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|jobtitle = Shaft Miner
|jobtitle = Shaft Miner
|access = [[Mining Station]], Mining Station EVA, [[Cargo Office]], Mineral Storage
|access = [[Mining Station]], Mining Station EVA, [[Cargo Office]], Mineral Storage
|additional = [[Maintenance]], [[Cargo Bay]], MULEbot access, [[Quartermaster's Office]]
|difficulty = Hard
|difficulty = Hard
|superior = [[Quartermaster]] and [[Head of Personnel]]
|superior = [[Quartermaster]] and [[Head of Personnel]]
|duties = Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife.
|duties = Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife. Go on an adventure in mysterious ruins.
|guides = No external guide.
|guides = [[Lavaland]], [[Megafauna]], [[Auxiliary Base Construction Area]]
|quote = Spare vouc- oh.
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Welcome Miner, to the wonderful caverns of this [[Mining Station|Nanotrasen Claimed Asteroid]].
Welcome, Miner! You will break rocks, slay monsters, and die lost and alone in the depths of the caverns. Not on some sandy asteroid, but on what we call [[Lavaland]]!


[[File:Mining Dock.png|300px|thumb|alt=Mining Dock|The [[Mining Dock]] is your access to [[Mining Station]]]]<br>
'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Stay alive long enough to return your loot to the station.


==Workin' In The Coal Mine==
==Workin' In The Coal Mine==
Being a miner can be somewhat boring, unless you go out and fight monsters. 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!
[[File:Mining Dock.png|300px|thumb|alt=Mining Dock|The [[Mining Dock]] is your access to the [[Mining Station]].]]
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.   


Take your Mining Pick in one hand and your Satchel in your active hand. Run into a rock. You're now automatically digging in it. Use this to mine using only your keyboard, for a quicker done job.
Your workplace, Lavaland, has some hazards:
* Ash storms will cut right through your clothes, dealing constant burn damage if you are outside. A rain of dark particles outdoors indicate an ash storm.
* Lava - one step in and you'll be badly burned and on fire.
* Chasms - Anything that falls into one will disappear from this world.
The risk of these hazards can be reduced by watching your step and being aware of your surroundings. Don't walk into lava, chasms, or outside during an ash storm. You'll get a text warning not long before a ash storm is about to begin, so long as you stay near shelter (or have a bluespace shelter capsule with you) then you'll be fine.  
 
You can click on an adjacent rock or run directly into it to begin picking or drilling the rock, but the Kinetic Accelerator is much faster and more efficient and you should be using that instead of a pickaxe or basic mining drill. Keep in mind that if you do decide to pick or drill your way through rock, you can have multiple dig jobs running at the same time to mine faster.


===Working With Your Boss===
===Working With Your Boss===
Who is your boss? The answer is the Quartermaster. Don't expect to interact with this guy much, though, as he'll often be too busy directing his cargo tech slaves or sleeping in his office to ever regard your existence.
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. He can watch cameras on lavaland and has full access to Mining, so keep that in mind.


===The Objective===
===The Objective===
You're here to mine, so get digging! Once you're full to bursting with ores, drag your crate or ore box back to the station and head to cargo where the ore redemption machine sits. Insert your ID, and empty the box next to the machine to offload your ores and have them instantly processed into sheets. You gain points for doing this, so be sure to claim them and then retrieve your ID. Now take your crate and it's back to the mines!
You're here to mine, so get digging! Once you're full to bursting with ores, drag your ore box back to the station and head to cargo where the ore redemption machine sits. <s>Insert your ID and</s>, drag the box next to the machine to automatically offload your ores and have them instantly processed into sheets. Then click "claim" to retrieve money as a reward. Now buy new gear if you want, then take your crate and head back to the mines!
 
==How to Do This==
===Gearing up===
# Gear up! From the mining equipment locker, you will need Meson Scanner goggles, a mining scanner, your pickaxe (optional), a bluespace shelter capsule (DON'T FORGET!) and your standard issue proto-kinetic accelerator. If you want, there is also an additional mining satchel, and a shovel for digging up ash (for glass).
# Attach your seclite and knife to your proto-kinetic accelerator to save space, and to let you bash things harder without having to take out your knife.
# Use your voucher on a mining vending machine to select your choice of advanced mining tools, listed below.
# Go to the Lavaland Mining Station and get 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, and a maintenance room where you can top off internals. The nearby storage room has more gear lockers and Ore boxes.
# Before you go, you'll want an Ore Box, which can hold an infinite amount of minerals. Ore boxes are available on the mining station, the mining shuttle and rarely on the field. More can be built with wood planks.
# For extra safety, grab a GPS device, set it to your name and tell the [[QM]] and other miners about it. If you're lucky, they will drag your lifeless body back to cloning.
 
===Smashing rocks===
# Find minerals. The further north, the better ore. Activate your scanner and shove it into your bag or internals box. 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.
# Pick up minerals by either having your mining bag in your belt slot or pockets, then just walk over the minerals. If you're dragging an ore box behind you, you'll automatically deposit minerals into the box instead of your bag.
# Once you've had enough, return to the main station with your Ore box. Do not deliver ore to the processing plant on the lavaland mining base, as that room is outdated. Recommended: Ask [[RnD]] to upgrade the Ore Redemption Machine (ORM). Miners have access to the science channel (with :n), but if they are just a bunch of braindeads you can go to the next step.
# Drag your ore box to the delivery tile next to the ORM (north or south of it, depending on station). That'll automatically empty the box into the ORM.
# Take your mining satchel into your hand and activate it while standing on the same delivery tile next to the ORM. This will empty any ores in the bag into the ORM as well. '''Ores inserted directly into the ORM give no credits (due to a bug)!'''
# Click "Claim". You do not need to insert your ID.  
# Go to a mining equipment vendor to buy [[#Advanced_Gear|advanced equipment]] with the credits you've gained.
 
===Life beyond smashing rocks===
# Use your better gear to push deeper into Lavaland.
# Print [[Research items#Advanced Plasma Cutter|Advanced Plasma Cutters]] and [[Research items#Mining Satchel of Holding|Mining Satchels of Holding]] at the cargo protolathe for even more efficient mining.
# If you feel robust enough, explore some ruins and <s>die horribly</s> [[Morph|get amazing rewards]].
# If you feel VERY robust, look for [[Megafauna]] with your GPS and try to kill it, for extremely valuable loot.
 
===Voucher equipment===
You start the shift with a complimentary mining voucher, worth one free item out of a selection of four. These items, and their strengths, are:
* '''Survival Capsule and Explorer's Webbing:''' The webbing (you put on your belt slot) allows you to carry even more mining equipment - having a second shelter capsule is nice too. 900 pts value.
* '''Resonator Kit:''' Comes with a resonator, explorer's webbing, mini extinguisher and advanced scanner. While the resonator is underwhelming, the advanced scanner has almost twice the scanning range and updates much faster. 2100 pts.
* '''Mining Drone:''' A little companion that helps in storing ore and hunting wildlife. Only useful once you install the sentience upgrade module. Comes with an industrial welding tool, a welding mask and a KA modkit that allows shots to pass through the drone. ~800 pts.
* '''Extraction and Rescue Kit:''' Contains a fulton extraction pack and a beacon, which allows you to send back home minerals, items and dead miners without having to use the ferry. As a bonus, you get 30 marker beacons too. 1700 pts.
* '''Crusher Kit:''' Contains a proto-kinetic crusher, a chest webbing like the capsule kit, an advanced scanner 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. 2450 pts.
* '''Mining Conscription Kit''': A duffle bag full of basic items for one conscript - Proto-kinetic accelerator, survival knife, seclite, 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 <s>metafriends</s> fresh conscripts. 1500 pts.
 
===For Great Profit!===
Mining for the sake of it can only get you so far. By mining minerals and returning them to the station you'll accrue credits, you can then use these credits to buy better and more powerful equipment and supplies from an equipment vendor. You can then in turn use these items to push further into Lavaland to mine more minerals, fell stronger wildlife and find greater treasure. Consider it all an investment.
 
Survival Medipens can help you in a pinch for example, or a Wormhole Jaunter can help you escape what would have been a death trap. Or using Legion Stabilizer on Legion Cores, to let you save their heal and anti-slowdown effects for later. Or you can spend it all on booze and cigars.


===The Gear===
==Default Gear==
The following is a list of default mining equipment:
The following is a list of default mining equipment:
* [[File:RIG.png|32px]] Mining [[Space suit|Hardsuit]] and Helmet - Used so you don't freeze to death in the airless tunnels of the resource-rich planetoid.  
 
* [[File:BreathMask.png|32px]] [[Breath mask|Breath Mask]] and [[Oxygen]] Tank - So you can have oxygen when mining. Get an O2 tank from the tank dispenser, and wear it on your <s>back</s> suit.
====Essential Equipment====
* [[File:MGlasses.png|32px]] [[Meson Goggles|Meson Scanners]] and [[File:MiningScanner.png|32px]] Mining Scanner - When used together will briefly flash any non-iron ore on screen.
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* [[File:GPSm.gif|32px]] Global Positioning System - 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.
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* [[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!
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
* [[File:Shovel.png|32px]] Shovel - Gathering sand. You can stick this in your backpack.
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* [[File:Lantern.png|32px]] [[Flashlight|Lantern]] - For seeing in the dark. Put one in your pocket. Or three.
![[File:explorersuit.png|32px]]<br>Explorer Suit
* [[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.)
|This comes with a inbuilt hood. It provides some protection against heat and cold, and works as decent armor with no slowdown. It is not spaceproof, but can hold a full-sized oxygen tank or other mining gear. You can also reinforce it with goliath plates.
* [[File:OreCrate.png|32px]] Ore Crate - 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.
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* [[File:Crowbar.png|32px]][[Crowbar]] - Just in case coming back from the mines you notice there is a black out. Spawns in your backpack.
![[File:ExplorerGasMask.gif|32px]]<br>Explorer Gas Mask and [[Oxygen]] Tank
* [[File:Voucher.gif|32px]] Mining Voucher - Found in your backpack, exchange this at the mining equipment locker for your choice of one of...
|So you can have oxygen when mining. Oxygen tanks are available from the tank storage unit, and can be worn on your suits 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.
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![[File:MGlasses.png|32px]] [[File:MiningScanner.png|32px]]<br>[[Meson Goggles|Meson Scanners]] and Automatic Mining Scanner
|Activating the scanner will briefly flash any ore on screen - it works even inside a box. Can be used to stop gibtonite from exploding.
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![[File:GPSm.gif|32px]]<br>Global Positioning System, GPS
|The crew monitoring console back on the station won't catch your suit sensor signal from all the way down on the planet. Having one of these on you will help others track down your body if you happen to develop a case of the dead. In addition it can be used to locate other miners (who bothered to take it) as well as "lost" signals. Megafauna, necropolis tendrils, and certain ruins emit GPS signals. Be wary. Be sure to set your name on the GPS.
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![[File:KineticAccelerator.png|32px]]<br>Proto-kinetic Accelerator
|A standard issue gun. The good part is that it packs a punch in a low pressure environment, is very good at digging and has infinite shots. The bad part is that it tickles in pressurized environments, has a cooldown after each shot, and has a range of three steps. Can be dual wielded at the price of lower accuracy and speed.<br>
KAs deal brute damage (40 standard/10 in pressurized rooms), but count as explosive versus armor. That way, suits like bomb suits and the RD hardsuit can negate 90% of the damage dealt.
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![[File:Survivalknife.gif|32px]]<br>Survival Knife
|Use it for butchering the wildlife (hit while on harm intent). 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. Alternatively, stick it on your KA.
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![[File:Stimpen.png|32px]]<br>Survival Medipen
|A cocktail of powerful healing chemicals. Contains Salbutamol, Leporazine, Epinephrine, Mining Nanites and Omnizine. Heals all types of damage and stabilizes body temperature.
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![[File:BScapsule.png|32px]]<br>Bluespace shelter capsule
|Activate this in your hand, and it'll near 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 (or dice) and some donk pockets. It also has a stasis bed which requires another person to use. Never leave home without one. You're issued one for free in your the mining lockers on station.
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![[File:OreSatchel.png|32px]]<br> Ore Satchel
|For carrying ore without using a mining cart, holds 50 ore nuggets. Empty it into boxes by using the satchel on them.<br> Newbie tip: Put it in one of your pocket slots, then start dragging an ore box. Any ore you walk over will be transferred to the box.
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![[File:OreCrate.png|32px]]<br>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 it with you.<br>
Use your satchel on the box to empty it into the box. Even better: Drag it behind you with an ore satchel in your pocket.
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![[File:Voucher.gif|32px]]<br>Mining Voucher
|Found in your backpack, exchange this at the mining equipment locker for one of several selections which include various mining items.
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![[File:Seclite.png|32px]]<br>Seclite
|A beefed up flashlight. Put this on your KA to free up inventory space.
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====Miscellaneous Equipment====
Items that, while not critical to take, can be situationally useful.
 
