Add Shadekin

[Fasuh]

About the PR

This PR aims to add species from Starlight server, shadekins, it is a bit of a watered down implementation, due to its... complex nature in that server, this one is made to be less flashy

Why / Balance

I believe it is one of more popular species, with unique behaviour and culture, i think it is a very nice addition to the server.

From balacing standpoint:

• Resistances - they are on the weaker side, having weaknesses to some common type of damage in this server: Radiation, Shock, Bloodloss, Heat, while serving resistances to cold and callular, rather rare types of damage.
• Breathing immunity - Shadekin are known for their lack of lungs, they do not breathe, nor can they be given lungs, from balance standpoint i understand that this might be considered quite "op" in some servers, however here, i believe most people would be able to find a carp in less than 10 minutes from entering a shift, and self operate to give themselves space animal lungs, it is a QoL more than anything. However, due to them lacking lungs in general, as well having no ability to implant lungs into themselves, they are unable to breathe atmos, with some popular combat mixes that are used recently, as well as canisters saving on ships, this i believe is a very big negative, since they cant breathe gases as Nitrium and Halium, they are excluded from that meta.
• Night vision - This is more powerful of their abilities, however, it also has one big negative, night vision is removed the moment shadekin put on any flash immunity gear, which includes some of the good masks and glasses, as well as makes them have to stay vulnerable to those. This is a night vision ported from Starlight, which looks a bit different than the one we have, i think however that its way better for longer use, less straining for the eyes.
• Flash weakness - they get flashed for twice as long, and the effect is harder on them.

All light exposure mechanics have been removed from them, not only are they expensive on the server, they are also too complex and laggy.

Media

2026-05-18.16-05-30_compressed.mp4

2026-05-18.16-19-59_compressed.mp4

Requirements

• I have read relevant guidelines/documentation to this PR found on our devwiki.
• I have added media to this PR or it does not require an ingame showcase.
• I can confirm this PR contains either no AI-generated content, or AI-generated content that meets our guidelines.

How to test

Enter the game and create a shadekin character.

Breaking changes

Changelog
🆑 Fasuh, Irkalla, rain_enjoyer

• add: Added Shadekin; A species of 4 eared felines with bright, monocolored eyes. They may or may not be from an adjacent plane and are drawn to realspace and especially anomalous zones (i.e. the Monolith) to sate their own curiosity. Think kind of like Vortigaunts. They are hemophilic and due to sheer complexity of their own bloods composition have issues regenerating it (170% more bleed and 1/4th of normal blood regen). They take more damage from the common damage types Radiation, Shock and Heat but less from cold and the rare cellular. Their hyper-evolved eyes grant them intrinsic nightvision if unobstructed by flash protective gear and they do not breath. Any sort of flashes last longer and are more intense. The guidebook entry provides more details on them and their lore.

[github-actions]

RSI Diff Bot; head commit d1eafdb merging into 59cc942
This PR makes changes to 1 or more RSIs. Here is a summary of all changes:

Resources/Textures/_Starlight/Mobs/Customization/shadekin/ears.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
aqua_default			Added
aqua_incolor			Added
bull_default			Added
bull_smooth			Added
cowling_secondary			Added
fluffy_butterfly			Added
fluffy_cowling			Added
fluffy_crow			Added
fluffy_default			Added
fluffy_motley			Added
fluffy_ringed_all			Added
fluffy_ringed_left			Added
fluffy_ringed_right			Added
fluffy_spidy			Added
gauze_ear_all_default			Added
gauze_ear_l_default			Added
gauze_ear_r_default			Added
motley_secondary			Added
piercing_all			Added
piercing_left			Added
piercing_right			Added
ringed_all_secondary			Added
ringed_left_secondary			Added
ringed_right_secondary			Added
saggy_brawly			Added
saggy_default			Added
saggy_gauze_all			Added
saggy_gauze_l			Added
saggy_gauze_r			Added
saggy_gradient			Added
saggy_zebra			Added
shadekin			Added
shadekin_stripes			Added
shady			Added
short_butterfly			Added
short_default			Added
short_ringed_all			Added
short_ringed_left			Added
short_ringed_right			Added

Resources/Textures/_Starlight/Mobs/Customization/shadekin/overlay.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
body_arrow			Added
body_blackhole			Added
body_brace			Added
body_brawly			Added
body_heart			Added
body_ink			Added
body_ink2			Added
body_ink3			Added
body_ink4			Added
body_ink5			Added
body_ink6			Added
body_ink_anim			Added
body_lines			Added
body_neck			Added
body_shield			Added
body_vacuum			Added

Resources/Textures/_Starlight/Mobs/Customization/shadekin/tails32x32.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
medium_twocolored			Added
shadekin_medium			Added
shadekin_shorter			Added
shorter_brush			Added

Resources/Textures/_Starlight/Mobs/Customization/shadekin/tails64x32.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
shadekin			Added
shadekin_big			Added
shadekin_big_fluff			Added

Resources/Textures/_Starlight/Mobs/Species/Shadekin/organs.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
appendix			Added
brain			Added
core			Added
eyes			Added
heart			Added
kidneys			Added
liver			Added
stomach			Added
tongue			Added

Resources/Textures/_Starlight/Mobs/Species/Shadekin/parts.rsi

State	Old	New	Status
eyes			Added
full-nomarkings			Added
full			Added
head_f			Added
head_m			Added
l_arm			Added
l_foot			Added
l_hand			Added
l_leg			Added
overlay_husk			Added
r_arm			Added
r_foot			Added
r_hand			Added
r_leg			Added
torso_f			Added
torso_m			Added

[DDrakov]

This need a discussion, care to tag me on dev channel. Just mention @DDrakov and I'll be there

[TheRealMasterChief117]

Changelog needs to be more descriptive. We also need to discuss the lore of Shadekin, they need to fit the overall theme of the server. Their abilities also seem quite powerful, with night vision and all.

