Ballast Flora Combat AI

Fight Ballast Flora

Adds a new order to the Emergency radial menu: "Fight Ballast Flora". The assigned bot puts on a diving suit as a precaution, gets a welding tool, walks to the ballast flora inside the submarine, and fights it independently until it's completely destroyed.

Features

• Dedicated order in the Emergency radial menu, with its own icon
• Bot secures a full diving suit first (protection against the flora's toxins)
• Bot fetches and equips a welding tool
• Walks autonomously to the ballast flora (even across multiple rooms/ladders)
• Deals real, ongoing damage to the root until the entire flora (including all offshoots) is destroyed
• Works regardless of the bot's personality trait

Client-side for the combat mechanism, but uses Barotrauma's own AI system for movement/tool use.

Known limitation

The bot may briefly panic and swim back and forth for a few seconds upon first taking toxin damage from the flora, before resuming the fight – this is Barotrauma's built-in drowning/pressure caution behavior, which (unlike the general "avoid unsafe hulls" logic) can't be disabled. This doesn't affect the outcome; the flora is reliably destroyed in the end.

Requirement: LuaCsForBarotrauma

This mod needs LuaCsForBarotrauma with CSharp support enabled (same requirement as any other CSharp mod). If not set up yet: subscribe to "LuaCsForBarotrauma" and "Cs For Barotrauma" in the Workshop, enable "Enable CSharp" in LuaCs Settings, then one-time via "Host Server" → Server Executable "Lua For Barotrauma - DedicatedServer" → console (F3) → run install_cl_lua, restart the game.

Known limitations

• Only tested on Windows
• Only tested in singleplayer
• May briefly stop working after major Barotrauma updates until the mod is adjusted