Undead Miner

Undead Miner

 Classic

 Expert

 Master

Statistics

Type	Undead Enemy
Environment	Cavern
AI Type	Fighter AI
Damage	22/44›38›78/66›57›117
Max Life	70/140›154›308/210›231›462
Defense	9/9›9›18
KB Resist	50%/55%/60%
Banner	Undead Miner Banner
Immune to

Drops

Coins	250Pre-Hardmode: 625Hardmode: 5Post-Plantera: 10

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Bone Pickaxe
  5%
  2%
• Mining Helmet
  5%
• Steak
  10%
• Only 1 can drop
• Mining Shirt
  12%
  2.4%
• Mining Pants
  12%
  2.4%
• Hook
  4%
• Bomb (1–3)
  72%

Sounds

Hurt
Killed

• Internal NPC ID: 44

 Old-gen console and 3DS
Exclusive Variant

Vampire Miner

Statistics

Type	Undead Enemy
Damage	30
Max Life	90
Defense	9
Banner	Vampire Miner Banner

Drops

Coins	90

• Item (Quantity)Rate
• Bomb (1–3)
  91.2%
• Hook
  4%
• Mining Shirt
  2.4%
• Mining Pants
  2.4%
• Vial of Blood
  10%

• Internal NPC ID: 1003

"Vampire Miner" redirects here. For the Solar Eclipse enemy, see Vampire.

Undead Miners (and Vampire Miners on  Old-gen console,  Windows Phone, and 3DS) are enemies that appear in the Cavern layer and follow the Fighter AI. Undead Miners wear a Mining Helmet, which provides a small amount of light around them. This light makes them much easier to find and can sometimes reveal sealed caves, much like blooming Blinkroot. Undead Miners can break down doors.

Killing them is the only way to obtain the Bone Pickaxe, Mining Shirt, and the Mining Pants. The Mining Helmet can be obtained from Undead Miners, but can also be bought from the Merchant for 4 / 8.

On the  PC version,  Console version,  Mobile version, and  tModLoader version, it is one of the few entities that can be detected by the Lifeform Analyzer or its upgrades.

Notes

• The Vampire Miner does not take extra damage from the Stake Launcher, unlike the Vampire from the Solar Eclipse, even though they are both vampires.
• Vampire Miners do not wear the Mining Helmet and do not drop it, so keep this in mind when farming. However, they still give off light, like the Undead Miner.

Trivia

The Bestiary entry for the Undead Miner: "There's evidence of spelunkers having explored the caverns in the past... as well as evidence of them having died doing so."

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.4.1:
  • Bone Pickaxe drop chance increased from 1/50 to 1/20.
  • Mining Shirt and Pants drop chances increased from 2.4% to 12%.

• Desktop 1.4.0.1:
  • Can now be detected by the Lifeform Analyzer.
  • Now has a chance to drop Steak.

• Desktop 1.3.5: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Undead Miners now have a chance to drop Mining Helmets.
  • Can now drop its own respective banner.

• Desktop 1.2: Now has a chance to drop a Bone Pickaxe.

• Desktop 1.1:
  • Now drops the shirt and pants pieces of the Mining armor set.
  • No longer immune to On Fire! debuff.

• Desktop 1.0.4:
  • Name changed from Dead Miner to Undead Miner.
  • Health increased from 60 to 70, defense increased from 8 to 9, damage increased from 20 to 22.

• Desktop 1.0.3: Introduced as Dead Miner.

 Console version

• Console 1.0.933.1: Removed Vampire Miner. ()

• Console 1.0.750.0: Removed Vampire Miner. ()

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Nintendo Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile 1.3.0.7: Removed Vampire Miner.

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

Nintendo 3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.