Shaft Miner: Difference between revisions

|additional = [[Maintenance]], [[Cargo Bay]], MULEbot access, [[Quartermaster's Office]], Research, R&D Console

|guides = [[Lavaland]], [[Jungleland]], [[Guide to Mining]]

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Being a miner can be somewhat tedious, but you serve a crucial role in the R&D food chain, and can accrue some decent personal rewards. Just follow a few guidelines to keep yourself from becoming dead in the mines.  

*Ash storms will cut right through your clothes, dealing constant burn damage if you are outside. A rain of dark particles outdoors indicate an ash storm. Some items of clothing can grant protection to ash storms.

*Chasms - Anything that falls into one will disappear from this world. If you have a jaunter on you, it will automatically teleport you back onto the station if you fall into a chasm. However this won't mean that you'll be completely safe, you may jaunt into a space or a restricted area.

If you run into rock with a pick or drill in your inactive hand, it will automatically start digging for you. ALSO, it is important to note that '''you are able to click more than ONE square of rock or sand at a time''' when mining or digging for sand! As long as it's accessible, you don't have to wait to finish digging before you start digging again, so you can have several dig jobs running in parallel. Just don't change hands or move until all dig jobs are done.

You're here to mine, so get digging! Once you have a sufficient amount of ores to deposit, be sure to empty your orebox with the ORM and claim your points. With the points you've claimed, you can get some pretty robust gear from the [https://wiki.yogstation.net/wiki/Shaft_Miner#Mining_Vendor_Equipment Mining Rewards Vendor]. After you've done this and gotten your upgrades and extra equipment, head back down there and get back to work!

# Gear up! From the mining equipment locker, you will need Meson Scanner goggles, a mining scanner, a jaunter, a bluespace shelter capsule (DON'T FORGET!) and your standard issue proto-kinetic accelerator. If you want, there is also a additional mining satchel, and a shovel.

#Go to the Lavaland Mining Station and get an explorer suit, explorer gas mask, and oxygen tank from Mining 'EVA'. On the western side of the base, there is a mini-Medbay where you can find first-aid kits. There is also a maintenance room adjacent to it where you can top off internals.

#Before you go, you'll want an Ore Box, which can hold a massive amount of minerals. The mining base and mining shuttle have multiple of these for you to use..

#Pick up minerals by walking over them with a mining satchel on your person. If you're pulling an ore box, this will automatically pick them up with the ore box aswell.

#Go to the ore redeemer and get points. If R&D is proactive, the ore redeemer can be upgraded for extra mineral counts and point redemption.

#At the mining rewards vendor and the supply techfab, you can get upgrades that make mining a lot easier on yourself.

You start the shift with a complimentary mining voucher, worth one free item out of a selection of seven. These items, and their strengths, are:

*'''Explorer's Kit''': The webbing (you put on your belt slot) allows you to carry even more mining equipment - having a second shelter capsule is nice too. The duffelbag contains 3 lesser mining charges.

*'''Mining Conscription Kit''': A dufflebag full of basic items for one conscript - pickaxe, kinetic accelerator, explorer's suit, mesons, mining scanner and satchel, gas mask, a supply radio key, a gem satchel, and a special card that adds mining access to IDs. Good for when you want to recruit metafriends fresh conscripts.

=== For Great Profit! ===

A Wormhole Jaunter can help you escape what would have been a death trap. Or saving up for a Legion Stabilizer can let you save their instant healing heart for later. Grabbing Survival Medipens is also a great investment as the robust healing mix provided can save you when you're in a pinch.  

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|This comes with a inbuilt hood. It provides some protection against heat and cold, and works as decent armor. It is not spaceproof, but can hold a full-sized oxygen tank or other mining gear. You can also reinforce it with up to six goliath plates, with three going on the suit and three going on the hood.

|So you can have oxygen when mining. Oxygen tanks are available from the tank storage unit, and can be worn on your suits storage slot. Running out of oxygen is unlikely with the full sized tank. You can also collapse your mask to eat if you are hungry.