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![[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]]<br>Pickaxe
|Somewhat antiquated thanks to the prevalence of the proto-kinetic accelerator and resonator. Nevertheless it can be used to dig wide tunnels, robust things in melee combat and as a backup if you lose your resonator. It can also fit inside a belt chest webbing.
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![[File:Shovel.png|32px]]<br>Shovel
|Gathering sand. You can stick this in your backpack. A crappier version of a compact pickaxe
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![[File:Crowbar.png|32px]]<br>[[Crowbar]]
|For removing KA mods, or just in case when there is a blackout. Spawns in your box.
|}
 
==Advanced Gear==
The following are more advanced items that need to be purchased from a mining equipment vendor, with credits:
 
====Voucher/Reward Equipment====
These items can either be acquired from a voucher, or can be bought with money/credits, usually earned from delivering ore to the redemption machine on the station. Prices are included.
 
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|+Mining Equipment Vendor List
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! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
!<span style="display: none;">c</span>Price
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!1 Marker Beacon
|A glowing prism stone that you can anchor to the ground. Useful if you tend to get lost.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>10 Credits
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!10 Marker Beacon
|Same as above, but 10 beacons.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>100 Credits
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!30 Marker Beacon
|Same as above, but 30 beacons.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>300 Credits
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![[File:Whiskey_bottle.png|32px]]<br>Whiskey
|A bottle of alcohol, helps you forget you literally work in hell.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>100 Credits
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![[File:Absinthe_bottle.png|32px]]<br>Absinthe
|A bottle of alcohol, helps you forget you literally work in hell.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>100 Credits
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![[File:Cigar.png|32px]]<br>Cigar
|A high-quality havana cigar.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>150 Credits
|-
![[File:Soap.png|32px]]<br>Soap
|A bar of slippery soap.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>200 Credits
|-
![[File:Laser_pointer.png|32px]]<br>Laser Pointer
|Just a laser pointer, don't shite it into people's eyes. Useful against rogue [[Cyborg|Cyborgs]].
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>300 Credits
|-
![[File:Facehugger.png|32px]]<br>Toy Facehugger
|An extremely realistic-looking facehugger toy, to prank the crew with. Latches onto faces and tears off masks.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>300 Credits
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![[File:Bottle17.png|32px]]<br>Stabilizing Serum
|Can be used on legion souls to prevent them from decaying.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>400 Credits
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![[File:Fulton_beacon.png|32px]]<br>Fulton Beacon
|Creates an anchored beacon when used in hand that fulton packs can target as a drop-off point.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>400 Credits
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![[File:BScapsule.png|32px]]<br>Bluespace Shelter Capsule
|The Shelter Capsule is indispensable for long expeditions: it creates an ash-storm proof 3x3 room complete with breathable air, a sleeper and some warm donk-pockets.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>400 Credits
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![[File:Gar_mesons.png|32px]]<br>GAR Mesons
|A pair of very sharp meson scanners. Can be thrown as a weapon, with a chance to embed.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Credits
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![[File:Miner_webbing.png|32px]]<br>Chest Webbing
|Can be worn on the belt slot, stores mining equipment.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Credits
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![[File:Stimpen.png|32px]]<br>Survival Medipen
|Contains several healing and heat-stabilizing chemicals. Using more than one in a short period will cause several overdoses.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Credits
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![[File:Box.png|32px]]<br>Brute First-Aid Kit
|Contains bandages and brute-healing patches.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>600 Credits
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![[File:Implanter.png|32px]]<br>Tracking Implant Kit
|Contains three tracking implants and a locator; useful if you want others to find your corpse for up to 10 minutes after death.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>600 Credits
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![[File:Jaunter.png|32px]]<br>Wormhole Jaunter
|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. Can be worn on the belt slot to prevent death on chasms.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>750 Credits
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![[File:Kinetic_crusher.png|32px]]<br>Proto-kinetic Crusher
|A powerful two-handed melee weapon. Shoots kinetic bolts that don't deal damage, but can mark large creatures making the hammer deal increased damage (20->50 Brute) when used on them. It will deal even greater damage (80) on backstab.<br> What makes the Crusher special, is that enemies killed by it have a chance to drop '''trophies''', powerful "modkits" that can be attached to the Crusher.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>750 Credits
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![[File:KineticAccelerator.png|32px]]<br>Proto-kinetic Accelerator
|The classic mining weapon. Buy it from here if you did not get one at roundstart.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>750 Credits
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![[File:MiningScanner.png|32px]]<br>Advanced Mining Scanner
|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 Credits
|-
![[File:Resonator.png|32px]]<br>Resonator
|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 (60 Brute) to anything standing on it. Just like the kinetic accelerator, it does reduced damage (20) 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 Credits
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![[File:Fulton_pack.png|32px]]<br>Fulton Extraction Pack
|A balloon that can be used to extract equipment or personnel who are outside (not within the station or the mining base) to a Fulton Recovery Beacon. Anything not bolted down can be moved. Swap which beacon the pack is aiming at by using the pack in hand. It has a limited number of uses, examine the pack to check how many are left.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Credits
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!Lazarus Injector
|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. Also useful for bartering with the HoP or any staff with a pet. Expect R&D to want one, as it has high research value.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Credits
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![[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]]<br>Silver-plated Pickaxe
|Slightly better than the default pickaxe, but still a lot worse than your starting KA.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Credits
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![[File:Dufflebag.png|32px]]<br>Mining Conscription Kit
|Contains a proto-kinetic accelerator, survival knife, seclite, mesons, an ore scanner and satchel, an explorer suit and gas mask, a supply encryption key and a card which adds mining access to IDs.
!<span style:display: none;">a</span> 1500 Credits
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![[File:Mining_jetpack.png|32px]]<br>Mining Jetpack Upgrade
|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 Credits
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![[File:Mining_Hardsuit.png|32px]]<br>Mining Hardsuit
|A nostalgic suit piece from the older days of asteroid mining. Useless on Lavaland but great to explore space. Can be upgraded up to 3 times with goliath plates.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2000 Credits
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![[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]]<br>Diamond Pickaxe
| 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.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2000 Credits
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![[File:Resonator.png|32px]]<br>Super (Upgraded) Resonator
|Like the regular resonator, but able to have 6 fields active at a time - with no damage penalty for fields that are detonated early.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2500 Credits
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![[File:Jump_boots.png|32px]]<br>Jump Boots
|A pair of boots that allow you to jump over three tiles, skipping chasms. Does not prevent lava damage, however.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2500 Credits
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![[File:BScapsule.png|32px]]<br>Luxury Shelter Capsule
|Tired of cramped shelter capsules? This is for you! Comes with a three-course meal, a deluxe companion and much more.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>3000 Credits
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![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA White Tracer Rounds Mod
|A modkit that makes your KA's projectile flight path visible, in a white color.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>100 Credits
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![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Adjustable Tracer Rounds Mod
|A modkit that makes your KA's projectile flight path visible. Use in hand to cycle between colors.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>150 Credits
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![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>Super KA Chassis Mod
|A modkit that makes your KA look yellow, like one of the no longer existing Super-Kinetic Accelerators.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>250 Credits
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![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>Hyper KA Chassis Mod
|A modkit that makes your KA look orange, like one of the no longer existing Hyper-Kinetic Accelerators.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>300 Credits
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![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Range Mod
|A modkit that increases your KA's range by 1.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Credits
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Damage Mod
|A modkit that increases your KA's damage by 10.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Credits
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Cooldown Mod
|A modkit that reduces your KA's cooldown by 0.25 seconds.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Credits
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA AoE Damage Mod
|A modkit that makes your KA hit in a 3x3 AoE, dealing 20% of the original damage per modkit.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2000 Credits
|-
![[File:MiningDrone.png|32px]]<br>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. It can be further upgraded with special modules bought from the vending machine to increase its effectiveness.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Credits
|-
![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]]<br>Drone: Melee Upgrade
|Increases the Drone's melee damage.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>400 Credits
|-
![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]]<br>Drone: Health Upgrade
|Increases the Drone's health.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>400 Credits
|-
![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]]<br>Drone: Ranged Upgrade
|Decreases the Drone's ranged weapon's cooldown.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>600 Credits
|-
![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]]<br>Drone: AI Upgrade
|Installs a high tech AI into the Drone (grants a ghost control over the Drone).
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Credits
|}
 
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|name=Free Golem Equipment Vendor
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The Free Golem ship has some extra goodies:
 
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+Golem Equipment Vendor List
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=200|Item
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
!<span style="display: none;">c</span>Price
|-
![[File:Id regular.png|32px]]<br>Extra ID
|An extra ID that works for holding money and entering the station.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>250 Credits
|-
![[File:Science_Goggles.png|32px]]<br>Science Goggles
|A pair of regular science goggles.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>250 Credits
|-
![[File:Monkey Cube.png|32px]]<br>Monkey Cube
|A single monkey cube. Just add water.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>300 Credits
|-
![[File:utilitybelt.png|32px]]<br>Toolbelt
|A toolbelt, like the ones on station.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>350 Credits
|-
![[File:Sheetrd.png|32px]]<br>Royal Cape of the Liberator
|A replica of the Liberator's cape. A must-have for every Free Golem.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>500 Credits
|-
![[File:slimegrey.png|32px]]<br>Grey Slime Extract
|Ever wanted to do Xenobiology on Lavaland? There you go.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1000 Credits
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>Trigger Guard Modification Kit
|A trigger modkit that allows golems to use the Kinetic Accelerator.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>1700 Credits
|-
![[File:Box.png|32px]]<br>The Liberator's Legacy
|A box with all circuit boards needed to build your own RnD department! The RnD console synchronizes with the station's server.
!<span style="display: none;">a</span>2000 Credits
|}
 
==RnD Gear==
The following is a list of advance items that can be acquired only from RnD, using a combination of minerals and high tech research.
 
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+RnD Gear
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=200|Item
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
|-
![[File:miningdrill.png|32px]]<br>Mining Drill
|Can be acquired early on from RnD. It's twice as fast as the standard Pickaxe but is quickly superseded by better variants and is expensive for what it gives.
|-
![[File:diamonddrill.png|32px]]<br>Diamond Tipped Mining Drill
|Very powerful drill, able to almost instantly mine mineral walls. Very expensive in terms of Diamonds needed to produce however.
|-
![[File:sonicjack.png|32px]]<br>Sonic Jackhammer
|The epitome of mining. Can practically instantly mine through rock and walls. But it requires three times the Diamonds of a Diamond Tipped Drill.
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Triggerguard Mod
|A modkit that will allow species that cannot normally fire guns to use the KA, such as golems and hulks.
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Range Mod
|A modkit that increases your KA's range by 1.
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Damage Mod
|A modkit that increases your KA's damage by 10.
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA Cooldown Mod
|A modkit that reduces your KA's cooldown by 0.25 seconds.
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|32px]]<br>KA AoE Mining Mod
|A modkit that makes your KA mine rocks in a 3x3 AoE. It does not, however, deal AoE damage. You're usually better off carrying a plasma cutter to deal with rocks and keep the KA for combat.
|-
![[File:Plasma_Cutter.png|32px]]<br>Plasma Cutter
|A fast mining (and welding) tool. Shoots rock-breaking bolts that pierce up to 5 rocks per shot. Rechargeable by inserting plasma ore or sheets into it. Less efficient in combat than a KA, however, and even less when in high pressure.
|-
![[File:Adv_plasma_cutter.gif|32px]]<br>Advanced Plasma Cutter
|A very fast mining (and welding) tool. Shoots rock-breaking bolts that pierce up to 10 rocks per shot, basically allowing you to pierce rock as fast as you can walk. Rechargeable by inserting plasma ore or sheets into it.
|-
![[File:bluespacemining.png|32px]]<br>Mining Satchel of Holding
|Very cheap mining satchel that can hold an unlimited amount of minerals and ore.
|-
![[File:NV_meson_glasses.gif|32px]]<br>Night Vision Mesons
|These glasses work like normal mesons, but they can see perfectly in the darkness negating the need for flashlights in lavaland.
|}
 
 
All of this gear is printed out at the supply department protolathe.
 
