Jobs
This is a list of every possible job to choose.
Please note!
While the job descriptions do reflect some actual truths or common behaviors/occurances, they are mainly jokes and are not the actual job description. They should not be taken as actual instructions or advice. Please don't randomly fight people as a staff assistant or build traps as a mechanic. Unless you're an antagonist of course.
In addition, if you're on the Goon Roleplay server, you're expected to respect your job's boundaries and do your associated job duties. Mind you, you aren't expected to do them perfectly or know everything there is to them, just put a good ol' college effort. You're not gonna, say, get banned for not knowing how reattach a limb as a doctor. See RP Rules in general and Rules #5 & #6 in particular for more details/explanations.
The regular Goonstation server is not subject to these restrictions, and you are thus allowed to do things not normally associated with your job, like repairing walls as a Chaplain or doing surgery as a Mechanic. Naturally, you aren't expected be perfect either, and most people there are perfectly okay with that. However, things still get iffy and complicated if you want to perform duties normally done by Security Officers, like hunt down antags; when in doubt, adminhelp (Hotkey: F1) for clarification. And, of course, the Rules still apply.
Civilian Jobs
These are jobs that contribute to the crew's overall performance and efficiency, sometimes rarely. On the latejoin "Select a Job" and Job Preferences menus, these jobs are colored light blue, with the exception of Clown, which gets a gaudy hot pink.
Civilian Jobs | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Staff Assistant | Produce mass quantities of bath salts in maint, be a nuisance, and ruin everything. Scavenge the station for |
Easy | Maintenance | |
Chef | Shout indecipherable gibberish at Botany. Deep-fry everything. Make non-Euclidean sandwiches. Place pies inside pies that contain pies. | Easy | Kitchen | |
Chaplain | Steal corpses for funerals. Fart on your bible. Never be around when you are actually needed. Hand out bibles to monkeys. Become the Buddhist-Jewish-Christian-Muslim-Hindu-Atheist-Satanist prophet the station needs. | Easy | Chapel, Morgue | |
Barman | Get drunk; shoot your sweet gun at your bar patrons. Get subsequently looted by |
Easy | Bar | |
Botanist | Completely ignore the chef's requests; start a grow-op. Click |
Easy to Medium | Hydroponics, Maintenance | |
Janitor | Clean already clean floors; whine about beatings. Stuff everything into your trash cart. Clean up crime scenes before Security has a chance to investigate. | Easy to Medium | Janitor's Closet, Medbay, Morgue, Maintenance | |
Clown | Trip on your own shoes; regret your existence immediately. Save the station when nobody expects it. Get beaten for your efforts. Bully cluwnes to compensate for your terrible job. Consider going back to law school. | H o n k ! | Maintenance |
Engineering Jobs
These jobs are charged with station upkeep and engineering support. On the latejoin "Select a Job" and Job Preferences menus, these jobs are colored orange yellow.
Engineering Jobs | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Mechanic | Ask nicely to scan the captain's energy gun, then run off with it. Suffocate while building a pod. Place Graviton traps all over the hallways. Become the ultimate hackerman. | Medium | Electronics, Maintenance, hack into everything | |
Engineer | Realize you have no idea how to start the engine, then use up all the plasma immediately and die in an explosion. Assault people who take insulated gloves. | Easy to Medium | Engineering, Maintenance, hack into everything | |
Miner | Become a blind Swedish Elvis after a mishap with radioactive ore. Lose your butt in an explosion, use it to make a custom pick. Run out of air. | Medium | Mining Department, Mining Outpost, Maintenance | |
Quartermaster | Buy bees and booze. Blow the budget on exotic trinkets. Point and stare at the tourists in the Cargo Bay. Hire workers and start up your own delivery company. | Medium | Cargo Bay, Maintenance
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Construction Worker | Convert half the station's flooring into wood and sand tiles. Wish you could convert the other half. Eagerly await your revamp. | Easy | Engineering, Maintenance |
Research Jobs
These jobs are charged with researching new, exciting technologies and breakthroughs as well as providing medical treatment. On the latejoin "Select a Job" and Job Preferences menus, these jobs are colored blue-purple/purple-blue.
