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{{Job|pic=[[file:Generic_engineer.png|50px|'''Station Engineer''']]|Jobname=Station Engineer|Access= [[Engineering]], [[Maintenance]], [[Tech Storage]]|Difficulty=Medium}}
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|stafftype = ENGINEERING
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|jobtitle = Station Engineer
|titles=Engine Technician, Solar Engineer, Project Engineer, Junior Engineer, Construction Specialist
|access = [[Engineering]], Power Equipment, [[Tech Storage]], External airlocks, [[Construction Area|Construction]] [[Vacant Office|Site]], [[Maintenance]], [[Telecoms]]
|additional = [[Atmospherics]], [[Research Division]], R&D Console
|difficulty = Medium
|superior = [[Chief Engineer]]
|duties = Start the engine, wire the solars, repair station hull and wiring damage, do the job of the (always) incompetent [[Atmospheric Technician|atmos techs]]. Basically, do everything that has anything to do with repairs. Also, be prepared to be the hero the station deserves, because [[Security]] is lazy.
|guides = [[Engineering items]], [[Construction materials|Guide to Construction Materials]], [[Basic construction|Guide to Basic Construction]], [[Guide to construction]], [[Guide to advanced construction]], [[Guide to power]],  [https://forums.yogstation.net/threads/electromancy-an-engineers-guide-to-the-powernet.19818/ External guide to power], [[Singularity Engine]], [[Tesla Engine]], [[Nuclear Reactor]], [[Solars]], [[Hacking]], [[Guide to Telecommunications]], [[Supermatter|Guide to the Supermatter]], [[Thermo-Electric Generator]]
|quote = I don't mess up the engine a lot. But when I do, you should probably fucking run because I ain't qualified to fix it.
|age=22}}
Effectively, you are an assistant on steroids, and need not fear any electrical things with your gloves. You can, however, affect the station, for good or for ill, much more profoundly than a mere [[assistant]] can. For example, badass engineers can break into the [[Teleporter|teleporter room]] quickly to kill a malevolent [[AI]].


= Engineering overview =
'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Fix hull breaches, fix the power grid if power goes out in an area. '''And for the love of Nar-Sie, don't just run off with the damn space suits before the engine is set up!'''
===Engineering Etiquette===
Take a look around engineering as the first thing you do, and see how many fellow engineers you have. If there's a ton, you probably don't want to snatch up everything that isn't nailed down. Don't fight over hardsuits. Don't try to break into the middle of a task someone has already begun: trying to fill plasma tanks at the same time as another person usually ends up filling engineering with plasma, and trying to turn on containment at the same time as someone is often lethal.


You are the Station Engineer, everything that breaks is supposed to be fixed by you. You get a lot of useful tools to fix various things on the station. A good engineer responds to emergencies promptly and repairs things fast so the rest of the crew can go on with their life.
Be nice and courteous and you'll often be treated well, curse people out for their incompetence or how slow they are and people aren't going to rush to your retrieve your corpse when syndicates blow your head off on the solars.
===Engineering Equipment===
Engineers have to carry a lot of equipment to perform their various tasks. The job is a lot easier if you carry around what you need, so you don't constantly have to be running back to engineering for each step of a repair process.


= Tools and equipment =
Here's a suggestion how you can be prepared for shit on the space station:[[File:engineer_loadout.png|thumb|664px|This is an image of the tools every engineer should be trusted to have on him at all times. Empty pockets can be used for tools, flashlights, etc]]
[[File:engineer_rig_loadout.png|thumb|664px|And if you're planning to go fix stuff in space]]
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|[[File:Utilitybelt.png|62px]] <br>'''[[Utility Belts|Utility belt]]'''
|[[File:engineer_toolbelt_contents.png|448px]] <br>Screwdriver, wrench, wirecutters, multitool, cable coil, crowbar, welding tool.
|- align="center"
|[[File:Eng backpack.png]] <br>'''[[Backpack]]'''
|[[File:Engineer_backpack_contents.png|448px]] <br>Internals box, welding helmet, metal, glass, high-capacity power cell.
|- align="center"
|[[File:Box.png|62px]] <br>'''[[Box]]'''
|[[File:Engineer_box_contents.png|448px]] <br>Breath mask, epinephrine medipen, T-ray scanner, airlock electronics, power control module, cable coil, flashlight.
|}
Some of this you start with, some you need to collect. The items you pick up are:
*[[File:IGloves.png]] '''Insulated Gloves:''' Your most prized possession, these puppies protect you from shock. Engineers work with insane amounts of electricity, and it's easy to put yourself into crit if you tap into the main engine line without remembering to put them on. Always grab a pair of gloves. A few pairs are lying around engineering and in the electrical closet. Lock the closet when you're done unless you want the clown and mime to steal all the remaining pairs.