![[File:MGlasses.png|32px]] [[File:MiningScanner.gif|32px]]<br>[[Meson Goggles|Meson Scanners]] and Automatic Mining Scanner

|Use it for butchering the wildlife (hit with combat mode on). It's as strong against mobs as a pickaxe, but you can't mine with it. You can store it in your boots or proto-kinetic accelerator to save space, but remember to alt-click the boots to draw the knife back out.

|A gun. The good part is that it packs a punch in a vacuum and has infinite shots. The bad part is that it tickles in pressurized environments, has a cooldown after each shot, and has a range of three steps. Each blast can clear a rock wall if you feel like digging using this, which it can do well. Standard issue equipment you can get from your mining locker. Modifications found in the vendor or from the protolathe if researched.

![[File:Orebox.png|32px]]<br>Ore box

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!Stabilizing Serum<br>[[File:StabilizingSerum.png|32px]]

|Can be used on legion cores to prevent them from decaying.

|Can be worn on the belt slot, stores up to 5 items of mining equipment.

!Point Transfer Card (500)<br>[[File:Data_card.png|32px]]

|A card worth 1000 mining points, to transfer between miners.

|One-use item that creates a wormhole to a random beacon on station. The portal is unstable and will make you dizzy after using it. Will prevent death on chasms.

| No

!Advanced Mining Scanner<br>[[File:Adv_mining1.gif|32px]]

|Contains a pickaxe, kinetic accelerator, mesons, an ore scanner, an ore satchel, an explorer suit, a gas mask, a supply encryption key, a gem satchel, and a card which adds mining access to IDs.

|Yes

!Jetpack Upgrade<br>[[File:Mining_jetpack.gif|32px]]

| No

| This helpful little guy goes around collecting loose ore so you don't have to. Will drop its haul when you hit it with the mining scanner. Clicking on it with an empty hand will toggle it between ore collection and wildlife fighting mode, where it will attack xenos with its built-in kinetic accelerator and drill. Will not pick up sand with no nearby ore around, for some reason. Comes with an upgraded welding tool if redeemed via voucher. It cannot be repaired while it is fighting. It can be further upgraded with special modules bought from the vending machine to increase its effectiveness.

! KA: Cooldown Upgrade<br>[[File:Modkit.png|32px]]

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! Royal Cape of the Liberator<br>[[File:Sheetrd.png|32px]]

[[File:ProtoAni.gif]] The following is a list of advanced items that can be acquired from protolathes once researched.

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| Cargo

!Upgraded Resonator<br>[[File:Adv_resonator.png|32px]]

| Cargo

| Cargo

| Medical

| Cargo<br>Engineering

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!Seismic Right Arm<br>[[File:Seismic r arm.png|32x32px]]

|A cybernetic right arm that functions and acts like a cyborg right arm. However, having this augment or replace your right arm will grant you a list of four unique spells which grant superior agility and strength. The list is as follows:<br>

'''Lariat''': Dash 5 spaces and deal 50 true Brute to any fauna you hit. People take 10 true Brute, and silicons take 12 true Brute. 7-second cooldown.<br>

'''Mop the Floor''': Dash 5 spaces and carry any target you connect with you. For every tile you carry a fauna, they take 20 true Brute and you gain 90% damage reduction for the duration. People take 4 true Brute per tile, and silicons take 5 true Brute per tile. In addition, you don't gain any damage reduction while carrying a person or silicon. Any fauna killed by this is gibbed. 7-second cooldown.<br>

'''Suplex''': Moves a target directly in front of you behind you. Fauna take 20 true Brute, people take 6 true Brute, and silicons take 8 true Brute. If the target is moved onto a fauna or a person, the latter takes 20 true Brute or 10 true Brute respectively. Any fauna killed by the targeted suplex is gibbed. 1-second cooldown.<br>

'''Right Hook''': Charge for 2 seconds to power up your arm. The charge lasts 5 seconds. While it's charged, hitting a target will send them flying eight spaces. Fauna take 100 true Brute, people take 15 true Brute, and silicons take 18 true Brute. If another mob is in the path of the target's flight, they will take 30 true Brute, 10 true Brute, or 11 true Brute, if they are a fauna/person/silicon, respectively, as well as being knocked over. This move disables the seismic right arm for 15 seconds, making every other power unusable until then.<br>

