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==Current Game Modes==
==Current Game Modes==
===Secret===
===Secret===
Generally the default mode. The game will randomly choose from the available game modes to keep you on your toes!
Generally the default mode. The game will randomly choose from the available game modes to keep you on your toes! The usual selection is Traitor, Changeling, Nuclear Emergency, Wizard, Gang, Revolution, Blob, Spy Theft, Vampire, and Mixed (Action), and Mixed (Mild).


===Intrigue===
===Intrigue===
A special version of Secret exclusive to the RP server, Goon RP #1, tailored to facilitate roleplaying opportunities. Includes the Traitor, Changeling, Conspiracy, Spy Theft, Mixed, and Extended game modes.
A special version of Secret exclusive to the RP server, Goon RP, tailored to facilitate roleplaying opportunities. Includes the Traitor, Changeling, Conspiracy, Spy Theft, Vampire, Mixed (Mild), and Extended game modes.


===Nuclear Emergency===
===Nuclear Emergency===
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* Starting: [[Traitor]], occasionally [[Wraith]]s
* Starting: [[Traitor]], occasionally [[Wraith]]s
* Late-joining: Traitor
* Late-joining: Traitor
* Random event: See [[Random Events#Intruder Alert|Random Events]]
* Random event: [[Random Events#Intruder Alert|Random Event Antag]] & [[Random Events#Sleeper Agents Signal|Sleeper Agent]]


===Changeling===
===Changeling===
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* Starting: [[Changeling]]
* Starting: [[Changeling]]
* Late-joining: Changeling
* Late-joining: Changeling
* Random event: See [[Random Events#Intruder Alert|Random Events]]
* Random event: [[Random Events#Intruder Alert|Random Event Antag]] & [[Random Events#Sleeper Agents Signal|Sleeper Agent]]


===Wizard===
===Wizard===
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* Starting: [[Wizard]]
* Starting: [[Wizard]]
* Late-joining: [[Changeling]], [[Vampire]]
* Late-joining: [[Changeling]], [[Vampire]]
* Random event: See [[Random Events#Intruder Alert|Random Events]]
* Random event: [[Random Events#Intruder Alert|Random Event Antag]] & [[Random Events#Sleeper Agents Signal|Sleeper Agent]]


===Blob===
===Blob===
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* All blobs are destroyed.
* All blobs are destroyed.


===Mixed===
===Mixed (Action)===
In this mode, instead of there being one or two fixed antagonist types, there is a mix of various types all at once.
In this mode, instead of there being one or two fixed antagonist types, there is a mix of various types all at once.


Default antagonists:
Default antagonists:
* Starting: [[Traitor]], [[Changeling]], [[Wizard]], [[Vampire]], [[Wraith]], [[Blob]], [[Grinch]], [[Spy Thief]], [[Werewolf]]
* Starting: [[Traitor]], [[Changeling]], [[Wizard]], [[Vampire]], [[Wraith]], [[Blob]], [[Grinch]], [[Spy Thief]], [[Werewolf]], [[Wrestler]]
* Late-joining: Traitor, Changeling, Vampire
* Late-joining: Traitor, Changeling, Vampire
* Random event: See [[Random Events#Intruder Alert|Random Events]]
* Random event: [[Random Events#Intruder Alert|Random Event Antag]] & [[Random Events#Sleeper Agents Signal|Sleeper Agent]]
 
===Mixed (Mild)===
Same as [[#Mixed (Action)|Mixed (Action)]], but [[Werewolf]], [[Wizard]], [[Blob]], and [[Wraith]] have been removed from the possible antagonists to encourage less wanton and/or silent murder and more crew-antag interaction.
Default antagonists:
* Starting: [[Traitor]], [[Changeling]], [[Vampire]], [[Grinch]], [[Spy Thief]], [[Wrestler]]
* Late-joining: Traitor, Changeling, Vampire
* Random event: [[Random Events#Intruder Alert|Random Event Antag]] & [[Random Events#Sleeper Agents Signal|Sleeper Agent]]


===Conspiracy===
===Conspiracy===
A dark conspiracy is at work on the station--and your own crew members are behind it. Each conspirator knows the names of other conspirators and their designated meeting place, and must work together towards a unique, mode-exclusive objective. A largely Goon#1-exclusive mode.  
A dark conspiracy is at work on the station--and your own crew members are behind it. Each conspirator knows the names of other conspirators and their designated meeting place, and must work together towards a unique, mode-exclusive objective. Largely exclusive to the Goonstation Roleplay server.