*You spawn with a full [[toolbelt]]. Almost everything can be manipulated with one of these tools. If you are in doubt what to use, try the crowbar!
*[[File:Welder.png]] '''Industrial Welding Tool:''' Grab this from the welding locker next to the electronics locker; it has double the capacity of a standard welding tool. Throw the normal one you have on the floor to be like every engineer (or put it away neatly for bonus points from the CE).
*[[Insulated gloves]] are a must have to avoid electric shocks. There are a couple scattered around in Engineering and more in the electrical supplies locker. Cargo can order more. Working without these can be harmful or even fatal!
*A [[Multitool]] is useful to manipulate wires of every kind. You also find this in the electrical supplies locker.
*A [[Welding mask]] is essential for welding if you want to keep your eyesight. You find these in the welding supplies locker. Also grab an [[Industrial welding tool]] and replace the one in your belt with that.
*The maintenance tunnels are dark. A good engineer always has a [[Flashlight]] on him.
*You also need a [[Meson scanner]]. Never look into the singularity without these! It also makes you able to see hull breaches through walls. Scientists can hook you up with an advanced version that doesn't require lights to work. Available from the engineer's locker or the YouTool vending machine.
*[[Hazard vest]]. This doesn't do much but you can put your oxygen tank in it's storage slot so you can use your other slots for tools. Get it from racks or from engineer's locker.
*[[Engineering hardsuit]]. This is a must have if you plan to go into space for some reason. Since there is only two of these provided in the suit storage units, make sure to only take them if you really need them. Walking around in a hardsuit just in case is considered [[powergaming]] and also annoys other engineers who might actually need the suit. The hardsuits provide decent but not total protection from radiation.
*[[Radiation suit]]. Available from the radiation suit closets. You need this if you have to work near a [[Radiation collector array]] or the [[Particle accelerator]] while the singularity is active.


= Materials and components =
*[[File:WeldingHelmet.png]] '''Welding Mask:''' You need this to avoid going blind while welding. Note if you have the hardsuit on, it works as a welding mask; you don't have to flip up/flip down.


*[[Metal]] is the most commonly needed material. You can build every kind of things out of it. You can find metal in [[Engineering storage]], [[Engineering secure storage]], [[EVA]] and [[Auxiliary Tool Storage]]. Cargo can get you more if you run out. Metal can be turned into [[metal rods]], another commonly needed material.
*[[File:Metal.png]][[File:AniGlass.gif]] '''Metal & Glass:''' Basic building blocks. Carrying just one stack each is generally fine; convert it into floor tiles, bars, or reinforced glass. If you take one stack to yourself, pay close attention to the radio so you know where they are needed.
*[[Glass]] is mostly needed to make windows. Can be found at the same areas as metal.
*[[Plasteel]] is mostly needed to build or repair reinforced walls. Not much is available on the station so only take it if you need it.
*[[Cable coil]] is required to lay power wires and to build most electronic equipment. You have one coil in your toolbelt and you can get more from the YouTool in engineering. Also a lot of these are scattered around the station.
*A [[power control module]] is needed to build or repair [[APC]]s on the station. It is handy to have one on you.
*[[Airlock electronics]] is an essential component in [[Airlock]]s which often get broken and need a replacement. You can set required access level by clicking it in your hand and swiping it with your ID.
*[[Air alarm electronics]] is rarely needed but should you need it, they are available from the Engi-Vend in engineering.
*[[Power cell]]s power a couple of equipment on the station. Having one on yourself is handy.
*You are sometimes required to build new [[Computer]]s or [[Machine]]s. Components for these can be found in [[Tech storage]].


= Your usual shift =
*[[File:MGlasses.png]] '''Optical Meson Scanners:''' These illuminate everything structural in range, showing you the layout of dark maintenance tunnels. Note that in the darkness, you will only see one tile around you in every direction, so don't think you're getting free x-rays out of these, and don't be surprised when John Q. Changeling appears out of nowhere while you walk through maintenance without your lights on. You can find one pair of these lying around engineering and two more in the locked engineering lockers.


When the shift starts, the first responsibility of the engineers is to start the singularity. This can be easily done by completing each of the steps below:
*[[File:Gas_mask.png]] '''Gas mask:''' The same function as a breath mask, but with the bonus of protecting you from pepper spray, acid sprays to the face (once), and some of the diseases the [[virologist]] inevitably releases. It also keeps you on your feet slightly longer in high concentrations of N2O, so make sure you have one in your inventory if not on your face for roleplay reasons. Note that a syndicate voice changer looks identical, so don't be surprised if Security asks you to take off your mask to verify that you are who you say you are. You can find them in engineering lockers, laying around in engineering, and maintenance tunnels.


*Assemble the [[Particle accelerator]] in the center of the engine room by wrenching, wiring and screwing all parts of it.
*[[File:Extended_Emergency_Oxygen_Tank.png]] '''Extended-capacity emergency oxygen tank:''' These canisters hold a LOT of air. The hardsuits can hold full-sized canisters which hold more, but two of these filled up in your bag, and there's very little chance of you ever running out of air. '''To fill up,''' place it in the oxygen tank, click the oxygen tank, turn the pressure all the way up, open the valve, and close the valve. Once you're sure it's closed, remove the tank. Click the tank in your hand and lower the mask pressure to 16 KPA, which will give you the most efficient use.
*Put a [[Plasma tank]] into each of the [[Radiation Collector Array]]s. Optionally you can fill the tanks from the canister in secure storage so the engine provides more power. If you opt for this, be very careful to not let the plasma leak.
*Grab a hardsuit and walk out into space south of the engine room. Turn on all the four [[Emitter]]s and lock them by swiping your ID. Also go around and turn on each of the [[Field generator]]s. If it's late to the shift the emitters might be unpowered preventing you from setting a containment field. Please check the [[Detailed guide to starting the singularity]].
*Head back in, dress in a radiation suit then use the console on the Particle Accelerator. Turn it on and set it to power 2. Observe the singularity growing, wear a meson scanner to avoid unpleasant side effects. Once the singularity is 2x2 in size, notch the power level back to 0. Leave it ON.
*Exit the accelerator room and close the shutters.
*Finally, go into the SMES room and set each of the [[SMES]] units. If you filled the plasma tanks in step 2, set them to input level 200000, if you did not, set them to input level 120000. Set output to 100000. Make sure both input and output is turned on.
*From time to time, check that all is well with the engine. Malicious people or silicons might have messed with it, which can result in a disaster. Make sure the containment field is up and that accelerator and SMES units are on the correct settings.


