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|jobtitle = Shaft Miner
|jobtitle = Shaft Miner
|access = [[Mining Station]], Mining Station EVA, [[Cargo Bay|Cargo Office]], Mineral Storage
|access = Mining Station, Cargo Office, Mineral Storage
|additional = [[Maintenance]], [[Cargo Bay]], MULEbot access, [[Quartermaster's Office]]
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|difficulty = Medium
|difficulty = Medium
|superior = [[Quartermaster]] and [[Head of Personnel]]
|superior = [[Quartermaster]]
|duties = Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife.
|duties = Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife.
|guides = No external guide.
|guides = [[Guide to Mining]], [[Guide to Lavaland]], [[Guide to Combat]]
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Welcome Miner, to the wonderful caverns of this [[Mining Station|Nanotrasen Claimed Asteroid]]. Here, you will break rocks, slay monsters, and die lost and alone in the depths of the caverns.


Welcome Miner, to the wonderful caverns of this [[Locations|Nanotrasen Claimed Landmass]]. Here, you will break rocks, slay monsters, and die lost and alone in the depths of the caverns.
==Workin' In The Coal Mine==
==Workin' In The Coal Mine==
[[File:Mining_dock.png|thumb|500px|The [[Cargo Bay]] is your access to [[Mining Station]]]]
[[File:MiningDock.png|thumb||The [[Locations|Cargo Bay]] is your access to [[Locations|Mining Station]]]]
Being a miner can be somewhat tedious, but you serve a crucial role in the R&D food chain, as well as being able to accrue some decent personal rewards. Just follow a few guidelines here to keep yourself from becoming dead in the mines.  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 and save yourself some time!
Being a miner can be somewhat tedious, but you serve a crucial role in the R&D food chain, as well as being able to accrue some decent personal rewards. Just follow a few guidelines here to keep yourself from becoming dead in the mines.  ALSO, it is important to note that '''you are able to click more than ONE square of rock 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 and save yourself some time!


If you run into rock with a pick or drill in your inactive hand, it will automatically start digging for you.
If you run into rock with a pick or drill in your inactive hand, it will automatically start digging for you.


===Working With Your Boss===
===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. He can watch cameras on the Asteroid and has full access to Mining, so keep that in mind.
Who is your boss? The Quartermaster. They can watch cameras on Lavaland and have full access to Mining, so keep that in mind. Look busy, respond to wellness checks over radio, and keep the plasma flowing, and you'll get no complaints from them.


===The Gear===
==Ores==
The following is a list of default mining equipment:
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible" width="50%" style="text-align: center; background-color: #CED2DB;"
* [[File:RIG.png|32px]] '''Mining [[Space suit|Hardsuit]]''' - Used so you don't freeze to death in the airless tunnels of the <s>resource-rich</s> planetoid.
|- style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; background-color: #606D89; color: white;"
* [[File:BreathMask.png]] '''[[Clothes and Internals|Breath Mask]] and Oxygen Tank''' - So you can have oxygen when mining. Oxygen tanks are available from the tank storage unit, and they 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.
| style="width: 150pt; center;"            | Ore  
* [[File:MGlasses.png]] [[File:Mining scanner.png]] '''Meson Goggles|Meson Scanners and  Mining Scanner''' - When used together will briefly flash any non-iron ore on screen.
| class="unsortable"                       | Description
* [[File:Gps mining.png]] '''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.
| style="width: 100pt"                    | ORM Points
* [[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]] '''Pickaxe''' - For tunneling through everything. Place this on your belt, it saves room. 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:Shovel.png|32px]] '''Shovel''' - Gathering sand. You can stick this in your backpack.
! Volcanic Ash (Sand)
* [[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:Basalt.png]]
* [[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. Use your satchel on the box to empty it into the box, place the box in the unloading machine's input slot to unload it. You cannot carry it but you can drag or push it with you.
| Volcanic ash mined from volcanic floor tiles with a pick or shovel. Makes 1 Glass per pile of ash.
* [[File:Crowbar.png]] '''Crowbar''' - Just in case when coming back from the mines there is a blackout. Make sure to grab one from tool storage or a toolbox. '''Notice: No longer spawns in your backpack.'''
| 1 Points
* [[File:Seclite.png]] '''Seclite''' - A robust flashlight used by security and mining. Can also be mounted to energy guns and Hybrid Tasers.
* [[File:Mining drill.png]] '''Mining Drill''' - This drill can be used to pick through rock and dig up sand, so you can use this instead of a pickaxe or shovel.
* [[File:mining voucher.gif]] '''Mining Voucher''' - Found in your backpack, exchange this at the mining equipment locker for your choice of one of the four options below.
* [[File:Kinetic accelerator.png]] '''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, needs to be reloaded 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]] '''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.
* [[File:Kinetic_crusher.png]] '''Proto-Kinetic Crusher''' - A powerful melee weapon. Shoots kinetic bolts that don't deal damage, but can mark large creatures making the hammer deal increased damage when used on them. It will deal even greater damage on backstab.
* [[File:Mining drone.png]] '''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.
 
