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More than half the people I see who go into the mines end up dead in a ditch underneath a Goliath somewhere and I usually end up dragging their dead body back to medbay. I'm honestly tired of doing it. This is for all the people who perish in the fiery abyss of the lavaland due to being inexperienced and unprepared. With this guide, and a little practice, anyone should be able to be the one dragging scrubs back to get cloned! Yaaay! | More than half the people I see who go into the mines end up dead in a ditch underneath a Goliath somewhere and I usually end up dragging their dead body back to medbay. I'm honestly tired of doing it. This is for all the people who perish in the fiery abyss of the lavaland due to being inexperienced and unprepared. With this guide, and a little practice, anyone should be able to be the one dragging scrubs back to get cloned! Yaaay! | ||
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[[Shaft Miner]] is a popular profession of choice for new and developing players. There's many reasons for this: You don't have to deal with the crap that goes on all over the station, you get to work at your own pace and learn the ropes of the game, and it's one of the most rewarding jobs in the game when you get good at it. Unfortunately, most of the skills you learn as a miner don't translate to the other jobs, but it is at the very least fun. | [[Shaft Miner]] is a popular profession of choice for new and developing players. There's many reasons for this: You don't have to deal with the crap that goes on all over the station, you get to work at your own pace and learn the ropes of the game, and it's one of the most rewarding jobs in the game when you get good at it. Unfortunately, most of the skills you learn as a miner don't translate to the other jobs, but it is at the very least fun. | ||
So if you get slotted in as a Shaft Miner at the start of the shift, you'll spawn in the mining portion of the cargo bay. You'll most likely be next to two or three or four other folks who won't say a word to you and will promptly go | So if you get slotted in as a Shaft Miner at the start of the shift, you'll spawn in the mining portion of the cargo bay. You'll most likely be next to two or three or four other folks who won't say a word to you and will promptly go to lavaland themselves because this is literally their first time playing the game. That's fine, that's normal. Leave their corpses for the Paramedics to find. If someone tries to talk to you, ignore them. You have more important things to focus on right now. Concentrate on getting your sea legs. | ||
=== The Hard Part === | === The Hard Part === | ||
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== The Vital Stuff == | == The Vital Stuff == | ||
As I mentioned before, most new players get themselves killed almost immediately the first time they play. You, on the other hand, are using this guide, | As I mentioned before, most new players get themselves killed almost immediately the first time they play. You, on the other hand, are using this guide; and aside from being incredibly handsome, you also know you need to grab basic mining gear from a mining locker, which consists of the following: | ||
-Optical Meson Scanner | -Optical Meson Scanner (These let you see tiles you normally wouldn't be able to (obstructed or too dark), but not their contents) | ||
-Seclite | -Seclite (The planet is dark. Really dark.) | ||
-Proto-Kinetic Accelerator | -Proto-Kinetic Accelerator | ||
-Mining Satchel | -Mining Satchel | ||
-Mining Scanner | -Mining Scanner | ||
-Survival Capsule | |||
A mining locker (brown locker with a purple pickaxe on it) can be found to your right and below you if you're on the boxstation map. If there are no lockers in those directions, you're probably on a different map, in which case you should seek out the nearest brown locker. Once you are beside one, simply click on it to unlock it, then click on it again to open it. Inside will be a huge pile of crap, but you only want a few things from it. Press alt, then click on the stack of items to make a list of all the items in it appear in the upper right hand panel. Then, click on each of the items listed above. | |||
Put on the optical meson scanners (they go in your eyewear slot). | Put on the optical meson scanners (they go in your eyewear slot). Use the seclite in hand (click it or press Z while it's in your active hand) to turn it on and put it either in a pocket slot or on your kinetic accelerator. Put the kinetic accelerator in your backpack or on your belt if you've put the seclite on it. The belt slot is the only slot that can carry pickaxes, mining drills, sonic jackhammers, and et cetera aside from your back slot, but you want your backpack on your back slot as that is the only slot that can carry a backpack. Luckily the kinetic accelerator makes pickaxes (mostly) obsolete. Put the mining satchel in one of your pockets. Use the mining scanner in hand (click it or press Z while it's in your active hand) and put it in your backpack or internals box. | ||
