Ported Expies from Starlight #953

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QuillTheCreature commented 2026-09-24 12:30:25 +00:00

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I ported Expies as best as I could from Starlight.

https://github.com/ss14Starlight/space-station-14/pull/4996

They have a bit of a cybernetics system over there, so I decided to do the following:

• A Expie mob has the health analyzer directly in them (turns off when empd)
• A Expie mob emits a crit sound effect when they reach 100 vital damage and death sound when they die (should turn off when empd but i didnt find out how to do that)
• Their eyes have the Tajaran night vision system

Notable other features:

• They health regen when they have eaten enough, take damage when they're hungry, and need to eat a lot more
• They can eat raw foods but get sick from Theobromine
• They are supposed to be quite fast by default
• They run slower the more they wear (up to 0.95% base speed if they wear everything)
• In Starlight, they're the only ones with a soft critical state, so as a "buff" to that they can talk normally here while soft crit.
• They can stay in softcrit until they sustain 175 damage.

Why we need to add this

Discord request

Media (Video/Screenshots)

Breaking changes

New license for Expie assets: LICENSE-Sawians.md

Checklist

• I do not require assistance to complete the PR.
• I have verified that the changes work before posting/requesting review of my PR.
• I have added screenshots/videos of the changes, or this PR does not change in-game mechanics.
• I have read the Pull Request and Changelog Guidelines and Byrd Station's Contributor Ruleset.

Breaking changes

This changes the cvar movement.max_speed to 3.125.

Ingame Changelog

🆑 Quill

• add: Ported Experiments from Starlight and Casualties: Unknown.

<!-- Link definitions, do not edit --> [guidelines]: https://docs.spacestation14.com/en/general-development/codebase-info/pull-request-guidelines.html [ruleset]: https://rules.byrdstation.space/#h.vigrxrnffwji ## Short description I ported Expies as best as I could from Starlight. https://github.com/ss14Starlight/space-station-14/pull/4996 They have a bit of a cybernetics system over there, so I decided to do the following: * A Expie mob has the health analyzer directly in them (turns off when empd) * A Expie mob emits a crit sound effect when they reach 100 vital damage and death sound when they die (should turn off when empd but i didnt find out how to do that) * Their eyes have the Tajaran night vision system Notable other features: * They health regen when they have eaten enough, take damage when they're hungry, and need to eat a lot more * They can eat raw foods but get sick from Theobromine * They are supposed to be quite fast by default * They run slower the more they wear (up to 0.95% base speed if they wear everything) * In Starlight, they're the only ones with a soft critical state, so as a "buff" to that they can talk normally here while soft crit. * They can stay in softcrit until they sustain 175 damage. ## Why we need to add this Discord request ## Media (Video/Screenshots)    <video src="/attachments/1ac69a5f-7dc0-4d86-a54c-69842a330942" title="Screencast_20260924_143056" controls></video> <video src="/attachments/96d60516-c10c-4980-b54d-6554523d48aa" title="Video_2026-09-24_14-45-42_cropped" controls></video>  ## Breaking changes New license for Expie assets: `LICENSE-Sawians.md` ## Checklist <!-- Check boxes for faster reviewing of your PR --> - [x] I do not require assistance to complete the PR. - [x] I have verified that the changes work before posting/requesting review of my PR. - [x] I have added screenshots/videos of the changes, or this PR does not change in-game mechanics. - [x] I have read the [Pull Request and Changelog Guidelines][guidelines] and [Byrd Station's Contributor Ruleset][ruleset]. ## Breaking changes This changes the cvar `movement.max_speed` to 3.125. ### Ingame Changelog :cl: Quill - add: Ported Experiments from Starlight and Casualties: Unknown.

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QuillTheCreature added 9 commits 2026-09-24 12:30:25 +00:00

Implemented a basic experiment species with a shadowkin as base c257ae1c2f

Added a system to control movement speed based on equipped clothing for expies 515ea6ee6d

Added self health analyzer to expies 1219b66d0d

Removed a left over debug log 9bcb257914

Added missing burn and bruit damage states for expies 283f85d459

Added expie license a410e659fc

Switched expie nv to tajaran nv 5aa7e9542c

Updated expie values according to the guidebook fceb7e8323

Added gulp emote 6142732fb2

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labels 2026-09-24 12:31:19 +00:00

QuillTheCreature added 1 commit 2026-09-24 12:47:23 +00:00

Pulled more bugfixes 7a4b338141

QuillTheCreature force-pushed species/expi from 69b0664cf4 to 20c605f4cf 2026-09-24 14:26:40 +00:00 Compare

QuillTheCreature added 1 commit 2026-09-24 14:34:35 +00:00

Allowed expies to talk normally while in soft critical, since everyone can be in soft crit in byrd 8fea804318

QuillTheCreature added 1 commit 2026-09-24 14:49:15 +00:00

Increased expis soft crit state to 175 5ce6949ff7

QuillTheCreature added 1 commit 2026-09-24 14:52:24 +00:00

Updated the expie guidebook to mention byrd changes 265a4cfd55

QuillTheCreature added 1 commit 2026-10-06 21:27:09 +00:00

Fixed Expies movement speed 0cda36c7fd

QuillTheCreature added 1 commit 2026-10-06 22:04:49 +00:00

Added expies to the oxygen loadout group 3c6459e1b9

QuillTheCreature referenced this pull request 2026-10-08 19:49:40 +00:00

Ported Expies from Starlight #1012

QuillTheCreature closed this pull request 2026-10-08 19:49:50 +00:00

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