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Warm Donk pockets will heal you if freshly cooked in the microwave, as microwaving one adds Tricordrazine.
You can remotely feed someone by shooting food from a pneumatic cannon.
You can use a coin (with harm intent) to make it work like a screwdriver.
You can disable many objects like flashes by putting a long hand labeler message on them while on harm intent. This includes many types of glasses.
You can hide things in between couch cushions and in potted plants (or search them for objects with an open hand).
If a Singularity eats an Antimatter Engine container or Fuel Tank it will explode, destroying the singularity (Only if the canister actually gets eaten; if it explodes beforehand, the singularity feeds on the explosion and grows).
Xenoarchaeology large artifacts are easier to find on smaller dig-sites.
You can read the telecomms password on the RD's table as an AI without camera upgrades by repeatedly trying to read the paper to get a new set of garbled output. The paper says “The new message monitor key is 'somekey3”, so look for a pattern of three asterisks followed by two asterisks followed by the password and piece it together little by little in Notepad.
A choco-coin from a Getmore Chocolate Corp vending machine (Or cooked by the chef, must be cooked. The candy machine choco coins don't work.) can be used as an actual coin.
A plastic bag can be used as a tool-belt.
You can abuse a Cyborg or a MoMMI as an all access door opener by pushing them against an airlock.
If you throw a stun-baton/stun-prod there's a 50% chance of stunning your opponent.
You can inject plasma inside battery cells and light tubes/bulbs to make them explode when they get in contact with electricity. The explosion size is directly related to the cell's maximum charge. A stun-prod/baton will blow up when you stun someone if it has a rigged cell in it, it can also blow up if you throw it at someone while in stun mode on contact; again note that this is a 50% hit/miss.
You can use an emagged light replacer to swap normal lights with plasma contaminated lights.
You can attach a cable to a coin and try to trick vending machines.
Polytrinic acid smoke pretty much instakills anything it touches.
Once unsecured, instead of breaking or pulling you can just alt-click the windows to rotate them out of your way.
Scientists have some of the best access in the game, the Research Director even more so. Roboticists also have access to the Tech Storage room by engineering which will have some Insulated Gloves.
Yellow toolboxes have a small chance to carry Insulated gloves.
Tool closets also have a small chance to carry Insulated gloves.
If you have a friend you can have them table you to cross over tables.
Glitched and can't stand up despite being fully healed? Punch yourself.
Unsure if a door is either emagged or hacked? Unscrew the door and use a crowbar on it, if you can pry out the electronics the door was emagged.
If you want to destroy an electrified grille without insulated gloves you can hit it with a glass shard.
If you put an armed mousetrap in a backpack the next person to open the backpack will trigger the mousetrap.
You can safely research wires using remote signalers, it is possible to throw items at the door/vend you are hacking to find out if you pulsed the shock wire.
You can touch “hot” things to reagent containers (i.e. beakers) to heat the chemicals inside them. The absolute best item is laser scalpels which have laser level heating capabilities for only metal, glass, and basic research from science. Useful for xenoarch and medical chemistry.
Switch-tool (Medical and Swiss Army) modules can be removed with a screwdriver and placed back (Either manually or by clicking on the module with the switch-tool itself, which will pick up all valid modules on the tile).
Placing a scanning module on a reinforced table turns it into a surgery table, even when not weakened. Use this to drag yourself on and crawl to the other side of locked doors or other non-wall blocked areas.
Using an Advanced Lazarus Injector in a skinned Goliath makes him completely non-aggressive to you while also restoring its protective plates. Buy many injectors and skin the same Goliath repeatedly until your hardsuit is at max protection.
If you're dragging someone who's down, you can alt+click a shocked door and click repeatedly on the floor, the downed person touches the shocked door constantly and can get husked.
The emergency oxygen tank is a great tool to break windows if no other tool is available, be mindful of electrified grilles, however.
Kicking a glass shard towards a window is far quicker than any other way of breaking a window. Always carry a glass shard if you plan to continuously break into places.
