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The blob is an entity composed of green and yellow vines unknown of composition to Nanotrasen. It's primary goal seems to be expansion and reproduction. Though it is intelligent and sentient, it was a parasite that resided in an organic (or sometimes synthetic) host and has none of the memories attached to that individual. So it may not know about Nanotrasen protocols and procedures, and may not beeline for the armoury, nuke or gravity generators, for example. However, if the blob expands naturally into those areas it is fine. It is all-seeing and capable of intelligent reasoning. If, for example, lots of loud noises start blaring and everybody starts taking this disk thing to this green steel thing in the vault, then you can deduce that it is probably a Bad Thing that is coming for you. If the crew drag their dead into this white place and the dead walk out again ready to kill you, you can therefore assume that the white place has some kind of resurrective properties.


= Beginning as the blob =
'''Blob''' is a game mode in [[Secret]] where a large green 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 NumberOfBlobPlayers). 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.
You're given three notifications as you run out of time, the first "You feel tired and bloated." pretty much says, your transformation is beginning, but you have plenty of time before it happens. The second one "You feel like you are about to burst.", is around the halfway point, you should hurry up and get into position at this point. And finally "You are now sterile.", prepare to lose all your limbs, it's blob time! '''But before time runs out, there are key factors you must understand and follow.'''


==Where to go?==
==Mean Green Mother From Outer Space==
Before exploding, you must find a safe place for yourself. There are many things one must think of. Here are a few.


===Access Level===
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.
How easy can a civilian access the area? How fast can officers with a flashbang get there without the help of the AI? This factor will mostly be for the beginning. Choosing an off-access area to most crew may be what allows you to quickly build defences before the obvious tides of welder-equipped crazies rush in.


===Traffic Level===
===OH SHIT I'M A BLOB WHAT DO I DO===
Usually, how many times will someone pass by there? When the level 7 biohazard alert arrives, the crew will be dedicated to discovering you. The less traffic, the less chances you have of being spotted early.


===Entry Points===
So you're infected with Blobitis. Sucks to be you! But you can make it suck less to be you by ensuring the easy survival of your future self.  
How many entry points are there to your room? The fewer there are the better for you. Fewer entry points mean you can easily fortify your core whilst expanding to nearby points and creating more cores. If you have more entry points, you will have to focus on defending more entrances, and crew members can more easily reach and attack you.


===Nearby Equipment===
===Positioning===
Whilst most equipment may seem harmful to you, there are a few that may be what defines your victory or defeat. Think fast. Are there canisters nearby I can breach? Are there vendors I can destroy to hamper their progress? An APC I may destroy that could prevent their assaults? A fuel tank I could blow? Remember: '''Lit plasma may be your end.'''
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.


==Overmind State==
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!
You have burst. You are ready to begin your reign. '''As soon as you burst, the crew is warned of your presence.''' You must act fast. Have you taken a safe spot?


===Blob Abilities===
===Sabotage===


This is a list of the abilities the blob possesses.
Before you burst, it is also valid to perform antag actions (within reason) like a normal traitor to increase your chances of winning. If you can, try to remove weapons, sabotage the station, fuck up the AI or otherwise create a distraction for when you burst into a station-eating blob.