==The Wildlife==
Lavaland is filled with a variety of bloodthirsty alien lifeforms populating the caverns, walking just fine over the ponds and puddles of lava. Fortunately, you can fight them whilst taking minimal damage, if you have the know-how.
 
Useful items can be harvested from these creatures' corpses should you triumph; butcher them with a knife by attacking the corpse on Harm intent and the goods will spill out!
 
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+Wildlife
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=200|Creature
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Threat
|-
![[File:legion.png|64px]]<br>Legions
|Considered annoying at worst, and a free minor heal at best. These creatures unleash legion skulls, one after another at you whilst trying to keep a distance. Fortunately, each of its spawn dies in a single hit (even a single punch), and deal tickle damage to you; the legion itself can't directly hit 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. If you fall unconscious while you're being attacked, however, you will instantly die and be turned into a Legion.
<br>
<br>
* [[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, needs to be reloaded after each shot, and has a range of two steps. Each blast can clear a rock wall if you feel like digging using this.
It drops a soul when killed. Hit yourself with the soul and it will give you a slowdown immunity for a while and slight heal. Don't think you can store these for later, though -- they will spoil after a few minutes unless you use a stabilizer from the vending machine. However only active legion souls can be inserted in one's chest through [[surgery]] to provide a hands-free use of the legion soul, that will automatically activate if you fall into crit.
* [[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.
<br>
* [[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.
tl;dr strategy: '''Attack with your pickaxe/knife. Hack your way through the legion and its heads until the host is mush. Alternatively, two KA hits kill a Legion, or one KC mark detonation.'''
|'''Low'''
|-
![[File:watcher.png|64px]]<br>Watchers
|Fierce, territorial beasts capable of firing freezing beams, cold enough to inflict serious freeze burns while the watcher closes in and attacks its immobilized target. Fortunately, they don't attack unless someone comes 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 gibtonite.
<br>
Butcher a watcher for 2 pieces of diamond ore. '''Use your ore box for cover while shooting them with your KA from a distance.''' Alternatively, with a KC, '''close the distance before it shoots you, then alternate marking it and hitting it, and pop a survival pen afterwards.'''
<br>
Tip: Watchers 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.
|'''Medium'''
|-
![[File:EdgyGoliath.png|64px]]<br>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 KA 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.
<br>
Fighting them is simple: '''Shoot, step back, shoot, avoid tentacles.''' Repeat this process until it stops moving. Alternatively, with a KC, '''get in mark range, mark it, run in, hit it, run out, avoid tentacles, repeat.'''
<br>
Butcher a goliath for its hide and its meat. 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 piece of riot gear if you hunt some Goliaths. The meat can be cooked in lava.
|'''High'''
|-
![[File:Tendril.png|64px]]<br>Necropolis Tendrils
|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. 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.
<br>
Fighting them can involve killing all its protectors patiently, or using tactics like gibtonite. Either way, once killed, ignore the remaining monsters, grab the chest, and RUN.
<br>
When killed, they spawn necropolis chests which can contain a variety of useful artifacts, that usually cannot be found anywhere else. See the table below for the possible loot.
|'''Medium to Very High'''
|-
![[File:Goldgrub.png|64px]]<br>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, but note that kinetic accelerator shots do nothing against these. Their skin is reflective, requiring a pickaxe melee smackdown to ensure a kill.
<br>
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.
|'''None'''
|-
![[File:Ash_drake.png|128px]]<br>[[Megafauna]]
|Extremely big and powerful creatures, that randomly spawn in [[lavaland]]. Each one of these emits a GPS Signal that can be tracked with your own GPS, to either seek or avoid them.<br>
To beat them and get their valuable loot, you must either have good equipment or be VERY good at dodging their attacks, as failure usually means not only death, but gibbing as well, meaning that unless you were clone-scanned your body is unrecoverable.<br>
Their slow speed means that you can usually outrun them, although you should be careful of not [[Traitor|letting them hitch a ride in the mining ferry]], as the station has very few weapons that can damage megafauna.
|'''EXTREME'''
|}
 
==Shiny Mobs==
Common lavaland mobs now have rare mutations. Common mining mobs have a 1% chance on initialize to gain a new appearance and new stats, however, this is 5% for legions.
 
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+Wildlife
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=200|Creature
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Threat
|-
![[File:Dwarflegion.png|64px]]<br>Dwarf Legion
|On the rare occasion that a human with dwarfism falls to a legion, they can become infested like any other. Dwarf legions have 20 less health but move slightly faster.
<br>
It drops a soul, the exact same soul as dropped by the normal legion.
<br>
<br>It's still rather harmless. 2 KA shots kill it, a couple of pickax swings will knock it out.
|'''Low'''
|-
![[File:Magmawingwatcher.png|64px]]<br>Magmawing Watcher
|Whenever a shiny watcher appears, (which is a 1% chance), there's a 75% chance that the mutant is going to be a magmawing watcher, and a 25% chance that it is going to be an icewing watcher. When raised very close to lava, some watchers adapt to the extreme heat and change coloration. Such watchers are known as magmawings and use intense heat as their tool for hunting and defense. The magmawing watcher shoots scorching blasts instead of freezing blasts, which heats you up and can set you on fire.
<br>
Unlike normal watchers, a shot from this watcher will set you on fire, and trying to roll it out will only result in the watcher getting more free shots on you, which means that you're pretty much forced to man up, pop a survival medi-pen, and melee it to death while you lose half of your HP to fire.
<br>
<br>It has normal watcher loot. It's really simply just not worth fighting.
|'''High'''
|-
![[File:Icewingwatcher.png|64px]]<br>Icewing Watcher
|Whenever a shiny watcher appears, (which is a 1% chance), there's a 25% chance that the mutant is going to be an icewing watcher, and a 75% chance that it is going to be a magmawing watcher. Very rarely, some watchers will eke out an existence far from heat sources. In the absence of warmth, their wings will become papery and turn to an icy blue; these watchers are fragile but much quicker to fire their trademark freezing blasts. The icewing watcher has 50 less health and fire shots 33% more often, as well as dropping 5 diamonds and no sinew
<br>
It's a beefed up watcher which is more tanky and shoots more often. Treat it like a normal watcher, except you have to get into cover a bit quicker each time.
<br>
<br>It has normal watcher loot, but drops 5 diamonds instead of 2, and drops no sinew.
|'''High'''
|-
![[File:Ancientgoliath.png|64px]]<br>Ancient Goliath
|Goliaths are biologically immortal, and rare specimens have survived for centuries. 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.
<br>
It is recommended that you clear an area around the ancient goliath so that you can take shots at the ancient goliath without getting snagged by the tentacles. Once you've done that, just run circles around the thing while shooting at it, and dodging any emerging tentacles.
<br>
<br>When killed, they drop their goliath hide directly, more can be obtained through butchering.
|'''Very High'''
|-
|}
 
==The Loot==
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
|+Necropolis Chest Loot
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Name
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
|-
![[File:Paradox_bag.png|64px]]
|Paradox Bags
|A pair of bags with a linked storage: anything that is put in one can be pulled out of the other and vice versa.
|-
![[File:Cult_hardsuit.png|64px]]
|Nar'Sien Hardsuit
|A cultist's hardsuit. It is very resistant to melee and bullet damage and fairly resistant to other kinds of damage; it also fits in backpacks.
|-
![[File:Soulstone.png|64px]]
|Soulstone
|A soulstone much like the kind used by a [[Blood Cult]] or by the chaplain on MetaStation, except it can be used multiple times. 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.
|-
![[File:Katana.gif|64px]]
|Cursed Katana
|A very sharp katana that can't be dropped once picked up. It deals 40 damage to unarmored targets (energy swords, for comparison, deal 30). It also has a 50% chance of deflecting melee attacks.
|-
![[File:Godeye.gif|64px]]
|Eye of God
|A strange eye. It can be worn on the glasses slot to gain x-ray vision plus night vision, but it cannot be removed. If you find a second Eye of God, you can wear that on top of the existing one to form a pair of Eyes of God, which looks cool but has no real benefit.
|-
![[File:Flight_potion.png|64px]]
|Flight Potion<br>("Strange Elixir")
|A bottle containing 5 units of flight potion. Ingesting flight potion will turn the drinker into an angel: a human with wings. Wings allow jetpack-like movement wherever there's air when activated, also giving increased speed and free movement over tables and chasms. You lose your back slot as an angel.<br>
It only works when <b>drinking</b> at least 5 units, so do not dilute or split the content. Does 20 brute damage when drunk.
|-
![[File:Diamond_Pickaxe.png|64px]]
|Diamond Pickaxe
|A faster pickaxe, how exciting. See the Mining Vendor list for more information.
|-
![[File:Alien_brain.png|64px]]
|Alien Brain
|A xenomorph's brain. It is currently useless due to the new R&D update.
|-
![[File:Cursed_heart.gif|64px]]
|Cursed Heart
|A cursed heart. When used, it grants fast regeneration, but it must be pumped manually at least once every 6 seconds, or you'll start suffocating due to lack of blood circulation.
|-
![[File:Bottled_ship.png|64px]]
|Ship in a Bottle
|When used, spawns a Mysterious Boat, which can travel over lava without need for oars.
|-
![[File:Champion_hardsuit.png|64px]]
|Champion's Hardsuit
|A hardsuit coming from a <s>Khorne Berserker</s>Champion. It's fairly resistant, has no slowdown, and is immune to fire.
|-
![[File:Sord.png|64px]]
|Sord
|An unbelievably shitty sword.
|-
![[File:Possessed_blade.png|64px]]
|Possessed Blade
|A sword possessed by a talking ghost. Exactly the same as the [[chaplain]]'s Null Rod variant.
|-
![[File:Dark_blessing.png|64px]]
|Dark Blessing
|A god-blessed armblade. Picking it up will make it undroppable, and it's weaker than a real armblade, although still fairly strong and sharp. Exactly the same as the [[chaplain]]'s Null Rod variant.
|-
![[File:Syndi_cards.png|64px]]
|Deck of Tarot Cards
|When used, spawns a [[Guardian Spirit]] bound to you. The type is chosen at random.
|-
![[File:Warp_cube.gif|64px]]
|Red/Blue Cube
|A pair of cubes. When one is used, it teleports the user to the location of the other cube, with no cooldown.
|-
![[File:Wisp_lantern.png|64px]]
|Wisp Lantern
|A lantern containing a wisp. When used, it releases the wisp, making it orbit around the user's head and granting it thermal vision and serving as a light source. It can be returned to the lantern by using it once again. The lantern does not otherwise need to be carried or protected for the effect to persist.
|-
![[File:Immortality_talisman.png|64px]]
|Immortality Talisman
|A magic talisman. When used, it makes the user invulnerable but immobile for ten seconds. Being invulnerable does not protect from instant death effects such as singularities or point-blank bombs. Has a 60 seconds cooldown.
|-
![[File:Meat_hook.png|64px]]
|Meat Hook
|A hook on the end of a long chain that does 18 damage. Can be fired to throw a hook, which deals 25 full armor-piercing damage and drags the target to the thrower's position, also stunning it for 3 seconds.
|-
![[File:Clusterbang.png|64px]]
|Inferno Grenade
|A clusterbuster grenade that, when activated, spawns several incendiary grenades, each releasing a plasma fire.
|-
![[File:Inquisitor_hardsuit.png|64px]]
|Inquisitor Hardsuit and {{anchor|hellwater}}Hell Water
|An inquisitor hardsuit. It's fairly armoured and has no slowdown. Comes with a bottle of Hell Water, an incredibly dangerous reagent which sets the drinker on fire while also destroying his brain.
|-
![[File:Summon_spellbook.png|64px]]
|Instant Summons Spellbook
|A spellbook that grants you Instant Summons. When first used, it binds the item currently in your hand; every time it is used after will teleport the linked item (and any container it should be inside) to your hand.
|-
![[File:Voodoo.png|64px]]
|Wicker Doll
|A voodoo doll. To link it to someone, grab a small item they have touched and insert it into the doll; using the doll will allow you to choose a target based on the fingerprints on the inserted item.<br>
* When using a hot item on it (I.E. welder/match/lighter) it will heat the target.
* When using a sharp item on it it will cause severe pain to the target, stunning it.
* When using a bike horn on it it will HONK him, also dealing ear damage.
* Setting the doll on fire will also set the target on fire.
* 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 a leg, it will move the target randomly by a step.
* 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 a user-inputted sentence. Radio prefixes such as ; can be used.
After being used, the doll has a chance of revealing its general direction or, more rarely, the room it's in, to the target. If it's set on fire, it has a 100% chance of revealing the room.<br>
To remove the linking item from a doll, use it while you're targeting the chest.
|-
![[File:Book1.png|64px]]
|Book of Babel
|Instantly teaches you all languages. One time use only.
|-
![[File:Ladder00.png|64px]]
|Jacob's Ladder
|A ladder that extends all the way to a different Z-level.
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|64px]]
|KA Death Syphon/bounty Modkit Disk
|Allows you to make a modkit that when killing or assisting in killing a creature permanently increases your damage against that type of creature.
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|64px]]
|AoE Hybrid Modkit Disk
|A disk that allows you to make a Kinetic Accelerator Modkit that allows it to both mine and deal damage in a 3x3 AoE. Secondary targets receive 25% of the original target's damage, up from the 20% of the normal AoE damage modkit
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|64px]]
|KA Rapid Repeater Modkit Disk
|Allows you to create a modkit that greatly reduces the KA's cooldown on striking a living target or rock, but greatly increases its base cooldown. Don't miss!
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|64px]]
|KA Resonator Blast Mod Disk
|A tech disk that allows you to create a mod that uses the kenetic accelerator to fire shots that leave and detonate Resonator blasts.
|-
![[File:Modkit.png|64px]]
|Lifesteal Crystal Modkit
|A mod kit that, like the name suggests, steals life from enemies you attack. Comes with a free cult blankie!
|-
![[insert picture here]]
|Rod of Asclepius
|A rod that can be used to make yourself start swearing an oath. If you finish the oath, the staff will bind to your hand, giving you a healing aura and pacifism. Also you can release the snake off the staff, the snake bite injects minor healing chemicals (someone insert how to here)
For the bosses' loot, see [[Megafauna]].
|}