Welding with Mesons is almost guaranteed blindness if you're not wearing an active (helmet) engineering/atmospherics/mining hardsuit or have a welding helmet active as well, disable the mesons before welding (You will still get the eye damage from welding without protection, but won't go insta-blind).
Phazon sheets can be ground to make Phazon Salt, which randomizes all of your stats, from health to speed to pressure resistance/weakness to required breathing gas to special powers. About 1 in 20 doses is a dud, but the next dose tends to be more aggressive in the changes after a dud. It is very toxic in more than 1u doses. Be careful when consuming Phazon Salt. You can easily get some fucky change that makes you need to breathe plasma but still get poisoned by it or something like it.
The OOC button “Fix NanoUI” will remove most UI problems you have.
You can kick the Destructive Analyzer to make it activate instantly, bypassing the console.
You can make some emergency splints with wire, 2 rods and some newspaper from a newscaster.
Unscrewing an active but non triggered grenade makes it detonate instantly.
You can remove some toxins from a dead body by using a miner wormhole jaunter, since traveling through one of those makes you vomit.
If you combine the XRay mutation with Mesons the resulting eyesight is perfect, no darkness nor blocked line of sight.
You can safely refill a Welder directly from a Welding Fuel tank if the welder is turned off.
You can get an unlimited supply of Uzerkoekjes (Food with Iron) and Choco-Coins if you donate blood to a Blood Donation bot (Dr. Acula) only to remove the bloodbag and transfuse it back, use enough bloodbags in IVs to continue indefinitely.
Emitters and Energy guns can break open lockers and crates, though it will take a while for the Emitter and one full charge or more for the gun.
Feeding the Supermatter to a Singularity will instantly raise it to stage 4 if it wasn't at it already. Feeding it Supermatter while already at stage 4 will raise it further, even beyond that if it was already at stage 5 and you fed it a crystal.
Clown masks work as breathing masks. Scavenge your nearest clown corpse in the event of an emergency.
The Librarian's personal office has a list of all comm frequencies.
You can bind the singularity with the bound object spell, but this will gib you as soon as you do it. This can be avoided by using it with ethereal jaunt on the same tick, although gibbing may kick in when jaunt ends and the singulo is still bounded.
The easiest way to get good plant stats is to splice chanterelle spore development onto grass, then use robust harvest on the grass and take its development, metabolism and phytochemistry.
Hivecores are essentially an admin rejuvenation item, eating them also immediately flushes chemicals out of your body such as chloral. Note that if you were cloned, this causes you to become a retarded cripple as if freshly cloned once again.
You can reach the cargo centcomm level if you get on the shuttle the same tick you send it to leave, either through teamwork or placing the console near the shuttle. DOING THIS IS GROUNDS FOR ADMIN FUCKERY SUCH AS LIMB REMOVAL, BE WARNED.
Machines with Bluespace Matter Bins link up with every other machine's resource storage, if those machines also have Bluespace Matter Bins installed. No more bending the knee to science/cargo for materials! (If material is placed in one machine, it can only be removed from that machine and it won't appear on any other machine. An empty autolathe with Bluespace Matter Bins has an empty local resource storage, but shares the Bluespace storage).
You can Ctrl+Click microwaves and blenders to activate them without needing to go into a menu.
Bedsheets, belts, gauze/band-aids, ties, tape, and even pasta can be used as makeshift cuffs if you use it on someone with the “grab” intent on. This essentially means that everyone starts the shift with a pair of cuffs in their survival box. Additionally, cuffing with bedsheets makes the same noise as grabbing something out of your bag, so you can “stealth cuff” unaware people.
Kicking while under effects of gyro tea turns the attack into a roundhouse kick, adding 0-4 bonus damage.
Alt+Clicking the floor tile will show you all items placed on said tile.
