# Snow map {%hackmd @ZeWaka/dark-theme %} A lot of people would really like a snow map. Herb's thread covers most of the points for having a terrestrial map, and I really hope OldPotato's map gets finished. That said, this is my own proposal for one. I've made a forum post about it [here](https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=22202) to gather opinions ### The quad shape ![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Skb5bP0qp.png) This design features a whole four domes. - The domes are (in clockwise order) bridge/sec, engineering, civilian, and medsci. - Plotted it out with two airbridges per connection, possibly so that pipes and wires could run between the two and be "shielded". - Even if one airbridge is destroyed/blocked off, you can go the long way around. Or just walk outside idk. - Sitting in the centre is a snow garden. Could have penguins or something. - The rectangular structures around the domes would be auxillary structures, containing for instance garages or being docks for shuttles. ## Setting Snowy, with snow layers on the floor. High snow buildup would impede movement, but could be temporarily cleared by using shovels of some kind to form paths. Footsteps would form in the snow as more builds up. The air would be thin and icy, mainly nitrogen with extremely low oxygen content. Nothing as fast acting as hard vacuum or co2 atmosphere, but still something you'd need internals and winter gear for. It'd mainly be snowy grass/dirt outdoors, with some dead trees and bushes maybe, possibly an ice lake to slip on. And over time, all external surfaces would accumulate snow, making outside exterior traversal annoying but not impossible. The mining level and debris field would still be accessible by taking a mining shuttle, or maybe a specialist shuttle to the space diner. No ice trench for you. Pods would still function, but they would get stuck in snow, incentivizing you to portal straight to the alternate z levels. ## Departments - Engine would probably be a TEG. Might as well use the cold, right? Nuclear engine is another alternative option, but NOT a singularity. ## Use cases This map most likely would not be for rotation, but for gimmick rounds, similarly to how wrestlemap and density2 and crash are used. It's a good setting for some kind of event where you have to fight off invaders of some kind, approaching through the snow. Another alternative is a winter olympics event of some kind. ## Name? No idea lol. Naming is something i do last in the planning process usually (e.g. aetherion). Could be anything really. Accepting suggestions. ## older designs (in order) ### Original Shape ![Screenshot 2024-01-19 004511](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJ1k808ta.png) 3 habitation domes, connected by retractable air-bridges in a straight horizontal line. The central one is for the bridge and the civilian department, the west wing for engineering and cargo and mining, and the east wing for med-sci and such. Now consider an optional bonus: it's multi-story, with a second floor which you can walk around. Sort of like a roof level. Would be primarily used as maints and/or staff common rooms for each department. 2 station z levels. Maintenance catwalks that run across the tops of the roofs as well, both internal and external ones. Goonstation doesn't have any multi z stations at present, probably due to the amount of bugginess they had when first implemented elsewhere, and while Gehenna sort of was meant to be that, progress on it is unlikely to continue in this codebase. So it would be interesting to try as a proof of concept. ### Three pronged design ![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/S1j_R6oFp.png) It's been pointed out that the straight line design has some flaws, such as being way too easy to cut off certain areas and being similar to samedi. This new design has the three domes arranged in a triangle. Should be better in theory. However, you run into big problems with the diagonal airbridges Airbridges should only run in cardinal directions, so a new design was needed.
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Solaris Station

hello, im tyrant. I made cable spawners and pipe spawners and also fixed staffie slots having over 6 slots display at a time and sort of made bouquets. I’m proud to present my original station concept: Solaris Station.Acronym could be like Stellar oscillaton light aided resonance in stars or some nonsense if necessary, but it doesn’t need an acronym

10/23/2023
Broken bones and crutches and stuff

Once when playing medical I thought to myself, huh, these gamers just get healed up and then go on their way, no follow up appointments or suffer any real long term effects (mostly). Quite different to how real life treatments are, with month long recoveries and stuff. Then I thought hey what if bones broke and you had to get casts and stuff. Tada. Okay so what's being added Each limb would get the ability to get broken (not torso or heads though because that'd be complex. Well, maybe ribs could get broken, but that's it). The broken limb would then debuff you in terms of movement speed and dexterity, possibly giving you more brute damage if you keep trying to use those limbs. The break doesn't add damage by itself (unless you abuse it as mentioned), and using a brute automender continuously until 0 brute health wouldn't repair the break. The break itself would show up on a basic scan, or even an examine text.so it turns out that all /obj/item/parts i.e. body parts already sorta have bones (and so do /obj/item/organs??). So I don't have to actually code much of anything for this bit other than when the actual breaks happen plus some miscellaneous tidy up. To heal a broken limb, you need to set the broken limbs in place (not clear on how that'd be done yet, maybe just help intent on the limb, causing damage and pain at the time, or maybe just automatically assumed) and then put a cast on it. For regular casts, you'd apply fibreglass bandages which would set and make a cast on the offending limb. The cast would then have to be removed after a set amount of time by some kind of saw. The fibreglass bandages would come out of a medical fabricator, and there'd be some lying around at roundstart. An alternative to a cast would be a splint, which would provide a little less support and heal a little slower, but it'd be able to be reused, unlike the bits of cast that get sawn off. Provides a few more options for doctors. There'd be different ones for arms and legs though, which is a bit of a downside.

4/15/2023
Solar radiation

The idea of Solaris Station is that it's being bombarded with solar radiation very strongly. This doc outlines in great detail what that entails. The actual radiation Current idea involves new turfs/walls. Assume the star is to the south of the map. Hot space, which is unshielded space. The diffraction shock cone, which separates hot space and cold space with a boundary. It would also have to curve inwards using some funky maths in order to accurately simulate the behaviour of light diffracting around solid objects. Non Knife edge diffraction is what applies here. cold space (regular space) which would have to interact with the diffraction shock cone in new ways. Heat Shielding, which is a plasma cooled solid wall which blocks the radiation coming from the South of the map Every other tile which is not boxed within the refractive shock cone and heat shielding (and the north edge of the map) needs to be either hot space or violently changed by radiation in some way. This involves basically igniting most items, vaporizing a lot of things, and burning turfs. A lot of work.

2/24/2023
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