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'''Blob''' is a game mode in the Secret rotation where a large biohazardous '''Blob''', '''infests the station and starts destroying everything its path''', including hull, fixtures and creatures. Note that this differs from the blob random event, as a person is chosen to be infected with the blob and burst after a certain time, where the event picks a random location and ghost to play as the blob. The crew must destroy the blob until it destroys a pre-determined amount of the station (350 x Number of Blob Cores).
==It Came from Outer Space!==


If the crew manage to destroy the blob core, the crew will win. But if the blob manages to spread to a predetermined size, the crew will lose.
In the Blob game mode, the blob is controlled by a player, called The Overmind, with the objective to expand and take over as much of the station as possible. Blob events come in two flavors, either round start, where multiple people will start off infected, or mid round, where but a single mouse is. The infected have a set amount of time before they burst, the first step is to find a suitable place to settle their core.


==Mean Green Mother From Outer Space==
===Feeling bloated?===
If you are a round start blob, you have a few minutes before you pop, minutes that you should invest in either finding a secluded space, shoring it up, so that people are less likely to find you too early, or, if you are feeling particularly bold, you could attempt to sabotage devices around the station that the crew would use against you.


In the Blob game mode, the blob is controlled by a player, called The Overmind. A number of players are selected to play the blob. They are technically infected and have to choose a location for the blob's base in a random time limit. As time passes the player will get messages which will indicate when they are about to burst.
Your chosen spot for your inevitable pop, should be a location relatively unexposed, ideally where you can funnel any hostile crew that would attack you, down narrow corridors, as the less surface area crew can attack at one time, the easier it will be to defend yourself.
 
Space is also a great threat to you, not for lack of atmosphere or increased cost of making tiles there, but for the fact that crew can easily assault you from range, both with pods and emitters, so bare that in mind when choosing your location.
===OH MAN, I'M A BLOB WHAT DO I DO!?===
So you're infected with Blobitis. Sucks to be you! Unlike many other modes that revolve around an antagonist from a station where some roles cannot be the antagonist in roundstart (such as Traitor), this mode will infect anyone regardless of role! Nobody is safe from the infection! But you can make it suck less to be you by ensuring the easy survival of your future self.
In the first few minutes, there should be ONE and only ONE thing on your mind. Getting resources. Create a resource blob close to your blob core as soon as possible. Then save up resources for a Power Node to place 6 tiles away from the Resource Blob and then place a Resource Blob next to the node to power it. At this point you can focus on more resources and expanding or start making factory blobs for defense and expand outwards. Splitting is also a good idea, 2 blobs will get the job done faster than 1.
 
===Positioning===
Positioning is extremely key to winning as a Blob. Do you want to get shot at from space by emitters setup 3 screens away from your core? Do you want to be easily spotted and quickly killed by assistants? Then don't setup in a main hallway or infront of departments. Cut cameras with a screwdriver and wirecutter around you as well that way the AI can't spot you or your core for a good while.
 
You should immediately go position yourself at the place you want to be. You will receive warnings when you're close to bursting, but the exact time is random, just be as quick as possible and stay there and wait. The best place for a blob to choose a base is in an inaccessible area, decreasing the chance of being spotted and being contained; but be warned, it has to be on the station Z-level and on a floor, otherwise you will instantly lose. Think along the lines of good [[Xeno]] hiding spots. Public hallways are bad. Out-of-the-way places that require elevated access are good. Chokepoints are good. It can also be strategic to spawn in places that will cripple the crew once you destroy them, like the [[SMES]]es or [[telecoms]] (be sure not to do anything stupid, like releasing the singularity.) Make sure you're somewhere safe before you burst!


===Blob Chemicals===
===Blob Chemicals===


Blobs are made of chemicals; these affects their color of the blob bits, blobbernauts and all blob tiles, as well as their attacks:
After popping, blobs start off with a random chemical, which determines their color, what kind of damage they deal and any special effect they or their minions possess.