You can coordinate assembly outputs without using a frame by using a signaler/signaler assemblies with different signals. Send the original signal, it activates the first target assembly and the signaler/signaler, which in turn activates the second assembly. You can use this to make sure one output comes before the other.
If you link a hand teleporter to a specific beacon, you can carry it and drop it whenever to have a quick return to a specific area.
Portals and Wormholes connect atmospherics between rooms so you can easily refill a spaced room/space a room using portals.
Items, machinery and consoles sent through portals stack on each other until moved, this includes Supermatter.
Small Singularities can move through wormholes if they touch the wormhole dead center within the tick they approached it.
Universal Recorders automatically translate all speech to a globally understandable language.
You can place machinery in the tiles under the windows on the Trader Shuttle (Or any Shuttle, for that matter) to install machinery on the shuttle, from an Autolathe to a Chem Dispenser to the TraderVend. Alternatively, you can build then remove a wall, which will reveal a normal tile in which machinery can be installed.
Injecting Creatine on Lamarr (RD's Office) turns it into a bioweapon with stingers and bayonets. It can't be dropped once picked up though.
Using *dab kills you and destroys all limbs.
Using the Suicide command while holding a Bag of Holding in the active hand kills you and destroys all your items, leaving only the bag, its contents and your ID/PDA.
You can link commands to certain keys or key combinations using the Macros menu on BYOND.
A strong piercing sound notifies you whenever you destroy a large artifact. Make sure to report this to your nearest xenoarch.
A grenade without beakers is a fake grenade and a great way to learn grenade assembly/scare whomever is chasing you.
All grenade assemblies need to be activated before detonation except the signaler/igniter grenade, which triggers the moment the signal is sent.
Unscrewing (not removing) the glass from a console prevents it from suffering the effects of an EMP.
You can dilute most single effect chemicals (Plant-b-Gone, Insecticide, Lube, Sodium Polyacrilate, etc) and keep their effect. The maximum dilution is 2u of chemical and 23u of diluter, meaning that a 100u beaker would have 8u chem and 92u of diluter (water works fine). For spray bottles, dilute 20u of the chemical with 230u of water. Each 5u spray uses 0.4u. Keep in mind that sprays now target individual limbs.
You can tile a 27×27 area with foam using a Chem Grenade with Large Bluespace Beakers. 100 Foaming agent and 100 Polytrinic acid on one side, 300 Aluminum on the other. Can work as a makeshift space platform or to patch large holes caused by subversive activities.
The best ammo for Railguns is Mythril coins, followed by Diamond coins. Phazon coins are random, possibly being the strongest ammo, the weakest or anything in between.
Any area marked as maintenance (as an expansion of an existing maintenance tunnel) using the station blueprints is protected against radiation.
Any machine placed in an location marked as part of another area will consume power from the marked area's APC even if the two areas are physically disconnected. For example, you can use the blueprints to mark a tile in space as part of RnD, which will make any machine on that tile consume power from RnD, even if the tile is otherwise isolated.
Normal guns explode on clown hands. PDA-Slip your nearest seccie and shoot their gun until it explodes.
You can use the clown crayon on energy guns, glocks or shotguns to paint them.
A condiment bottle can dispense on 1u sizes like a dropper without having to do the whole dropper thing.
If you dare, you can mine large chunks of the roid using supermatter delaminations. Remember to unscrew the screen of the shuttle console and the ore processors (or replace the glass with plasmaglass) to avoid EMP damage.
You can bind the Supermatter as a wizard. When pulled, it will appear directly under you without ashing.
Bees collect honey faster the stronger the plants they feed on are.
Cold Firemix (One part Plasma, two parts Oxygen) can be way more dangerous than hot plasma/firemix since the pipes can move more before choking.
Closed botany trays can connect to a pipe network using connectors.
Grass tiles can be dug using a spade to get sand which can be used to make sandstone. You sometimes get carrots, beets and potatoes from this as well.
Codewise, Frost Oil Ice and Directed Cooler Ice are the same, so you can cool water with the directed cooler and electrolyze it for free Frost Oil.
