Janitorial Items

All of these items spawn in the custodial closet, with many of them appearing in the JaniTech.

Cleaning Equipment

Items for cleaning up messes such as blood puddles, vomit, puddles of liquid, and the like.

Item	Description
Mop	The basic floor-cleaning device. Before washing can occur, the mop must first be wet. Using it on a floor will create a puddle of whatever fluid it's absorbed and liquefy average messes like dirt, blood, vomit, and oil. Using it on a puddle of fluids will soak the liquid into the mop. You can also use it in self defense like a spear via clicking a distant tile while on Harm intent. It is also possible to “joust” with these when riding a segway.
Mop bucket	Can hold about 200 units of liquid to dip your mop in, but must be dragged around behind you. Expect it to get pushed around constantly.
Bucket	Holds 70 units of liquid and is used to wet a mop or transfer liquids from a water tank to the mop bucket, though it's usually faster to click-drag the tank onto the mop bucket to fill it up to the brim in one go. Makes a helmet if wirecutters are used on it, but it also becomes useless for holding liquids. You can also click on it in-hand to make it into a bucket hat, dumping out its contents onto the floor and obscuring your vision when worn.
Buff-R-Matic	It functions much like a segway, as you must drag yourself onto it, and you may be pushed off. Unlike a segway however, you will coat the floors with any chemicals you put in its reservoir tank when you turn the buffer on, and it will dry off floors with puddles of fluid when it's off. Comes filled with a mixture of water and space cleaner.
Cleaner Grenade	A powerful anti-filth explosive. Click on it while it is in your active hand to pull the pin, then throw it. After the timer runs through, it creates a foam puddle of space cleaner that removes almost all types of filth in a 7-tile radius (barring walls, windows, etc. of course). It doesn't make the floors wet, but the foam itself can slip people who go through it too fast, though it dissipates after a short while.
Spray bottles	Some of your bottles contain space cleaner, others are empty and be filled with whatever reagent you desire. If you're more interested in doing your job as opposed to slipping people up, stick to space cleaner as it actually cleans up dirt and blood and what-not, unlike bottles filled with pure water. In addition to cleaning floors and items, this can also be used to clean gunked-up microwaves.
Sponge	A versatile scrubbing tool found near showers and tubs. Wet it using a sink or mop bucket and apply it directly to stubborn messes like dried vomit, or click a floor or wall tile to 'wipe it down' and clean dense piles of gibs and fungus with ease. A full sponge can be wrung out by clicking it in-hand, dumping its contents into a pool at your feet. On the underwater maps you can get them by hitting a sponge coral with wirecutters. You can use a cutting/snipping tool, such as scissors, to make the sponge resemble a slice of cheese. You may also sometimes find a cheese-shaped sponge in the Kitchen's cheese box, and cutting preserves whatever chems were originally in the sponge. Great for pranks!
Towel	A towel, located within your handy dandy janitor's fanny pack on round start. Wipe down floors, glasses, and whatever else is dirty. Functions very similarly to a sponge. You'll get a random color when you spawn in except for the special bartender and clown variant.
Tsunami-P3 Spray Bottle	Specialized cleaning instrument sometimes found on derelicts. When used like a standard spray bottle (click on a tile while holding the thing), unleashes a 3-tile wide cleaning wave that travels for up to 9 tiles, removing any messes it touches. You cannot add in any chems, the cleaning wave itself is harmless and cannot slip people, and the bottle has unlimited uses.
Antique Mop	An old mop that somehow still looks new. Occasionally found in derelicts. Unlike the regular mop, it can clean multiple successive messes before drying out, more if you clean multiple messes at once. It takes a bit longer to clean than the regular mop, but it cleans things it normally can't, such as gibs and robot debris. It also makes the tile cleaned slippery for about fifteen seconds, evident via a faintly pulsing outline, causing anyone who runs over it to fall; walking and crawling are fine. Cannot mop up fluid puddles.

Other Janitor Equipment

Clothes and other items not necessarily used for cleaning but nevertheless useful in the janitor business.

