the absolute worst thing you can do. If you speak up immediately, it changes things because lots of people will stop and pause and wonder who's right, whereas if the radio is only filled with yelling your way, people tend to take it as the truth and take you out. If you're an antag and you're not like running around with an esword or pumping plasma, or even if you are doing that shit, just keep denying, deflecting, accusing others, calling the other party the real traitor, etc. Obviously when you're like a suspected Ling, lying your ass off is a basic skill, but other antags could use it. Unless you're a nuke op or something, but even then, communicate with your team regularly. Shit, even a Wizard can benefit because if you convince them you're going a peaceful route you can really fuck some people up before you get called out as hostile.

• Also yes - learning that you can lie (hell, you don't even have to lie to an AI) and get almost everything you need is game changing. I'm not sure if some of the playerbase is naive or just uncaring at this point.

• You catch the lasers that mutate wizards shoot at you? The wizard is technically "throwing" them. You can also catch taser shots and bullets.

• You can eat crayons to unleash your inner two year old.

• You can lean on (Hitting the resist command when welded in a locker) lockers to try to get out of them when dead.

• Teleport is a great weapon.