Default antagonists:  
Default antagonists:  
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===Gang===
===Gang===
The station is caught in the middle of a war between groups of people with silly names! Will TUNNEL SNAKES be victorious over [[Admin|BADMIN]] BUSTAS? Play as a gang leader, a gang member, or some random guy who is not in a gang! Formerly an admin-intervention-only mode, now in regular game mode rotation by popular demand!
The station is caught in the middle of a war between groups of people with silly names! Will TUNNEL SNAKES be victorious over [[Admin|BADMIN]] BUSTAS? Play as a gang leader, a gang member, or some random guy who is not in a gang! Formerly an admin-intervention-only mode, now in regular game mode rotation by popular demand!
The shuttle is automatically called at 55 minutes in during this mode.


Default antagonists: [[Gang]]
Default antagonists: [[Gang]]


===Revolution===
===Revolution===
3 revolutionaries are given the power to recruit any non-security member to their cause, with their objective being to kill all the [[heads of staff]]. The shuttle can be called but won't arrive in this game mode, meaning it can only end if one side or the other is successful. Formerly removed due to being prone to massive, bloody stalemates, brought back by popular demand in 2017!
Three crew members are revolutionaries who want to kill all the [[heads of staff]], can order unique rev gear to aid in the cause, and can recruit any non-security member to their side with flashes. The shuttle can be called but won't arrive in this game mode, meaning it can only end if one side or the other is successful. Formerly removed due to being prone to massive, bloody stalemates, brought back by popular demand in 2017!


Default Antagonist: [[Revolutionary]]
Default Antagonist: [[Revolutionary]]
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* If all of the command staff that spawned on roundstart (but not ones the join later) die and/or leave the station [[Z-level]], the revolution wins.
* If all of the command staff that spawned on roundstart (but not ones the join later) die and/or leave the station [[Z-level]], the revolution wins.
* If all the leaders of the revolution die, are brigged, and/or leave the station, the crew wins.
* If all the leaders of the revolution die, are brigged, and/or leave the station, the crew wins.
* If the round reaches 55 minutes without meeting either of the above outcomes, CentComm wins.
* If the round reaches 55-65 minutes without meeting either of the above outcomes, CentComm wins.
* Leaving the station z-level, not being logged in, and being [[Brig|brigged]] all count as "abandoned the station / abandoned the cause", in which they are treated as dead.
* Leaving the station z-level, not being logged in, and being [[Brig|brigged]] all count as "abandoned the station / abandoned the cause", in which they are treated as dead.


===Spy Theft===
===Spy Theft===
Spies among our midst, men! A number of crew members are secret agents, who compete to complete bounties for certain items/objects to obtain random [[Syndicate Items|Syndicate gear]]. Once a spy completes a certain number of bounties, they must eliminate the other operatives and emerge as the sole spy standing.
Spies among our midst, men! A number of crew members are secret agents, who have [[Traitor Objectives|many different objectives]] and compete to complete bounties for certain items/objects to obtain random [[Syndicate Items|Syndicate gear]].  


