Shaft Miner: Difference between revisions

* 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.

* Chasms - Anything that falls into one will disappear from this world.

# 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, listed below.

# Go to the Lavaland Mining Station and get an explorer suit, breath mask, and oxygen tank from Mining 'EVA'. On the western side of the base, there is a mini-Medbay where you can find first-aid kits. There is also a maintenance room adjacent to it where you can top off internals.

# Before you go, you'll want an Ore Box, which can hold an infinite amount of minerals. You start with an handy capsule that can be used to deploy one.

# Make sure you've packed a bluespace shelter capsule if you plan on a long distance expedition, it can shield you in the event of a nasty storm.

# Find dem minerals. Click the scanner in hand to activate it: every once in a while it sends out a pulse that lets you see deposits in the rock a few tiles away from you. Try to get a mixture of every type of mineral.

# Pick up minerals by using your mining satchel on them: it will gather the whole stack up in one click. Then use the satchel on the ore box to transfer the minerals there.

# Go to the ore redeemer and get points. If R&D doesn't show up, you can also deliver materials to R&D so they can upgrade the protolathe and to Robotics for a mech.

# At the mining equipment vendor you can get advanced equipment with the points you've gained.

# Use your better gear to push deeper into Lavaland.

# If you feel robust enough, explore some [[Ruins]] and <s>die horribly</s> get amazing rewards.

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

* '''Bluespace Capsule and Explorer's Webbing''': The webbing (you put on your belt slot) allows you to carry even more mining equipment - having a second shelter capsule is nice too.

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| For when you want something shinier and better than your default pickaxe and the scientists are either too lazy or too dead to make drills or jackhammers. STILL worse than a basic KA.

|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.  

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* When using a hot item on it (I.E. welder/match/lighter) it will heat the target.

* When using a sharp item on it it will cause severe pain to the target, stunning it.

* When using a bike horn on it it will HONK him, also dealing ear damage.

* Setting the doll on fire will also set the target on fire.

* When using the doll while targeting the head, it will make the target dizzy.

* When using the doll while targeting an arm, the target will use that hand, or any item on it, on a random nearby mob.

* When using the doll while targeting a leg, it will move the target randomly by a step.

* When using the doll while targeting the eyes, it will allow the user to see through the target's eyes for ten seconds.

* When using the doll while targeting the mouth, it will force the target to speak an user-inputted sentence. Radio prefixes such as ; can be used.

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* [[Scientist]]s at least a bit of every ore. In exchange they may upgrade your protolathe, allowing for you to get more advanced mining items.

* [[Roboticist]]s need diamond, uranium, silver and gold for building mech parts. Give them enough and you've indirectly helped out most of the departments on the station if the Roboticists are competent enough to build helpful stompy mechs for everybody! Too bad the Ripley is the only <s>good</s> mech for mining.

* The [[Quartermaster]] may want mineral sheets to trade them in for bonus supply credits. Plasma in particular is both common and valuable.

* Everybody could always use more iron, glass and plasteel, but especially Roboticists and [[Station Engineer]]s.

* The [[Chemist]] and [[Guide to xenobiology|Xenobiologist]] will all appreciate having extra plasma.

* A competent [[Virologist]] can use several sheets of uranium to create incredibly powerful healing viruses.

* A [[Clown]] with Bananium is a grateful and dangerous ally.

* The [[Bartender]] can use a few sheets of uranium or iron to craft some of his rarest cocktails.

* 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. KA to the face tends to put down most people.

* Alternatively, go completely solo to lower the chance of friendly fire from gibonite or stray KA shots.

* If you aggro a megafauna, run AWAY from the mining outpost. Most megafauna can be easily outpaced but have a much higher aggro range while and shortly after chasing someone, and it becomes incredibly difficult to leave the planet when an ash drake is lounging around in the mining shuttle.

* Your mining satchel will automatically pick up ores as long as it is on your immediate person (in pockets, on belt, in hands, etc.) If you are dragging an ore box, ores will automatically be dumped into that instead.

* 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 will obliterate a space carp in one hit while in space.

* The Kinetic Crusher is a robust melee weapon even on station.

* The Head of Personnel may reward you with all access if you resurrect Ian. Also, sometimes the Research Director will reward you for a pet gold grub.

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

* Taking stimulants before delivering materials to science will help keep you alive.

* The mining drone can be repaired with a welding tool, but not in the middle of a fight. A goliath will always win in a one on one fight with a mining drone.

* Life improving things:

** Mining suit upgrade : Goliath plates add +10% melee resist each time when applied to a suit, ideally if you're just mining you'd want to solely apply that to your chest piece. The plates will stack until they reach 30%, which may help you live in case a goliath grabs you.

** 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.

* Kinetic accelerators can be used as infinite tools to navigate space, since every time you fire, it'll throw you in the opposite direction.  

* If you're a miner and you have to kill another miner; there's a really easy way to block communications one way so he can't call for help.

** Grab a multitool, go to the mining communications room.

** Use the multi tool on the relay and make sure the relay isn't sending, meaning your headset won't go to people on the station.

** Kill your target with their shouts for help unheard.

* You can get plasma at exactly the heat you need for canister bombs by welding a plasma door in vacuum. Use an air pump to take it, then put [REDACTED] KPa into an empty large tank (the size of plasma, emergency O2, etc). You can then ignite it with a can of pure O2 set to release at 1013.25 KPa. This is the Shaft Miner's canister bomb. It's easy to set up on the asteroid.

* More than one uranium wall is hilariously deadly, as they give off a pulse of radiation every couple of seconds. This pulse makes other uranium walls in range pulse as well, and they all run on their own timer.

* Tiers 0-1-2-3 can gib bodies, remember mining suits take 50% of damage away from bombs, so strip miners you want to make disappear forever first.

*Space is your best ally. Your weapons are more lethal in space, and anyone who wants to chase you will need access to a jetpack and EVA gear. Make people fight on your terms by blowing up the station with various Gibtonite charges, or bust in, stun and drag targets into space.