This PR adds a new persistent feature: message inside bottles. These are basically glass bottles with inside a piece of paper, a photo or space cash (no holocredits, and most bills rarely go over 1000 credits anyway) from a previous round, which can be fished at the beach, or from the relative fishing portals.
Each piece of written paper or photo that isn't map-loaded has a roughly a 0.2% chance to be added to the message bottles database at the end of the round. However, you can also manually toss a glass bottle with inside a paper/photo/bill into the ocean (or a fishing portal generator with the ocean/beach module loaded) for guaranteed results.
The bottles are removed from the database once fished up by the by, unless tossed back into the ocean.
I've also offset a couple bottle sprites that weren't properly aligned (for the message overlays).
TODO:
[x] add a couple (20 prob or less) message bottle spawners to the beach away mission or something.
[x] add a few sounds for adding and removing the message from the bottle. (pickup/drop sounds already handle that)
[x] test it properly.
Why It's Good For The Game
I think it'd be neat to have a way to send photos, snarky "seek grass" messages, as well as the occasional financial aid to future players, and furthermore, another thing to tie fishing to.
Changelog
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add: You can place papers, photos and cash bills (no holochips) inside bottles and then toss them into the ocean (or fishing portal gen with relative settings) with right-click, for others to fish them up on future rounds.
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Original PR: https://github.com/tgstation/tgstation/pull/85703
About The Pull Request
This PR adds a new persistent feature: message inside bottles. These are basically glass bottles with inside a piece of paper, a photo or space cash (no holocredits, and most bills rarely go over 1000 credits anyway) from a previous round, which can be fished at the beach, or from the relative fishing portals.
Each piece of written paper or photo that isn't map-loaded has a roughly a 0.2% chance to be added to the message bottles database at the end of the round. However, you can also manually toss a glass bottle with inside a paper/photo/bill into the ocean (or a fishing portal generator with the ocean/beach module loaded) for guaranteed results.
The bottles are removed from the database once fished up by the by, unless tossed back into the ocean.
I've also offset a couple bottle sprites that weren't properly aligned (for the message overlays).
TODO:
Why It's Good For The Game
I think it'd be neat to have a way to send photos, snarky "seek grass" messages, as well as the occasional financial aid to future players, and furthermore, another thing to tie fishing to.
Changelog
:cl: add: You can place papers, photos and cash bills (no holochips) inside bottles and then toss them into the ocean (or fishing portal gen with relative settings) with right-click, for others to fish them up on future rounds. /:cl: