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'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Stay alive long enough to return your loot to the station.

=Workin' In The Coal Mine=

[[File:Mining Dock.png|300px|thumb|alt=Mining Dock|The [[Mining Dock]] is your access to the [[Mining Station]].]]

Your workplace, Lavaland, has some hazards:

*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.

The risk of these hazards can be reduced by watching your step and being aware of your surroundings. Don't walk into lava, chasms, or outside during an ash storm. You'll get a text warning not long before a ash storm is about to begin, so long as you stay near shelter (or have a bluespace shelter capsule with you) then you'll be fine.  

==Working With Your Boss==

Who is your boss? You answer to the Head of Personnel, much like the rest of Supply -- but usually, you'll just be talking to the Quartermaster or other Miners. The Quartermaster can watch cameras on lavaland and has full access to Mining, so keep that in mind.

==The Objective==

You're here to mine, so get digging! Once you're full to bursting with ores, drag your ore box back to the station and head to cargo where the ore redemption machine sits. Insert your ID, and empty the box next to the machine to offload your ores and have them instantly processed into sheets. You gain points for doing this, so be sure to claim them and then retrieve your ID. Now buy new gear if you want, take your crate and it's back to the mines!

===How to Do This===

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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.

===Voucher===

You start the shift with a complimentary mining voucher, worth one free item out of a selection of four. These items, and their strengths, are:

*'''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.

*'''Resonator Kit''': Comes with a resonator and mini extinguisher.

*'''Crusher Kit''': Contains a proto-kinetic crusher 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, kinetic accelerator, 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.

===For Great Profit!===

Mining for the sake of it can only get you so far. By mining minerals and returning them to the station you'll accrue mining points, you can then use these points to buy better and more powerful equipment and supplies from a equipment vendor. You can then in turn use these items to push further into Lavaland to mine better minerals, fell stronger wildlife and find greater treasure. Consider it all an investment.

Stimpacks can help you in a pinch for example, or a Wormhole Jaunter can help you escape what would have been a death trap. Or saving up for a Legion Stabilizer can let you save their instant healing heart for later. Or you can spend it all on booze and cigars.

The following is a list of mining equipment:

==Essential Equipment==

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|So you can have oxygen when mining. Oxygen tanks are available from the tank storage unit, and can be worn on your suits storage slot. You can also use your emergency oxygen tank which can be placed on your suit. Running out of oxygen is unlikely with the full sized tank.

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|Mesons allow you to see the layout around you, useful when hunting megafauna and used with a light source. Activating the mining scanner will briefly flash any ore on screen - it works even inside a box. Can be used to stop gibtonite from exploding by tapping it with the scanner.

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|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.

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==Miscellaneous Equipment==

Items that, while not critical to take, can be situationally useful.

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![[File:Bodycam_Miner.png|32px]]<br>Miner Body Camera

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

|A beefed up flashlight. Put this on your KA to free up inventory space.

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The following are mining items available from vending machines, protolathes or necropolis chests.

===Mining Vendor Equipment===

[[File:Mining vendor default.png]] 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.

<b>Mining Equipment Vendor List </b><span class="mw-customtoggle-equipvend" style="font-size:small; color:darkblue; display:inline-block;"><span class="mw-customtoggletext"><b>[Click to Expand]</b></span></span>

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|Another deadly tool. This will, when used on rock or an empty space, create a field on that spot that lasts for about five seconds before rupturing, causing serious damage to anything standing on it. Just like the kinetic accelerator, it does reduced damage in pressurized environments. You can activate it in your hand to switch the field to last between 3 and 5 seconds. Using it on an already-marked spot will instantly rupture the field.

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>800 Points

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

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===Golem Vendor Equipment===

[[File:Mining vendor default.png]] These items can be bought with points earned via mining via the redemption machine on the free golem ruin. Prices are included.

<b>Golem Equipment Vendor List </b><span class="mw-customtoggle-equipgol" style="font-size:small; color:darkblue; display:inline-block;"><span class="mw-customtoggletext"><b>[Click to Expand]</b></span></span>

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===Protolathe Gear===

[[File: Protolathe.png]] The following is a list of advanced items that can be acquired from protolathes once researched.

<b>Protolathe Gear List </b><span class="mw-customtoggle-equiplath" style="font-size:small; color:darkblue; "><span class="mw-customtoggletext"><b>[Click to Expand]</b></span></span>

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

|It's twice as fast as the standard Pickaxe but is quickly superseded by better variants and is expensive for what it gives.

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

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

|An upgraded version of the resonator that allows more fields to be active at once.

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!Bodycamera<br>[[File:Bodycam Miner.png|32px]]

|A camera worn around the neck, meant to keep you safe.

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

!Night Vision Health Scanner HUD<br>[[File:NV health glasses.png|32px]]

|Allows you to see in the dark and view the health of lavaland mobs as well as everything else.

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

|The same function as the normal meson scanners with the added bonus of being able to see in the dark.