=== Getting to the Lavaland === | === Getting to the Lavaland === | ||
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All ships in this game move at such incredible speeds that you must be buckled into a chair if you wish to not topple to the ground. To buckle yourself in, click on your character and drag the cursor onto the chair. If you do it right, the text logs will say "______ has buckled themselves in!" You can also buckle other people into chairs by clicking them and dragging the mouse onto said chair. | All ships in this game move at such incredible speeds that you must be buckled into a chair if you wish to not topple to the ground. To buckle yourself in, click on your character and drag the cursor onto the chair. If you do it right, the text logs will say "______ has buckled themselves in!" You can also buckle other people into chairs by clicking them and dragging the mouse onto said chair. | ||
If you had to call the shuttle the first time, you know how to do this next part. Click on the console in front of you, click "send shuttle", and it will wait for a few seconds before | If you had to call the shuttle the first time, you know how to do this next part. Click on the console in front of you, click "send shuttle", and it will wait for a few seconds before entering bluespace for a few seconds, then landing at the mining outpost. Do NOT leave the mining shuttle before it exits bluespace if you like being alive. If you buckled in, you'll be just fine right now. If you didn't, you'll be laying on the ground for a few seconds before you get back up. To unbuckle yourself in the former case, simply click on the chair and you will be free again. | ||
=== The Other Vital Stuff === | === The Other Vital Stuff === | ||
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Now that you're on the mining outpost, exit the shuttle and head to the right. The big green square things with the blinking lights are what you want. They're the mining vendor machines, and you have a voucher for them. Open you bag, take out the voucher, and click on one of the vendors with it in your hand. A menu will pop up with three options: | Now that you're on the mining outpost, exit the shuttle and head to the right. The big green square things with the blinking lights are what you want. They're the mining vendor machines, and you have a voucher for them. Open you bag, take out the voucher, and click on one of the vendors with it in your hand. A menu will pop up with three options: | ||
-Proto-kinetic Crusher | -Proto-kinetic Crusher (High risk/reward substitute weapon for the kinetic accelerator, still breaks rocks just as good. Requires two hands to carry. Comes with a pocket fire extinguisher) | ||
-Miner's Webbing | |||
-Resonator | -Miner's Webbing (Belt slot storage item for useful mining items, comes with a survival capsule) | ||
-Resonator (Drops delayed traps that can be used to break rocks, comes with a pocket fire extinguisher) | |||
-Fulton Extraction set (Comes with a fulton beacon and fulton kit, the beacon can be used in hand to deploy it after a few seconds, and the kit can be used in hand to link it to the beacon, hitting anything with the kit will send it to the beacon after a short delay) | |||
-Mining Bot (Automatic ore box that has a kinetic accelerator that can be upgraded, comes with a minebot passthrough upgrade, a large welder, and a welding helmet for repairs) | |||
This suit is lightly armored and | Go east to a room with three suit storage units (if you're on Yogstation). By now, a few of them have already been ransacked most likely. Walk up to one and either open it and click on the explorer suit buttons in the menu. Use your apparel menu again. Put the suit on in the middle armor icon, and put the gasmask on your face icon. Or, like before, simply tap e for both. | ||
This suit is lightly armored and will help protect against burning, which is common on Lavaland. With that, a gas mask, and an oxygen tank, you are fully prepared to go on walks. Now while you already have an emergency oxygen tank in your internals box (the box in your backpack), emergency tanks generally last only a few minutes and you'll be outside breathable atmosphere far longer than that. Thankfully, there is an oxygen tank dispenser in that very same room. It has blue tanks on it. Walk to it, click on it, and in the menu that appears, click oxygen tank to dispense one. One will appear over the dispenser. Pick it up and put it on with the e button, and notice which slot it goes to. This is your suit storage slot. If you are wearing anything in the suit slot, which is where your suit is, you will be able to add certain items to the suit storage slot. As a miner you will mainly use it for carrying oxygen tanks. A full sized oxygen tank will last you the whole round. | |||