Mop the Floor, Suplex, and Right Hook can send targets through rocks, dealing an additional 5 true Brute per tile they smash through. Any fauna killed by this will be gibbed.

|A bottle containing 5 units of flight potion. Ingesting flight potion will give the drinker wings if they are human or phytosian/podperson. Wings allow jetpack-like movement wherever there's air when activated, also giving increased speed and free movement over tables and chasms.<br>

| Allows you to create a modkit that greatly reduces the KA's cooldown on striking a living target or rock, but greatly increases its base cooldown. Don't miss!

|A rod that can be used to make yourself start swearing an oath. If you finish the oath, the staff will bind to your hand, giving you a healing aura and pacifism. When released, the snake bite injects godblood. Dying with the rod will transfer your mind to the snake. In addition, the rod itself can both copy procedures from a surgery computer and be used as a defibrillator when performing [[Surgery#Revival|Revival]] surgery.

| A ladder that extends all the way to a different Z-level.

!Random Null Rod<br>[[File:Null.png|32px]]

|A random variation of the [[Chaplain#Null_Rod|chaplain's holy weapon]], will ward you against spells and magic, some may be impossible to drop once picked.

| Allows you to make a modkit that when killing or assisting in killing a creature permanently increases your damage against that type of creature.

|A pair of cubes. When one is used, it teleports the user to the location of the other cube instantly. Takes 3 seconds to use if the user is not on Lavaland.

!Enchanted Flowers<br>[[File:EmberFlowers.png.png|alt=|32x32px]]

|A bundle of flowers with a sweet firey aroma that makes animals friendly after 1.5 seconds of touching them with it. Squeeze the bouqet to summon tamed creatures. Megafauna cannot be summoned. Megafauna need to be exposed 35 times to become friendly.

!X-01 Power Armor<br>[[File:Hardsuit advancedpa1.png]]

|An X-01 Power Armor suit. It's initially not well armored, but can be upgraded with Weaver Chitin. It has no slowdown, and is immune to fire, lava, and acid.

!Ominous Mirror<br>[[File:Mirrornormal.png|32px]]

|A mirror that summons a fragile companion that can assist in mining and fighting, as well as swap locations with the holder. When defeated, they're returned back to the mirror for 20 seconds, and they can't exit the mirror while the holder is unconscious or when the mirror isn't held.

|A curved sword smelted from an unknown metal.  

= The Wildlife - Non-Sentient=

Useful items can be harvested from these creatures' corpses should you triumph; butcher them with a knife by attacking the corpse with combat mode on and the goods will spill out!  

The legion attacks are as follows:  

When a legion dies, its original form is revealed. Legions do not drop any crafting materials, but they are valuable sources of healing to both miners and ash walkers, as they drop valuable legion cores which heal you greatly. The body they spawn once dead can be very useful to ashwalker reproduction.

2. A legion core[[File:Legionsoul.gif]]. Hit yourself with the soul and it will instantly heal 25 brute and burn damage, and remove slowdown from damage for a minute. Don't think you can store these for later, though -- they will spoil after a few minutes, making them completely useless until you use a stabilizer from the vending machine. However, a legion core can be inserted in one's chest through [[surgery]] as an organ to provide a hands-free full heal. Using a legion core while not on Lavaland will take 4 seconds to apply to yourself, or 2 seconds to someone else. In addition, the damage slowdown removal is instead a reduction. '''These do not affect robotic limbs.'''

There is one other version of the legion that is possible to come across, this has a 5% chance of appearing and a 100% chance of appearing in the '''Cafe of Broken Dreams''' Lava land ruin.  

=== Attacks===

The most common variant, when raised very close to lava some watchers adapt to the extreme heat and change coloration. Such watchers are known as magmawings and use intense heat as their tool for hunting and defense. The magmawing watcher shoots scorching blasts instead of freezing blasts, which heats you up and sets you on fire. Unlike normal watchers, a shot from this watcher will set you on fire and trying to roll it out will only result in the watcher getting more free shots on you, which means that you're pretty much forced to man up, pop a survival medi-pen, and melee it to death while you lose half of your HP to fire. It has normal watcher loot when butchered and has a small chance to drop a valuable [[Shaft Miner#Calcified Auric|calcified auric]].