Activating a Xenoarcheology Suspension Field Generator set to carbon will weaken organics in front of it. If set to silicon, it will weaken silicons (duh) instead.
Novaflower Heat damage is directly correlated to it's potency, meaning that if you somehow get it to a negative value, you effectively have a cooling novaflower.
If a clonepod gets EMP'd mid cloning, the cloning fails and the clone gets turned into paste.
Voice activated assemblies (Syndie voice grenade implants, handmade voice grenades, etc) don't need the actual codeword to be perfectly said to trigger. A stuttering deathgasp saying the codeword works just as well as a clearly said codeword.
You can Ctrl+Click a grinder mid processing and remove the beaker before the machine completes the grinding cycle. All the materials are instantly ground the moment the machine starts.
You can get infinite glass from recycling ChemMaster bottles.
You can fake your death by saying *deathgasp, an extremely robust technique that might save your life if you get attacked. You might want to make a macro to both rest and deathgasp simultaneously. However, using the *deathgasp emote while at critical health will make you die on the spot.
You can throw your ID at airlocks to open them. If you are brain damaged, you can also put the ID in your hand and click on the door from a diagonal, either way will avoid headbanging the door.
You can wrench open fire extinguishers which allows you to dump their contents on the floor.
Dipping cigarettes in welding fuel creates a tiny, harmless explosion when they're lit. Cigarettes dipped in plasma are a little more dangerous…
If there is no power you can keep your department's APC powered by removing the power cell and charging it with a hand crank.
You can remove limbs and heads with any sharp item such as wirecutters or glass shards if you try hard enough.
Get yourself a Swiss Army Knife if you're a botanist (or in general, they're pretty useful). It has a Hatchet, the fork works as a mini hoe and the wirecutters work as plant clippers. You effectively reduce 3 tools to one with it, not including the other tools it has.
Gravy works as Antitoxin on Vox.
Need to clone someone but the cloner is all out of biomass? You can conveniently get up to three pieces of meat from butchering a corpse, which gives you enough biomass for a single clone.
Coffee is more robust than you think. It counteracts most sedatives such as Chloral Hydrate, stopping them from knocking you out. Coffee also heats up your body, preventing hypothermia.
You can dual wield small firearms by “combining” in your hands, allowing you to fire them both at the same time.
You can handcuff yourself to another person by clicking and dragging their sprite onto yours while holding handcuffs. You can also handcuff two people together by dragging their sprites onto each other.
You can use a circular saw, esword or plasma cutter to shorten the barrel of a double-barreled shotgun or mosin nagant. Just make sure to empty them before trying this.
Spray bottles can be very robust if filled with the right chemicals. Filling them with water allows you to wet up to three tiles, making anyone running over them slip. Space Lube is basically water on steroids, making people slip even if they walk slowly and stunning them for a very long time. Filling spray bottles with Polytrinic Acid allows you to quickly melt any item you spray it on. Stunning someone and spraying them with a bunch of polyacid will also kill them rather quickly. Spraying people with Chloral Hydrate will knock them out. Experiment and see what happens. Keep in mind sprays now target individual limbs.
Plasmamen meat has 5u Plasma. If you desperately need plasma, you can butcher your nearest plasmeme.
Potato Batteries are made by using some cable on a potato, its max charge equal to potency*10.
You can grind potato batteries to get lithium.
You can hold a piece of paper up to a security camera, and it will instantly transmit the information to any active AI. Use this for law 2 orders when your comms are cut off!
Fire extinguishers can be filled with any reagent if their nozzle is unwrenched when the safety is off. The results of this may vary, for example, polyacid is most effective when sprayed into a corner (targeting the wall behind) or when moving past a target, immediately sending them into crit or killing them.
Soft drinks (Space Cola, Lemon Lime, Dr. Gibb, Spacemountainwind, etc) work as the poor man's Leporazine, nullifying burn damage from being on fire. This is one of the ways a plasmaman can live while suitless.
