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| * If it looks like gas is leaking, use the [[Air_Scrubber#Air_Scrubber|air scrubber]] immediately. | | * If it looks like gas is leaking, use the [[Air_Scrubber#Air_Scrubber|air scrubber]] immediately. |
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| ==Requirements==
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| *[http://www.byond.com/download/ '''The BYOND client'''] - SS13 is hosted through BYOND, a primitive and admittingly rather sketchy-looking game suite from the 1990s and 2000s. It doesn't matter whether you choose to download of the .exe or the .zip; both give you the same client, compiler, and server software, though the .exe will allow you to join servers via byond:// links on the web.
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| **Since this is Goonstation, make sure you've the Beta version listed on the [[Main Page]].
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| *'''A BYOND account''' - While some games on BYOND allow you to join as a Guest, without having register, SS13 in general and the Goonstation version in particular don't. If you try to log in on a Goonstation server without an account, you'll get a "connection closed" error.
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| *'''Windows''' - The BYOND client only runs on Windows, though it is possible to run it on VMWare, [https://forum.ss13.co/showthread.php?tid=8297 WINE, and VirtualBox]. This is because...
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| *'''Internet Explorer 11+ or Equivalent''' - BYOND uses Internet Explorer for some of the HTML popups, among other things. Is that stupid? Yes, yes it is. Is it something we just have to deal with for now? Yes, yes it is.
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| *'''[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109 DirectX 10+]/Updated Graphics Drivers''' - SS13's graphics are far from cutting edge, but in order for lighting and other things to look the way it should, you need updated graphics drivers. Otherwise, it'll look something like [https://i.imgur.com/Uz9eQXE.png this].
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| Aside from that, there aren't any hardware requirements. For clients, there's no minimum CPU bus speed, ram size, etc.
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| ==Connecting to a Server==
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| ===Which Server Do I Connect to?===
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| ==Setting Up==
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| ===Character Preferences===
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| ===Declaring Ready===
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| ===Which Job Should I Join As?===
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| ==Playing==
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| ===Interaction & Inventory===
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| ====A Learning Exercise====
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| ===Chatting===
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| ===Common Scenarios===
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| ====Boredom====
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| ====Hull Breach====
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| You might notice a low O2 warning pop up in your HUD, indicating you're currently lacking oxygen. Sometimes, this is because some of disease or poison preventing you from breathing, but more often, it's because some part of the area you're in has been exposed to space/the ocean and has lost air. In these situations, to breathe, you must have what are called [[Terminology#Internals|internals]], which consist of:
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| *A breath mask [[Image:Breathmask.png]] or gas mask [[Image:Gasmask.png]]/[[Image:Egasmask.png]].
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| **Everyone starts with a breath mask in a box in their backpack. To take it out:
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| **#Click on your backpack [[Image:Backpack2.png]] to open up its inventory.
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| **#Click on the box's sprite [[Image:Box2.png]] to put it in your hand.
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| **#Click on the box [[Image:Box2.png]] to access its inventory.
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| **#Click on the hand slot that doesn't have the box to switch to the other hand.
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| **#Click on the breath mask [[Image:Breathmask.png]] to put it in your hand.
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| **Gas masks [[Image:Gasmask.png]]/[[Image:Egasmask.png]] are found in various closets scattered about maintenance tunnels, dark areas with unadorned floors and accessible via doors labelled "maintenance access".
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| *Some sort of tank of air or oxygen, frequently in form of an emergency oxygen tank [[Image:EmergencyOxygenTank.png]], gas tank (oxygen) [[Image:O2tank.png]], or gas tank (air mix) [[Image:AirMixTank.png]].
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| **If you're lucky, you might have an emergency oxygen tank [[Image:EmergencyOxygenTank.png]] in your box [[Image:Box2.png]]. You can extract from the box in the same way you extracted the breath mask.
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| ***Look in the [[Arrivals]] area for any closets, mini-closests, etc. that might have oxygen tanks.