Setting the solar arrays:
*[[File:Power_cell.png]] '''Power Cell:''' Needed to repair a fully broken APC, or get an APC working in a drained area. Good to have one on hand.


*Four solar arrays are on the station which can also provide power to the station. Grab a hardsuit and a couple of cables to set them up.
*[[File:Flashlight.png]] '''Flashlights:''' These light up the area, even in your pockets. Two flashlights in your pockets and your helmet light on, and you'll light up a vast area, very helpful to the general crew when you're doing repairs in a freshly-darkened crater, so they don't walk into the vacuum and freeze.
*Complete the wiring on the array of your choice.
*Head back in and set the solar control computer to Auto tracking.
*Set the SMES unit to input level 70000 and input on. If you have the engine running, set output to off. Otherwise, set output level to 50000.
*Repeat until all arrays are operational.


Fixing hull breaches:
*[[File:Hazard.png]] '''Hazard Vest:''' An archetypal item, it serves no purpose except roleplay and that you can buckle an extended capacity emergency oxygen tank to it. Definitely do so if you aren't in a hardsuit or firesuit.


*Grab a hardsuit and head to the scene.
*[[File:Circuitboard.png]] '''Power control module:''' You need this to repair a fully broken APC. Some sit by the SMES modules.
*First, replace all missing plating (use metal rods on space to build a lattice and floor tiles to build plating on a lattice) and walls facing space (click metal to build a girder and use metal on girder to finish wall).
*Use a welder to repair broken plating.
*Lay all missing wires, your priority is to restore power flow to other areas of the station if the wires leading to there are destroyed. Fix/rebuild broken APCs.
*Fix/rebuild essential equipment that was destroyed (computers, machines).
*Repair internal walls and windows. [[Atmos technician]]s must have arrived by now, consult with them to not block their piping operations with things you build.
*Lay floor tiles on plating to make it look nice again. Rebuild destroyed furniture.


[[Category:Jobs]]
*[[File:Circuitboard.png]] '''Airlock electronics:''' You need this to construct an airlock. Having one on hand can save you a long trip back if you run across a broken door. Some by the metal and supplies, and one by the SMES modules.
*[[File:Hardsuit Eng.png]] '''Engineering hardsuits:''' Vital for setting up engines in space, or just navigating dangerous environments. These hardsuits provide robust fire and radiation protection meaning they can be used in fairly dangerous environments. Additionally, they start with a jetpack attached to them, which makes for easy navigation of low gravity environments.
*[[File:EngiScanners.png]]'''Engineering scanner goggles:''' These goggles have many uses, ranging from meson mode, radiation mode, and t-ray mode.
Firesuits can no longer be carried in bags, and it's unsafe to firefight without them, so just run to the nearest firefighter closet in the advent of a fire to gear up. There is one close to nearly everything in the station. Learn its locations.
 
Note that some of these are for roleplay reasons only. Roleplaying also determines whether you're a good engineer or not. --When talking with people face-to-face, take the helmet off and carry it around a little bit -- hardsuits look pretty cool without the helmet on.Write down things you figure out like the door wires and photocopy them, distribute them to the other engineering staff as a memo. Engineers have some exceptional roleplay as the people that fix everything when everything else is going to hell. Take advantage of that camaraderie and the ludicrous nature of the situations you will find yourself in. A robotic mute-guy-fixing-everything playing style is efficient, of course, but it isn't nearly as fun for everyone.
==Engineering Reference Maps==
[[File:BoxstationThumb.png|300px|left|thumb|
link=https://ibb.co/zHdpY8N|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> '''Yogstation a.k.a "Box Station" Map''',<br> updated 2020/05/05.]]
 
 
[[File:YogsmetaThumb.png|300px|right|thumb|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"> '''MetaStation Engineering Reference Map''', updated 2020/01/12. ]]
 
 
As an engineer, you're sometimes called to put the station back together again after a bad fall. Sometimes, that's a problem, because what used to have an identifiable shape now is just a mess of shattered tiles, exposed space, and broken dreams.
 
These maps highlight the crucial bits of machinery running under everything so you can fix any section that gets broken. It is also useful when the power goes out in a section to figure out where the damn clown cut a cable.
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==Doing Your Duty==
You have a few things you should do if you don't want to be [[robust]]ed, before doing what you want to do. Repairing things is what engineers do, and so is setting the station with power. Without any engineers doing a little work, the station will crumble.
===[[Singularity_Engine#How_To_Set_Up_The_Singularity|Starting the Engine]]===
This is an essential task. Luckily, it is [[Singularity Engine#How%20To%20Set%20Up%20The%20Singularity|laughably simple]]. Make sure you follow the instructions precisely; an engineer who accidentally sets the singularity free is not a popular person.
===[[Tesla Engine|Starting That Other Engine]]===
Some Chief Engineers prefer to use the tesla engine over the singularity engine. The same precautions apply.
===[[Supermatter|Starting the third Engine]]===
Sometimes there's a [[Supermatter]] instead of a Singularity/Tesla engine, it takes a few more steps to set up, and only your department will hate you if you mess it up.
===[[Thermo-Electric_Generator|Starting the fourth Engine]]===
Sometimes there's a [[Thermo-Electric Generator]] on BoxStation.
===Working on the [[Solars]]===
Read the guide, make sure you have wire, internals, and a spacesuit. Best of luck.
===[[Construction|Fixing the Station]]===
Is there a hole in the wall? Are floor tiles broken? Did an idiot break a window to get into the medbay? Are people complaining about electrified doors? Are cables torn up leading to an APC? Are the APC's themselves fried? Is it more than thirty seconds into the round? The answer to two or more of these is always yes.
 