Research Jobs | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Medical Doctor | Never heal anyone; whine when people take medkits. Practice brain surgery on yourself. Harvest monkey organs for cash. Join the round 30 minutes late just to find out you're the only doctor. Discover that Medbay has been looted and bombed. Perform a heart transplant while drunk and high. Focus all medical efforts on the Bar. | Medium | Medbay, Morgue, Pathology, Maintenance | |
Geneticist | Make volunteers Skeleton Swedish Elvis. Fight a losing battle against |
Easy-Medium | Medbay, Morgue, Pathology, Genetics, Maintenance | |
Roboticist | Steal all the butts for buttbots. Demand skulls for the skull throne. Give a botanist chainsaw arms. Get murdered by the Cyborgs you built. Build yourself a wife, leave her on the station when the escape shuttle arrives. | Medium | Medbay, Morgue, Pathology, Robotics, Maintenance | |
Scientist | Ignore the Artifact Lab; synthesize nerve agents and drugs without a gas mask. Steal the AI using Telescience. Heat the burn mix canister, burn to death in a massive fire. Test dangerous concoctions on monkeys. Gain the undying loyalty of staff assistants with triple meth. Attract the love and hate of everyone. Attempt to combine every drug into one pill. | Medium-Hard | Artifact Lab, Chemistry, Toxins, Research Sector, Teleporter Lab |
Command/Security Jobs
These jobs are the administration of the station. They manage the station and ensure everyone is safe and productive. On the latejoin "Select a Job" and Job Preferences menus, Security jobs are colored red, with the exception of the Nanotrasen Security Operative, which is blue, while Command ones are green.
Command/Security Jobs | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Security Officer | Do your job correctly; beat the utter shit out of the Clown. Arouse anger from those you've sworn to protect. Turn up dead and naked 20 minutes later and get farted on until you quit. Get the respect of a mall cop. | Underappreciated (Hard) | Security, Brig, Medbay, Morgue, Research Corridors, Chemistry, Maintenance, Hydroponics, Cargo Bay | |
Detective | Shoot at the Captain. Have your vital gear stolen by someone. Have one too many at the Bar. Monologue the farts of you and your crew. Force journalists and tourists to follow you around. | Easy to Hard | Detective's Office, Brig, Medbay, Morgue, Research Corridors, Maintenance | |
Nanotrasen Security Operative | Arrive to bring order to chaos, find you don't have enough order for all the chaos. Wind up just calling the escape shuttle instead, tickle the Clown with your gun to pass the time. | Medium to Hard | Make your own Captain-level ID (plus Head of Security's Office, Armory) | |
Chief Engineer | Make the station hotter than the surface of the Sun; make hella bank. Suffocate in areas you're too lazy to repair. | Medium | Engineering, Electronics, Cargo Bay, Mining Department, Mining Outpost, Bridge, EVA, Maintenance | |
Medical Director | Get less respect than a cardboard box. Anesthetize patients with your gun. |
Medium | Medbay, Genetics, Robotics, Morgue, Pathology, Bridge, EVA, Maintenance | |
Research Director | Sell "medicinal" drugs for cash. Make the Guardbuddies arrest everyone. Delete the network. Drug everyone so none may question your authority. Explode into spiders. | Medium to Hard | Research, Artifacts, Toxins, Chemistry, Telescience, Teleporter, Bridge, EVA, Maintenance | |
Communications Officer (Manta only) |
Play farty music over the radio. Establish yourself as a talk show host, find no one to talk to. Get blown up when someone bombs your office to take out the comms tower. | Easy | Bridge, EVA, Communications Office | |
Head of Security | Get rehired, remind everyone why you were fired in the first place. Stomp your hat. Put an end to any and all fun. | Nightmarish | Make your own Captain-level ID (plus Head of Security's Office, Armory) | |
Head of Personnel | Hand off your responsibilities to anyone willing. |
Medium to Hard | Make your own Captain-level ID | |
Captain | Shoot your cat. reprogram the AI and become Double Captain. Get laid in front of singularities. Confiscate all drugs, alcohol, and cash. Hand off your job to the clown as soon as trouble arrives. Promote Beepsky to Head of Security. Embezzle all of the payroll money. Make bee-harming illegal. | All-Access Staff Assistant (Medium to Hard) | Everything (minus Head of Security's Office, Armory) |
Antagonist Roles
These are the enemies of the station. They commit murder and outrageous acts of violence against the crew.
