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18.3 Miner
Mining divides into ore and enmatter mining. Mining isn’t cheap to skill, but if you got some knowledge in it, like where to find what, you can compensate the “luck”-factor a bit.
The basic stuff can be bought at the trade terminal. Mining skills will give you a higher detection radius and better depth, increasing your chance to find deposits.
Skills in mining, will allow you to find the more rare stuff. So, the better you are skilled, the better is your chance to find the really rare and expensive stones.
18.3.1 The mining process
In both cases you need a detectonator
the tt one for ore
for enmatter
and an excavator
tt one for ore
for enmatter
And you need the “ammo”.
For ore mining you need bombs, 1 bomb per ped
for enmatter you need probes, 2 probes per ped
Theoretically it means that you have a better chance to find something for the same costs if you mine enmatter, but enmatter findings are usually smaller than the ore findings.
The mining is in both cases similar. You go out in the wilderness (but people also found deposits in or near towns) take your detectonator in your hands and use it. A bomb/probe is planted on the grounds and detonates (you won’t be hurt). After a couple of seconds a window of your detectonator will pop up, with 3 possible results it can tell you:
- “Found x”
That’s nice so far, if you have found something the detectonator will show you with flashing arrows where you have to go.