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Sabotaging research or mining is a great way to protect yourself from a massive army of printed Laser cannons and X-ray lasers. You could deconstruct the entire research lab and hide it in your backpack. Destroy the servers or other forms of sabotage. Cutting the main power wire to the west of the Engineering's main entrance is a great way to prevent Emitters from being used on you if Engineering is too stupid to figure out you cut the main power wire for the station. They can still use the pacman generator to power SMES but hey them the works.  
!Ability!!Cost!!Description
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|'''Expand Blob'''||5||This is pretty self explanatory, it expands your blob on one tile. It can be useful in quick succession to surround somebody, or to disable a specific target such as the AI. Normal blobs damage people standing next to them.
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|'''Shield Blob'''||10||This upgrades the blob space to be a shield blob, such as the ones that spawn around your core. They are much more difficult to destroy, and if you have a lot of money, this can go GREAT in conjunction with the above ability. Keep in mind you must place this over a blob
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|'''Resource Blob'''||40||One of the most important blobs to place, this increases the rate at which you acquire resources. It's VERY important to get a lot of these early on, as one very useful thing to have for the blob is early momentum.
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|'''Node Blob'''||60||Not as important as the above abilities, however if you have some resources you should place some of these. Node blobs expand your blob past your core without you having to do it, one important thing about these are is the fact that they will replace destroyed blobs for free if they're nearby. Saving you resources in the long run.
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|'''Factory Blob'''||60||These are also very useful to place, what they do is they produce floating blobs. Individual they are weak, and even in groups they are weak, but they make an excellent distraction, and will overwhelm players. If they are near a dead body they will actually land on their head and create a zombie, which is a pretty nice trade-up from the floating blob! You are also able to re-zombify it when it dies, as long as you can get a floating blob to its body. Remember you have to place them near a non-normal blob, so near a node, core, etc. or it will not produce!
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|'''Create Core Blob'''||100||This places another player-controlled blob! The only drawback is the hefty cost and the fact that you cannot communicate. It will find a dead player to take the reigns.
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|'''Rally Spores'''||5||This sends all your floating blobs and zombies to one location. Very useful for when some engineer thinks he's clever by attempting to weld his way in from behind. The floating blobs and zombies travel really quickly when you do this.
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|'''Jump To (Node or Core)'''||0||These two abilities are grouped together as they are basically the same thing. They jump your camera to a core or a node, selected from a list if you have more than one. You might not use this too often but it can be handy when your empire becomes large.
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|'''Remove Blob'''||0||I'm not going to insult your intelligence by explaining what this does. Uses could be to prevent your blob from destroying a window or a wall, preventing the atmospheric alarms from going off, or crew from gaining a new method of entry.
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==What now?==
You could also destroy telecomms as a blob or beforehand if your an engineer. Eating the SMES is risky due to releasing Singulo which can kill you as easily as it can kill the rest of the station.
You have gained a foothold. You are secure, have built a certain amount of factories and resource blobs. Your defences are strong and you have built a second core. What now? There are a multitude of ways this could now go. In any cases, remember. '''Your goal is to expand and safeguard yourself.'''


===Emergency Response Team===
Genetics is another good target less people being revived from the dead to fight you means less work fighting off the Human hordes.
Depending on Command, an ERT may be called early, or late. They will mostly be equipped with laser weaponry, flashbangs and welders. They will be hellbent on destroying you, whatever the means. Consider them as heavily armed officers with all-access and above-normal weaponry.


===Gamma Level===
===Blob Chemicals===
The alarm hails. The radio screams. Gamma level has been activated. The failsafe must be detonated at all costs. Remember. You are a blob. You do not understand their language. Although you may decipher that there is a harmful device that may be the end of you. With your wide view, see what they are attempting to do. Be more aggressive. '''Rushing the nuke and eating it is considered metagaming.''' It will mostly results in the admin team spawning one of their own and you being scolded.


===Deathsquad===
Blobs are made of chemicals; these affects their color of the blob bits, blobbernauts and all blob tiles, as well as their attacks:
The crew has failed. The ERT has failed. Central Command is sending their final option. Most of the time equipped with heavily protected mechs. At this point, this is end round. Don't cry abuse. Enjoy and rejoice at the fact that it takes that much in order to destroy you and your cores!
 
{{Jobs}}
* '''Dark Matter Blob''' (Dark Purple): Sucks humans closer into the Blob much like the [[singulo]]; great for trapping humans. (15 Brute)
[[Category: Jobs]] [[Category:Game Modes]]
* '''Burning Oil Blob''' (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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* '''Radioactive Liquid Blob''' (Bright Green): Humans attacked get filled with radiation which can lead to mutations and disabilities. (10 Brute and 10 Rad damage random chance at mutation)
* '''Toxic Goop Blob''' (Dark Green): Injects harmful toxins when attacking humans. (20 tox damage)
* '''Skin Ripper Blob''' (Red): REND AND TEAR MAIM KILL BURN. PRAISE KHORNE. (20 Brute)
* '''Skin Melter Blob''' (Darkish Red): IM MEEEELTING (10 brute 10 burn, lights you on fire)
* '''Lung Destroyer Blob''' (Teal): Destroys your lungs with toxin and removing oxygen from your system. 20tox 20oxy)
* '''Explosive Gel Blob''' (Yellow): Explosions localized on the target (Damage unlisted)
* '''[[Sorium]] Blob '''(Rich Purple): We're blasting off agaaain! (15 Brute)
* '''[[Omnizine]] Blob '''(Lavender):  Injects you with Omnizine when you OD you rapidly die if the blob fails to make you OD though... free heals
 
==Split Conciousness Power(100 Resources)==
 
 
'''''Split Conciousness Power'''''
 
 
''''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.
'''''
 
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 charging the Nuke to prevent it from being detonated. 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.
 
