This mod adds a configurable Custom Electric Mining Drill, its primary purpose being to reduce the tedium of placing many structures that do the same basic thing. It is available right from the start. (The mod borrows from Instant Mining Drill by darkfrei, most notably the uranium mining option.)

Features:

• Configurable mining speed & area size: Both can be individually configured within wide limits.
• Configurable recipe cost scaling: The custom drill requires exactly 1 normal drill, while the cost of the rest of the recipe can be set to scale by a configurable amount with the mining speed. Scaling can be turned off entirely.
• Configurable module slot amount: As of v.0.6.0 the mod allows changing the number of module slots available.
• Auto-scaling energy use and pollution rate: Both scale with the mining speed in order to preserve game balance.
• Custom colour and sound: The drill has also received a nice, orange colour as well as a slightly higher-pitched mining sound effect to better differentiate it from its vanilla counterpart.
• Simpler uranium mining: Both the custom electric drill and its vanilla counterpart can be modified to allow mining of uranium without the need for sulfuric acid. For the sake of game balance, the fluid will instead be required on the uranium processing stage in the centrifuge. This is a solution to the rare problem of uranium blocking the mining of other resources, when sulfuric acid is not available.
• Easy upgrade: The Electric Mining Drill can easily be replaced by its custom variant, but there is also an option to enable replacement with drones through the Alt + U upgrade selection tool.
• Custom Resource Categories: As of v.0.5.1 it is possible to expand the kinds of ores the drill can mine, by writing their resource category ID in a text-field in game settings as part of a comma-separated list (like hard-resource from SE).

The mod works differently from my other mod Configurable Mining Drills (and its main source Instant Mining Drill by darkfrei), in that it doesn't universally change all mining drills, but applies most changes to a single custom entity, the Custom Electric Mining Drill, which should help avoid some mod conflicts (although the other mod has been improved in that regard). Features with higher risk of conflict with other mods can be disabled if needed.

Tips on other mods:

• Cursed Filter Mining Drill by L0771 provides a filter tool for mining drills, which is especially useful for mining drills covering a large area. Normally, you would use the splitter's filter function to send unwanted resources "somewhere else", kind of solving the issue. Or you could use this mod! (Keep in mind that the applied filter disappears if the mining drill is replaced/upgraded.)

Read FAQ about compatibility.

Also check out Configurable Mining Drills if you want something to modify all mining drills, including those from mods.