Shaft Miner

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Shaft Miner

Access: Mining Station, Mining Station EVA, Cargo Office, Mineral Storage, Maintenance Additional Access: Cargo Bay, MULEbot access Difficulty: As Hard as my shaft 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. Don't die. Guides: Lavaland, Megafauna, Auxiliary Base Construction Area Quote: Their last words were: "(Insert last words here)"

Alright mob bait, this is your guide for mining for our *cough* beloved *cough* NanoTrasen and half the reason why everybody is here on this death trap. So break some rocks, grab that ore, defend yourself against hostile monsters, and try to avoid dying because odds are good nobody's even going to notice that you're missing. Even if they do, they're looking for a needle in a haystack that's currently on fire and full of nails. So familiarize yourself with this guide before heading on down to Lavaland and maybe you'll even come back with ancient artifacts of great power. Or don't, I'm not your babysitter, much less your mother.

Bare minimum requirements: Bring ores back and dump them off for the ORM to refine. Advanced Requirements: Survive to the end of the shift.

Workin' In The Coal Mine

Mining Dock

The Mining Dock is your access to the Mining Station.

Mining is a tedious, thankless job but somebody's gotta do it and you already signed the paperwork. Now, this isn't to say that you can't earn some pretty powerful equipment or cool rewards, but there's a lot of things to keep in mind and a lot of things to learn. Luckily for you, I've put in a lot of time at this job and this counts as community service. No, the details aren't important.

They say war is hell, but supposedly only sinners go to hell. So, this is worse than hell. This is war and you've got some dangers to look out for:

• Ash storms will cut right through most clothes and armor, dealing constant burn damage if you're outside. A rain of dark particles outdoors and you'll get a text notice in your chat box before an ash storm hits. Seek shelter or make one immediately using a Blue Space Shelter Capsule as things get much darker during the storm.
• Lava - Step on this and you'll get burned and be set on fire. As a reminder, move to solid ground before dropping and rolling around to put yourself out. (No, seriously. Click on the Resist button or use the B hotkey.) Thankfully, it's rather bright and easy to see.
• Chasms - Anything that falls into these is gone. Forever. This includes you unless you had the foresight to get a clone scan.
• Wildlife - Despite popular belief, Lavaland has quite a bit of native lifeforms. Unfortunately, it usually wants anything sapient to be dead. Be especially careful around the big ones unless you want to become paste.
• Ash Walkers - Most of the wildlife has basic, animal-level intelligence. Not these lizards, they're smart enough to speak and understand Draconic. They're also smart enough to realize that you're better equipped than they are, so they won't start anything if you don't. I personally advise not starting anything with them as the wildlife hates them too and you'll never know when they might save your ass.
• Space-Lag - The biggest bane and killer of miners. Space-Lag will halt the entire world for a few moments. Keep calm, take a few breaths, and don't rapidly start trying do a bunch of things at once. (Don't spam key commands.) If somehow you find yourself compelled to keep moving in a certain direction, take a moment to meditate and contemplate your actions. (Tap 'Tab' twice.)

Working With Your Boss

You answer to the Quartermaster, much like the rest of Supply, who is commonly referred to as "QM". As for their boss, that would be the Head of Personnel, who is commonly called "HoP". The QM can watch cameras on lavaland and has also full access to Mining. However, they're usually too busy overseeing the rest of Cargo to do something like track down your carcass.

The Objective

To actually do your job, swing a pickaxe or use a drill on a section of rock to start breaking it apart. The Kinetic Accelerator, or KA for short, will also destroy a tile of rock immediately, leaving the ores behind. Drills and picks can be used on multiple tiles of rock at once, but the basic ones will be rather slow. The pick also doubles as a melee weapon, but remember that backpack space is at a premium. Thus, most miners will leave picks and drills on the station or in the mining base. Once your storage is full of ores, drag your bags and/or ore box back to the station to the Ore Redemption Machine , AKA the ORM. Drag the box next to the machine or empty your bags onto the floor to automatically have them processed into sheets. As a reminder, do NOT use the ores directly onto the ORM! You will NOT get mining points this way! Click "claim" when using the ORM to retrieve Mining Points, your reward currency to your work ID. Finally, visit the department Techfab for any new gear that science has researched (Always click "Sychronize Research" before you go looking.) and buy better stuff from the company store, I mean, Mining Rewards Vendor before going back down for more ores.