''Quit reading "The Lusty Xenomorph Maid" and get to work!''
===Fixing the Power===
The main engine or the solar panels provide more than enough energy to fully power a state-of-the-art space station -- unless something goes wrong, which it almost always will. Whether it's due to shoddy wiring, a powersink, a bomb, an assistant cutting cables, a loose singularity or pure engineer laziness, power outages are a common problem that is your, YES, YOUR, job to fix. See that Power Monitoring computer? If people complain of power outages, it should always be the first port of call -- assuming the rampaging maw of Lord Singuloth hasn't already devoured it.
 
See the [[guide to power]] to learn how to into power and, more importantly, how to fix everything.
==Getting the Man Out of Danger... Alive!==
It's your job to save lives when they cry out for help.
===Firefighting===
Engineers get access to maintenance hallways, which contain several [[Engineering_items#Firesuit|firesuits]] and [[Engineering_items#Fire_Extinguisher|extinguishers]]. If a fire breaks out somewhere, put it out. [[Engineering_items#Firesuit|Firesuits]] allow you to walk in almost any fire. [[Engineering_items#Fire_Extinguisher|Extinguishers]] have a limited capacity. Refill them with water tanks, which can be found all around the station.
===Physical Rescue===
If someone cries that he can't get out of somewhere and no one can get him out, then it's your job to do so. [[Hacking#Airlocks|Hacking airlocks]], [[Guide to construction#Walls%202|deconstructing walls]], basically whatever it takes to get to them. I don't need to point out that you should never put others at risk in doing so!
==Tips==
* To get maximum camera coverage, you only have to place one camera every fifteen tiles. If there's a wall between them, use an analyzer on the assembly after welding it to the wall to create an x-ray camera. Otherwise, count seven tiles from where the previous camera disappears from view and build a camera there.
 
* By placing Arcade machines next to the singularity in engineering, every time the singularity spits out an EMP, the arcade machines will spit out toys. I'm not sure if it's necessary, but you can screw and unscrew it again to reset the EMP check so you can spawn more toys from the same arcade cabinet. Engineering toy factory ahoy!
 
* How to make an airlock with selected access: Get a hold of the airlock control circuit and click it in your hand. Use your engineer ID to change the settings on it and pick the access you want it to have.
 
* Had a power sink? Found and removed it? Good, now turn the output of every SMES off - and then turn the output back on. Sounds silly and IT-crowdish, but it works. If you do not do that, some APCs may not recharge correctly.
* Currently having a power sink? Wire the engine into the grid! Enough direct power can counteract a power sink. Power sinks explode when this happens, so this can also be used tactically by the traitor.
* How to wire the engine straight to grid: If you look at the complete station map thing, you'll see that the four Engineering SMES units receive input together and send their output out across each other. Wire the inputs across each other and into the output. You should virtually NEVER do this EXCEPT to counteract a power sink because if anyone gets shocked anywhere, they'll go straight to crit.
* With the current setup of field generators, a stage 4 singularity can be contained without a problem. However, stage 5 is coded to dislodge structures, i.e, it WILL eat the field generators by simply pulling them apart.
* Emitters will still work even after wiring in engineering as been destroyed by a bomb. Only cutting a power cable with wirecutters will cause them to stop working.
* Arriving half an hour into the round, and no one can be assed to set up the engine? Engineering SMES is drained entirely; thus, the emitters won't go online? Grab the plasma from engineering storage, put it into the PACMAN. Drag the PACMAN to the tile south of the engineering APC, use a wrench on it, set the output to 10000, and turn it on. With the 30 sheets the game starts with, you now have a good while to supply enough current to the emitters to get the engine working.
* If the CE and AI are ornery (or dead) and won't open secure storage for you, you could always turn the main breaker off of the APC next to secure storage and crowbar the blast doors open.
* For most construction/deconstruction operations (Mining, wrenching chairs/tables, deconstructing walls) you can click on multiple spaces to take things apart or build multiple things at a time.
* You can put windows directly on grilles.
* You can also pry up 4 floor tiles and weld them together to get a metal sheet, which you can grind down for iron. Glass for silicon. Reinforced glass for metal and silicon. Wood for carbon.
* Cell chargers give power to inserted cells faster than it takes power from the APC, meaning it generates some power from nothing, and you can alternate between two cells and keep an APC running forever.
* Power testing:
** The most power the system will drain seems to be around 225000 W. (Tested this by using the Make All Areas Un-powered secret, then the Power All SMES secret.) With most of the station's lights shut off, except for medical and security areas, the system drains around 150000 W. (Tested that by shutting off lighting for every APC except for those areas.)
** I've also been messing around with the PACMAN type generators and have discovered that, if created with the best parts you can make, each generator will produce:
** P.A.C.M.A.N generator = 60000 W
** S.U.P.E.R.P.A.C.M.A.N generator = 180000 W
** M.R.S.P.A.C.M.A.N generator = 480000 W (Probably enough to power Meta on it's own, but I don't know.)
** They will also hold 450 sheets of fuel. Meaning, if you've maxed out research, you can power the entire station with one SUPERPACMAN and a PACMAN (240000 W), or the entire station minus lights with one SUPERPACMAN.
** So if you're playing sandbox and wanna power your station, put those solar panels away.
** Also, the solar panel crate in engineering only starts with 13 solar assemblies instead of 21 like solar crates ordered from cargo. A proper solar array consists of 61 solar panels (including the tracker), so it takes 60 supply points to replace one completely.
* It is possible to upgrade the AI's cameras by using certain items... For example, you can give them x-ray properties if you apply an ultra-micro laser or analyzer to them. Pretty useful if the AI needs eyes in maint, and you have the research to produce them. Watch as the AI freaks out when it realizes it now sees EVERYTHING in the dorms. There is also a proximity sensor upgrade. Install a proximity sensor upgrade on a camera, and the AI will be immediately alerted if anyone comes in view range. Insert solid plasma, and the camera will be EMP-proof!
* You can make a voice-locked door by making an airlock, attaching a signaler to the bolt wire, creating a voice analyzer-signaler assembly and keep it on you, when you speak the code word, it toggles the bolts. You can also use a signaler, but that's no fun.
* Here's a hint for noticing power sinks before anybody else does:
** always set up the SMES so that all the APCs stay full all the time (100 000+ output each)
** if you see an APC go red (i.e. not charging), check if it is connected to the power grid
** if it is connected, check the total power load on the station (either via PDA or a power monitoring console)
** the normal load for the entire station is <200 000W. If you see the load steadily rising to well above 500 000W start thinking about wiring the black hole into the grid
** during a power sink, load tops out at around 1.4MW, so get the singularity to output at least 1.7MW or so.
** Note that even after the sink has been removed, the system is still all wonky and buggy. Disconnecting the singularity from the grid again may make it look like there's a second sink in place, causing power alarms all over the station, depending on how well charged the APCs are. Feels like some APCs simply break down after such stress - the best course of action is just to keep the singularity wired in.
* Power output is a function of singularity size and the amount of total plasma in collectors.
* How to be a good engineer:
** Get singulo stable at stage 2, set all SMES units to 200K in 110K out.
* How to be a manly engineer:
** Get singulo stable at stage 3, set all SMES units as above... including the four solar SMES units. Wire singulo and all 7 SMES units to the grid directly. Stroke your beard in satisfaction.
* You can screwdriver wooden flooring to remove it without breaking it.
* If a window is not attached (Screwdriver, Crowbar, Screwdriver), you can use a wrench on it to deconstruct it.
* You can turn one color of wire into another color easily.
** Get a color of wire you want, and a color of wire you have.
** Add the color you have to the color you want to increase the amount of the color you want.
*You can copy the access of an airlock by hitting it with airlock electronics.
==Traitorneering==
Being a [[traitor]] engineer can be both the easiest and hardest task on the station. On the one hand, you can go almost everywhere on the station and have easy access to the tools to get rid of any pesky doors (or walls) in your way. Also, many crew members don't bat an eyelid when they see an engineer wearing a jetpack, or standing in a hole in the wall. Any curious crewmen are usually deflected by saying you are doing engineering work ("I need this to repair hull damage, Captain!")
 
