The Miner
MINER EVENT
You can now craft a miner:
- Miner Base (crafted in Mill)
- Miner Blade (crafted in Lathe)
- Miner Arm (crafted in Mill)
- Control Box (crafted in Science Workstation)
You should then find a suitable place to mine. The miner actually mines world mineral (3 block radius straight down). So placing it in a place with a lot of ore blocks will grant the higher results.
Keep in mind that it "depletes" the blocks it mines, so you can't camp a single spot, but it MIGHT last for more then 1 run.
Once you find a suitable spot:
- Place the miner base. Make sure the spot is able to support it, you don't wanna loose it.
- Open the tool box of the miner (click and hold for options).
- Place the miner control box, arm and blade inside the tool box. This field assembles the miner.
- Place a failure relay near the base.
- Power up the failure relay
- You will see a console coming up, and a booting up sequence
- The event itself happens in 4 increasingly harder waves
- Each wave will go deeper and deeper (10blocks, 20blocks, 40blocks, down to bedrock). Use common sense to understand your returns: if the closest ore is at 41 depth, waves 1 and 2 may return only a few things!
- The deeper the miner goes, the higher the probability of finding rare gems and minerals, but the waves will also be harder.
- You can interrupt the event at any time, by cutting off the power.
- You can open the miner inventory at any time (click and hold for options)
- You can pick up the miner, once you repair it and disassemble it by removing all tools and loot.
- Failure Relay and Small Diesel Generators are now pickable EVEN WITHOUT LAND PROTECTION!
NOTE: some gems can drop anywhere, others only drop out of specific minerals.
The event will error (stop) or reset if:
- No player stays within 10-15 blocks of the miner. At least one player should always be near. If no player is present, the current wave will reset.
- Too many man made blocks near the miner, will trigger a failure protection and the miner will stop, so that you can't put blocks around it.
- Having no open sky above will trigger a failure protection and the miner will stop.
- Having no suitable place to spawn enemies will cause the miner to stop
- Any missing miner tool will cause it to stop
- NOTE: repair hit box of the base is a bit "odd", so you need to move around it. We'll fix that asap.
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