Rival Prospector Drone

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Rival Prospector Drone
Family	Rival Tech
Location
Biome	All
Spawn Pool	Rare Boss Enemy
Spawn Restriction	50% chance to replace a Rare Boss Enemy. Spawn at map creation.
Spawn Note	Can only have one per mission.
Basic Information
Attacks	Evacuation Protocol Summon Reinforcements Immunity Barrier
Health	3000 base (Boss Scaling)
Weaknesses
weakpoint?	Side Engines: ×3 multiplier (300 base HP)
Resistance	-100%  -100%  -30%  -200%  100%  -100%
Creature Model
Side
Caption	Weakpoint
Status Immunity
On Fire Immunity	Yes
Freeze Immunity	Partial
Electrocution Immunity	No
Mov. Speed Penalty Reduction	0%
Stun and Freeze
Stun Duration	× 0
Stun Immunity Window	0 s
Stun Pause Logic	No
Freeze Pause Logic	Yes
Fear
Fear Immunity	Yes
courage	0
Aggro
Ignore Pheromone Aggro	Yes
Ignore L.U.R.E. Aggro	Yes
Movement
Movement Speed	7.5 / 6 / 1.5 m/s
Movement Speed	7.5 / 6 / 1.5 m/s
Fear Speed mult.	× 1.5
Fear Speed mult.	× 1.5
Acceleration	9 m/s2
Acceleration	9 m/s2
Deceleration	5 m/s2
Deceleration	5 m/s2
Pathfinder Type	Fly
Pathfinder Type	Fly
Pathfinder Preference	Floor
Pathfinder Preference	Floor
Strafe Speed	1.5 m/s
Strafe Speed	1.5 m/s
Max. Strafe Distance	-0.01 m
Max. Strafe Distance	-0.01 m
Effective Temperature
Max. eTemp.	100 °
Max. eTemp.	100 °
Min. eTemp.	-490 °
Min. eTemp.	-490 °
Burn eTemp.	1000 °
Burn eTemp.	1000 °
Freeze eTemp.	-490 °
Freeze eTemp.	-490 °
Douse Fire eTemp.	100 °
Douse Fire eTemp.	100 °
Unfreeze eTemp.	-100 °
Unfreeze eTemp.	-100 °
Cooling Rate	30 °/s
Cooling Rate	30 °/s
Warming Rate	520 °/s
Warming Rate	520 °/s
Die if On Fire	N/A
Die if On Fire	N/A
Warming Cooldown	1 s
Warming Cooldown	1 s
On Fire Heat Range	2 m
On Fire Heat Range	2 m
Max. Cold Slowown	60%
Max. Cold Slowown	60%
Update Time	1 s
Update Time	1 s
Die If Frozen	No
Die If Frozen	No

“	The Prospector Drone is sent by a Rival Company and programmed for curiosity and thorough work, it researches every nook and cranny around areas of Hoxxes for mining potential. If attacked it will call for help from its fellow drones and flee to avoid its precious data being lost in the depths.
	— Miner's Manual Description

The Rival Prospector Drone is a relatively passive rival tech drone that can be encountered wandering on Hoxxes. If attacked it will attempt to flee in distress, and will call in Patrol Bots and Shredders. It has no means of attack other than summoning rival tech bots to attack the Dwarves.

Whenever one of the 3 health segments are depleted, it will summon an orange shield and become immune to damage for 10 seconds, or up to 20 seconds if spawned Patrol Bots exceed number of active players. Immediately after this shield is engaged, a wave of Patrol Bots and Shredders will also spawn to protect the Prospector Drone. This can happen twice.

If the Prospector Drone manages to escape the dwarves by reaching a safe location several dozen meters away from them, it will return to passive mode and the Drone's healthbar will fade until reengaged. However, the Drone will now become alert on proximity of a nearby dwarf in addition to it also being able to be disturbed by taking damage as normal. Every time a Prospector Drone is allowed to escape and is reengaged it will spawn an additional wave of Patrol Bots and Shredders.

Upon death it will drop a Data Cell which can then be deposited in the M.U.L.E.. It also drops small amounts of collectible mineral chunks as well as "soil samples" which cannot be collected.

Combat

The Prospector Drone alone is entirely defenseless, and is incredibly fast. The bright orange engines on the rear can be destroyed with enough damage, and doing so will slow it down significantly.

Health and Armor

Effective Health Scaling		Hazard Level
		Normal Mission								DD			EDD
		1	2	3	4	5	TE 1	TE 2		3	3.5		4.5	5	5.5
Player Count		600	900	1500	2100	2250	3375	3937.5		1500	1800		2100	2250	2250
		1200	1200	1650	2250	2400	3600	4200		1650	1950		2250	2400	2400
		1800	2100	2700	3000	3600	5400	6300		2700	2850		3300	3600	3600
		2400	3000	3600	4800	5100	7650	8925		3600	4200		4800	4800	5100

Trivia

• The prospector drone was going to occasionally stop at the prospector data deposits and deposit its data. This was scrapped before release.