the slimening (god shittest coder edittion)

[AitorLogedo]

About the PR

Gives slimepeople a passive ability: walking over a tile slurps up any puddle
on it and cleans cleanable dirt decals (while barefoot, since that part is
done with the feet). On top of that, the slime also soaks stains off its own
worn clothing and anything held in its hands as it moves — that part works
shoes or not, since it soaks straight through the body. Whatever is slurped is
ingested into the stomach, so reagents metabolize normally (food nourishes,
water hydrates, toxins harm). Cleaning always gives a small flat amount of
hunger too, so a slime can stay fed by tidying up. The ability can be toggled
on/off with an innate action.

Why

I want this server's slimepeople to feel different from how other servers
handle the species, and to bring them closer to the SS13 slimeperson they're
based on. With the new clothing-stains system in, it felt natural to let a
slime lick itself clean. This is just one of several slime-specific features
I'm planning to add.

Balance

Hunger from cleaning is deliberately modest and fully tunable via datafields:

• AbsorbVolume (15u) — reagent slurped per tile (also the cap per stained item)
• Cooldown (0.5s) — time between absorptions
• NutritionPerVolume (0.3) — hunger per unit slurped from puddles and stains
• NutritionPerDecal (2) — hunger per dirt decal cleaned

Floor puddles and dirt require being barefoot (empty shoes slot), so that part
competes with footwear. Cleaning stains off worn/held items does not.

Technical

• New shared SlimeFloorAbsorptionComponent + ToggleSlimeFloorAbsorptionEvent
• New server SlimeFloorAbsorptionSystem (listens to MoveEvent, acts once
  per new tile; ingests via the stomach, cleans decals via DecalSystem)
• Stain cleaning drains the StainableComponent "stain" solution off worn
  clothing and held items (via GetHandOrInventoryEntities) into the stomach
  and refreshes its visuals through StainSystem.UpdateVisuals
• Toggle action prototype + granted on MobSlimePerson
• Reuses the existing food/metabolism path for per-reagent effects

Media

Changelog

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• add: Slimepeople can now passively slurp up puddles and clean dirt off the floor while barefoot, and soak stains off their own clothing and held items, feeding off what they absorb. Toggle it with an action.

[AitorLogedo]

Making it in parts since next one I'm doing is blood and all of them at once is probably a lot and honestly have no idea if you guys are okay with species changes or not

[adamsong]

Initial thoughts looking at this, it feels strange being both a toggle and based on shoes. I think it should be just based on shoes, so that walking barefoot is potentially dangerous.

[AitorLogedo]

Initial thoughts looking at this, it feels strange being both a toggle and based on shoes. I think it should be just based on shoes, so that walking barefoot is potentially dangerous.

Added this because in ss13 you can also clean things and your your clothes, it is not a thing here yet but if it's get added it's good to be a toggle on of if you want to be looking dirty or not, there you also always absolve liquids on the ground always, independent from species. Can change it tho