A beaker shelf for Chemistry

[Bone White]

Due to the massive amount of reagents required to manufacture chemicals now, I find myself constantly running out of room for the beakers. It'd be good if there was a shelf (basically a filing cabinet, but for beakers) that could store beakers with chemicals in them. That way you could make large amounts of intermediary chemicals for use in creating actual useful chemicals, making the process more intuitive and less clumsy.

[Fox McCloud]

Probably wouldn't be a half bad idea--sprite would have to be done just right or else it'll look really chinsy.

[TheDemonic]

 

Just had a little go at making it and I just want your opinions on it.

and I know I need to split them up and stuffs this is just for show.

Edited April 23, 2015 by Guest

[davidchan]

+1 For great storing. Just remember to label the beakers before putting them in. TheDemonics sprite looks good, just need to enlarge it and make it match the current beakers. Recommend making at least separate sprites for Large Beakers, the ability to put things like Buckets or Flasks/Glasses on would be interesting but probably disabled (make sure there is a 'This item shouldn't be here' instead of splashing the contents of the bucket or flask)

[daisuke08]

 

I love this idea

pls

 

[FalseIncarnate]

 

I really like this idea, would definitely allow chemistry to be kept more organized and possibly even more compact.

 

Few suggestions to the original idea:

 

• While stored, beakers are kept in a sort of "stasis", meaning they will not heat or cool while stored. While minor, this would allow you to store hot and cold chemicals without them naturally equalizing to normal temperatures, and could prevent accidental reactions from having pyrosium/cryostylene in the same beaker as a stabilized reaction.

• Require that stored beakers and bottles have their lid on. While not a major gameplay point, it would make sense that you should seal the container before storing ANY chemical. Personally, I already do this for loading meds into the fridge, also prevents people from accidentally splashing them with a misclick.

Start them loaded with the empty beakers in chemistry. This will clean up the tables at round-start, and (depending on storage size) allow you to remove the box of beakers.

Make it lockable, like the chemistry closet. While this seems insignificant, it allows chemistry an extra touch of security by making it harder for some grey-shirt to just bust down their windoor and mix up piles of meth or loot their storage and set the chemists back. The shelf can have 2 states, open and secure, with secure being both closed and locked. Swiping an ID on the shelf would raise/lower the glass shield, preventing people from adding or removing beakers while the shield is in place.

 

 

[TheDemonic]

 

[*] Make it lockable, like the chemistry closet. While this seems insignificant, it allows chemistry an extra touch of security by making it harder for some grey-shirt to just bust down their windoor and mix up piles of meth or loot their storage and set the chemists back. The shelf can have 2 states, open and secure, with secure being both closed and locked. Swiping an ID on the shelf would raise/lower the glass shield, preventing people from adding or removing beakers while the shield is in place.

 

 

with doors like this?

I also made a hot shelf and a cold shelf juuust in case, so you could maybe have a cabinet for hot stuff or for warming them up and a cold shelf for the opposite. Just an idea.

Edited April 23, 2015 by Guest

[Fox McCloud]

 

Lemme get out my microscope....

 

In all seriousness though, it's hard to judge a sprite that's super tiny like that--can't really make a judgement at that size, I'm afraid.

 

[Bone White]

 

at 64x64pi size for each sprite they'll look like this:

 

 

[CrAzYPiLoT]

1+ this is awesome.

[TheDemonic]

 

Soo I wasn't happy with the last boring full beaker shelf So I made these which has a load more color

also there you go I made bigger pics for you fox, hope that's better

 

p.s Juuust found I could upload to the forums, Noice.

Edited April 23, 2015 by Guest

[Jack Fractal]

It could be done, with shenanigans, that the beakers could be tinted like actual chemistry beakers. If you wanted to spend a long time on it...

[MrFinnT]

another question, chemistry is already very tiny - unlike the huge plaza you have in RD - where do you keep that shelf?

[CrAzYPiLoT]

The beakers could be overlays, so if the reagents in it is red, the beaker put into the shelf could also be red. But yeah, this makes a space problem.

[Bone White]

 

another question, chemistry is already very tiny - unlike the huge plaza you have in RD - where do you keep that shelf?

 

attached to the wall like a fire alarm, one behind each chem dispenser.

 

[TheDemonic]

 

Just need 1 more comment to upload all the pictures just in case anyone actually wants to use them.