Some antags are so bad, they have their own game modes.
Antagonist Roles With a Mode of Their Own | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Traitor | Buy a glowy sword. Hit yourself with the glowy sword. Be the villain the station deserves. | Medium to Hard | Depends on job | |
Nuclear Operative | Speak over the radio two minutes in. Get shot by your own team. Explode before setting foot on the station. | Hard | Maintenance, unless you're an infiltrator | |
Wizard | Run around trying to kill everyone; get electrocuted by the AI. Whine, respawn, repeat. | Easy to Hard | Walk through walls | |
Changeling | Try to eat the chef's monkeys. Go loud, then get shoved in the gibber while on fire. | Easy to Hard | Depends on job, pry doors open (shambler) | |
Blob | Expand, destroy everything, absorb the crew. Attract plasma fires and pod lasers like a magnet. | All-consuming | Irrelevant | |
Gang leader | Spawn your closet outside Security. Create a drug cartel. Get beat with a mop for spray painting the AI. | Nightmarish | Depends on job | |
Gangster | Join the gang with the coolest hats. Brutally murder other bustas. | Medium | Depends on job | |
Revolutionary | Greytide to your heart's content. Attempt to bring the spirit of Che Guevera to the station, channel Maximilien Robespierre instead. | Easy to Hard | Depends on job | |
Spy Thief | Attempt to claim your bounty in the Bridge, only to find the captain waiting there with a gun. | Easy to Hard | Depends on job | |
Vampire | Stand in the Chapel. Bluhh!! | Easy to Hard | Depends on job |
Some antagonists don't have their own modes and thus less common. Others only appear under certain circumstances.
Antagonist Roles Without Their Own Mode | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Werewolf | Appearance: Mixed (Action) mode Run around with a top hat. Howl at the ice moon. |
Hard | Pry doors open | |
Wraith | Appearance: Traitor and Mixed (Action) modes Spook the crew's guts out. Get shot in the face when you manifest to gloat. Repeat once. |
Salty | Irrelevant | |
Wrestler | Appearance: Mixed (Action) mode Wrestle everybody and everything. Who needs that belt anyway? |
Medium | Depends on job | |
Predator | Appearance: Random event Hunt the crew for trophies. Get murdered by cyborgs in ten minutes or less. |
Hard | Pry doors open | |
Grinch | Appearance: Christmas season Destroy all the garland. Have your poisoned donuts forcefed to you. |
Mean | Depends on job | |
Krampus | Appearance: Christmas season, special spawn Squirm. Scream. Block doors. Get stuck in space. |
Naughty | None |
Special Roles
Special roles for players.
Special Roles | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
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Cyborg | Ignore the AI, play dress-up. Write "fart" in tiles at escape. Run out of power. | Medium | Everything | |
Monkey | Become the chef's assistant. Get put on the spike for sandwich pizza pie. | Nightmarish | Depends on job, walk under tables, climb into mail chutes | |
Cluwne | THE RINGMASTER DOESN'T RUN THE CIRCUS... HONK!!!! | KILL ME PLEASE IT HURTS TO LIVE HONK HONK!!! | Whatever ID you used to have, assuming no enterprising thieves steal it | |
Ghost | Whine in deadchat. Desperately try to make Robotics and Genetics remember your corpse. Show off your haircut. Give advice to the local poltergeist. | Spooky | Irrelevant | |
Ghost Drone | Repair stuff. Get a shit hat put on you by some shadow. Attempt to take it off. Fail. Suicide out of misery. | Easy | Engineer, squeeze through doors | |
Critter | Drink beer. Eat food. Steal crayons. Get squished. | Easy | Depends on the critter. | |
Santa Claus | Flood the station with presents and snacks. Spread the magic of Christmas/Spacemas wherever you go. | Jolly | Everything (minus Head of Security's Office, Armory) |
Job of the Day
Every day, one of these jobs will be available.