Default antagonists: [[Spy Thief]]
Default antagonists: [[Spy Thief]]
===Vampire===
Some crew want to suck your blood! Capable of outright resisting stuns and vanishing away as a bat, summoning protective spirits, and siccing undead minions on those who dare defy them at higher levels, these bloodsuckers are fiendishly difficult to pin down and become only more elusive with every drop of blood they drink. True to popular imagination, vampires are weak to the light of stars in [[Space]] and holy objects, but death is only a minor setback for them and their coffin-regeneration powers.
* Default antagonist: [[Vampire]]
* Late-joining: [[Vampire]]


==Other Game Modes==
==Other Game Modes==
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===Disaster===
===Disaster===
Someone made a terrible mistake, and now the station is in ruins. The floors are visibly deteriorated, and corpses litter the halls. [[Space]] has been replaced with...''something else'', and quantum portals frequently spawn, bringing horrific monsters that you [[Adventure Zone|may have encountered before]]. Your job, as members of a savage expedition, is figure out why, or, at the very least, live to tell about the what.  Eventually, after some increasingly garbled announcements, the shuttle is called, and it is your top priority to escape on it--preferably alive.
Someone made a terrible mistake, and now the station is in ruins. The floors are visibly deteriorated, and corpses litter the halls. [[Space]] has been replaced with...''something else'', and quantum portals frequently spawn, bringing horrific monsters that you [[Adventure Zone|may have encountered before]]. Your job, as members of a salvage expedition, is figure out why, or, at the very least, live to tell about the what.  Eventually, after some increasingly garbled announcements, the shuttle is called, and it is your top priority to escape on it--preferably alive.


This gamemode is player-triggered, but it might be a good idea to ask the crew before committing to this!
This gamemode is player-triggered, but it might be a good idea to ask the crew before committing to this!


Default antagonists: None
Default antagonists: [[Wraith]]


===Revolution Extended===
===Revolution Extended===
Exactly like standard Revolution, but without the 60-minute time limit and CentComm meddling. This isn't in rotation, but you may see it in the off-chance you get to vote on for the next round's game mode.
Exactly like standard Revolution, but without the 60-minute time limit and CentComm meddling. This isn't in rotation, but you may see it in the off-chance you get to vote for the next round's game mode.


Default antagonists: [[Revolutionary|Revolutionaries]]
Default antagonists: [[Revolutionary|Revolutionaries]]


===Battle Royale===
===Battle Royale===
Everyone spawns with a [[Captain]]-level ID and two [[Syndicate Items#Syndicate Donk Pockets|syndie donks]] and begins on a BATTLE SHUTTLE. When they fling themselves off of it, they arrive in one of multiple randomly chosen landing sites on the current map. Players, called BATTLERS, must then kill robust other until only one remains.
A special "treat" from April Fool's Day 2019: a game mode fit for a king, with a premise simple enough for a peasant: everyone must kill each other until they are the last one alive. In the meantime, BATTLE STORMS periodically hit the station, bringing forth waves of intense heat and radiation to those not standing in designated safe zones, and waves of loot crates occasionally dramatically drop onto the station, bringing forth random weapons and gear.  


To spice things up, force BATTLERS to confront each other, flush out cowards trying to hide, and parody the general battle royale game genre, every seve minutes or so, a BATTLE STORM strikes the station, bathing anybody who isn't in one of the designated safe zones mentioned in the pre-announcement (handily marked in red) in furious (but technically survivable) waves of radiation and fire, even those who are in [[Space Pod]]s, [[General Objects#Industrial Cryogenics Unit|cryosleep]], lockers, and similar. BATTLE STORMS last roughly 20-30 seconds, and at the end, the names of the recently deceased are announced. In addition, the number of BATTLERS currently alive is announced at random intervals.
Default antagonists: [[Battler]]


