Shaft Miner: Difference between revisions

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.

* Lava - one step in and you'll be badly burned and on fire.

# Gear up! From the mining equipment locker, you will need Meson Scanner goggles, a mining scanner, your pickaxe (optional), 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.

# Use your voucher on a mining vending machine to select your choice of advanced mining tool: a bluespace shelter capsule-chest rig combo pack, resonator, advanced mining scanner or a drone.

# Before you go, you'll want an Ore Box, which can hold an infinite amount of minerals. Ore boxes are available on the mining station, the mining shuttle and the asteroid.

# Make sure you've packed a bluespace shelter capsule if you plan on a long distance expedition.

#:* Uranium

#:* Plasma

# Go to the ore redeemer and get points. If R&D doesn't show up, you can also deliver materials to R&D (10-15 sheets each material except iron) and everything else to Robotics. Ask R&D for a sonic jackhammer if they have the materials.

# At the mining equipment vendor you can get sonic jackhammers, jetpacks, MediPens and more with the points you've gained.

===Voucher===

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

* Resonator: A viable alternative weapon, not as competitive since you start with a Proto-Kinetic Accelerator but the Resonator can prove useful for large scale mining or for fending off certain wildlife.

* Adv Mining Scanner: This scanner has a more expanded view range, allowing you to see all minerals withing the entire screen. Very useful but not a critically needed item as you can compensate with the standard scanner by exploring more thoroughly.  

===For Great Profit!===

Stimpacks can help you in a pinch for example, or 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. Or you can spend it all on booze and cigars.

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====Voucher/Reward Equipment====

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![[File:BScapsule.png|32px]]<br>Bluespace Shelter Capsuel-ChestBelt Webbing Combo

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>Voucher OR 400 for Shelter, 500 for Webbing

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!<span style="display: none;">a</span>200 Points

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!<span style="display: none;">a</span>400 Points

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![[File:JetPack.gif|32px]]<br>Miner Jetpack

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2000 Points

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![[File:Mining_Hardsuit.png|32px]]<br>Mining Hardsuit

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2000 Points

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Lavaland is filled with a variety of bloodthirsty alien lifeforms populating the caverns, walking just fine over the ponds and puddles of lava. Fortunately, you can fight them whilst taking minimal damage, if you have the know-how

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Note: It appears a group of Basiliscus Lizretus, also known as Lizardmen, live on the planet, they are hostile to all intruders. These 'ashwalkers' only started to appear when mining operations started, they are agile but lightly armed, wielding primitively forged armor and spears. They appear to also have a hostile relationship with the wildlife, having been observed killing and dragging wildlife corpses away, as to why they need these corpses the recon team is unable to ascertain.

PMC Expedition #1<br>

Threat Level: High, Hostile<br>