==Surviving the first few minutes==
There should be ONE and only ONE thing on your mind. Getting me 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
 
==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.
 
 
 
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 '''''WILL HAVE TO place resource blobs next to it's core or a node along with Factory Blob as well, which acts like a core and gradually expands normal blob pieces outwards.'''''
 
===Blob Buildings===
 
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.
 
[[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_resource.gif]] '''''Resource Blob:''''' Will collect more resources for you, try to build these earlier to get a strong income. It will benefit from being near your core or multiple nodes, by having an increased resource rate; put it alone and it won't create resources at all. 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.
 
'''''Storage Blob:''''' [Image needed]  Allows you to store more  resources by increasing your resource max capacity.
 
 
[[File:blob_node.gif]] '''''Node Blob:''''' Blob which will grow, like the core. Unlike the core it won't give you a small income, but it can power resource and factory blobs to increase their rate.
 
[[File:blob_factory.gif]] '''''Factory Blob:''''' Spawns [[File:blob_spore.png]] Blob Spores which will attack nearby food (read: people.) Putting this nearby nodes and your core will increase the spawn rate; put it alone and it will not spawn any spores (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 enemy-setting-on-fire
 
[[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, and can even set people on fire!
 
===ON MY HEAD ON MY HEAAAAAAAD ZOMBIE ZOMBIE ZOMBIE===
 
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===
 
* 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.
* ALT+Click: Create Shield Blob
* Middle Mouse Click: Rally Spores/Blobbernauts use this to send spores to kill people
 
==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 doesn't give a fuck about brute damage, nor is it able 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 [[Security_items#Riot_Shield|shield]]s, 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 tool]]s:''' Cheap, readily available from [[Vending machines#YouTool|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 [[General items#Fuel Tank|Fuel Tank]]s 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 chucklefuck 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|certain]] [[Head of Security|heads]] [[Captain|of staff]]'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.
 
* '''[[Emitter]]s:''' 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.
 
*'''[[Flashbang]]s:''' 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.
 
Once again: '''DO NOT USE [[Flamethrower|FLAMETHROWERS]] OR [[Plasma|PLASMA]] FIRES''' (see below). They are useless and will only make the rest of the crew die and hate you.
 
===Risky Measures===
 
('''Do not use these unless shit has really hit the fan, or else you might be banned.''' When in doubt, adminhelp to see whether the Cuban Pete inferno you are about to unleash is kosher.)
 
*'''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.
 
*'''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.
 
*'''[[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===
 
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.
 
 
=== A Quick Note On Intent ===
 
[[Beyond the impossible|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.'''
 
=== Oh Shit, Zombies! ===
 
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.
 
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 fucked 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 drunken ERPing fuck. 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 FUCKING 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 chucklefuck 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]]''': Kill yourself. 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====
 
'''Order emitters.''' Order fucking 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 pretty much fuckall and does big damage. Besides that, you should already have enough laser guns on the station that unless some dipfuck 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 some goddamn 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 fuck 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.
 
'''SHIT TYRONE HACK THE FUCKING 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 fuckers better have made.
 
'''No seriously make a fucking 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.
 
====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.
 
'''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.
 
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.
 
'''[[Guide to toxins|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.
 
'''[[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 fucker 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.
 
'''[[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.
 
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Blob

Superiors: N/A
Difficulty: Hard
Guides: No external guides
Access: Anywhere you can eat your way into.
Duties: Spread onto the whole station


Blob is a game mode in Secret where a large green 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 NumberOfBlobPlayers). 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.

Mean Green Mother From Outer Space

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.

OH SHIT I'M A BLOB WHAT DO I DO

So you're infected with Blobitis. Sucks to be you! But you can make it suck less to be you by ensuring the easy survival of your future self.

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 SMESes or telecoms (be sure not to do anything stupid, like releasing the singularity.) Make sure you're somewhere safe before you burst!

Sabotage

Before you burst, it is also valid to perform antag actions (within reason) like a normal traitor to increase your chances of winning. If you can, try to remove weapons, sabotage the station, fuck up the AI or otherwise create a distraction for when you burst into a station-eating blob.