* '''Dark Matter''' (Dark Purple): Sucks humans closer into the Blob much like the singularity; great for trapping humans. (15 Brute)
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* '''Burning Oil''' (Orange-Yellow): Jesus christ i'm on fire put it out put it out oh god. (15 burn and lights you on fire)
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* '''Envenomed Filaments''' (Green): Injects harmful toxins when attacking humans. (20 tox damage)
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* '''Ripping Tendrils''' (Red): REND AND TEAR MAIM KILL BURN. PRAISE KHORNE. (20 Brute)
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* '''Lexorin Jelly''' (Teal): Destroys your lungs with toxin and removing oxygen from your system. 20tox 20oxy)
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* '''Kinetic Gelatin''' (Yellow): Deals randomized brute damage.
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* '''Sorium''' (Orange-Brown): We're blasting off agaaain! (15 Brute)
'''Ripping Tendrils'''
* '''Cryogenic Liquid''' (Light Blue): Injects you with frost oil, freezing the blood in your veins.
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''Deals 15 Brute damage, 10 Stamina damage and spores deal brute damage when killed''
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'''Boiling Oil'''
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''Deals 15 Burn damage, sets the victim aflame and spores deal fire damage when killed''
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'''Kinetic Gelatin'''
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''A gambler's chemical. Deals between 5 to 35 Brute damage and spores deal brute damage when killed''
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'''Sorium'''
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''Deals 15 Brute damage, and both direct attacks by tiles and death of spores, launch entities away''
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'''Envenomed Filaments'''
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''Deals 15 Toxin damage, causes Hallucinations, and spores deal toxin damage when killed''
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'''Lexorin Jelly'''
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''Deals 10 Brute damage, 25 Respiration damage, halts breathing for 8 cycles and spores deal respiration damage when killed.''
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'''Cryogenic Liquid'''
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''Attacking tiles deal 10 Brute damage, 10 Stamina damage, injects 10 units of Frost Oil and spores deal burn damage when killed''
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==Split Conciousness Power(100 Resources)==
==Split Conciousness Power(100 Resources)==
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''''The Overmind also has the ability to make a new Blob Core taking from local  ghosts/observers with the Split Mind Ability placing a blob where there Overminds eye is over. This core can have different chems from its Mother blob.
The Overmind also has the ability to split themselves once, making a new Blob Core, which will poll the ghosts/observers, allowing you to gain an ally blob, effectively doubling chemical generation. The other core can have a different chemical from the original blob, but you both gain from any linked resource nodes, making it the most potent ability the blob possesses.
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This power is EXTREMELY useful. This creates an entirely new Blob spawned from a ghost. This Blob can work with you to consume the station which means you can do advanced tactics with your partner such as charging emitters rapidly overpowering the emitters ability to kill your spawned blob tiles. Or just flat out murder tag team humans and Cyborgs. This should be a priority to get when you are established with enough resources and defenses like Factory Blobs.




==Blobmunition==
==Blobmunition==


Blobs can attack players who are directly (not diagonally) adjacent to them by expanding(Ctrl+Clicking the tile they are standing on) onto their space. The blob can also spend resource tiles to place blob pieces. Blob pieces can expand into almost anything, including r-walls and even space, but note that space is much slower than onto a clear floor tile, which can be useful for slowing down the regeneration of the tiles around the blob core. Try hemming in crewmates with blobs and then attacking.  
Blobs can attack players who are directly (not diagonally) adjacent to their tiles by expending chemicals (and Clicking on the target). The blob can also expend resources to manually expand, the expense of which is determined by the type of tile you attempt to expand on to, for example, expanding onto an empty station tile is relatively cheap, but if you want to expand onto a wall tile, you must first break that wall down, sometimes requiring multiple attempts.
Space tiles cost double resource points to expand on to.


The Overmind can also decide to place special blob pieces which have special functions and abilities. The Overmind must have resource points to replace the normal blob pieces with special versions and to expand where the Overmind desires. The blob core will produce resource points at a normal rate but to get more the Overmind must construct additional resource blobs.


===Blob Buildings===
===Blob Buildings===
The blob has access to additional "buildings", that it can place on its blob tiles, all of which have important functions, however some have limitations on how close they can be placed to a similar tile.


This is a list of all the blob types that the overmind can spend resource points on to buy and replace normal blob pieces with. There are limits on how close you can put the same special blob to each other -- for example, the resource blob cannot be near another resource blob.
[[File:blob_core.gif]] '''''Core Blob:''''' The most important part of you, it is the brain of the blob and the heart. You cannot have more than one core so you must protect it at all costs, or you will die. It will regenerate health on its own, and you can keep track of its life from your HUD. Also produces one resource point per second all on its own, and allows placement of "building" tiles within 3 tiles of itself.
 
[[File:blob_core.gif]] '''''Core Blob:''''' The most important part of you, it is the brain of the blob and the heart. You cannot have more than one core so you must protect it at all costs, or you will die. It will regenerate health on its own, and you can keep track of its life from your HUD. Also produces one resource point per second all on its own.
 
[[File:blob_normal.gif]] '''''Normal Blob:''''' Expands your reach and allows you to upgrade into special blobs that perform certain functions.


[[File:blob_shield.gif]] '''''Strong Blob:''''' Strong and expensive blob which can take more damage. It is fireproof and can block air, use this to protect yourself from station fires.
[[File:blob_normal.gif]] '''''Normal Blob:''''' The basic blob tile, which expands your influence and is required to place more advanced tiles.


[[File:blob_resource.gif]] '''''Resource Blob:''''' Produces one resource point every four seconds, try to build these earlier to get a strong income. Defending your resource nodes is important. Always replace them if they are taken down and invest in shield blobs to protect them. The more resource blobs you have, the harder it will be for the crew to reach your core.
[[File:blob_shield.gif]] '''''Strong Blob:''''' Created by upgrading a Normal blob tile (ctrl+click), they can absorb a great deal more damage than a normal blob tile, are fireproof and can block air, allowing you to protect yourself from station fires.


