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# Gear up! From the mining equipment locker, you will need Meson Scanner goggles, a mining scanner, and a pickaxe. If you want, there are also fingerless (useless) gloves, an additional mining satchel, and a shovel.

# Use your voucher on a mining vending machine to select your choice of advanced mining tool: a kinetic accelerator, resonator, advanced mining scanner or drone. The QM and HoP have spare vouchers they may give you if you ask nicely.

# Take and wear an explorer suit, breath mask, and oxygen tank from Mining 'EVA'. On the western side of the base, there is a mini-Medbay where you can find first-aid kits. There is also a maintenance room adjacent to it where you can top off internals.

* [[File:explorersuit.png|32px]] '''Explorer suit''' - This comes with a hood. It provides some protection against heat and cold, and works as decent armor. It is not spaceproof, but can hold a full-sized oxygen tank or other mining gear.

* [[File:BreathMask.png|32px]] '''[[Breath mask|Breath Mask]] and [[Oxygen]] Tank''' - So you can have oxygen when mining. Oxygen tanks are available from the tank storage unit, and can be worn on hardsuit's 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.

* [[File:MGlasses.png|32px]] [[File:MiningScanner.png|32px]] '''[[Meson Goggles|Meson Scanners]] and  Mining Scanner''' - When used together will briefly flash any non-iron ore on screen.

* [[File:GPSm.gif|32px]] '''Global Positioning System, GPS''' - The crew monitoring console back on the station won't catch your suit sensor signal from all the way at the asteroid. Having one of these on you will help others track down your body if you happen to develop a case of the dead.

* [[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]] '''Pickaxe''' - For tunneling through everything. Place this on your belt to free up your hands. You also can get various drills and other tools from science and your mining vendor. These will dig faster, and may have other advantages!

* [[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:BScapsule.png|32px]] Bluespace shelter capsule - Activate this in your hand, and it'll instantly produce a beautiful shelter. Ash storms do not hurt you inside, but wildlife can break through the walls. The shelter contains a cupboard which contains a guitar and some donk pockets. It also has a sleeper which requires another person to use.

* [[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:OreCrate.png|32px]] '''Ore box''' - Used for carrying huge amounts of ore. While a satchel can only hold 50 nuggets, this can hold an unlimited sum. You cannot carry it but you can drag or push it with you. Use your satchel on the box to empty it into the box.

* [[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!