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SERVICE STAFF
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 Janitor |
Difficulty: Easy Requirements: None Access: Janitor, Service, Maintenance Extended Access: None Supervisors: Head of Personnel Subordinates: None Duties: Head of Personnel Guides: This is the guide |
First off, Janitor has long been described as the lifeblood of the station and it's mostly true. The more the station looks like a disaster, the more folks will treat it like a disaster. Mopping up blood and other liquids isn't just important work, it's also a great way to get used to how SS14 handles item interactions.
As Janitor, it is your job to keep the station clean as can be. Your duties are to mop the floors, clear the trash / junk and replace broken lights. It is your job to scrub away any undesirable graffiti from the floors. It is also your role to silently point at the wet floor sign and quietly laugh every time someone slips.
Beware being lured into dark rooms or alleyways by a colleague requesting help. For messes visible from the corridor to places you don't have access to, stand mutely and point at the mess until they embarrassedly let you in. For high security areas, make a positive impression by requesting trash through a window and lending them your mop if you see a mess.
As janitor, you'll likely be requested often by Medical and Chef staff. Blood and vomit will steadily increase in their departments. Epistemics will likely need you too but are oft too busy experimenting to notice their mess or remember to let you out. Remember to use the Radio to work closely with the crew.
When starting, consider finding a crowbar and possibly a wirecutter (to be able to let yourself out of obscure locations when the power goes out or the Epistemics team forget about you). Your first, second and third option to escape a room that you've cleaned should be to say 'Excuse me' and hope they notice and feel sorry for you.
If you are having trouble mopping large amounts of liquid (like a blood filled Chef kitchen), consider trying Space Cleaner. You can request a Medical Doctor to refill your Space Cleaner Spray Cans. They may ask you to first half fill it with water. Note that blood will still need to be mopped up rather than sprayed at.
Tools
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Mop bucket | Pull with you by pressing CTRL + Left click. Make sure it's full of water before heading out for cleaning duty. When all the clean water in it gets dirty, left click on the Mop Bucket, hold the left mouse button and drag it's ghost image over the Drain. You can then refill it at a water tank, sink, or water cooler using a blue Bucket or other small container to transfer water. In a desperate survival situation, under the effect of mind altering chemicals or if you just REALLY can't find a Drain, you can also drink the contents (ewww!) and potentially contract any diseases your colleagues have vomited / bled out. |
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Janitorial Trolley | Comes with a built-in mop bucket that holds more water, and your mop can be stashed on it with Alt + E. It also has ample room for transporting cleaning supplies or contraband. However, since it is larger than a mop bucket, it's harder to navigate in tight spaces, and slows you down more. When all the clean water in it gets dirty, left click on the Mop Bucket, hold the left mouse button and drag it's ghost image over the Drain. |
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Mop | Used to clean floor puddles or bludgeon hostile xenofauna. Left click on a mop bucket to wet the mop with water. Then, left click on a puddle one or more times until it is replaced with clean water, which will soon evaporate on its own. Once the water in the mop's Liquid Bar at the bottom of the UI is completely replaced by whatever foul mess you are cleaning up, click on the mop bucket again to wring and re-water the mop. If your mop won't drain water from the Mop Bucket, it's time to go and replace the water in the mop bucket. Or you can try spilling clean water from a blue bucket directly onto a large mess to dilute it.
