Steel-Toed Boots for Miners

[chaotic_idealism]

Why are we going out and using heavy equipment, tunneling through rock, without basic foot protection? Sure, we have magboots, but those mostly just help you stick to an iron hull. We don't have anything to protect our toes from the inevitable kinetic accelerator hit or carp bite. Feet don't have very many hit points; they break easily. The standard-issue miner's equipment includes nothing but regular shoes; you can pick boots in your loadout, but they're still just regular boots.

Steel-toed boots would be very sensible. They'd help prevent broken feet, which would prevent that annoying miner's dilemma: If you have a broken foot, you're a sitting duck because you can't move fast (and thus can't run and kite mobs), and will go into paincrit if you walk on your broken foot. It's an annoying, un-fun, frustrating way to die.

Okay, they're heartless megacorps, but they really should have the brains to issue steel-toed boots to miners.

[chaotic_idealism]

Other possibilities to fix the miner achilles'-heel issue:

• Have voidsuits and/or magboots be armored.
• Voidsuits and/or magboots automatically splint broken limbs. (If magboots, then just feet.)
• Make it possible to splint limbs through the voidsuit.
• Make feet less fragile; or, make it possible to run on broken feet. (Adrenaline is a hell of a drug.)
• Issue an emergency autoinjector to miners, some combination of inaprovaline/mortaphenyl/coagzolug/dexalin/hyperzine and stuff to reduce the side effects of mortaphenyl, meant to keep you going so you can get to safety.
• More generally, do something about the "get a broken foot, go into pain crit, die" issue. Pain crit makes sense; getting it from a broken foot doesn't, really. A broken foot should hurt and slow you down, not stop your heart and kill you.

But I think steel-toed boots would be a reasonable, easy to implement step in the right direction.

Edited November 23, 2023 by chaotic_idealism

[Happy_Fox]

We have these, they're called workboots. They actually provide armour to your feet.

[chaotic_idealism]

3 hours ago, Happy_Fox said:

We have these, they're called workboots. They actually provide armour to your feet.

They're not issued to miners or available in loadout; boot selection is just jackboots or cowboy boots. If workboots do indeed have enough armor to keep your feet from being so easily broken, this might be an easy fix.

Edited November 23, 2023 by chaotic_idealism

[Happy_Fox]

1 hour ago, chaotic_idealism said:

They're not issued to miners or available in loadout; boot selection is just jackboots or cowboy boots. If workboots do indeed have enough armor to keep your feet from being so easily broken, this might be an easy fix.

[DatSamTho]

"X selection" strikes again.

[wowzewow]

Seeing this as already addressed, locking and archiving.