Shaft Miner

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Shaft Miner

Access: Mining Station, Mining Station EVA, Cargo Office, Mineral Storage Additional Access: Maintenance, Cargo Bay, MULEbot access, Quartermaster's Office Difficulty: Hard Supervisors: Quartermaster and Head of Personnel Rank: Not defined Duties: Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife. Go on an adventure in mysterious ruins. Guides: Lavaland, Auxiliary Base Construction Quote: Spare vouc- oh.

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

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

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

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 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 buy new gear if you want, take your crate and it's back to the mines!

How to Do This

Gearing up

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 a additional mining satchel, and a shovel.
2. Attach your seclite and knife to your proto-kinetic accelerator to save space.
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.
6. For extra safety, grab a GPS device, set it to your name and tell the other miners about it. If you're lucky, they will drag your lifeless body back to cloning.

Smashing rocks

1. Find dem minerals - the further North, the better the stuff. Activate the scanner and shove it in your 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 station with your Ore box. Ask RnD to upgrade the Ore Redemption Machine (ORM).
4. Drag your ore box past the ORM. That'll empty it and you can collect your miner points with your ID. You can deliver the resulting sheets to departments, but that'll usually just get you involved in their greed fueled feuds.
5. Don't bother with the Lavaland smelter - it won't give you miner points.
6. At the mining equipment vendor you can get advanced equipment with the points you've gained.

Life beyond smashing rocks

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

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 - pickaxe, 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. 1000 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 mining points, you can then use these points to buy better and more powerful equipment and supplies from a equipment vendor. You can then in turn use these items to push further into Lavaland to mine better 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 saving up for a Legion Stabilizer can let you save their instant healing heart for later. Or you can spend it all on booze and cigars.

Default Gear

The following is a list of default mining equipment:

Essential Equipment

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.
32px 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, 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, Tricordrazine, 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 and some donk pockets. It also has a sleeper 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.
32px Ore box	Used for carrying huge amounts of ore. While a satchel can only hold 50 nuggets, this can hold an unlimited sum. You cannot carry it, but you can drag 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 items listed above.
Seclite	A beefed up flashlight. Put this on your KA to free up inventory space.

Miscellaneous Equipment

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.
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, points being earned by mining.

Voucher/Reward Equipment

These items can either be acquired from a voucher, or are bought with points earned via mining via the redemption machine on the station. Prices are included.

Mining Equipment Vendor

Mining Equipment Vendor List

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 Points
10 Marker Beacon	Same as above, but 10 beacons.	a100 Points
30 Marker Beacon	Same as above, but 30 beacons.	a300 Points
Whiskey	A bottle of alcohol, helps you forget you literally work in hell.	a100 Points
Absinthe	A bottle of alcohol, helps you forget you literally work in hell.	a100 Points
Cigar	A high-quality havana cigar.	a150 Points
Soap	A bar of slippery soap.	a200 Points
32px Laser Pointer	Just a laser pointer, don't shite it into people's eyes. Useful against rogue Cyborgs.	a300 Points
Toy Facehugger	An extremely realistic-looking facehugger toy, to prank the crew with. Latches onto faces and tears off masks.	a300 Points
32px Stabilizing Serum	Can be used on legion souls to prevent them from decaying.	a400 Points
Fulton Beacon	Creates an anchored beacon when used in hand that fulton packs can target as a drop-off point.	a400 Points
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 Points
GAR Mesons	A pair of very sharp meson scanners. Can be thrown as a weapon, with a chance to embed.	a500 Points
Chest Webbing	Can be worn on the belt slot, stores mining equipment.	a500 Points
Survival Medipen	Contains several healing and heat-stabilizing chemicals. Using more than one in a short period will cause several overdoses.	a500 Points
Point Transfer Card	A card that can store mining points, to transfer between miners.	a500 Points
Brute First-Aid Kit	Contains bandages and brute-healing patches.	a600 Points
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 Points
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 Points
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 Points
Proto-kinetic Accelerator	The classic mining weapon. Buy it from here if you did not get one at roundstart.	a750 Points
32px 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 Points
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 Points
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 Points
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 Points
Silver-plated Pickaxe	Slightly better than the default pickaxe, but still a lot worse than your starting KA.	a1000 Points
Mining Conscription Kit	Contains a pickaxe, 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 1000 Points
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 Points
Space Cash	A thousand credits, to spend however you want! Of course, it's almost completely worthless on the station.	a2000 Points
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 Points
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 Points
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 Points
Jump Boots	A pair of boots that allow you to jump over three tiles, skipping chasms.	a2500 Points
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 Points
KA White Tracer Rounds Mod	A modkit that makes your KA's projectile flight path visible, in a white color.	a100 Points
KA Adjustable Tracer Rounds Mod	A modkit that makes your KA's projectile flight path visible. Use in hand to cycle between colors.	a150 Points
Super KA Chassis Mod	A modkit that makes your KA look yellow, like one of the no longer existing Super-Kinetic Accelerators.	a250 Points
Hyper KA Chassis Mod	A modkit that makes your KA look orange, like one of the no longer existing Hyper-Kinetic Accelerators.	a300 Points
KA Range Mod	A modkit that increases your KA's range by 1.	a1000 Points
KA Damage Mod	A modkit that increases your KA's damage by 10.	a1000 Points
KA Cooldown Mod	A modkit that reduces your KA's cooldown by 0.25 seconds.	a1000 Points
KA AoE Damage Mod	A modkit that makes your KA hit in a 3x3 AoE, dealing 20% of the original damage per modkit.	a2000 Points
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 Points
Drone: Melee Upgrade	Increases the Drone's melee damage.	a400 Points
Drone: Health Upgrade	Increases the Drone's health.	a400 Points
Drone: Ranged Upgrade	Decreases the Drone's ranged weapon's cooldown.	a600 Points
Drone: AI Upgrade	Installs a high tech AI into the Drone (grants a ghost control over the Drone).	a1000 Points