Also, for extra meme points, occasionally, waves of loot crates land in a few randomly chosen locations, announcing their arrival in highly-visible red arrows before landing with a more highly-visible fire trail and authentic explosion. After a suitably annoying opening animation where you actually have to click on the crate to get the item, the crate gives you a random [[Clothing#Head|hat]], [[Clothing#(Exo)Suit|exosuit]], [[Clothing#Uniform|uniform]], [[Clothing#Mask|mask]] or [[Syndicate Items|syndicate item]] (including [[Syndicate Items#Night Vision Goggles|night vision goggles]], [[Syndicate Items#Class Crate|class crates]], and [[Syndicate Items#Surplus crate items|surplus gear]]). Items from inexplicably glowing crates have an random combat-boosting enchantment, with a chance for a material that grants another enchantment.  
===Everyone-Is-A-Traitor Mode===
Aka, Ass Day Classic, or just Assday. The rules of old [[Ass Day]], now formalized into game mechanics. Everyone could commit [[grief]] on Ass Day, and they still can in this mode...because everyone in this mode is an [[antagonist]], even the [[Head of Security]] and [[Security Officer]]s, and so is everyone who joins after the round starts. The [[AI]] and [[Cyborg|borgs]] start out rogue, sometimes there's a [[Wraith]] or two, and everyone else is [[Terminology#Hard-mode Traitor|hard-mode traitor]], meaning they're an [[antagonist]], but don't get any special gear or abilities.  


Unfortunate nerds who join after roundstart will spawn naked in the [[Arrivals]] area or equivalent, free to be killed by BATTLERS. In contrast, <strike>ultranerds</strike> valuable community members who shell out the 1k [[Spacebux]] for a battle pass will spawn with a unique card that tells them where lootcrates will land within twenty seconds. It can also be used in-hand to create a 10-second shield that blocks all melee and projectile attacks (but not thrown items), identical to the [[Wizard#Defensive|wizard version]], for up to three times.
During Ass Jam, there's a vote to have this be the round's game mode before every round.


Default antagonists: Battler
*Default antagonists: [[Terminology#Hard-mode Traitor|Hard-Mode Traitor]], [[Wraith]]
*Late-join: [[Terminology#Hard-mode Traitor|Hard-Mode Traitor]], [[Wraith]], [[Changeling]]
 
===Flockmind===
A gestalt machine consciousness carried by a radio signal called the "Flockmind" is converting the ship/station into a relay powerful enough to propagate itself across the galaxy, at any cost. It can overhear the station's radio channels (albeit with heavy distortion), wields vast radio-based powers, and must create "flockdrones", strange teal bird-like beings that can beget more of their kind and harvest the ship/station for the resources and infrastructure required for the relay.
 
Default antagonist: [[Flockmind]]


==Discontinued Gamemodes==
==Discontinued Gamemodes==
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Portals may also summon a variety of unhelpful emagged [[robots]] that can stun or injure you. This inevitably leads to the AI being destroyed or corrupted, pretty much every area of the ship being exposed to vacuum and everyone on the station going deaf. After a set amount of time, the shuttle can be called. If you escape on it, congratulations, you survived! This game mode is not in the regular list but [[admin]]s occasionally bring it up.
Portals may also summon a variety of unhelpful emagged [[robots]] that can stun or injure you. This inevitably leads to the AI being destroyed or corrupted, pretty much every area of the ship being exposed to vacuum and everyone on the station going deaf. After a set amount of time, the shuttle can be called. If you escape on it, congratulations, you survived! This game mode is not in the regular list but [[admin]]s occasionally bring it up.


===[[Spy]]===
===[[Spy (discontinued game mode)|Spy]]===
This game mode was designed to overcome the shortcomings of revolution. The game randomly assigned several players as [[spy]] masters with the objective to kill all the other spymasters and be the only one to escape. Unlike traitors, spies didn't know the identity of their targets and had to do some sleuthing - that was the intent anyway. In practice, it was little more than team deathmatch, as every spy ring would scramble to load up on laser guns and then order their mindslaves to gun down everything that moves.
This game mode was designed to overcome the shortcomings of revolution. The game randomly assigned several players as [[Spy (discontinued game mode)|spy]] masters with the objective to kill all the other spymasters and be the only one to escape. Unlike traitors, spies didn't know the identity of their targets and had to do some sleuthing - that was the intent anyway. In practice, it was little more than team deathmatch, as every spy ring would scramble to load up on laser guns and then order their mindslaves to gun down everything that moves.


