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|difficulty = Hard

==Workin' In The Coal Mine==

===Working With Your Boss===

===The Objective===

====How to Do This====

# 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 rarely on the field.

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

# 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 upgrades if they have the materials.

# If you feel VERY robust, look for [[Megafauna]] with your GPS and try to kill it, for extremely valuable loot.

* Bluespace Capsule + Chest Belt Webbing: The capsule is a good choice to allow you to explore out in Lavaland for even longer, and the webbing (you put on your belt slot) allows you to carry even more mining equipment, like  a pickaxe. A strong starting choice.

* Resonator + Advanced Mining Scanner: 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. The 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.

* Extraction and Rescue Kit: Contains an extraction pack and a beacon, which allows you to send back home minerals and items without having to use the ferry.

* Crusher Kit: Contains a proto-kinetic crusher, a chest webbing like the capsule kit, and a mini fire extinguisher. The crusher is hard to use without getting hurt, but can be more powerful than the kinetic accelerator.

* Mining Drone: Some swear by it, other's hate it. A 'useful' companion that helps in storing ore and hunting wildlife. You can also purchase upgrade to make the little bugger more useful.

==Default Gear==

The following is a list of default mining equipment:

====Essential Equipment====

![[File:ExplorerGasMask.gif|32px]]<br>Explorer Gas Mask and [[Oxygen]] Tank

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

|When used together will briefly flash any ore on screen. Can be placed in your pocket to work automatically.

![[File:GPSm.gif|32px]]<br>Global Positioning System, GPS

![[File:Survivalknife.gif|32px]]<br>Survival Knife

|For carrying ore without using a mining cart, holds 50 ore nuggets. Get at least one of these, make sure to set the bag to "all on tile". Use in conjunction with an ore crate. (Newbie tip: This does not work like a typical backpack.  Hold it in your hand and click the ore with that hand to pick it up.)

![[File:Voucher.gif|32px]]<br>Mining Voucher

|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. KAs are the only weapon that deals direct explosion damage: bomb suits can negate 90% of the damage dealt by a KA.

====Miscellaneous Equipment====

The following are more advanced items that need to be purchased from a mining equipment vendor, points being earned by mining.

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

These items can either be acquired from a voucher, or are bought with points earned via mining via the redemption machine on the station. Prices are included.

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!<span style="display: none;">c</span>Price

![[File:Stimpen.png|32px]]<br>Stimpack Medipen

|A cheap stimpack that stimulates your body's adrenaline but can be fatal if abused. Use three at a time at most. Addiction without anti tox will be lethal over time.

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>50 Points

![[File:Box.png|32px]]<br>Medipen Bundle

|An addiction kit! Comes with five stimpacks and for some god awful reason, enough epi pens to to overdose someone and get them addicted.

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

![[File:Whiskey_bottle.png|32px]]<br>Whiskey

![[File:Absinthe_bottle.png|32px]]<br>Absinthe

![[File:Cigar.png|32px]]<br>Cigar

![[File:Soap.png|32px]]<br>Soap

![[File:Laser_pointer.png|32px]]<br>Laser Pointer

|Just a laser pointer, don't shite it into people's eyes.

![[File:Facehugger.png|32px]]<br>Toy Facehugger

![[File:MiningScanner.png|32px]]<br>Advanced Mining Scanner

![[File:Bottle17.png|32px]]<br>Stabilizing Serum

![[File:Fulton_beacon.png|32px]]<br>Fulton Beacon

|Creates a beacon that fulton kits can target as a drop-off point.

![[File:BScapsule.png|32px]]<br>Bluespace Shelter Capsule

![[File:Gar_mesons.png|32px]]<br>GAR Mesons

![[File:Miner_webbing.png|32px]]<br>Chest Webbing

![[File:Stimpen.png|32px]]<br>Survival Medipen

|Contains several healing and heat-stabilizing chemicals. Using more than one in a short period will cause several overdoses.

![[File:Box.png|32px]]<br>Brute First-Aid Kit

![[File:Implanter.png|32px]]<br>Tracking Implant Kit

![[File:Jaunter.png|32px]]<br>Wormhole Jaunter

|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. Can be worn on the chest slot to prevent death on chasms.

![[File:Kinetic_crusher.png|32px]]<br>Proto-kinetic Crusher

|A powerful melee weapon. Shoots kinetic bolts that don't deal damage, but can mark large creatures making the hammer deal increased damage when used on them. It will deal even greater damage on backstab.

![[File:KineticAccelerator.png|32px]]<br>Proto-kinetic Accelerator

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

![[File:Fulton_pack.png|32px]]<br>Fulton Extraction Pack

|A balloon that can be used to extract equipment or personnel to a Fulton Recovery Beacon. Anything not bolted down can be moved. Link the pack to a beacon by using the pack in hand.

