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'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Keep in frequent contact with the miners, be ready to retrieve a corpse in most lavaland scenarios.  

[[File:MiningRight.png|300px|thumb|alt=Mining Base|The Mining Base]]<br>

==What do I do? Where do I go?==

You'll arrive on the station already equipped to deal with most minor injuries:

|A heads-up display that scans the humans in view and provides accurate data about their health status. In addition it allows you to see basic structural and terrain layouts through walls, regardless of lighting condition. Wear this at all times.

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Your locker is located in your office on the mining station. Make sure to grab a few supplies out of your locker in advance:

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|Contains a number of items to help prevent and heal poisons: [[File:Syringe.png|link=Charcoal|Syringe (Charcoal)]] [[File:Syringe.png|link=Charcoal|Syringe (Charcoal)]] [[File:Syringe.png|link=Charcoal|Syringe (Charcoal)]] [[File:apill.png|link=Charcoal|Anti-Toxin pill]] [[File:apill.png|link=Charcoal|Anti-Toxin pill]] [[File:apill.png|link=Charcoal|Anti-Toxin pill]] [[File:Healthanalyzer.png|link=Health Analyzer]]

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Your office is located to the right of the mining base, in the lower-right corner. You will find everything you need to help your miners there:

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|Sleepers contain an unlimited supply of five different chemicals. Perfect if you don't want to use up supplies.

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==The 10 rules to miner survival==

===Be robust===

'''Know medicine and miner mechanics. Know how to beat a goliath silly.'''<br>

A requirement for many jobs on the station, but this one gets a special notion. If you don't know how to rub ointment onto someone while in the vacuum of space, you're not going to be of any use.

===Stay fit===

'''Keep everyone's life at 100% at all times. Don't be stingy with bruisepacks.'''

So the miner accidentally hit himself with a pickaxe in the helmet. 5 brute damage? Patch him up. The last thing you'd want is for your buddy to go into crit while fighting a watcher, 3 damage short of killing it with all the weapons on their corpse.

===Beware of narrow tunnels===

'''Always make sure you can move in any direction.'''

Joe Morris says, "Shit it got me"<br>

''Loud cracking can be heard as the goliath hits the gibtonite in the wall, entangling both miners next to it, followed by a "FUUUUU" and an explosion.''

===Don't neglect your gps===

'''Keep your gps on you with custom initials. Urge your buddies to do the same.'''

So you've managed to run into a goliath while face-checking a corridor. Great job you. You better hope your buddy drags you out, because if he doesn't you're never going to see the light of genetics. If you've set your GPS, the mining medic might just take your ice chilled corpse to the cloning bay.

===Travel LIGHT===

'''Make sure you're the brightest star around. Nothing is more dangerous than the false sense of security your mesons give you.'''

===Don't be a hero===

'''Possibly the most important rule of all. Don't risk your own life, you can always clone them.'''

You don't want to take a risk for no reason other than trying to go for the "Robust guy look", simply take a step back and keep yourself safe. Unfortunately you won't make yourself look too impressive if a xeno is currently converting you to feces. However, remember that there are certain circumstances where perhaps this rule should be ignored, so that maybe you save someone who makes it so you don't have to drag him to Medbay or making sure that you will still have a partner to back you up later - as they might be responsible for saving your life later. They could be pissed when you let them die, but you can patch him up if you live. He can't fix you.

===Have your Camera On===

'''Turn your body camera on! Strongly encourage your fellow miners to do the same.'''

Though seldom used, the body cameras both Miners and Mining Medics start with are extremely valuable to a mining medic. When you go red on a Crew Monitoring Console, simply knowing where you are with your GPS on won't be enough. Coordinates won't tell the rescuer (who can use the outpost camera console on the station side mining dock and mining station medbay) whether you're dead by a tentacle surrounded by dangerous simplemobs or dead in an empty corridor with nothing dangerous nearby.

===When in doubt, know your way out.===

'''Dig your way back to the station if you lost track of tunnels.'''

Instead of roaming those dangerous age old cultist tunnels trying to find your way out, just dig. No one will mind if you lose your way in there. Those tunnels do look pretty alike after all.

===The buddy system===

'''If there are no miners, don't go mining. If a miner doesn't have a medic yet, go after them.'''

Why don't legions attack each other? Probably hard instinct. Either way around, you should do the same. Don't get tempted to split up or do the mining work yourself, because digging a tunnel is the best way to get caught with your pants down.

===The job change===

'''If you have no confidence in your miners, run like hell to the Hop's desk.'''