Shaft Miner: Difference between revisions

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*'''Resonator Kit''': Comes with a resonator, explorer's webbing, mini extinguisher and advanced scanner. While the resonator is underwhelming, the advanced scanner has almost twice the scanning range and updates much faster.

*'''Crusher Kit''': Contains a proto-kinetic crusher, a chest webbing like the capsule kit, an advanced scanner and a mini fire extinguisher. The crusher is two-handed and hard to use without getting hit, but has a chance to make fauna drop powerful trophies.

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

|Found in your backpack, exchange this at the mining equipment locker for one of several items.

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

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

|The epitome of mining. Can practically instantly mine through rock and walls. But it requires three times the Diamonds of a Diamond Tipped Drill.

!Flight Potion/Strange Elixir<br>[[File:Flight_potion.png|32px]]

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

|A faster pickaxe. See the Mining Vendor list for more information.

1. The original body of itself. Usually these will be dead ashwalker bodies, but there may be a miner that appears occassionally too!<br>

2. A legion soul[[File:Legionsoul.gif]]. Hit yourself with the soul and it will instantly restore your health to its maximum, and even cure diseases or any other ailment on your body. It also has the side effect of purging any beneficial chemicals from your system, so don't munch one just after injecting a stimulant. Don't think you can store these for later, though -- they will spoil after a few minutes unless you use a stabilizer from the vending machine. However, legion souls, spoilt or not, can be inserted in one's chest through [[surgery]] to provide a hands-free use of the legion soul.

Legion leave behind their dead body once killed.

Goliaths leave behind a body to butcher. Goliath plates can be used to reinforce a number of clothing items and mechs. The meat can be cooked in lava.

Huge spikes of organic matter, from the base of which crawl out countless monsters. Each Tendril only spawns one kind of monster, between legions, goliaths and watchers, every once in a while. The tendrils themselves are fairly fragile and will die in a few well-placed shots, if you can fight through the other mobs. Once killed, it will drop its loot, shake the earth around it for a while, and then spawn a huge chasm around it, destroying anything that did not get out of the way in time. Chasms are deadly even after formation and should be avoided.

When kiled, they spawn [[Shaft Miner#Necropolis Chest Loot|necropolis chests]] which can contain a variety of useful artifacts.

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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!Very Common

!Very Common

!Common

!Semi-Common

!Semi-Common

!Uncommon

!Uncommon

!Rare

!Rare

|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.)

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!Uncommon

 

!HONK!

|name = Plastitanium

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|strategy = Use it to create the walls and flooring used in a Syndicate spacecraft

|description = An alloy of plasma and titanium.

 

* [[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.