On the other hand, Engineers lack weapons. <s>Stungloves, however, are the hidden weapon few ever search for, which can give the upper hand in a fight.</s> Stungloves are gone forever, but stun prods can be made from [[Makeshift weapons|basic tools]]! Also, cable restraints may be constructed from cable coils. In a pinch, the welding tool is a reasonably powerful weapon that causes burn damage when turned on. Secondly, engineers loitering near their target may quickly arouse suspicion, especially if you are far away from a maintenance tunnel. Engineers are also one of the few jobs which retain their maintenance access, making travel around the station significantly safer, faster, and easier.
 
Using an electromagnetic sequencer on an emitter will make it pack more of a punch, doing more damage and even being able to destroy walls!
 
And finally, if you genuinely hate the station, it is within your grasp to release the <strike>kraken</strike> singularity and generally sabotage the station's power supply.
 
 
{{Jobs}}
[[Category: Jobs]]

Latest revision as of 00:09, 7 February 2024

ENGINEERING STAFF
Generic engineer.png Engineer.png
Station Engineer
Alternative Titles: Engine Technician, Solar Engineer, Project Engineer, Junior Engineer, Construction Specialist
Access: Engineering, Power Equipment, Tech Storage, External airlocks, Construction Site, Maintenance, Telecoms
Additional Access: Atmospherics, Research Division, R&D Console
Difficulty: Medium
Supervisors: Chief Engineer
Duties: Start the engine, wire the solars, repair station hull and wiring damage, do the job of the (always) incompetent atmos techs. Basically, do everything that has anything to do with repairs. Also, be prepared to be the hero the station deserves, because Security is lazy.
Guides: Engineering items, Guide to Construction Materials, Guide to Basic Construction, Guide to construction, Guide to advanced construction, Guide to power, External guide to power, Singularity Engine, Tesla Engine, Nuclear Reactor, Solars, Hacking, Guide to Telecommunications, Guide to the Supermatter, Thermo-Electric Generator
Minimum Age: 22
Quote: I don't mess up the engine a lot. But when I do, you should probably fucking run because I ain't qualified to fix it.

Effectively, you are an assistant on steroids, and need not fear any electrical things with your gloves. You can, however, affect the station, for good or for ill, much more profoundly than a mere assistant can. For example, badass engineers can break into the teleporter room quickly to kill a malevolent AI.

Bare minimum requirements: Fix hull breaches, fix the power grid if power goes out in an area. And for the love of Nar-Sie, don't just run off with the damn space suits before the engine is set up!

Engineering Etiquette

Take a look around engineering as the first thing you do, and see how many fellow engineers you have. If there's a ton, you probably don't want to snatch up everything that isn't nailed down. Don't fight over hardsuits. Don't try to break into the middle of a task someone has already begun: trying to fill plasma tanks at the same time as another person usually ends up filling engineering with plasma, and trying to turn on containment at the same time as someone is often lethal.

