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Your workplace, Lavaland, has some hazards:

*Lava - one step in and you'll be badly burned and on fire.

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

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==

===How to Do This===

#Use your voucher on a mining vending machine to select your choice of advanced mining tool, listed below.

#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.

#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.

*'''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.

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.

The following is a list of mining equipment:

==Essential Equipment==

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![[File:explorersuit.png|32px]]<br>Explorer Suit

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![[File:Gasmask_mining.png|32px]][[File:Oxygentank.png|32px]]<br>Explorer Gas Mask and [[Oxygen]] Tank

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![[File:MGlasses.png|32px]] [[File:MiningScanner.gif|32px]]<br>[[Meson Goggles|Meson Scanners]] and Automatic Mining Scanner

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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.

|}

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

===Mining Vendor Equipment===

|-

!Explorer's Webbing<br>[[File:Miner_webbing.png|32px]]

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Points

|Yes

|-

|A card that can store mining points, to transfer between miners.

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Points

|One-use item that creates a wormhole to a random beacon on station. The portal is unstable and will make you dizzy after using it. <B>Can be worn on the belt slot to prevent death on chasms.</B>

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>750 Points

|-

!Kinetic Crusher<br>[[File:Kinetic_crusher.png|32px]]

|No

|-

|A upgrade over the default Mining Scanner. This tool has a much larger detection radius of seven tiles (the entire screen), and updates more frequently.

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

|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

|-

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

|A jetpack that you can attach to any hardsuit for better mobility. Useless on Lavaland but great back on the station.

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2000 Points

|-

!Space Cash<br>[[File:Cash_1000.png|32px]]

|-

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

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2000 Points

|No

|An upgrade for plasma shotguns that allows it to automatically defuse gibtonite.

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Points

|-

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

|No

|-

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>20000 Points

|No

|-

!Nanotrasen Minebot<br>[[File:MiningDrone.png|32px]]

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

|Yes

|No

|-

|A KA modkit that increases your KA's cooldown by 0.32 seconds. Uses 30% mod capacity

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Points

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! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width="200" |Item

! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Price

|-

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>350 Points

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|A replica of the Liberator's cape. A must-have for every Free Golem.

!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Points

<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>

===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]].

|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.

|-

|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.

|-

|-

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

|-

!Rod of Asclepius<br>[[File:Asclepius.png|32px]]

|-

!Jacob's Ladder<br>[[File:Ladder00.png|32px]]

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!Possessed Blade<br>[[File:Possessedsword.png|32px]]

|-

!Dark Blessing<br>[[File:Dark_blessing.png|32px]]

|-

!AoE Hybrid Mod<br>[[File:Modkit.png|32px]]

|-

!KA Death Syphon/Bounty Mod<br>[[File:Modkit.png|32px]]

|-

!Red/Blue Cube<br>[[File:Warp_cube.gif|32px]]

*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.

|-

!Inquisitor Hardsuit and Hell Water<br>[[File:Inquisitor_hardsuit.png|32px]][[File:Holywater.png|32px]]

|-

!Book of Babel<br>[[File:Book1.png|32px]]

The watcher attacks are as follows:

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

Watchers leave behind a body to butcher.

===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>

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

==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.

'''Difficulty''': Hard

'''Speed''': Slow

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.

Goliaths are much more lethal in groups, as you'll need to dodge tentacles more often and even two goliaths can stunlock you to death if one hits.

The goliath attacks are as follows:

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

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.

[[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.

'''Difficulty''': Easy

'''Speed''': Very Fast

The goldgrub has no attacks.

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: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===

'''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.

'''Threat Level''': Minimal

==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.

'''Threat Level''': High

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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! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:grey;color:white;" |Wall

! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:grey;color:white;" width="100px" |Raw Ore

*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.

While on the planet, you may come upon artificial structures. They can have items ranging from magical artifacts, to other lifeforms, to [[Xenos#Facehugger|alien facehugger]]s. If you are at all unsure, always let your mining buddies know using :u before going in, as some ruins can be very dangerous.

=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 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.

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.  

*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.

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

*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.

*Stuns are the bane of any miners existence, using your TC to counter this is advisable.

*Though the hierophant staff loses its offensives capabilities on the station, the Hierophant's Antenna, which can be purchased as a traitor Miner, will allow the staff to work as it would normally do on lava land.