Reticulite

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What this does

Adds a new kind of metal to the game, reticulite. (pictured above is sheets, tiles and coin)
This metal can build the alien floors, (which negate magboot slowdown) walls, chairs, beds, crates and closets as found on the mothership vaults, and is found by deconstructing them or, rarely, in trader odd material packs. (alien stuff ordered from cargo will just be made out of ordinary metal)
Can be deconstructed for a new kind of tech level, "alien", that cannot be research archived. This level is used to build the following: (which all now also deconstruct back into this new level and material)

• Stun probes, as found on the mothership vault (refactored to actually be a stun baton type weapon now!)
• Sick sticks, similar to the above but makes people vomit on probe.
• Small disintegrators, as found on the mothership vault
• Various different ayylien stock parts (TODO: use these for things other than research, like machines?)
• Roswell, a new kind of UFO mech that floats in space with no slowdown and accepts combat mech items, at the cost of being more fragile than a gygax. Wreckages of these have rarely been spotted at mecha graveyards. The roswell accepts the following exclusive equipment:
• Abductors, which take in humanoids or cows beneath the ship after a 5 second delay
• Probers, which, when loaded with an item, will place them in the groin cavity of any abducted humanoid after a 5 second delay. Kills cows outright via brute damage instead.

Grinds down to a chemical known as "zeta dust" with strange properties; cleans all object and turf blood on contact, heals extra blood for grayyys, but causes slight amounts of fire damage for anyone else. If used in chemsmoke, it deals burn damage to any exposed blood-carrying non-gray mob's body part with open wounds on it! Zeta dust reacts to form the following:

• Reticulite solidifcation, with the usual formula plus 5 units sacid as catalyst. Note that pouring zeta dust on reticulite sheets can increase the amount too, at a rate of 1 sheet per 20 units. Grey goo does this at 1 sheet per unit.
• Zeptobots, 1 unit nanobots 5 units zeta dust, required to make...
• Grey zeptobots, 1 unit zeptobots 1 unit grey goo, works like mednanos but also removes any mercury, impedrezene, space drugs, mindbreaker or spiritbreaker in the system, plus completely stops any kind of hallucinations, dizziness and confusion, while healing brain damage. Still cyberhorrors like mednanos on overdose, but grays are immune to it with this kind!
• Zetarot, 1 unit pacid or phenol, 1 unit amantin, 1 unit radium, 1 unit zetadust, toxic to grays and slightly less so to anyone else, makes reticulite walls rot.
• Zeta foam, 20 units zeta dust, 1 unit foaming agent, 1 unit pacid or phenol, converts any floor it comes into contact with into reticulite plating.
• Scientist's supreme secret, 1 unit zeta dust 1 unit scientists's serendipity, like scientist's sapience and similar, but now covers the alien tech level! All other scientist drinks do not.
• Vreemdkoekjes, made with 30 units flour and 30 units zeta dust in a microwave, basically ijzerkoekjes but with zeta dust in them. Using a reticulite coin on a zamsnax vendor adds this to the stock and refills everything, if not already unlocked! One use per machine.

Why it's good

new fun rare metal with lots of stuff to make with it, including ayy themed decoration, flavour

How it was tested

building a roswell, abducting and probing humans and cows with a roswell, deconstructing things with alien tech levels, using the sick stick on people, using a reticulite coin and a normal coin on zam vendors, putting floors and walls down, buidling things with reticulite, splashing reticulite plates with zeta dust and grey goo, creating zeta foam

Changelog

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• rscadd: New metal known as "reticulite" is speculated to be found in alien bases... might require tearing them up a bit for it though.
• rscadd: Reticulite is suspected to be involved in the production of strange research findings, such as guns, probes and even a fully working UFO with a tractor beam!
• rscadd: Reticulite is suspected to be made of "zeta dust", a material with beneficial properties for gray blood systems and not so beneficial ones for any other living being with blood.
• tweak: The MAXIMUM SCIENCE admin button now gives nanotrasen and alien tech levels to maximum