Major Filling a space pod with plasma instantly kills whoever steps foot in it.

[drWoof]

Jesus fucking christ why is this still a thing?

[Berrik]

this is intended behavior iirc

[mbc]

i recently lowered the amt of damage you take from breathing in toxic air -- this plasma death is Probably intentional but hopefully it will happen a little bit slower now

[Zamujasa]

The way it seems to work is that you take damage if > 0.4% of the atmos is plasma, but the amount of damage is based on how much plasma there is.

Code:

(proc/handle_breath(datum/gas_mixture/breath))
var/breath_pressure = (breath.total_moles()*R_IDEAL_GAS_EQUATION*breath.temperature)/BREATH_VOLUME

// Partial pressure of the O2 in our breath
var/O2_pp = (breath.oxygen/breath.total_moles())*breath_pressure
// Same, but for the toxins
var/Toxins_pp = (breath.toxins/breath.total_moles())*breath_pressure

if (O2_pp < safe_oxygen_min) // 17
    // Not enough O2!
    if (O2_pp > 0)
        // But some, at least
        // (17 / effective-oxygen-percent) * 5 damage
        // BUG? This is backwards! Number *increases* as oxygen decreases...
        // Should be (O2_pp / safe_oxygen_min)!
        var/ratio = round( safe_oxygen_min / (O2_pp + 0.1) )

        // Due to bug, "ratio" will always be > 1
        // so 5 * ratio is always > 5!
        // Effectively, this means you always take 5 OXY damage. Welp!
        // Pretty sure this bug is still in the game since I always see people with OXY in increments of 5.
        // Huh.
        take_oxygen_deprivation( min( 5 * ratio, 5 ) )
        oxygen_used = breath.oxygen*ratio/6

[...]

if (Toxins_pp > safe_toxins_max) // 0.4
    // Partial percent of toxins > limit. That's too much!
    // Note that unlike the above, this ratio isn't backwards...
    // but it uses the actual amount of moles, not the partial percent!
    // Effectively, the actual amount of toxins decides the damage, not the %,
    // but you need at least 0.4% to start taking damage.
    // Wonder if super-chilled plasma (lower pressure but higher mole count?)
    // would insta-kill due to this
    var/ratio = breath.toxins/safe_toxins_max

    // BUG: take_toxin_damage doesn't take a second parameter.
    // Was this supposed to be min( 325 * ratio, 15 ) like oxy?
    // (If so you'd cap at 15 damage per tick rather than dying instantly)
    take_toxin_damage(ratio * 325,15)

maybe this will help explain it, i added a bunch of comments from the 2016 source including what appears to be at least two different bugs if not three

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Update: I checked and replacing your internals with pure plasma is not lethal (but does immediately put you into crit). The pod thing has to be a bug or a weird interaction of code stuff.

[drWoof]

well if you reduced the amount of damage you take then it sure as hell didnt work because i get in, I see the biohazard symbol, I die. No crit stage, no anything, I just plop over dead.
I am more than sure that isn't supposed to happen.

[mbc]

fixede for real probably