Your job is to mop up blood, oil, dust and vomit, replace broken or missing light bulbs and tubes, and pick up litter. It's more fun than it sounds!
Bare minimum requirements: Replace broken lights. Run around space cleaner-ing overly large messes in case of demons. If you are going to wet floors, use wet floor signs.
Stellar Patrol, it's not a job, it's an adventure!
You have the most important time consuming, under appreciated and eventually pointless job on the station. You keep small areas from looking shitty while the areas you've already cleaned are covered with blood and litter again. You'll clean floors, toss out junk, replace broken lights and overall, keep the station resembling a workplace and not an anarchist playground!
Do not surrender to the overwhelming dirtyness of a rotten-to-the-core-station, only you and your mop's deeds, nevertheless how insignificant they may seem, are the ones who protect the station's virtue; For a clean floor without blood nor stains, leads to peace, corners that yet remain virgin of the scum and trash, maintain order, and lightbulbs in even the darkest hole of malice and crime, shall lead to safety. These are your mottos, protect them with your life, or perish trying.
Equipment
Much of this equipment is acquired from your JaniDrobe vendor in your Custodial Closet or for 'free' in the Service Techlab and the Autolathe, in Cargo.
Galoshes that prevent you from slipping on wet floors and items such as bananas and the clown's PDA, but do nothing on space lubed floors
An extremely convenient spray bottle of space cleaner that will sadly run out quickly and need to be replenished by chemistry. These don't wet the floor, so you don't need to carry around signs/a projector and wear galoshes. The crew would much rather you use this over running around creating obnoxious safety hazards, but you can't refill them nearly as easily as a cart.
Three space cleaner foam grenades.
A bucket for filling your janitorial cart. You can put it in your bag full of water for an emergency refill, somehow. Can be worn, but doesn't really do anything apart from making you look stupid. Try checking if it's empty first.
A mop for mopping floors. Need to be wet regularly. Fits in your backpack
A broom for sweeping trash. Click to sweep toward the tile you're facing, or press 'Use' it to wield in both hands and start pushing trash you walk over. Predeterminated weapon agaisnt Grey tiders among other entities of evil.
Some wet floor signs. You can wear them for some very basic brute damage protection, don't expect it to save your life from anything other than a drunk assistant.
A holographic sign projector. You can press 'Use' to clear all the ones you've put down. Much more useful and convenient than having to go back and collect physical signs.
A bio-suit and its hood
. Those protect from direct exposure to chemicals, and contact-spreading diseases. Require internals to protect you from airborne viruses. The suit slows you down. The hood prevents facehuggers from raping you and conceals your identity.
A water tank to fill your janitorial cart from, using your bucket.
Two boxes of light bulbs to refill your light replacer or give to assistants so they can help replace lights.
A light replacer used to remove broken light tubes/bulbs from light fixtures and replace them with new ones with one click. Alternatively, use in hand while standing under a fixture with broken light to automatically replace it. Refilled with light tubes/bulbs (including broken ones) and glass.
A trash bag. Equippable in the exosuit slot of bio-suits 
, the Janicart and the cart. Use it on tiny or small items to pick them up. Use on a disposal bin to empty. You can also store this in your Janicart 
. To take it off, right-click the Janicart while ridden, or simply interact with it otherwise.
A box of mousetraps to kill mice that never leave maintenance without assistance
Two bear traps for trapping space bears or your colleagues.
Some paint remover for cleaning up graffiti and floor stains.
A janitorial cart which holds a mop bucket, four signs, a mop, a spray bottle, a trash bag and a light replacer.
A janibelt, a belt that can hold many of your standard issue items.
The janicart, a PIMPIN' RIDE. The key spawns nearby. Drag yourself onto the cart to ride, then insert key into it to be able to start moving. You can remove the key by alt-clicking the janicart. To unbuckle from the vehicle, click the janicart or press 'Resist' (defaults to B).
A wire brush allowing you to remove rust, most notably from walls. It has a noticeable delay, similarly to soap or damp rags.
Most important, you have your purple soft cap to signify your duty to the station who to lynch when the Clown is wetting floors.
Wet Floor Signs
Drop warning signs where you mop. People get pissed when you don't. You don't have enough to cover every area you clean and between lag and every player running everywhere they're usually not spotted until people are already on their backs, but they can't blame you for doing what you can!
Shaking up those you slipped maintains favour with the crew. Do this with 
Левый клик с выключенным Боевой режим 
Включается при помощи клавиши 4, выключается при помощи клавиши 1 или может быть переключен при помощи клавиши F при стандартной раскладке. Нажатие левой кнопки на людей пустой рукой с включённым боевым режимом приведёт к удару 
или приведёт к помощи 
если он отключен. Также позволяет вам не меняться местами с человеком или толкнуть вас если вы столкнулись.. . Smugly pointing at one of your signs incurs their ire.
Also, if people are chasing you, throw a bucket of water behind you, or where they will run into it, as they likely want to steal from you (your shoes are valuable). Or fill your spray bottle with a little water to quickly take down huge amounts of people.
People assume if someone slips, it was your doing. This may not be true. Often it was the chemist with space lube, or a clown with a bucket of water. It's possible to differentiate between slipping on a wet floor and slipping on a lubed floor.
Make sure the detective has cleared a scene before you clean up an area of some blood. Follow people dragging bodies to the medical bay; they leave long trails of blood which means more work for you.
People are going to accidentally charge your cart halfway down the hallway. Kind people will get on the other side of it and push it back to you. There's no avoiding this, apart from not using the cart and relying on the space cleaner , or using the mop with buckets of water held on your person. This would require you to carry signs too.
A janitor cyborg is usually a more efficient janitor than you. It can clean floors by just moving onto them. But so can you once you get your floor buffer upgrade.
Cleaning Without Being Lynched
Your janitorial cart can hold up to 100 units of liquid. This does not need to be straight water. If you're able to get Chemistry to give you 50 units of ammonia, you can mix it with 50 units of water. Congratulations! You just created 100 units of Space Cleaner. Mopping the floor with Space Cleaner does not leave it slippery. People might still assume that if you're mopping without the signs that you're creating a safety hazard, so make sure to correct them BEFORE they choke you to death.
The bars of soap are a great cleaning implement on the station. They don't leave slippery puddles behind, and they're good for getting those hard-to-reach places (like that vomit under the surgery table) that cleaning grenades can't. Your bar of Nanotrasen brand soap is limited to 300 uses.
Remember that your bottle of Space Cleaner can clean tiles instantly as well. If you aim far enough from your position, you can clean up to five tiles in a single spray. Useful to quickly clean up your evidence.
By right-clicking on the spray bottle, you can tip the contents out of it.
You can clean bloody people by spraying them with your Space Cleaner .
Spray people with space cleaner if they are covered in blood around their head and chest (but not if they have bloody gloves). This usually makes people happy, as security officers won't hound them as much. Sometimes the station needs a hero though, all you need to do is mop the right floor, or spray water at the right time to stop the worst fiend humanity has ever known.
Advanced Sanitation Gear
Once science has researched Advanced Sanitation Technology, you will be able to print a few advanced sanitation items from the service techfab.
- The
Advanced Mop, which works like your ordinary mop, but it's faster, stronger and generates its own water. - The
Trashbags of Holding that may hold a huge amount of tiny and small items. A quality of life improvement. - Two upgrades for the janicart
(the drivable one). They may be installed by clinking on the vehicle while holding the upgrade in hand, and removed with a screwdriver. Those two upgrades are, however, exclusive.
- A
Floor buffer upgrade to instantly clean floor tiles you drive over, similarly to janitor cyborgs. - A
Vacuum buffer upgrade, transforming the cart into a vacuum for tiny and small items. It uses the cart's trash bag as a vacuum bag and does not vacuum without it.
- A
Assembling a Crazy Cleaning Crew
If you give an assistant galoshes, mop and janicart, and just use your space cleaner, you can assemble a multi-man mess elimination team. You could give additional assistants extra spray bottles if you can find them, and on some maps you can find an extra mop and mop bucket (a retro janicart without slots for tools) to give to a third assistant.
There's totally no way that this could backfire. Everybody knows how hardworking and trustworthy assistants are. There's absolutely zero chance that an assistant will just take your no-slip shoes and run.