Free Golem Equipment Vendor

The Free Golem ship has some extra goodies:

Golem Equipment Vendor List

Item	Description	cPrice
Extra ID	An extra ID that works for redeeming points and entering the station.	a250 Points
Science Goggles	A pair of regular science goggles.	a250 Points
Monkey Cube	A single monkey cube. Just add water.	a300 Points
Toolbelt	A toolbelt, like the ones on station.	a350 Points
Sulphuric Acid	A 50 unit beaker of sulphuric acid. Useful in combination with The Liberator's Legacy.	a500 Points
Royal Cape of the Liberator	A replica of the Liberator's cape. A must-have for every Free Golem.	a500 Points
Grey Slime Extract	Ever wanted to do Xenobiology on Lavaland? There you go.	a1000 Points
Trigger Guard Modification Kit	A trigger modkit that allows golems to use the Kinetic Accelerator.	a1700 Points
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 Points

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.

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.
32px 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 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 damge. 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 raw plasma 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 raw plasma into it.
32px 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 torches in lavaland.

All of this gear is printed out at the supply department protolathe, except for the Mining Satchel of Holding, which has to be printed out by the science 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!

Wildlife

Creature	Description	Threat
Legions	Considered annoying at worst, and a free medkit 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 instantly restore your health to its maximum, and even cure diseases or any other ailment on your body. It also has the side effect of purging any beneficial chemicals from your system, so don't munch one just after injecting a survival pen. 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, legion souls, spoilt or not, 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.	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 gibonite. Butcher a watcher for 2 pieces of diamond ore. Use your ore box for cover while shooting them with your KA from a distance. 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. 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

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

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. 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. 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.
	Inquisitor Hardsuit and 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 an 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!

For the bosses' loot, see Megafauna.

Crusher trophies

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 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

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

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
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

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

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

Recon Expedition #45
Threat Level:Extreme, Hostile
Notes: It has come to attention that the syndicate (direct corperation/ 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-distruct. We also detected radio waves coming and going from the compound. If found, turn back and report to your supiriors immediatly.

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.

Name	Wall	Raw Ore	Point 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 supply points.
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

Some ores can be smelted to produce alloys.

Plasteel

Plastitanium Found in: Syndicate spacecraft Used for: 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

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

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

• 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

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, Lavand 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

• 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.

Jobs on
	Command	Captain, Executive Officer, Bridge Staff
	Security	Head of Security, Security Officer, Warden, Detective, Brig Physician
	Engineering	Chief Engineer, Ship Engineer, Atmospheric Technician
	Science	Research Director, Scientist, Roboticist
	Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Chemist, Geneticist, Virologist, Paramedic
	Service	Janitor, Staff Judge Advocate, Bartender, Cook, Botanist, Clown, Mime, Chaplain, Curator
	Munitions	Master At Arms, Munitions Technician, Flight Leader, Fighter Pilot, Air Traffic Controller
	Cargo	Quartermaster, Cargo Technician, Shaft Miner
	Civilian	Assistant, Gimmick
	Non-human	AI, Cyborg, Positronic Brain, Drone, Personal AI, Construct, Ghost
	Antagonists	Traitor, Malfunctioning AI, Changeling, Heretic, Nuclear Operative, Blood Cultist, Bloodling, Revolutionary, Wizard, Blob, Abductor, Holoparasite, Xenomorph, Spider, Swarmers, Revenant, Morph, Nightmare, Space Ninja, Slaughter Demon, Pirate, Sentient Disease, Creep, Fugitives, Hunters, Syndicate Drop Trooper
	Special	CentCom Official, Death Squad Officer, Emergency Response Officer, Chrono Legionnaire, Highlander, Ian