===The Wildlife===
While the eastern half of the asteroid is free of harmful things (save for the occasional murderous traitor, rogue cyborg, and gibtonite deposit), it's quite sparse in any ore more precious than plain iron. The western half has much richer bounty of minerals to harvest... but there's a bit of a problem in the form of a variety of bloodthirsty alien lifeforms populating the caverns. Fortunately, you can fight them if you know how, and useful items can be harvested from their corpses when you triumph. Many sporting miners even come to the west asteroid just for the sake of monster hunting.
 
====[[File:Hivelord.gif]] '''Hivelords'''====
Considered annoying at worst, and a free medkit at best. These strange creatures will unleash hivelord brood one after another at you whilst trying to keep distant. Fortunately, each of its spawn dies in a single hit, and deal tickle damage to you. It's best to go on the aggressive against these with pickaxe in hand, advancing constantly whilst picking away each of its brood. Once you've closed the gap or have it stuck in a corner, it's toast. It drops it's core when killed, which when eaten will instantly restore your health to its maximum, and even cure diseases or any other ailment on your body. It can magically be eaten through your helmet and breath mask! It also has the side effect of purging any beneficial chemicals from your system, so don't munch one just after injecting a stimulant. Don't think you can store these for later, though - They will spoil after a few minutes.
 
Attack with your pickaxe. Hack your way through the broods until the host is mush.
 
====[[File:Goliath.png]] '''Goliaths'''====
The bane of many careless miners. These monsters carry a hefty health pool, a mean wallop, and a deceptively dangerous ranged tentacle attack. They are inherently resistant to lasers, so using a kinetic accelerator is the best option regarding dealing with these. They move at a slow pace, stopping every couple seconds to burrow tentacles under you - These will trap you for a long duration if you stand on top of them for too long. Fighting them is simple: Shoot, step back, shoot, avoid tentacles. Repeat this process until it is dead and leaves a plate on the ground.
 
Goliath plates can be used to reinforce your hardsuit and helmet a maximum of three times, allowing you to turn your suit into something closer to a space-worthy piece of riot gear if you hunt some Goliaths. Their plates can also be used to reinforce ripleys.
 
====[[File:Basilisk.png]] '''Basilisks'''====
Fierce, territorial beasts capable of firing freezing beams, cold enough to inflict serious freeze burns while the basilisk closes in and attacks its immobilized target. Fortunately, they don't attack unless someone comes very close to them, so if you don't feel confident, you can just wait until you have a few more goliath plates, or maybe some gibonite.
Despite the slow, Basilisks can be kited. However, it is often a better idea to just melee them with your pickaxe in the event that you have several goliath plates.
 
'''Tip:'''
Basilisks are notably weak to explosions due to the nature of their bodies, taking over half their health in damage from even the weakest of explosions.  Their eye chilling beam can also be blocked by ore crates and rock walls.
 
====[[File:Goldgrub.png]] '''Goldgrubs'''====
Mostly harmless and 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, it's worth noting that kinetic accelerator shots do nothing against these. Their skin is reflective, requiring a pickaxe melee smackdown to ensure a kill.
 
'''Tip:'''
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! Just don't let it get away after spooking it.
 
===The Rewards=== 
So, you've taken your crate of ores to the ore redemption machine and claimed a boatload of points tied to your id. Head on over to the mining equipment vendors and stick your id in to claim fabulous prizes!
 
