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==Workin' In The Coal Mine==

Being a miner can be somewhat tedious, but you serve a crucial role in the R&D food chain, and can accrue some decent personal rewards. Just follow a few guidelines to keep yourself from becoming dead in the mines.   

If you run into rock with a pick or drill in your inactive hand, it will automatically start digging for you. ALSO, it is important to note that '''you are able to click more than ONE square of asteroid at a time''' when mining or digging for sand!  As long as it's accessible, you don't have to wait to finish digging before you start digging again, so you can have several dig jobs running in parallel. Just don't change hands or move until all dig jobs are done.

* [[File:buckknife.png|32px]] '''Survival knife''' - Use it for butchering the wildlife. It's as strong against mobs as a pickaxe, but you can't mine with it. You can store it in your boots to save space, but remember to alt-click the boots to draw the knife back out.

* [[File:bandaid_brute.png|32px]] Brute patch - Heals severe bruising, which you will most likely get from the wildlife.

* [[File:Shovel.png|32px]] '''Shovel''' - Gathering sand. You can stick this in your backpack.

* [[File:OreSatchel.png|32px]] '''Ore Satchel''' - For carrying ore without using a mining cart, holds 50 ore nuggets. Get at least one of these, make sure to set the bag to "all on tile". Use in conjunction with an ore crate. (Newbie tip: This does not work like a typical backpack.  Hold it in your hand and click the ore with that hand to pick it up.)

* [[File:Crowbar.png|32px]] '''[[Crowbar]]''' - Just in case when coming back from the mines there is a blackout. Spawns in your backpack.

* [[File:Voucher.gif|32px]] '''Mining Voucher''' - Found in your backpack, exchange this at the mining equipment locker for your choice of one of...

* [[File:KineticAccelerator.png|32px]] '''Proto-kinetic Accelerator''' - 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 to automatically reload after each shot, and has a range of three steps. Each blast can clear a rock wall if you feel like digging using this.

* [[File:Resonator.png|32px]] '''Resonator''' - Another deadly tool. This will instantly clear a rock wall when clicked on, and when used in hand or swung at empty space, will 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.

* [[File:MiningDrone.png|32px]] '''Mining Drone''' - 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.

* [[File:MiningScanner.png|32px]] '''Mining Scanner''' - Does everything the regular scanner does, but only needs to be clicked on to activate. No more inventory Tetris!