===Deathmatch===
===Deathmatch===
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<s>Wally</s> Waldo, who may or may not be a little bit magical, has a very clearly defined objective to hide while everyone else must find him. Another person plays Odlaw and must assist Waldo in achieving his lifelong dream of not being found.
<s>Wally</s> Waldo, who may or may not be a little bit magical, has a very clearly defined objective to hide while everyone else must find him. Another person plays Odlaw and must assist Waldo in achieving his lifelong dream of not being found.


===Intrusion===
An eldritch [[intruder]] known as the Overmind (name pending) attempted to merge with the plane of reality SS13 by taking over the minds of critters and creating weird glowy structures of toggleable levels of visibility. Cut by its coder before it could be fleshed out.
===Martian Mode===
A force of [[Martian Mode|player-controlled Martians]] attempted to take over the station and convert the crew into fellow Martians. And possibly other things, if this game mode hadn't abandoned less than a quarter of the way to completion. 
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Current Game Modes

Secret

Generally the default mode. The game will randomly choose from the available game modes to keep you on your toes! The usual selection is Traitor, Changeling, Nuclear Emergency, Wizard, Gang, Revolution, Blob, Spy Theft, Vampire, and Mixed (Action), and Mixed (Mild).

Intrigue

A special version of Secret exclusive to the RP server, Goon RP, tailored to facilitate roleplaying opportunities. Includes the Traitor, Changeling, Conspiracy, Spy Theft, Vampire, Mixed (Mild), and Extended game modes.

Nuclear Emergency

Generally known as nuke. A team of operatives, whose number is based on the server population, are spawned on a small shuttle with a nuclear bomb inside of it. Their objective is to get the bomb onto the station and activate it in a specific area, then defend it until the countdown reaches zero.

Default antagonists: Nuclear Operative

Game-ending conditions:

  • All operatives are dead (and the nuclear bomb isn't armed).
  • The bomb is destroyed.
  • The bomb obliterates the station.

Traitor

A number of random crew members, based on current server population, will defect from Nanotrasen and become traitors with varying objectives! They each get access to a bunch of cool and deadly gear.

Default antagonists:

Changeling

A horrible organism (that is most certainly not a copy of The Thing) has escaped from some private research facility and is preying on the crew members! Prepare for acid-spitting, DNA-sucking creatures who can disguise themselves as any crew member they have stolen the DNA from! Trust no one!

Default antagonists:

Wizard

Hark! A technophobe wizard with a mighty beard hath appeared on the station, and he's out for blood! Beware his fireballs, golems, missiles and horrible cluwne curses!

Default antagonists:

Blob

The blob is a jelly-like organism that rapidly spreads across the station, destroying obstacles such as walls, windows, and crew members. At the start of the round, one or several player-controlled blobs will deploy somewhere on the station and immediately begin spreading outwards from that point. It has a strong vulnerability to fire - welders, flamethrowers and actual fire will damage and destroy the blob, a tile at a time. The AI must help the crew in fighting the blob.

Default antagonists: Blob

Game-ending conditions:

  • All blobs complete their objectives.
  • All blobs are destroyed.

Mixed (Action)

In this mode, instead of there being one or two fixed antagonist types, there is a mix of various types all at once.

Default antagonists:

Mixed (Mild)

Same as Mixed (Action), but Werewolf, Wizard, Blob, and Wraith have been removed from the possible antagonists to encourage less wanton and/or silent murder and more crew-antag interaction.

Default antagonists:

Conspiracy

A dark conspiracy is at work on the station--and your own crew members are behind it. Each conspirator knows the names of other conspirators and their designated meeting place, and must work together towards a unique, mode-exclusive objective. Largely exclusive to the Goonstation Roleplay server.

