Implement floorpill/maintenance crud chemicals.

[moonheart08]

Description

These are assorted reagents with positive, neutral or negative effects ranging from decade-old chili sauce to weapons-grade carcinogens. Be creative, make sure to discuss your ideas in #development or #ideaguys, and make sure they're within your ability to implement. There's not many restrictions on what can be in the maintenance/floor pill loot pools as long as their probabilities are adjusted appropriately.

There'll be an associated PR implementing floorpills soon enough.

Beginner Friendly Issue required ideas pool

• Biolubricant (Medium) Gives the target slippery hands, causing them to drop held items if they don't wear gloves. Implementation would be a chemical with slow metabolism (maybe 0.1u/sec?) that gives you a status effect for the duration of it's presence in your system, said status effect would add a component that updates periodically with a random chance of causing you to drop your held item(s).
• Silica gel (Easy) This is what you find inside those delicious desiccant packets at the bottom of your beef jerky bag... Look into how salt works, just make it steal a ton of thirst.
• Benzene (Easy) It causes a tamer version of Ultragigacancer (just call it cancer.) You'll need to know how to create a new disease for this, but it's otherwise simply worth looking into how vent crud adds diseases.
• [insert trippy drug here] (Medium) If you like working on simple/mid-complexity shaders, look into how space drugs works with it's overlay, and try implementing your own. Overdose mechanics are recommended. Some ideas for effects:
  • Screen slice, with the UV coordinates in the middle third of the screen offset by 0.5 and wrapped to be within the range $[0.0, 1.0]$. The location of the slice can be varied, or if you're more clever you can have the slice effect follow some arbitrary screen-space line(s) for more interesting behavior, like a diagonally offset portion of the screen wrapped around a torus.
  • Matrix transforms of the display space, including arbitrary skew and rotation. If you want more broken-looking visuals, make this a vertex effect (likely cheaper on end-user computers that way too.)
  • Fake singularity located at the center of the screen. This'll probably make the game unplayable but having it pulse and vibrate would be funny.

[moonheart08]

@mirrorcult

[Peptide90]

Glowing fungus and other maint flora was on my radar as a means of getting random chems, so mildly related but I had no intention of making chems for it, so if people want to bear that in mind if they think of anything cool plant related.

Having objects that when touched, inflict a disease or chemical transfer would also be neat, such as cutting your hand on a rusty grille etc etc

[DogZeroX]

Floorpills are real

[Moomoobeef]

I think I can probably figure out the silica gel pill, I think it would make good practice as a first contribution for me. I'm gonna start looking into figuring that out.