Tips
- Your PDA has a Custodial Locator. Use this to locate your janitorial cart
or mop 
. This can also help you find your Custodial Closet, since that's where those items spawn. - Mopping and cleaning cobwebs allow your character to gain Cleaning experience. This skill allows you to clean faster, eventually mopping near instantly, and receive a Legendary Janitor cape.
- The cleanbots
are able to clean tiles automatically and autonomously, and might clean maintenance if the airlock is open.
- Your ID has access to the settings of cleanbots. Click a cleanbot with your ID or through alt+click to unlock it. You can then click the robot to alter its settings and turn it on or off.
- If you're planning on leveling your Cleaning skill, do not open airlocks to maintenance when they're close and
robust them awayturn them off if necessary.
- Instead of refilling the Light Replacer
with light tubes/bulbs, you can refill it with glass sheets 
. - Lost your galoshes? Need more default Cleaner Grenades or buckets? Cargo can order a Janitorial Cart and Galoshes Crate and a Janitorial Supply crate, if you ask nicely.
- Clicking a spray bottle while it's in your hand actually changes the pressure knob to use less of the content when sprayed. (Alternates between 2 and 5)
- Right-Clicking on a spray bottle gives you the option to empty it.
- Learn how to mix space cleaner. This will make refilling your space cleaner bottle easier for when the chemist can't be bothered. (Space cleaner it's composed by mixing 50% ammonia + 50% water; The ratio to make ammonia its 75% hydrogen + 25% nitrogen. Ammonia can also be found in Blumpkins
among other things.Some everyday objects like lightbulbs and glowsticks may contain useful stuff, consider the Ghetto chemistry guide to obtain your desired reagents from thin air. - Chemistry can make drying agent. If splashed on your galoshes
with 
Простой правый клик. Не имеет значения включен или выключен Боевой режим Включается при помощи клавиши 4, выключается при помощи клавиши 1 или может быть переключен при помощи клавиши F при стандартной раскладке. Нажатие левой кнопки на людей пустой рукой с включённым боевым режимом приведёт к удару 
или приведёт к помощи если он отключен. Также позволяет вам не меняться местами с человеком или толкнуть вас если вы столкнулись.., they will be transformed into purple absorbent galoshes, which still prevents you from slipping while also drying floor tiles you walk on. - Xenobiology can create speed potions. Use these on your galoshes and/or janicart to make them faster.
Tips for Traitoring
- A backpack full of mousetraps
is by far one of the most annoying things to deal with when Security is searching you. Attach the mousetrap to a space cleaning grenade 
while wearing galoshes to slip them, take your bag back and get away. Alternatively you could use your mousetraps to set death traps using any explosive you have at hand. - With your maintenance access, slipping and kidnapping can be a breeze.
- Cleaner Grenades can potentially stop an entire party of pursuers by slipping them, or forcing them to stop. Your galoshes make you immune to slipping on foam, water or soap yourself.
- Dual hand your broom
and push a few bear traps 
under your foes feet to win the battle before it even begins. - Progress in research may allow you to print more bear traps in the service techfab
. Use this to torment your foes and catch your targets. - Unleashing the water vapor from the portable canister that starts in your custodial closet will make a large area very slippery. If you have either galoshes or a janicart , the water won't slip you and therefore you will gain a huge mobility advantage to kidnap and/or clean someone.
- Emagging a light replacer will make the replaced light explode when turned on. This, when used with care, can help you set up deadly traps when someone presses the light switch.
- Your water vapor canister can be toyed with just like any other canister. Use a freezer / heater
from Medbay, Atmospherics, Science, Kitchen, or Engineering to alter the temperature. Water vapor at cold temperatures can instantly freeze any department, if not a major portion of the station (Particulary effective at murdering Lizard-Folk, who are extremely weak to cold temperatures). Superheating the water vapor will create a hot and slippery environment that will slowly boil your victims. To prevent yourself from being harmed by the extreme temperatures, there are several drinks, suits, and even mutations that will protect you.
Advanced Sanitation For Experienced Janitors
As a janitor, while you gain experience in your labours, you will eventually find no more use in the orthodox ways of average janitors. Your abilities won't match your circumstances and desires, and therefore will see itself limited; If you seek to be better at your job than anyone, to cleanse the scum in half the time, to be virtuous and strong, to protect your station like an errant knight protects his lady, use this section as a reference for what it means to be a good janitor, for you will not only have to put more effort, but also be fearless of any lynching for most of your deeds.