How to Do This

Problem Quirks

The following quirks will ensure that your time as a miner will be short, painful, and probably messy. Some of these can be accommodated for, but others I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I highly advise rebuilding your character or consider a different, probably safer career.

• Blind Yeah, the reasons to not take this are pretty obvious. I'm not saying that it can't be done, I'm just saying that it's virtually impossible.
• Fat-Fingered Not actually a deal-breaker as there is a mod that you can put into a KA to accommodate your digits. Alternatively, you could just stick to a Crusher-type weapon.
• Flimsy Lowers your total health by 20%. Again, not a dealbreaker, but you'll be more likely to die from taking damage.
• Monophobia While having a "mining buddy" seems like a great thing, most miners are solitary beings and for good reason. I highly advise taking a more "people-oriented" job.
• Nearsighted Another handicap that can be worked around as the techfab can make prescription meson goggles, once science has done the research. Sadly, there's no prescription version of night vision meson goggles.
• Nyctophobia While lavaland is VERY DARK, contrary to popular belief, you start with a seclite and can attach it to your KA. You can also find more seclites in the lockers and the survival dagger even includes a brighter light. This is more of a problem if you prefer crushers or lose your KA, but this can be worked around.
• Pacifist You're going into a combat zone and are unable to take hostile actions. Again, not saying it can't be done, but I strongly advise a different career path as even Security would be a better choice for you.
• Paraplegic Sometimes running really is the only option you have, and you'll be much faster if your legs work. You're welcome to try, but I highly advise looking at a different career as sometimes even mechs are a liability.
• Poor Aim Not as much of a problem as you'd think, grab a crusher and have at it.
• Reality Dissociation Syndrome There's plenty of real monsters down here, you don't need to be dealing with imaginary ones on top of that.

Helpful Quirks

You'll find some of these quirks to be quite useful during your time as a miner while others... Not so much. Ignore the haters and their cries about genetic enhancement abuse, you got ores to haul and some of these will be an advantage for you.

• Ashen Resistance Ash storms won't burn you to death, but you'll still take a lot of stamina damage. I wouldn't advise a lot of activity outside in an ash storm, much less combat, but this will buy you a lot more time to find shelter or even just survive as long as you're not near any hostiles. This is also the only job-specific quirk you can have on the station.
• Night Vision Again, contrary to popular belief, lavaland is dark. REALLY DARK. This means you're able to see just a little bit better.
• Self-Aware Not as helpful as you'd think because this mostly covers things like knives embedded in you. No, most fauna will just bludgeon or burn you to death which makes this mostly useless.
• Tough Being able to take more punishment and survive is a great thing in a place like this. While the quirk is rather expensive at 4 points, having a larger body (120% or higher sprite size.) and carrying around a Normalizer accessory like a band is practically free.

Gearing up

1. (Optional) Go to medbay to be clone scanned, especially if you're new to the job. (Completely optional if you're a robot, have the DNC quirk, or just don't feel like it.)
2. Your starting equipment includes a mining outfit, mining boots, survival knife, seclite, suit voucher, and a mining voucher.
3. Gear up! The mining equipment locker contains sandbags, box of empty sandbags, shovel, compact pickaxe, mining radio headset, seclite, plant bag, mining satchel, automatic mining scanner, proto-kinetic accelerator (KA), optical meson scanner, bluespace shelter capsule, Landing Field Designator and a mining winter coat. Absolutely grab the automatic mining scanner, bluespace shelter capsule, a second mining satchel, and the KA unless you're going with a crusher. Now, you could be nice and use the plant bag to bring back flora samples for Hydropnics, but very few do. A shovel is needed to dig up the volcanic floor for piles of ash which are refined for glass, but you can always drop it off in the mining base if you don't need it.
4. You can save some space by putting the seclite onto the KA. You can also attach the knife to your KA to function as a bayonet, but you can also put it into your boots as all boots can store a couple small items, and silently draw it back out with an Alt-Click.
5. Use your suit voucher to claim either a SEVA suit (Low defense, but gives immunity to ash storms.) or an exo suit. (More defense, but gets outshined by a fully upgraded explorer suit.) If you don't want either, you could also be generous and toss the voucher into the public mining area in case a civilian wants to venture into lavaland, like the paramedic heroically trying to recover your corpse later.
6. Use your voucher on a mining vending machine to select your choice of advanced mining tools, listed below.
7. Pick up the silver and iron ore inside the mining shuttle airlock and toss them into the ORM, do NOT go down to lavaland with them! This will actually help out science by giving them a little kick start and let them make an RPED to upgrade parts in your ORM. Better parts means more points per ore, SO DO IT.
8. Go to the Lavaland Mining Station and get an oxygen tank from Mining 'EVA'. This is also where you can pick up a mask and the beloved explorer suit, which can have its defensive values increased by putting three goliath plates each onto the body and hood.
9. Pick up a GPS device from this room, change the MINE0 name to yours, and put it into a pocket, NOT a backpack! A lot of major threats can and will splatter you into a mess of limbs and gibs. Anything worn, like your outfit and backpack, will be destroyed and the only surviving items will what was in your hands and pockets. So, if you want somebody to be able to find your disembodied head, GPS goes into pocket. (This also applies if you didn't max out your suit sensors.)
10. The south entrance past the lockers is the public access mining area and to the west of there contains some small bedrooms, a kitchen with a sink and microwave, bathroom, a small medical supply room, and a maintenance room to refill air tanks.
11. Before you go, you may want to drag an ore box with you, but I would actually advise against it. Each mining satchel is able to hold a total of 50 ores, and each slot in explorer's webbing can also hold 50 ores of one type. Ores also don't take up much space in a backpack until you start going past 30. So, by the time you're getting full, Science should have mining tech like the Bluespace Mining Satchel (Same storage capacity as an ore box but fits in your pocket.) and KA mods researched. The ore box also hinders your maneuverability a bit, making it harder to dodge attacks from goliaths. Mobs can also destroy your ore box, and it can be annoying to get the wood needed to make another.