Default antagonists:

  • Starting: Conspirator
  • Late-joining: Traitor

Gang

The station is caught in the middle of a war between groups of people with silly names! Will TUNNEL SNAKES be victorious over BADMIN BUSTAS? Play as a gang leader, a gang member, or some random guy who is not in a gang! Formerly an admin-intervention-only mode, now in regular game mode rotation by popular demand!

Default antagonists: Gang

Revolution

Three crew members are revolutionaries who want to kill all the heads of staff, can order unique rev gear to aid in the cause, and can recruit any non-security member to their side with flashes. The shuttle can be called but won't arrive in this game mode, meaning it can only end if one side or the other is successful. Formerly removed due to being prone to massive, bloody stalemates, brought back by popular demand in 2017!

Default Antagonist: Revolutionary

Game-ending conditions:

  • If all of the command staff that spawned on roundstart (but not ones the join later) die and/or leave the station Z-level, the revolution wins.
  • If all the leaders of the revolution die, are brigged, and/or leave the station, the crew wins.
  • If the round reaches 55-65 minutes without meeting either of the above outcomes, CentComm wins.
  • Leaving the station z-level, not being logged in, and being brigged all count as "abandoned the station / abandoned the cause", in which they are treated as dead.

Spy Theft

Spies among our midst, men! A number of crew members are secret agents, who have many different objectives and compete to complete bounties for certain items/objects to obtain random Syndicate gear.

Default antagonists: Spy Thief

Vampire

Some crew want to suck your blood! Capable of outright resisting stuns and vanishing away as a bat, summoning protective spirits, and siccing undead minions on those who dare defy them at higher levels, these bloodsuckers are fiendishly difficult to pin down and become only more elusive with every drop of blood they drink. True to popular imagination, vampires are weak to the light of stars in Space and holy objects, but death is only a minor setback for them and their coffin-regeneration powers.

Other Game Modes

Extended

Extended is a round where there are no antagonists selected, giving players the ability to experiment with station systems for as long as they want. On the standard servers, extended is occasionally used for gimmick rounds where the admins intend to manually create traitors or organize an event. It was also the primary gamemode on LLJK1/Goon RP #1, Goonstation's roleplay server, until it was changed to intrigue.

Default antagonists: None

Action

Cross your fingers, hold your toes, and say your /prayers, because an Admin (most likely shotgunbill) has taken the director's chair and is craving some ACTION!. Much like Intrigue, this mode is a hand-picked selection of a number of other game modes, starring "louder", flashier antagonists like Wizard and Blob, all scored and occasionally directed by the Admin in the background.

Disaster

Someone made a terrible mistake, and now the station is in ruins. The floors are visibly deteriorated, and corpses litter the halls. Space has been replaced with...something else, and quantum portals frequently spawn, bringing horrific monsters that you may have encountered before. Your job, as members of a salvage expedition, is figure out why, or, at the very least, live to tell about the what. Eventually, after some increasingly garbled announcements, the shuttle is called, and it is your top priority to escape on it--preferably alive.

This gamemode is player-triggered, but it might be a good idea to ask the crew before committing to this!

Default antagonists: Wraith

Revolution Extended

Exactly like standard Revolution, but without the 60-minute time limit and CentComm meddling. This isn't in rotation, but you may see it in the off-chance you get to vote for the next round's game mode.

Default antagonists: Revolutionaries

Battle Royale

A special "treat" from April Fool's Day 2019: a game mode fit for a king, with a premise simple enough for a peasant: everyone must kill each other until they are the last one alive. In the meantime, BATTLE STORMS periodically hit the station, bringing forth waves of intense heat and radiation to those not standing in designated safe zones, and waves of loot crates occasionally dramatically drop onto the station, bringing forth random weapons and gear.

Default antagonists: Battler

Everyone-Is-A-Traitor Mode

Aka, Ass Day Classic, or just Assday. The rules of old Ass Day, now formalized into game mechanics. Everyone could commit grief on Ass Day, and they still can in this mode...because everyone in this mode is an antagonist, even the Head of Security and Security Officers, and so is everyone who joins after the round starts. The AI and borgs start out rogue, sometimes there's a Wraith or two, and everyone else is hard-mode traitor, meaning they're an antagonist, but don't get any special gear or abilities.