(Beware inexperienced janitors who want to cheat and become great with ease, I warn you of your misfortune, for until you are hardened by adversity and used to the desperating torments of indecency, I'm afraid you wont only not reach greatness, but shall be stuck in the path of the lazy and unskilled. So begone! For as a good janitor, you dont simply do what you are meant to, but do far more and beyond so that no fiend nor devil even dares to stain your clean floors with blood. That is the way of the expert and wise janitor.)
"To live for sanity so hard, you go insane."
Forbidden Ultimate Cleaning Tool: The Tempest
This ancient cleaning tool surpasses the mop
in range at the cost of inventory space and slipification of several tiles besides the desired ones, and a huge potential for lyncheability.
- Request empty plasma tanks
at science, preferably at round start due to scientists all gathering near the techfab to print various things. - If your request is rejected, proceed to step 3 and wait for the scientists to disperse. Come back later and use your broom to open your way inside, dual-wield it and hit the windoor
a few times until it breaks. - Build a flamethrower
. - Set the water vapor canister
in the custodial closet to maximum pressure, load the empty plasma tanks onto the canister, and fill them with water vapor by opening the valve and closing before extracting the full tank. Be careful, for if you remove the tank while the valve is open, the canister will be emptied into the room. - Attach to flamethrower , set the pressure of the tank to vary how much water vapor will be shot each time - Around 300 kPa will be enough to make it work. Be aware that it will be emptied pretty fast each shot, so make sure to have a lot of tanks ready in your bag. Increasing the pressure will increase the range of the water vapor, but it's often preferable to shoot more times than to shoot a big single load.
- (Optional). Use either galoshes or a janicart to avoid being slipped. Paint The Tempest purple with a spraycan so you don't get stopped by authorities too fast.
- Use a T-Ray
and a crowbar 
to locate and extract smuggler's satchels
from beneath floor tiles. These are usually spread all over the station, can fit in a bag, and can hold several plasma tanks so you never run out of vapor. Once you have enough tanks, don't fear to use them, your canister will probably not run out of vapor no matter how much you waste. Do be considerate to only use this tool for major fast cleaning and not for griefing - Be a proper janitor and don't get lynched before your deed is complete.
Omega Soap: The most advanced soap known to mankind.
An experienced janitor must also know other arts apart from cleaning - Chemistry, hydroponics and bartending are good examples, and for those with a heavier hand, greytiding will get you those hard-to-reach materials. For most, the omega soap is an absolutely useless goal to try to achieve, but if you are used to obtaining chemicals fast, this secret item will surely be worth it. This soap can clean stupidly fast, leaves no trace of water, and can reach where no water vapor nor sprays
1. There are three ways to obtain the recipe, written in an Ancient Janitorial Poem. The first one is by having the family heirloom quirk as a janitor, which can spawn you with a poem in your bag. The second is by looting in maintenance, which isn't really worth it as the poem is a rare spawn - This exists mostly for people to find out about the existence of this secret item. Third is the boring safest one: Use the reaction guide in the chem dispenser 
and search for "Omegasoapification" in it. This one is only difficult if you don't have the support of the chemist, which can be solved, as always, with your broom your nice manners.
2. Obtain all the 10 different reagents. These aren't usually difficult to find - Most are pretty common, in fact. Make use of the chemistry guide, drinks guide, and plants to know what are you looking for and where. Some reagents may be trickier; For example, pump-up (Mix of epinephrine + coffee), which, while it is in the reaction guide, it is not in the chemistry guide, bluespace dust or monkey powder, which have to be obtained by grinding blue-space crystals
and monkey cubes 
respectively, or lizard wine, 
which needs ethanol and a lizard tail. Pray the recipe you are stuck with doesn't contain a chemical too extravagant; The recipe will always have a single chemical that is noticeably harder to get.
3. Don't look for chemicals in their listed order, nor from easier to hardest nor hardest to easiest - The fastest way to obtain them all is to separate them by zone. Look for those that involve plants first, followed by chemistry, so that when you come back to botany the plants are done growing, then go to the bartender for drinks. Your time is precious, so be practical and plan ahead for the fastest strat.