Smashing rocks

Go forth and find minerals! The further north, the better the ore. Activate your scanner and shove it into your bag or explorer webbing. Every once in a while it sends out a pulse that lets you see deposits in the rock a few tiles away from you. (The Advanced Mining Scanner has a much greater range.) Some ores are obviously more valuable than others and I'll list them all here:

• Metal/Iron Large white lumps: Used in constructing almost everything in the station. Rather common and not worth a lot of points, but still needed especially early in the round.
• Glass Volcanic ash: Found by digging up volcanic floor tiles with a shovel. Each tile gives 5 piles of ash, so you only need ten tiles to fill up a mining satchel or explorer webbing slot. Stupidly common and also not worth many points, but vital for station construction and making a number of items.
• Silver Light grey veins: Used most heavily by Sci and in various items. Better mining points value, but there's much better to be had.
• Gold Dark yellow lightning: Used in a lot of higher end items but a lot less valuable now that this is a post-scarcity society. Still worth some mining points.
• Diamond Cyan dust: Used in the highest tier machine parts and equipment. Worth a lot of mining points, but is pretty rare. Can also be found by butchering watchers.
• Plasma Purple shards: The reason why the station and everybody is here. Fairly common, but worth less points than you'd think for its importance.
• Uranium Green fragments: Not actually radioactive until it's been enriched. Worth a fair amount of points and used in things that require a potent power source.
• Bananium Yellow bananas: So incredibly rare that you'll probably never need to worry about it. Worth a boatload of points, though.
• Titanium Dark grey clumps: Used in heavy duty construction and highly durable objects. Worth more points than iron but less common.
• Bluespace Crystal A single blue speck: Very rare and also very valuable. Do NOT throw until you like wasting lots of points and getting teleported to a random location.
• Gibtonite Large blue crystal with a red core: This isn't a mineral, this is a potent explosive. If you hit it, retreat out of the explosion radius. (Ten tiles should be more than enough.) You can also halt the explosion by using your mining scanner on it. The explosion destroys crystalline minerals like diamond and bluespace crystals, so be careful.
• Plastic Not a mineral. If somebody's yelling at you to find this, beat them with a shovel and then politely redirect them to chemistry. Cargo can also order it from CC.

