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Mole miners, mutated humans obsessed with mining resources, have started showing up at mines, caves, and other mining-related locations. Previously subjects to Enclave experimentation, these mutant humanoids escaped the bunkers and dug their way to the desert. Mojave mole miners have much in common with their distant Appalachian cousins.
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Translations
- Mandarin
- Changelogs
FEATURES
Mole miners are mutated human-like creatures that occupy caves, caverns, mines, mineshafts, trainyards, and above-ground mining locations in the area. They frequently carry items important to their old mining jobs such as keys and resources, as well as post-war junk, heavy ammo, and lethal weapons. The mole miners were first experimented upon by the Appalachian Enclave Research Division in 2086 and some classified experiments in the Mojave were linked back to Enclave remnants many years later. Some highly secret reports show scientists splicing the genes of volunteer miners with mole rats, transfusing various organs and bones. Many mole miners have endured significant degeneration presumably caused by intense radiation and infection that cultivated underground. Now, they are functionally immune to further radiation.
Mole miners possess increased strength due to their mutations, enabling them to effortlessly handle heavy weapons. Most mole miners share many similarities with their Appalachian cousins, but these variants have some unique attributes. Mole miners in the Mojave no longer have a concern of respiration from the Ash Heaps of Appalachia. This increase in respiration and lung performance allows them to move quickly to their target. Without needing heavy, uncomfortable masks on their faces they exhibit increased endurance and perception. Their bodies have progressively mutated over their clothing and armor, making most of their apparel permanently attached to their bodies. This has seemingly driven many mole miners mad causing them to attack anything they perceive as a threat. However, they seem to share a strange fellowship with mole rats, even helping them in fights.
Mole miners (and their many variants) now frequently patrol places like mines, mineshafts, caves, caverns, mountains, and the outskirts of quarries in search for natural resources like coal, gold, silver, and gems. Some mole miners carry tools like pickaxes and coal shovels. Otherwise, mole miners equip edged melee weapons and various shotguns (and occasionally, missile launchers), making them a decent resource for missiles or shotgun ammunition. Other mole miner loot includes scrap metal, rocks, and various forms of coal. Paranoid purveyors have the chance to drop rare junk like coal dust, coal powder, and coal gravel. The notorious treasure hunter variant of mole miners is known to hoard stolen goods. Some things they regularly hoard is unique equipment, bottlecaps, pre-war money, gold coins, gold nuggets, silver nuggets, and gold bullion. Treasure hunters usually never attack, fleeing every chance they get to protect their treasures. Many rumors in the Mojave mention larger, mutated mole miner juggernauts roaming the desert. Juggernauts are said to carry unique, rare loot.
INSTALLATION
Choose only one file to install. For manual installation, extract the file to your game’s data folder. For a mod manager installation, install the file with your preferred mod manager.
COMPATIBILITY
Some issues or conflicts may occur with mods that make changes to caves, caverns, mines, mineshafts, quarries, or trainyards.
KNOWN ISSUES
This mod uses several models and assets combined together to add a new lore-friendly enemy type to the wasteland, this means however, some clipping of the arm, chest, and leg meshes (in addition to armor and clothing) is present in the initial version. These clipping mesh issues will be worked on indefinitely. Sometimes, mole miners only equip melee or explosive weapons and can possibly get stuck between aiming or holstering.
PLANNED FEATURES
Mole miners will drop rad-x. Different mole miner pails will be dropped by treasure hunters on death, with very rare and valuable loot. Abandoned mining sites and mine shafts as well as old miner's lockers will be unlocked and looted with various keys in future versions. Mole miner patrols accompanied by pack mole rats. Mole miners will have a chance to drop more valuable treasures and other natural resources. Crafting for water filters using surgical tubing and coal at the campfire.
RECOMMENDED
If you prefer the vanilla style icon for the pickaxe, use Mojave Mole Miners Pickaxe Pip-Boy Icon Replacer.
Mojave Mole Miners users may be interested in my other creature additions like Wasteland Birds, Wandering Wanamingos, Lost Enemies in the Mojave, Peaceful Super Mutants, The Hills Have Spore Plants, Endless Feral Ghoul Desert, and Forgotten Feral Ghouls.
CREDITS
This mod uses assets from various mods and resources including Qs Critters Resource, Monster Mod, Monster Mod Additions, Misc Items Use as Weapons, Lucky Jim's Cache, Creature Resources and Mods, Rags to Riches, Treasures of the Wastes, and Marts Mutant Mod. Consider endorsing the original authors mods. This mod was inspired by similar features in Fallout 76, Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Van Buren, and Fallout 4.