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* '''Stimpack MediPen''' - 50 pts - A cheap stimpack that stimulates your body's adrenaline but can be fatal if abused. Use 3 at a time at most. Addiction without anti tox will be lethal over time.
* '''Teporone MediPen''' - 50 pts - A MediPen that can be used to rapidly stabilize your body's temperature if your hardsuit malfunctions or you run in to local wildlife.
* '''MediPen Bundle''' - 200 pts - An addiction kit! Comes with 5 stimpacks and for some god awful reason, enough epi pens to to overdose someone and get them addicted.
* '''Premium Havanian Cigar''' - 100 pts - Inject with <s>drugs</s> medicine for a good time. I don't even.
* '''Bottle of whiskey''' - 150 pts - Half the components for Beepsky Smash, and has various other uses.
* '''Soap''' - 200 pts - For cleaning up those blood trails made from <s>assistants who the HoP let in</s> dragging downed miners from asteroid beasts. A tile based stun that is amazingly robust for it's cost. Also cleans up evidence. Can piss off gang members.
* '''Advanced Scanner''' - 300 pts - An advanced mining that automatically scans nearby asteroid walls for mineral deposits. You need one if you're mining in a mech.
* '''Alien Toy''' - 450 pts - A toy facehugger with REAL face-clinging action! Scare your friends! Tear off your enemy's breath mask in a N2O flood. Laugh as the captain and head of personnel uselessly unload their energy guns on it! Really robust little toy. Strips gas masks off people's faces and blinds them. Can cause a large issue for wizards. Unsure how to properly weaponize it else-wise.
* '''Laser Pointer''' - 400 pts - Go for the eyes! Borg stunner. Amazing during malf, or when you need to stop a borg in it's tracks and don't want to invest in EMP or trying to flash it.
* '''Advanced Scanner''' - 400 pts - 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.  This also works from inside the Ripley mech (Just in case robotics was lazy and did not make a mining scanner for the mech).
* '''Point Card''' - 500 pts - A card with 500 mining points stored, for trading amongst your coworkers. Simply use an id over it to claim the points stored on.
* '''Lazarus Injector''' - 1000 pts - A miracle injection capable of reviving simple living beings from death, making them friendly to you and the crew. useless on humans, monkeys, and other complex living beings. Resurrect Ian for all access from a thankful Head of Personnel! Or make yourself a pet Goliath. The lazarus injector can be EMP'd to make revived mobs hostile to everyone but you. Practical uses are reviving a Goliath and killing it for additional plates, or reviving a basilisk for more diamonds. Alternatively useful for bartering with the HoP or any staff with a pet. Flood the AI core with goliaths! [[Syndicate_Items#Cryptographic_Sequencer | EMAG]] FOR INTENSE TRAITOR ACTIONS (Don't use goliaths for this purpose, you can't drag them.)
* '''Wormhole Jaunter''' - 600 pts - A single use device that creates a wormhole set to a random teleport beacon, creates a quick way of getting out of a sticky situation. Just try not to lose your lunch.
* '''Mining Drone''' - 500 pts - Just like what the voucher can get you but without a melee upgrade already equipped. Comes with a welding tool. Useful if you want to amass resources and are lazy. Might also help kill a mob.
* '''Mining Drone Melee Upgrade''' - 500 pts - Increases the Drone's melee damage.
* '''Mining Drone Health Upgrade''' - 400 pts - Increases the Drone's health.  '''Note: Mining drone acquired via voucher already has this upgrade.'''
* '''Mining Drone Ranged Upgrade''' - 600 pts - Decreases the Drone's ranged weapon's cooldown.
* '''Mining Drone AI Upgrade''' - 1000 pts - This upgrade allows a high tech AI (grants ghost control over the drone) to overtake your mining drone, making it an even more useful ally when mining to guard your back from xenomorphs and traitors, or to collect those valuable ores for you.
* '''Resonator''' - 650 pts - A handheld device that creates small fields of energy that resonate until they detonate, crushing rock. It can also be activated without a target to create a field at the user's location, to act as a delayed time trap. It's more effective in a vacuum. Inferior to the Kinetic Accelerator, but better for newbies or people who just want to mine faster.
* '''Kinetic Crusher''' - 750 pts - A powerful melee weapon. Shoots kinetic bolts that don't deal damage, but can mark large creatures making the hammer deal increased damage when used on them. It will deal even greater damage on backstab.
* '''Kinetic Accelerator''' - 650 pts - A deadly short-range kinetic shotgun that puts internal organs on the outside when in vacuums. Or, you know, you can crush rocks with it too I guess. Most Robust.
* '''Jetpack''' - 1500 pts - Has a special miner paint job so security won't beat you for stealing from EVA. Best bang for buck, can fit into your backpack if needed, but at the cost of some capacity.  To function it needs to be put into your backpack slot.
* '''1000 Space Cash''' - 2000 pts - DOSH! Bribe the gods!
* '''Gar Mesons''' - 500 pts - Stylish new Mesons, that are functionally the same as regular ones. Except the fact they are extremely pointy, can be used to stab people to death (10 brute) and have a tendency to get embedded into people like a throwing star.
* '''Brute First-Aid Kit''' - 600 pts - Contains bandages and brute-healing patches
* '''Silver Pickaxe''' - 1000 pts - Slightly better than the default pickaxe, but still a lot worse than your starting KA.
* '''Lazarus Capsule''' - 800 pts - A device used to capture creatures revived with the Lazarus Injector and carry them around on your person.  Activate and toss the capsule to release the creature.
* '''Lazarus Capsule Belt''' - 200 pts - A belt that can hold up to six Lazarus Capsules.
* '''Diamond Pickaxe''' - 2000 pts - For when you want something shinier and better than your default pickaxe and the scientists are either too lazy or too dead to make drills or jackhammers. STILL worse than a basic KA.
* '''Super Resonator''' - 2000 pts - Like the regular resonator, but able to have 5 fields active at a time.
* '''Super Kinetic Accelerator''' - 3000 pts - An upgraded version of the proto-kinetic accelerator, with superior damage, speed and range.
 