Sabotaging research or mining is a great way to protect yourself from a massive army of printed Laser cannons and X-ray lasers. You could deconstruct the entire research lab and hide it in your backpack. Destroy the servers or other forms of sabotage. Cutting the main power wire to the west of the Engineering's main entrance is a great way to prevent Emitters from being used on you if Engineering is too stupid to figure out you cut the main power wire for the station. They can still use the pacman generator to power SMES but hey them the works.

You could also destroy telecomms as a blob or beforehand if your an engineer. Eating the SMES is risky due to releasing Singulo which can kill you as easily as it can kill the rest of the station.

Genetics is another good target less people being revived from the dead to fight you means less work fighting off the Human hordes.

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:

  • Dark Matter Blob (Dark Purple): Sucks humans closer into the Blob much like the singulo; great for trapping humans. (15 Brute)
  • Burning Oil Blob (Orange-Yellow): Jesus christ i'm on fire put it out put it out oh god. (15 burn and lights you on fire)
  • Radioactive Liquid Blob (Bright Green): Humans attacked get filled with radiation which can lead to mutations and disabilities. (10 Brute and 10 Rad damage random chance at mutation)
  • Toxic Goop Blob (Dark Green): Injects harmful toxins when attacking humans. (20 tox damage)
  • Skin Ripper Blob (Red): REND AND TEAR MAIM KILL BURN. PRAISE KHORNE. (20 Brute)
  • Skin Melter Blob (Darkish Red): IM MEEEELTING (10 brute 10 burn, lights you on fire)
  • Lung Destroyer Blob (Teal): Destroys your lungs with toxin and removing oxygen from your system. 20tox 20oxy)
  • Explosive Gel Blob (Yellow): Explosions localized on the target (Damage unlisted)
  • Sorium Blob (Rich Purple): We're blasting off agaaain! (15 Brute)
  • Omnizine Blob (Lavender): Injects you with Omnizine when you OD you rapidly die if the blob fails to make you OD though... free heals

Split Conciousness Power(100 Resources)

Split Conciousness Power


'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.


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 charging the Nuke to prevent it from being detonated. 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.

Surviving the first few minutes

There should be ONE and only ONE thing on your mind. Getting me 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

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.


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 WILL HAVE TO place resource blobs next to it's core or a node along with Factory Blob as well, which acts like a core and gradually expands normal blob pieces outwards.

Blob Buildings

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.

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.

Blob normal.gif Normal Blob: Expands your reach and allows you to upgrade into special blobs that perform certain functions.

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.

Blob resource.gif Resource Blob: Will collect more resources for you, try to build these earlier to get a strong income. It will benefit from being near your core or multiple nodes, by having an increased resource rate; put it alone and it won't create resources at all. 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.

Storage Blob: [Image needed] Allows you to store more resources by increasing your resource max capacity.


Blob node.gif Node Blob: Blob which will grow, like the core. Unlike the core it won't give you a small income, but it can power resource and factory blobs to increase their rate.

Blob factory.gif Factory Blob: Spawns Blob spore.png Blob Spores which will attack nearby food (read: people.) Putting this nearby nodes and your core will increase the spawn rate; put it alone and it will not spawn any spores (Blob spores also have the chance to form Blob zombie.png Blob Zombies! See below). The Factory Blob can also be turned into a robust enemy-setting-on-fire

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, and can even set people on fire!

ON MY HEAD ON MY HEAAAAAAAD ZOMBIE ZOMBIE ZOMBIE

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

  • 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.
  • ALT+Click: Create Shield Blob
  • Middle Mouse Click: Rally Spores/Blobbernauts use this to send spores to kill people

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 doesn't give a fuck about brute damage, nor is it able 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 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 chucklefuck pops open a plasma canister. Replace your welder with a cutter ASAP if science starts making them.
  • Laser weaponry: Available in the Armory, in certain heads of staff'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.
  • 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 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.

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.

Risky Measures

(Do not use these unless shit has really hit the fan, or else you might be banned. When in doubt, adminhelp to see whether the Cuban Pete inferno you are about to unleash is kosher.)

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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.


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 else everybody will hate you.

Oh Shit, Zombies!

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.

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 fucked 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 drunken ERPing fuck. 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 FUCKING 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 chucklefuck 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: Kill yourself. 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

Order emitters. Order fucking 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 pretty much fuckall and does big damage. Besides that, you should already have enough laser guns on the station that unless some dipfuck 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 some goddamn 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 fuck 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.

SHIT TYRONE HACK THE FUCKING 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 fuckers better have made.

No seriously make a fucking 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.

Science

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.

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.

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.

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 fucker 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.

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.

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