===The Wildlife===
==Crusher trophies==
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.
Each time you kill a Lavaland enemy with the Crusher, there is a chance that it drops a trophy. These can be attached to your Crusher for unique effects.
* [[File:Hivelord.png|32px]] 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. Drops its 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. Has the side effect of purging any beneficial chemicals from your system, so don't munch one just after taking a stimulant pill.
* [[File:Goliath.png|32px]] Goliaths
The bane of many careless miners. These monsters carry a hefty health pool, a mean wallop, and can even knock you down from a distance with a ground-bursting tentacle attack while they advance toward you, crushing through walls with ease. However, they're incredibly slow and mindless, leaving them extremely vulnerable to being lured into resonator fields or simply being hit and ran with a kinetic accelerator. The main issue is their tentacle attack, which can be dodged with the right know-how. Each time it attempts to trip you, four tentacles appear on and around you, always leaving one spot open, simply move there to avoid it. If a wall is blocking your safe spot, you'll need to be quick to clear it with your resonator or kinetic accelerator. Once dodged, you have some time to deal damage while the tentacles are on cooldown. When felled, these beasts leave behind their hide plates, which can be used on your hardsuit or helmet to reinforce them against melee damage. Up to five plates may be used on each to cap them at a hefty 90%(!) damage resistance.
* [[File:Basilisk.png|32px]] 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 one can easily just leave them be until prepared with stimulant pills to reduce the cold and slowdown or a few goliath hide upgrades to go toe-to-toe with them. Drops two diamond ores when taken down.
* [[File:Goldgrub.png|32px]] 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. When killed, they spit up any ore they have eaten prior to being put down.


===The Rewards===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
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 lockers and stick your id in to claim fabulous prizes!
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=180|Item
* Hot Chili Stew - 100 pts - Just like what the chef never makes.
! scope="col" class="unsortable" width=140 style="background-color:lightblue;" |Enemy
* Premium Havanian Cigar - 100 pts - Inject with <s>drugs</s> medicine for a good time.
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
* Bottle of whiskey - 150 pts
|-
* Soap - 150 pts - For cleaning up those blood trails made from <s>assistants who the HoP let in</s> dragging downed miners from asteroid beasts
![[File:Legion_skull.png|32px]]<br>Legion skull
* Bottle of Stimulant Pills - 350 pts - Five pills loaded with coffee, hyperzine, and ethylredoxrazine. For countering basilisk cold rays and running topspeed in your hardsuit.
|Legion
* Alien Toy - 250 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!
|Makes your Crusher recharge faster.
* Laser Pointer - 500 pts - Go for the eyes!
|-
* 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.
![[File:Goliath_tentacle_trophy.png|32px]]<br>Goliath tentacle
* Lazarus Injector - 1000 pts - A miracle injection capable of reviving simple living beings from death, making them friendly to just you. 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, do note that while hostile creatures will be friendly to you, they won't play nice with others.
|Goliath
* 1000 Space Cash - 5000 pts - DOSH
|Mark detonations deal more damage the more health you're missing.
* Sonic Jackhammer - 500 pts - For when you want something slightly better than your default pickaxe and the scientists are either too lazy or too dead to make drills.
|-
* Mining Drone - 500 pts - Just like what the voucher can get you. Doesn't come with a welding tool.
![[File:Watcher_wing.png|32px]]<br>Watcher wing
* Wormhole Jaunter - 200 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.
|Watcher
* Resonator - 750 pts
|Mark detonations briefly delay some creatures from using certain attacks.
* Kinetic Accelerator - 1000 pts
|-
* Jetpack - 2000 pts - Has a special miner paint job so security won't beat you for stealing from EVA
![[File:Magma_wing.png|32px]]<br>Magmawing Watcher wing
|Magmawing Watcher
|After a mark detonation, the next destabilizer shot will deal damage.
|-
![[File:Ice_wing.png|32px]]<br>Icewing Watcher wing
|Icewing Watcher
|Identical to regular Watcher wings.
|-
![[File:Hunter_eye.png|32px]]<br>Eye of a blood-drunk hunter
|Blood-drunk Miner
|On mark detonation, gain stun immunity, damage-slowdown immunity and 90% damage reduction for one second.
|-
![[File:Tail_spike.png|32px]]<br>Tail spike
|Ash Drake
|Mark detonations deal area damage and push enemies back.
|-
![[File:Demon_claws.png|32px]]<br>Demon claws
|Bubblegum
|Melee hits deal bonus damage and heal you. 500% as strong during a mark detonation.
|-
![[File:Blaster_tubes.png|32px]]<br>Blaster tubes
|Colossus
|On mark detonation, the next shot moves slower, but deals damage.
|-
![[File:Vortex_talisman.png|32px]]<br>Vortex talisman
|Hierophant
|Mark detonations create barriers that only you can pass.
|-
|}


===The Ores===
==Craftables==
<br>
Not only can you kill the local fauna, you can also cobble together items from their smashed remains. Open the crafting menu for this.
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center"
 
!style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Wall
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
!style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Raw Ore
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Item
!style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Point Value
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
!style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Processed Ore
|-
!style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Coin
![[File:Dragon_armor.png|32px]]<br>Ash Drake armor
!style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Door
|A really strong, storm proof hardsuit that doesn't slow you down. 5 Ash Drake hide, 2 Watcher sinews, 10 bones.
!style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Name
|-
!style='background-color:Maroon;color:white;' |Uses
![[File:Goliath_cloak.png|32px]]<br>Goliath Cloak
|Weaker than the standard explorer suits and can't be upgraded, but way more stylish. 2 leather, 2 Watcher sinews, 2 Goliath hides.
|-
![[File:Goliath_boat.png|32px]]<br>Lava Boat
|A boat that can travel over lava, but is terribly unsafe as it'll usually set both you and held items on fire. Needs an oar to move. Crafted from three Goliath hides.
|-
![[File:Oar.png|32px]]<br>Goliath Bone Oar
|An oar crafted from two Goliath bones. Robust.
|-
![[File:Bonfire.png|32px]]<br>Bonfire
|Perfect for roasting lizard tails over. Five tower-cap logs.
|-
![[File:Mushroom_bowl.png|32px]]<br>Mushroom Bowl
|A bowl made out of mushrooms. Crafted from five Polypore mushroom shavings.
|-
|}
 
 
 
==Xenoforms==
You're not always the only sentient being on the planet. Aside from the lovecraftian horrors living down there you may also content with several groups or factions of beings on the planet. Some hostile, some friendly.
 
The follow is a list of all known sentient groups found on the planet based on information sent from recon squads.
 
=====Podmen=====
Recon Expedition #4 <br>
Threat Level: Minimal, Non Hostile <br>
Note: A small group of podmen were observed living inside a sealed vault. They appear minimally armed and seem to avoid leaving their home.
 
=====[[Ruins#Free Golem Ship|Golems]]=====
Recon Expedition #9<br>
Threat Level: Minimal, Non Hostile<br>
Note: A unidentified flying object was seen crashing by Recon Team Charlie during expedition #8. Alpha team on expedition #9 located a group of golems, the golems appeared utterly uninterested in their surroundings all things considered.
 
=====[[Ashwalkers]]=====
Recon Expedition #13<br>
Threat Level: Medium, Hostile<br>
Note: It appears a group of Basiliscus Lizretus, also known as Lizardmen, live on the planet, they are hostile to all intruders. These 'ashwalkers' only started to appear when mining operations started, they are agile but lightly armed, wielding primitively forged armor and spears. They appear to also have a hostile relationship with the wildlife, having been observed killing and dragging wildlife corpses away, as to why they need these corpses the recon team is unable to ascertain.
 
===== Syndicate Agents =====
Recon Expedition #45<br>
Threat Level:Extreme, Hostile<br>
Notes: It has come to attention that the syndicate (direct corporation/group unknown) has recently set up a large compound in lavaland. This may explain where expedition #38-44 has gone. They are equipped with high end weaponry and has been stated that trace bits of gunpowder has been found around the lava moat that the base is stationed in, suggesting that this base may be wired to self-destruct. We also detected radio waves coming and going from the compound. If found, turn back and report to your superiors immediately.
 
==The Ores==
These are what you should be looking out for, generally try and get a good mix of the more exotic ore types. Iron ore is ok but it sells for little and is highly abundant on the station already.
 