4. Remember that you are not alone in this. While you are finding the more obtuse items, leave requests with botanists, bartenders and chemists; Each will do their job to obtain their respective chemicals at their own pace for you, and it won't be as much of bother for them as individuals, since it's one or two chemicals at most.
5. (optional) Make Ephedrine + tea at chemistry as soon as you can to gain extreme speed and reach places thrice as fast. Use the following recipe before chemist kicks ya out (10 welding fuel + 10 carbon + 25 hydrogen + 5 nitrogen + 15 ethanol - 10u + 25 hydrogen + 25 sugar).
Advanced Broom Wielding: The best friend of the good janitor
The average janitor will often depend on the trashbag
to dispose of waste surrounding the floors of the station; However, good janitors will have their ability level outpace the slow and inconvenient limitations of the garbage bag, due to it not being able to fit large objects, having to hang it in either the janicart
and the bag
- How to maneuver your broom
Your broom is the perfect tool to quickly clean loose garbage. It's fast and practical, and once you learn how to use it properly you can leave rooms clean in no time.
While pushing items with dual-wield is faster for large areas such as main halls, switching to single-wield in smaller rooms helps avoid accidentally pushing trash over a table or against a corner or wall, causing you to waste your time wrangling it back. If the garbage gets stuck against a corner or wall, walk over the pile,
pick it up and throw it away from the wall, you cavemanstand on top of the trash, look at the direction you want to push by either left-clickingat said direction or using
Shift+WASD, and click on the tile you are standing on to sweep it away (preferably in single-wield, if you misclick your sprite the damage dealt will be a third of a dual-wield). Once you have gathered all the trash onto a tile, sweep it towards a disposal binor maintenance
Wise janitors from far lands have also begun to employ recyclers
(found at Waste disposal) as a transporteable disposal unit to remove garbage even faster, completely safe around crew members unless emagged, Deconstruct to move it around and rebuild where needed, great for extreme cases where the station is a pigsty.
- Fight malice and vile ruffians to keep the integrity of the station
Your duty as a janitor is not only to clean and wipe everyone's ass, but also to prevent filthiness from occurring and spreading in the first place. Your trusty broom when dual wielded can do almost as much damage as a spear 
(no, seriously). So use it, the inventory of experienced janitors don't need anything apart from cleaning and maintenance tools.
Protect your foolish and careless workers with your life, slay the helpless ruffians
who, without fear or shame, murder and torment the innocent, yet spare mercy upon those who, while vile and scummy, can still be corrected and cleansed from their sins. Do not dirty your hands by taking their life, hit them black and blue with your broom, and just before they die, show them mercy. Even if they will come back for vengeance, keep your heart clean of sin at any times, regardless of how much of a rabid dog you are facing. Inspire fear among your foes, and become a formidable warrior of the broom, defeat one lightbulb breaker after another until you die or the round ends with a sane station. Or forget all of that flowery bullshit and work your 9 to 5 shift by the books, Security gets paid the big bucks to fight crime, not you.
“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” ―Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Ghetto cleaning grenades and grenade modification
Grenades don't necessarily need to have smoke or foam to be able to spread chemicals over an area - If they do not have a dispersal method like smoke or foam, they will instead splash their contents. This effect is usually seen as the result of a failed reaction; However, any chemical inside a grenade will be splashed across a considerably large radius, depending on the total amount of materials in it, and if the chemical inside it has any effects when splashed, like acid, water or space cleaner, the effects will be the same as if you sprayed it. Meaning you can technically make space cleaner grenades with just space cleaner and a bit of water!
Check out the guide for grenades before you attempt to toy with them.
- Mass-production cheap cleaning grenades
- Make a wired grenade casing and collect two beakers.
- With a dropper extract 5 units of space cleaner from your spray bottleand move it into a beaker.
- Fill the remaining space in the beakers with water
- Put inside the grenade, screwdriver
- Activate the grenade, for all the cleaning ability of a standard cleaner grenade with twice the slipped tiles!