!Lazarus Injector

![[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]]<br>Silver-plated Pickaxe

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

![[File:Cash_1000.png|32px]]<br>Space Cash

|A thousand credits, to spend however you want! Of course, it's almost completely worthless on the station.

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

|A nostalgic suit piece from the older days of asteroid mining. Useless on Lavaland but great to explore space. Can be upgraded up to 8 times with goliath plates, to achieve extreme melee resistance.

![[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]]<br>Diamond Pickaxe

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

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Tracer Rounds Mod

|A modkit that makes your KA's projectile flight path visible, in a white color.

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Adjustable Tracer Rounds Mod

|A modkit that makes your KA's projectile flight path visible. Use in hand to cycle between colors.

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>Super KA Chassis Mod

|A modkit that makes your KA look yellow, like one of the no longer existing Super-Kinetic Accelerator.

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>Hyper KA Chassis Mod

|A modkit that makes your KA look orange, like one of the no longer existing Hyper-Kinetic Accelerator.

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Range Mod

|A modkit that increases your KA's range by 1.

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Damage Mod

|A modkit that increases your KA's damage by 10.

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

|A modkit that reduces your KA's cooldown by 0.25 seconds.

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA AoE Damage Mod

|A modkit that makes your KA hit in a 3x3 AoE, dealing 20% of the original damage per modkit.

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

|A card that can store mining points, to transfer between miners.

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Points

![[File:MiningDrone.png|32px]]<br>Mining Drone

|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.  

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Points

![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]]<br>Drone: Melee Upgrade

|Increases the Drone's melee damage.

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

![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]]<br>Drone: Health Upgrade

|Increases the Drone's health.

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

![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]]<br>Drone: Ranged Upgrade

|Decreases the Drone's ranged weapon's cooldown.

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>600 Points

![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]]<br>Drone: AI Upgrade

|Installs a high tech AI into the Drone (grants a ghost control over the Drone).

![[File:Jump_boots.png|32px]]<br>Jump Boots

|A pair of boots tha allow you to jump over three tiles, skipping chasms.

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2500 Points

==RnD Gear==

The following is a list of advance items that can be acquired only from RnD, using a combination of minerals and high tech research.

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![[File:miningdrill.png|32px]]<br>Mining Drill

|Can be acquired early on from RnD. It's twice as fast as the standard Pickaxe but is quickly superseded by better variants and is expensive for what it gives.

![[File:diamonddrill.png|32px]]<br>Diamond Tipped Mining Drill

![[File:sonicjack.png|32px]]<br>Sonic Jackhammer

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Range Mod

|A modkit that increases your KA's range by 1.

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Damage Mod

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

![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA AoE Mining Mod

|A modkit that makes your KA mine rocks in a 3x3 AoE. It does not, however, deal AoE damge. You're usually better off carrying a plasma cutter to deal with rocks and keep the KA for combat.

![[File:Plasma_Cutter.png|32px]]<br>Plasma Cutter

|A fast mining tool. Shoots rock-breaking bolts that pierce up to 3 rocks per shot. Rechargeable by inserting raw plasma into it. Less efficient in combat than a KA, however, and even less when in high pressure.

![[File:Adv_plasma_cutter.gif|32px]]<br>Advanced Plasma Cutter

|A very fast mining tool. Shoots rock-breaking bolts that pierce up to 6 rocks per shot, basically allowing you to pierce rock as fast as you can walk. Rechargeable by inserting raw plasma into it.

![[File:bluespacemining.png|32px]]<br>Mining Satchel of Holding

|Very cheap mining satchel that can hold an unlimited amount of minerals and ore.

![[File:NV_meson_glasses.gif|32px]]<br>Night Vision Mesons

|These glasses work like normal mesons, but they can see perfectly in the darkness negating the need for torches in lavaland.

==The Wildlife==

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

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

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! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description

 

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![[File:Paradox_bag.png|64px]]

![[File:Cult_hardsuit.png|64px]]

![[File:Soulstone.png|64px]]

![[File:Katana.gif|64px]]

|A very sharp katana. It deals 40 damage to unarmored targets (energy swords, for comparison, deal 30). It also has a 50% chance of deflecting melee attacks.

![[File:Godeye.gif|64px]]

![[File:Flight_potion.png|64px]]

Since the potion contains several units of potion, consider either diluting it or using a dropper, so you can share the transformation with others.

![[File:Diamond_Pickaxe.png|64px]]

![[File:Cult_robes.png|64px]]

|Cult Clothes

|Contains cult robes, a cult hood and a cult bedsheet. Great for starting your Nar'Sie fanclub.

![[File:Alien_brain.png|64px]]

|Alien Brain

|A xenomorph's brain. It is only useful for research, which can gain high biology levels out of it.

