Boomers Actually Do Something

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Summary

Features "Overhauled boomer bile"

Purpose of change

Boomers are a completely worthless enemy. The really big ones get some decent bite attacks, but that's late-game, and other than that they're just weak, slow enemies that die easily and paint the ground purple.

Describe the solution

• Getting bile in your eyes now has a low chance to give you conjunctivitis every second that it's there, heavily adjusted by your lifestyle score. Rinsing it out with saline solution or eye drops (or getting rid of it by any other means) stops these checks
• Conjunctivitis is a relatively mild eye infection that comes in mostly identical bacterial and viral flavors. At some later date there should be a chance for it to turn nasty and possibly cause serious eye damage, MRSA, etc. once we have means for the player to circumvent that, but for now it's just a mild annoyance
• Added antihistamine pills, AKA Benadryl. These are a fairly cheap and common mild depressant, and make you resist the effects of conjunctivitis. They can be found wherever you usually find OTC medicine
• Antibiotics have a 50% chance to cure the bacterial version. There's no way to tell which you have without blood analysis
• Wearing contact lenses or having a mutation with nictating membranes makes you slightly more likely to get conjunctivitis. This is why you see so many one-eyed cats
• Lidless and compound eyes are immune, as they have no exposed conjunctiva
• Bile in the eyes is now blocked by waterproofing, not environmental resistance, via the new Creature::add_liquid_effect. Since bile was added, we have done a lot with coverage and waterproofing, and now these statistics are more suitable for blocking attacks such as bile, which is a viscous liquid. Enviro protection has largely been shifted to gas and atmospheric particulates. This means that wearing sunglasses is now fairly effective at stopping bile and wearing goggles or the protective lenses CBM totally keeps it out of your eyes
• Surfaces can now be slippery. Currently this includes bile and slime, but there's now framework for adding ice and other types of slick terrain. Slipperiness is delivered via an effect, similar to sludge
• An upright character without the GASTROPOD_FOOT mutation now has a chance to slip every second they have the effect and are on flat ground. This chance is worse for clumsy people, it's worse the more intense the field (and subsequently the effect) are, it's worse if you're running, it's worse if you're skating and don't have the Skater trait
• Factors which resist slipping include athletics skill, dexterity, balance limb score, the Deft trait, and any one of Slimy, Aqueous, or Mucus Secretion. Crouching (this includes quadrupedal movement for mutants) or going prone prevent slipping
• It is intended that bile is overall less of an obstacle than sludge, but the random element makes it unpredictable
• Monsters who do not tunnel, fly, or have the snake, blob, or fish flag can also slip on slippery surfaces. The chance is based on their movement speed, higher being more likely to slip, but is resisted by their dodge skill. A clever player will be able to use bile to their advantage, but it will frequently benefit a slow-moving horde by making running away more difficult. Luckily there isn't usually very much bile around
• Reduced the half-life of bile to be commensurate with sludge
• Made ballistic glasses have 95 coverage as they're not airtight

Describe alternatives you've considered

• Corpse bile is one of the most disgusting substances on planet earth and we have specifically evolved to be revolted by it. Getting it on you should make your clothes filthy and ruin your day. We really need a hygiene system and better morale
• This opens the door to finally fixing acid, which has been silly forever. I'm going to want to spend some time on that one because it'll be a fairly substantial balance change. My current plan is to make the player's primary concern be acid splashing onto their body. Currently players are mostly worried about acid on the floor which doesn't make a ton of sense, especially outdoors
• It probably wouldn't be too hard to get the liquid effects thing set up with the magic system as well, which would likely pay dividends both for monattacks and mutations, let alone mods

Testing

Ongoing

Additional context

lmao

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Needed to rebase this, closing this PR and making a new one at #69555