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===Necropolis Chest Loot===

[[File:Necrocrate.png]] The following is a list of items that can be acquired from necropolis chests, obtainable by defeating necropolis tendrils. For the bosses' loot, see [[Megafauna]].

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|A soulstone much like the kind used by a [[Blood Cult]] or by the chaplain on MetaStation. When used on an unconscious person or on a corpse it disintegrates it, and traps the soul inside the gem. The soul can then be released as a weak ghost bound to the will of the soulstone's owner, or it can be put into a construct shell, if you somehow own one.

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

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

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

*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 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 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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=The Wildlife - Non-Sentient=

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!  

==Legion==

[[File:legion.png|100px]]<br>

Considered annoying at worst, and a free medkit at best.

===Statistics===

'''Difficulty''': Easy

'''Speed''': Slow

===Attacks===

The legion itself cannot harm you directly. It will retreat from you constantly: maintaining a distance while attacking.

The legion attacks are as follows:

*Unleashes legion skulls which seek out a target. Each of these skulls die with a single hit and deal light damage to the target.

*If a skull attacks an unconscious being, it kills it instantly and transforms it into a legion.

===Loot===

When a legion dies, its original form is revealed. Legions do not drop any crafting materials, but they are valuable sources of healing to both miners and ash walkers. The body they spawn once dead can be very useful to ashwalker reproduction.

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

2. A legion soul[[File:Legionsoul.gif]]. Hit yourself with the soul and it will instantly heal 25 brute and burn damage, and remove slowdown from damage for a minute. Don't think you can store these for later, though -- they will spoil after a few minutes, making them completely useless until you use a stabilizer from the vending machine. However, legion souls can be inserted in one's chest through [[surgery]] as an organ to provide a hands-free full heal.

====Dwarf Legion====

[[File:Dwarflegion.png|100px]]<br>

On the rare occasion that a human with dwarfism falls to a legion, they can become infested like any other. Dwarf legions have 20 less health but move slightly faster. It's still rather harmless. 2 KA shots kill it, a couple of pickax swings will knock it out. It has the same loot as a normal legion.

==Watcher==

[[File:watcher.png|100px]]<br>

A levitating, fierce, territorial eye-like creature held aloft by winglike formations of sinew. A sharp spine of crystal protrudes from its body.

===Statistics===

'''Difficulty''': Medium

'''Speed''': Very Slow

===Attacks===

Despite the slowdown they give to a target once hit, watchers can be kited. They will not attack unless you get close to them. They are very weak to explosions.

The watcher attacks are as follows:

*Fires freezing beams at a target, cooling their body temperature and causing them to become slower.

*Hits a target in melee range, dealing mild brute damage.

===Loot===

Watchers leave behind a body to butcher.

2. 2 pieces of watcher sinew[[File:Sinew.png]].<br>

3. 1 bone[[File:Bone.png]].

===Other variants===

There are two other versions of the watcher that are possible to come across, these have a 1% chance of appearing.

[[File:Magmawingwatcher.png|100px]]<br>

The most common variant, when raised very close to lava some watchers adapt to the extreme heat and change coloration. Such watchers are known as magmawings and use intense heat as their tool for hunting and defense. The magmawing watcher shoots scorching blasts instead of freezing blasts, which heats you up and can set you on fire. Unlike normal watchers, a shot from this watcher will set you on fire and trying to roll it out will only result in the watcher getting more free shots on you, which means that you're pretty much forced to man up, pop a survival medi-pen, and melee it to death while you lose half of your HP to fire. It has normal watcher loot when butchered.

[[File:Icewingwatcher.png|100px]]<br>

The least common variant, some watchers will eke out an existence far from heat sources. In the absence of warmth, their wings will become papery and turn to an icy blue; these watchers are fragile but much quicker to fire their trademark freezing blasts. The icewing watcher has 50% less health and fire shots 33% more often. Their loot is similar to the normal watcher when butchered: 5 diamond ore but no sinew.

==Goliath==

[[File:EdgyGoliath.png|100px]]<br>

The bane of many careless miners. These monsters carry a hefty health pool, a mean wallop, and a deceptively dangerous ranged attack. They are inherently resistant to lasers, so using a KA is the best option regarding dealing with these.

===Statistics===

'''Difficulty''': Hard

'''Speed''': Slow

===Attacks===

Goliaths will chase you down slowly, stopping every couple seconds to attack. Fighting them is simple: Shoot, step back, shoot, avoid tentacles. Repeat this process until it stops moving.

The goliath attacks are as follows:

*Burrows tentacles underneath the target, trapping anything caught for a long duration.

*Slams itself into the target, dealing medium brute damage.

Goliaths leave behind a body to butcher. Goliath plates can be used to reinforce explorer suits, mining hardsuits and mechs. The meat can be cooked in lava.

2. 2 bones[[File:Bone.png]].<br>

3. 1 goliath hide[[File:Goliathhide.png]].