===The Ores===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Wall
! scope="col" width="100px" class="unsortable" style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Raw Ore
! scope="col" style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Point Value
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Processed Ore
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Coin
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Door
! scope="col" style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Name
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Uses
|-
|-
![[File:Ironrock.png|50px]]
! Iron
![[File:Ironore.png|50px]]
[[File:Ironrock.png|64px]]
!1
| Iron ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Metal per ore.
![[File:Metal.png]]
| 1 points
![[File:coin_iron.png|50px]]
![[File:door_iron.gif|50px]]
!Iron
|For just about everything.
|-
|-
!
! Plasma
![[File:Ironore.png|50px]][[File:Plasmaore.png|50px]]
[[File:Plasmawall.png|64px]]
!N/A
| Plasma ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Solid Plasma per ore.
![[File:Metal_r.png|Metal_r.png]]
| 15 Points
!
!
!Plasteel
|An alloy of iron and plasma, for AI cores and reinforced walls. Can now be produced via the ore redemption machine.
|-
|-
![[File:sand.png|50px]]
! Silver
![[File:Sandore.png|50px]]
[[File:SilverWall.png|64px]]
!1
| Silver ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Silver per ore.
![[File:Glass.png|center|50px]]
| 16 points
!
![[File:door sand.gif|50px]]
!Sand
|For making glass, which has a plethora of station applications. Activate sand in your hand to make sandstone bricks. These can be used to make dirt which can be used to grow plants.
|-
|-
!
! Gold
![[File:Sandore.png|50px]][[File:Ironore.png|50px]]
[[File:GoldWall.png|64px]]
!N/A
| Gold ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Gold per ore.
![[File:Glass_r.png|center|50px]]
| 18 points
!
!
!Reinforced Glass
|For reinforced glass, which is tougher than normal glass.
|-
|-
![[File:GoldWall.png|50px]]
! Titanium
![[File:Goldore.png|50px]]
[[File:TitaniumWall.png|64px]]
!20
| Titanium ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Titanium per ore.
![[File:Gold.png|50px]]
| 30 points
![[File:coin_gold.png|50px]]
![[File:door_gold.gif|50px]]
!Gold
|For making various electronics or pimping out Beepsky.
|-
|-
![[File:SilverWall.png|50px]]
! Uranium
![[File:Silverore.png|50px]]
[[File:UraniumWall.png|64px]]
!20
| Uranium ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Uranium per ore.
![[File:Silver.png|50px]]
| 30 points
![[File:coin_silver.png|50px]]
![[File:door_silver.gif|50px]]
!Silver
|Making dosh, mechs, and researching Bluespace.
|-
|-
![[File:Plasmawall.png|50px]]
! Diamond
![[File:Plasmaore.png|50px]]
[[File:DiamondWall.png|64px]]
!40
| Diamond ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Diamond per ore.
![[File:Plasma.png|50px]]
| 50 points
![[File:coin_plasma.png|50px]]
![[File:door_plasma.gif|50px]]
!Plasma
|Ship sheets back to CentComm for bonus supply points.
|-
|-
![[File:UraniumWall.png|50px]]
! Bluespace Crystal
![[File:Uraniumore.png|50px]]
[[File:BluespaceCrystalWall.png|64px]]
!20
| Bluespace crystal mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Bluespace Mesh per crystal.
![[File:Uranium.png|50px]]
| 50 points
![[File:coin_uranium.png|50px]]
![[File:door_uranium.gif|50px]]
!Uranium
|For making you radioactive (notice: no joke, this shit is deadly as a wall or a door). Delicious cocktails.
|-
|-
![[File:DiamondWall.png|50px]]
! Bananium
![[File:Diamondore.png|50px]]
[[File:BananaWall.png|64px]]
!40
| Bananium ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Bananium per ore.
![[File:Diamond.png|50px]]
| 60 points
![[File:coin_diamond.png|50px]]
![[File:door_diamond.gif|50px]]
!Diamond
|For making mech parts, among other industrial uses.
|-
|-
![[File:GibtoniteWall.gif|50px]]
! Tranquillite
![[File:Gibtoniteore.png]]
[[File:TranquilliteWall.png|64px]]
!N/A
| Tranquillite ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Tranquillite per ore.
!
| 60 points
!
!
!Gibtonite
|For <s>trolling miners</s> blowing shit up, whether they be solid asteroid or [[Traitor|other things]]. Hitting it with your mining tools will start a chain reaction. If you don't stop the reaction with your mining scanner in time, the gibtonite will explode. If you do, you can mine the ore, pick it up (you need both hands free) and use it as an explosive. The closer the gibtonite was to exploding before defused, the more potent its power. Cannot be forged or turned in to the ore redemption machine, so don't bring any of this to the station or else you'll be <s>arrested</s> ignored by security because they don't know what the hell it is.
 