![[File:Cursed_heart.gif|64px]]

|Cursed Heart

![[File:Bottled_ship.png|64px]]

![[File:Champion_hardsuit.png|64px]]

|A hardsuit coming from a <s>Khorne Berserker</s>Champion. It's fairly resistand, has no slowdown, and is immune to fire. It also comes with a customizable [[Chaplain#Null Rod|Null Rod]].

![[File:Sord.png|64px]]

|Sord

|An unbelievably shitty sword.

![[File:Possessed_blade.png|64px]]

![[File:Dark_blessing.png|64px]]

![[File:Syndi_cards.png|64px]]

![[File:Modkit.png|64px]]

|A Kinetic Accelerator Modkit that allows it to both mine and deal damage in a 3x3 AoE. Secondary targets receive 25% of the original target's damage, up from the 20% of the normal AoE damage modkit.

![[File:Warp_cube.gif|64px]]

|Red/Blue Cube

![[File:Wisp_lantern.png|64px]]

![[File:Immortality_talisman.png|64px]]

![[File:Meat_hook.png|64px]]

![[File:Clusterbang.png|64px]]

![[File:Voodoo.png|64px]]

|A voodoo doll. To link it to someone, grab a small item they have touched and insert it into the doll; using the doll will allow you to choose a target based on the fingerprints on the inserted item.<br>

After being used, the doll has a chance of revealing its general direction or, more rarely, the room it's in, to the target. If it's set on fire, it has a 100% chance of revealing the room.<br>

To remove the linking item from a doll, use it while you're targeting the chest.

|}

==Xenoforms==

Your not always the only sentient being on the planet. Aside from the lovecraftian horrors living down there you may also content with several groups or factions of beings on the planet. Some hostile, some friendly.

Threat Level: Minimal, Non Hostile <br>

=====[[Ruins#Free Golem Ship|Golems]]=====

Threat Level: Minimal, Non Hostile<br>

Note: A unidentified flying object was seen crashing by Recon Team Charlie during expedition #8. Alpha team on expedition #9 located a group of golems, the golems appeared utterly uninterested in their surroundings all things considered.

=====[[Ashwalkers]]=====

Threat Level: Medium, Hostile<br>

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.

Threat Level: High, Hostile<br>

These are what you should be looking out for, generally try and get a good mix of the more exotic ore types. Iron ore is ok but it sells for little and is highly abundant on the station already.

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![[File:Metal.png|64px]]

!Very Common

![[File:Glass.png|center|64px]]

!Very Common

!Common

!Semi-Common

!Semi-Common

!Uncommon

!Uncommon

!Rare

|For making mech parts, among other industrial uses.

!

!Uncommon

 

!

|A rare and unusual mineral found exclusively in clown-controlled space. Used only for the [[Guide_to_robotics#H.O.N.K.|H.O.N.K. mech]] and other clownlike items.

Additionally, bluespace crystals sometimes spawn on mining. These crystals can be used in various ways. Give them to science to increase bluespace science, hold onto them to use as a risk free jaunter, or throw them at people to make them teleport randomly (often into space.)

 

* [[Scientist]]s at least a bit of every ore. In exchange, they may give you upgrades for your Kinetic Accelerator, a [[Plasma Cutter]], a [[Research_items#Mining Satchel of Holding|Mining Satchel of Holding]], and, if you're lucky, Night Vision Meson Scanners or a [[Bag of Holding]]!

* Always go with at least two other people when mining. Not only can you mine faster together, the chance that they could both be 'lings/traitors is rather low. Pickaxe to the skull tends to put down most people.

* You can view the contents of a mining satchel as if it were a backpack.

* Middle mouse click swaps your hand, allowing you to shoot minerals and grat them with the satchel quickly.

* If you're expecting trouble on the station, consider taking out a window on the mining shuttle before you return to make a quick getaway so you're not trapped like a rat in a cage.

A traitorous miner has a lot of advantages. You have a space suit for free right away and a robust pickaxe. Certain minerals you'll find have more "specialized" uses -- uranium structures will irradiate people, plasma can start fires, gibtonite goes boom. You can also buy dangerous "mining" tools and possibly even revive those monsters you've been fighting. As long as you have some mineral wealth or an ore box with you, no one will suspect your presence around the station, even in highly restricted areas like robotics or toxins, and if you are smart enough, you could get a big stompy mech to drill people to death! In addition, the asteroid is isolated, hard to get to, dangerous, and as expansive as you're willing to dig out. Plenty of room for somebody to get lost in... ''Forever!''

*Stim packs don't just increase your movement speed, they lower the duration of stuns. Always have this running in your system to remain speedy and more difficult to keep down.

If you're a miner, [[Mining Station]] is the perfect hive for a cult. The back room can easily be broken down by Constructs, runes can be placed, and a single artificer can make it very difficult for Security to try and raid. Remember to cut cameras, so a Non-Asimov AI doesn't bolt and electrocute every door. Remember to use Teleport other to get Cultists off station and into safe custody. All the station needs is a Medibot and you are golden.