During Ass Jam, there's a vote to have this be the round's game mode before every round.

Flockmind

A gestalt machine consciousness carried by a radio signal called the "Flockmind" is converting the ship/station into a relay powerful enough to propagate itself across the galaxy, at any cost. It can overhear the station's radio channels (albeit with heavy distortion), wields vast radio-based powers, and must create "flockdrones", strange teal bird-like beings that can beget more of their kind and harvest the ship/station for the resources and infrastructure required for the relay.

Default antagonist: Flockmind

Discontinued Gamemodes

Most of these game modes are broken or have been removed from the code entirely.

Sandbox

Sandbox is a mode where all players can spawn more or less anything in the game through the sandbox panel. In theory, this is the mode you go to to figure out how stuff works and practice various systems, such as starting the engine or building complex pipe constructs. In practice, this is the mode where everyone spawns cloaks and revolvers and gives themselves all the wizard spells.

Construction

Let you build your very own space station from scratch. Except for the survey shuttle and a couple of asteroids, the main z-level started out completely empty. Basic supplies and a couple of pods for exploration were provided, and everyone also spawned (among other starting gear) with a space suit, jetpack, full tool belt, special blueprint markers for designing and building new rooms, and a large-capacity RCD. The idea was for the crew to cooperate, mine ore and grow their own produce once hydroponics was operational, and trade those goods for whatever was required to expand the station at the time. The dedicated server attracted a somewhat stable population at the beginning, but couldn't keep them interested in the long term and was subsequently shut down.

Meteor

In this mode, the station was bombarded by wave upon wave of meteors. After about 30 mins or so, the shuttle would be auto called. It was quite a fun mode, but due to the awfulness of BYOND, it became horribly laggy and basically unplayable past the 20-minute mark. The goals of this gamemode are quite simple, escape on the shuttle, and you win the round.

Meteors now appear as a random event.

Legacy Disaster

Basically admin-shenanigans: the gamemode. It is also known as meteor's big brother. the objective for everyone in this mode is simply to survive. This is complicated by the fact that minutes into the round quantum portals will begin to open at random and shit will get unbelievably chaotic. The portals can explode with electrical energy, a burst of stunning light, or just plain explode.

Portals may also summon a variety of unhelpful emagged robots that can stun or injure you. This inevitably leads to the AI being destroyed or corrupted, pretty much every area of the ship being exposed to vacuum and everyone on the station going deaf. After a set amount of time, the shuttle can be called. If you escape on it, congratulations, you survived! This game mode is not in the regular list but admins occasionally bring it up.

Spy

This game mode was designed to overcome the shortcomings of revolution. The game randomly assigned several players as spy masters with the objective to kill all the other spymasters and be the only one to escape. Unlike traitors, spies didn't know the identity of their targets and had to do some sleuthing - that was the intent anyway. In practice, it was little more than team deathmatch, as every spy ring would scramble to load up on laser guns and then order their mindslaves to gun down everything that moves.

Deathmatch

Space Station 13: Black Ops 2. One of the few gamemodes that included every person on the server. Everyone would spawn as a death-commando. Last man standing wins. Removed due to how horrible robust SS13's combat system is.

Monkey

Came in two flavours: Monkey, and Monkey Survival:

  • In monkey mode, random player(s) were chosen to carry a virus that turned other players into a monkey when bitten.
  • In monkey survival, the crew were pitched against super fast, super robust NPC monkeys. Nowadays, the robust monkey AI is used in a traitor item.

AI Malfunction

Basically, the AI is messed up and the crew has to fix whatever's ailing it. In theory, this is a game mode, but in actuality, this happens every round, so it's more or less redundant.

Restructuring

A horribly drawn-out team deathmatch mode. A player would be randomly chosen every 5 mins. All other players were tasked with killing this player. If he died or survived for 5 mins, another player was chosen. This continued till 1 player was left.

