Mining Laser
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| Mining Laser | |
|---|---|
| A neat little mining weapon. Does a bit of damage, too.
Upgrade using your Tricorder. | |
| Category | upgradeableTool |
| Tier | 1 |
Primary 
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Damage per hit: 0.1 Rate of fire: 5 |
| Rarity | common |
| Price | 100 |
| Stack size | 1 |
| Two-handed? | No |
| Upgradeable? | Yes |
| Tags | ranged tool mininggun mininglaser theaUninfusable upgradeableTool |
| ID | basicminertest |
Improved Mining (Engineering tree).
Mining Laser is an alternative mining tool available to be crafted in the Tinkering Table. The Mining Laser has multiple tiered upgrades, which increase the Mining Laser's mining speed and area.
Unlike conventional mining tools, the Mining Laser does not mine in a selected area, but instead rapidly fires projectiles in order to damage tiles. This results in lower precision. This is offset however by the increased power and the ability to dual-wield them for even greater effectiveness. Additionally, they mine background walls as well as foreground.
Upgrades
Once crafted, you can upgrade the Mining Laser in your Tricorder. Each upgrade adds a small boost to mining speed, area, and length of beam.
| Name | Tier | Speed | Area | Cost (Total)
Manipulator Modules |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Mining Laser |
1 | 1 | 4 | N/A |
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P-7 Miner |
2 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
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A-7C Miner |
3 | 3 | 6 | 6 (9) |
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B-97 Miner |
4 | 4 | 6 | 9 (18) |
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C-7 Miner |
5 | 8 | 6 | 12 (30) |
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D4-B Miner |
6 | 10 | 6 | 15 (45) |
|
KX-1 Miner |
7 | 15 | 8 | 18 (63) |
|
CT-4 Miner |
8 - 20 |
21 | 8 | 24 (87) |
Upgrading the final form of the mining laser (CT-4 Miner) is possible (up to tier 20). This gives more range, more damage, less energy use. However, fire rate and area will remain unchanged (they reach their maximum at tier 8).
Mining Laser and background blocks
Mining Laser will "accidentally" mine the background blocks when you fire it at nearby foreground blocks.
Mining Laser can't purposely target the background blocks, because it works by creating an "explosion" near the blocks that it hits. But projectiles in Starbound (including the Mining Laser's beam) don't hit background blocks, so Mining Laser won't be able to hit them directly.
Mining Laser as combat weapon
Damage of Mining Laser is very low, but there are armors (such as Spacefarer or Warp Miner) that give a serious bonus to it. It can also be extremely effective against multi-segment enemies like Burrowers.
How to obtain
Tinkering Table
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Used for
Upgrade item
| Mining tools (they remove blocks from the ground, and then give these blocks to you) | |
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| Direct well-controlled mining | |
| Very fast erratic mining | Mining Laser |
| Explosives that mine blocks (without losing the blocks) |
Crude Bomb · Powder Keg · Throwing Dynamite · Blasting Dynamite · C4 Plastic Explosive |
| Long-distance mining tools | Quarry · Blastcap Launcher · Matter Staff · Boom Cannon |
| Ore detectors | Precision Ore Detector · Multi-ore Detector · Cave Detector · Ore Drone I · Ore Drone II · Ore Drone III · Mining Drone |
| Mech arms for mining | Mining Cannons (I, II, III), mech Drills (Iron, Tungsten, Zerchesium, Diamond, Densinium) |