Be nice and courteous and you'll often be treated well, curse people out for their incompetence or how slow they are and people aren't going to rush to your retrieve your corpse when syndicates blow your head off on the solars.

Engineering Equipment

Engineers have to carry a lot of equipment to perform their various tasks. The job is a lot easier if you carry around what you need, so you don't constantly have to be running back to engineering for each step of a repair process.

Here's a suggestion how you can be prepared for shit on the space station:

This is an image of the tools every engineer should be trusted to have on him at all times. Empty pockets can be used for tools, flashlights, etc
And if you're planning to go fix stuff in space
Container Contents
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Utility belt
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Screwdriver, wrench, wirecutters, multitool, cable coil, crowbar, welding tool.
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Backpack
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Internals box, welding helmet, metal, glass, high-capacity power cell.
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Box
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Breath mask, epinephrine medipen, T-ray scanner, airlock electronics, power control module, cable coil, flashlight.

Some of this you start with, some you need to collect. The items you pick up are:

  • IGloves.png Insulated Gloves: Your most prized possession, these puppies protect you from shock. Engineers work with insane amounts of electricity, and it's easy to put yourself into crit if you tap into the main engine line without remembering to put them on. Always grab a pair of gloves. A few pairs are lying around engineering and in the electrical closet. Lock the closet when you're done unless you want the clown and mime to steal all the remaining pairs.
  • Welder.png Industrial Welding Tool: Grab this from the welding locker next to the electronics locker; it has double the capacity of a standard welding tool. Throw the normal one you have on the floor to be like every engineer (or put it away neatly for bonus points from the CE).
  • WeldingHelmet.png Welding Mask: You need this to avoid going blind while welding. Note if you have the hardsuit on, it works as a welding mask; you don't have to flip up/flip down.
  • Metal.pngAniGlass.gif Metal & Glass: Basic building blocks. Carrying just one stack each is generally fine; convert it into floor tiles, bars, or reinforced glass. If you take one stack to yourself, pay close attention to the radio so you know where they are needed.
  • MGlasses.png Optical Meson Scanners: These illuminate everything structural in range, showing you the layout of dark maintenance tunnels. Note that in the darkness, you will only see one tile around you in every direction, so don't think you're getting free x-rays out of these, and don't be surprised when John Q. Changeling appears out of nowhere while you walk through maintenance without your lights on. You can find one pair of these lying around engineering and two more in the locked engineering lockers.
  • Gas mask.png Gas mask: The same function as a breath mask, but with the bonus of protecting you from pepper spray, acid sprays to the face (once), and some of the diseases the virologist inevitably releases. It also keeps you on your feet slightly longer in high concentrations of N2O, so make sure you have one in your inventory if not on your face for roleplay reasons. Note that a syndicate voice changer looks identical, so don't be surprised if Security asks you to take off your mask to verify that you are who you say you are. You can find them in engineering lockers, laying around in engineering, and maintenance tunnels.
  • Extended Emergency Oxygen Tank.png Extended-capacity emergency oxygen tank: These canisters hold a LOT of air. The hardsuits can hold full-sized canisters which hold more, but two of these filled up in your bag, and there's very little chance of you ever running out of air. To fill up, place it in the oxygen tank, click the oxygen tank, turn the pressure all the way up, open the valve, and close the valve. Once you're sure it's closed, remove the tank. Click the tank in your hand and lower the mask pressure to 16 KPA, which will give you the most efficient use.
  • Power cell.png Power Cell: Needed to repair a fully broken APC, or get an APC working in a drained area. Good to have one on hand.
  • Flashlight.png Flashlights: These light up the area, even in your pockets. Two flashlights in your pockets and your helmet light on, and you'll light up a vast area, very helpful to the general crew when you're doing repairs in a freshly-darkened crater, so they don't walk into the vacuum and freeze.
  • Hazard.png Hazard Vest: An archetypal item, it serves no purpose except roleplay and that you can buckle an extended capacity emergency oxygen tank to it. Definitely do so if you aren't in a hardsuit or firesuit.
  • Circuitboard.png Power control module: You need this to repair a fully broken APC. Some sit by the SMES modules.
  • Circuitboard.png Airlock electronics: You need this to construct an airlock. Having one on hand can save you a long trip back if you run across a broken door. Some by the metal and supplies, and one by the SMES modules.
  • Hardsuit Eng.png Engineering hardsuits: Vital for setting up engines in space, or just navigating dangerous environments. These hardsuits provide robust fire and radiation protection meaning they can be used in fairly dangerous environments. Additionally, they start with a jetpack attached to them, which makes for easy navigation of low gravity environments.
  • EngiScanners.pngEngineering scanner goggles: These goggles have many uses, ranging from meson mode, radiation mode, and t-ray mode.

Firesuits can no longer be carried in bags, and it's unsafe to firefight without them, so just run to the nearest firefighter closet in the advent of a fire to gear up. There is one close to nearly everything in the station. Learn its locations.

Note that some of these are for roleplay reasons only. Roleplaying also determines whether you're a good engineer or not. --When talking with people face-to-face, take the helmet off and carry it around a little bit -- hardsuits look pretty cool without the helmet on.Write down things you figure out like the door wires and photocopy them, distribute them to the other engineering staff as a memo. Engineers have some exceptional roleplay as the people that fix everything when everything else is going to hell. Take advantage of that camaraderie and the ludicrous nature of the situations you will find yourself in. A robotic mute-guy-fixing-everything playing style is efficient, of course, but it isn't nearly as fun for everyone.

