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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 150 , 75 , 4 , and 1 , taking up 3 bandwidth from a mechanitor. They must gestate for 4 cycles 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, but with a Global Work Speed of 150%.

Analysis

Tunnelers are useful for mass mining operations, whenever it's expanding out your mountain base or using a long-range mineral scanner. Tunnelers are not subject to illness or mental breaks, and only recharge for 2 days out of every 12. At about skill 13 a normal colonist with no traits or health conditions will mine as fast as a tunneler operating without a Mech Booster or Sublink bonus, and a similar colonist at skill 20 mines about as fast as a mech-boosted Tunneler with no Sublink bonuses. Installing a Drill arm allows a Skill 5 pawn to mine faster than an unboosted Tunneler.

Work Speed

The following table summarizes the work speed effects of operating within the influence of a Mech Booster and having control sublinks installed by the Mechanitor. All values are for 50%+ lighting conditions.

Control Sublinks	Work Speed	Mech Boosted
0	150%	225%
1	156%	231%
2	162%	237%
3	168%	243%
4	174%	249%
5	180%	255%
6	186%	261%

Health

Specify body type when known.

Body part	Health
Head	38
Skull	38
Brain	15
Nose	15
Neck	38
Jaw	30
Eye ^[1] (left, right)	15
Ear (left, right)	15
Body	60
Kidney^[2] (left, right)	23
Lung^[2] (left, right)	23
Liver^[2]	30
Heart^[2]	23
Spine^[2]	38
Stomach^[2]	30
Limbs (left, right, fore, hind)	45
Appendage (left, right, fore, hind)	30

↑ Located inside of Head.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

Version history

Biotech DLC Release - Added.

Mechanoids

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

[Head-1] Located inside of Head.

[Body-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 Located inside of Body.

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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]]. Tunnelers are not subject to illness or mental breaks, and only recharge for 1/6 days, so are likely to mine faster compared to even a high skill pawn. However, especially with [[bionic arm]]s or [[drill arm]]s, a very high skill pawn can achieve faster mining speeds, and slightly more [[Mining Yield]] than the mechanoid.
+Tunnelers are useful for mass mining operations, whenever it's expanding out your mountain base or using a [[long-range mineral scanner]]. Tunnelers are not subject to illness or mental breaks, and only recharge for 2 days out of every 12. At about skill 13 a normal colonist with no traits or health conditions will mine as fast as a tunneler operating without a Mech Booster or Sublink bonus, and a similar colonist at skill 20 mines about as fast as a mech-boosted Tunneler with no Sublink bonuses. Installing a [[Drill arm]] allows a Skill 5 pawn to mine faster than an unboosted Tunneler.
 ===Work Speed===