Tunneler
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Tunneler
A heavy mechanoid built for mining in treacherous locations. While intended for excavation, the tunneler's gigantic power claws and ultra-thick armor makes it a dangerous force in combat.
Base Stats
- Type
- Mechanoid
- Market Value
- 1200
- Flammability
- 0%
Armor
- Armor - Sharp
- 40%
- Armor - Blunt
- 20%
- Armor - Heat
- 200%
Pawn Stats
- Move Speed
- 1.9 c/s
- Health Scale
- 150% HP
- Body Size
- 3.5
- Mass
- 210 kg
- Pack Capacity
- 122.5 kg
- Carrying Capacity
- 263 kg
- Filth Rate
- 1
- Comfortable Temp Range
- -100 °C – 250 °C (-148 °F – 482 °F)
Melee Combat
- Attack 1
- Left power claw
22 dmg (Blunt)
33 % AP
2.9 second cooldown - Attack 2
- Right power claw
22 dmg (Blunt)
33 % AP
2.9 second cooldown - Average DPS
- 4.7
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Standard mechtech
- Resources to make
150 + 
75 + 
4 + 
1
A tunneler is a mechanoid added by the Biotech DLC.
Summary
Tunnelers are a heavy mechanoid. They are created from a large mech gestator with ??, taking up 3 bandwidth from a mechanitor. They must gestate for 4 cycles (default 1.8 game days per cycle) to be made. Once made, they recharge in a large mech recharger (50% power/day), creating 15 wastepacks whenever the recharger's waste is filled up.
In combat, tunnelers have a shield (equivalent to a shield belt) of 250 power. They can also emit smoke, though with a cooldown of 15 days. They have a melee attack. Its weakness is that each time it takes damage, it slows for a few seconds - this means that when tunnelers attack you, even if you can’t kill them quickly, you can intelligently kite them by falling back from your position to escape the blocking smoke, maintain distance and slowly whittle the tunnelers down.
tunnelers will do tasks associated with the Mining tab, though are unable to use deep drills. They can't be manually controlled, except when drafted for combat. They have an effective Mining skill of 10, with a Global Work Speed of 150%.
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Analysis
Tunnelers are useful for mass mining operations, whenever it's expanding out your mountain base or using a long-range mineral scanner. As mountinous bases tend to have pawns great at mining, which limits the former use.
Health
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Version history
- Biotech DLC Release - Added.
- Mechanoids | Core
- Centipede (Blaster, Burner, Gunner) • Lancer • Pikeman • Scyther • Termite
- Combat
- Centurion
• Legionary • Militor • Scorcher • Tesseron - Command
- Apocriton • Diabolus • War queen (War urchin )
- Labor
- Agrihand • Cleansweeper • Constructoid • Fabricor • Lifter • Paramedic • Tunneler
- Cluster
| Buildings - Condition causer • Count-down activator • Mech assembler • Mech capsule • Mech drop beacon • Mech high-shield • Mech low-shield • Mech node • Proximity activator • Unstable power cell
- Turrets
- Auto charge turret • Auto inferno turret • Auto mortar • Mini-slugger turret
- Creation | Pawn
- Mechanitor
- Buildings
- Mech gestator • Large mech gestator • Mechband antenna • Mechband dish