====Icewing Watcher ====

The least common variant, some watchers will eke out an existence far from heat sources. In the absence of warmth, their wings will become papery and turn to an icy blue; these watchers are fragile but much quicker to fire their trademark freezing blasts. The icewing watcher has 50% less health and fire shots 33% more often. Getting hit by a blast from an icewing watcher freezes you in a block of ice for a very short amount of time. Their loot is similar to the normal watcher when butchered: 5 diamond ore but no sinew, there is also a small chance they drop a valuable [[Shaft Miner#Frost Diamond|frost diamond]].

== Goliath==

The goliath attacks are as follows:  

*Burrows several tentacles that emerge from the ground in random tiles around the target, trapping anything caught on targeted tiles for a long duration.

=== Other variants===

Weavers leave behind a body to butcher.

===Statistics ===

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* The [[Chemist]] and [[Guide to xenobiology|Xenobiologist]] will all appreciate having extra plasma.

While on the planet, you may come upon artificial structures. They can have items ranging from magical artifacts, to other lifeforms, to [[Xenos#Facehugger|alien facehugger]]s. If you are at all unsure, always let your mining buddies know using :u before going in, as some ruins can be very dangerous.

*Going in pairs or in groups while mining decreases your likelihood of dying from fauna. This increases your lifespan while mining, but decreases the amount of ore mined generally.

*Alternatively, go completely solo to lower the chance of friendly fire, increase your mining speed, and so you can keep the mining treasures for yourself.

* If you aggro a megafauna, run AWAY from the mining outpost. Most megafauna can be easily outpaced but have a much higher aggro range while and shortly after chasing someone, and it becomes incredibly difficult to leave the planet when an ash drake is lounging around in the mining shuttle.

**Explorer suit upgrade : Goliath plates can be added to both an explorer suit, aswell as the hood that goes with said suit. Each part of the suit can hold 3 plates, stacking to 30% on each plate added. The plates will stack until they reach 60%, which may help you live in case a goliath grabs you.

**Augmentations : Augs are useful for miners, as healing with a welder is ultimately easier. Plus they work differently than armor when it comes to protection, instead reducing all brute damage taken by an augmented body part by 5 (4 for burn). Downsides : EMP vulnerability and inability to heal augmented body parts normally.

**Getting your hands on a Mining Satchel of Holding is a game changer. You're able to hold an infinite amount of ores with just a small satchel, which allows for ore gathering at much higher speeds.

A traitorous miner has a lot of advantages. The treasures on lavaland are among the most powerful and dangerous of any jobs. Certain minerals you'll find have more "specialized" uses - uranium structures will irradiate people, plasma can start fires, gibtonite goes boom. Robotics are generally willing to make you a mech, which you can use instead of fighting fauna to murder people on station. Megafauna and tendril treasures can be more powerful than even your uplink. In addition, lavaland is isolated, hard to get to, dangerous, and as expansive as you're willing to dig out. There is plenty of room to fight a guerilla war against the ones foolish enough to pursue you. However, you also have the weaknesses of being suspicious when on station, and the best loot is dangerous to obtain and/or time consuming.  

** Grab a multitool, go to the mining communications room.

* Tiers 0-1-2-3 can gib bodies, remember mining suits take 50% of damage away from bombs, so strip miners you want to make disappear forever first.

*Survival Medipens and Legion Cores are extremely useful to counter the stations foolish attempts to kill you.

*Stuns are the bane of any miners existence, using your TC to counter this is advisable.

* Though the Hierophant staff loses its offensives capabilities on the station, the Hierophant's Antenna, which can be purchased as a traitor Miner, will allow the staff to work as it would normally do on lava land.

*Without the Hierophants Antenna it is still a very strong and prominent kidnapping tool. You could stun your target and teleport them off the station onto a different Z level in seconds alone onto your playing fields and to crew it would seem as if they got erased from reality by a '''<s>[[Chrono Legionnaire]]</s>'''.