1. Miners also have access to the science channel, using ".n" for "nerd". This will usually be used to ask if they have mining research "done yet", asking them to research night vision which has a stupidly low priority to them, or letting them know you're heading back with high grade stuff like diamond and bluespace crystal so it would be a good idea for them to upgrade the ORM to its limit with whatever they have right now.
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 got enough to consider taking up juggling, return to the main station with your phat lootz. Do not deliver ore to the processing plant on the lavaland mining base, as that room is outdated and broken. Why it hasn't been replaced with a second ORM is anybody's guess. I personally blame NT's maze of red tape and pointless paperwork.
4. Dump your ores onto the floor tile which is the ORM's input tile! The ORM ORM will automatically pick up and process the materials while recording the points you've earned. The Input tile is always the opposite of the output tile and is on the side closer to the mining dock. Satchels can be dumped onto the floor by double-clicking or using Z while Ore Boxes can be dragged over the same tile in order to be emptied.
5. Do NOT use ores on the ORM directly! This will result in the ores being taken but NO mining points will be generated. This is a known issue, one persisting from before even I started. Why this is still like this, I really don't know.
6. Click the "Claim" button on the ORM to get your points. You do not need to insert your ID and they're stored in your Account ID. A competent HoP can make a new ID with your Account ID to restore your mining points and credits.
7. Check for better equipment from Cargo's Department Techfab. (Hit the Synchronize Research button before looking for things.) As long as the station has the materials and the item is researched, everything is simply available. You can get the beloved Plasma Cutter, the much better Advanced Plasma Cutter, and the all important Mining Satchel of Holding Important note that you can get the important modkits for your KA, for free, from here.
8. Go to a mining equipment vendor to buy advanced equipment with the points you've gained. Your first items should be an Advanced Mining Scanner and a Survival Dagger but only AFTER replacing those Bluespace Shelter Capsules you used.

Life beyond smashing rocks

1. Use your better gear to push deeper into Lavaland. Two cooldown upgrade modkits and a damage upgrade modkit in your KA will make most of the basic mobs much easier.
2. If you feel robust or bored, explore some ruins and die horribly get amazing rewards.
3. If you feel VERY robust, look for Megafauna with your GPS and try to kill it for extremely valuable loot. Just be aware that failure will probably result in you getting turned into a red smear on the basalt.

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, which goes on the belt slot, allows you to carry even more mining equipment and can fit 50 ore of one type into any single space. - having a second shelter capsule is nice too.
• Resonator Kit: Comes with a resonator, and a mini extinguisher.
• Mining Drone: A little companion that helps in storing ore and hunting wildlife. Only useful once you install the sentience upgrade module which allows a ghost to control it. Comes with an upgraded industrial welding tool (Has 80u of fuel.), 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.
• Crusher Kit: Contains a proto-kinetic crusher 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 to upgrade it.
• Mining Conscription Kit: Contains all a single crew member needs to become mod food go mining. The machine pops out a duffel 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.

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 an equipment vendor. You can then in turn use these items to push further into Lavaland to mine more minerals, fight 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 Stabilizer Serum on Legion Cores, to instantly heal yourself or save lives with it (Doesn't instaheal on station). 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 the suit and hood with up to 3 goliath plates. Melee 30-60, bullet = 10, laser = 10, energy = 20, bomb = 50, bio = 100, rad = 50, fire = 50, acid = 50.
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	Meson Scanners allow you spot lava pools and other tiles at ease, for easy orientation around Lavaland with low light. The Mining Scanner can be activated to 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 on Harm Intent at the price of lower accuracy and speed. Alternatively, use other intents and switch hands after every shot to get around the accuracy reduction. KAs deal brute damage (40 standard/10 in pressurized rooms), but count as bomb damage. 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 corpse 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 medipen for surviving in harsh environments. Heals most common damage sources. Instantly injectable. Contains 10u Salbutamol, 15u Neo Jelly, 15u Leporazine, 10u Epinephrine and 2u Lavaland Extract.
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.
Suit Voucher	Found in your backpack, exchange this at the mining equipment locker for an alternative suit than an explorer suit. SEVA Suit Is an ashproof suit but it has low protection against wildlife and goliaths stuns you longer with their tendrills. Not spaceproof. Melee 15, bullet = 10, laser = 10, energy = 10, bomb = 35, bio = 50, rad = 25, fire = 100, acid = 25. Exosuit Is a robust suit focused for fighting dangerous animals. Goliaths will hardly stun you. Not an ashproof nor spaceproof suit. Melee 55, bullet = 5, laser = 5, energy = 5, bomb = 40, bio = 25, rad = 10, fire = 0, acid = 0.
Seclite	A beefed up flashlight. Does 9 damage. Attachable to a Kinetic Accelerator.

