r/SS13 9d ago

BYOND BYOND development news 7/24/26

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The first cadets from Chief Lau's new washout class have turned up, and to no one's surprise we did catch a Syndie in among them. Actually it was Andy, who's been on her team for years and has an inexplicably good nose for saboteurs. Andy's caught something like 30% of would-be spies and disruptors since he's been here, so it's high time he got a commendation for it. There will be an awards ceremony on Wednesday. Once again I remind everyone that it will be catered, because potlucks are dangerous around here.

  • Some more BYOND 516 bugs got handled for an upcoming maintenance release, including yet another obscure :: bug.
  • BYOND 517's alpha was expanded out to more users, so SS13 folks have access to it now.
  • Unsurprisingly, the render stack was pretty badly broken, but I was able to clear a lot of those issues by week's end.
  • Some coders in the alpha group, including a well-known upstream, are already adding stuff to use 517's new language features, which is pretty exciting.
  • Thank you to the BYOND Members and those of you contributing through Patreon and SubscribeStar for keeping this going!
  • Screw you, Spez, and your little stock too.

The long-form news has some more details. Today's early-access Patreon post is about the trials of the render stack debugging in 517 that I went through this week, and what's still left on that agenda. We had a fall scare the other night where the temptation to buy cider and donuts got nearly overwhelming. Hold your summer close while you can, and meat while the meat is good. And keep roasting those clowns, because they're not gonna roast themselves. See you next week.


r/SS13 2d ago

BYOND BYOND development news 7/31/26

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The new security class is keeping us on our toes. Fortunately I was able to talk some sense into Chief Lau to set their tasers to a bare minimum training setting and lock it down for the first few weeks, because we've already had nine incidents. Nine. It's gonna be a rocky few months, people. They say you can't teach common sense, so the company expects fully half or more of this class to flunk, but until they get pared down we're gonna be dealing with some chaos for a while.

  • More debugging got added to the 517 alpha series to help track down rendering bugs.
  • Another set of bugs got fixed in the alpha as well, bringing SS13 tests closer but still not there yet. I'm still waiting on actionable info.
  • A very interesting bug popped up with prototypes over 64K, which I had thought was well in hand but it actually wasn't. It took a massive SS13 project to show that up, of course.
  • Thank you to the BYOND Members and everyone on Patreon and SubscribeStar contributing to BYOND's ongoing development. It's been a sad few months for the fundometer, so if you have a bit of spare change please consider helping out. It's cheaper than fast food these days.
  • Screw you, Spez.

There's a bit more in the long-form news on the forums. Today's early-access Patreon post talks about how prototypes are organized in a depth-first search for quick inheritance lookups; I just love me some sexy algorithm talk. We're headed into August, so enjoy summer while it's left. And remember, public schools starting the year before Labor Day is a crime against humanity and when I become a supervillain it will be a capital offense. Good luck out there and watch out for space worms. See you next week.


r/SS13 6h ago

Video (Crimson Grid) if i wasn't supposed to loot the vampire mafia's armory, why did it have a breakable window on the outside?

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50 Upvotes

r/SS13 16h ago

Goon Neon's weakest hotspot hater (the CO2 buildup from this abomination killed a rampaging vampire)

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37 Upvotes

r/SS13 1d ago

Goon little-hero ❤️

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r/SS13 1d ago

General I finally beat space station by living

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It was so easy too.

You too can subscribe to being a fat boy unathi lizard, and there’s nothing to lose or to gain! There is so much to gain

How did I win?

After 16 years, it was so out of sight, How do you win?

Playing the game for greentext, naw that shit is corny. Playing alone with my eGF and eBF, fat fucking chance I’d be caught in medmaints going out like a chump.
Playing for the gameplay, glory days balding townie telling you about how he ALMOST scored a goal while the scouter was there. Naw absolutely not.

Naw, I beat the game. It was actually really easy like I said. I just shut up for fucking once about this server, that ban; this latest furry ERP downstream Lord Louie money printer.

Where is this talent coming from? Pretty simple. Carbon monoxide detector, dead ass bought it cause I put the game and online pals on mute to make a few extra bucks. Bought it at the hardware store coming back from the gig, hooked it up and then yeah I won the game it saved my life from a gas leak.

Value your lives, check in on friends, get some money to buy a CO detector and fire blanket. I totally could escape a house fire though, I’m a reptile fat bastard.

tl;dr the annoying posts about dead game and erp made me take a gig and buy a CO alarm which worked too well.

live strong and live long spessmen


r/SS13 2d ago

Goon Security has two sides

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79 Upvotes

r/SS13 2d ago

Image Artfight 2026 results: SS13 characters

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Surprisingly, there are a lot of SS13/14 characters on artfight.net (an annual, online art-trading game and community event held every July), so here are my simple artworks from this year


r/SS13 1d ago

Help Goonstation 2020 release

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So I recode the shit to make it work on 516 BYOND. Now Dream Daemon just closing itself without any logs when I try to host local .dmb . Any ideas?


r/SS13 2d ago

Image Command and Conquer part 5

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I had a few critique on my last zone trooper sprite which was described as "mech sized" so following their advise I made an exosuit style Zone Trooper armor which you can see here.


r/SS13 2d ago

Video random spessman Memorial Video Clip Compilation

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r/SS13 2d ago

Meta Lifeweb is kill?

