reinvigorate mining

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One if the best things I've seen in another codebase was a machine you dumped your ores into, giving the miners reward points to spend on gear.

But because of this centralised drop off point, it also meant that departments could be notified when mining found new materials.

I don't know if the direct reward thing is something we want but going back to the automated refining unit idea, having a PDA mailbot that let relevant departments know a specific material has been discovered would be a tremendous boon.

That's in TGcode at the very least. You go mine in the scary lava world, come back, dump off your shit for points, buy stuff and either go back to the lava world or wander the station with your cool new anime glasse

It's basically the single best thing that Mining could ever want. It's scary, dangerous, and filled with rewards beyond measure. It'd be interesting if TeleSci could be used to shoot portals over to certain planets for their bounties, but that's a good bit of work and probably for another discussion. It'd definitely legitimize TeleSci for things not the Solarium and encourage the hell out of interdepartmental cooperation, but yeah.

Let's keep it within the possible for now:

Leave in the mining magnet for Destiny, that thing is sort of necessary for the long rounds they run.

On-station, however? No mining magnet. Spruce up the mining z-level and bring back the random spawns for minerals, especially erebite. I really miss erebite.