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Coroner additions and tweaks (tgstation#76534)
## About The Pull Request Serrated bone shovels can be created with any kind of shovel now, not just a spade (???) Serrated bone shovels can be used in place of circular saw in most surgeries. Added a duller (still deadly) variant of the serrated bone shovel as coroner mail. Autopsy scanners now act as advanced health analyzers on dead and seemingly-dead people. Increased the force, throwforce, and wound bonus of inert ritual knives and scythes. Coroner gloves can quickly apply medicine like nitrile gloves. ## Why It's Good For The Game > Serrated bone shovels can be created with any kind of shovel now, not just a spade (???) Weird ass bug. > Serrated bone shovels can be used in place of circular saw in most surgeries. It's serrated, it's cool, it's rare, it has a fast toolspeed. > Added a duller (still deadly) variant of the serrated bone shovel as coroner mail. Very thematic for the coroner, should probably also be a heirloom item but whatevs. Weaker so there's still a reason to seek out the OG. > Autopsy scanners now act as advanced health analyzers on dead and seemingly-dead people. Scanning corpses is pretty important during surgery - it tells you how much blood they have, organ damage, diseases... these things don't appear in the surgical computer readout, which means the coroner has to go out of his cave to pick up a boring light blue meatbag wound scanner. This also incentivizes coroners to do their job by giving them something cool that only works on dead bodies. > Increased the force, throwforce, and wound bonus of inert ritual knives and scythes. These two options in the MortiDrobe are pretty frickin' badass, especially with how SICK the Coroner looks with them, double especially in combat.  However, there's the large issue that as actual weapons they're really, really weak. Not enough damage, when I use them in combat I both feel badass but also get a nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I'm intentionally gimping myself, and with only 10 damage I can *really* feel it. I find it unfair that these are objectively worse than a welding tool or even a Butcher's Cleaver when they're a lot more involved to find, and scarce besides. These arguments apply equally to the Wizard's ritual knife, and the scythe. Additionally on the scythe, the crew really needs more good ghetto weaponry that isn't the boring same ol' of baseball bats, spears, cleavers... and making scythes useful is a great way to help bridge that gap. They deal a satisfying amount of damage now, with the clear downside, of course, being that they're bulky and hard to lug around. > Coroner gloves can quickly apply medicine like nitrile gloves. 'Fast medicine' doesn't just cover sutures, it also covers medical gel. Specifically, sterilizer gel. I find it annoying that the Coroner is encouraged to give up his drip for the boring life-saver nitrile gloves, because the difference in applying time really does make a difference - it makes gel applying go from annoying to smooth, which is important considering the whole purpose of sterilizer gel is to make surgeries go faster. The Coroner has surgery and thus medical locker access to begin with, so this isn't a balance problem, (and nitrile gloves are found by the dozen anyways) especially with how rare the coroner gloves are. ## Changelog :cl: fix: Serrated bone shovels can be created with any kind of shovel now, not just a spade (???) add: Serrated bone shovels can be used in place of circular saw in most surgeries. add: Added a duller (still deadly) variant of the serrated bone shovel as coroner mail. add: Autopsy scanners now act as advanced health analyzers on dead and seemingly-dead people. add: Increased the force, throwforce, and wound bonus of inert ritual knives and scythes. add: Coroner gloves can quickly apply medicine like nitrile gloves. /:cl:
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