The code could also use improvements, namely Starlight copy and pasting the already existing night vision system.

[Erol509]

On some servers shadekin can phaze teleport, so simple nightvision is still not that big of an adventage

[IrkallaEpsilon]

Right lets get this started: First of all the immediate changes for the changelog

Changelog
🆑 Fasuh

add: Added Shadekin

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Changelog
🆑 Fasuh

add: Added Shadekin; A species of 4 eared felines with bright, monocolored eyes. They may or may not be from an adjacent plane and are drawn to realspace and especially anomalous zones (i.e. the Monolith) to sate their own curiosity. Think kind of like Vortigaunts. They are hemophilic and due to sheer complexity of their own bloods composition have issues regenerating it (170% more bleed and 1/4th of normal blood regen). They take more damage from the common damage types Radiation, Shock and Heat but less from cold and the rare cellular. Their hyper-evolved eyes grant them intrinsic nightvision if unobstructed by flash protective gear and they do not breath. Any sort of flashes last longer and are more intense. The guidebook entry provides more details on them and their lore.

Up next:

Clarificaiton on some aspects including the question "Brighteyes ugh":

In this PR (And hopefully if implemented in any future PRs) they do not get any special active abilities nor are they going to be limited in eye color or anything if implemented. I dislike that bit alot on SL and HL. Shadekin should just be that: Four eared cats with a long stabilizing fluffy tail not native to realspace while being drawn to anomalous areas. No weird phaseshifting bullshit in realspace, no OP hypermending ability when in darkness. No blood that when drunk makes you feel like you have been hammered by drugs like its currently on both SL and HL. No crazy bullshit glare reminiscent of vampire antag glare. No BRIGHTEYES AND BLACKEYES. Just that. Shadekin. Essentially this PR is taking them out of the weird niche zone and the strange associations that are put onto them many times.

The passive upsides while strong come at a considerable downside of being hemophillic. Get shot twice in combat? Time to bandage and inject chems. Get shot a bit more? Time to take a break and wait for your blood to regen or start pumping chems. Heat damage? Well you take more burn damage. Radiation? Same deal. Keep in mind that blood regen is also affected, they regenerate around 1/4th of what a normal person would regenerate in the same timeframe.

In the next comment I will provide a general overview on their lore, do keep in mind its adapted from FH so changes might be required further.

[IrkallaEpsilon]

Here is the current short proposal for the guidebook entry and possible idea where to settle them in lore:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5pnfHaDvwdgL7hCL42bPzBkVbyNeiioAGC8YpeYy9M/edit?usp=sharing

(Link should be working now)

I have an entire lore doc on Shadekin compiled for FH which has some differences (FH is circa 2326) and with some adaptation (meaning we can for instance leave out the eye color association and the admittetly bad community dividing blackeye/brighteye bear bull bear bull stuff) could probably be made to work very well.

The example Shadekin intially shown in this PR was an edge case and is a tail that is usually commented out in most codebases. I will provide Fasuh with an example Shadekin for putting them in armor to show that they should look fine with mono gear (especially with U.I.. I can picture that look very well on them).

Similarly laxative-style designed characters can be attained by:

• Lizards (black and neon pink with that massive gigantic snake tail they can pick)
• Humans (Fro in pink with neon green beard)
• Dwarfs (Max width, minimum height with ill-advised beard and hair combination)
• Vulps (any ultrabright neon color, theres some very interesting things you can do with them)
• Rodentia surprisingly
• Avali, Resomi, Tarjaran

Unaffected by deliberately trying to make an eyesore are Diona and Vox, they kinda look too alien for that to take effect.

Anyhow if required feel free to ping me in discord (Irkalla or Ereshkigal) if you want a more extensive loredoc, I would really love to make them work on Triad.

[DDrakov]

Here is the current short proposal for the guidebook entry and possible idea where to settle them in lore:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5pnfHaDvwdgL7hCL42bPzBkVbyNeiioAGC8YpeYy9M/edit?usp=sharing

I have an entire lore doc on Shadekin compiled for FH which has some differences (FH is circa 2326) and with some adaptation (meaning we can for instance leave out the eye color association and the admittetly bad community dividing blackeye/brighteye bear bull bear bull stuff) could probably be made to work very well.

The example Shadekin in this PR is an edge case and is a tail that is usually commented out in most codebases. I will provide Fasuh with an example Shadekin for putting them in armor to show that they should look fine with mono gear (especially with U.I.. I can picture that look very well on them).

Similarly laxative-style designed characters can be attained by:

• Lizards (black and neon pink with that massive gigantic snake tail they can pick)
• Humans (Fro in pink with neon green beard)
• Dwarfs (Max width, minimum height with ill-advised beard and hair combination)
• Vulps (any ultrabright neon color, theres some very interesting things you can do with them)
• Rodentia surprisingly
• Avali, Resomi, Tarjaran

Unaffected by deliberately trying to make an eyesore are Diona and Vox, they kinda look too alien for that to take effect.

Anyhow if required feel free to ping me in discord (Irkalla or Ereshkigal) if you want a more extensive loredoc, I would really love to make them work on Triad.

Google access? I think you forgot to set it

[Fasuh]

as requested i have removed the old preview where the character used was less than perfect for demonstration, and included screenshots of how they look on a more realistic character

[IrkallaEpsilon]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5pnfHaDvwdgL7hCL42bPzBkVbyNeiioAGC8YpeYy9M/edit?usp=sharing

Check now if it works, I did indeed forget to set the mark at the right place

[DDrakov]

Okay, I did not forget about this. Need a long discussion with staff regarding this.