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| ***If you're lucky, someone might have opened [[EVA]], in which case you can simply walk up to the tank dispenser [[Image:Tankdispenser.png]], click on it to open up its interface, click on the "Dispense" link right of the part that says "Oxygen", and then click on the oxygen tank [[Image:O2tank.png]] to pick it up.
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| **If you have access to maintenance areas (that is, you can go through doors marked "maintenance access"), you can find air tanks in emergency oxygen closets [[Image:EmergencyOxygenCloset.png]]. Goonstation's version of maintenance is, thankfully, much less confusing than codebases, but you can still get lost if you're new.
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| Just having this won't keep from suffocating. To configure your internals to start supplying air to you:
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| #Equip your breath mask [[Image:Breathmask.png]] or gas mask [[Image:Gasmask.png]]/[[Image:Egasmask.png]] by clicking on the mask slot [[Image:MaskSlot.png]] while the mask is in your active hand. The exact appearance depends on your HUD style, but each style uses a fairly similar icon.
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| #Make sure you're, at the very least, holding your air tank [[Image:EmergencyOxygenTank.png]] [[Image:O2tank.png]] [[Image:AirMixTank.png]].in one of your hands.
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| #Turn on the ''Toggle Tank Valve [name of air tank]'' button [[Image:AirOff.png]] in the top right. If you've set up your mask correctly, it should change from [[Image:AirOff.png]] to [[Image:AirOn.png]] Again, exact appearance depends on your HUD style choice, but the icon is always either in the top left or middle right.
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| ====Injury====
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| ==Powering the station: the geothermal capture system==
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| ===All about Hotspots===
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| These quakes cause particular effects within a certain radius of the center
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| ===Hunting for & Centering Hotspots: The Hard Part===
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| For example, if you plop a rod northwest of the your previous spot and get an estimate of 8 when your previous one was 9, you should continue northwest. Conversely, if it's 10, you should head the opposite direction, southeast, and if it's 9 again, you should try another direction entirely.
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| ====Overlapping Hotspots====
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| With a bit of intuition and some simple math, you can still decipher where the centers are. If you manage to find a corner of one hotspot where there isn't overlap (that is, readings of 10 and nothing above that), you could intuit the center based on which corner it is (i.e. if you've found the northwest corner of a hotspot, then the center is 10 tiles to the southeast.) From there, since you know where one hotspot is and thus how far you are its center at any point, you can use to decipher the dowsing rod readings. For example, if you get an estimate of 5 and know that there's a hotspot 3 tiles directly north of you, then that means there's another hotspot 2 tiles away in some direction.
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Plasma Research (generally known as Toxins) is where scientists intricately study the properties and capabilities of plasma. They do this by superheating plasma and using it to build bombs capable of ripping giant hull breaches into the station and killing everyone. Or, they might just cause an uncontrollable plasma fire in the escape arm or release super-heated carbon dioxide in the hallways, frying people from within. Generally only bad things happen in toxins, which is what makes it such a beloved part of the station.
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Navigating the Gasworks
Mixing
The T-shaped section of piping with three ports and valves is for combining the contents of multiple canisters into one homogeneous mix.
Heating
The combustion chambers is/are vacuum sealed room(s) where gas can be piped in, then ignited with a spark by pressing the igniter switch. The resulting hot mixture of gas can be pumped out of the chamber and into empty canisters through the adjacent outlet valves or used to heat whatever gases were feed into the chamber pipes. If the gas is a dud or the experimenting is finished, it can also be vented into space via the Combustion Vent switch.
Cooling
Disposal
Storage & Other
The storage room contains air scrubbers, a tank dispenser, and canisters of various types of gases, most notably, plasma and oxygen.
To test your bombs, use the special simulator equipment (for transfer valve bombs) or alternatively blow up something in the debris field.
How not to die horribly
- Always wear internals.
- Don't open any of the canisters, unless there is a tank attached.
- Do not leave any lit welders around.
- Move any welding fuel tanks out of the lab.
- Don't open a valve if you don't know what it'll do.
- If it looks like gas is leaking, use the air scrubber immediately.