'''''Storage Blob:''''' [Image needed]  Increases max resource point capacity by 50 for as long as it is up.
[[File:Blob_reflective.gif|32px]] '''''Reflective Blob:''''' Created by upgrading a Strong blob tile, they absorb less damage than a strong blob, but have the ability to reflect laser shots and negate emitter pulses. Strategic placement of reflective tiles can negate a large amount of the crews offensive power and may lead to many incidents of friendly fire.


[[File:blob_resource.gif]] '''''Resource Blob:''''' Steadily produces resources, individual production speed increasing with proximity to a node/core. They are essential to resource income; defending your resource nodes is vitally important. The more resource tiles you have, the faster your resource generation and thus expansion. They cannot be built within 4 tiles of another Resource tile, but can always be adjacent to a node with optimal placement.


[[File:blob_node.gif]] '''''Node Blob:''''' Blob which will grow normal blobs around it, much like the core. Unlike the core it won't give you a small income, or strengthen its adjacent blobs. Useful for quickly expanding your territory, and will rapidly eat through any adjacent walls, making breaching easy. Necessary for splitting or relocating your core.
[[File:blob_resource.gif]] '''''Storage Blob:''''' Increases max resource point capacity by 50 for as long as it is up. While not useful to a newborn blob, these exponentially increase a large blobs fighting and staying power.


[[File:blob_factory.gif]] '''''Factory Blob:''''' Spawns [[File:blob_spore.png]] Blob Spores which will attack nearby food (read: people.). Blob spores also have the chance to form [[File:blob_zombie.png]] Blob Zombies! (See below). The Factory Blob can also be turned into a robust face-punching
[[File:blob_node.gif]] '''''Node Blob:''''' A Node will grow normal blob tiles around it, factories and resource nodes can be placed within a 3 tile radius around them. Necessary for expanding your territory, and will rapidly eat through any adjacent walls. Nodes are additionally used for the Split Consciousness and Relocate Core command. Can't be built within 5 tiles of another Node Blob. Ideal for breaching secure areas or defending choke points.


[[File:Blobbernaut.png]] Blobbernaut! This destroys the factory and spawns a robust juggernaut of a blob. Juggernauts are mindless beasts that hit hard, are immune to any weapon of force 10 or less.
[[File:blob_factory.gif]] '''''Factory Blob:''''' Creates blob spores [[File:blob_spore.png]] which will attack nearby food (read: people.), and convert the dead into [[File:blob_zombie.png]] Blob Zombies, which are tougher and stronger than spores alone. Can't be built within 7 tiles of another Factory Blob.


===ON MY HEAD ON MY HEAAAAAAAD ZOMBIE ZOMBIE ZOMBIE===
[[File:Blobbernaut.png]] '''''Blobbernaut!''''' Sacrifice a factory to spawn a Blobbernaut. Blobbernauts are ghost controlled creatures that deal moderate damage to crew, can break down airlocks/machines, but constantly degenerate health if injured and not on a blob tile, they will however regenerate health while moving across blob tiles. They are immune to pressure but are vulnerable to loss of gravity.
 
If a blob spore generated by a factory blob comes into contact with a deceased human, it will form a blob zombie! The blob spore will take over the crew member's brain and run around and attack people until it is killed. Blob zombies are hardier than normal spores and do about five times their damage, and they even benefit from armor the crewmate might be wearing! Also they are completely horrifying.
 
Blob zombies can happen on their own, but you, the blob overmind, can speed up the process by rallying spores to the location of the corpses you've made.


===Hotkeys===
===Hotkeys===


* CTRL+Click: Expands Blob tiles to the target tile(needs to be adjacent and not diagonal to another blob Tile) and Attacks a human/cyborg on the targeted tile. Save up resources to quickly and rapidly kill borgs or humans.
* Click: Expands Blob tiles to the target tile(needs to be adjacent and not diagonal to another blob Tile) and Attacks a human/cyborg on the targeted tile. Save up resources to quickly and rapidly kill borgs or humans.
* ALT+Click: Create Shield Blob
* CTRL+Click: Create Shield tile, or on a Shield tile to create a Reflective tile.
* Middle Mouse Click: Rally Spores/Blobbernauts use this to send spores to kill people
* Middle Mouse Click: Rally Spores to target location.
 
* ALT+Click: Remove tiles, partially refunding some of their cost.
==KILL DAT FUKKEN BLOB==
 
The [[Emergency Shuttle]] will not come during blob mode. Nor will the blob spare you or your precious station from a horrible death. Guess you better take it down fast, then.
 
===Tools of the Trade===
 
Most of your weapons are useless against blobs. The blob care about brute damage, and as such is it unable to be stunned. Generally speaking, what you will want is to do burn damage. ('''NOTE:''' This does NOT mean setting fire to everything!) Here are some tools at your disposal:
 
* '''Armor''': The blob, in addition to expanding, can attack. Blobs do brute damage, so anything that protects against this, such as riot armor or Riot Shields, are helpful. Make sure to attack on the diagonals as much as possible as the blob can only attack in cardinal directions from its blob squares. Don't let yourself get surrounded!
 