Job of the Day | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Monday: Mime |
Raid the Chapel for the alternate mime outfit. Ponder your job's status as both a Job of the Day and regular gimmick job available every day with the other mime. Get your hat AND mask stolen in the process. | . . . . | Maintenance | |
Tuesday: Barber |
Give a bald man an afro with barber magic. Dye it pink. Cut it off and wear it. Repeat. | Frustrating | Maintenance | |
Wednesday: Mailman |
Go postal. Suffocate while trying to get to your office. | Easy | Maintenance, Bridge, EVA, AI Upload, Cargo Bay, Where mail can be delivered! | |
Thursday: Lawyer |
Have your suitcase stolen; represent the thief in court. | Easy | Security, Brig, Maintenance | |
Friday: Tourist |
Run around taking photos of the floor. Space yourself within minutes. | Easy | None | |
Saturday: Vice Officer |
Raid Botany; smoke their weed. Raid the Kitchen; eat their burgers. | Medium | Security, Brig, Hydroponics, Kitchen, Bar, Maintenance | |
Sunday: Boxer |
Punch the Captain in the face. Turn up naked in the Brig. | Easy | Maintenance |
Gimmick Jobs
All these jobs are exclusively available to those who join a round after it starts, though slots are still limited, of course. They don't have very much of a job, leaving them to get into whatever antics they wish. On the latejoin "Select a Job" menu, they appear under the "Special Jobs" header. (Try not to read too much into that), usually in black font, alongside a slot for Mime.
Note: Job titles in italics are alternative job titles, which are sometimes used in replacement of the standard one.
Slots for the these particular jobs always appear every round.
Gimmick Jobs | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Radio Show Host (Talk Show Host) | Host a radio show to keep the crew entertained. Be ignored. Play fart music out of boredom. | Easy | Maintenance | |
Mime | Have your hat AND mask stolen by the Clown. Attempt to explain how your vow of silence is not a vow at all in screams and farts. Get shot in the face while typing your custom emote. | . . . | Maintenance |
The game also has slots for a random selection of the following jobs.
Randomly-Appearing Gimmick Jobs | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
VIP (Senator, President, CEO, Board Member, Mayor, Vice-President, Governor) | Indulge in rampant corporate scandal. Hire random thugs as bodyguards. Abuse your fancy cane. Get overthrown by security. Have drinks with the Captain. | Medium | Bridge | |
Pharmacist | Synthesize "safe" and "effective" medication. Sell them to clueless assistants. Create Strange Reagent all day, every day. | Easy | Research Corridors, Chemistry, Medbay, Morgue, Tech Storage, Maintenance | |
Union Rep | Demand equal rights for staff assistants. Get arrested for inciting a mob. | Medium | None | |
Diplomat (Ambassador) | Try to establish peaceful relations between humans and skeletons as murderous skeletons roam the station. | Medium | None | |
Musician | Lay down some smooth jams. Have a rap-off with a brobocop; lose terribly. | Easy | None | |
Salesman (Merchant) | Start a black market; find no one willing to buy your wares. Get subsequently looted. | Easy | None | |
Journalist | Pursue the next big scoop. Ask the saber-wielding traitor if he has time for some questions. Tip your hat; explode. | Easy | None | |
Coach | Blow your whistle at people. Try playing dodgeball using wrenches. FEEL THE BURN. | Easy | None | |
Sous Chef | Criticize the chef's cooking skills. Get hit over the head with a rolling pin. | Easy | Kitchen | |
Waiter | Relay your customer's orders to the kitchen; receive nothing but silence. Slip on a pool of vomit. | Easy | Kitchen, Bar | |
Apiculturist (Apiarist) | Bees. Bees everywhere. | Easy | Hydroponics, Maintenance | |
Psychologist (Therapist, Psychotherapist) | Cover the Clown in gold star stickers. Prescribe amphetamines for every problem. Succumb to madness. | Easy | Medbay, Morgue, Pathology, Maintenance | |
Test Subject | Hide under tables. Insult people who can't understand you. Infuriate the entire station. | Hard | None, walk under tables, climb into mail chutes | |
Regional Director | Pretend that you're important; get your all-access ID looted immediately. | Medium | Everything (minus Head of Security's Office, Armory) | |
Inspector | Criticize everyone at every possible opportunity. Get toolboxed by ungrateful crew members. | Medium | Medbay, Research Sector, Bridge, Computer Core, Bar, Kitchen, Hydroponics, Cargo Bay, Security, EVA, Maintenance | |
Hollywood Actor | Attempt to channel your inner Rambo in the face of danger. Fail horribly. | Easy | None |
Admin Intervention
This is stuff that's either still in development, more or less abandoned for the time being, niche, or is entirely too ridiculous to be a regular feature.
