Blob: Difference between revisions

|duties = Spread onto the whole station

|guides = No external guides

'''Blob''' is a random event where a large blob infests the station and starts destroying everything its path, including hull, fixtures and creatures. The crew must destroy the blob to prevent it from destroying a pre-determined amount of the station, currently 400 tiles. Once the blob reaches critical mass, the blob has a minute or so to absolutely devour the station with its now insane spread rate and infinite resources. Only thing to do as crew at that point is to launch yourself to lavaland in a escape pod.

So you're a blob. Open the status tab. You have a minimum time of one minute before you can spawn, and a maximum time of 6 minutes until you will forcefully be spawned on your current location. You can move around freely and invisibly until you spawn. Try to find a secluded spot with no cameras. Also remember, nearby walls will automatically be destroyed the first few minutes from blob tiles created by your core. Talking normally will send a message to your blob hivemind channel.

Blobs are made of chemicals. These affect the color of the blob tiles, blobbernauts and blob spores, as well as the effects of their their attacks (which count as [[Guide_to_chemistry#Reagent_Delivery|vapor]]). You start with a free chemical reroll, and get another after a few minutes of cooldown. These are the available chemicals you can get:

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|'''5''' Brute Damage, '''20''' Burn Damage, Lights targets on Fire and makes them scream

|Weak to Water

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|'''10''' Brute Damage, Injects 7.5u [[Guide_to_food_and_drinks#Frost_Oil|frost oil]], 7.5u [[Guide_to_food_and_drinks#Ice|ice]], and also 7.5u of its own poison that deals 0.3 toxin, burn, and brute damage about every 2 seconds.

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|'''5''' Brute Damage

|Devours loose items left on the station, and releases them when attacking or attacked.  

|'''5''' Brute Damage, '''25''' Burn Damage, 20% chance to EMP Targets

|Causes EMP if killed by melee, bullets or lasers

|Takes '''25%''' More Burn Damage and Full Brute Damage

|'''5''' Brute Damage, '''15''' Oxygen Damage, '''25''' Stamina Damage, Prevents Breathing a few seconds

|Immune to Tesla

|Takes Burn Damage from EMPs

|'''20''' Brute Damage to Target, '''10''' Brute Damage to Nearby Mobs

|Immune to Explosions

|Takes '''50% '''More Damage from Fires and Tesla

|'''20''' Brute Damage, '''15''' Burn Damage

|Can only expand manually (by clicking). Nodes and core produce extra resources instead of producing Blob Tiles. Manual expansion near your Core '''moves it''' to that tile.  

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|'''15''' Brute Damage, '''10''' Oxygen Damage, '''25''' Stamina Damage

|Releases Water When Hit or Killed

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|'''5''' Brute Damage, '''20''' Armor and Bio Resist-Ignoring Brute Damage

|When hit with Brute Damage, Attacks Nearby Area

|'''5''' Brute Damage, '''17.5''' Toxin Damage, Targets Appear Full Health, Injects Toxin

|N/A

|'''22.5''' Brute Damage

|Expands when burned but is not immune to fire, Chance of Bonus Expansion

|Takes Double Brute Damage

|'''22.5''' Brute Damage

|When Damaged, May Swap Positions with a Nearby Blob

|'''17.5 to 70''' Brute Damage Based on Nearby Blobs

|Spreads Damage Between Nearby Blobs

|Takes '''25%''' More Damage from Fire, Explosions, and Tesla

|'''5''' Brute Damage, '''15''' Toxin Damage, Gains Resources+Zombie From Unconscious Humans

|Sometimes produces Fragile Spores when expanding or killed. The spores will harvest sleeping/crit targets for 5-10 additional resources and a blob zombie. All strains can make blob zombies, but this one doesn't require them to be dead.  

You build structures by hovering over a blob tile and clicking the HUD icon for that structure. You will get a fail message if that spot is not valid. There should be ONE thing on your mind, that being placing a Resource Blob close to your Core as soon as possible.

Blobs attack and destroy the station by trying to place Normal Blobs on tiles, which destroys items and structures on the target tile, and applies chemical effects to humans and heavily damages other mobs, such as cyborgs. You can expand/attack manually by left-clicking the target or target tile, but this costs chemicals. Hemming in targets by placing Normal Blobs behind them before attacking is extremely effective.

|A normal blob. Attempting to place one on a tile containing a dense object, or diagonally from another blob, will cause you to attack that tile, damaging mobs, and structures. Attempting to expand into space is much less effective, having a high chance of failure. '''HOTKEY for placement is Left-Click.'''

|'''Strong Blob'''

|Can only be placed on Normal Blob.

|'''[[#Blobbernaut|Blobbernaut]]'''

|Heavily damages a Factory Blob to create a player-controlled [[#Blobbernaut|Blobbernaut]] which does high damage while being extremely hard to kill. However, unlike a blob spore, it does not explode into a cloud of gas when killed, instead of applying the blob's chemical when attacking targets. The blobbernaut will slowly die if its factory is destroyed.  