If the clown dares to get in your way, you can wield the mop two-handed to be instantly more intimidating, by pressing Z. |
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Bucket | Used for transferring water to Mop Buckets and cleaning up big messes. Holding the bucket, click on a water source multiple times until the bucket is full, then click on the Mop Bucket multiple times until empty. It will take multiple Buckets of water to fill an empty Mop Bucket. To use on the floor directly, fill the Bucket with water, stand in the center of the mess, then right click on the Bucket and choose Spill Liquid. |
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Trash Bag | Left click on the ground in front of a mess (of bullets, or whatever else) to vacuum it into the bag. Hold left click for piles of mess. Many objects will not be able to be put into the bag ranging from unopen soda cans, plushies, cigarette lighters. For large junk like plushies / toys / clothes, you will need to manually put them into a Disposal by hand. |
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Soap | Currently just exists to slip on. |
| File:Spacecleaner.png | Space Cleaner | Used for a graffiti/floor grime. Spray to clean, it's magic. For fancy floor artwork with a mime standing nearby, contemplate whether you really want to risk causing a scene by erasing their picture. |
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Wet floor sign | Remember to point at it every time someone slips. |
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Galoshes | Prevents the wearer from slipping. |
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Mouse Trap | Used to lure and kill mice / rats. Unset mice traps do nothing. Hold one in your hand and press the Interact hotkey in order to activate/deactivate it. Cheese / bait not required. You can throw an activated mouse trap at a mouse to kill it. |
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Janicart | Allows you to increase your movement speed. Requires a Janicart Key to be placed inside of it before it will move. Left click to activate it after it has keys inside. |
| File:Light replacer.png | Light Replacer | Insert a light bulb into this. Left click this onto a broken light bulb in order to replace it. |
   
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Light Bulb and Tubes | Used to replace broken lights when they inevitably gets destroyed. Comes in only two forms but in many colors. |
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Flashlight | Press E to turn it on. Put it in your pocket for ease-of-use. It is much brighter than your PDA light. Remember to turn it off when finished otherwise the battery will run out. The battery remaining is shown above the item as green bars. The battery can be changed by holding a new battery (e.g. Medium Power Cell) in your active hand and left clicking on the flashlight. |
Item Repurposing
The lazy and nuisance Janitor dumps everything that is on the floor into a bin. Consider sending objects to where they can be used.
- dead mice or animals can be cooked by a Chef, sold by Cargo or recycled into biomass by Medical.
- Raw food ingredients can be used by a Chef.
- Glass / Cloth / Plastic / Steel / Gold / Wood can be used by the Epistemics team or the Engineer team or it can be sold / distributed by Cargo
- Empty cans, wrapping paper, matches, plants, chairs, clothes, plushies, etc can be sold by Cargo
Mopping and Spills
To clean a spill, grab your trusty mop and your mop bucket. Take them to the spill and while the mop is selected in a hand, click the bucket to wet or wring out your mop. Click the spill, then, click the bucket to wring out the mop back into the bucket.
It may take several tries to do this for some stubborn stains and if your mop is leaving behind a small trace, it may be time to go empty the bucket. You can do this in most janitorial closets, as there's a drain on the floor. Right click your bucket, spill the liquid, and then transfer water back into the bucket by using another container (normal blue buckets are good for this). You don't want to fill the mop bucket all the way, just a little liquid will do, after all you need to wring out stuff back into the mop bucket.
Spills that used heavy water can make folks slip if they aren't wearing galoshes, so having a wet floor sign in your bag can be a great way to stop folks from slipping on things. Just put it in your hand and drop it.
Some Janitorial Staff have holo-wet floor signs. Equip the holo-generator and point at where you want to summon the holo sign. Easy enough and you don't have to fetch it.
Space Cleaner and Graffiti
Graffiti from crayons needs to be cleaned using Space Cleaner. Put the space cleaner into your hand and left click in a direction to spray it. Space Cleaner can also be used to remove pie from folks faces if the clown has hit them with a pie. Just spray it at them.
Trash Bags and Cargo
Trash bags are helpful to pick up lots of trash at once. Not all items can be crammed into a trash bag despite logic. Foam darts, for instance, are classically everywhere, but they can't be put into a trashbag. For most other items though, equip your trash bag and click the item you want to throw it in.
If you don't care too much about it, or it doesn't go into the trashbag, just pick up the item and drop it into disposals to be space-incinerated by the space incinerator. The benefit of trashbags is that you can empty them all at once or give them to Cargo to sell the contents for pennies on the zork.