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Name
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Wall
! scope="col" width="100px" class="unsortable" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Raw Ore
! scope="col" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Money Reward Value
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Processed Ore
! scope="col" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Frequency
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Uses
|-
|-
![[File:Ironwall.png|50px]]
!Iron
![[File:Ironore.png|50px]]
![[File:Ironwall.png|64px]]
|1
![[File:Ironore.png|64px]]
![[File:Metal.png|50px]]
!1
![[File:Ironcoin.png|50px]]
![[File:Metal.png|64px]]
![[File:Irondoor.gif|50px]]
!Very Common
|Iron
|For just about everything.
|For just about everything.
|-
|-
!
!Sand
![[File:Ironore.png|50px]] [[File:Plasmaore.png|50px]]
![[File:minefloor.png|64px]]
|N/A
![[File:Sandore.png|64px]]
![[File:Metal r.png|50px]]
!1
!
![[File:Glass.png|center|64px]]
!
!Very Common
|Plasteel
|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.
|An alloy of iron and plasma, for AI cores and reinforced walls. Cannot be produced via the ore redemption machine. The antiquated furnace on the mining station must be used to make these.
|-
|-
![[File:minefloor.png|50px]]
![[Plasma]]
![[File:Sandore.png|50px]]
![[File:Plasmawall.png|64px]]
|1
![[File:Plasmaore.png|64px]]
|[[File:Glass.png|center|50px]]
!15
|
![[File:Plasmadone.png|64px]]
|[[File:Sanddoor.gif|50px]]
!Common
|Sand
|Ship sheets back to Centcom for bonus money to the cargo budget.
|For making glass, which has a plethora of station applications. Also used to make dirt, something not wanted by Hydroponics.
|-
|-
!
!Silver
![[File:Sandore.png|50px]] [[File:Ironore.png|50px]]
![[File:Silverwall.png|64px]]
|N/A
![[File:Silverore.png|64px]]
|[[File:Glass_r.png|center|50px]]
!16
|
![[File:Silverdone.png|64px]]
|  
!Semi-Common
|Reinforced Glass
|Making dosh, mechs, and researching Bluespace.
|For reinforced glass, which is tougher than normal glass
|-
|-
![[File:Goldwall.png|50px]]
!Gold
![[File:Goldore.png|50px]]
![[File:Goldwall.png|64px]]
|20
![[File:Goldore.png|64px]]
![[File:Golddone.png|50px]]
!18
![[File:Goldcoin.png|50px]]
![[File:Golddone.png|64px]]
|[[File:Golddoor.gif|50px]]
!Semi-Common
|Gold
|For making various electronics or pimping out Beepsky.
|For making various electronics or pimping out Beepsky.
|-
|-
![[File:Silverwall.png|50px]]
!Titanium
![[File:Silverore.png|50px]]
![[File:Titaniumrock.png|64px]]
|20
![[File:Titaniumore.png|64px]]
![[File:Silverdone.png|50px]]
!30
![[File:Silvercoin.png|50px]]
![[File:Titaniumdone.png|64px]]
|[[File:Silverdoor.gif|50px]]
!Uncommon
|Silver
|For high-tech mechs or R&D components. Also for building shuttle walls and floors.
|Making dosh, mechs, and researching Bluespace.
|-
|-
![[File:Plasmawall.png|50px]]
!Uranium
![[File:Plasmaore.png|50px]]
![[File:Uraniumwall.png|64px]]
|40
![[File:Uraniumore.png|64px]]
![[File:Plasmadone.png|50px]]
!30
![[File:Plasmacoin.png|50px]]
![[File:Uraniumdone.png|64px]]
|[[File:Plasmadoor.gif|50px]]
!Uncommon
|[[Plasma]]
|For making you radioactive (notice: no joke, this shit is deadly as a wall or a door). Delicious cocktails.
|Ship sheets back to Centcom for bonus supply points.
|-
|-
![[File:Uraniumwall.png|50px]]
!Diamond
![[File:Uraniumore.png|50px]]
![[File:Diamondwall.png|64px]]
|20
![[File:Diamondore.png|64px]]
![[File:Uraniumdone.png|50px]]
!50
![[File:Uraniumcoin.png|50px]]
![[File:Diamonddone.png|64px]]
|[[File:Uraniumdoor.gif|50px]]
!Rare
|Uranium
|For making mech parts, among other industrial uses.
|For making you radioactive. Delicious cocktails.
|-
|-
![[File:Diamondwall.png|50px]]
![[Bluespace Crystal]]
![[File:Diamondore.png|50px]]
![[File:BluespaceCrystalWall.png|64px]]
|40
![[File:Bluespace_Crystal.png|64px]]
![[File:Diamonddone.png|50px]]
!50
![[File:Diamondcoin.png|50px]]
![[File:BS_polycrystal.png|64px]]
|[[File:DiamondDoor.gif|50px]]
!Rare
|Diamond
|These crystals can be used in various ways. Give them to science to increase bluespace science, hold onto them to use as a risk free jaunter, or throw them at people to make them teleport randomly (often into space.)
|For making mech parts, among other industrial uses.
|-
|-
![[File:Bananimumwall.png|50px]]
!Bananium
![[File:Bananimumore.png|50px]]
![[File:Bananimumwall.png|64px]]
|30
![[File:Bananimumore.png|64px]]
![[File:Bananimumdone.png|50px]]
!60
![[File:Bananimumcoin.png|50px]]
![[File:Bananiumdone.png|64px]]
|
!HONK!
|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]] and other clownlike items.
|A rare and unusual mineral found only in clown-controlled space. Used for the [[Guide_to_robotics#H.O.N.K.|H.O.N.K. mech]].
|-
|-
![[File:Diamondwall.png|50px]]
!Gibtonite
![[File:Gibtonitewall.gif|64px]]
![[File:Gibtoniteore.png]]
![[File:Gibtoniteore.png]]
|N/A
!N/A
!
!
!
|
!Uncommon
|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.
|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!
|}
|}
<br>
 
===Alloys===
Some ores can be smelted to produce alloys.
{{Item
|name = [[Plasteel]]
|bgcolor1 = lightgrey
|bgcolor2 = lightgrey
|image = Metal_r.png
}}
 
{{Item
|name = Plastitanium
|bgcolor1 = lightgrey
|bgcolor2 = lightgrey
|image = Plastitanium.png
|foundin = Syndicate spacecraft
|usedfor = Evil walls and floors
|strategy = Use it to create the walls and flooring used in a Syndicate spacecraft
|description = An alloy of plasma and titanium.
}}


===Who Needs What===
===Who Needs What===
* [[Scientist]]s just want a little uranium, [[plasma]], diamond and gold. Refine a little of each for research (5-10 each should do it). In exchange, they may give you a bomb or more advanced mining tools (like a sonic jackhammer or diamond drill), both for even faster digging!
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 for.
* [[Roboticist]]s need diamond, uranium, silver and gold for building mech parts. Give them enough and you might get a big, fancy machine for your troubles! Too bad the Ripley is the only good mech for mining.
 
* The [[Quartermaster]] would want you to send them [[plasma]] sheets so they can trade them in for bonus supply points.
* [[Scientist]]s at least a bit of every ore. In exchange, they may give you upgrades for your Kinetic Accelerator, a [[Plasma Cutter]], a [[Research_items#Mining Satchel of Holding|Mining Satchel of Holding]], and, if you're lucky, Night Vision Meson Scanners or a [[Bag of Holding]]!
* Everybody could always use more iron, glass and plasteel, but especially [[Station Engineer]]s and Roboticists.
* [[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 lavaproof Firefighter is the only good mech for mining.
* The [[Virologist]], [[Chemist]] and [[Guide to xenobiology|Xenobiologist]] will all appreciate having extra plasma.
* The [[Quartermaster]] may want mineral sheets to trade them in for bonus supply credits. Plasma in particular is both common and valuable.
* 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 competent [[Virologist]] can use several sheets of uranium to create incredibly powerful healing viruses that let you heal out of crit in two seconds.
* A [[Clown]] with Bananium is a grateful and dangerous ally.
* 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 [[Bartender]] can use a few sheets of uranium or iron to craft some of his rarest cocktails.
<br>
 
==Secrets of Lavaland==
While on Lavaland, you may come upon artificial structures. They can have items ranging from magical artifacts, to other lifeforms, to [[Aliens|alien facehugger]]s.  If you are at all unsure, always let your mining buddies know using :u before going in: some ruins can be very dangerous.


== Structures ==
==Tips==
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 [[Aliens|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.
* Always go with at least two 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.
* You can view the contents of a mining satchel as if it were a backpack.
* Middle mouse click swaps your hand, allowing you to shoot minerals and grat them with the satchel quickly.
* 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 Proto-kinetic Accelerator will obliterate a space carp in one hit while in space.
* You can dual wield PKAs. Use harm intent to fire both at once.
* The Head of Personnel may 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.
* 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.
* You could alternatively buy the drone, fully upgrade it, give it an AI Module, and tell it to go valid-hunt. A mining drone dragging a bar of soap is surprisingly robust against even changelings.
* Life improving things:
** Mining suit upgrade : Goliath plates add +10% melee resist each time when applied to a suit. The plates will stack until they reach 30%, 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.
** 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). Also they are ashproof. If you get fully augumented, you are ash storm proof. Downside : EMP vulnerability.
* Kinetic accelerators can be used as infinite tools to navigate space, since every time you fire, it'll throw you in the opposite direction.
* Sentient minebots can very easily be commanded to go help security if there is an [[Nuclear Operative|imminent]] [[Clockwork Cult|threat]] to the station. Their melee saw is very robust, and works just as well as on the station as it is on lavaland. The proto-kinetic accelerator that they are equipped with is very robust when in space.
* If you dont have a mining satchel of holding, and no ore box, you can deconstruct tables in the library (the curator is probably too busy organizing a game of D&D to really care much) to obtain wooden planks. You can then use these wooden planks to fabricate an ore box.
* If science hasn't researched Advanced Mining Technology within 10 minutes of the start of the shift, please remind them. There is normally at least 1 single person in science competent enough to do so.


==Dead Space==
==Dead Space==
A traitorous miner has a lot of advantages. You have a space suit for free right away, a pair of gloves, access to highly explosive minerals, you start with a robust pickaxe and 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!''
A traitorous miner has a lot of advantages. You have a space suit for free right away 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 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, Lavaland is isolated, dangerous, and as expansive as you're willing to dig out. Plenty of room for somebody to get lost in... ''Forever!''
<br>
 
<br>
===Tips for Traitoring===
* 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.
** 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.
** Kill your target with their shouts for help unheard.
* 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 Lavaland.
* 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.
*Ripley is 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.'''
*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.
====Tips for Culting====
If you're a miner, [[Mining Station]] is the perfect hive for a cult. The back room can easily be broken down by Constructs, runes can be placed, and a single artificer can make it very difficult for Security to try and raid. Remember to cut cameras, so a Non-Asimov AI doesn't bolt and electrocute every door. Remember to use Teleport other to get Cultists off station and into safe custody. All the station needs is a Medibot and you are golden.
 
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SUPPLY STAFF
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Access: Mining Station, Mining Station EVA, Cargo Office, Mineral Storage
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|}}Difficulty: Hard
Supervisors: Quartermaster and Head of Personnel
Duties: Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife. Go on an adventure in mysterious ruins.
Guides: Lavaland, Megafauna, Auxiliary Base Construction Area {{#if: Spare vouc- oh. |
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Welcome, Miner! You will break rocks, slay monsters, and die lost and alone in the depths of the caverns. Not on some sandy asteroid, but on what we call Lavaland!

Bare minimum requirements: Stay alive long enough to return your loot to the station.

Workin' In The Coal Mine[edit]

Mining Dock
The Mining Dock is your access to the Mining Station.

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.

Your workplace, Lavaland, has some hazards:

  • Ash storms will cut right through your clothes, dealing constant burn damage if you are outside. A rain of dark particles outdoors indicate an ash storm.
  • Lava - one step in and you'll be badly burned and on fire.
  • Chasms - Anything that falls into one will disappear from this world.

The risk of these hazards can be reduced by watching your step and being aware of your surroundings. Don't walk into lava, chasms, or outside during an ash storm. You'll get a text warning not long before a ash storm is about to begin, so long as you stay near shelter (or have a bluespace shelter capsule with you) then you'll be fine.

You can click on an adjacent rock or run directly into it to begin picking or drilling the rock, but the Kinetic Accelerator is much faster and more efficient and you should be using that instead of a pickaxe or basic mining drill. Keep in mind that if you do decide to pick or drill your way through rock, you can have multiple dig jobs running at the same time to mine faster.

Working With Your Boss[edit]

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. He can watch cameras on lavaland and has full access to Mining, so keep that in mind.

The Objective[edit]

You're here to mine, so get digging! Once you're full to bursting with ores, drag your ore box back to the station and head to cargo where the ore redemption machine sits. Insert your ID and, drag the box next to the machine to automatically offload your ores and have them instantly processed into sheets. Then click "claim" to retrieve money as a reward. Now buy new gear if you want, then take your crate and head back to the mines!

