Crafting -- beYou Excavator

The beYou Excavator is our first drivable piece of equipment!

The beYou Excavator locates and produces crafting elements and garbage on your land. Crafting elements are the end goal when it comes to using the excavator. You will be gaining most, but not all, of the same elements that are produced in the beYou mining caves. However, now you can this device instead of having to spend your time mining.

The beYou excavator can dig up items such as beYou Coal, beYou Aluminum, beYou Copper, bY Sand. and beYou Raw Iron. In addition it also can dig up garbage items and other materials.

## Requirements/Limitations

* LEP Level of 15 (or higher)
* beYou Hud required
* Owner only
* 10% hygiene, 10% energy & 20% wellness
* Must have your own land or a large place to rez and drive your excavator (doesn't matter if land, sky or sea as long as you have rez ability)

## Tools Needed

As with all equipment in beYou, you will need specific tools to either operate or clean your excavator.

### Operating

* 1 - beYou Fuel/Gasoline (to start it up) - only available at beYou, next to the excavator

NOTE: If you are missing beYou Gasoline your Excavator will sit still and it will not be possible to start.

### Cleaning (optional)

* 10 - beYou Water (checks for 1 water asset but takes 10 when cleaning is finished)

### Maintenance

To repair the excavator, you will need the beYou Excavator Repair Kit. You can make it using the beYou Maintenance Kit Toolbox or you can buy it from other users via the local markets.

When it's time to clean/repair the device, you will sit on it and it will automatically check for the toolkit and if you have it, it will start to repair. If not, you will receive a message letting you know what you need in order to clean and repair it.

## Basic Options

Rez out the beYou Excavator and sit on it (Right-click and select "Ride"). You will need to be wearing the beYou Hud or you will be kicked off. Once you are sitting on the Excavator you will be presented with the following menu options:

1. Gas Up - Will put gas into the tank and allow for it to start. (Once gassed up you will have to sit once again to start)
2. Clean - Will clean your Excavator (allow this process to finish and don't stand up once started) and provides dedication, mana, and mood
3. Maintenance - Will perform maintenance on your Excavator (allow this process to finish and don't stand up once started) and provides dedication, mood, and reputation
4. Reset - Will reset the Excavator. This depletes your existing gas supply so only use this when you have to.

## Excavating

Once you have your Excavator started up and are sitting in the cockpit your gas will start to go down. Please remember this! For each tank of gas, you only have a certain amount of time to search for excavation sites. What this means is you will not be able to just sit in one spot and excavate to your heart’s desire! You must move around and find suitable places to dig. What does this mean? It means that you must move away from the last location you used the excavator each time you start it and after completing a dig. How far must you move? It depends on random circumstance however it will never be further than 50 meters and it will never be smaller than 25 meters. Expect your next excavation location to be somewhere between 25 and 50 meters from where you started.

You must drive this distance! Selecting the Excavator and trying to move it manually will not work. You MUST drive it! You can monitor how much further you have to go by watching the excavation meter that shows up every time you stop. If you are moving away and come to a stop you will see a progress meter show up. You must get this progress meter to 100% before you can start excavating again. Please remember this as you begin to do your work! You can maximize your output if you don't waste your time.

Once you get to an excavation location click on your Excavator and select "Excavate". This will begin the digging process and it will take the same amount of time to excavate no matter where you are so please do not stand up in the middle or you will have to find another site. Once you have finished digging one of three things will happen:

1. You may find a raw element in various amounts.
2. You may find garbage in various amounts.
3. You may find nothing (Oh boy)

Yes, it’s possible that a dig site may be empty. This is just part of the game and part of the challenge.

That’s it! Please make sure to let your excavator run out of gas once you start digging. Standing up will stop the gas from going down but it will not let you gas back up until you've completely drained the gas tank. Remember this because you should not stand up while excavating to re-fuel. You can only re-fuel once you've run out of gas.

## Garbage

Garbage is an interesting & random byproduct of using the excavator...for ALL users. When it is dug up, it will be delivered to you (SL inventory) right away. Garbage will yield a few possibilities. It can provide plant fertilizer, tree fertilizer, or refuse.

### Fertilizer(s)

Garbage that is revealed to be fertilizer of any kind will be placed in your assets. You may use or sell it using the Orchard Shed (an item that is player-made).

### Refuse

Refuse is added immediately to your expired assets in different amounts and is available for compost when you're ready. Remember that expired items have a 2-week lifespan and after that, they are permanently gone. Don't forget to compost it before it goes away!

### Empties

Garbage can also yield nothing and end up being waste. If those don't auto-delete, then manually delete them.

## Things to Remember

Be careful to pay attention to what you are doing. You will have to remember a few important things.

1. You cannot move once you've started excavating on a site.
2. You cannot move the Excavator around manually to quickly get to another excavation site you must drive it!
3. Cleaning and Maintenance are NOT required. Only use those for stats and skill points.