Adds the spiderbot fabricator: a machine R&D can build that allows ghosts to respawn as spiderbots #37375
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The spiderbot fabricator is a device built by R&D that can be activated by ghosts to spawn there as a spiderbot. It is similar to the MoMMI fabricator, except it must be fed metal sheets to work and can actually be built by players. It can also be used by mice by clicking on it to become a mouse-spiderbot (which is apparently a thing).
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What kind of brain goes into it? |
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A posibrain, which means they get the red "Do not harm the station or its crew" text upon respawning for whatever that is worth. |
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it's a bit roundabout but spiderbots can already be posessed by ghosts: spawn as a mouse and then climb in |
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Mice can't be made into cyborgs though. |
so... free posibrains? |
Yes, that's the idea. Though they're not free, they use 10 metal each. The idea is that ghosts can use this to reincarnate into a posibrain at their leisure, but also get some kind of a body to go with it so they aren't completely helpless if there's no one to attend to them. If there's a roboticist around, the idea is that they remove the posibrain from the spiderbot and put it into something more useful. |
https://ss13.moe/wiki/index.php?title=Guide_to_Robotics#Stationary_Assembly_MMIs |
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not gonna force you to make a new brain type, but it's something to consider that this lets you print posibrains for 10 metal |
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Better idea would be making you load it with empty posibrains (or the materials required to make them). You could also make upgraded parts reduce the cost to make a brain. |
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Okay now it needs posibrains inserted instead of metal. This means the spiderbots themselves are free, but I want to keep the machine simple and having to insert 5 different materials would not be simple. (Now it lets you print posibrains for 0.2667 metal, 0.2667 glass, 0.5 silver, 0.5 gold and 0.5 plasma) |
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that's a smarter option, good idea |
What this does
Adds the spiderbot fabricator: a new machine built by R&D that allows ghosts to spawn in it as spiderbots. It's similar to the MoMMI fabricator found on the derelict, except it makes spiderbots, requires inserted posibrains to work, and can actually be built by players. It can also be clicked by mice to turn themselves into a mouse-spiderbot, which is apparently a thing.
Right now it also looks exactly the same as the MoMMI fabricator:
Right now it's a machine board that requires Programming 4 and Engineering 4 to print out of the circuit imprinter, but no special materials. I am open to changing this so that it requires silver or gold or something to build on the protolathe if requested.
Why it's good
Someone mentioned on the Discord that letting the roboticist pre-build inactive borgs that ghosts can enter into at their leisure (similar to diona nymphs) would be a neat feature. I ran with that and made this instead, because
How it was tested
Did research, printed board, built machine, spawned in it as a ghost, clicked on it as a mouse.
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