How to Do This[edit]

Gearing up[edit]

  1. Gear up! From the mining equipment locker, you will need Meson Scanner goggles, a mining scanner, your pickaxe (optional), a bluespace shelter capsule (DON'T FORGET!) and your standard issue proto-kinetic accelerator. If you want, there is also an additional mining satchel, and a shovel for digging up ash (for glass).
  2. Attach your seclite and knife to your proto-kinetic accelerator to save space, and to let you bash things harder without having to take out your knife.
  3. Use your voucher on a mining vending machine to select your choice of advanced mining tools, listed below.
  4. Go to the Lavaland Mining Station and get 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, and a maintenance room where you can top off internals. The nearby storage room has more gear lockers and Ore boxes.
  5. Before you go, you'll want an Ore Box, which can hold an infinite amount of minerals. Ore boxes are available on the mining station, the mining shuttle and rarely on the field. More can be built with wood planks.
  6. For extra safety, grab a GPS device, set it to your name and tell the QM and other miners about it. If you're lucky, they will drag your lifeless body back to cloning.

Smashing rocks[edit]

  1. Find minerals. The further north, the better ore. Activate your scanner and shove it into your bag or internals box. 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.
  2. Pick up minerals by either having your mining bag in your belt slot or pockets, then just walk over the minerals. If you're dragging an ore box behind you, you'll automatically deposit minerals into the box instead of your bag.
  3. Once you've had enough, return to the main station with your Ore box. Do not deliver ore to the processing plant on the lavaland mining base, as that room is outdated. Recommended: Ask RnD to upgrade the Ore Redemption Machine (ORM). Miners have access to the science channel (with :n), but if they are just a bunch of braindeads you can go to the next step.
  4. Drag your ore box to the delivery tile next to the ORM (north or south of it, depending on station). That'll automatically empty the box into the ORM.
  5. Take your mining satchel into your hand and activate it while standing on the same delivery tile next to the ORM. This will empty any ores in the bag into the ORM as well. Ores inserted directly into the ORM give no credits (due to a bug)!
  6. Click "Claim". You do not need to insert your ID.
  7. Go to a mining equipment vendor to buy advanced equipment with the credits you've gained.

Life beyond smashing rocks[edit]

  1. Use your better gear to push deeper into Lavaland.
  2. Print Advanced Plasma Cutters and Mining Satchels of Holding at the cargo protolathe for even more efficient mining.
  3. If you feel robust enough, explore some ruins and die horribly get amazing rewards.
  4. If you feel VERY robust, look for Megafauna with your GPS and try to kill it, for extremely valuable loot.

Voucher equipment[edit]

You start the shift with a complimentary mining voucher, worth one free item out of a selection of four. These items, and their strengths, are:

  • Survival Capsule and Explorer's Webbing: The webbing (you put on your belt slot) allows you to carry even more mining equipment - having a second shelter capsule is nice too. 900 pts value.
  • Resonator Kit: Comes with a resonator, explorer's webbing, mini extinguisher and advanced scanner. While the resonator is underwhelming, the advanced scanner has almost twice the scanning range and updates much faster. 2100 pts.
  • Mining Drone: A little companion that helps in storing ore and hunting wildlife. Only useful once you install the sentience upgrade module. Comes with an industrial welding tool, a welding mask and a KA modkit that allows shots to pass through the drone. ~800 pts.
  • Extraction and Rescue Kit: Contains a fulton extraction pack and a beacon, which allows you to send back home minerals, items and dead miners without having to use the ferry. As a bonus, you get 30 marker beacons too. 1700 pts.
  • Crusher Kit: Contains a proto-kinetic crusher, a chest webbing like the capsule kit, an advanced scanner 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. 2450 pts.
  • Mining Conscription Kit: A duffle bag full of basic items for one conscript - Proto-kinetic accelerator, survival knife, seclite, 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. 1500 pts.

For Great Profit![edit]

Mining for the sake of it can only get you so far. By mining minerals and returning them to the station you'll accrue credits, you can then use these credits to buy better and more powerful equipment and supplies from an equipment vendor. You can then in turn use these items to push further into Lavaland to mine more minerals, fell stronger wildlife and find greater treasure. Consider it all an investment.

Survival Medipens can help you in a pinch for example, or a Wormhole Jaunter can help you escape what would have been a death trap. Or using Legion Stabilizer on Legion Cores, to let you save their heal and anti-slowdown effects for later. Or you can spend it all on booze and cigars.

Default Gear[edit]

The following is a list of default mining equipment:

Essential Equipment[edit]

Item Description

Explorer Suit
This comes with a inbuilt hood. It provides some protection against heat and cold, and works as decent armor with no slowdown. It is not spaceproof, but can hold a full-sized oxygen tank or other mining gear. You can also reinforce it with goliath plates.

Explorer Gas 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 your suits 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.

Meson Scanners and Automatic Mining Scanner
Activating the scanner will briefly flash any ore on screen - it works even inside a box. Can be used to stop gibtonite from exploding.

Global Positioning System, GPS
The crew monitoring console back on the station won't catch your suit sensor signal from all the way down on the planet. Having one of these on you will help others track down your body if you happen to develop a case of the dead. In addition it can be used to locate other miners (who bothered to take it) as well as "lost" signals. Megafauna, necropolis tendrils, and certain ruins emit GPS signals. Be wary. Be sure to set your name on the GPS.

Proto-kinetic Accelerator
A standard issue gun. The good part is that it packs a punch in a low pressure environment, is very good at digging and has infinite shots. The bad part is that it tickles in pressurized environments, has a cooldown after each shot, and has a range of three steps. Can be dual wielded at the price of lower accuracy and speed.

KAs deal brute damage (40 standard/10 in pressurized rooms), but count as explosive versus armor. That way, suits like bomb suits and the RD hardsuit can negate 90% of the damage dealt.


Survival Knife
Use it for butchering the wildlife (hit while on harm intent). 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. Alternatively, stick it on your KA.

Survival Medipen
A cocktail of powerful healing chemicals. Contains Salbutamol, Leporazine, Epinephrine, Mining Nanites and Omnizine. Heals all types of damage and stabilizes body temperature.

Bluespace shelter capsule
Activate this in your hand, and it'll near 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 (or dice) and some donk pockets. It also has a stasis bed which requires another person to use. Never leave home without one. You're issued one for free in your the mining lockers on station.

Ore Satchel
For carrying ore without using a mining cart, holds 50 ore nuggets. Empty it into boxes by using the satchel on them.
Newbie tip: Put it in one of your pocket slots, then start dragging an ore box. Any ore you walk over will be transferred to the box.

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 it with you.

Use your satchel on the box to empty it into the box. Even better: Drag it behind you with an ore satchel in your pocket.


Mining Voucher
Found in your backpack, exchange this at the mining equipment locker for one of several selections which include various mining items.

Seclite
A beefed up flashlight. Put this on your KA to free up inventory space.

Miscellaneous Equipment[edit]

Items that, while not critical to take, can be situationally useful.

Item Description

Pickaxe
Somewhat antiquated thanks to the prevalence of the proto-kinetic accelerator and resonator. Nevertheless it can be used to dig wide tunnels, robust things in melee combat and as a backup if you lose your resonator. It can also fit inside a belt chest webbing.

Shovel
Gathering sand. You can stick this in your backpack. A crappier version of a compact pickaxe

Crowbar
For removing KA mods, or just in case when there is a blackout. Spawns in your box.

Advanced Gear[edit]

The following are more advanced items that need to be purchased from a mining equipment vendor, with credits:

Voucher/Reward Equipment[edit]

These items can either be acquired from a voucher, or can be bought with money/credits, usually earned from delivering ore to the redemption machine on the station. Prices are included.

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Item Description cPrice
1 Marker Beacon A glowing prism stone that you can anchor to the ground. Useful if you tend to get lost. a10 Credits
10 Marker Beacon Same as above, but 10 beacons. a100 Credits
30 Marker Beacon Same as above, but 30 beacons. a300 Credits

Whiskey
A bottle of alcohol, helps you forget you literally work in hell. a100 Credits

Absinthe
A bottle of alcohol, helps you forget you literally work in hell. a100 Credits

Cigar
A high-quality havana cigar. a150 Credits

Soap
A bar of slippery soap. a200 Credits

Laser Pointer
Just a laser pointer, don't shite it into people's eyes. Useful against rogue Cyborgs. a300 Credits

Toy Facehugger
An extremely realistic-looking facehugger toy, to prank the crew with. Latches onto faces and tears off masks. a300 Credits

Stabilizing Serum
Can be used on legion souls to prevent them from decaying. a400 Credits

Fulton Beacon
Creates an anchored beacon when used in hand that fulton packs can target as a drop-off point. a400 Credits

Bluespace Shelter Capsule
The Shelter Capsule is indispensable for long expeditions: it creates an ash-storm proof 3x3 room complete with breathable air, a sleeper and some warm donk-pockets. a400 Credits

GAR Mesons
A pair of very sharp meson scanners. Can be thrown as a weapon, with a chance to embed. a500 Credits

Chest Webbing
Can be worn on the belt slot, stores mining equipment. a500 Credits

Survival Medipen
Contains several healing and heat-stabilizing chemicals. Using more than one in a short period will cause several overdoses. a500 Credits

Brute First-Aid Kit
Contains bandages and brute-healing patches. a600 Credits

Tracking Implant Kit
Contains three tracking implants and a locator; useful if you want others to find your corpse for up to 10 minutes after death. a600 Credits

Wormhole Jaunter
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. Can be worn on the belt slot to prevent death on chasms. a750 Credits

Proto-kinetic Crusher
A powerful two-handed melee weapon. Shoots kinetic bolts that don't deal damage, but can mark large creatures making the hammer deal increased damage (20->50 Brute) when used on them. It will deal even greater damage (80) on backstab.
What makes the Crusher special, is that enemies killed by it have a chance to drop trophies, powerful "modkits" that can be attached to the Crusher.
a750 Credits

Proto-kinetic Accelerator
The classic mining weapon. Buy it from here if you did not get one at roundstart. a750 Credits

Advanced Mining Scanner
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. a800 Credits

Resonator
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 (60 Brute) to anything standing on it. Just like the kinetic accelerator, it does reduced damage (20) 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. a800 Credits

Fulton Extraction Pack
A balloon that can be used to extract equipment or personnel who are outside (not within the station or the mining base) to a Fulton Recovery Beacon. Anything not bolted down can be moved. Swap which beacon the pack is aiming at by using the pack in hand. It has a limited number of uses, examine the pack to check how many are left. a1000 Credits
Lazarus Injector 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. Also useful for bartering with the HoP or any staff with a pet. Expect R&D to want one, as it has high research value. a1000 Credits

Silver-plated Pickaxe
Slightly better than the default pickaxe, but still a lot worse than your starting KA. a1000 Credits

Mining Conscription Kit
Contains a proto-kinetic accelerator, survival knife, seclite, mesons, an ore scanner and satchel, an explorer suit and gas mask, a supply encryption key and a card which adds mining access to IDs. a 1500 Credits

Mining Jetpack Upgrade
A jetpack that you can attach to any hardsuit for better mobility. Useless on Lavaland but great back on the station. a2000 Credits

Mining Hardsuit
A nostalgic suit piece from the older days of asteroid mining. Useless on Lavaland but great to explore space. Can be upgraded up to 3 times with goliath plates. a2000 Credits

Diamond Pickaxe
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. a2000 Credits

Super (Upgraded) Resonator
Like the regular resonator, but able to have 6 fields active at a time - with no damage penalty for fields that are detonated early. a2500 Credits

Jump Boots
A pair of boots that allow you to jump over three tiles, skipping chasms. Does not prevent lava damage, however. a2500 Credits

Luxury Shelter Capsule
Tired of cramped shelter capsules? This is for you! Comes with a three-course meal, a deluxe companion and much more. a3000 Credits

KA White Tracer Rounds Mod
A modkit that makes your KA's projectile flight path visible, in a white color. a100 Credits

KA Adjustable Tracer Rounds Mod
A modkit that makes your KA's projectile flight path visible. Use in hand to cycle between colors. a150 Credits

Super KA Chassis Mod
A modkit that makes your KA look yellow, like one of the no longer existing Super-Kinetic Accelerators. a250 Credits

