Xenobiology Ideas

[Kurfursten]

I've been waiting for Byond to get un-DDOSed for weeks so I thought I'd just put my ideas here so I don't forget them. Some day I will come back and do at least some of these. You know, if BYOND lives.

• Slime Tech. Deconstruct cores to get slime tech of a tier equal to the number of steps from grey. Cyan/Orange/Metal/Purple = 1 for example. Since techs start at level 1, you would actually need something like dark purple, green, or gold to level up to 2. Level 3 would require adamantine/bluespace/oil/black. On the protolathe, I would make a new category for xenobiology that includes the temperature gun and slime bag. Easy level of code.
• Fast Chutes: Easy to code - multitool chutes to change their delay to instant. It would be also nice if there were a way to tag the monkey cubes to open when placed inside instead of having to water them by hand. Needs mapping to set the default time to 0 though.
• Frost Baton: Slimes are uniquely shitty to use guns against because they latch on to people. Why don't we have a melee option that does what the temperature gun does?? This will be very easy to code and a big quality of life upgrade. (Slime Tech 2)
• Portable Slime Extractor: Wouldn't it be nice to have a slime bag that you can just slap on a dead slime and it instantly grinds it and places it inside? This is basically the furnace bag for miners, but slime. Very easy to code. (Slime Tech 3)
• Core Transmuter: I think this is the only controversial idea but I think it would be a huge boon. The idea is you feed it a core and it learns that core permanently, then you can transmute any core of an equal tier into that color. So for example, assuming you have made black slimes before, if you are farming adamantine slimes you can trade them in for blacks. I would say this should start in xenobiology near their other machines. Moderate coding, plus needs sprite.

From my time playing xenobiology this year, I feel this would alleviate a ton of the pain points and reinvigorate slime farming.

[aacovski]

Special Chutes

Maybe just use multitool to set the delay, shouldn't be difficult

[Kurfursten]

That's a good idea, I can't think of any reason why it couldn't just be a multitool feature.