Maps
There are currently several maps in public rotation. The next round's map is selected by a map vote that in the preceding round that takes place before roundstart, about 69 seconds after the game announces it's time to ready up, and lasts for about 420 seconds. Few people usually vote for maps, multiple maps can be selected, and while the "Preferred map" option in character setup counts as a full vote (1.0), it'll pick only one, so your vote really does count! Also, many maps have voting machines that you can bribe to rig the vote in your favor. Democracy!
Note that Cogmap2 will only appear on the vote when the server population is over 40, and Atlas when below 30. Cogmap1, Clarion, and Kondaru stop becoming available as map vote options when server population is above 80. When the server is in RP mode (i.e. on the RP servers), Cogmap1 additionally requires at least 14 players online during map vote to appear as a map vote option. During Ass Jam, when it was still around, a couple of old maps returned into the rotation, as well as a couple unique gimmick maps.
| Current Maps |
|---|
| Cogmap2 · Cogmap1 · Nadir · Clarion · Oshan Laboratory · Atlas · Kondaru · Donut 2 · Donut 3 |
Where the hell am I?
The current map is indicated in the Status tab at the top-right, and you can click the nearby "Map" button for a zoomable version of the map.
Cogmap2's departments are roughly shaped like a donut:
| Botany · Bar | Chapel | Arrivals |
| Pod Bay · Engineering | Security · Bridge | |
| Research · Medical | QM · Mining | Escape |
Still don't know what you're doing with your life? Find your bearings with a clickable image map:
For a guided tour of the station, start a tour with the station's local robot tour guide.
Cogmap1's departments are roughly shaped like the letter C:
| Security | Arrivals Bar |
Botany Chapel |
| Bridge Pod Bay |
Disposals | |
| Research · Medical | Engineering Escape |
QM Mining |
Still don't know what you're doing with your life? Find your bearings with a clickable image map:
For a guided tour of the station, start a tour with the station's local robot tour guide.
Clarion's departments are roughly shaped like a pudgy Destiny:
| Space | Escape | Arrivals Pod Bay |
Space |
| Chapel | Botany Bar | ||
| Medical | Security | Bridge | Research |
| Engineering Mining |
QM |
Still don't know what you're doing with your life? Find your bearings with a clickable image map:
For a guided tour of the station, start a tour with the station's local robot tour guide.
Oshan's departments are roughly shaped like a soggy donut:
| Chapel | Medical | Research |
| Botany Bar |
Ocean | Engineering Pod Bay |
| QM · Mining | Bridge Security |
Arrivals · Escape |
Still don't know what you're doing with your life? Find your bearings with a clickable image map:
For a guided tour of the station, start a tour with the station's local robot tour guide.
Horizon's departments are arranged like a rocket with extra bits dangling off of it, or a really wide O depending on how you look at it.
| Space | Arrivals Hangar | Arrivals | Space | Pathology | Escape |
| Mining · Mechanics | Customs | Janitor's | Bridge · Chapel | Medical | Research |
| Courtroom | Hydroponics | Kitchen · Bar | Security | Cargo | |
| Space | AI Chamber | Space | Disposals | Engineering |
For a guided tour of the station, start a tour with the station's local robot tour guide.
Atlas's departments are roughly shaped like a black hole, with everything so compact:
| Mining · QM | Arrivals · Bar | Security · Escape |
| Engineering | Botany | Bridge |
| Pod Bay · Research | Medical | Disposals |
Still don't know what you're doing with your life? Find your bearings with a clickable image map:
For a guided tour of the station, start a tour with the station's local robot tour guide.
Kondaru's departments are shaped like a donut, if someone took a little bite out of top, spat it out and attached it to the side as nub-nub arms, and sometimes filled in the hole.
| Radio | Pod Bay | Chapel | AI | ||
| Engineering | Mechanics | Gym | |||
| Medical | Mineral Magnet | Arrivals | Escape | ||
| Bar | |||||
| Research | Mining | Botany | Bridge | ||
| QM | Sec & Court | ||||
For a guided tour of the station, start a tour with the station's local robot tour guide.
