Found in: In any PDA, Office desks Used for: Changing your trajectory in space. Writing on paper. Strategy: Aim for the eyes.
Description
You can write on paper with a pen, but also on robots and bookshelves. This is essential to the Librarian but not anyone else -- since they take up a whole pocket or backpack slot, most people throw them out immediately or shove them in their PDAs.
Paper
Found in: Paper Tray, Office desks Used for:Request forms, Résumés. Strategy: Make it look professional! A useful and very over looked feature of paperwork is the [sign] Signature command, as you can't fake someone else's signature.
Found in: Chemistry, Art Storage, Toxins Lab, Conference Room, Cargo Loading Area Used for: Used for labeling items for easier recognition. Strategy: Useful for when making multiply kinds of grenades or bottles and wanting to keep track of which is which.
Description
Used to stick a label onto something's name. E.g., Cuban Pete (HONK). Can not be used on people. Can be turned on/off by clicking it in your hand.
Camera
Found in: Art Storage, Library Used for: Taking pictures. Strategy: Steal their souls with this! Everyone (that doesn't have a brain) know that cameras steal souls.
Description
Can take 10 pictures before having to get a new roll of film. Pictures can then be attached to news reports created on a newscaster console.
Flashlight
Found in: Maintenance, Emergency Toolbox, Vendomat Used for: Lighting up the darkness Strategy: If you're using one of these, someone probably fucked up the power system.
Description
It sheds light when you click on it, even if it's on your belt or in your pocket. The light sources stack to create brighter light sources, so if you have a flashlight in your belt, a flashlight in both pockets, and a flashlight in each hand, along with a safety helmet on your head, you will SHINE LIKE THE SUN, LEAVING EVERY DARK CORNER EXPOSED TO TRUTH! Can be used to tell if non-humancreatures are dead or not, with a simple flash of the eyes. Also of note are Lanterns (three spawn in the Mining Dock), which are brighter than flashlights because Cargonia. Power goes off every round, so real pros just turn these on and leave them everywhere.
Use a Screwdriver to toggle it between normal and attachment mode.
Remote Signaling Device
Found in: Primary Tool Storage, Research Division, Vendomat Used for: Can be attached to Igniters and, a lot less commonly, wires on doors. Strategy: Can be attached to wires on all anything with a panel and work like a remote Multitool. If used right, two of these can be used in place of an Multitool.
Description
Sends a pulse when it receives a signal with the right code and frequency.
Use a Screwdriver to toggle it between sending and receiving/attaching mode.
Found in: Custodial Closet, Medbay Used for: A better cleaner than water. Doesn't cause people to slip. Spray to clean a single tile or to remove a cobweb. Can also be used to clean people's clothing. Strategy: You can make more by combining 50% Ammonia with 50% Water. (See: Guide to chemistry)
Description
Not to be confused with the liquid created in Chemistry. This is in the end just a spray bottle, and can be filled with anything.
Bucket
Found in: Custodial Closet Used for: They can be used by severaldifferentjobs as part of their actual duties. Strategy: Fill with water and splash on the floor and make everyone fall.
Description
A bucket holds liquid only, most commonly water. It holds up to 70 units.
Light Replacer
Found in: Custodial Closet Used for: Replacing broken light bulbs or making evil traps for people that can't see in the dark. Strategy: Fill with light bulbs and just start replacing those broken lights!
An item which uses magnets to easily replace lights. Perfect for the lazy janitor!
Station Bounced Radio
Found in: Emergency Toolbox Used for: Used for emergency communication, if when the telecommunications goes down. Strategy: If the singularity is lose, it may very likely take out the telecommunications room. Other causes of telecommunications failures could be power lose or sabotage. So have one of these handy or find one quick if when it happen.
Description
The station bounced radio will function similarly to standard radio Headset if you put it in your pocket or in your hand; thus you can use the "say ;radio message" function as normal without turning on the microphone to broadcast. (Use :l (Left Hand) and :r (Right Hand) depending on the hand used to hold the radio. (?))
It is very simple: click it, set the station, and turn on the speaker to talk. It will pick up any sounds from surrounding areas.
Found in: Cargo Loading Area, Atmospherics Office, Everyone start out with an internals box. Used for: The box is a container that can hold seven items and be stored inside of a backpack. Strategy: Commonly used as a place to store syndicate items as Security will often neglect to search them. It is a terrible melee weapon.
Description
Can be folded flat for cardboard by clicking it in your hand when it's empty. It can only hold tiny items. Everyone start with one because it contains a breath mask and an oxygen tank, it is commonly referred to as your internals box.
Boxes can come in many forms, some can only have specific items in them.
Crayonbox
Found in: Art Storage Used for: Used for holding Crayons. Strategy: Pick your favorite color and try and stay inside the lines.
Description
A box containing many Crayons of different colors.
Briefcase
Found in: Law Office Used for: A briefcase is a bulky item that can hold up to seven tiny items. Strategy: ?
Description
By default it is filled with one pen and six sheets of paper. They are very sturdy, so make a decent weapon (blurs vision when it hits heads). The lawyer and detective get one.
Equipment
Paper Tray
Found in: Office desks Used for: Supplies you with all your paper needs. Strategy: Take Paper and set your paper-cutting master plans in motion.
Description
Paper Paper Paper. Click it to take a piece of paper, drag it to your sprite to pick the whole thing up.
Found in: Custodial Closet Used for: Wetting a Mop. Strategy: Commonly filled with water, but You can create Space Cleaner (not to be confused with the Space Cleaner spray bottle) by combining 50% Ammonia with 50% Water. See also: Guide to chemistry
Description
A mop bucket holds liquid only, most commonly water. It holds up to 100 units. Has to be filled with a Bucket, Beaker or bottle.
Intercom
Found in: One is found in every room. Used for: The same as headsets and Station Bounced Radios, but mostly only if when you don't have access to either of those. Strategy: When a crewman's headset is lost or comms are down and a Station Bounced Radio is nowhere to be found, wall radios are essential to talking with the station at large.
Description
Intercom wall radios are an immobile version of headset radios with the same number of frequencies and functions. The AI can use them to publicly broadcast a clandestine conversation or use it to discreetly spy on the talk around the station themselves. Use :i to operate these hands-free.
Found in: Library Used for: Used to find the books you want. Strategy: No one uses these.
Description
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Furniture
Chair
Found in: Everywhere. Used for: Chairs are for sitting down and making the place look nice. Strategy: The only real use for chairs are to restrain people or to buckle in when the shuttle is about to take off.
Description
Table
Found in: Everywhere. Used for: Tables are used to hold objects on. Strategy: Put your stuff on it, but don't put your feet on it.
Description
They come in two types, reinforced and standard. They cost two metal for the standard, and can be reinforced by using four metal rods on the parts. When you build the parts to the table you can set them up by hand. (See: Basic Construction) Tables can be taken apart with wrenches for normal tables, and taken apart with welders then wrenches for reinforced tables. (See: Deconstruction)
Normal: Reinforced: Wooden:
Rack
Found in: Everywhere. Used for: Used for equipment storage in the station. Strategy: ?
Description
Racks can be made with a single sheet of metal. They are flat and wide, incapable of being walked over, and is bolted together. It can hold any number of items, but it holds them stacked on top of each other like a table. They are most common in maintenance tunnels and the EVA room.