Prospector
| Prospector
"Rock and stone!" |
Faction:
Freeblade |
Access Rune:
Mining |
Faction Boss:
None |
Difficulty:
Medium |
|---|
Prospectors are cave miners who make a living getting valuable materials that can be difficult to scavenge through out the dungeon floors or via the recycler.
Stat Requirement
None
Purpose
Prospectors are the material supplier of the safe zone, having formed from a loose coalition of mainly kobolds and rodentfolk to use an abandoned teleporter and scavenged equipment to find and dig up rare ores. To aid you in this regard, you have weak but universal protective suits, mining tools, and an assorted collection of melee weapons and a crossbow. To dig up the materials you need and can get a pay out for, you need to use the teleporter, a large magical machine that will take you leagues below ground where all manner of threats reside from crystal golems to dangerous creatures like wurms and nightmare stalkers. Given how difficult and dangerous your work is, you will need every bit of help you can get, be it supplies from factions who want your materials to extra bodies on hand to help you fight.
Smelting
This will be subject to change when the new materials are fully updated.
| Processing method | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name (Raw ore) | Smelting | Compressing | Alloying |
| Rough Diamond | Diamond Sheets | ||
| Hematite | Iron Ingot | Steel Sheet | |
| Raw Hydrogen | Tritium Ingot | Metallic Hydrogen Sheet | |
| Native Gold | Gold Ingot | ||
| Native Silver | Silver Ingot | ||
| Plasma Ore | Explosion | Plasma Crystal | Plasteel Sheets, Borosilicate Glass Sheets |
| Pitchblende | Uranium Sheet | Pitchblende Brick | |
| Graphene/Raw Carbon | Plastic Sheet | Graphene "Sheet" | Steel Sheet |
| Raw Platinum | Platinum Ingot | Osmium Ingot | |
| Sand | Glass Sheet | Sandstone | Borosilicate Glass Sheet |
| Alloying | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ingredient | Ingredient | Result |
| 2 Steel | 1 Plasma Ore | Plasteel Sheet |
| 2 Sand | 1 Plasma Ore | Borosilicate Glass Sheet |
| 1 Hematite | 1 Graphene/Raw Carbon | Steel Sheet |
Tips
- Don't go it alone, even the strongest prospectors can be killed if alone and caught by bad luck.
- Consider buying items on credit from the Blackwood to last longer and go deeper.
- Your crossbow is not as good as a gun, but ammo is cheap and plentiful with iron rods.
Equipment
- Pick axe - A basic tool used for digging, relies on robustness and only needs minor maintenance.
- Drill - A basic fuel powered tool, requires a bit more maintenance but works faster for weaker prospectors.
- Hell Diver suit - A suit made from a handful of iron plates and leather from hell divers, provides weak but universal protection without slowing you down at all.
- Crossbow - Slow to fire and low damage but easily obtained ammo can be crafted yourself and brought plentifully, good for downing weak creatures or softening up stronger ones. Deadly with multiple prospectors all shooting the same target.
Advanced Tips
- You do not need to mine everything, the teleporter can be re-calibrated to find easier locations with less hostiles when you get the easier mineral veins.
- Nobody can hear you down there, if you die alone and don't have a life rune, nobody will find you for quite some time.
| Roles in Hammerfall | |
| Command | Hammerlord, Master of the Forge, Merchant, Penumbra, Exalted, Speaker |
| Breakers | Hammerlord, Master of the Forge, Sledge, Ashman, Firebrand |
| Ashwood Syndicate | Merchant, Penumbra, Agent, Fixer, Beast Master |
| Ascendant | Exalted, Speaker, Rune Master, Rosaria, Seeker |
| Freeblades | Gardener, Jester, Custodian, Prospector, Resident |