Tearful Light Miner

* Standard
* Ascended

### Related Spirits

The **Tearful Light Miner** is a Regular Spirit in Hidden Forest who offers the  Crying Expression. The Tearful Light Miner is found in a cave near the end of Boneyard, to the right of the broken bridges. The only collectible offered by this Spirit is a  Hair.

## Memory

The Tearful Light Miner can be found in a cave near the end of Boneyard, to the right of the broken bridges. There are four openings in the roof of the cave, in addition to the two ground-level entrances that are blocked by Darkness Plants. This Spirit is a standard memory quest with 5 memory fragments and an unlimited overall time limit. All of the memory fragments are sheltered from the rain.

As you relive its memory, you can see the Tearful Light Miner and three other Spirits trapped within the cave by the Darkness Plants covering the entrances. Several large boulders then collapse and pin down two of the unfortunate Spirits, and the Tearful Light Miner and remaining Spirit desperately attempt to free them from the rubble - to no avail.

Some time later, a pair of grave markers made of small stones are stacked in the center of the cave in honor of their memory. The desolate Tearful Light Miner rests with the other surviving Spirit, who has since been engulfed by a Darkness Plant that the player must burn. They do not survive, and the Tearful Light Miner is once again left behind with another addition to the grave markers.

At the end of the memory, the Tearful Light Miner remains the sole survivor of the tragedy. Filled with grief over their fallen companions, they cover their face with their hands and weep.

## Expression

This Spirit offers the  Crying Expression and has 6 Levels. It is one of only two Expressions to have 6 Levels instead of the usual 4 (the other being  Wave).

Levels 5 and 6 (and the second Wing Buff that unlocks them) are not needed to complete Hidden Forest's Constellation.

* Level 1 will make your avatar hunch forward and tilt their head down, with both hands raised to cover their face as they cry.
* Level 2 makes the same motion as Level 1 with light particles representing tears falling from their eyes.
* Level 3 will make your avatar fall to their knees and slump forward, with their hands raised to cover their face as they cry.
* Level 4 makes the same motion as Level 3 with light particles representing tears falling from their eyes.
* Level 5 will make your avatar slump and fall onto their back to flail all four limbs in a tantrum, and then splay out with a huff.
* Level 6 makes the same motion as Level 5 with light particles representing tears falling from their eyes.

The prices of the five Expression upgrades are 3 , 4 , 4 , 5 , and 5 . Levels 3 and 4 are only available after unlocking the Spirit's first Wing Buff, with Levels 5 and 6 only available after unlocking the second.

## Cosmetics

### Hair

The Hair offered by this Spirit is a simple long, straight hairstyle that reaches the player's shoulders, costing 3 . It is permanently available to all players after unlocking the Friendship Tree's second node.

The Hair iconThe Hair frontThe Hair sideThe Hair back
## Friendship Tree

This shows all the collectibles that can be purchased from this Regular Spirit. All items are permanently available to all players who have relived the Spirit's memory. Additional information can be found at Friendship Tree.

This Spirit's Friendship Tree contains two Wing Buffs to unlock. The second Wing Buff unlocks the ability to upgrade the Expression two more times, for a total of five upgrades. Only the Tearful Light Miner and the  Waving Bellmaker have two Wing Buffs and five Expression upgrades.

## Trivia

* A bug was introduced in Patch 0.21.5 that blocked progression of the Tearful Light Miner's memory, as the 2nd memory fragment was placed out of reach. The Spirit's memory could still be completed by using OOB tricks to access the misplaced fragment. This bug was later fixed in Patch 0.22.0.
* The Darkness Plants covering the two ground entrances to Tearful Light Miner's cave, together with those covering the skeleton in Boneyard and those in Rejecting Voyager's tunnel, are the only Darkness in the game that cannot be burned by Capeless players. Capeless players who try to burn them will receive a message that says, "You need more  to melt this."

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 This item does not count toward Constellation completion.