How to obtain Gibtonite: Hit ore, count to 8 flashes of the ore then hit it with your scanner. Gibtonite varies in the number of reactions it has, so you may get lower quality ore. Use 2 of the 0 reaction ores (the most potent) to blow open the AI core and make it cry at it's malf failure!
|-
|-
![[File:BananaWall.png|50px]]
![[File:Bananimumore.png|50px]]
!30
![[File:Bananimum.png|50px]]
![[File:coin_bananium.png|50px]]
!
!Bananium
|A rare and unusual mineral found exclusively in clown-controlled space. Used only for the [[Guide_to_Robotics#H.O.N.K.|H.O.N.K. mech]].
|}
|}
*ORM Points are based off the default value. These values are higher if and when science upgrades the ORM


Additionally, bluespace crystals  have started to form on mining. These crystals can be used in various ways. Give it to science to increase bluespace science, or hold onto it to use as a risk free jaunter, or throw it at people to make them teleport randomly (often into space.)
==The Ring of Fire [[File:Swordred.gif]] ==
 
A traitorous miner has a lot of advantages, such as an explorer suit that can be armored with monster parts. Certain minerals you'll find have more "specialized" uses uranium structures will irradiate people, plasma can start fires, gibtonite explodes. You can also buy very dangerous "mining" tools and possibly even revive those monsters you've been fighting. If you are smart enough, you could get a big stompy mech to drill people to death! In addition, Lavaland is isolated, hard to get to, dangerous, and as expansive as you're willing to dig out. Plenty of room for somebody to get lost in... ''Forever!''
===Who Needs What===
Miners don't have to deliver ores directly to departments -- they can if they want, or if those bastards are too lazy to leave their fortress of <s>autism</s> science -- but it never hurts to know what to aim fir.
 
