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|additional = [[Maintenance]], [[Cargo Bay]], MULEbot access, [[Quartermaster's Office]] | |additional = [[Maintenance]], [[Cargo Bay]], MULEbot access, [[Quartermaster's Office]] | ||
|difficulty = Medium | |difficulty = Medium | ||
|superior = [[Quartermaster]] and [[Head of Personnel]] | |superior = [[Quartermaster]] and [[Head of Personnel]]f | ||
|duties = Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife. | |duties = Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife. | ||
|guides = No external guide. | |guides = No external guide. | ||
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* [[File:MiningDrone.png|32px]] '''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. | * [[File:MiningDrone.png|32px]] '''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. | ||
* [[File:Mining_Drill.png|32px]] '''Mining Drill''' - This drill can be used to pick through rock and dig up sand, so you can use this instead of a pickaxe or shovel. | * [[File:Mining_Drill.png|32px]] '''Mining Drill''' - This drill can be used to pick through rock and dig up sand, so you can use this instead of a pickaxe or shovel. | ||
* [[File: | * [[File:MiningScanner.png|32px]] '''Mining Scanner''' - Does everything the regular scanner does, but only needs to be clicked on to activate. No more inventory Tetris! | ||
===The Wildlife=== | ===The Wildlife=== | ||
While the eastern half of the asteroid is free of harmful things (save | While the eastern half of the asteroid is free of harmful things (save the occasional murderous traitor, rogue cyborg, and gibtonite deposit), it's quite sparse in any ore more precious than plain iron. The western half has much richer bounty of minerals to harvest... but there's a bit of a problem in the form of a variety of bloodthirsty alien lifeforms populating the caverns. Fortunately, you can fight them if you know how, and useful items can be harvested from their corpses when you triumph. Many sporting miners even come to the west asteroid just for the sake of monster hunting. | ||
====[[File:Hivelord.png|32px]] '''Hivelords'''==== | ====[[File:Hivelord.png|32px]] '''Hivelords'''==== | ||
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====[[File:Goldgrub.png|32px]] '''Goldgrubs'''==== | ====[[File:Goldgrub.png|32px]] '''Goldgrubs'''==== | ||
Mostly harmless and quite rare. These creatures swallow up any loose, valuable ore they can find and flee when approached by a human, smashing through even solid rock on their path of escape before burrowing into the ground. A tactic toward killing one is to throw an ore towards it, and quickly charging in to kill it while it's busy eating, | Mostly harmless and quite rare. These creatures swallow up any loose, valuable ore they can find and flee when approached by a human, smashing through even solid rock on their path of escape before burrowing into the ground. A tactic toward killing one is to throw an ore towards it, and quickly charging in to kill it while it's busy eating, but note that kinetic accelerator shots do nothing against these. Their skin is reflective, requiring a pickaxe melee smackdown to ensure a kill. | ||
'''Tip:''' | '''Tip:''' | ||
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===The Rewards=== | ===The Rewards=== | ||
So | So you've taken your crate of ores to the ore redemption machine and claimed a boatload of points tied to your id. Head on over to the mining equipment vendors and stick your ID in to claim fabulous prizes! | ||
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* '''Stimpack MediPen''' - 50 pts - A cheap stimpack that stimulates your body's adrenaline but can be fatal if abused. Use | * '''Stimpack MediPen''' - 50 pts - 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. | ||
* '''MediPen Bundle''' - 200 pts - An addiction kit! Comes with | * '''MediPen Bundle''' - 200 pts - An addiction kit! Comes with five stimpacks and for some god awful reason, enough epi pens to to overdose someone and get them addicted. | ||
* '''Bottle of whiskey''' - 100 pts - Half the components for Beepsky Smash, and has various other uses. | * '''Bottle of whiskey''' - 100 pts - Half the components for Beepsky Smash, and has various other uses. | ||
* '''Premium Havanian Cigar''' - 150 pts - Inject with <s>drugs</s> medicine for a good time. | * '''Premium Havanian Cigar''' - 150 pts - Inject with <s>drugs</s> medicine for a good time. | ||
* '''Soap''' - 200 pts - For cleaning up those blood trails made from <s>assistants who the HoP let in</s> dragging downed miners from asteroid beasts. A tile based stun that is amazingly robust for | * '''Soap''' - 200 pts - For cleaning up those blood trails made from <s>assistants who the HoP let in</s> dragging downed miners from asteroid beasts. A tile based stun that is amazingly robust for its cost. Also cleans up evidence. Can piss off gang members. | ||
* '''Laser Pointer''' - 300 pts - Go for the eyes! Borg stunner. Amazing during malf, or when you need to stop a borg in its tracks and don't want to invest in EMP or trying to flash it. | * '''Laser Pointer''' - 300 pts - Go for the eyes! Borg stunner. Amazing during malf, or when you need to stop a borg in its tracks and don't want to invest in EMP or trying to flash it. | ||
* '''Alien Toy''' - 300 pts - A toy facehugger with REAL face-clinging action! Scare your friends! Tear off your enemy's breath mask in a N2O flood. Laugh as the captain and head of personnel uselessly unload their energy guns on it! | * '''Alien Toy''' - 300 pts - A toy facehugger with REAL face-clinging action! Scare your friends! Tear off your enemy's breath mask in a N2O flood. Laugh as the captain and head of personnel uselessly unload their energy guns on it! | ||
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* '''Hivelord stabilizer''' - 400 pts - This is injected into a hivelord's remains to preserve its healing capabilities. | * '''Hivelord stabilizer''' - 400 pts - This is injected into a hivelord's remains to preserve its healing capabilities. | ||