Gimmick Jobs | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Hard-mode Traitor | Look up to the big boys; cry yourself to sleep because you don't get any of their fancy toys. | Medium to Hard | Depends on job | |
Omnitraitor | Spit acid, cast fireballs, summon bats, hit people with your sword - all at the same time! | Trivial | Pry doors open, walk through walls | |
Zombie | Moan for brains over the radio. Get beaten by a mob. | Apocalyptic | Depends on job | |
Flockmind | Shout indecipherable nonsense at the AI. Get completely ignored. Boss around your drones. Get completely ignored. | Work in Progress | Irrelevant | |
Macho Man | MACHO MADNESS, SKYYYY'S THE LIMIT! | GUARANTEED VICTORY | YEAH | |
Syndicate Special Operative | Get shot by your own team-mates. Slip over your own blood, lose your rifle to an Assistant. Explode. | Turkey Shoot to Cannon Fodder | Everything (minus Head of Security's Office, Armory) | |
NT-SO Special Operative | Fire you gun incessantly just to hear it pew-pew. Lose your laser assault rifle to a Clown. Defeat an ancient eldritch monster from the stars, only to die of suffocation. | Contra to X-COM | Everything (minus Head of Security's Office, Armory) | |
Battler | Spend your syndie donks on Space damage. Get attacked while waiting for the lootbox opening animation to finish. Escape, only to die to a BATTLE STORM. | April Fool | Everything (minus Head of Security's Office, Armory) |
Spooktober Jobs
These jobs appear during October and sometimes the days preceding it. They're accessible exclusively for people who join after the round's started. They all have a distinct orange hue in the Select a Job menu.
Spooktober Jobs | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Blue Clown | Conspire with the non-blue Clown to prank the entire Security department. Get your mask and shoes stolen by the Head of Security, end up using the other clown's spare set. Regret your existence. | H o n k ! | Maintenance | |
Candy Salesman | Eat all your candy, wind up in diabetic coma. Wake up to find your purple top hat stolen. Attempt to buy magic beans from the Wizard, get exploded by a quark-gluon plasma golem instead. | Easy | None | |
Pumpkin Head | Try to crackle like a supervillian over the radio despite your constricted larynx. Get ignored. Lose yourself in a THC-coma after barging into Hydroponics to raise a pumpkin army to enact your revenge. | Easy | Maintenance | |
WannaBEE | Vomit bees everywhere you go. Dye your hair different colors to get a rainbow of bees. Accidentally punch one of them, die in a flurry of stings. | Buzz buzz! | Hydroponics, Maintenance | |
Discount Dracula | Throw wine glasses at people. Get accused of being a vampire, escape to maintenance to hide with cloak of darkness. Get bitten by an actual Vampire who mistakes you for a fellow bloodsucker. | Easy | Maintenance | |
Discount Werewolf | Try to explain you're not actually a werewolf as paranoid botanists pelt you with wolfsbane. Accidentally befriend the real deal. | Easy | Maintenance | |
Discount Mummy | Build yourself a "tomb" in the Chapel. Moan about "returning the slab". Cut yourself up with scissors so medbay can cover you with more bandages. | Easy | Maintenance | |
Hot Dog | Embark on an epic quest to become the hottest dog. Pester the Chef and Cargo for more condiments. Get eaten by a changeling. | Easy | Maintenance | |
Discount Godzilla | Team up with fellow reptiles to produce your own Godzilla movie. Wind up making a snuff film after the shooting location gets firebombed. | Easy | Maintenance | |
Discount Macho Man | Endlessly quote Randy Savage. Challenge someone to go to the Gym and fight you in the ring, get ignored. Get beaten by a monkey. | Easy | Maintenance | |