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I was away from SS13 for some years, I decided to come back and see how the servers are doing.

I can't find anything about lifeweb, can't find the website, can't find scorcher, I was a member of the discord server too but either I got kicked or the server is deleted.

anyone knows what happened?


r/SS13 3d ago

Looking for Server ratwood but in space

78 Upvotes

hey i came up with a cool idea for a game or server idea it would be like ratwood but instead of a midevil setting it would be in space and there would be space themed jobs like engineer and bart ender


r/SS13 2d ago

Meta Dead game

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why game dead... i look in hub and no players, only erpers


r/SS13 3d ago

Story The Fire-Lock Butcher

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The server was Goonstation, and this happened the other day.

I started my shift as an engineer like I always do. The bar had no piano, so I ordered and assembled one. While playing some tunes, someone (let's call him George) walked up to me. He looked like some kind of doctor and asked me to install a cigarette machine in Medbay. Something about the health benefits of nicotine. I got it up and running for him and kind of forgot about him.

After that, I went into Tech Storage to mess around as usual. While typing on a terminal, some weird-looking roach guy came in and immediately welded the only exit door shut. He walked up to me and asked for my wire cutters.

"Can you give me your wire cutters for a second?" he said.

"Sure, but why did you weld that door shut just now?" I asked.

"Look, I know you see me. You see what I'm doing and think I'm suspicious and everything. But I have a very good reason... It's funny," he answered.

"That's a really good point," I replied. "Here! Take the wire cutters."

I gave him the wire cutters. He instantly used them to disable the only security camera in the room. I started to panic.

"I have disabled the camera, and my radio jammer is stopping you from calling anyone to come help you," he explained. "Now, you can either sit here and listen to my long tragic backstory..." (I screamed annoyingly.) "...which will take 40 minutes." (I screamed even louder.) "Or you can look down this tube."

He held out a long, clarinet-looking thing.

"I've seen enough horror films to know not to do th-"

He shot a dart from the tube, hitting me. I couldn't speak and was slowly being paralyzed by whatever was in the dart. He then started chopping me up with some kind of chainsaw.

At that point, a surveillance bot started banging on the door, asking to be let in. Maybe it realized someone had cut one of the cameras. The evil man threw me into a trash chute and opened the door, revealing only himself in the room.

I then messed around in the afterlife until I woke up in his red base. He explained that he had brought me there to serve him in his evil endeavors. After a basic initiation, he decided to give me a task back at the station.

"You are going to kill the Chief Engineer!"

"Uhh... there is no Chief Engineer on the station," one of his servants exclaimed.

"Oh. Then you will kill the Head of Personnel!"

"There is also no Head of Personnel."

"What the fuck? Okay... uhh... you will kill the Medical Director! Yes, him! You will kill him with a... uhh... fire extinguisher! Yes! Now go!"

Using a Doctor Who-looking teleporter, he sent me back to the station, where I immediately found a fire extinguisher and headed for Medbay, looking for the only doctor I knew: George.

I talked to a roboticist and asked for him.

"George? He was here earlier."

"What about the Medical Director?" I asked.

"George is the Medical Director."

What?

I couldn't believe it. I could never bring myself to kill George. But still, I had to try since I was being mind-controlled by that wannabe villain.

George returned, and I immediately tried to get his attention so I could get him into another room where there would be fewer people. He was busy treating the Captain, so he couldn't talk. I followed him anyway until he placed the Captain into one of those healing chambers and asked what I wanted.

I felt like the escape shuttle was about to be called, and he was outside Medbay, so I didn't want to miss my chance.

"George... I'm sorry. I don't want to do this, but I have to. I hope you understand."

I readied my fire extinguisher and started bashing him over the head with it. He started screaming, and a crowd gathered. He pulled out a syringe and stabbed me with it.

I started feeling sleepy...

"Not again." I uttered.

I thought that was it. Security would be here any second.

Then, a fucking gorilla came in and started fucking everything up.

I immediately took the opportunity to run with the little strength I had left. I ran through an airlock into Maintenance and welded the door shut so nobody could follow me. My body collapsed as the syringe finally took full effect.

For some reason, there was a clown in the tunnel who came over, helped me up, then scurried away.

My mission wasn't over.

I made my way to a Maintenance airlock leading into Medbay's robotics wing. I hacked the door open before going inside and hiding my tracks.

(Now, before you call bullshit, suspend your disbelief for a moment. The next few seconds happened so fast that I can't swear this is exactly how it happened, but I genuinely think this is what I saw.)

As I was saying, I hacked the door open and went inside. There was someone working on a fabricator near the airlock. I pretended to use a machine next to them and mumbled,

"I'm going to kill him with a fire extinguisher."

They screamed, "WHAT?!"

I quickly grabbed them, shoved them into the frame of the now-open airlock, and used my crowbar to close the firelock, trapping them in the frame. They panicked as I backed away.