!Readapt Strain

|Lets you choose a new blob strain/chemical out of four randomly selected. '''The first use is free, and you get another free readaptation every few minutes. '''

* '''[[Body Armor]]''': The blob, in addition to expanding, can attack. Blobs do a variety of damage but are blocked by armor and bio protection, so [[riot armor]] or [[bio-suit]]s, are helpful. Don't let yourself get surrounded!

* '''[[Welding tool]]s:''' Cheap, readily available from [[Vending machines#YouTool|YouTool machines]] (hack them for two more Upgraded Welding Tools) or the [[autolathe]].  Grab one and start burning away. Make a path towards a resource node and take it out. One guy with a welder isn't going to be able to breach the core, so don't try. It's a good idea to grab some [[General items#Fuel Tank|Fuel Tank]]s to keep nearby so you can refuel quickly, but make sure your welder is OFF before refueling, and be sure the blob doesn't get close enough to absorb them. If science division is any good, they'll be passing out plasma cutters before long. They do the same damage as lit welders without any need to refuel and have the added bonus of not setting plasma on fire in the case that the blob or some chucklefuck pops open a plasma canister. Replace your welder with a cutter ASAP if science starts making them.

* '''Laser weaponry:''' HOLD UP THERE HOT SHOT THESE ARE IN LIMITED SUPPLY. Don't take more then three and don't take them if you don't have good armor or a space suit. Carrying the whole armory into maint just lets the blob kill you and bury them.  Available in the [[Armory]], in [[Head of Personnel|certain]] [[Head of Security|heads]] [[Captain|of staff]]'s quarters and through R&D or Cargo. For the love of god consolidate gear.

* '''[[Emitter]]s:''' Set them up as far away from the blob as you can while still striking the core. If the blob reaches them, they're gone. Three emitters side by side matched against the core is a one-sided match.

*'''Large Plasma Fires:''' Large fires will eat away at a blob but will also make the area uninhabitable for people without fire suits. It will also not destroy blobs protected by unweakened shield blobs, so you'll need men with fire suits and laser guns to finish the job. If atmos aren't ruined yet this will make the crew hate you.

*'''Bombs:''' Bombs can destroy any piece of the blob except for the core proper, if the round's been dragging on and atmos are ruined, it's not a terrible idea provided you have something to hit the blob with AFTER there's a gaping bomb hole in the ground.

In other words: '''If you are fighting the blob, use help intent or else everybody will hate you.''' <s>Unless you have the obtrusive quirk. Then they will hate you regardless.</s> Obtrusive quirk got canned, thank you coderbus.

Zombies are hardy bastards that will take people down faster than a school of space carp. Prevention is the best measure, if anyone goes down, pull him out and away from the blob before he either dies or the blob blocks him off. If a zombie's smacking at you, the natural reaction might be to try running away '''but don't do that, running around in a panic is the last thing you should do.''' Zombies, like many NPC mobs, have laser-guided auto-attacks and will relentlessly pursue and hit you until you're down, plus anyone trying to help you won't be able to get a single hit off the zombie if it's running around chasing you.

'''[[Medical Doctor]]:''' You are field medics. Put your HUD glasses on, grab a first-aid kit and heal people so they don't die. The worst thing in blob mode is someone with half the armory in their backpack dying and getting engulfed and/or zombified by the blob. Don't let this happen. You will want to bring brute patches/bruise packs and probably burn patches/ointment if people are inevitably getting caught in lasers or getting hurt by inevitable plasma fire. Don't waste them on someone with 10 damage to one limb; use triage like a real doctor, you drunken ERPing fuck. You can also drag people to cryo and dead people to cloning, but generally, you'll be more useful on the field. If you do because no one else is, loot their bag so you don't end up removing half the guns and space suits from the field like so much kebab.

'''Order guns.''' Energy guns have their place and are nice, but the station already has plenty. Combat shotguns may be better if people are good with them and print as many shells as you can in advance. Why? If you print lethal shells between Industrial Welders, combat shotguns don't have the downtime of energy guns. A constant feed of lethal shells makes for the ability to print, shoot while printing, clear shell, take new shell, feed old shell in, repeat. It makes the metal cost pretty much fuckall and does big damage. Besides that, you should already have enough laser guns on the station that unless some dipfuck loses them to the blob, you have barely enough chargers to charge them all at once. '''Make sure R&D gets a shotgun crate, see Science for details.'''

 

 

'''[[Roboticist]]''': Once the medics empty their medkits onto belts, you can make at least 6 medibots. Cargo can order emergency crates with floorbots and 2 medibots which will be useful to heal injured crew. Cleanbots are useless here, don't waste the metal on that. Mechs aren't worth making. But if miners brought silver and the blob ate research, but not robotics? Make a durand, load it with a solaris and an energy relay and set it loose.

'''[[Guide to xenobiology|Xenobiologist]]''': Slimes take way too long and are way too random to be useful in time, although if you get some metal slimes early it could be mildly helpful, it's better to just give your plasma to research.