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!KA: Hardness Upgrade

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!Megafauna Legion

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=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.

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Some ores can be smelted to produce alloys.

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'''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.

*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 [[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.

*The [[Atmospheric Technician]], though only a select few, can use dilithium crystals to incredible effect in their fusion reactions. If an atmos tech asks you to supply a few, you might want to pay attention.

Plasma Magmite is a rare ore that spawns exclusively in '''Hardened Basalt'''. It can only be dropped if destroyed by an explosion (gibtonite, mining charge, etc).

Take it to the '''World Anvil''' located in front of the necropolis gate. The World Anvil must be charged by using Gibtonite to upgrade your Kinetic Accelerator or Advanced Plasma Cutter. Placing a piece of Plasma Magmite and your desired item to upgrade on the heated anvil and then pressing the anvil will upgrade them into new items:

* Mega Advanced Plasma Cutter This functions the same as an Advanced Plasma Cutter but goes 7 tiles with a bonus range of 7 tiles (up from 5/5)

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=

*Alternatively, go completely solo to lower the chance of friendly fire, increase your mining speed, and so you can keep the mining treasures for yourself.

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

*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.

*Life improving things:

**Explorer suit upgrade : Goliath plates can be added to both an explorer suit, aswell as the hood that goes with said suit. Each part of the suit can hold 3 plates, stacking to 30% on each plate added. The plates will stack until they reach 60%, 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.

*Dual Kinetic Accelerators allow you to do much more immediate damage, at the cost of slower recharge speed. Doing dual Kinetic Accelerators is advisable for new miners fighting megafauna, because it allows one to focus on dodging longer.

*The Ore redemption machine can be unbolted and put on the mining shuttle then re-bolted for quick access. This saves you from taking the shuttle all the way back to the station just to dump your ore before going back.

*The pressure on lava land is actually harmless and is just enough for your Proto-kinetic Accelerator to do its maximum damage. The reason you have a suit is so you can have access to an oxygen tank and some reliable amour against the hostilities of lava land. But do know, the explorer suit does not work in space on the station Z level, but you can always buy a miner's hardsuit from the miner vendor machine for 2000 points, which will work in 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.  

===Tips for Traitoring===

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

*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.

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