Hyper KA Chassis Mod
A modkit that makes your KA look orange, like one of the no longer existing Hyper-Kinetic Accelerators. a300 Credits

KA Range Mod
A modkit that increases your KA's range by 1. a1000 Credits

KA Damage Mod
A modkit that increases your KA's damage by 10. a1000 Credits

KA Cooldown Mod
A modkit that reduces your KA's cooldown by 0.25 seconds. a1000 Credits

KA AoE Damage Mod
A modkit that makes your KA hit in a 3x3 AoE, dealing 20% of the original damage per modkit. a2000 Credits

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. It can be further upgraded with special modules bought from the vending machine to increase its effectiveness. a500 Credits

Drone: Melee Upgrade
Increases the Drone's melee damage. a400 Credits

Drone: Health Upgrade
Increases the Drone's health. a400 Credits

Drone: Ranged Upgrade
Decreases the Drone's ranged weapon's cooldown. a600 Credits

Drone: AI Upgrade
Installs a high tech AI into the Drone (grants a ghost control over the Drone). a1000 Credits

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The Free Golem ship has some extra goodies:

Golem Equipment Vendor List
Item Description cPrice

Extra ID
An extra ID that works for holding money and entering the station. a250 Credits

Science Goggles
A pair of regular science goggles. a250 Credits

Monkey Cube
A single monkey cube. Just add water. a300 Credits

Toolbelt
A toolbelt, like the ones on station. a350 Credits

Royal Cape of the Liberator
A replica of the Liberator's cape. A must-have for every Free Golem. a500 Credits

Grey Slime Extract
Ever wanted to do Xenobiology on Lavaland? There you go. a1000 Credits

Trigger Guard Modification Kit
A trigger modkit that allows golems to use the Kinetic Accelerator. a1700 Credits

The Liberator's Legacy
A box with all circuit boards needed to build your own RnD department! The RnD console synchronizes with the station's server. a2000 Credits

RnD Gear[edit]

The following is a list of advance items that can be acquired only from RnD, using a combination of minerals and high tech research.

RnD Gear
Item Description

Mining Drill
Can be acquired early on from RnD. It's twice as fast as the standard Pickaxe but is quickly superseded by better variants and is expensive for what it gives.

Diamond Tipped Mining Drill
Very powerful drill, able to almost instantly mine mineral walls. Very expensive in terms of Diamonds needed to produce however.

Sonic Jackhammer
The epitome of mining. Can practically instantly mine through rock and walls. But it requires three times the Diamonds of a Diamond Tipped Drill.

KA Triggerguard Mod
A modkit that will allow species that cannot normally fire guns to use the KA, such as golems and hulks.

KA Range Mod
A modkit that increases your KA's range by 1.

KA Damage Mod
A modkit that increases your KA's damage by 10.

KA Cooldown Mod
A modkit that reduces your KA's cooldown by 0.25 seconds.

KA AoE Mining Mod
A modkit that makes your KA mine rocks in a 3x3 AoE. It does not, however, deal AoE damage. You're usually better off carrying a plasma cutter to deal with rocks and keep the KA for combat.

Plasma Cutter
A fast mining (and welding) tool. Shoots rock-breaking bolts that pierce up to 5 rocks per shot. Rechargeable by inserting plasma ore or sheets into it. Less efficient in combat than a KA, however, and even less when in high pressure.

Advanced Plasma Cutter
A very fast mining (and welding) tool. Shoots rock-breaking bolts that pierce up to 10 rocks per shot, basically allowing you to pierce rock as fast as you can walk. Rechargeable by inserting plasma ore or sheets into it.

Mining Satchel of Holding
Very cheap mining satchel that can hold an unlimited amount of minerals and ore.

Night Vision Mesons
These glasses work like normal mesons, but they can see perfectly in the darkness negating the need for flashlights in lavaland.


All of this gear is printed out at the supply department protolathe.

The Wildlife[edit]

Lavaland is filled with a variety of bloodthirsty alien lifeforms populating the caverns, walking just fine over the ponds and puddles of lava. Fortunately, you can fight them whilst taking minimal damage, if you have the know-how.

Useful items can be harvested from these creatures' corpses should you triumph; butcher them with a knife by attacking the corpse on Harm intent and the goods will spill out!

Wildlife
Creature Description Threat

Legions
Considered annoying at worst, and a free minor heal at best. These creatures unleash legion skulls, one after another at you whilst trying to keep a distance. Fortunately, each of its spawn dies in a single hit (even a single punch), and deal tickle damage to you; the legion itself can't directly hit 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. If you fall unconscious while you're being attacked, however, you will instantly die and be turned into a Legion.


It drops a soul when killed. Hit yourself with the soul and it will give you a slowdown immunity for a while and slight heal. Don't think you can store these for later, though -- they will spoil after a few minutes unless you use a stabilizer from the vending machine. However only active legion souls can be inserted in one's chest through surgery to provide a hands-free use of the legion soul, that will automatically activate if you fall into crit.
tl;dr strategy: Attack with your pickaxe/knife. Hack your way through the legion and its heads until the host is mush. Alternatively, two KA hits kill a Legion, or one KC mark detonation.

Low

Watchers
Fierce, territorial beasts capable of firing freezing beams, cold enough to inflict serious freeze burns while the watcher closes in and attacks its immobilized target. Fortunately, they don't attack unless someone comes 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 gibtonite.


Butcher a watcher for 2 pieces of diamond ore. Use your ore box for cover while shooting them with your KA from a distance. Alternatively, with a KC, close the distance before it shoots you, then alternate marking it and hitting it, and pop a survival pen afterwards.
Tip: Watchers 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.

Medium

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 KA 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 stops moving. Alternatively, with a KC, get in mark range, mark it, run in, hit it, run out, avoid tentacles, repeat.
Butcher a goliath for its hide and its meat. 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 piece of riot gear if you hunt some Goliaths. The meat can be cooked in lava.

High

Necropolis Tendrils
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. 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.


Fighting them can involve killing all its protectors patiently, or using tactics like gibtonite. Either way, once killed, ignore the remaining monsters, grab the chest, and RUN.
When killed, they spawn necropolis chests which can contain a variety of useful artifacts, that usually cannot be found anywhere else. See the table below for the possible loot.

Medium to Very High

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, but note that kinetic accelerator shots do nothing against these. Their skin is reflective, requiring a pickaxe melee smackdown to ensure a kill.


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.

None

Megafauna
Extremely big and powerful creatures, that randomly spawn in lavaland. Each one of these emits a GPS Signal that can be tracked with your own GPS, to either seek or avoid them.

To beat them and get their valuable loot, you must either have good equipment or be VERY good at dodging their attacks, as failure usually means not only death, but gibbing as well, meaning that unless you were clone-scanned your body is unrecoverable.
Their slow speed means that you can usually outrun them, although you should be careful of not letting them hitch a ride in the mining ferry, as the station has very few weapons that can damage megafauna.

EXTREME

Shiny Mobs[edit]

Common lavaland mobs now have rare mutations. Common mining mobs have a 1% chance on initialize to gain a new appearance and new stats, however, this is 5% for legions.

Wildlife
Creature Description Threat

Dwarf Legion
On the rare occasion that a human with dwarfism falls to a legion, they can become infested like any other. Dwarf legions have 20 less health but move slightly faster.


It drops a soul, the exact same soul as dropped by the normal legion.

It's still rather harmless. 2 KA shots kill it, a couple of pickax swings will knock it out.

Low

Magmawing Watcher
Whenever a shiny watcher appears, (which is a 1% chance), there's a 75% chance that the mutant is going to be a magmawing watcher, and a 25% chance that it is going to be an icewing watcher. When raised very close to lava, some watchers adapt to the extreme heat and change coloration. Such watchers are known as magmawings and use intense heat as their tool for hunting and defense. The magmawing watcher shoots scorching blasts instead of freezing blasts, which heats you up and can set you on fire.


Unlike normal watchers, a shot from this watcher will set you on fire, and trying to roll it out will only result in the watcher getting more free shots on you, which means that you're pretty much forced to man up, pop a survival medi-pen, and melee it to death while you lose half of your HP to fire.

It has normal watcher loot. It's really simply just not worth fighting.

High

Icewing Watcher
Whenever a shiny watcher appears, (which is a 1% chance), there's a 25% chance that the mutant is going to be an icewing watcher, and a 75% chance that it is going to be a magmawing watcher. Very rarely, some watchers will eke out an existence far from heat sources. In the absence of warmth, their wings will become papery and turn to an icy blue; these watchers are fragile but much quicker to fire their trademark freezing blasts. The icewing watcher has 50 less health and fire shots 33% more often, as well as dropping 5 diamonds and no sinew


It's a beefed up watcher which is more tanky and shoots more often. Treat it like a normal watcher, except you have to get into cover a bit quicker each time.

It has normal watcher loot, but drops 5 diamonds instead of 2, and drops no sinew.

High

Ancient Goliath
Goliaths are biologically immortal, and rare specimens have survived for centuries. 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.


It is recommended that you clear an area around the ancient goliath so that you can take shots at the ancient goliath without getting snagged by the tentacles. Once you've done that, just run circles around the thing while shooting at it, and dodging any emerging tentacles.

When killed, they drop their goliath hide directly, more can be obtained through butchering.

Very High

The Loot[edit]

Necropolis Chest Loot
Name Description
Paradox Bags A pair of bags with a linked storage: anything that is put in one can be pulled out of the other and vice versa.
Nar'Sien Hardsuit A cultist's hardsuit. It is very resistant to melee and bullet damage and fairly resistant to other kinds of damage; it also fits in backpacks.
Soulstone A soulstone much like the kind used by a Blood Cult or by the chaplain on MetaStation, except it can be used multiple times. 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.
Cursed Katana A very sharp katana that can't be dropped once picked up. It deals 40 damage to unarmored targets (energy swords, for comparison, deal 30). It also has a 50% chance of deflecting melee attacks.
Eye of God A strange eye. It can be worn on the glasses slot to gain x-ray vision plus night vision, but it cannot be removed. If you find a second Eye of God, you can wear that on top of the existing one to form a pair of Eyes of God, which looks cool but has no real benefit.
Flight Potion
("Strange Elixir")
A bottle containing 5 units of flight potion. Ingesting flight potion will turn the drinker into an angel: a human with wings. Wings allow jetpack-like movement wherever there's air when activated, also giving increased speed and free movement over tables and chasms. You lose your back slot as an angel.

It only works when drinking at least 5 units, so do not dilute or split the content. Does 20 brute damage when drunk.

Diamond Pickaxe A faster pickaxe, how exciting. See the Mining Vendor list for more information.
Alien Brain A xenomorph's brain. It is currently useless due to the new R&D update.
Cursed Heart A cursed heart. When used, it grants fast regeneration, but it must be pumped manually at least once every 6 seconds, or you'll start suffocating due to lack of blood circulation.
Ship in a Bottle When used, spawns a Mysterious Boat, which can travel over lava without need for oars.
Champion's Hardsuit A hardsuit coming from a Khorne BerserkerChampion. It's fairly resistant, has no slowdown, and is immune to fire.
Sord An unbelievably shitty sword.
Possessed Blade A sword possessed by a talking ghost. Exactly the same as the chaplain's Null Rod variant.
Dark Blessing A god-blessed armblade. Picking it up will make it undroppable, and it's weaker than a real armblade, although still fairly strong and sharp. Exactly the same as the chaplain's Null Rod variant.
Deck of Tarot Cards When used, spawns a Guardian Spirit bound to you. The type is chosen at random.
Red/Blue Cube A pair of cubes. When one is used, it teleports the user to the location of the other cube, with no cooldown.
Wisp Lantern A lantern containing a wisp. When used, it releases the wisp, making it orbit around the user's head and granting it thermal vision and serving as a light source. It can be returned to the lantern by using it once again. The lantern does not otherwise need to be carried or protected for the effect to persist.
Immortality Talisman A magic talisman. When used, it makes the user invulnerable but immobile for ten seconds. Being invulnerable does not protect from instant death effects such as singularities or point-blank bombs. Has a 60 seconds cooldown.
Meat Hook A hook on the end of a long chain that does 18 damage. Can be fired to throw a hook, which deals 25 full armor-piercing damage and drags the target to the thrower's position, also stunning it for 3 seconds.
Inferno Grenade A clusterbuster grenade that, when activated, spawns several incendiary grenades, each releasing a plasma fire.
}}Hell Water An inquisitor hardsuit. It's fairly armoured and has no slowdown. Comes with a bottle of Hell Water, an incredibly dangerous reagent which sets the drinker on fire while also destroying his brain.
Instant Summons Spellbook A spellbook that grants you Instant Summons. When first used, it binds the item currently in your hand; every time it is used after will teleport the linked item (and any container it should be inside) to your hand.
Wicker Doll A voodoo doll. To link it to someone, grab a small item they have touched and insert it into the doll; using the doll will allow you to choose a target based on the fingerprints on the inserted item.
  • When using a hot item on it (I.E. welder/match/lighter) it will heat the target.
  • When using a sharp item on it it will cause severe pain to the target, stunning it.
  • When using a bike horn on it it will HONK him, also dealing ear damage.
  • Setting the doll on fire will also set the target on fire.
  • 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 a leg, it will move the target randomly by a step.
  • 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 a user-inputted sentence. Radio prefixes such as ; can be used.