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 crusher. Nevertheless it can be used to dig wide tunnels, robust things in melee combat and as a backup if you lose your kinetic tool. 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/trophies, 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 points:

Voucher/Reward Equipment(WIP

These items can either be acquired from a voucher, or can be bought with mining points, usually earned from delivering ore to the Ore 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
File:Whiskey bottle.png Whiskey	A bottle of alcohol, helps you forget you literally work in hell.	a100 Points
File:Absinthe bottle.png Absinthe	A bottle of alcohol, helps you forget you literally work in hell.	a100 Points
Cigar	A high-quality havana cigar.	a150 Points
File:Soap.png Soap	A bar of slippery soap.	a200 Points
File:Laser pointer.png Laser Pointer	Just a laser pointer, don't point it into people's eyes. Useful to be annoy people's eyes, play with felinids and disorient Cyborgs.	a300 Points
File:Facehugger.png Toy Facehugger	An extremely realistic-looking facehugger toy, to prank the crew with. Latches onto faces and tears off masks.	a300 Points
File:Bottle17.png Stabilizing Serum	Can be used on legion souls to prevent them from decaying for later use.	a400 Points
File:Fulton beacon.png 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 stasis bed, a stationary GPS beacon and some warm donk-pockets.	a400 Points
File:Gar mesons.png GAR Mesons	A pair of very sharp meson scanners. Can be thrown as a weapon, with a chance to embed.	a500 Points
File:Miner webbing.png Chest Webbing	A storage rig fitted with many hooks, cables, pouches and pockets. Can hold a wide variety of mining equipment. Fits in your belt slot, think of it as a toolbelt for Shaft Miners.	a500 Points
Chest Webbing	Can hold more ore than a regular mining satchel. Why would you waste Mining Points on this?	a500 Points
Survival Medipen	Contains several healing and heat-stabilizing chemicals. Using more than one in a short period may cause overdosing. See contents here.	a750 Points
Brute Trauma Treatment Kit	Contains bandages and brute-healing patches.	a600 Points
Burn Treatment Kit	Contains Oxandrolone pills, burn-healing patches and a epinephrine medipen.	a600 Points
First-Aid Kit	Just a regular medkit that contains sutures and regenerative meshes to heal the most common damages(Brute and Burn).	a600 Points
File:Implanter.png 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
File:Jaunter.png Wormhole Jaunter	One-use item that instantly 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. The Jaunter is incredibly useful as an emergency escape tool when your death may be imminent while fighting Megafauna. There is the possibility that you'll end up in space surrounding the station. Better hope you're lucky.	a750 Points
Proto-kinetic Crusher	A powerful two-handed melee weapon. Clicking shoots kinetic bolts that don't deal damage, but can mark large creatures making the axe deal increased damage (20->70 Brute) when used on them. It will deal even greater damage (100) on backstab. What makes the Crusher special, is that enemies killed by it have a chance to drop trophies, powerful "modkits" that can only be attached to the Crusher.	a750 Points
Proto-kinetic Accelerator	The classic mining weapon. Buy it from here if you lost your first one.	a750 Points
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
File:Resonator.png Resonator	Another deadly tool. This will, when used on rock or an empty space, create a field on that spot that lasts until detonated, causing serious damage (60 Brute) to anything standing on it. Has 2 modes: Automatic detonation after 2 seconds, or manual which triggers after you hit a field with resonator. You can activate it in your hand to switch mode. Fields can chain detonate. Just like the kinetic accelerator, it does reduced damage (20) in pressurized environments. Using it on an already-marked spot will instantly rupture the field.	a800 Points
File:Fulton pack.png 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. You can use it on yourself as a way to quickly return to the station, though it isn't instant like the Wormhole Jaunter. If you have space in your backpack, it will be stashed in your bag automatically when used on yourself rather than dropping on the ground.	a1000 Points
File:Lazarus hypo.png 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.	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 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 Points
File:Mining jetpack.png 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
File:Cash 1000.png Space Cash	A thousand credits, to spend however you want! Useful if you want to buy Goodies from cargo, or if you just want to shore up the station funds.	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, gaining a unique appearance when partially and fully upgraded. Melee 30-60, bullet = 5, laser = 10, energy = 5, bomb = 50, bio = 100, rad = 50, fire = 50, acid = 75, wound = 15.	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
File:Resonator.png 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. Also comes with a third mode: Matrix traps, which makes fields detonate when someone walks over them.	a2500 Points