Now you're fully equipped as a miner! | Now you're fully equipped as a miner! | ||
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Now, if you glance at the right side of the game screen, you'll see an icon that says 'internals'. Click it, and it will light up green and say 'on'. Now you are breathing directly from the oxygen tank in your suit. The red airlocks beside the oxygen tank dispenser are your next destination. Walk through them, and after passing through the second one, click the airlock to close it behind you and prevent too much air from escaping the mining outpost. You are now standing on volcanic floor. You are in the lavaland proper, and there is grey rock all around you. | Now, if you glance at the right side of the game screen, you'll see an icon that says 'internals'. Click it, and it will light up green and say 'on'. Now you are breathing directly from the oxygen tank in your suit. The red airlocks beside the oxygen tank dispenser are your next destination. Walk through them, and after passing through the second one, click the airlock to close it behind you and prevent too much air from escaping the mining outpost. You are now standing on volcanic floor. You are in the lavaland proper, and there is grey rock all around you. | ||
You can use a pickaxe, kinetic accelerator, kinetic crusher, or resonator to break rocks. Certain rocks will have ores in them, and breaking them will drop the ores. | |||
There's one other thing you can do to mine, and | There's one other thing you can do to mine, and that is sand. To dig up sand, use a pickaxe or shovel (the shovel is faster) on the planet surface, and you will promptly dig up several piles of ash (sand). Sand is used to make glass in the ORM. It's not worth very much, but sometimes there will be shortages of glass on the station and you will be asked to bring some ash back with you. | ||
=== Striking Gold === | === Striking Gold === | ||
Being able to break rocks is great and all, but what you really want to find is ores. If you've activated your automatic mining scanner (screen is green instead of black), you'll see rocks flash with different colored icons every few seconds. These rocks contain ores (or gibonite, which will be discussed shortly). Generally, you'll want to collect some of everything as new mining tools require a variety of ores, but diamonds and bluespace crystals are the rarest and most valuable materials you can collect. Ores are an item and can be stored anywhere, but your mining satchel is a fast way to pick them up. Walking over ores while a mining satchel is in your pocket or on your belt will automatically place it in the satchel. Thing is, the satchel has limited space. | |||
This is where ore boxes come in handy, an ore box can hold unlimited ores, but you'll need to pull it around to use it effectively. Either hit the ore box with your satchel to unload any ores in the satchel into the ore box, or drag the box behind you when picking up ores to automatically dump them into the satchel. | |||
=== Danger, Will Robinson! === | === Danger, Will Robinson! === | ||
Being a miner isn't all that easy even after getting the hang of the process, unfortunately. There are | Being a miner isn't all that easy even after getting the hang of the process, unfortunately. There are three primary threats to a miner on the lavaland: gibtonite, a highly explosive ore often found alongside other ores, the monsters, and lava. | ||
Gibtonite is a crystalline substance that can be found using the mining scanner. It is blue with a orange-ish core. If you attempt to mine a tile with gibtonite in it, it will react to the kinetic energy of your swings and begin to detonate. At this point, you have two options: run the hell away, or click on it with your mining scanner to disarm it. Running away is just fine. Disarming it is fine too, but there's some advantages to letting it detonate on its own, which will be covered in Mining 201. Either way, it is not much of a threat to you unless there are multiple gibtonite deposits in close proximity and they chain react before you can evade them. | Gibtonite is a crystalline substance that can be found using the mining scanner. It is blue with a orange-ish core. If you attempt to mine a tile with gibtonite in it, it will react to the kinetic energy of your swings and begin to detonate. At this point, you have two options: run the hell away, or click on it with your mining scanner to disarm it. Running away is just fine. Disarming it is fine too, but there's some advantages to letting it detonate on its own, which will be covered in Mining 201. Either way, it is not much of a threat to you unless there are multiple gibtonite deposits in close proximity and they chain react before you can evade them or some fauna decides to smash into the gibonite and detonate it. | ||
