Jet's modified jetpack allows her to jump much further than the other Rock Raiders. In the PlayStation game, the five playable Rock Raiders have a jetpack fitted onto their uniforms, allowing them to jump over narrow bodies of water and lava, and to escape from some attacking enemies. In other Rock Raiders media, GeoScanners are often used, but rarely referred to. In the PAL version, the player can't move while using the GeoScanner, and picking up Radar Boosters can increase its scanning power in the NTSC-U/C version, both of these features have been removed.
Pressing the R1 button zooms the camera out and highlights the surrounding walls with different shades of green like in the Windows game, lighter shades indicate weaker walls.
The instruction manual for the PlayStation game refers to this tool by name, and the player starts off with one (though it has an unused pickup sprite). Large vehicles and the Geological Center use large Radar Uplinks that function similarly, but are much more powerful. Rock Raiders and vehicles equipped with GeoScanners will scan the area around them, and hidden rock and caverns will appear on the Radar. Additionally, GeoScanners are mounted onto some small vehicles when given a scanner upgrade. While it is not referred to directly in the Windows game, its imaged is used as the geologist icon, suggesting Rock Raiders that have been trained as geologists are using one independently of their actual carried tools. The GeoScanner, also called the GeoLocater, is a binocular-like tool used for geological scanning. These tools aren't treated as standard tools in the video games, or aren't used in at all and only appear in other Rock Raiders media. Item Radar Boosters allow the Radar to detect tools, equipment, Energy Crystals, and LEGO Ore, which display as green dots. Rock Raider Radar Boosters allow the Radar to detect lost Rock Raiders, which display as yellow dots. Lifeform Radar Boosters allow the Radar to detect creatures, which display as red dots. Picking up one of the three types of Radar Boosters allows for the Radar to immediately start detecting and displaying the location of certain objects. Radar Boosters are equipment pickups exclusive to the PAL PlayStation version.
Vehicle Shield Recharges resemble spinning wrenches, and Full Vehicle Shield Recharges are larger and yellow. Rock Raider Shield Recharges resemble glowing green orbs, and Full Shield Recharges are larger and brighter.
Standard Shield Recharges refill some shield power How much?, while Full Shield Recharges refill all shield power back to 100%. Shield Recharges are equipment pickups in the PlayStation version of LEGO Rock Raiders that recharge the energy shields of Rock Raiders and vehicles.
Additionally, dynamite sometimes fails to destroy walls, forcing the player to use a vehicle to mine it. Once a wall has been blasted, dynamite cannot be used on it again while this is normally not an issue, it means seams can't be fully destroyed with dynamite, as seams must be mined four times before they completely collapse. A point-blank dynamite explosion does 150 damage, instantly killing anything too close to it, and anything within a two block radius of an explosion will take damage. Once it has been placed, Rock Raiders will start running away from the dynamite when the countdown timer reaches three seconds.
A Rock Raider must be trained as an explosives expert, or a Tool Store upgraded to Level 2, for dynamite to be used. In the Windows game, dynamite can be used by selecting a wall and pressing Use Dynamite. The tools in this list that are available in the Windows game can only be collected automatically when a job they're used in is ordered the rest only exist in the PlayStation game, where the player must walk over them to collect them The instruction manual for the PlayStation game categorizes the below (except for dynamite) as equipment.ĭynamite is a powerful and dangerous explosive used for blasting through any type of rock faster than any drills can mine it. Pickups are tools that can't directly be used, and that the player can't directly order a Rock Raider to get.