Mining Medic: Difference between revisions

You'll arrive on the station already equipped to deal with most minor injuries:

Welcome to Lavaland, Miner! You may have been expecting to be posted to a peaceful asteroid, but Nanotrasen has recently started up a mining operation on a new world rich in both minerals and aggressive wildlife! Now for some reason, the introduction of said aggressive wildlife has caused miner fatality rates to skyrocket and that's expensive! So to save some money we've hired you, and now there won't be any more dead miners. Right? Right! Now there is just a few things they probably didn't tell you in the flyer, so pay attention and listen well if you don't wanna end up as a bad investment!

So the miner accidentally hit himself with a pickaxe in the helmet. Five brute damage? Patch him up. The last thing you'd want is for your buddy to go into crit while fighting a watcher, 3 damage short of killing it with all the weapons on their corpse. Be sure to also have you and your miners maintain a healthy diet of food! The last thing you want is a miner that's over or under eaten! in this world, a slow miner is a dead miner - so watch that weight!

Most of the radio logs we recovered of our first (deceased) applicants of the "buddy system" went somewhere along the lines of:<br>

Joe Morris says, "I see some silver over at the wall there"<br>

Joe Morris says, "There is gibtonite so watch out"<br>

Julie Stone says, "I'll keep watch."<br>

Julie Stone says, "GOLIATH!"<br>

Joe Morris says, "Shit it got me"<br>

''Loud cracking can be heard as the goliath hits the gibtonite in the wall, entangling both miners next to it, followed by a "FUUUUU" and an explosion.''

When times are tough and the miners are stubborn, your GPS is always an easy way to track down someone who doesn't wanna use their cam or sensors; be sure to ALWAYS keep yours active and in your pocket, and to check it often to see if a miner has stopped moving for an extended amount of time - if so, they just may need your help after all.

Imagine this. You and your miners are digging their dwarf system merrily. Then out of nowhere, some legion pops up and assimilates the two of you into the hivemind. How'd it happen? But I had full vision? This was just the mesons tricking you. To maximize your usefulness, turn on your PDAs flashlight, then carry a lantern or seclite in your pocket. You'll illuminate the planet as good as it gets and your situational awareness improves by miles, but be warned many lights may make it easier to see but also make it easier to be seen by hostile wildlife so be cautious.  

You don't want to take a risk for no reason other than trying to go for the "Robust guy look", simply take a step back and keep yourself safe. Unfortunately you won't make yourself look too impressive if a goliath is currently converting you to feces. However, remember that there are certain circumstances where perhaps this rule should be ignored, so that maybe you save someone who makes it so you don't have to drag him to Medbay or making sure that you will still have a partner to back you up later - as they might be responsible for saving your life later. They could be pissed when you let them die, but you can patch him up if you live. He can't fix you.

Though seldom used, the body cameras both Miners and Mining Medics start with are extremely valuable to a mining medic. When you go red on a Crew Monitoring Console, simply knowing where you are with your GPS on won't be enough. Coordinates won't tell the rescuer (who can use the outpost camera console on the station side mining dock and mining station medbay) whether you're dead by a tentacle surrounded by dangerous simplemobs or dead in an empty corridor with nothing dangerous nearby.

Instead of roaming those dangerous age old cultist tunnels trying to find your way out, just dig. No one will mind if you lose your way in there. Those tunnels do look pretty alike after all.