/tg/Station 13

baymed.

Calomel:
Looking in the code this seems like it should be a really robust counter poison. Every tick it should remove 5u of every other reagent in your system. That 15u of venom in your system usually takes a long time to metabolise with its .2 rate instead lasts only 3 ticks if you have Calomel in you. It'll also purge some of the hystamine buildup. The downside that it does 5 tox damage until you reach 20 health is minor in comparison. I figure a 5u patch, pill or injection should purge at least 50u of everything else in you.

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be working. I tested it by filling myself up with water and then slapping on a patch and nothing seemed to happen except the tox damage. Pill didn't work either. Tested charcoal for the same thing and it also seemed to not purge the water any quicker. The code for purging chems may not be working for the goon chemicals.

Styptic Powder:
I find this one a little underwhelming. I'm used to bruise packs and 20u pills of Bicard. Good times can't last forever I guess. Assuming you use a 50u patch it'll heal 50 instantly and then around 25 more as the body processes it over the next 25 seconds.

Compared to Bruise packs its pretty lackluster. Bruise packs stack in 5 and heal 60 to one limb and 20u of Bicard will heal just about 100 brute damage but takes 50 seconds to do it. You can pack 7 in a pill bottle but its still time consuming for the chemist.

Saline-Glucose:
I actually skipped over this one due to the wiki description stating it had a low chance to heal brute and burn. Looking at the code now though it looks like its straight healing 1/1 for oxy and tox. If thats the case it'd make a passible anti toxin solution because charcoal isn't speedy.

Charcoal:
Getting into things you have to cook Charcoal is pretty rough. You have to make oil first, fairly easy. But then you need to burn it into ash. Then take the ash and mix it with Sodium Chloride and cook it again. All to heal tox damage at a modest, 1.5 per tick, rate and to have a lesser purging effect.

This may get better though if heaters are improved to heat more quickly or things will get tweaked so the ash will still be hot after the reaction meaning we won't need to wait nearly as long for the charcoal itself to cook.

Silver Sulfadiazine:
Didn't use this one much. From the descrpition and the code it looks like its nearly identical to Styptic powder but for burns and twice as effective. One 50u patch would heal 100 points of burn damage instantly.

Though I could be misreading things. The code says which to me looks like it would just just remove the volume of the patch. Not 2x the volume. But if thats the case why is the code writen the way it is? I didn't get a chance to test it myself.

Synthflesh:
This seems to pretty much be Styptic powder + Silver Sulfadiazine without the small amount of bonus healing over time. Has that weird [volume-volume*2] again. I assume its supposed to heal only 1 burn and 1 brute per unit. Pretty good for emergency first aid but still a pain to mass produce especially since you have to draw your own blood for it.

Diphenhydramine:
I keep confusing it with my bottle of diethylamine next to it. Other than that it seems pretty useless as a drug when it only removes 3u of histamine per tick. Fairly complex recipe. Needs Oil which is easy. And diethylamine whiche is two steps in itself but isn't too bad.

Ephedrine:
Seems to be Hyperzine, Synapazine, and Ivopropoline rolled into one. Neat. Only semi tricky part is it requires oil.

Pentetic Acid:
Scrubs your body clean. Removes rads, tox damage, and even filters out other chems. Only problem is it requires both Cyanide and Formalehyde cooking before you can make it.

Perfluorodecalin:
Mime Drug. I don't know why you'd need such a strong oxygen restroation drug when you can just CPR that away. Heals a whopping 25 oxy per tick. Requires oil which isn't too bad and to be cooked. Fun for its silencing properties.

Salicylic Acid and Salbutamol:
Didn't bother with these and don't see why anyone would. Salicylic Acid requires Phenol, which requires oil. All to heal .5 brute per tick if you've taken less than 50 brute. Ig you take another step and mix it to Salbutamol it heals some oxygen damage and stablizes paitents.

Cyanide: haven't seen it much but it stays in the system a long time doing steady tox damage. Seems to have a low chance of knocking the person out each tick.

Nuerotoxin: Brain and tox damage but its capped at 60 total. Will knock you out after a while. Processes quickly in the body so you'd need more than 15u to even see that happen.

Venom and Formaldehyde: Kiss your ass goodbye. Both cause histamine to build up in your blood. For Formaldehyde its a 10% chance of 5-15 and for venom its a 25% chance of 5-10. As soon as Histamine reaches 20 you start taking 5-10 brute/oxy/tox each every tick. 15-30 every tick. If you're not in Medbay before the histamines kick in or if medbay doesn't have Calomel or some other drug ready you're dead. Even Cryo probably won't keep up with the damage.

Crank: It'll kill you dead almost as quickly. 1-10 brain, tox, brute each tick and it starts the moment you have more than 20u in your system. 20u on its own seems to be pretty good for shrugging off stuns.

First thing is I'm not sure theres a way to tell what temprature a mix is at. Maybe this could be added to the reagent scanner on the PDA.

Heaters are pretty crap right now. I'm not talking too much about how fast they heat. That might be fine. The issue is you can't interact with them meaningfully. I know this is getting fixed so I won't complain too much but you can't tell how hot your beaker is, you can't take it out early, and sometimes I think it gets perpetually stuck when it goes up 2 and overshoots it target.

Temprature also seems to be tied to beakers and not the chemicals. I noticed it when I made a batch of Crank and then reused the same beaker for another batch. The drugs cooked as soon as I poured them all in the beaker. This could be pretty exploitable. If a chemist wanted they could heat a beaker up to 500 or so and just use it for their reactions that needed heat. No need to heat each drug individually.

It seems infeasable to tie tempratures to the reagents themselves but perhaps the temprature of the beaker could change depending on the temprature and amount of the fluid of contaner it was poured from. So if you have one beaker with 20u at 100 and pour 20u from a beaker at 300 it averages to 200. Pour only 10 and the temp changes less. If the first beaker is empty it just gets its temprature overwritten. I'm not too fluent in code though so I'm not sure how to best handle it.