Staff of Shrinking for the wizard

[PKPenguin321]

About The Pull Request

Adds a new staff for the wizard that shoots shrink rays. Also a corresponding wand that comes with the wand belt. Shrinking is a mechanic already implemented by abductors, but it's not often used because it doesn't fit their kit super well. That's a huge shame because shrinking stuff/people is really funny. And you know where funny stuff fits well? The wizard kit.

OH YEAH and being shrunken now gives you the squash component so you can be squashed as though you were a roach, though this only deals 10 damage instead of gibbing you

tiny staff

tiny wand

exhausted wand turns back to a big wand sprite :)

Why It's Good For The Game

Shrinking stuff is funny, plus it gives the wizard something new to do besides polymorphing everyone or turning everybody to stone or ei nathing people.

Changelog

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add: New funny wizard staff/wand that shrinks stuff.
add: Being shrunken now leaves you vulnerable to being crushed to death.
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[PKPenguin321]

This adds a new sound with a free license (found here, I trimmed it and made it fade in/out for in-game use), license info is located in the metadata of the sound. Not 100% if that's sufficient attribution, if not I can throw a .txt with credits or something. Actually yeah that page says credit not necessary so we're cool

[Sadboysuss]

this could be treated as a buff to abductors since they have a shrink ray gun

[PKPenguin321]

yeh but theyre not supposed to murder folks anyway so

[ElGitificador]

any chance you make the shrink permanent? it d be hilarous to have a miniaturized crew after a wizard attack. pretty ss13 if you ask me

[improvedname]

make the wizard shrink perma for shit n giggles while abductor shrink is timed

wizards have 200 ways to round remove people anyways and shrinking still keeps them in the round

[SomeoneYouProbablyKnow]

Permanent shrinking would be very funny as long as you don't put that on the wand belt, every second wizard gets it wouldnt want to make it mandatory

[PKPenguin321]

Yeah I could make it permanent and drop the wand charges down a bit, sure
Also would it be broken to make shrunken items a smaller w_class

[Sadboysuss]

Yeah I could make it permanent and drop the wand charges down a bit, sure Also would it be broken to make shrunken items a smaller w_class

yes

[PKPenguin321]

Should I do that anyway

[SomeoneYouProbablyKnow]

As long as smaller backpacks carry less stuff so it evens out for shrunk people? but smells of feature creep ngl

[Sadboysuss]

Should I do that anyway

let's make singularity hammer, mjolnir and high frequency blade fit in backpack and pocket is what you're saying

[jughu]

make it half damage by each weight level it shrunk

[tralezab]

wouldn't be a bad wand of chaos bolt

[PKPenguin321]

Yeah it's on the chaos staff too

[EricZilla]

I think if you want to make it permanent maybe make it only permanent on the staff then have the wand not be permanent

[GuillaumePrata]

Could make them all permanent, but being blessed by the chaplain, eating a holy melon, or whatever else makes sense, turn you back to normal.

Now it is on the victims to choose if they care enough to go back, because shrunk station staff does sound a lot funnier for the round.

[PKPenguin321]

addressed requested changes and added sprites to PR body. shrinking from the staff only (not the wand or abductor gun) is now permanent

known issue:

• if you hit someone with a shrink ray when theyre already shrunk it removes the squash component? and also the trait that makes you able to pass through them? not sure what the deal is, some component nonsense, help appreciated

possible maybe changes to shrinking:

• the slowdown is pretty brutal, permanent shrinking seems a bit miserable with how slow you go. maybe that could be temporary on hit but the rest of the shrink can be normal idk
• the remove by chaplain idea is cool and shouldnt be super hard
• i think it would be cool if shrunk structures had their armor and HP severely reduced
• i think it would be cool if small items had their damage and weight class severely reduced but yeah maybe thats a bit broken idk
• it would be nice if small people couldnt squish other small people, not sure how that works. do mobs have a size tracker on them nowadays or anything convenient like that?
• it would be funny if shrunk people could ventcrawl and walk under tables
• it would be funny if shrunk people had to climb over regular objects left on the floor as though they were tables though that would suck to play probably
• shrunk people can just pick their stuff back up and put it on, i am fine with this as a gameplay mechanic but if theres a more flavorful idea on how to handle this i would like ideas

[carlarctg]

Yeah I could make it permanent and drop the wand charges down a bit, sure
Also would it be broken to make shrunken items a smaller w_class

yes but so is wizard as a whole. this sounds incredibly fun and 'interacts with the sandbox' which is what all the mantainers love

[MrDoomBringer]

make it lower w_class and if it really sucks we can just undo it

[ATH1909]

Yeah I could make it permanent and drop the wand charges down a bit, sure
Also would it be broken to make shrunken items a smaller w_class

yes but so is wizard as a whole. this sounds incredibly fun and 'interacts with the sandbox' which is what all the mantainers love

wizard stuff is intentionally OP, but balancing levers (that aren't trivial to circumvent), such as item size, are still nice to have.

[PKPenguin321]

alright cool