Engineering Reference Maps

Yogstation a.k.a "Box Station" Map,
updated 2020/05/05.


MetaStation Engineering Reference Map, updated 2020/01/12.


As an engineer, you're sometimes called to put the station back together again after a bad fall. Sometimes, that's a problem, because what used to have an identifiable shape now is just a mess of shattered tiles, exposed space, and broken dreams.

These maps highlight the crucial bits of machinery running under everything so you can fix any section that gets broken. It is also useful when the power goes out in a section to figure out where the damn clown cut a cable.

Doing Your Duty

You have a few things you should do if you don't want to be robusted, before doing what you want to do. Repairing things is what engineers do, and so is setting the station with power. Without any engineers doing a little work, the station will crumble.

Starting the Engine

This is an essential task. Luckily, it is laughably simple. Make sure you follow the instructions precisely; an engineer who accidentally sets the singularity free is not a popular person.

Starting That Other Engine

Some Chief Engineers prefer to use the tesla engine over the singularity engine. The same precautions apply.

Starting the third Engine

Sometimes there's a Supermatter instead of a Singularity/Tesla engine, it takes a few more steps to set up, and only your department will hate you if you mess it up.

Starting the fourth Engine

Sometimes there's a Thermo-Electric Generator on BoxStation.

Working on the Solars

Read the guide, make sure you have wire, internals, and a spacesuit. Best of luck.

Fixing the Station

Is there a hole in the wall? Are floor tiles broken? Did an idiot break a window to get into the medbay? Are people complaining about electrified doors? Are cables torn up leading to an APC? Are the APC's themselves fried? Is it more than thirty seconds into the round? The answer to two or more of these is always yes.

Quit reading "The Lusty Xenomorph Maid" and get to work!

Fixing the Power

The main engine or the solar panels provide more than enough energy to fully power a state-of-the-art space station -- unless something goes wrong, which it almost always will. Whether it's due to shoddy wiring, a powersink, a bomb, an assistant cutting cables, a loose singularity or pure engineer laziness, power outages are a common problem that is your, YES, YOUR, job to fix. See that Power Monitoring computer? If people complain of power outages, it should always be the first port of call -- assuming the rampaging maw of Lord Singuloth hasn't already devoured it.

See the guide to power to learn how to into power and, more importantly, how to fix everything.

Getting the Man Out of Danger... Alive!

It's your job to save lives when they cry out for help.

Firefighting

Engineers get access to maintenance hallways, which contain several firesuits and extinguishers. If a fire breaks out somewhere, put it out. Firesuits allow you to walk in almost any fire. Extinguishers have a limited capacity. Refill them with water tanks, which can be found all around the station.

Physical Rescue

If someone cries that he can't get out of somewhere and no one can get him out, then it's your job to do so. Hacking airlocks, deconstructing walls, basically whatever it takes to get to them. I don't need to point out that you should never put others at risk in doing so!