* '''Welding tools:''' Cheap, readily available from 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 fuel tanks 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 moron pops open a plasma canister. Replace your welder with a cutter ASAP if science starts making them.
 
* '''Laser weaponry:''' Available in the Armory, in Head of Personnel, Head of Security, Captain's quarters, and through R&D or Cargo. Resist the temptation to just charge one gun then fire it off. If you're carrying the whole armory you'll be more effective if you have the ability to fire them all in series. Grab the chargers and wrench them a good distance from the blob so you can recharge, but make sure the blob doesn't eat them. If you're in Cargo, take the time to order as many guns as possible before you run off to fight. This is the one round type people will love you for running gun cargo.
 
* '''Emitters:''' 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.


* '''IED's:''' The modest explosion is enough to rip a bit of the blob apart without destroying the floor and ruining atmos for people. Throw them in when you see weakness in the blob's defenses to tear open an attack point.
==Kill That Blob!==


*'''Flashbangs:''' Two flashbangs will destroy all weak blobs in a large area, allowing people to rush in and ruin the special blob squares. If you don't warn people you're using these, they might get stunned and eaten by the blob. Give people a chance to clear the area and if your flashbang stuns someone, pull him out of there before the blob sees the opportunity to make a zombie out of him.
The blob is a severe biohazard, and as such the [[Emergency Shuttle]] will likely be prevented from coming to the station to save you.  


Once again: '''DO NOT USE FLAMETHROWERS OR PLASMA FIRES''' (see below). They are useless and will only make the rest of the crew die and hate you.
* '''Weapons:'''
Blob tiles are highly resistant to physical damage, meaning that crowbar or wrench you have to hand is going to do very little to help you.
However blob tiles have no resistance to direct burn damage, so items such as welders, laser scalpels, lasers and flamethrowers will prove very effective in eliminating normal blob tiles, but always make sure to minimize friendly fire.


===Risky Measures===
* '''Armor:''' Depending on the chemical the blob is using, different apparel will help you fight it.
Bear in mind, not all armor will be effective against all blob types, some will actually be a detriment, such as a hard-suit against a Cryogenic blob, which will amplify the chilling effect of the frost oil it injects.


('''Do not use these unless the situation is totally beyond control, or else you might be banned.''' When in doubt, adminhelp to see whether the Cuban Pete inferno you are about to unleash is kosher.)
* '''Emitters:''' Spare emitters can be found in Secure Storage inside Engineering. 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.


*'''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 only destroy normal blobs, so you'll need men with fire suits and laser guns to finish the job. If atmos isn't ruined yet this will make the crew hate you.
* '''IEDs:''' The modest explosion is enough to rip a bit of the blob apart without destroying the floor and ruining atmos for people. Throw them in when you see weakness in the blob's defenses to tear open an attack point.


*'''Bombs:''' Bombs can destroy any piece of the blob except for the core proper, if the round's been dragging on and atmos is 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.
*'''Flashbangs:''' Two flashbangs will destroy all weak blob tiles in a large area, allowing people to rush in and destroy the special blob squares. If you don't warn people you're using these, they might get stunned and eaten by the blob. Give people a chance to clear the area and if your flashbang stuns someone, pull him out of there before the blob sees the opportunity to make a zombie out of him.


*'''Bags of Holding''': If you can get within one or two squares of the blob core, creating a [[singularity]] there will almost certainly eat the blob core and win the game. DON'T DO THIS IF YOU CAN'T GET EXTREMELY CLOSE AS THERE'S NO PREDICTING LORD SINGULOTH. If things are going really bad, though, and you can still get reasonably close there's a chance this may be your only hope. Because there's no assurances here you might end up killing everybody. Ahelp before doing this to get the ok.
=== DEFCON 1 ===
 
===DEFCON 1===
 
There is a rare chance that Centcomm Administrators will okay the use of nuclear weaponry to destroy the blob if contacted via the Communications Console you must have captain level access to do so. If they give the okay they will send you the nuke code and you should sit and wait for your death knowing you failed the station.


Should the blob grow too powerful, there is a good chance that [[Nanotrasen_Navy_Officer#What_are_CentCom_Jobs|Central Command]] will okay the use of the station's nuclear bomb to destroy the blob if contacted via the Communications Console. You must have Captain level access to do so. If Central Command determine the situation cannot be salvaged, they will send you the nuke code in order to arm the bomb. Once armed, you should sit and wait for your death knowing you failed the station.


=== A Quick Note On Intent ===
=== A Quick Note On Intent ===
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[[Guide to Combat|As you know,]] your intent affects what you do when you run into people while moving. If you are on help intent, you walk through that person, and if you're on disarm intent, you'll push them out of the way or into the nearest object, like a wall, or a blob.
[[Guide to Combat|As you know,]] your intent affects what you do when you run into people while moving. If you are on help intent, you walk through that person, and if you're on disarm intent, you'll push them out of the way or into the nearest object, like a wall, or a blob.