Alien

Aliens was a game mode where player-controlled aliens attempted to turn the station into a hive while infecting or killing the crew. The crew would need to work together to slay the aliens and stop them from breeding. Aliens were split into four different job classes: Queen, engineer, soldier, and larvae with each having their own unique strengths and weaknesses. This was discontinued because the aliens would get themselves killed within seconds, while the crew would know exactly how to fight them. This game mode has since been removed from the goon-station code.

Waldo

Wally Waldo, who may or may not be a little bit magical, has a very clearly defined objective to hide while everyone else must find him. Another person plays Odlaw and must assist Waldo in achieving his lifelong dream of not being found.

Intrusion

An eldritch intruder known as the Overmind (name pending) attempted to merge with the plane of reality SS13 by taking over the minds of critters and creating weird glowy structures of toggleable levels of visibility. Cut by its coder before it could be fleshed out.

Martian Mode

A force of player-controlled Martians attempted to take over the station and convert the crew into fellow Martians. And possibly other things, if this game mode hadn't abandoned less than a quarter of the way to completion.

Game Mechanics
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Critters Remy.png Critters · CyborgV3-64x64.gif Cyborgs · Robuddy.png Robots · BiosuitNew.png Viruses
Game Abstractions IDCardBlankV2-27x13.png Access Levels · MartianRover.png Adventure Zone · Basicfishingrod.png Fishing · OmniTraitorV2-64x64.gif Game Modes · HealthImplantNewHUD.png Health Indicators · 2k13VintageSantaHatV2-32x32.png Holiday Cheer · InHand.png Inventory · WarMedal-32x32.png Medals · Basketball.png Random Events · Clipboard2.png Station Grade · MonsieurStirstirV2-32x32.png Traitor Objectives · GraduationCap-32x32.png XP · ScienceTeleporterComputer.png Z-level
Miscellaneous Falsemustache.png Being A Better Traitor · WizardSpellbookV2-32x32.gif Books · CommunicationsComputer.png Calling the Escape Shuttle · PaintCan.png Fixing the Paint Machine · DrinkRobustEezV3.png Guide to Being Robust · LaserGunV2-32x32.png Guide to Murder · Men.png Kendo · NtcommanderNew64.png NT Reputation · RubberStamp.png Roleplay Tips and Tricks · WallSafe32x32.png Safe-Cracking · SpacebuxToken.png Spacebux · StGDeck.png Spacemen: The Grifening · MiniPutt.png Space Travel · NanotrasenBeret.png Traits · ZoldorfSprite.png Zoldorf
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Former Features Discontinued Game Modes · Discontinued Syndicate Items · Construction Server · Old Constructions · Old Electronics · Old Material Science · Old Nuclear Engine · Ass Jam · Ass Jam Changelog · Pathology Research (old) · Pathology for Dummies (outdated) · Pathology Mutations · Beesmark's Goon Guide to Robust Security · Powering the station · Torpedoes
Discontinued Jobs Atmospheric Technician · Chemist · Communications Officer · Construction Worker · Elite Security · Head Surgeon · Intruder · Martian · Mechanic · Part-Time Vice Officer · Replicant · Spy · The Welder
Retired Maps Donut Station · Devstation · Mushroom Station · Chiron Outpost · Samedi · Linemap · Manta · Horizon · Destiny
Past Locales Prison Station · Syndicate Shuttle
Old Lore Chemical Information‎ · A Crash Course in Legal SOP · Creature Conspectus Original Edition · Dummies guide to material science (Old) · Generator Startup Procedure (Old)‎ · Job Information · Mining Pocket Guide No. 1‎ · Mining Pocket Guide No. 2‎ · Old Storyline · Standard Operating Procedure · Stations and Syndicates 8th Edition Rulebook · Torpedoes And You Aka How To Not Blow Yourself Up
Outdated Culture Pubbie Tears · Dumb Pubbies · Banned Camp · Android Data