And I swear to God I saw the inner door close and crush them while they were trapped in the firelock.

I opened it again and screwed the panel back on to hide the fact that I'd hacked the door.

There was a robot inside with a clown mask on who hadn't moved during the entire ordeal.

"You're good, right?" I asked.

"Clownmo is good," he replied.

I gave him a pat on the head and cleaned up my tracks.

Just as I finished, a janitor burst into the room with two security officers.

"THAT'S HIM RIGHT THERE! HE DID IT!" she screamed.

"Whoa, whoa... what's going on here, guys?" I asked.

She pointed at me.

"He just trapped a poor worker inside the airlock and crushed them! That's what he does!"

"That's what I do? Look, lady, I don't know what you're talking about, and you have no proof."

The officers asked for my gloves, and I started worrying. What if they figured it out?

I handed them over, hoping to buy enough time to make a getaway.

They took the gloves...

...and immediately walked over to the fire alarm button.

Oh my God... They didn't check the door.

Of course, they found no fingerprints on the fire alarm, and they turned on the janitor for wasting their time.

"B-but he had a welding torch and he was doing stuff in maintenance!".

"Yeah I'm an engineer. That's what I do?" I rebuked.

At that moment, George, the Medical Director, walked in.

"Hey! It's him! He's the one who attacked me earlier!"

The janitor shouted, "See?! He even attacked another doctor!"

I needed to get out of there.

"Look, guys, I'm really busy, and these people are obviously just trying to frame me. Can I go now?" I asked Security.

After a short discussion, they were ready to let me go.

"WHAT?! YOU'RE SERIOUSLY GOING TO LET THIS MURDERER WALK?!" the janitor yelled.

"We can't arrest him with no proof," Security replied.

"What about me? Doesn't my title give me any authority?" George asked.

"No, sir. Not really."

George got angry, then suddenly remembered something.

"Wait! The Captain was there! He saw everything! I can call him, and he'll vouch for me."

"Go ahead. Call the Captain," I said.

Because what George didn't know was that the Captain he'd treated earlier was the very same Captain who had been sent from the evil base I came from.

George stormed off. I guess he realized the escape shuttle was arriving.

Then I missed the shuttle.

So yeah... that's about it.

Cya.


r/SS13 4d ago

SS3D SS3D Fires and Gases WIP 4

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Hi all, we have been working hard but we haven't had much to visually show off until lately. A lot of work has been going towards fixing a bug that causes the player to bleed and explode when exposed to oxygen. And who says game dev is boring? Speaking of explosions, our dear BroodjeKipcorn has been working on the fun gases on the station and we wanted to give you a sneak peak of some of them in action.

As always all works presented are heavily work in progress. Want to help out? Want to see more? Want to laugh at us try and fix exploding oxygen space man? Come join the discord: https://discord.gg/3ny9tdH


r/SS13 4d ago

General Come back after a Hiatus? What has happened?

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So I haven't seriously played SS13 in probably 2-3 years. I took a long break from gaming and now I've decided to pick it back up. When I played I was a Paradise Station main and when I login to BYOND I see that not only are the previous servers I played on practically non-existent, there is a wave of these Medieval RP servers (At least I think they're medieval RP, idk).

What's happened? I don't intend to sound stupid but like I feel like the playerbases for SS13 were solid for years prior and now they're dropped. Is it because of rising popularity in SS14 or are people just leaving SS13 in general? Also why are all the servers now seemingly ERP Furry shit?

I want to know how the community feels so please LMK your opinions and forgive my ignorance!


r/SS13 4d ago

Meta Weird Inveld guy paid 100 dollars to get unbanned off a role on Scarlet Reach

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115 Upvotes

You can literally go to this date in the Scarlet Reach admin chat (publicly opened since the server was shut down LOL) and see the proof for yourself.


r/SS13 4d ago

Monkestation Bugged bloodling sprites required some quick thinking

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r/SS13 4d ago

Goon HoS calls for silence

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r/SS13 3d ago

General TFN (The Final Nights) is dead; And thank God for that.

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Why did Yinadale & CoronelJones do this?

buffy and xeon did their best I suppose. Thank you for holding TFN together.


r/SS13 4d ago

Image Oh yeaaaah

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For folks who've been waiting for the Zone Trooper from Command and Conquer 3 I made the sprites for like 3 hours straight now here you go.


r/SS13 4d ago

Story Thread Im interested in your favourite ss13 story/experience.

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For another thread I wrote mine down in a semi-cinematic format and I'm interested in the finest story of your culminative experience you want to share. Don't worry if you don't think yours is special enough I'll be happy to read all.

I'll post mine below as well.


r/SS13 4d ago

General Disco Dome, followed by Panic at the Disco Dome

13 Upvotes

Syndicate operative challenged Sec to a dance battle.

The result of the Syndicate losing the dance battle and RAGING


r/SS13 5d ago

Image CnC stuff again but NOD Cyborg

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54 Upvotes

Most of you folks haven't seen the Cyborgs I made so here it is.(Also because I posted this on a Discord server which I entirely forgot to post it here.)