Description

Adds the Plasmamen as a playable species. Plasmamen are a skeletal species who depend on Plasma to live, and oxygen is highly fatal to them. Being exposed to oxygen will set them on fire, unless they wear their envirosuits.

Species Description

PROS:

• Takes 15% less Slash and 25% less Piercing damage.
• Immune to Radiation and Cold Damage.
• Does not have blood and cannot bleed out.
• Does not experience hunger or thirst.
• Comes with an envirosuit helmet that provides a flashlight and welding protection.
• Due to being skeletons, they can consume Milk to gain a positive moodlet and slowly heal Brute, Heat, Shock, and Caustic damage.
• Can consume Plasma to gain a bigger positive moodlet and heal every damage type faster than Milk, except Cellular.

CONS:

• Takes 50% more Blunt and 50% more Heat damage.
• Being on fire passively fades out half as much, and stop, drop, and rolling is half as effective.
• Can only breathe plasma, and oxygen is highly toxic when inhaled.
• Being exposed to oxygen sets them on fire. This can be prevented by the following:
  • Wearing envirosuits, EVA suits or hardsuits with full-body coverage.
  • Using a stasis bed prevents them from self-igniting even without an envirosuit.
• Cannot eat, drink, or consume pills without taking off their envirosuit helmet.

SPECIAL:

• Plasmamen speak the language Calcic, a language they share with Skeletons.

Shitmed Integration

Plasmamen are the first ever species designed with Shitmed in mind, with one of their core mechanics (self-ignition) powered entirely by Shitmed.

Whether or not a Plasmaman ignites from oxygen exposure depends only on their body parts. A Plasmaman with only their head exposed will not burn as much as an entirely naked Plasmaman. You can transfer Plasmaman body parts to non-Plasmamen through surgery so that they also ignite from oxygen exposure. Meanwhile, a Plasmaman with a non-Plasmaman head can expose their head without self-igniting.

Most Plasmaman organs can be butchered with a knife to gain a single plasma sheet, which can make organ harvesting on Plasmamen a worthwhile endeavor especially if you're running low on plasma. Plasmaman body parts (legs, arms, hands, torso, etc.) can also be juiced in a reagent grinder to extract some plasma.

Plasmamen will have two combat traits, Plasmafire Punch and Toxoplasmic Punch, that increase their melee damage but damage their hand body parts on each melee hit. This is an example of my intended theme of Plasmamen in combat sacrificing their health to deal devastating damage, like setting themselves on fire to spread the fire to others.

Health doll after punching with Plasmafire Punch several times

Loadouts

The CharacterItemGroup prototype has two new fields: MinItems for the minimum amount of items required from this group and Requirements for the requirements a character needs to be able to select any item from the group. The items in CharacterItemGroup.Items can now set a Priority field which determines their priority in being selected when adding items to satisfy MinItems.

This allows Plasmamen to be guaranteed to spawn with the gear necessary for their survival, one envirosuit and one plasma tank, even without the user touching loadouts. They start with the emergency plasma tank, but can choose to buy higher-capacity plasma tanks with loadout points to replace it.

I still need to deal with updating the UI code to take into account minimum/maximum items, and group-based requirements 😅

Decided to just use job starting gear stuff to give plasmaman-necesssary gear.

Technical Details

This also cherry-picks space-wizards/space-station-14#28595 as a quality-of-life feature to ensure Plasmamen keep their internals on upon toggling their helmet with a breath mask on.

TODO

RELEASE-NECESSARY

• Port more envirosuits / enviro helms (job-specific) and their sprites
• Remove breath masks from default plasmaman loadouts because the envirohelms already allow them to breathe internals
• Change default plasma tank to higher-capacity version
• Prevent plasmamen from buying jumpsuits and helmets other than envirosuits
• [ ] Client UI update for loadout groups min/max items and default items
• Plasmaman-specific mask sprites from TG
• Disable too cold alert for plasmamen
• Create/port sprites for these jobs
  • Courier
  • Forensic Mantis
  • Corpsman (Resprite security envirosuit)
  • Prison Guard (Resprite security envirosuit)
  • Magistrate (No Paradise envirosuit so use new colorable envirosuit)
  • Blueshield (Port from Paradise and tg-ify?)
  • NanoTrasen Representative (No Paradise envirosuit so use new colorable envirosuit)
  • Martial Artist (use new colorable envirosuit and make pure white)
  • Musician (use new colorable envirosuit)
  • Reporter (use new colorable envirosuit)
  • Zookeeper (use new colorable envirosuit)
  • Service Worker (use new colorable envirosuit)
  • Gladiator
  • Technical Assistant
  • Medical Intern
  • Acolyte / Research Assistant
  • Security Cadet
  • Assistant
    • You know what. These intern jobs are fine. They can use their normal equivalent's envirosuits.
  • Logistics Officer (use new colorable envirosuit)
• Adjust sprites to be closer to actual job
  • Captain (Shift color to be closer to ss14 captain)
  • CMO (Remove yellow accents)
  • Port HoP envirogloves sprite
• Add starting gear for paradox anomaly, and antags and ghost roles
  • Paradox
  • Nukies
  • Disaster victims
  • Listening post operative
• Make all envirosuit helmets have a glowing (unshaded) visor
• Refactor conditional gear stuff to live only in StartingGearPrototype with SubGear List<ProtoId<StartingGearPrototype>> field and List<Requirement> field for sub-gear requirements
• unique sprite for self-extinguish verb
• Envirosuit extinguish visuals
• Improve plasmaman organ extraction experience
  • Body parts now give 1 plasma sheet each, while Torso gives 3
  • Organs can be juiced to get plasma
• Make envirohelm flashlights battery-powered
• Plasmamen visuals
  • Grayscale sprites for color customization, and set default skintone color to Plasmaman classic skintone
  • Plasmaman eye organ sprite
• Add basic loadouts
• Add way to refill envirosuit charges (refill at medical protolathe after some research)

Low Importance

Media

Chat bubble

Plasmaman Body

Skeleton Language

(Bonus) Skeleton chat bubble

Guidebook Entry

Changelog

🆑 Skubman

• add: The Plasmamen have arrived as the latest playable species. They need to breathe plasma to live, and a special jumpsuit to prevent oxygen from igniting them. In exchange, they never bleed, never need food or water, nor take damage from cold and radiation. Read more about the Plasmaman species in their Guidebook entry.
• tweak: Internals are no longer toggled off if you take your helmet off but still have a gas mask on and vice versa.
• tweak: Paradox Anomalies will now spawn with the original's loadout items.