Minemaster

The **Minemaster** is the manager of a diamond mining corporation that operates out of the Frozen Wasteland. He appears in Missions 5 and 6 of Assassin of Steve. He is a zombie pigman wearing diamond and iron armor, and wields two diamond pickaxes.

## Biography

The Minemaster was once a Tribal Snout, and a part of the Great Pigman Revolution, as he and his sister, the Minemistress, both ended up in the Frozen Wasteland together. They ended up forming Minemaster Mining, Inc., the Minemaster recruiting monsters and the Minemistress planning out where they would mine, being the smarter of the two. But one day, much to the his dismay, she left to go to the Disaster Desert where she started her own mining corporation to compete with his. He desperately wanted the Minemistress to come back, but she never did.

When the player arrives at his mines in Assassin of Steve, who believes he has formed a pact with the Assassin, he claims (correctly) to not be working with the Assassin, and blows an explosive trap that drops the player into a cavern with his pet Aracold spider. The players slay Aracold, the spider only able to buy him a little bit of time to escape in a minecart to his mining base. Eventually the player catches up, and he fights them, desperately digging away several times to escape the player's inexplicable strength. But each time, the player is able to trigger explosives to find where he burrowed to, and is eventually cornered and killed.

## Characterisation

The Minemaster is aggressive but at the same time cowardly, preferring to let his workers do the dirty work and even leaving his pet spider to its death so he can escape and live. He seems to care about his sister, but whether or not he genuinely cares about her as a sister or if it is just out of her ability to plan out where to mine is not clear.

### Aracold Spider

*Main article: Aracold*

The Minemaster owns a pet Aracold spider, a large female spider who breeds by going into a frozen stasis and laying egg sacs on nearby cave walls. It is not known how it came to be his pet, though Dr Mutation did write a book titled Anatomy of the Aracold Spider. Again, it is not known if Dr Mutation wrote it based on his pet spider or if it was a book he bought off of Amazon Prime.

When the player arrives, he traps them by dropping them into the cavern with the spider, expecting her to kill them, but she is killed.

## Minemaster

### Armor Enchants

Fire Protection I
Thorns I

## Boss Fight

*Main article: Mission 6: Under a Rail*

In the Minemaster boss fight, you fight him and some of his minions in a cave, but he will dig away after thirty seconds. You then have to solve a code in order to trigger some explosives to reach him, and the same process will repeat itself until you reach the last cavern, which has a minecart track with Tunnel Guardians going around the outside. In this cavern he is finally killable, but he has a lot of health.

## Trivia

* The Minemaster is the first boss fight where you have to kill a mob with health since the Emerald Miner. Every mission after this one contains at least one boss where this is the case.
* If you trigger the explosives that causes lava to flow out and then trigger the explosives to blow up the floor to reach the final cavern, the lava will flow down into the cavern. While the Minemaster can't be hurt by lava, it can greatly slow him down.
	+ It used to be possible for him to swim all the way up the lava fall to the top, and become unreachable and unkillable, softlocking the player. This was fixed in 1.8 Patch 7 by making it so if he swims up too far he will teleport back down.