Tips

  • To get maximum camera coverage, you only have to place one camera every fifteen tiles. If there's a wall between them, use an analyzer on the assembly after welding it to the wall to create an x-ray camera. Otherwise, count seven tiles from where the previous camera disappears from view and build a camera there.
  • By placing Arcade machines next to the singularity in engineering, every time the singularity spits out an EMP, the arcade machines will spit out toys. I'm not sure if it's necessary, but you can screw and unscrew it again to reset the EMP check so you can spawn more toys from the same arcade cabinet. Engineering toy factory ahoy!
  • How to make an airlock with selected access: Get a hold of the airlock control circuit and click it in your hand. Use your engineer ID to change the settings on it and pick the access you want it to have.
  • Had a power sink? Found and removed it? Good, now turn the output of every SMES off - and then turn the output back on. Sounds silly and IT-crowdish, but it works. If you do not do that, some APCs may not recharge correctly.
  • Currently having a power sink? Wire the engine into the grid! Enough direct power can counteract a power sink. Power sinks explode when this happens, so this can also be used tactically by the traitor.
  • How to wire the engine straight to grid: If you look at the complete station map thing, you'll see that the four Engineering SMES units receive input together and send their output out across each other. Wire the inputs across each other and into the output. You should virtually NEVER do this EXCEPT to counteract a power sink because if anyone gets shocked anywhere, they'll go straight to crit.
  • With the current setup of field generators, a stage 4 singularity can be contained without a problem. However, stage 5 is coded to dislodge structures, i.e, it WILL eat the field generators by simply pulling them apart.
  • Emitters will still work even after wiring in engineering as been destroyed by a bomb. Only cutting a power cable with wirecutters will cause them to stop working.
  • Arriving half an hour into the round, and no one can be assed to set up the engine? Engineering SMES is drained entirely; thus, the emitters won't go online? Grab the plasma from engineering storage, put it into the PACMAN. Drag the PACMAN to the tile south of the engineering APC, use a wrench on it, set the output to 10000, and turn it on. With the 30 sheets the game starts with, you now have a good while to supply enough current to the emitters to get the engine working.
  • If the CE and AI are ornery (or dead) and won't open secure storage for you, you could always turn the main breaker off of the APC next to secure storage and crowbar the blast doors open.
  • For most construction/deconstruction operations (Mining, wrenching chairs/tables, deconstructing walls) you can click on multiple spaces to take things apart or build multiple things at a time.
  • You can put windows directly on grilles.
  • You can also pry up 4 floor tiles and weld them together to get a metal sheet, which you can grind down for iron. Glass for silicon. Reinforced glass for metal and silicon. Wood for carbon.
  • Cell chargers give power to inserted cells faster than it takes power from the APC, meaning it generates some power from nothing, and you can alternate between two cells and keep an APC running forever.
  • Power testing:
    • The most power the system will drain seems to be around 225000 W. (Tested this by using the Make All Areas Un-powered secret, then the Power All SMES secret.) With most of the station's lights shut off, except for medical and security areas, the system drains around 150000 W. (Tested that by shutting off lighting for every APC except for those areas.)
    • I've also been messing around with the PACMAN type generators and have discovered that, if created with the best parts you can make, each generator will produce:
    • P.A.C.M.A.N generator = 60000 W
    • S.U.P.E.R.P.A.C.M.A.N generator = 180000 W
    • M.R.S.P.A.C.M.A.N generator = 480000 W (Probably enough to power Meta on it's own, but I don't know.)
    • They will also hold 450 sheets of fuel. Meaning, if you've maxed out research, you can power the entire station with one SUPERPACMAN and a PACMAN (240000 W), or the entire station minus lights with one SUPERPACMAN.
    • So if you're playing sandbox and wanna power your station, put those solar panels away.
    • Also, the solar panel crate in engineering only starts with 13 solar assemblies instead of 21 like solar crates ordered from cargo. A proper solar array consists of 61 solar panels (including the tracker), so it takes 60 supply points to replace one completely.
  • It is possible to upgrade the AI's cameras by using certain items... For example, you can give them x-ray properties if you apply an ultra-micro laser or analyzer to them. Pretty useful if the AI needs eyes in maint, and you have the research to produce them. Watch as the AI freaks out when it realizes it now sees EVERYTHING in the dorms. There is also a proximity sensor upgrade. Install a proximity sensor upgrade on a camera, and the AI will be immediately alerted if anyone comes in view range. Insert solid plasma, and the camera will be EMP-proof!
  • You can make a voice-locked door by making an airlock, attaching a signaler to the bolt wire, creating a voice analyzer-signaler assembly and keep it on you, when you speak the code word, it toggles the bolts. You can also use a signaler, but that's no fun.
  • Here's a hint for noticing power sinks before anybody else does:
    • always set up the SMES so that all the APCs stay full all the time (100 000+ output each)
    • if you see an APC go red (i.e. not charging), check if it is connected to the power grid
    • if it is connected, check the total power load on the station (either via PDA or a power monitoring console)
    • the normal load for the entire station is <200 000W. If you see the load steadily rising to well above 500 000W start thinking about wiring the black hole into the grid
    • during a power sink, load tops out at around 1.4MW, so get the singularity to output at least 1.7MW or so.
    • Note that even after the sink has been removed, the system is still all wonky and buggy. Disconnecting the singularity from the grid again may make it look like there's a second sink in place, causing power alarms all over the station, depending on how well charged the APCs are. Feels like some APCs simply break down after such stress - the best course of action is just to keep the singularity wired in.
  • Power output is a function of singularity size and the amount of total plasma in collectors.
  • How to be a good engineer:
    • Get singulo stable at stage 2, set all SMES units to 200K in 110K out.
  • How to be a manly engineer:
    • Get singulo stable at stage 3, set all SMES units as above... including the four solar SMES units. Wire singulo and all 7 SMES units to the grid directly. Stroke your beard in satisfaction.
  • You can screwdriver wooden flooring to remove it without breaking it.
  • If a window is not attached (Screwdriver, Crowbar, Screwdriver), you can use a wrench on it to deconstruct it.
  • You can turn one color of wire into another color easily.
    • Get a color of wire you want, and a color of wire you have.
    • Add the color you have to the color you want to increase the amount of the color you want.
  • You can copy the access of an airlock by hitting it with airlock electronics.

Traitorneering

Being a traitor engineer can be both the easiest and hardest task on the station. On the one hand, you can go almost everywhere on the station and have easy access to the tools to get rid of any pesky doors (or walls) in your way. Also, many crew members don't bat an eyelid when they see an engineer wearing a jetpack, or standing in a hole in the wall. Any curious crewmen are usually deflected by saying you are doing engineering work ("I need this to repair hull damage, Captain!")

On the other hand, Engineers lack weapons. Stungloves, however, are the hidden weapon few ever search for, which can give the upper hand in a fight. Stungloves are gone forever, but stun prods can be made from basic tools! Also, cable restraints may be constructed from cable coils. In a pinch, the welding tool is a reasonably powerful weapon that causes burn damage when turned on. Secondly, engineers loitering near their target may quickly arouse suspicion, especially if you are far away from a maintenance tunnel. Engineers are also one of the few jobs which retain their maintenance access, making travel around the station significantly safer, faster, and easier.

Using an electromagnetic sequencer on an emitter will make it pack more of a punch, doing more damage and even being able to destroy walls!

And finally, if you genuinely hate the station, it is within your grasp to release the kraken singularity and generally sabotage the station's power supply.


Jobs on Yogstation

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Security Head of Security · Security Officer · Warden · Detective · Lawyer
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Service Janitor · Bartender · Cook · Botanist · Lawyer
Civilian Assistant · Tourist · Clown · Mime · Artist · Chaplain · Curator · Clerk
Non-Human AI · Cyborg · Positronic Brain · Drone · Personal AI · Construct · Golem · Ghost
Special Centcom Official · Death Squad Officer · Emergency Response Officer · Ian · HONK Squad Officer
Races Humans · Vuulen · Plasmaman · Phytosian · Preternis · Ex'hau · Ethereals · Polysmorph · Miscellaneous