Donut 3's departments are arranged in a...donut, who would have thought? It also has an extra "crumb", an off-station asylum, hanging about north and east of Escape, whose shuttle docks in Medbay and Pathology.
| Chapel | Bar | Botany | Fuq III | Escape | Space | |
| Arrivals | Janitor's | Gym | Detective's | Market | ||
| Security | Customs | Space | Space | Mining | Pod Bay | |
| Bridge | AI | Mech | ||||
| Space | QM | Engineering | ||||
| Courtroom | Medbay | |||||
| Research | Tech. | |||||
For a guided tour of the station, start a tour with the station's local robot tour guide.
Where is this place? How do I get to it?
In your Special Verbs tab, there is a command called GPS. Click on it, and it'll pull up a list of nearby locations. Select any one of them, and the game will draw a colored line to it. You can use the command again to erase the path. Rather useful, but unfortunately not all maps support it, and not every room/location has a path.
In any case, don't be afraid to ask for instructions to an area over the radio or through Mentorhelp (press F3, go through the Help->Mentorhelp menu in the top left, or use the mentorhelp command). Meanwhile, this wiki has a big ol' box of links to pages on most map locations, shown below. Feel free to peruse it at your leisure.
Map availability
| Server Population | <14 | 14-29 | 30-40 | 41-80 | >80 |
| Cogmap2 | NO | NO | NO | YES | YES |
| Donut 3 | NO | NO | NO | YES | YES |
| Cogmap1 | NO* | YES | YES | YES | NO** |
| Oshan Laboratory | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Donut 2 | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Clarion | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Kondaru | YES | YES | YES | YES | NO |
| Atlas | YES | YES | NO | NO | NO |
*On the Roleplay servers, this map is unavailable if there are less than 14 players online. On the Classic servers, there is no such minimum.
**On the Classic servers, this map is unavailable if there are more than 80 players online. On the Roleplay servers, there is no such maximum.
History
For much of Goonstation's history, the server was always set to one map, and if you wanted to change maps, an Admin had to do it. Now that there's a Map Vote, there's a much greater variety of maps to play on, and you (yes, you--the player!) get to decide which one.
- Donut Station: 2009 – 2010
- Devstation / Ovary Station: Early 2010 – December 23rd, 2010
- Donut Station 2: December 23rd, 2010 – January 25th, 2012
- Mushroom Station / concept.dmm: January 25th, 2012 – March 1st, 2013
- Cogmap1: March 1st, 2013 – December 12th, 2015
- Cogmap2: December 12th, 2015 – April 6th, 2017
- Cogmap1: April 6th, 2017 – November 6, 2017
- Linemap: Added June 17th, 2017.
- Map rotation (Cog1, Cog2, Destiny, Clarion, Donut, Mushroom): November 6, 2017 – present
- Chiron Outpost / Chiron / Rockstation: added April 5th, 2018, removed May 26th, 2018
- Samedi / Space Cuba: added June 23rd, 2018, removed July 12th, 2018
- Oshan Laboratory: added August 25, 2018
- Donut Station 2: removed September 5th, 2018
- Mushroom Station / concept.dmm: removed September 5th, 2018
- Horizon: added February 4, 2019
- Atlas: added February 11, 2019
- Manta: added September 14, 2019
- Kondaru: added April 15, 2020
- Donut Station 3: added June 30th, 2020
- Ass Jam-exclusive maps (Mushroom Station, Donut Station 2, Linemap, Samedi / Space Cuba): between February and March 31st, 2020.
- Density, Fleet/Bellerophon: added April 12, 2020
- Kondaru: added April 13, 2020 (later becomes part of regular map rotation)
- Icarus: added June 8th, 2020
- Wrestlemap: added June 12th, 2020
- Linemap, Samedi / Space Cuba: removed October 29th, 2020.
- 1pamgoc: added May 14th, 2020
- Ozymandias: added August 27th, 2020
- Suspension of Ass Jam: November 17, 2020.
- Density, Fleet/Bellerophon: removed December 13, 2020.
- Manta: Retired December 26, 2021
- Map rotation (Cog1, Cog2, Oshan, Nadir, Clarion, Atlas, Donut 2, Donut 3): July 9, 2022 – October 19th, 2022