Ghost | Get your bedsheet stolen by the Ghost Buster, end up chasing them through the station naked. Attempt to spook the crew by hiding in the hallways with your chameleon cloak, get shot in the face instead. Spot something peculiar through your ghost goggles... | Easy | N/A (Start with no ID) | |
Ghost Buster | Get arrested by Beepsky because you don't have a license for your ectoplasmic disintegrator, have it stolen by a Staff Assistant when you're down. Get chased by the Ghost. Discover a Wraith through your goggles, get beaten by a possessed fire-extinguisher before you can do anything. | Easy | Maintenance | |
Angel | Attempt to convince the Chaplain to curb on the blood sacrifices. Save a person from critical condition by using your healing touch, enter crit yourself when it backfires. See them enter crit anyways and succumb. | Easy | Chapel, Chapel Office, Morgue, Crematorium | |
Costume Vendor | Hawk your oddly-colored costumes to the crew. Put on the abomination costume during a shuttle ride, get thrown out the airlock while an actual changeling enters shambler mode. | Easy | None |
Discontinued Jobs
Jobs that are no longer available to players.
Discontinued Jobs | ||||
Mugshot | Job Title | Description | Difficulty | Access |
Elite Security | Gave players more power to punish each other; re-enacted the Stanford Prison Experiment immediately. Broke every article of the Geneva convention. | Hard | Everything | |
Chemist | Blew up the station with nothing but potato chips and water. Drove admins to drink. | Easy to Hard | Chemistry, Research Corridors | |
Technical Assistant | Stole everything not nailed down in Engineering. Screwed up the Singularity three minutes in without fail. | Easy | Tech Storage, Maintenance | |
Medical Assistant | Stole everything not nailed down in Medbay. Demanded superpowers. Whined to admins when turned into a monkey. | Easy | Medbay, Maintenance | |
Atmospheric Technician | Gassed the crew. Started more fires than they were supposed to stop. Lost relevance after atmospherics was significantly streamlined and revamped. | Easy | EVA, Maintenance | |
Spy | Tried to fix what was wrong with Rev. Turned the station into Thunderdome anyway. | Hard | Depended on job | |
Intruder | Attempted to re-enact the The Colour Out of Space. Discontinued by higher inscrutable powers before it could even land. | Eldritch | Float through walls | |
Martian | Harvested the station crew for meat and turned them into fellow spaghetti monsters. Abandoned due to spaghetti code. | Squishy | None | |
Head Surgeon | Tried to be Medical Director way, way too early. Got unretired, then phased out again in favor of a cardboard box. | Medium to Hard | Bridge, Medbay, Genetics, Robotics, Morgue, Pathology, Maintenance |
Jobs on Space Station 13 | ||
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Command & Security |
Captain · Head of Security · Head of Personnel · Chief Engineer · Research Director · Medical Director | |
Medical & Research |
Medical Doctor · Medical Trainee · Roboticist · Geneticist | |
Engineering | Engineer · Technical Trainee | |
Civilian |
Staff Assistant · Janitor · Chaplain · Mail Courier · Radio Host · Mime | |
Silicon | Artificial Intelligence · Cyborg | |
Jobs of the Day | Dungeoneer · Barber · Waiter · Lawyer · Tourist · Musician · Boxer | |
Antagonist Roles | With own mode | Arcfiend · Blob · Changeling · Gang Member · Flockmind ( Flocktrace) · Nuclear Operative · Spy Thief · Traitor · Revolutionary · Vampire ( Thrall) · Wizard |
Others | Sleeper Agent · Werewolf · Wraith ( Poltergeist) · Wrestler · Hunter · Grinch · Krampus · Gimmick antagonist roles | |
Special Roles | Ghostdrone · Monkey · Critter · Ghost · Cluwne · Santa Claus |