In other words: '''If you are fighting the blob, use help intent or else everybody will hate you.'''
In other words: '''If you are fighting the blob, use help intent or everybody will hate you.'''


=== Why is it always Zombies?! ===
=== Triage ===


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 autoattacks 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.
Crew will take damage progressively while in combat with a blob and there are only so many avenues of attack crew can exploit.
 
If you don't want or can't engage a blob directly, you can assist by tending to the wounded, or by bringing additional assets such as weapon rechargers or fuel tanks adjacent to the front line'''(keep fuel tanks away from the blob)'''.
If you've got a welder in hand (Which you should if there's a blob.) and the zombie isn't armored, simply stand your ground and attack like mad with your lit welder. Even if you're unarmored, it will go down first unless you let it get a few free hits off before fighting back. If it's armored, though, you're totally out of luck unless you have armor, a fire axe, or a buddy or two fighting alongside you.
 
===Non-Action Crewmates===
 
If you do not have access to the above weaponry, you should stay off the front lines unless you want to get killed and get in everyone's way. However! There are still things you can (and should) do!
 
====Medbay====
 
Blob mode is one of the few modes where Medbay is actually worth a damn. Here is what to do:
 
'''[[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 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.
 
'''[[Chemist]]''': Mass produce medicine. During Blob, if the crew is competent, you will run out of medikits very quickly, and Cargo is better off ordering other things. What you'll need depends largely on what kind of blob you're dealing with (brute damage? tox?) and how competent the crew is (FRIENDLY FIRE OH GOD). You can either leave your pills/patches on the counter for people to grab or take them to the battlezone yourself depending on what people are doing.
 
'''[[Geneticist]]''': Clone the people who inevitably die. Always have someone cloning. LOOT THEIR BAGS FOR WELDERS AND GUNS if no one else did, to give back out to people who need them; if anyone whines about GENETICS TAKING MAH GUNS they don't deserve to be in the fight. Most of your powers are of limited utility -- Hulk is only good if the blob is in a hard-to-reach place, X-ray is useless (if you haven't found the blob by the time you get it, it's already ogre), cold resistance can be useful if some moron has exposed the blob area to space but otherwise useless, and TK is fun but impractical.
 
'''CMO''': You are NOT a field medic, let your slaves do that. Basically, your job is what the CMO's job should be but never is: coordinate doctors, be a head of staff, make sure Medbay proper is doing its job, and for God's sake keep your cat away from the blob. Contribute your first-aid kit to the cause, and consider contributing your hypospray to someone you trust who can actually use it.
 
'''[[Virologist]]''':  Some of the advanced good symptoms, such as tox comp/filter or magical breathing, might be useful in blob fighting, but if enough time has passed for you to get them the blob is either dead or too far gone to die, and why is cargo wasting points on a virus crate anyway?


====Cargo====
====Cargo====


'''Order emitters.''' Order emitters. Don't assume the ones in Engineering Secure Storage will last, or even that anyone will remember to use them at all. Point seven emitters at a blob and it'll regret everything.
*'''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 extremely low, and does big damage. Besides that, you should already have enough laser guns on the station that unless someone loses them to the blob, you have barely enough chargers to charge them all at once.
 
'''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 extremely low, and does big damage. Besides that, you should already have enough laser guns on the station that unless some moron 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.'''
 
'''Order lots of metal and glass.''' Don't rely on mining to get back at all or on time. However...


'''Get those miners a hand teleporter and EVA suits. Calibrate the teleporter to a beacon in R&D.''' You're going to mass-drive the miners to the asteroid because to shreds with the quarantine. Laser cannons don't grow on trees. They can give a heads-up when they're sending a crate for the RD to re-test-fire so you don't lose mineral shipments. The primary importance is getting uranium and silver back, in which case if research and cargo is any good the round will end shortly. See Science for details.
*'''Order emitters.''' You may need to order emitters. Don't assume the ones in Engineering Secure Storage will last, or even that anyone will remember to use them at all. Point seven emitters at a blob and it'll regret everything.


'''TYRONE, HACK THE AUTOLATHES.''' You can make dozens of INDUSTRIAL WELDERS from a single sheet each of metal and glass. They're 70 metal, 60 glass, or something like that, with a single sheet of material providing 3750 of each. An Industrial Welder is the exact same size as a normal welder but holds 40 fuel and comes pre-fueled. They're so cheap to make that they're virtually disposable. In fact, R&D should bump up their materials research with the gold from the vault to make super matter bins, pico-manipulators, etc., so that you can lathe thing stupidly fast at the forward autolathe you better have made.
*'''Order lots of metal and glass.''' Don't rely on mining to get back at all or on time. However...