Mole miners are mutated human-like creatures that occupy caves, caverns, mines, mineshafts, trainyards, and above-ground mining locations in the area. They frequently carry items important to their old mining jobs such as keys and resources, as well as post-war junk, heavy ammo, and lethal weapons. The mole miners were first experimented upon by the Appalachian Enclave Research Division in 2086 and some classified experiments in the Mojave were linked back to Enclave remnants many years later. Some highly secret reports show scientists splicing the genes of volunteer miners with mole rats, transfusing various organs and bones. Many mole miners have endured significant degeneration presumably caused by intense radiation and infection that cultivated underground. Now, they are functionally immune to further radiation.
Mole miners possess increased strength due to their mutations, enabling them to effortlessly handle heavy weapons. Most mole miners share many similarities with their Appalachian cousins, but these variants have some unique attributes. Mole miners in the Mojave no longer have a concern of respiration from the Ash Heaps of Appalachia. This increase in respiration and lung performance allows them to move quickly to their target. Without needing heavy, uncomfortable masks on their faces they exhibit increased endurance and perception. Their bodies have progressively mutated over their clothing and armor, making most of their apparel permanently attached to their bodies. This has seemingly driven many mole miners mad causing them to attack anything they perceive as a threat. However, they seem to share a strange fellowship with mole rats, even helping them in fights.
Mole miners (and their many variants) now frequently patrol places like mines, mineshafts, caves, caverns, mountains, and the outskirts of quarries in search for natural resources like coal, gold, silver, and gems. Some mole miners carry tools like pickaxes and coal shovels. Otherwise, mole miners equip edged melee weapons and various shotguns (and occasionally, missile launchers), making them a decent resource for missiles or shotgun ammunition. Other mole miner loot includes scrap metal, rocks, and various forms of coal. Paranoid purveyors have the chance to drop rare junk like coal dust, coal powder, and coal gravel. The notorious treasure hunter variant of mole miners is known to hoard stolen goods. Some things they regularly hoard is unique equipment, bottlecaps, pre-war money, gold coins, gold nuggets, silver nuggets, and gold bullion. Treasure hunters usually never attack, fleeing every chance they get to protect their treasures. Many rumors in the Mojave mention larger, mutated mole miner juggernauts roaming the desert. Juggernauts are said to carry unique, rare loot.
INSTALLATION
Choose only one file to install. For manual installation, extract the file to your game’s data folder. For a mod manager installation, install the file with your preferred mod manager.
COMPATIBILITY
Some issues or conflicts may occur with mods that make changes to caves, caverns, mines, mineshafts, quarries, or trainyards.
KNOWN ISSUES
This mod uses several models and assets combined together to add a new lore-friendly enemy type to the wasteland, this means however, some clipping of the arm, chest, and leg meshes (in addition to armor and clothing) is present in the initial version. These clipping mesh issues will be worked on indefinitely. Sometimes, mole miners only equip melee or explosive weapons and can possibly get stuck between aiming or holstering.
PLANNED FEATURES
Mole miners will drop rad-x. Different mole miner pails will be dropped by treasure hunters on death, with very rare and valuable loot. Abandoned mining sites and mine shafts as well as old miner's lockers will be unlocked and looted with various keys in future versions. Mole miner patrols accompanied by pack mole rats. Mole miners will have a chance to drop more valuable treasures and other natural resources. Crafting for water filters using surgical tubing and coal at the campfire.
RECOMMENDED
If you prefer the vanilla style icon for the pickaxe, use Mojave Mole Miners Pickaxe Pip-Boy Icon Replacer.
Mojave Mole Miners users may be interested in my other creature additions like Wasteland Birds, Wandering Wanamingos, Lost Enemies in the Mojave, Peaceful Super Mutants, The Hills Have Spore Plants, Endless Feral Ghoul Desert, and Forgotten Feral Ghouls.
CREDITS
This mod uses assets from various mods and resources including Qs Critters Resource, Monster Mod, Monster Mod Additions, Misc Items Use as Weapons, Lucky Jim's Cache, Creature Resources and Mods, Rags to Riches, Treasures of the Wastes, and Marts Mutant Mod. Consider endorsing the original authors mods. This mod was inspired by similar features in Fallout 76, Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Van Buren, and Fallout 4.