File:Jump boots.png Jump Boots	A pair of boots that allow you to jump over three tiles, skipping chasms. Does not prevent lava damage, however.	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
Empty Shelter Capsule	This shelter is more like a "Build Your Own Shelter", offering a breatable and habitable room of 9x9 tiles and includes an APC .	a5000 Points
Luxury Elite Bar Capsule	A luxury bar in a capsule. For when you have nothing else to blow all your points on. Bartender required and not included.	a10000 Points
Luxury Elite Bar Capsule	The absolute pinnacle of luxury in terms of survival capsules. While exuberantly expensive it has everything needed to make a small home in lavaland.	a15000 Points
File:Modkit.png KA White Tracer Rounds Mod	A modkit that makes your KA's projectile flight path visible, in a white color.	a100 Points
File:Modkit.png 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
File:Modkit.png Super KA Chassis Mod	A modkit that makes your KA look yellow, like one of the no longer existing Super-Kinetic Accelerators.	a250 Points
File:Modkit.png Hyper KA Chassis Mod	A modkit that makes your KA look orange, like one of the no longer existing Hyper-Kinetic Accelerators.	a300 Points
File:Modkit.png KA Range Mod	A modkit that increases your KA's range by 1.	a1000 Points
File:Modkit.png KA Damage Mod	A modkit that increases your KA's damage by 10.	a1000 Points
File:Modkit.png KA Cooldown Mod	A modkit that reduces your KA's cooldown by 0.25 seconds.	a1000 Points
File:Modkit.png KA AoE Damage Mod	A modkit that makes your KA hit in a 3x3 AoE, dealing 20% of the original damage per modkit. Even with one just one AoE modkit, it allows your KA to mine in that same 3x3 area. Combine with Cooldown modkits for maximum rock destruction.	a2000 Points
File:Premium KA.png Premium Kinetic Accelerator	A premium kinetic accelerator fitted with an extended barrel and increased pressure tank.	a8000 Points
Premium Kinetic Melee Kit	Gives you a dufflebag with a kinetic melee voucher and a free survival dagger.	a2250 Points
File:Kinetic Glaive.png Proto-Kinetic Glaive	An elegant modified design version of the Kinetic Crusher, resembling to a Glaive. Deals the same damage as the Kinetic Crusher but you can parry attacks with it.	aObtainable from Premium Melee Kit.
File:Kinetic Gloves.png Proto-Kinetic Gauntlets	A modified design version of the Kinetic Crusher, resembling to a pair of Gloves. Now you can have an excuse to fist-fight monsters. You can parry with it but it deals less melee damage on front(15-60) than the Crusher but deals higher melee damage from behind(130). When parry, the enemy turns around.	aObtainable from Premium Melee Kit.
File:Survival dagger.png Survival Dagger	An enhanced survival knife. Comes with a built in flashlight and butchers twice as faster than the Survival Kniife.	a550 Points
File:Kinetic Destroyer.png Proto-Kinetic Destroyer	The enhanced version of the Proto-Kinetic Crusher. Revised and refined by veteran miners, possess a sharper head of plastitanium and finishes off most larger creatures with ease.	a12000
File:MiningDrone.png Mining Drone	This helpful little guy goes around collecting loose ore so you don't have to. Will drop its haul when you hit it with the mining scanner. Clicking on it with an empty hand will toggle it between ore collection and wildlife fighting mode, where it will attack xenos with its built-in kinetic accelerator and drill. Will not pick up sand with no nearby ore around, for some reason. Comes with an upgraded welding tool if redeemed via voucher. It cannot be repaired while it is fighting. It can be further upgraded with special modules bought from the vending machine to increase its effectiveness.	a500 Points
File:Circuitboard.png Drone: Melee Upgrade	Increases the Drone's melee damage.	a400 Points
File:Circuitboard.png Drone: Health Upgrade	Increases the Drone's health.	a400 Points
File:Circuitboard.png Drone: Ranged Upgrade	Decreases the Drone's ranged weapon's cooldown.	a600 Points
File:Circuitboard.png Drone: AI Upgrade	Installs a high tech AI into the Drone (grants a ghost control over the Drone).	a1000 Points
Precise Kinetic Accelerator	Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. (Placeholder text)	a10000 Points
Rapid Accelerator	Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. (Placeholder text)	a10000 Points
Heavy Accelerator	Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. (Placeholder text)	a10000 Points
Modular Accelerator	Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. (Placeholder text)	a15000 Points
File:BYOKA.png Build Your Own Kinetic Accelerator	A very customizable mining weapon of 300% mod capacity. Hilariously deals no damage, melee-like range and has a long cooldown.	a30000 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 holding money and entering the station.	a250 Points
File:Science Goggles.png Science Goggles	A pair of regular science goggles.	a250 Points
File:Monkey Cube.png Monkey Cube	A single monkey cube. Just add water.	a300 Points
Toolbelt	A toolbelt, like the ones on station.	a350 Points
File:Sheetrd.png Royal Cape of the Liberator	A replica of the Liberator's cape. A must-have for every Free Golem.	a500 Points
File:Slimegrey.png Grey Slime Extract	Ever wanted to do Xenobiology on Lavaland? There you go.	a1000 Points
File:Modkit.png 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 from your departmental techfab after research.