* [[Scientist]]s just want a little (10-15 of each is enough to last them the entire round) uranium, plasma, diamond and gold. In exchange, they may give you a bomb or more advanced mining tools like a Sonic Jackhammer or a Diamond Drill, both for even faster digging!
* [[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 [[Quartermaster]] may want plasma sheets to trade them in for bonus supply points.
* Everybody could always use more iron, glass and plasteel, but especially Roboticists and [[Station Engineer]]s.
* 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.
 
===Secrets of the Asteroid===
While on the asteroid, you may come upon small boxed structures, usually made of plasma or reinforced walls. Dig in through openings, or use the blue toolbox in the hardsuit room to break down that wall and discover your prize! They could have items ranging from magical artifacts to [[Xenomorph|alien facehugger]]s. A plasma wall doesn't necessarily mean an alien, always check. If you are at all unsure, always let your mining buddies know using :u before you tear down that wall.
 
You may randomly find a facehugger in one of the treasure rooms. Do not infect yourself with the facehugger. This makes the admins very cross. If you are an antagonist, or a responsible parent with a xeno baby den set up somewhere full of monkeys, you should consider yourself as having more leeway. Do not try to pick the facehugger up. Construct a locker and put the hugger in the locker, dragging it back to the station. It'll leap at the vulnerable targets it sees once it's re-opened.
 
 
Some super useful Treasures you might find while mining include:
 
*A mysterious medibot. It is black , and heals significantly better than other types.
*A Grinder. The limits depend on your ability to use it yourself.
*Cultist Armor, Faster than the mining one but can't be upgraded. Also can get you arrested.
*Various spellbooks. Ranging smoke, knock and blind. In the hands of a good miner, can make a huge difference.
*An E-cutlass. Considered one of the rarest and most desired items from mining, An e-sword in all regards.
*Creature : The creature comes from the Cultist room, if you are a traitor , emagging the laz injector gives you a potent ally that's fast and lethal.
*Soul Stone : Useful for slaving people as a traitor, less useful to non antags.
*Sonic Jackhammer : Breaks walls. ALL OF THEM. Requires power though.
 
