Nanitemania: more nanite programs and stuff!

[Absolucy]

About The Pull Request

Ports:

• [Ready][Ready]Adds the Nanite Replication Protocols node to BEPIS tgstation/tgstation#48882
• Adds a set of nanite storage protocols as a Bepis research, plus small nanite adjustments tgstation/tgstation#54710

This adds a whole bunch of new nanite stuff!

Protocol Nanites

Protocols are unique nanite programs, that allow for you to 'upgrade' some part of your nanites, usually with some tradeoff or downside.
There are currently two different types of protocols - replication and storage - and only one protocol of each type can be active at the same time.

Replication Protocols

• Kickstart: The nanites focus on early growth, heavily boosting replication rate for a few minutes after the initial implantation
• Factory: The nanites build a factory matrix within the host, gradually increasing replication speed over time. The factory decays if the protocol is not active.
• Pyramid: The nanites implement an alternate cooperative replication protocol that is more efficient as long as the saturation level is above 80%.
• Eclipse: While the host is asleep or otherwise unconscious, the nanites exploit the reduced interference to replicate more quickly.

Storage Protocols

• Hive: The nanites use a more efficient grid arrangement for volume storage, increasing maximum volume in a host.
• Zip: The nanites are disassembled and compacted when unused, greatly increasing the maximum volume while in a host. However, the process slows down the replication rate slightly.
• Free-Range: The nanites discard their default storage protocols in favor of a cheaper and more organic approach. Reduces maximum volume, but increases the replication rate.
• S.L.O.P: Completely disables the safety measures normally present in nanites, allowing them to reach much higher saturation levels, but at the risk of causing internal damage to the host.

New Programs

Remote Signaler

This program, when triggered, sends a signal/code just as a remote signaler would!

Remote Signal Receiver

Triggers a nanite code whenever a remote signaler signal is received.

Dermal Toggle

Dermal button, but it's an on/off switch.

Vampiric Synthesis

Allows the nanites to consume your own blood in exchange for nanite regen.

This will suck you dry if you let it, please combine it with the blood sensor or a toggle!!

Balanced so that you can't cheese it with the blood regen program - combining blood regen + vampire will put you at both a nanite volume and blood level deficit.

I imagine this would work better as an 'emergency' nanite volume source - if you really need healing, and have blood to spare, well, let the vampires feast?

Blood Sensor

Senses blood level. Pretty simple.

Nutrition Sensor

Senses nutrition level. Also pretty simple.

Nanite Blade

LOCKED BEHIND ILLEGAL TECH

Other Changes

• Passive nanite regen now gets a 0.1/sec boost whenever Harmonic Nanite Tech is researched.
• Metabolic Synthesis no longer has a built-in limiter, use nutrition sensors for that... please don't nugget your local oozeling.
• You can now combine rules, resulting in more logic being possible, although you can't nest it too deeply.
• Nanite cloud controllers now have popup bubble messages whenever you do an action
• Infective exo-locomotion shouldn't be completely useless anymore.
• Nanite communication remotes are now actually buildable.

Why It's Good For The Game

Allows for more creativity and utility with nanites, especially with the signaler nanites.

Testing Photographs and Procedure

Screenshots&Videos

Remote Signaler

Remote Signal Receiver

Rule Combining

Zip Protocol

Nanite Blade

Cloud bubble messages

Nutrition sensor

Vampiric synthesis

Changelog

🆑 Absolucy, XDTM
add: Added Nanite Protocols, special programs that allow for you to 'upgrade' some part of your nanites, usually with some tradeoff or downside.
add: Added Blood Sensor and Nutrition Sensor nanite programs.
add: Added the Nanite Blade program to nanites, which allows you to manifest an armblade similar to the xenobio one, locked behind illegal tech.
add: Added the Vampiric Synthesis program to nanites, which allows you to generate nanite volume using your own blood volume. This WILL suck you dry if you let it, please use this with a blood sensor or something! No, you can't cheese it with Blood Regeneration.
add: Added the Remote Signaler program to nanites, which functions similarly to, well, a remote signaler!
add: Added the Remote Signal Receiver program to nanites, which allows you to receive remote signaler signals and translate them into nanite signals!
add: Added the Dermal Toggle program to nanites, which is similar to a dermal button, but it's an on/off toggle instead.
add: You can now combine nanite rules, for more advanced logic!
add: Nanite Cloud Controllers now have neat lil' popup bubbles whenever you do an action on 'em.
balance: Researching harmonic nanite tech now provides a 0.1/sec passive regen rate boost to all nanites!
tweak: Metabolic Synthesis no longer has a built in-limiter, and can consume ALL your nutrition if you allow it to.
balance: Infective exo-locomotion shouldn't be completely useless anymore.
add: Nanite communication remotes, which can send text communications to certain nanite programs, are now actually buildable
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[Tsar-Salat]

👀

[Absolucy]

@Tsar-Salat fixed, sorry, that was an oversight

[JixS4v]

make nanites programmable in graphs like circuits

[Isy232]

Very much like

[Pirill]

Neat stuff!

[Tsar-Salat]

Damn.

[DrDuckedGoose]

Bro really said equivalent exchange #9393

[Absolucy]

@DrDuckedGoose Nope. Just cleaning up old PRs that probably weren't ever going to see the light of day anyways ;)

[DrDuckedGoose]

Fair enough 👍

[JixS4v]

nooooo the best PR

[Absolucy]

Eh, I'll reopen this if people actually want it...

[JixS4v]

Would be cool to add BCI-nanite interaction if you're up for it, like a wiremod component that can activate/deactivate/trigger nanites

[Absolucy]

@JixS4v Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about circuits, much less BCIs, so that'd be a bit difficult...

[Rukofamicom]

This seems good to me but unfortunately I lack the experience with nanites to leave a review in good faith.

[PowerfulBacon]

Does this increase the maximum number of nanites that a body can have? I thought the limit was 200

[Rukofamicom]

[23:31:05] Runtime in stack_trace.dm,7: design /datum/design/nanite_comm_remote with icon 'icons/obj/device.dmi' missing state 'nanite_comm_remote'
proc name: stack trace (/datum/proc/stack_trace)
src: design (/datum/asset/spritesheet/research_designs)
call stack:
design (/datum/asset/spritesheet/research_designs): stack trace("design /datum/design/nanite_co...")
design (/datum/asset/spritesheet/research_designs): create spritesheets()
design (/datum/asset/spritesheet/research_designs): register()
design (/datum/asset/spritesheet/research_designs): New()
load asset datum(/datum/asset/spritesheet/resea... (/datum/asset/spritesheet/research_designs))
Assets (/datum/controller/subsystem/assets): Initialize(846650)
Master (/datum/controller/master): Initialize(10, 0, 1)

Just wanted to highlight this is a legitimate failure

[Absolucy]

Does this increase the maximum number of nanites that a body can have? I thought the limit was 200

@PowerfulBacon Yes, the limit can be increased, albeit with tradeoffs (like reduced volume regen rates). Also, the default limit is 500, not 200.

@Rukofamicom I'll fix this up later when I'm more focused, dw.

[PowerfulBacon]

Do wiki changes and ping for merge. If any of these are overpowered or just annoying in game then they can be removed in the future

[Absolucy]

Wiki update ready; will move to main page after merge

https://wiki.beestation13.com/view/User:Absolucy/Guide_to_Nanites