* '''Point Card''' - 500 pts - A card with 500 mining points stored, for trading amongst your coworkers. Simply use an id over it to claim the points stored on. | * '''Point Card''' - 500 pts - A card with 500 mining points stored, for trading amongst your coworkers. Simply use an id over it to claim the points stored on. | ||
* '''Mining Drone''' - 500 pts - Just like what the voucher can get you, except without a welding tool. Useful if you want to amass resources and are lazy. Might also help kill a | * '''Mining Drone''' - 500 pts - Just like what the voucher can get you, except without a welding tool. Useful if you want to amass resources and are lazy. Might also help kill a monster. | ||
* '''Gar Mesons''' - 500 pts - Stylish Mesons that are functionally the same as regular ones. Except the fact they are extremely pointy, can be used to stab people to death (10 brute) and have a tendency to get embedded into people like a throwing star. | * '''Gar Mesons''' - 500 pts - Stylish Mesons that are functionally the same as regular ones. Except the fact they are extremely pointy, can be used to stab people to death (10 brute) and have a tendency to get embedded into people like a throwing star. | ||
* '''[[Medical items#Brute trauma treatment kit|Brute trauma treatment kit]]''' - 600 pts - You can get valuable medical supplies just by doing your job alone. Each kit contains 4 styptic powder patches and 12 rolls of gauze; you can apply the patches through your hardsuit but you need to take it off to apply the gauze. You still need to get burn treatment from elsewhere. | * '''[[Medical items#Brute trauma treatment kit|Brute trauma treatment kit]]''' - 600 pts - You can get valuable medical supplies just by doing your job alone. Each kit contains 4 styptic powder patches and 12 rolls of gauze; you can apply the patches through your hardsuit but you need to take it off to apply the gauze. You still need to get burn treatment from elsewhere. | ||
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Some super useful Treasures you might find while mining include: | Some super useful Treasures you might find while mining include: | ||
*A mysterious medibot. It is black | *A mysterious medibot. It is black and heals significantly better than other types. | ||
*A Grinder. The limits depend on your ability to use it yourself. | *A Grinder. The limits depend on your ability to use it yourself. | ||
*Cultist Armor. Faster than the mining one but can't be upgraded. Also can get you arrested. | *Cultist Armor. Faster than the mining one but can't be upgraded. Also can get you arrested. | ||
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* Wish soup is made of 20 units of water and nothing else, but sometimes (~25% of the time) will actually be generated with nutriment you can actually get full on. Meaning it's one of the only things you can make once the donk pockets run out. It's also the only thing you can make on the DJ station at all without importing ingredients (provided you bring something to hold the water in). | * Wish soup is made of 20 units of water and nothing else, but sometimes (~25% of the time) will actually be generated with nutriment you can actually get full on. Meaning it's one of the only things you can make once the donk pockets run out. It's also the only thing you can make on the DJ station at all without importing ingredients (provided you bring something to hold the water in). | ||
* Ctrl-Z (with no hotkey-mode) or just Z (with hotkey-mode on) cocks the combat/mining shotgun. No more clicking in between shots! | * Ctrl-Z (with no hotkey-mode) or just Z (with hotkey-mode on) cocks the combat/mining shotgun. No more clicking in between shots! | ||
* Minebots are great at distracting | * Minebots are great at distracting monsters. Just walk near and bash the distracted target with your drill. They can take quite a beating, though goliaths can take them down pretty quickly if you're not quick enough. Plus they collect all the crap gibtonite left. | ||
* The Proto-kinetic Accelerator can destroy electrified grilles without needing a pair of insulated gloves. | * The Proto-kinetic Accelerator can destroy electrified grilles without needing a pair of insulated gloves. | ||
* The Proto-kinetic Accelerator will obliterate a space carp in one hit while in space. | * The Proto-kinetic Accelerator will obliterate a space carp in one hit while in space. | ||
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** Security Jumpsuit : This gives a +10% melee resist to everywhere but your head. Nag the QM or HoP to give you one. | ** Security Jumpsuit : This gives a +10% melee resist to everywhere but your head. Nag the QM or HoP to give you one. | ||
** Augmentations : Augs are VERY useful for miners, as healing with a welder is ultimately easier. Plus they work differently than armor when it comes to protection, instead reducing all brute damage taken by an augmented body part by 5 (4 for burn). Downside : EMP vulnerability. | ** Augmentations : Augs are VERY useful for miners, as healing with a welder is ultimately easier. Plus they work differently than armor when it comes to protection, instead reducing all brute damage taken by an augmented body part by 5 (4 for burn). Downside : EMP vulnerability. | ||
** If these | ** If these three are combined you become close to immune to melee, only a ninja's energy blade is robust enough to even so much as scratch you, and blobs are utterly hopeless. However, guns are still a threat, and anybody can still surprise you with a stunprod and strip away your precious +4 rig. And be wary, the [[Admin | gods]] may not take kindly to your hubris. | ||
* Kinetic accelerators can be used as infinite tools to navigate space, since every time you fire, it'll throw you in the opposite direction. | * Kinetic accelerators can be used as infinite tools to navigate space, since every time you fire, it'll throw you in the opposite direction. | ||