==Tips==
* Always go with at least 2 other people when mining. Not only can you mine faster together, the chance that they could both be 'lings/traitors is rather low. Pickaxe to the skull tends to put down most people.
* If you have a pickaxe in your non-active hand you can walk into ores and walls to automine them. What's even better, if you are holding a mining satchel in your active hand clicking the ores you just mined will NOT disrupt any more mining you are doing, meaning you can walk in a wall, start mining automatically, and then keep walking and pick the ore up as you go, AND unloading into an ore box you may (should) be dragging. Heck, you don't even need to click on the ore sprite, you just need to click the tile! Mining borgs can choke on it!
* If you have access, there are two first-aid kits and a sleeper on the mining station.
* You can view the contents of a mining satchel as if it were a backpack.
* Durands only require uranium and silver, which are abundant. Gygaxes require diamond, which is very rare in most cases. So if you find just 5 diamond, to get yourself a diamond drill, and mine out shit tons of metal, uranium and silver, you can make it Durand station 13!
* Wish soup is made of 20 units of water and nothing else, but sometimes (~25% of the time) will actually be generated with nutriment you can actually get full on. Meaning it's one of the only things you can make with the non-kitchen microwaves once the donk pockets run out. It's also the only thing you can make on the DJ station at all without importing ingredients (provided you bring something to hold the water in).
* From the Questions thread: Ctrl-Z (with no hotkey-mode) or just Z (with hotkey-mode on) apparently cocks the combat/mining shotgun. No more clicking in between shots!
* When mining alone, it's better to take the resonator. The gun doesn't do as much damage, is harder to use, and requires that you be right next to your target constantly, increasing the risk that you'll be stunned, pulverized, and your body guarded so you won't get back into the game. With the resonator, you can stand four or five tiles away at all times, wait for the tentacle attack, dodge it, move in, place a field(or two, if you feel robust), and move back out with a low risk of harm, and no risk of being stunned.
* Minebots are great at distracting targets. You just walk near and bash them with your drill (targets, not bots). They can take quite a beating, but 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 Proto-kinetic Accelerator will obliterate a space carp in one hit while in space.
* Hivelords drop remains which heals all damage and can be eaten without taking off your mask/helmet, but becomes useless fast and will remove stimulants from your body!
* Lazarus Injectors no longer make resurrected mobs hostile to other players, only other NPC mobs, and goliaths can't be dragged around once resurrected.
* The Head of Personnel will probably reward you with all access if you resurrect Ian. Also, sometimes the Research Director will reward you for a pet gold grub.
* If you're expecting trouble on the station, consider taking out a window on the mining shuttle before you return to make a quick getaway so you're not trapped like a rat in a cage.
* Taking stimulants before delivering materials to science will help keep you alive.
* 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.
* There are microwaves and a box of donks in every mining station that you can use for healing.
* Life improving things:
** Mining rig upgrade : Goliath plates add +10% melee resist each time when applied to a rig, ideally if you're just mining you'd want to solely apply that to your chest piece. When maxed out you'll be able to fight a goliath without kiting and take minor damage. It is recommended to apply plates to the head instead if you plan to antag as players more often target your head. The plates will stack until they reach 80%. That makes your suit a space worthy riot suit.
** 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 VERY 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). Downside : EMP vulnerability.
** If these all 3 are combined you become close to immune to melee, only a ninja's energy blade is robust enough to even so much as scratch you, and blobs are utterly hopeless. However, guns are still a threat, and anybody can still surprise you with a stunprod and strip away your precious +4 rig. And be wary, the [[Administrators | gods]] may not take kindly to your hubris.
*Proto 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. You have a space suit for free right away, a pair of gloves and a robust pickaxe. Certain minerals you'll find have more "specialized" uses -- uranium structures will irradiate people, plasma can start fires, gibtonite goes boom. You can also buy very dangerous "mining" tools and possibly even revive those monsters you've been fighting. As long as you have some mineral wealth or an ore box with you, no one will suspect your presence around the station, even in highly restricted areas like robotics or toxins, and if you are smart enough, you could get a big stompy mech to drill people to death! In addition, the asteroid is isolated, hard to get to, dangerous, and as expansive as you're willing to dig out. Plenty of room for somebody to get lost in... ''Forever!''


===Tips for Traitoring===
'''General Tips:'''
* 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.
* If you're a miner and you have to kill another miner, there's a way to block communications so they can't call for help.
** Grab a multitool, go to the mining communications room.
** Head to the [[Locations#Mining Outpost|telecommunications]].
** 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.
** [[Hacking#Airlocks|Hack]] your way in. Make sure to get rid of airlock's plating.
** Kill your target with their shouts for help unheard.
** Disable the relay.
* You can get plasma at exactly the heat you need for canister bombs by welding a plasma door in vacuum. Use an air pump to take it, then put [REDACTED] KPa into an empty large tank (the size of plasma, emergency O2, etc). You can then ignite it with a can of pure O2 set to release at 1013.25 KPa. This is the Shaft Miner's canister bomb. It's easy to set up on the asteroid.
* Many items from your vendor gain a new, deadly life when in '''low pressure environments''':
* More than one uranium wall is hilariously deadly. IIRC 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.
** Kinetic Accelerators start dealing devastating damage.
* 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.
** Plasma Cutters have a chance each hit to cut someone's limbs right off.  
*Ripley is now a fairly robust murdering tool, if you can, convince robotics to put a gravity catapult on it. '''SLAM PEOPLE INTO WALLS. THE SUFFERING NEVER ENDS.'''
** Resonators, like Accelerators, become a deadly way to gain ground in a fight.
*Space is your best ally. Your weapons are more lethal in space, and people who want to chase you are limited to 2 jetpacks, and more are limited to not having 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.  
* Once you kill your target (and, to avoid being banned, do make sure they are your target), you can permanently or semi-permanently get rid of their body via various [[Guide to Lavaland|hazards on Lavaland]].
*Stim packs don't just increase your movement speed, they lower the duration of stuns, always have this running in your system to remain speedy, and more difficult to keep down.
* With Lazarus Injectors you can gain much needed allies in your fights.
* As a miner, there is a '''lot''' of different healing ways available to you. You can use them when pursuing your goals.
'''Hijack Tips:'''
* If you are a traitor with <span style="color:red"> '''hijack''' </span> objective, you can [[Cryptographic Sequencer|emag]] a jaunter to send [[Guide to Lavaland#Megafauna|megafauna]] to station. Do <span style="color:red"> '''not''' </span> (read: <span style="color:red"> '''NOT'''</span> ) do it if you are not meant to hijack the shuttle.
'''Vampire Tips:'''
* Feeding on other miners can have it's benefits early in the round.