Item	Description
Janitor Fanny Pack	A stylish purple Fanny Pack for the Janitor. Janitors start with them equipped. At round start, they have a Janitor Towel, a Handheld Vacuum, a Sponge, and a Spray Bottle.
Wet floor signs	Put these down after you mop a busy intersection and simply point to them and sigh after people slip on wet floors. Mopping without putting down wet floor signs is generally considered grounds for Light Mockery and Amusing Tickets & Fines. Clicking on a wet floor sign with a wrench anchors/unanchors it, preventing/allowing people to pick it up.
Galoshes	The janitor's (mostly) unique footwear. Prevents slipping on wet floors when worn, though you are still vulnerable to space lube, ice and certain other chemical spills. Every Janitor spawns with a pair, and there may be another pair lurking on derelicts.
Cleaning Gloves	Also called long gloves, rubber gloves, and janitor gloves. Fun fact, did you know that the German word for gloves means hand shoes? That's what these little things are technically. While these rubber gloves won't prevent you from slipping (even if you could walk on your hands), they're quite similar to the galoshes in appearance and also happen to provide some protection from dirt, heat and even electricity to some degree. Every Janitor spawns wearing these, and there are a handful of spares in the JaniTech.
Mousetrap	Besides killing the chef's only friend, these can be used to just annoy folks or for more nefarious purposes with the right equipment. Anyone who steps on an armed mousetrap while barefoot will be stunned and take damage.
Trash Cart	A big green cart for stuffing litter (or corpses) into. Expect it to be pushed around and the items spilled or rummaged through. A lot.
Trash bags	Comes in two varieties, both otherwise functionally identical: Standard (black) and bio-hazardous (red). Can fit a number of normal-sized or smaller items (e.g. glass shards or bullet casings but not crates or TTVs) into them, with exception of other trash bags, and can be disposed of easily in either a trash cart or in disposal chutes. Wear it on your uniform slot and channel your inner Frank. Just ask genetics before you start eating the trash.
Handheld Vacuum	A small vacuum that spawns in the Custodial Supplies Locker, useful for clearing litter, chemsmoke clouds, and ants. This has two main functions: Click on a tile to suck up small items, such as glass shards and bullet casings, into its internal trash bag. To empty the bag, you can click on a closed crate, trash cart, disposal chute, or similar to dump it all out. You can also click on the vacuum while it's in your hand or with an empty hand to remove the bag; note it obviously can't suck up items without a bag. Click on a pile of space ants or a smoke-powder-based cloud of chemicals (e.g. miasma cloud) to clear it away into the vacuum's internal bucket reservoir. To empty the bucket, click on a mop bucket or sink. Removing the bucket is same as removing a bag, and again the vacuum can't function without it. You can also click at least two tiles away from you to pull items within 3 tiles in the direction you towards you. This also has a 25% chance to make someone in the suction area drop the item they're holding, essentially making it a disarm at range, which is why this function can also be done by clicking on someone at melee range.

JaniTech

This machine in the Custodial Closet vends many of the above janitorial items, namely:

List of Contents

Item	Quantity
Mop	5
Sponge	4
Space Cleaner Spray Bottle	3
Bucket	4
Space Cleaner bottle (50 units of space cleaner)	4
Cleaner Grenade	6
Box of trash bags (8x trashbags each)	8
Box of hazardous waste bags (8x biohazard bags each)	8
Body bag box (8x body bags each)	2
Mousetrap	4
Wet Floor Sign	10
Cleaning Gloves	2
(Hidden) Cheese-shaped sponge	2

Custodial Supplies Locker

This is a unique locker in the Custodial Closet that contains a few extra janitorial supplies, notably the vacuum and some bottles of chemicals that can be used to make space cleaner. It starts off locked, but luckily you have access to it, so just click on the locker to unlock it, then click on it again to open it.

1x “Janitor's equipment” box (janitor jumpsuit, brown shoes, janitor headset, janitor PDA, i.e. no galoshes)
1x Acetone Bottle (50 units of Acetone)
1x Ammonia Bottle (50 units of Ammonia)
1x flashlight
1x pair of Cleaning Gloves
2x Space Cleaner Bottles (50 units of space cleaner)
4x Wet Floor Signs
1x Handheld Vacuum

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