The Supply Shuttle Console can be hacked by disassembling it and using a filled solder on its circuitboard. This disables the access requirements and gives you access to some illegal requests, not all, however.
You can go through portals by clicking on them, even if you can't physically enter the tile they're on. This works for ghosts as well.
Bikehorns go off if you step on them, this includes rubber ducks, quantum ducks, honk batons and the Syndie horn.
You can survive powercell suicides if said cell was both the lowest tier and uncharged. This gives you the suicided flag (and thus O2 damage) until you consume paroxetine.
You can speak one final message before dying by using the whisper command. This makes you speak/stutter your last words and die. Best used if you had a station bounced with an active microphone.
Placing a dead brain into an MMI revives the brain, allowing for brain transplants or cyborgification. This requires the brain owner to NOT have ghost-role'd.
Lizard meat reverts petrification via Acid Spit.
Folders and paper trays can be recolored by using crayons on them. Soap turns them grey, and bleach turns them Medbay white.
RTGs and PDTGs malfunction if EMP'd/Ion'd. If sufficiently damaged, they will turn into a broken cell that leaks radioactive material and has a 5% chance per tick of exploding with a 1,2,2 explosion. These broken cells can be safely disposed of either via recycling or an Autolathe.
Giving someone the abstract “grab” item will make the recipient grab the person on the same stage as you were.
Janicart keys placed on tables tell you who was the one that placed them there.
Crumbs can be vacuumed with the Wet/Dry vacuum for 1u Nutriment.
Heat pipes can be placed on the same layer as an atmospherics device (vents, scrubbers, etc) if wrenched before said device.
You can make auto-cleaning upgrades for the aquarium tanks via RnD.
You can cuff a briefcase to your hand making it stick to your hand by click-dragging some cuffs from the briefcase to you. This also applies to the syndie SMG briefcase. People with briefcases cuffed can't be handcuffed.
You can peep through holes in walls, such as those caused by penetrating bullets or railgun shots. You can also create a peephole with a surgical drill. Peepholes can be sealed by soldering the hole shut.
You can store rice balls inside donut boxes. Make your anime localization team proud.
The Strange Coffee Machine (SCP-294) available to ERT can make paper cups if no reagent is requested. Requesting a mob name will syphon some blood and reagents from that mob.
Rounds will automatically end if 15 minutes have passed with no-one alive stationside.
Clumsy people make special sounds when performing surgery and can sometimes extract funny items out of the patient.
You can High Shovel and High Lance with someone else.
“Progress bar” actions, such as uncuffing can be done while moving in space, be it voluntary movement or inertia.
Kicking a shuttle computer has a 5% chance to send the shuttle to its destination. Mind your foot damage if you don't have the Research Director's steel-toed shoes.
If you need to space someone without magboots and don't want to deal with the ire of the ZAS gods, go to the space-pod dock, put your victim under the outer-most airtight flaps, climb under those flaps, stand up, and yeet the fucker into the cold depths of space.
If there are two singularities in the world simultaneously, throw a natural/flawless bluespace crystal for 10%/100% chance to turn them into a wormhole.
You can use floor tiles as a simple mob, this includes turning light tiles on/off or phazon teleporting.
Rags can be used as ghetto muzzles, causing all oral speech to be muffled but not silenced. This does not affect non-oral languages such as Clatter, Slime or Golem. Any reagents on the rag will be slowly transferred to the muzzled person.
Running with any sharp object and slipping has a chance to stab you in the head.
Using a material synth on a fabricator will scan all the materials inside.
You can survive large explosions by timing your movement to the destructive wave. The larger the explosion the easier it is to dodge.
A sharp object such as a screwdriver to the eye can cause quite some damage real quick. It's also a good incentive for people to leave you alone if they want to keep their eyesight.
There's a 1 in 1000 chance for the access missing sound effect to be replaced with this. 1 in 10 during April fools.