Miner

Miner
Health	85, take 42.5% damage from headshots
Melee	Super Spade
Primary Weapons	Pump-Action Shotgun, Double Barrel Shotgun
Secondary Weapons	Drill Cannon, Blocksucker
Equipment	Dynamite, C4
Block Wallet	0 / 1000
Speed	Average
Jump Height	3 blocks
Class Type	Supportive (Offensive)
Class Skills	Destruction Close Range Combat Burst Damage Tunnelling

Why go through when you can go under? Tunnel and destroy your way to the enemy! Get up close and personal!

-In-game description

The Miner is a class in Ace of Spades. He is the best class for tunneling and demolitions, due to the extremely effective Super Spade and Drill Cannon. Miner's take around half damage from all headshots, due to their helmet.

Weapons and Equipment

Melee	Super Spade	Extremely effective digging tool, that can also be used as a melee weapon.
Primary Weapon	Pump-Action Shotgun	Deadly at close range, but ineffective at mid range and near useless at long range.
	Double Barrel Shotgun	Higher damage than the Pump-Action Shotgun, but lower range and accuracy.
Secondary Weapon	Drill Cannon	Fires a drill which causes massive block damage, and explodes after a short distance. Useful for creating tunnels quickly, or damaging structures, but poor as a weapon.
	Blocksucker	Sucks up blocks like a vacuum, and adds them to the player's block wallet. Cannot damage players. Requires the Hurt + Heal DLC Pack in order to equip.
Equipment	Dynamite	Placed on the ground, exploding after 7 seconds. Has extremely high block damage and a large blast radius making it useful for damaging structures, but players can only carry one at a time.
	C4	Similar to Dynamite, but up to 2 can be carried at one time and it is remotely detonated instead of being on a timer.

Constructs

Like all the main classes, the Miner can choose three Constructs.

Construct	Notes
Flare Block	Produces light. Not commonly used, but can be used to light tunnels or mark points of interest.
Super Dome	Very large prefab that can be used to quickly reinforce a base or hill.
Super Pole	-
Safety Corridor	Can be used to provide a protected passageway.

Tactics

The Miner is effective at close range, but near useless at a distance due to a lack of long range weapons. Players should not attempt to take on other classes at a distance, as they will likely be killed before coming into range. Instead, players should try to get up close and personal where you can kill most classes in one or two hits.

A good tactic to employ is to ambush other players by remaining in corners or against walls and killing them as they move past. "Breaching" tactics, where the player destroys a section of a wall or building (using, for example, the Drill Cannon) and charges through with all guns blazing, are also an extremely effective way to use the Pump Action Shotgun; as players can surprise enemies sheltering behind a wall and have enough shots to clear out a whole room.

The Drill Cannon can be useful as a weapon if you know that someone is behind a wall or on a ledge, because the drill will go through the blocks and kill them.

The Miner class is extremely effective at destruction, making him useful for building tunnels to the enemies intel in Capture the Flag, and destroying the enemies base in Demolition. The Miner is also useful in the Zombie Game Mode as Zombies must get close to players to damage them, making them vulnerable to the Miner's shotguns.

We can hit Dynamite to make it explode to avoid long fuse.

Match-Ups

The Miner match-ups article contains strategies for dealing with other classes as a Miner.

Damage

Approximate damage values for the Miner class. Please note that this image has only approximate damage values as it does not account for range falloff, limb/body damage differences, and shotgun damage per pallet.

Quotes

"Why go through when you can go under?"

"Up close and personal."

"Let's hit 'em where they don't expect it!"

"They can't hit what they can't see, boys."

Unused Quotes

The Miner has two quotes which can be found in the game files, but are not currently used in-game.

"Aahahahahahaha!"

"You don't wanna get in my way, boy."

Steam Trading Card Description

He may not have the combat expertise of his brethren, but the Miner can travel through the terrain with unprecedented speed and has the ability to bring down buildings with his deadly arsenal.

History

The Miner's starting block count was reduced from 500 to 0 in Version 165 (Modding Update & More!), released on September 2nd 2014.

Gallery

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  The unused icon for the Miner, found in the game files.

Trivia

• A variant of the Miner known as the UGC Builder is used in the Map Editor.
• The Miner's unused class icon bears a strong resemblance to the pickaxes in Minecraft.

Related Achievements

Image	Name and Objective	Notes
	Heads You Win 10 headshots with the shotgun	Only available in the Miner class.
	All Your Base Destroy 1000 blocks of enemy bases in demolition mode using the drill gun	Only available in the Miner class.
	Floored Genius Kill 10 enemies by placing dynamite below them then blowing out the floor	Only available in the Miner class.