Janitor
Service
Janitor
- Access: Janitor, Maintenance, Service
- Difficulty: Easy
- Duties: Clean up the station.
- Supervisors: Head of Personnel
- Subordinates: None
- Guides: This is the guide!
As Janitor, it is your job to keep the station clean as can be. Your duties are to mop the floors, clean up 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.
As Janitor, you'll likely be requested often by Guide to Medical and the Chef. Blood and vomit will steadily increase in their departments. Science will likely need you too but are often too busy experimenting to notice their mess or remember to let you out. Remember to use the Radio to work closely with the crew.
The Janitor's Closet
After getting onboard the station, you'll have some basic cleaning equipment in your belt, but you'll want to head to the Janitor's Closet to get fully equipped. The Janitor's Closet will be accessible only to other Janitors and the Head of Personnel and Captain. Within, you'll find the machines and carts necessary to get your work done properly.
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Your very own clothing dispenser. Use it to grab some gloves, or a snazzy winter coat. Doesn't contain spare Galoshes. | |
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The upgraded version of the Mop Bucket. Holds more water, and your mop, bucket, and trash bag can be stashed on it with Alt + Interact. 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. | |
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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, drag it to a Drain (often found in your closet), and click and drag the Mop Bucket onto the Drain to empty it. You can then refill it at a water tank, sink, or water cooler using a Bucket or other small container to transfer water. Be warned, as anyone can tip over your Mop Bucket given a little time, which will more than likely make a horrendous mess for you to clean. | |
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A fantastic wall-mounted dispenser filled with sweet, sweet Space Cleaner. Use it to refill empty spray bottles, and don't be afraid to consider carrying a bucket filled with the stuff along with you for quick refills. | |
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A lockable wheelie bin, made for carrying large quantities of Trash. Usually, your Trash Bag will suffice, but it can be useful for moving large amounts of material around in any scenario. | |
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Though it's usually found in Disposals rather than the Janitor's Closet, the Recycler is a rather crucial part of a Janitor's work, allowing you to turn useless trash flushed down Disposal Bins into useful material that can aid the station. Consider making regular trips to Disposals to dumpster-dive, and remember... if the Recycler is blood-stained, DON'T touch it. |
Tools
A number of tools exist to make a Janitor's job possible. Many of these can fit into your JaniBelt or snap into your Janitor's Trolley, so feel free to experiment and see just how much junk you can haul around.
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An advanced version of the mop that can hold more water and automatically self-cleans over time. Frees you from having to drag around a cart all shift. Can be researched by Science with the Tier 2 Service Tech - Advanced Cleaning. | |
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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. If you wish, you can clean your Mop just using buckets, but they'll get dirty rather quickly.
If you're feeling a sense of Janitorial patriotism, you can wear an empty bucket on your head. | |
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A service-grade grenade, filled with a mixture of foaming Space Cleaner that can clean the floors of entire rooms. Simply pull the pin and drop/throw it in the desired area. Will leave large puddles of water in the place of any liquids it cleans up, so expect lots of slipping. Hard to come by - you'll start with some in your belt, and some in your Closet, but to get more you'll need to get restocks from Cargo. | |
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Press E to turn it on. Put it in your pocket for hands-free light. 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. | |
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The best shoes on the station. All Janitors will spawn in wearing a pair. They prevent the wearer from slipping, though you will be slowed slightly when moving over slippery surfaces. | |
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Creates a temporary holographic wet floor sign  . Powered by power cells. A much more compact and easy way of putting up signs that everyone will ignore.
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A belt made by Janitors, for Janitors! It'll be equipped by default when you join the round, and will contain some Space Cleaner, Soap, a Flashlight, Cleanades, and a Light Replacer. | |
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Used to replace broken light bulbs. You can empty an entire box into your Light Replacer by clicking it with the box. | |
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A handy tool for replacing broken bulbs or tubes. Can hold as many replacement lights as you can find. Simply click on a broken or missing light bulb/tube to replace it with a new one. | |
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Used to replace broken light tubes. You can empty an entire box into your Light Replacer by clicking it with the box. | |
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A bigger, better spray bottle, able to hold 250u of reagents (in your case, probably Space Cleaner). Can be researched by Science with the Tier 2 Service Tech - Advanced Cleaning. | |
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Used to clean floor puddles or bludgeon hostile Xenofauna. Left click on a filled Mop Bucket/Trolley 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. If the puddle is under a chair or table, you can right click and then click on the puddle in the dropdown menu in order to clean difficult spots. 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/Trolley 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.
If hostile creatures crawl out of the vents (Or the Clown sets off one too many lube bombs), you can wield the Mop by pressing Z. While used in this way, it becomes a surprisingly deadly two-handed weapon, becoming as powerful as a Baseball Bat for bludgeoning living creatures. | |
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Used to lure and kill mice / rats / mothroaches. 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. Mousetraps can be hidden underneath tables and counters, making them much more dangerous to any skittering vermin. You can throw an activated mouse trap at a mouse to kill it. | |
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Get those toilets swirling again! Can be used to unclog toilets, or stuck to unruly Passengers with a simple throw. | |
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The iconic bar of Nanotrasen-brand soap! Can clean fingerprints or fibers off of items, slip pursuers, or serve as an absolutely terrible snack. | |
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100u Spray bottles, usually filled up with Space Cleaner. Spray to clean several tiles, it's magic. Capable of cleaning up regular puddles, tile grime, and painted artwork. 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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Left click on the ground next to any trash (wrappers, empty cans, bullet casings) to vacuum it into the bag. Click items directly to pick them up individually. Click on a Disposal Bin with the bag in hand to empty it out into the bin. Can only pick up trash, so if you want to throw something else away, you'll need to manually put them into a Disposal Bin by hand. | |
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Remember - they can't sue you if the sign's up. You can fit up to 3 in your Janitorial Trolley.
If you're feeling a surge of Janitorial patriotism, you can wear it in place of a coat. |
Helping The Station
Though a Janitor's primary job is simply keeping the station neat and tidy, their role means that they naturally end up exploring the entire station in the quest for cleanliness. You can find a wide array of things while making your rounds, and some of them will be more useful in the hands of another crew member then in an abandoned maintenance locker.
- Dead mice or animals can be cooked by a Chef, or sold by Cargo.
- Raw food ingredients can be used by a Chef.
- Glass / Cloth / Plastic / Steel / Gold / Wood can be used by the Science or Engineering department, or it can be sold / distributed by Cargo.
- Empty cans, wrapping paper, matches, bottles, and other garbage can be processed by the Recycler for useful materials.
Getting Supplies
A Janitor's Closet should be your first stop, but it won't contain everything you need to work at the absolute peak of Janitorial efficiency. Consider a few additional tools to improve your cleaning capabilities.
- A Crowbar is a must for just about anyone on the station, and it can help you break into dirty areas if the power goes out and the department in question is ignoring you.
- A Wrench allows you to unanchor objects and move them around, which can be important for getting into tight, messy spaces.
- Consider using a Screwdriver if you want to play a salvage Janitor. Screwdrivers can disassemble racks, chairs, closets and crates, meaning a trip through maintenance can net you a stack of Steel that Engineering or Science will be happy to receive.
- For those considering real scrap-Janitor gameplay, consider the combo of a Trash Bag full of glass shards with a Welding Mask and Welding Torch. It's possible to put out full stacks of Glass out of seemingly thin air, and there's always more broken lights to be found...