After being used, the doll has a chance of revealing its general direction or, more rarely, the room it's in, to the target. If it's set on fire, it has a 100% chance of revealing the room.
To remove the linking item from a doll, use it while you're targeting the chest.

Book of Babel Instantly teaches you all languages. One time use only.
Jacob's Ladder A ladder that extends all the way to a different Z-level.
KA Death Syphon/bounty Modkit Disk Allows you to make a modkit that when killing or assisting in killing a creature permanently increases your damage against that type of creature.
AoE Hybrid Modkit Disk A disk that allows you to make a Kinetic Accelerator Modkit that allows it to both mine and deal damage in a 3x3 AoE. Secondary targets receive 25% of the original target's damage, up from the 20% of the normal AoE damage modkit
KA Rapid Repeater Modkit Disk Allows you to create a modkit that greatly reduces the KA's cooldown on striking a living target or rock, but greatly increases its base cooldown. Don't miss!
KA Resonator Blast Mod Disk A tech disk that allows you to create a mod that uses the kenetic accelerator to fire shots that leave and detonate Resonator blasts.
Lifesteal Crystal Modkit A mod kit that, like the name suggests, steals life from enemies you attack. Comes with a free cult blankie!
insert picture here Rod of Asclepius A rod that can be used to make yourself start swearing an oath. If you finish the oath, the staff will bind to your hand, giving you a healing aura and pacifism. Also you can release the snake off the staff, the snake bite injects minor healing chemicals (someone insert how to here)

For the bosses' loot, see Megafauna.

Crusher trophies[edit]

Each time you kill a Lavaland enemy with the Crusher, there is a chance that it drops a trophy. These can be attached to your Crusher for unique effects.

Item Enemy Description

Legion skull
Legion Makes your Crusher recharge faster.

Goliath tentacle
Goliath Mark detonations deal more damage the more health you're missing.

Watcher wing
Watcher Mark detonations briefly delay some creatures from using certain attacks.

Magmawing Watcher wing
Magmawing Watcher After a mark detonation, the next destabilizer shot will deal damage.

Icewing Watcher wing
Icewing Watcher Identical to regular Watcher wings.

Eye of a blood-drunk hunter
Blood-drunk Miner On mark detonation, gain stun immunity, damage-slowdown immunity and 90% damage reduction for one second.

Tail spike
Ash Drake Mark detonations deal area damage and push enemies back.

Demon claws
Bubblegum Melee hits deal bonus damage and heal you. 500% as strong during a mark detonation.

Blaster tubes
Colossus On mark detonation, the next shot moves slower, but deals damage.

Vortex talisman
Hierophant Mark detonations create barriers that only you can pass.

Craftables[edit]

Not only can you kill the local fauna, you can also cobble together items from their smashed remains. Open the crafting menu for this.

Item Description

Ash Drake armor
A really strong, storm proof hardsuit that doesn't slow you down. 5 Ash Drake hide, 2 Watcher sinews, 10 bones.

Goliath Cloak
Weaker than the standard explorer suits and can't be upgraded, but way more stylish. 2 leather, 2 Watcher sinews, 2 Goliath hides.

Lava Boat
A boat that can travel over lava, but is terribly unsafe as it'll usually set both you and held items on fire. Needs an oar to move. Crafted from three Goliath hides.

Goliath Bone Oar
An oar crafted from two Goliath bones. Robust.

Bonfire
Perfect for roasting lizard tails over. Five tower-cap logs.

Mushroom Bowl
A bowl made out of mushrooms. Crafted from five Polypore mushroom shavings.


Xenoforms[edit]

You're not always the only sentient being on the planet. Aside from the lovecraftian horrors living down there you may also content with several groups or factions of beings on the planet. Some hostile, some friendly.

The follow is a list of all known sentient groups found on the planet based on information sent from recon squads.

Podmen[edit]

Recon Expedition #4
Threat Level: Minimal, Non Hostile
Note: A small group of podmen were observed living inside a sealed vault. They appear minimally armed and seem to avoid leaving their home.

Golems[edit]

Recon Expedition #9
Threat Level: Minimal, Non Hostile
Note: A unidentified flying object was seen crashing by Recon Team Charlie during expedition #8. Alpha team on expedition #9 located a group of golems, the golems appeared utterly uninterested in their surroundings all things considered.

Ashwalkers[edit]

Recon Expedition #13
Threat Level: Medium, Hostile
Note: It appears a group of Basiliscus Lizretus, also known as Lizardmen, live on the planet, they are hostile to all intruders. These 'ashwalkers' only started to appear when mining operations started, they are agile but lightly armed, wielding primitively forged armor and spears. They appear to also have a hostile relationship with the wildlife, having been observed killing and dragging wildlife corpses away, as to why they need these corpses the recon team is unable to ascertain.

Syndicate Agents[edit]

Recon Expedition #45
Threat Level:Extreme, Hostile
Notes: It has come to attention that the syndicate (direct corporation/group unknown) has recently set up a large compound in lavaland. This may explain where expedition #38-44 has gone. They are equipped with high end weaponry and has been stated that trace bits of gunpowder has been found around the lava moat that the base is stationed in, suggesting that this base may be wired to self-destruct. We also detected radio waves coming and going from the compound. If found, turn back and report to your superiors immediately.

The Ores[edit]

These are what you should be looking out for, generally try and get a good mix of the more exotic ore types. Iron ore is ok but it sells for little and is highly abundant on the station already.

Name Wall Raw Ore Money Reward Value Processed Ore Frequency Uses
Iron 1 Very Common For just about everything.
Sand 1
Very Common 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.
Plasma 15 Common Ship sheets back to Centcom for bonus money to the cargo budget.
Silver 16 Semi-Common Making dosh, mechs, and researching Bluespace.
Gold 18 Semi-Common For making various electronics or pimping out Beepsky.
Titanium 30 Uncommon For high-tech mechs or R&D components. Also for building shuttle walls and floors.
Uranium 30 Uncommon For making you radioactive (notice: no joke, this shit is deadly as a wall or a door). Delicious cocktails.
Diamond 50 Rare For making mech parts, among other industrial uses.
Bluespace Crystal 50 Rare These crystals can be used in various ways. Give them to science to increase bluespace science, hold onto them to use as a risk free jaunter, or throw them at people to make them teleport randomly (often into space.)
Bananium 60 HONK! A rare and unusual mineral found exclusively in clown-controlled space. Used only for the H.O.N.K. mech and other clownlike items.
Gibtonite N/A Uncommon For trolling miners blowing shit up, whether they be solid asteroid or 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 arrested 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!

Alloys[edit]

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Who Needs What[edit]

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 autism science -- but it never hurts to know what to aim for.

  • Scientists at least a bit of every ore. In exchange, they may give you upgrades for your Kinetic Accelerator, a Plasma Cutter, a Mining Satchel of Holding, and, if you're lucky, Night Vision Meson Scanners or a Bag of Holding!
  • Roboticists 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 lavaproof Firefighter is the only good mech for mining.
  • The Quartermaster may want mineral sheets to trade them in for bonus supply credits. Plasma in particular is both common and valuable.
  • Everybody could always use more iron, glass and plasteel, but especially Roboticists and Station Engineers.
  • The Chemist and Xenobiologist will all appreciate having extra plasma.
  • A competent Virologist can use several sheets of uranium to create incredibly powerful healing viruses that let you heal out of crit in two seconds.
  • 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 Lavaland[edit]

While on Lavaland, you may come upon artificial structures. They can have items ranging from magical artifacts, to other lifeforms, to alien facehuggers. If you are at all unsure, always let your mining buddies know using :u before going in: some ruins can be very dangerous.

Tips[edit]

  • Always go with at least two 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.
  • You can view the contents of a mining satchel as if it were a backpack.
  • Middle mouse click swaps your hand, allowing you to shoot minerals and grat them with the satchel quickly.
  • 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 Proto-kinetic Accelerator will obliterate a space carp in one hit while in space.
  • You can dual wield PKAs. Use harm intent to fire both at once.
  • The Head of Personnel may 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.
  • 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.
  • You could alternatively buy the drone, fully upgrade it, give it an AI Module, and tell it to go valid-hunt. A mining drone dragging a bar of soap is surprisingly robust against even changelings.
  • Life improving things:
    • Mining suit upgrade : Goliath plates add +10% melee resist each time when applied to a suit. The plates will stack until they reach 30%, 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.
    • 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). Also they are ashproof. If you get fully augumented, you are ash storm proof. Downside : EMP vulnerability.
  • Kinetic accelerators can be used as infinite tools to navigate space, since every time you fire, it'll throw you in the opposite direction.
  • Sentient minebots can very easily be commanded to go help security if there is an imminent threat to the station. Their melee saw is very robust, and works just as well as on the station as it is on lavaland. The proto-kinetic accelerator that they are equipped with is very robust when in space.
  • If you dont have a mining satchel of holding, and no ore box, you can deconstruct tables in the library (the curator is probably too busy organizing a game of D&D to really care much) to obtain wooden planks. You can then use these wooden planks to fabricate an ore box.
  • If science hasn't researched Advanced Mining Technology within 10 minutes of the start of the shift, please remind them. There is normally at least 1 single person in science competent enough to do so.

Dead Space[edit]

A traitorous miner has a lot of advantages. You have a space suit for free right away 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 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, Lavaland is isolated, dangerous, and as expansive as you're willing to dig out. Plenty of room for somebody to get lost in... Forever!

Tips for Traitoring[edit]

  • 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.
    • 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.
    • Kill your target with their shouts for help unheard.
  • 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 Lavaland.
  • 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.
  • Ripley is 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.
  • 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.

Tips for Culting[edit]

If you're a miner, Mining Station is the perfect hive for a cult. The back room can easily be broken down by Constructs, runes can be placed, and a single artificer can make it very difficult for Security to try and raid. Remember to cut cameras, so a Non-Asimov AI doesn't bolt and electrocute every door. Remember to use Teleport other to get Cultists off station and into safe custody. All the station needs is a Medibot and you are golden.

Jobs on /tg/station

Command Captain, Head of Personnel
Security Head of Security, Security Officer, Warden, Detective
Engineering Chief Engineer, Station Engineer, Atmospheric Technician
Science Research Director, Scientist, Roboticist
Medical Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Chemist, Geneticist, Virologist
Service Janitor, Bartender, Cook, Botanist, Clown, Mime, Chaplain, Curator
Civilian Quartermaster, Cargo Technician, Shaft Miner, Assistant, Lawyer
Non-human AI, Cyborg, Positronic Brain, Drone, Personal AI, Construct, Ghost
Antagonists Traitor, Malfunctioning AI, Changeling, Nuclear Operative, Blood Cultist, Revolutionary, Wizard, Blob, Abductor, Holoparasite, Xenomorph, Spider, Swarmers, Revenant, Morph, Nightmare, Space Ninja, Slaughter Demon, Pirate, Sentient Disease, Creep, Fugitives, Hunters
Special CentCom Official, Death Squad Officer, Emergency Response Officer, Chrono Legionnaire, Highlander, Ian, Lavaland Role