Winged_Chiller Wrote:Livestock Farmer/Zookeeper suggestion:

The animals:

Dangerous:
Space Lion (Rare) (Dangerous)
Space Yeti (Rare) (Dangerous)
Space Bee (Medium) (Dangerous)
Spore (Medium) (Dangerous)

Safe:
Space Walrus (Rare)
Space Seal (Medium)
Space Owl (Common)
Space Pig (Common)
Space Cow (Common)
Space Sheep (Common)

Duds:
Cockroach (Very Common)

I may have made a few up, if this idea gets anywhere I might try to sprite them also.

How to procure the animals:
The animals would all come in eggs (They’re space animals get over it) which could be ordered by QM or found by miners. These eggs would then be sent to the Farm where they could be placed in the incubator to heat up before being teleported into the corresponding cage.

The cages and you:
There would be two kinds of cages, the safe cage, and the dangerous cage. The safe cage can be opened by the zookeeper, or anyone with access whereas the dangerous cage can only be opened when the zookeeper is a traitor with his job specific item “The file (Tool)” which costs 10 telecrystals, can destroy the cages, unweld doors and rub peoples faces off if hit in the head too many times/random occurrence. The cages of course would be indestructible by all other means, including bombs to prevent shitheads from releasing the dangerous critters.

What is the point:
The Zookeeper could use his safe livestock to make beneficial things for the chef and assistants everywhere. Space pigs could be shaved to procure bacon and killed to get the usual ham. Space cows could be milked when the intent is set to help and the zookeeper is holding a bucket in the other; shaved for leather to make cowboy hats and leather boots and killed to make a physical meat called Beff. The owl is a commodity, but could be made edible if added to the butcher able whitelist. Space Sheep could be shorn to gain wool which through the magic of science can be turned into fabric for the autolathes.

I’ve tried to balance this out and make it a reasonable addition to the station. I am well aware of all the previous suggestions of the addition of a zookeeper but I’m hoping this one makes it more reasonable and more likely.

Here are the sprites I made for this:
The gate and the fence:

What they look like on astroturf:


The gates opening sprites:








The gif of it opening, it's too fast but you get the idea:

Also I couldn't work out how to do it with transparency so I put it on astroturf too.

The incubator:


The incubator at work:

OR


I'm unsure which I like better.

If they're going to be implemented I can post the frame by frame sprites, but this has probably just been a waste of time.

Sundance Wrote:If you stay in the ship for too long you get knocked unconscious and you wake up inside a trophy pens with two strange creatures looking back at you, a strange buddy comes to inject you in which you scream and then you become tamed (Death essentially, a npc version of you is spawned)