- Metal foam cleaning-Mod
- Use wirecutters
on a smart metal foam grenade (found at EVA and engineering) - Use a wrench
on the wireless grenade casingto get the two beakers out - Extract 5 units of fluorosulphuric acid and replace with 5 units of space cleaner using a ChemMaster3000
- (Optional) If you want to get rid of garbage quickly, you can instead take 5-10 units from the metal foam (Blue beaker) Or aluminum (Grey beaker) and replace it with the space cleaner. The lack of metal foam leaves unreacted fluorosulphuric acid that is splashed all around, dissolving both organic and inorganic matter.
- Shove both containers back in the grenade
- Put inside the grenade, screwdriver
- Activate the grenade, for all the cleaning ability of a standard cleaner grenade, with twice the emergency repair supplies wasted!
- Ghetto EZ-Clean grenade making
- Extract all of a metal foam grenade's fluorosulphuric acid using a ChemMaster3000
- Use wirecutters on space cleaner grenade
- Use a wrench on the wireless grenade casingto get the two beakers out
- Transfer the two beakers' contents into large beakers
- Add the contents of the smart metal foam grenade's beakers to the large beakers as well. Do NOT mix the Fluorosurfactant with water while doing this, you WILL melt your face and deadchat WILL laugh at you.
Take in account that you can choose to remove a part of the Fluorosurfactant to reduce how far the foam spreads - The less foam used, the more reagent will be delivered into a person's system. If you instead don't want anybody to be too damaged, you can reduce the amount of acid in the beakers, so that they are even more diluted - The garbage you want to melt will still be melted because, unlike people, it can't move.
Conspicuously Clean Floors
As a traitor you're going to have a hard time Fun time. Although you are capable of cleaning up your evidence and prints, you have little access to the station. The best you can do is throw water in front of your target so he falls, drag him into the nearest maintenance tunnel, and beat him dead with your mop a fire extinguisher. Be practical your broom, dual handed it becomes a dangerous weapon.
Your garbage bag is handy for hiding objects in, as it's rarely checked during a search. It can also become the perfect weapon, with certain keybindings you can become a shard shuriken throwing machine.
A bear trap can slow someone until someone else is kind enough to remove it from their leg. You don't need a low light area to hide it, you can place it under an object with a large sprite such as a backpack or pizza box, or you can just leave it uncovered and wait for the inevitable runner to zoom into it without time to notice it and stop.
Your light replacer can also be used to set deadly traps. Emagging your light replacer will make all lights you replace be rigged with plasma, causing them to explode when they are turned on. Be cautious though, replacing an active with an emagged-light replacer will instantly cause the light bulb to explode! Turn off the light first!
Your galoshes and spray bottle/mop can be used with water to create visible slippery tiles that cause reasonably long stuns on those who run across them, without slipping you. You can also use your galoshes and your cleaner grenades (which you can order more of through cargo) to create a large area that cannot be crossed by anyone but hulks, traitors with noslips, and you. Anyone caught on the foam area will not be able to move until it disperses without slipping. You can cross the foam and walk into someone to slip them, provided you're moving them onto a foam tile. The foam will stun them long enough to handcuff them, choke them, beat them and cause more knockdowns, or remove their headset.
Your galoshes are no-slips with a small slowdown and it's suspicious of you not to be wearing them. Beg the Hop for chem access ("for more space cleaner") or break in and fill stuff with lube. Your backpack water tank and spray-bottle can be filled with pepper-spray at the arrivals checkpoint. Just look at those TC savings!
You can often ask the Head of Personnel for more access to clean. This may get you into the department your target works in. You can sometimes dodge a search by claiming you're just there to clean.
You have maintenance as a janitor, despite the fact you're probably not going to clean there. Most positions don't have maintenance. Use this to your advantage. You also have an escape chute in your custodial closet (your disposal), and a back door that leads into maintenance.
You can fill your bucket full of chemicals to to dip your mop in them, CLF3 makes you able to fire-spiral the hull into breaching. Acid makes stuff melt or make the stuff people wear while standing on the puddles melt. Ants make an easily refillable trap that can't be bypassed without a container. Many chemicals with floor-splash applications work, all you need to do is experiment and wear the right gear when using certain mixtures. Yes, you can have multiple chemicals applied in one use.
