User:Studenterhue/Ass Jam

Ass Jam:
-no grife pls
-much features do whole section
--more maps
--new features 
--how2contribute???
-rename everything

Ass Jam is a Goonstation-exclusive holiday that occurs on the 13th of every month on the main Goonstation server/Goon #2 (and only there), where all sorts of wacky and zany features are enabled and admins, mentors, and players alike can enjoy 24 hours of chaos, anarchy, and shenanigans. It started in April 2020, as a rebranding of Ass Day that focused less on rampant Grief and more on the beautifully strange and strangely beautiful quirkiness that makes Goonstation, and arguably SS13 in general, so compelling.

Ass Jam Rules

waiting for the rules + command to actually be updated

If you see when you join and can pull it up via the Ass Day Rules command, that means it's Ass Day!

Despite what people say, not all of the server's rules are suspended, like in The Purge. Rather, the normal Rules are swapped out for a special set of Ass Jam Rules, listed below:

No intentionally crashing the server or causing lag.
No bigotry.
No sexual stuff.
No creepy shit.
No impersonating the admins.
No walling off or obliterating arrivals.
No giving out secret recipes and the like.
If an admin tells you to quit doing something, quit it.
No you do not get an antag token.

Ass Jam Rules 1-8 are basically condensed versions of Rules 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, & 10, which are better explained on that page.

9 says that if you spawn as an Antagonist, have your round ruined by Admin shenanigans (far more likely than on any other day), and request an antag token, you're not going to get one. The reasoning is that by playing on Ass Jam, you understand and accept that the Admins are allowed to absolutely wreck your round up and forfeit any right to be compensated for said round-up-wreckening. Besides, you don't really need to ask for tokens; getting an Antagonist role Ass Jam doesn't affect your chances of getting Antagonist on other days.

Where and when do they apply?

Ass Jam begins at the 13th of midnight EST (UTC-05) / EDT(UTC-04). It occurs only on the main Goonstation server, so the other servers, Goonstation Roleplay and the backup servers, don't have Ass Jam, so they don't have Ass Jam Rules.

Strictly speaking, the special Ass Jam rules apply only to rounds that begin on Ass Jam. For example, if a round begins on 11:50 PM on the 12th and continues past midnight, it's still a normal round, and Ass Jam Rules don't apply. Similarly, if a round that begins on Ass Jam continues into the 14th, it's still an Ass Jam round, and Ass Jam rules do still apply. Essentially, if you can pull up the Ass Jam Rules via the Ass Day Rules command, it's Ass Jam, and those rules apply.

So what does it all mean?

These rules might not look all that different from the regular Rules at first glance, but they let you get away with a lot of things you normally aren't allowed to do:

You can talk about the current round on Discord and other platforms. Play with your metafriends!
You can get your revenge on people for things they've done in previous rounds, including ones that didn't occur on Ass Jam.
You're allowed to talk about in-game stuff in the current round in OOC. For example, if a Changeling stings you in maintenance, you can screech on OOC for someone to help you.
All these rules apply to Admins too. In fact, they are often encouraged to go absolutely hogwild with all the admin buttons and pull no punches with their gimmicks. Some old/inactive admins even come out of hiding just for some good ol' Ass Jam Admin Shenanigans.

Ass Jam Exclusive Content

Ass Jam Features

This is where the magic happens. Ass Jam is a day where game modes, weapons, experimental maps, and other features that may be too powerful, buggy, laggy, unbalanced, or otherwise too crazy for normal days are enabled. There's content from the coder team and regular community members alike, and it includes things like:

The sleeper agents event makes everyone a sleeper...sort of.
Some NPC humans may explode.

there's way more

Useless historical trivia: Ass Jam takes its name from a past community game jam of sorts, where players got to contribute any sprites and/or code they wished into the game, so long as they were properly formatted, relatively self-contained, and within the normal server rules. From this event came new foods, potato batteries (which were later incorporated in the game full time), a Metal Gear-inspired antag, and...interesting bees.

Contributing to Ass Jam Features

Want to add a feature for Ass Jam? It's easy. Just take a look at this Google Doc for details on formatting your code for Ass Jam shenanigans or read this this comment snippet for a shorter guide. If you don't know how to code or use Github, but still want to contribute, check out the Goonstation Development Guidelines and this wiki's Coding guide.

We ask that you 1) try to add code, rather than change existing code, 2) leave a comment explaining the Ass Jam code 3) follow the server rules, and mostly importantly 4) make sure your code compiles, both with Ass Jam define off and with it on. Depending on how good your features are, it might even be incorporated into the full game, to be enjoyed all 29/30/31 days of the month, not just one.

Urs Dungeon

Puzzles! A whole level full of fun puzzles and mysteries to solve, made by prominent admin UrsulaMejor/UrsulaMajor/Emily. It's almost like a Adventure Zone area, complete with unique rewards at the end you won't find anywhere else. The dungeon also keeps track of those who complete it--and in a truly special way.

To enter the Urs Dungeon, swing by the Space/Sea Diner; there's usually a beacon for Space Pods to warp to there, and on maps set in outer space, the Mining Shuttle near/in the Mining Department takes you to the Diner. Call up John's Bus at the bus console somewhere in the diner. On the bus, you'll find a slick pair of black VR goggles; sometimes there'll also be a similar pair in the Diner somewhere. Put them in your eyes slot, and you'll be transported to Urs Dungeon! Note that putting on the goggles deletes all your equipment, so you can't bring in any external aid, and your body in the normal, non-Urs-Dungeon world poofs away completely.

There's a new version of Urs Dungeon every couple months or so. Currently, it is on iteration 5, with the theme of "Shitty Bill Is Missing!", As you might have gathered, Shitty Bill is trapped in the dungeon, and dungeon crawlers must use the power of friendship (no, seriously, you'll need multiple people for this one) to save him! (Please ignore the fact that Shitty Bill is also still at the Diner. Don't think about it too hard how this is possible.)

Respawn Arena

If you die and use the Fight for a new life ability as a Ghost, you'll spawn in a hellish arena that contains a few weapons, lots of lava, and a special butt named "The Divine Relic of Ass Day" (exact spelling of "Ass Day" can vary). If the butt remains in your possession for 30 seconds (you can still move, fight, etc. during this time), you'll be sent back to the main lobby, ready to rejoin the round.

Miscellaneous Mechanics

probably could integrate this into the Ass Jam section  but whatever

In addition to the above, a couple of other things happen during Ass Jam. Fundamentally, it's still Ass Jam-exclusive content, but under the hood, it has a different mechanism for determining if it's Ass Jam.

Roundstart antag selection is completely random on Ass Jam. Weighting doesn't matter at all! Luckily, again, getting antag on Ass Jam does not affect how often you get antag on other days.

OOC is always on. As a reminder, the hotkey for it is Alt + C or just O in WASD mode. If all those fail, you should still be able to use the ooc command, either through the Commands tab or the text parser at the bottom of the screen.

Everyone can *dab! It's not bound to any particular hotkey, so you'll have to enter say "*dab into the text parser near the bottom of the screen or press T and put in *dab if you have WASD mode on. You are still not protected from the more harmful effects of dabbing though.

Cheese does something extra when heated.