As for the monsters - the lavaland is full of plasma, which is a mysterious substance which mutates and corrupts lifeforms. What may have once been innocuous, gentle alien lifeforms have become true, territorial monsters that will stop at nothing to kill any who tread on their domain. If you are digging and find a tunnel about two tiles wide that turns diagonally at random intervals, you have most likely found a monster tunnel and you should be ready to either fight or flight as necessary. Thankfully, an experienced miner can defeat these monsters and even profit from them. There are four monsters common to the lavaland: | As for the monsters - the lavaland is full of plasma, which is a mysterious substance which mutates and corrupts lifeforms. What may have once been innocuous, gentle alien lifeforms have become true, territorial monsters that will stop at nothing to kill any who tread on their domain. If you are digging and find a tunnel about two tiles wide that turns diagonally at random intervals, you have most likely found a monster tunnel and you should be ready to either fight or flight as necessary. Thankfully, an experienced miner can defeat these monsters and even profit from them. There are four monsters common to the lavaland: | ||
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Now that you have a basic understanding of the mining part, there is only one more thing to learn - how to redeem your ores for points. First of all, return to the mining station and board the mining shuttle and go to the main station. Feel free to turn off your internals once you get indoors, it saves oxygen. Make sure you bring your ore box with you, too. Once you're back at the station, go back into the mining room and head north into the main cargo foyer. There's usually some loser sitting at the desk there doing paperwork. Ignore him because he's a loser and walk past him and head through the door just north of him. | Now that you have a basic understanding of the mining part, there is only one more thing to learn - how to redeem your ores for points. First of all, return to the mining station and board the mining shuttle and go to the main station. Feel free to turn off your internals once you get indoors, it saves oxygen. Make sure you bring your ore box with you, too. Once you're back at the station, go back into the mining room and head north into the main cargo foyer. There's usually some loser sitting at the desk there doing paperwork. Ignore him because he's a loser and walk past him and head through the door just north of him. | ||
This is the disposals room. You will see a | This is the disposals room. You will see a ORM in the bottom right corner. Push the ore box into the dotted square behind it and let it sit there for a while until you click on the box and see that it is empty. All the ores have been loaded into the machine. If you have ores in a satchel as well, click the satchel while standing in the dotted square to dump all the ores out and watch them all get sucked up by the machine. | ||
Click on redeem points to add all the points you've earned to your ID. You can also select the ores in the menu to dump them out, but you should usually just leave them alone - someone else will get them sooner or later. | |||
Now that you have a bunch of points, go back to the mining station and go to a vendor machine. Click on one with your ID in hand to insert your ID and open a menu of things you can purchase with your points. There is no particularly useful or valuable reward there, so you can mess around and buy things you think might be cool. The alien toy is a favorite of most miners - just take it back to the main station and throw it at someone and run away. | Now that you have a bunch of points, go back to the mining station and go to a vendor machine. Click on one with your ID in hand to insert your ID and open a menu of things you can purchase with your points. There is no particularly useful or valuable reward there, so you can mess around and buy things you think might be cool. The alien toy is a favorite of most miners - just take it back to the main station and throw it at someone and run away. | ||
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The most important trait of any miner is their efficiency, or rather, how quickly they can complete their job at a minimum of loss of health and potential scores. There are a number of methods you can use to increase your efficiency, and while I will not list all of them, I will offer a few suggestions that any miner could benefit from, assuming they don't already use them. | The most important trait of any miner is their efficiency, or rather, how quickly they can complete their job at a minimum of loss of health and potential scores. There are a number of methods you can use to increase your efficiency, and while I will not list all of them, I will offer a few suggestions that any miner could benefit from, assuming they don't already use them. | ||
