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@jwhitak jwhitak commented Sep 25, 2025

What this does

This PR lets you see what caliber fits into xenoarch projectile weapons quickly, without the need to just try to fit any bullets you can find into the things.

In addition, this adds an admin debug tool to spawn small finds. You can't otherwise spawn them, which made testing this PR silly.

Why it's good

Actually might see those alien projectile weapons get some use!

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  • rscadd: Admins can now spawn xenoarch small finds via the artifacts panel.
  • tweak: You can now examine xenoarch projectile weapon finds to see what caliber ammo they accept.

@jwhitak jwhitak added Logging / Administration This touches things involving admins or logging. 100% tested I promise I tested it every possible way / HAHA HE PROMISED HE TESTED IT AND DIDN'T Tweak I changed the thermostat from 70 degrees to 69 degrees. labels Sep 25, 2025
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science is about EXPERIMENTING, finding out what it takes destroys the purpose.
maybe a better way would be to have randomized caliber stuff be found in those military find areas too, with name and sprite stuff like with exotic seeds or the guns themselves.

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figuring out how to use the gun should take slightly more effort than just shift-clicking the gun

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Unatomic! (because I like the admin feature but hate the player feature)

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Make it a special verb that takes time because you're sticking your finger in the breech and cause a fracture in the hand you're using if you break out of the action by moving or dropping it
Alternatively use a light source on it to see it so you're not getting spammed with four lines of text whenever you examine the gun

I don't mind just being able to see at a glance personally though and any suggestions I could give are "do way more work lol"

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jwhitak commented Sep 25, 2025

I personally find it a consistency issue because the other energy guns you can just slap into the recharger. Refilling urns you can look inside and gaze upon what it gives you. These guns themselves will even already tell you if they have a pAI slot in them or not! Suddenly. the bullets? You literally have to codedive to even know the options to try and fit.

Do agree that bullets should be found on the sites, but the guns are randomized per find. It'd need yet another rework of xenoarch to really fix the issue. Eg, making an alien society that trends to use x guns with y bullets, etc.

The PR is unatomic, true, but the tool did not exist before and therefore all xenoarch PRs involving small finds before this one were likely untested.

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Inorien commented Sep 26, 2025

the other energy guns you can just slap into the recharger.

you still have to figure out what they do tho

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