===Other variants===

There is one other version of the goliath that is possible to come across, this has a 1% chance of appearing.

====Ancient Goliath====

[[File:Ancientgoliath.png|100px]]<br>

This one is clearly ancient, and its tentacles constantly churn the earth around it. Tentacles constantly extrude from the ground around it, even when it is not aggroed to any particular object. When killed, they drop their goliath hide directly, more can be obtained through butchering.  

[[File:Goldgrub.png|100px]]<br>

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.

===Statistics===

'''Difficulty''': Easy

'''Speed''': Very Fast

===Attacks===

The goldgrub has no attacks.

===Loot===

When killed, they spit up multiple pieces of ore, based on what they ate. Feed them many different types of ore before killing them, and they'll spit out more of each type than you gave it! They also drop gold grub guts when butchered, which can be ground up for a potent medicinal reagent. Use caution when consuming it however, it can cause severe liver damage if too much is ingested!

==Gutlunch==

[[File:Gutlunch.png|100px]]<br>

A scavenger that eats raw meat, often found alongside ash walkers. Produces a thick, nutritious milk.

===Statistics===

'''Difficulty''': Easy

'''Speed''': Slow

===Attacks===

The gutlunch has no attacks.

==Megafauna==

For details on megafauna, [[Megafauna|click here]].

==Elites==

For details on lavaland elites, [[Lavaland Elites|click here]].

==Necropolis Tendrils==

[[File:Tendril.png|100px]]<br>

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, up to a maximum of three living monsters per tendril. 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.

'''Difficulty''': Medium to Very High

'''Speed''': None

The tendril itself has no attacks. Instead it spawns other mobs at a fast rate, the attacks of which are listed previously above.

===Loot===

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

=The Wildlife - Sentient=

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

For more information on these, [[Ruins|click here]].

==Podmen==

A small group of podmen were observed living inside a sealed vault. They appear minimally armed and seem to avoid leaving their home.

===Statistics===

'''Threat Level''': Minimal

'''Hostile''': Non-Hostile

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

An 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.

===Statistics===

'''Threat Level''': Minimal

'''Hostile''': Non-Hostile

==[[Ashwalkers]]==

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 seem to follow a being of greater strength than the others, described as the Chieftain. They also 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.

===Statistics===

'''Threat Level''': Medium

'''Hostile''': Hostile

A bluespace anomaly ripped these poor souls from their home planet, and threw them into this hell hole. You can call it bad luck or maybe you can call it fate. They don't seem very prone to Nanotrasen rule however, as their highest ranking officer abides to his or her own rules. It'd be risky to try to strike a deal with them, but overall they seem non hostile.

===Statistics===

'''Threat Level''': Minimal

'''Hostile''': Non-Hostile

==Syndicate Scientists==

Multiple facilities have been spotted by recon officers, but they are usually boarded up and appear to be abandoned. No expense was taken to collect information given that they were hidden behind large gaps of lava. Any attempt made must be recorded, and reported back to Nanotrasen. We don't know what could be behind those walls. Rumors have spread that there are scientists behind those walls, and others opened up that the Syndicate is targeting Nanotrasen again.

===Statistics===

'''Threat Level''': High

'''Hostile''': Hostile

=The Ores=

These are what you should be looking out for, generally try and get a good mix of the more exotic ore types. Mine gibtonite by hitting the ore with a mining tool then hitting it with your scanner. Don't wait too long or it will explode!

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|<span class="honk1" style="color: #FF69B4;font-size: 150%;">HONK!</span>

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===Alloys===

Some ores can be smelted to produce alloys.

[[File:Plastitanium.png|50px]]<br>

'''Obtain by''': Smelting plasma and titanium.

*[[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 [[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.

=Tips=

*Going in pairs or in groups while mining decreases your likelihood of dying from fauna. This increases your lifespan while mining, but decreases the amount of ore mined generally.

*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.

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

*The Head of Personnel may reward you with all access if you resurrect Ian.

*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:

**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 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). Downsides : EMP vulnerability and inability to heal augmented body parts normally.

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

=Dead Space=

A traitorous miner has a lot of advantages. The treasures on lavaland are among the most powerful and dangerous of any jobs. Certain minerals you'll find have more "specialized" uses - uranium structures will irradiate people, plasma can start fires, gibtonite goes boom. Robotics are generally willing to make you a mech, which you can use instead of fighting fauna to murder people on station. Megafauna and tendril treasures can be more powerful than even your uplink. In addition, lavaland is isolated, hard to get to, dangerous, and as expansive as you're willing to dig out. There is plenty of room to fight a guerilla war against the ones foolish enough to pursue you. However, you also have the weaknesses of being suspicious when on station, and the best loot is dangerous to obtain and/or time consuming.  

**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.

*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.

*Survival Medipens and Legion Cores are extremely useful to counter the stations foolish attempts to kill you.

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