'''No seriously, make an extra autolathe''' near, but not up in the face of, the blob. It's easier to have an assistant constantly print new Industrial Welders than to refuel them and risk the blob popping a fuel tank.
You can make dozens of Industrial Welders from a single sheet each of metal and glass. They're 70 metal, 60 glass, or something like that, with a single sheet of material providing 3750 of each. An Industrial Welder is the exact same size as a normal welder but holds 40 fuel and comes pre-fueled.


====Science====
====Science====


'''[[Guide to Research and Development|R&D]]:''' '''GET TO RESEARCHING QUICK.''' The xray laser gun is your holy grail. If you make even just one, the blob is in serious trouble. '''MORE THAN ONE AND YOU WIN THE BLOB MODE. PERIOD. IT'S DEAD, IT'S OVER, RIP BLOB.''' Completely inept at science? Absolutely no research done when the blob burst? Here's your dummies guide to getting xray lasers ASAP. First, get robotics to make three mech syringe guns. While those are being made, run into the maintenance tunnel just across from science and head to the solar array, deconstruct the SMES (Don't know how? Screwdriver, followed by crowbar.) and swipe its circuit board, leave the other junk behind, nobody's going to care about the solars when there's a blob currently eating the station, anyway. Research those. After that, take the intelicard from the RD's office and put it into the analyzer. If cargo is any good, you'll have a shotgun crate soon, drop all three in the analyzer as well. You now have the research for xray laser guns, rejoice.
*'''[[Guide to Research and Development|Research & Development]]''': If you haven't already, begin researching as fast as possibly in order to unlock upgrades and improved weaponry to fight the blob. Ensure the [[Protolathe]] is upgraded so that it prints faster and uses less materials and get upgrades out to the frontlines as quickly as you can.
 
'''NOW UPGRADE THAT PROTOLATHE.''' Don't know how? Just have it make a couple pico manipulators, then EJECT ALL THE SPARE MATERIAL FROM THE PROTOLATHE OR YOU'LL LOSE IT. Now, deconstruct it like you did the SMES to make it into a pile of parts and a machine frame. Stuff the circuit board back in, followed by the two pico manipulators you made, dump the two micro manipulators the machine had by default into the trash, replace the matter bins and beakers, then screwdriver it. Now you've got a protolathe that prints out everything at one fifth of the material cost. Ignore all this if you upgrade like a proper person, with a RPED
 
Now if the miners aren't braindead, they should be hauling in some uranium and silver. Stuff those into the protolathe and start printing xray laser guns like crazy and make that blob regret coming to YOUR station. If you've got a little time to spare, steal xenobiology's plasma and research those until you can make plasma cutters, take the gold from the vault if you don't have any, and make those too.


'''Toxins''': Make bombs. Six 3/7/14s. Slap them into package wrappers and LABEL THEM APPROPRIATELY SO THEY DON'T BOOM. Small Package (145.9 -- 30) hits the blob, etc. If things go ass up or you have a lot of weapons and EVA-capable people, a MANLY way to fight the blob is to bomb your way to the core and then just have everyone ready to shoot its core down. Other than that? DON'T USE THEM UNLESS THINGS ARE DESPERATE. Bombs are indiscriminate and breach the hull, so unless cargo ordered an emergency crate you're boned. (Cargo will probably not order an emergency crate.) Also, grab those heat canisters! Get some assholes into firesuits, take all the postburn CO2 you can, and release it behind the blob. As long as you don't breathe it, the suit protects you from arbitrary levels of heat and pressure so you should be just fine.
*'''Toxins''': Although not recommended, if you are confident in your ability to construct bombs, do so. Just be aware of the size and impact of your bomb, and make sure everyone is completely, one hundred percent aware that you have a bomb, and how large the impact will be. Inform the [[Research Director]] and the station at large that you have bombs to use. Be aware that you might be denied because of the risk to crew...


'''[[Roboticist]]''': Once the medics empty their medkits onto belts, can make at least 6 medibots. Cargo can order emergency crates with floorbots and 2 medibots which will be useful when some greytider inevitably makes a hull breach. Cleanbots are useless here, don't waste the metal on that. Mechs aren't worth making. A durand used to be great, but then xray lasers came along and are much better. 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.
*'''[[Roboticist]]''': Building medibots is a good, fast way to get some on the spot healing for crew fighting the blob. If you are capable of doing so, building a Gygax or Durand can turn the tide in a losing battle. However, it might be better to construct cyborgs, as they can serve multiple functions.


'''[[Guide to xenobiology|Xenobiologist]]''': Go do a real job. 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, but it's better to just give your plasma to research.
*'''[[Guide to xenobiology|Xenobiologist]]''': Slime upgrades can be very useful, if you have them to hand. Sentient animals likely won't be of much use, but Golems are expendable and can be quite helpful in assisting to damage the blob. If you haven't got time to make progress in Xenobiology, consider assisting another Science department.


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ANTAGONIST

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Blob

Superiors: N/A
Difficulty: Very Hard
Guides: [Advanced Blob Guide]
Access: Anywhere you can eat your way into.
Duties: Spread onto the whole station


Antagonist


It Came from Outer Space!