=== Health === | |||
Getting hit is unavoidable, and you will eventually need to heal yourself in the field. Luckily, there are several easy ways to regain health, to list a few: | |||
- Legion cores will regenerate 25 brute/burn and remove damage slowdown for a minute, good for if you need to top off on health and have a spare unstable core lying around or need to run at full speed while at orange health or below. | |||
- Survival medipens will heal you over time and are injected instantly, you'll start with one and can purchase more for 500 mining points each. They are however much slower acting than legion cores and you can overdose if you take too many in short order. | |||
- Medical kits from the station contain several items that can heal you quickly, but patches, basic mesh and sutures take time to administer. You can also buy a brute medical kit for 600 mining points. | |||
- Cacti and leafy mushrooms contain vitrium froth, a chemical that will slowly heal you when ingested. Eating too much will cause you to get fat and slow you down, however. | |||
- Donk pockets contain omnizine when heated in a microwave, which can also slowly heal you. | |||
=== Inventory Management === | === Inventory Management === | ||
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=== Resonator === | === Resonator === | ||
These things are fairly simple melee weapons that can also be used to mine. They can mine multiple tiles of rock at the same time, but in exchange, they cannot instantly break a tile of rock and the cooldown between hits is shorter than the time it takes for a pickaxe to break through rock. I've seen many miners eschew pickaxes entirely in favor of these and just dig one tile wide tunnels through the asteroid. You do move faster than digging three tile wide tunnels with a pickaxe that way, but you are endangering yourself by doing so as you do not leave an avenue for escaping or fighting goliaths. This is an absolutely shitty practice and anyone who does it should feel bad because you are not following the dwarven way. Loser. | |||
Resonators do create little energy bubbles when you swing them, and said bubbles last for a few seconds before popping. When they pop, they deal a little bit of damage. It is possible to kill goliaths by luring them into the bubbles, but it is a feat of timing and patience that I do not personally care for as the bubbles last far too long to be practical in battle. | |||
Resonators do create little energy bubbles when you swing them, and said bubbles last for a few seconds before popping. When they pop, they deal a little bit of damage. It is possible to kill goliaths by luring them into the bubbles, but it is a feat of timing and patience that I do not personally care for as the bubbles last far too long to be practical in battle | |||
=== Proto-Kinetic Accelerator === | === Proto-Kinetic Accelerator === | ||
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My rifle is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel... We will become part of each other." - excerpt from the Rifleman's Creed | My rifle is human, even as I am human, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel... We will become part of each other." - excerpt from the Rifleman's Creed | ||
The kinetic accelerator is the bread and butter of mining on lavaland, it's roughly as fast as a pickaxe and its projectiles have a range of three tiles. The damage it deals out of atmosphere is heavy enough to make it competitive with the fauna's health, if you're careful, you can kill basically anything planetside without taking a single point of damage. | |||
Each shot from one of these in a vacuum deals 40 damage, and the kinetic accelerator can be upgraded with modkits, which each take up a % of its mod capacity: | |||
Damage: Increases damage by 10, uses 30% mod capacity | |||
Cooldown: Reduces the kinetic accelerator's cooldown time, uses 30% mod capacity | |||
Range: Increases the kinetic accelerator's range by 1 tile, uses 25% mod capacity | |||
AoE: Gives the kinetic accelerator's blasts a 3x3 area of effect attack, with a variant for mining, for damaging, and a rare variant that does both, uses 30% mod capacity | |||
There are some other special modkits that can be found from destroying necropolis tendrils which have unique effects but aren't as all around applicable as the basics | |||
=== Advanced Mining Scanner === | === Advanced Mining Scanner === | ||
An automatic mining scanner similar to the one you start with except it has a much larger range and pulses much more often. Buy it if you want to find ores better. | |||