RnD Gear

Item	Description
File:Mining Drill.png 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:Diamond Mining Drill.png 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:Sonic Jackhammer.png 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 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 KA Range Mod	A modkit that increases your KA's range by 1.
File:Modkit.png KA Damage Mod	A modkit that increases your KA's damage by 10.
File:Modkit.png KA Cooldown Mod	A modkit that reduces your KA's cooldown by 0.25 seconds.
File:Modkit.png 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 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 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 Mining Satchel of Holding	Very cheap mining satchel that can hold an unlimited amount of minerals and ore.
File:NV meson glasses.gif 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!

Wildlife

Creature	Description	Threat
File:Legion.png 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 core when killed. Hit yourself with the core 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 active legion cores can be inserted into one's chest (as an organ) through surgery to provide a hands-free use of it, which will automatically activate if you fall into crit. tl;dr strategy: Attack at the comfort reach of your KA, hack your way through the legion and its heads until the host is mush, two KA hits kill a Legion, or one KC mark detonation from behind. Alternativelly, a robust melee weapon can be helpful too if you find a Legion.	Low
File:Watcher.png 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
File:Lavaland Imp.png Lava Imp	A very annoying bipedal creature, being in the lowest of hierarchy of demons, they're flimsy, dying by one or two crusher hits but they are rapid and use "hit-n-run" tactics. The imps are persistents, hard to de-aggro and shoots igniting fireballs at longer distance, but when at close range they will either still shoot more fireballs or attack you in melee when they're too close of the player. Tip: If you spot an imp and you cannot fight it, the best you can do is flee before it spots you, or if one or several spots you, take cover between the rocks and let them approach at you to be capable of attacking them until you kill them. When dead, you can butcher them for meat, bones and plasma ore.	Medium-High
File:Shambling Miner.png Shambling Miner	Slow but slightly durable, Shambling Miners aren't really humans, not anymore... They attack any player who spots but they're easy to fight or run from them. When killed, they have a chance to drop their Proto-Kinetic Crusher, but their crushers are at a lamentable state and rusty that their mark detonations are the weakest of the Kinetic Crusher family. Tip: You can easily robust a Shambling Miner for their slow reaction and movement speed at the safe distance of your accelerator, hit and run o even facetank the Shambling Miner if you have a very reliable melee armor, but don't underestimate their damage, they hurt as much as a Crusher(20 brute) per hit. A gang of Shambling Miners shouldn't be match for you but be careful of not be surrounded by several of them.	Low-Medium
File:EdgyGoliath.png Goliaths	The bane of many careless miners. These monsters carry a hefty health pool, a mean wallop, and a deceptively dangerous ranged tentacle attack. They are inherently resistant to lasers, so using a 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
File:Tendril.png 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 , imps, shamblers and watchers, every once in a while. The tendrils themselves are slightly durable, but a Kinetic Accelerator can let you easily break it with minimum risk, if you can fight through the other mobs protecting their tendrills. 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(lol, who uses gibtonite to destroy a tendrill?). 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. Communicate with your fellow miners before destroying a tendrill, some tendrills are considered important an other might require help to destroy them.	Medium to Very High
File:Goldgrub.png Goldgrubs	Mostly harmless and quite rare. These creatures swallow up any loose, valuable ore they can find and flee when approached by a human, smashing through even solid rock on their path of escape before burrowing into the ground. A tactic toward killing one is to throw an ore towards it, and quickly charging in to kill it while it's busy eating, but note that kinetic accelerator shots do nothing against these. Their skin is reflective, requiring a melee weapon 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
File:Ash drake.png 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. Usually, several Megafaunas have a slow movement speed, meaning 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