In the Blob game mode, the blob is controlled by a player, called The Overmind, with the objective to expand and take over as much of the station as possible. Blob events come in two flavors, either round start, where multiple people will start off infected, or mid round, where but a single mouse is. The infected have a set amount of time before they burst, the first step is to find a suitable place to settle their core.

Feeling bloated?

If you are a round start blob, you have a few minutes before you pop, minutes that you should invest in either finding a secluded space, shoring it up, so that people are less likely to find you too early, or, if you are feeling particularly bold, you could attempt to sabotage devices around the station that the crew would use against you.

Your chosen spot for your inevitable pop, should be a location relatively unexposed, ideally where you can funnel any hostile crew that would attack you, down narrow corridors, as the less surface area crew can attack at one time, the easier it will be to defend yourself. Space is also a great threat to you, not for lack of atmosphere or increased cost of making tiles there, but for the fact that crew can easily assault you from range, both with pods and emitters, so bare that in mind when choosing your location.

Blob Chemicals

After popping, blobs start off with a random chemical, which determines their color, what kind of damage they deal and any special effect they or their minions possess.

Chemical Visual Damage Type

Ripping Tendrils

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Deals 15 Brute damage, 10 Stamina damage and spores deal brute damage when killed

Boiling Oil

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Deals 15 Burn damage, sets the victim aflame and spores deal fire damage when killed

Kinetic Gelatin

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A gambler's chemical. Deals between 5 to 35 Brute damage and spores deal brute damage when killed

Sorium

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Deals 15 Brute damage, and both direct attacks by tiles and death of spores, launch entities away

Envenomed Filaments

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Deals 15 Toxin damage, causes Hallucinations, and spores deal toxin damage when killed

Lexorin Jelly

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Deals 10 Brute damage, 25 Respiration damage, halts breathing for 8 cycles and spores deal respiration damage when killed.

Cryogenic Liquid

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Attacking tiles deal 10 Brute damage, 10 Stamina damage, injects 10 units of Frost Oil and spores deal burn damage when killed

Split Conciousness Power(100 Resources)

Split Conciousness Power


The Overmind also has the ability to split themselves once, making a new Blob Core, which will poll the ghosts/observers, allowing you to gain an ally blob, effectively doubling chemical generation. The other core can have a different chemical from the original blob, but you both gain from any linked resource nodes, making it the most potent ability the blob possesses.



Blobmunition

Blobs can attack players who are directly (not diagonally) adjacent to their tiles by expending chemicals (and Clicking on the target). The blob can also expend resources to manually expand, the expense of which is determined by the type of tile you attempt to expand on to, for example, expanding onto an empty station tile is relatively cheap, but if you want to expand onto a wall tile, you must first break that wall down, sometimes requiring multiple attempts. Space tiles cost double resource points to expand on to.


Blob Buildings

The blob has access to additional "buildings", that it can place on its blob tiles, all of which have important functions, however some have limitations on how close they can be placed to a similar tile.

Blob core.gif Core Blob: The most important part of you, it is the brain of the blob and the heart. You cannot have more than one core so you must protect it at all costs, or you will die. It will regenerate health on its own, and you can keep track of its life from your HUD. Also produces one resource point per second all on its own, and allows placement of "building" tiles within 3 tiles of itself.

Blob normal.gif Normal Blob: The basic blob tile, which expands your influence and is required to place more advanced tiles.

Blob shield.gif Strong Blob: Created by upgrading a Normal blob tile (ctrl+click), they can absorb a great deal more damage than a normal blob tile, are fireproof and can block air, allowing you to protect yourself from station fires.

Blob reflective.gif Reflective Blob: Created by upgrading a Strong blob tile, they absorb less damage than a strong blob, but have the ability to reflect laser shots and negate emitter pulses. Strategic placement of reflective tiles can negate a large amount of the crews offensive power and may lead to many incidents of friendly fire.

Blob resource.gif Resource Blob: Steadily produces resources, individual production speed increasing with proximity to a node/core. They are essential to resource income; defending your resource nodes is vitally important. The more resource tiles you have, the faster your resource generation and thus expansion. They cannot be built within 4 tiles of another Resource tile, but can always be adjacent to a node with optimal placement.

Blob resource.gif Storage Blob: Increases max resource point capacity by 50 for as long as it is up. While not useful to a newborn blob, these exponentially increase a large blobs fighting and staying power.

Blob node.gif Node Blob: A Node will grow normal blob tiles around it, factories and resource nodes can be placed within a 3 tile radius around them. Necessary for expanding your territory, and will rapidly eat through any adjacent walls. Nodes are additionally used for the Split Consciousness and Relocate Core command. Can't be built within 5 tiles of another Node Blob. Ideal for breaching secure areas or defending choke points.

Blob factory.gif Factory Blob: Creates blob spores Blob spore.png which will attack nearby food (read: people.), and convert the dead into Blob zombie.png Blob Zombies, which are tougher and stronger than spores alone. Can't be built within 7 tiles of another Factory Blob.