=== Mining | === Mining bot === | ||
It's shit. Don't waste your time with it. You have to pull it behind you, which means you can't use an ore box (double satchels method is fine, but it sucks for other reasons too). It has two settings, ore collection and wildlife combat. If you set it to ore collection it will go around collecting ores on the ground for you, but unlike an ore box it does not have infinite space inside it. If you set it to combat mode, it will engage the nearest monster with its kinetic accelerator and mining drill. Unfortunately, it will shoot you in the fucking back with its gun because it has no sense of friendly fire. Which hurts. A lot. | It's shit. Don't waste your time with it. You have to pull it behind you, which means you can't use an ore box (double satchels method is fine, but it sucks for other reasons too). It has two settings, ore collection and wildlife combat. If you set it to ore collection it will go around collecting ores on the ground for you, but unlike an ore box it does not have infinite space inside it. If you set it to combat mode, it will engage the nearest monster with its kinetic accelerator and mining drill. Unfortunately, it will shoot you in the fucking back with its gun because it has no sense of friendly fire. Which hurts. A lot. | ||
You can kill a goliath by working together with this thing, but you will still take huge amounts of damage and this thing will almost certainly be destroyed, leaving you with nothing. Avoid this pile of junk like the plague. It's not that it doesn't have uses, but rather that the other two options are far superior to it. You can repair any damage caused to a mining drone by clicking on it with a welder in your active hand with the | You can kill a goliath by working together with this thing, but you will still take huge amounts of damage and this thing will almost certainly be destroyed, leaving you with nothing. Avoid this pile of junk like the plague. It's not that it doesn't have uses, but rather that the other two options are far superior to it. You can repair any damage caused to a mining drone by clicking on it with a welder in your active hand with the combat mode off, but if it's destroyed, you cannot fix it. | ||
Everything changes of course, when you apply AI upgrade to it, then it becomes controlled by a player and will help you fight even the megafaunas. | |||
=== Optical Meson Scanners === | === Optical Meson Scanners === | ||
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=== Mining Drill, Sonic Jackhammer, and Diamond Mining Drill === | === Mining Drill, Sonic Jackhammer, and Diamond Mining Drill === | ||
These are straight upgrades of the pickaxe, greatly reducing the time it takes to dig through a single tile of rock in order from most time to least time spent digging. Mining drills and diamond drills require rare ores, so it is in your interests to deliver them to science so that they'll have the materials to make such things. Sonic Jackhammers can be purchased from mining vendor machines for 500 points and they are superior to standard mining drills but still inferior to diamond drills in terms of how quickly they dig. All of these deal the same amount of damage as a pickaxe. With a diamond drill, digging is almost instantaneous. You have a chance of finding sonic jackhammers and diamond drills laying in randomized rooms on the | These are straight upgrades of the pickaxe, greatly reducing the time it takes to dig through a single tile of rock in order from most time to least time spent digging. Mining drills and diamond drills require rare ores, so it is in your interests to deliver them to science so that they'll have the materials to make such things. Sonic Jackhammers can be purchased from mining vendor machines for 500 points and they are superior to standard mining drills but still inferior to diamond drills in terms of how quickly they dig. All of these deal the same amount of damage as a pickaxe. With a diamond drill, digging is almost instantaneous. You have a chance of finding sonic jackhammers and diamond drills laying in randomized rooms on the lavaland by a corpse, usually with an oxygen tank nearby as well to prove that they were once miners. There will be more on artifacts later. | ||
=== Plasma Cutter === | === Plasma Cutter === | ||
These | These can cut massive lines of rocks and cut off limbs, but have very weak damage output. The default one can destroy a line of up to 7 rocks, while the advanced one can destroy lines of 10. Advanced cutters also use less plasma per shot, fire faster, and deal slightly more damage. They can also function as a fast welder, but using them as such will eat a decent amount of charge. | ||
=== Gibtonite === | === Gibtonite === | ||
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=== Revel in Your Victory === | === Revel in Your Victory === | ||