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Shaft Miner

Superiors: Quartermaster
Difficulty: Medium
Guides: Guide to Mining, Guide to Lavaland, Guide to Combat
Access: Mining Station, Cargo Office, Mineral Storage
Duties: Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife.

Welcome Miner, to the wonderful caverns of this Nanotrasen Claimed Landmass. Here, you will break rocks, slay monsters, and die lost and alone in the depths of the caverns.

Workin' In The Coal Mine

The Cargo Bay is your access to Mining Station

Being a miner can be somewhat tedious, but you serve a crucial role in the R&D food chain, as well as being able to accrue some decent personal rewards. Just follow a few guidelines here to keep yourself from becoming dead in the mines. ALSO, it is important to note that you are able to click more than ONE square of rock 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 and save yourself some time!

If you run into rock with a pick or drill in your inactive hand, it will automatically start digging for you.

Working With Your Boss

Who is your boss? The Quartermaster. They can watch cameras on Lavaland and have full access to Mining, so keep that in mind. Look busy, respond to wellness checks over radio, and keep the plasma flowing, and you'll get no complaints from them.

Ores

Ore Description ORM Points
Volcanic Ash (Sand)

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Volcanic ash mined from volcanic floor tiles with a pick or shovel. Makes 1 Glass per pile of ash. 1 Points
Iron

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Iron ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Metal per ore. 1 points
Plasma

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Plasma ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Solid Plasma per ore. 15 Points
Silver

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Silver ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Silver per ore. 16 points
Gold

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Gold ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Gold per ore. 18 points
Titanium

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Titanium ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Titanium per ore. 30 points
Uranium

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Uranium ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Uranium per ore. 30 points
Diamond

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Diamond ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Diamond per ore. 50 points
Bluespace Crystal

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Bluespace crystal mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Bluespace Mesh per crystal. 50 points
Bananium

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Bananium ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Bananium per ore. 60 points
Tranquillite

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Tranquillite ore mined from Lavaland. Makes 1 Tranquillite per ore. 60 points
  • ORM Points are based off the default value. These values are higher if and when science upgrades the ORM

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A traitorous miner has a lot of advantages, such as an explorer suit that can be armored with monster parts. Certain minerals you'll find have more "specialized" uses — uranium structures will irradiate people, plasma can start fires, gibtonite explodes. You can also buy very dangerous "mining" tools and possibly even revive those monsters you've been fighting. If you are smart enough, you could get a big stompy mech to drill people to death! In addition, Lavaland is isolated, hard to get to, dangerous, and as expansive as you're willing to dig out. Plenty of room for somebody to get lost in... Forever!

General Tips:

  • If you're a miner and you have to kill another miner, there's a way to block communications so they can't call for help.
    • Head to the telecommunications.
    • Hack your way in. Make sure to get rid of airlock's plating.
    • Disable the relay.
  • Many items from your vendor gain a new, deadly life when in low pressure environments:
    • Kinetic Accelerators start dealing devastating damage.
    • Plasma Cutters have a chance each hit to cut someone's limbs right off.
    • Resonators, like Accelerators, become a deadly way to gain ground in a fight.
  • Once you kill your target (and, to avoid being banned, do make sure they are your target), you can permanently or semi-permanently get rid of their body via various hazards on Lavaland.
  • With Lazarus Injectors you can gain much needed allies in your fights.
  • As a miner, there is a lot of different healing ways available to you. You can use them when pursuing your goals.

Hijack Tips:

  • If you are a traitor with hijack objective, you can emag a jaunter to send megafauna to station. Do not (read: NOT ) do it if you are not meant to hijack the shuttle.

Vampire Tips:

  • Feeding on other miners can have it's benefits early in the round.
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