Blobbernaut.png Blobbernaut! Sacrifice a factory to spawn a Blobbernaut. Blobbernauts are ghost controlled creatures that deal moderate damage to crew, can break down airlocks/machines, but constantly degenerate health if injured and not on a blob tile, they will however regenerate health while moving across blob tiles. They are immune to pressure but are vulnerable to loss of gravity.

Hotkeys

  • Click: Expands Blob tiles to the target tile(needs to be adjacent and not diagonal to another blob Tile) and Attacks a human/cyborg on the targeted tile. Save up resources to quickly and rapidly kill borgs or humans.
  • CTRL+Click: Create Shield tile, or on a Shield tile to create a Reflective tile.
  • Middle Mouse Click: Rally Spores to target location.
  • ALT+Click: Remove tiles, partially refunding some of their cost.

Kill That Blob!

The blob is a severe biohazard, and as such the Emergency Shuttle will likely be prevented from coming to the station to save you.

  • Weapons:

Blob tiles are highly resistant to physical damage, meaning that crowbar or wrench you have to hand is going to do very little to help you. However blob tiles have no resistance to direct burn damage, so items such as welders, laser scalpels, lasers and flamethrowers will prove very effective in eliminating normal blob tiles, but always make sure to minimize friendly fire.

  • Armor: Depending on the chemical the blob is using, different apparel will help you fight it.

Bear in mind, not all armor will be effective against all blob types, some will actually be a detriment, such as a hard-suit against a Cryogenic blob, which will amplify the chilling effect of the frost oil it injects.

  • Emitters: Spare emitters can be found in Secure Storage inside Engineering. 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.
  • IEDs: The modest explosion is enough to rip a bit of the blob apart without destroying the floor and ruining atmos for people. Throw them in when you see weakness in the blob's defenses to tear open an attack point.
  • Flashbangs: Two flashbangs will destroy all weak blob tiles in a large area, allowing people to rush in and destroy the special blob squares. If you don't warn people you're using these, they might get stunned and eaten by the blob. Give people a chance to clear the area and if your flashbang stuns someone, pull him out of there before the blob sees the opportunity to make a zombie out of him.

DEFCON 1

Should the blob grow too powerful, there is a good chance that Central Command will okay the use of the station's nuclear bomb to destroy the blob if contacted via the Communications Console. You must have Captain level access to do so. If Central Command determine the situation cannot be salvaged, they will send you the nuke code in order to arm the bomb. Once armed, you should sit and wait for your death knowing you failed the station.

A Quick Note On Intent

As you know, your intent affects what you do when you run into people while moving. If you are on help intent, you walk through that person, and if you're on disarm intent, you'll push them out of the way or into the nearest object, like a wall, or a blob.

In other words: If you are fighting the blob, use help intent or everybody will hate you.

Triage

Crew will take damage progressively while in combat with a blob and there are only so many avenues of attack crew can exploit. If you don't want or can't engage a blob directly, you can assist by tending to the wounded, or by bringing additional assets such as weapon rechargers or fuel tanks adjacent to the front line(keep fuel tanks away from the blob).

Cargo

  • 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 extremely low, and does big damage. Besides that, you should already have enough laser guns on the station that unless someone loses them to the blob, you have barely enough chargers to charge them all at once.
  • Order emitters. You may need to order emitters. Don't assume the ones in Engineering Secure Storage will last, or even that anyone will remember to use them at all. Point seven emitters at a blob and it'll regret everything.
  • Order lots of metal and glass. Don't rely on mining to get back at all or on time. However...

You can make dozens of Industrial Welders from a single sheet each of metal and glass. They're 70 metal, 60 glass, or something like that, with a single sheet of material providing 3750 of each. An Industrial Welder is the exact same size as a normal welder but holds 40 fuel and comes pre-fueled.

Science

  • Research & Development: If you haven't already, begin researching as fast as possibly in order to unlock upgrades and improved weaponry to fight the blob. Ensure the Protolathe is upgraded so that it prints faster and uses less materials and get upgrades out to the frontlines as quickly as you can.
  • Toxins: Although not recommended, if you are confident in your ability to construct bombs, do so. Just be aware of the size and impact of your bomb, and make sure everyone is completely, one hundred percent aware that you have a bomb, and how large the impact will be. Inform the Research Director and the station at large that you have bombs to use. Be aware that you might be denied because of the risk to crew...
  • Roboticist: Building medibots is a good, fast way to get some on the spot healing for crew fighting the blob. If you are capable of doing so, building a Gygax or Durand can turn the tide in a losing battle. However, it might be better to construct cyborgs, as they can serve multiple functions.
  • Xenobiologist: Slime upgrades can be very useful, if you have them to hand. Sentient animals likely won't be of much use, but Golems are expendable and can be quite helpful in assisting to damage the blob. If you haven't got time to make progress in Xenobiology, consider assisting another Science department.
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