Now that you've killed a goliath, you can take their hide plates and put them on your armor. This increases your brute damage reduction by 10% each time and your helmet and your hardsuit can each be upgraded | Now that you've killed a goliath, you can take their hide plates and put them on your armor. This increases your brute damage reduction by 10% each time and your helmet and your hardsuit can each be upgraded three times. | ||
Goliaths and all mining monsters only attack your torso and limbs, so upgrading your hardsuit before you upgrade your helmet is advisable. With just three hardsuit upgrades the goliaths will hit you for way less damage than before! That means being stunned is not as big of a deal. With five hardsuit upgrades, you're nearly a tank - each hit will only deal 7.5 damage! You can literally just stand there and beat up on goliaths with your pickaxe until they die, though you'll still hurt quite a bit from it. | Goliaths and all mining monsters only attack your torso and limbs, so upgrading your hardsuit before you upgrade your helmet is advisable. With just three hardsuit upgrades the goliaths will hit you for way less damage than before! That means being stunned is not as big of a deal. With five hardsuit upgrades, you're nearly a tank - each hit will only deal 7.5 damage! You can literally just stand there and beat up on goliaths with your pickaxe until they die, though you'll still hurt quite a bit from it. | ||
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== Miscellaneous Advice == | == Miscellaneous Advice == | ||
-Grab a GPS and turn on your suit sensors. The paramedics and [[Chief Medical Officer|CMO]] can see your location and vitals on their crew monitoring console if they're activated, | -Grab a GPS and turn on your suit sensors. The paramedics and [[Chief Medical Officer|CMO]] can see your location and vitals on their crew monitoring console if they're activated, as long as you are on the station. The GPS is useful because if something were to happen to you, your GPS would point them directly to your corpse. | ||
-Teamwork is never a bad thing except if you actually care about getting lots of mining points (not much reason to, though. The rewards aren't all that great...) | -Teamwork is never a bad thing except if you actually care about getting lots of mining points (not much reason to, though. The rewards aren't all that great...) | ||
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Well, that's about all the advice I can dispense that I can think of. If you follow my instructions, you should become quite the robust miner. If you get good enough, the title of "Honorary Space Dwarf" may be bestowed upon you for your valor and efficiency, reminiscent of the space dwarves. Or at least, that's what should happen. Unfortunately miners are a pretty undervalued profession and you rarely, if ever, get noticed by the heads for being good at your job. Still, there is a certain amount of fun to be had in collecting goliath hide plates and just being competent in general. | Well, that's about all the advice I can dispense that I can think of. If you follow my instructions, you should become quite the robust miner. If you get good enough, the title of "Honorary Space Dwarf" may be bestowed upon you for your valor and efficiency, reminiscent of the space dwarves. Or at least, that's what should happen. Unfortunately miners are a pretty undervalued profession and you rarely, if ever, get noticed by the heads for being good at your job. Still, there is a certain amount of fun to be had in collecting goliath hide plates and just being competent in general. | ||
The profession is somewhat limited by the quality of its earnings with mining points and the time limit on shifts. Some shifts don't even last thirty minutes, not even enough time to fill up a single mining satchel (~1000 points). | The profession is somewhat limited by the quality of its earnings with mining points and the time limit on shifts. Some shifts don't even last thirty minutes, not even enough time to fill up a single mining satchel (~1000 points). Clock cult shifts in particular are egregious for this. It's not bad, but it's not as good as it could be. | ||
Well, that's about all I have to say. I hope this helps someone, anyone. There's still some secrets to the mining gig that I've left out, like artifacts, and the location of bananium, but I won't spoil the fun of discovering things. Go forth, and may your pickaxes be sharp. | Well, that's about all I have to say. I hope this helps someone, anyone. There's still some secrets to the mining gig that I've left out, like artifacts, and the location of bananium, but I won't spoil the fun of discovering things. Go forth, and may your pickaxes be sharp. |
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