This mod replaces mining productivity tech with mining efficiency tech. Use resource drain mechanism.
Small changes concerning balance, gameplay, or graphics.
Version: 0.7.0
Date: 2025-12-14
Features:
- Way more robust, I consider this as close to 1.0.0
Changes:
- Remove settings for max level
- Now Max level is 7, each time you upgrade you will recieve massive boost.
Unfortunaly resource drain is not a floating number.
- Cost was unbalanced.
Mining prodctivity cost for level 1000 : ~1 251 M
Mining efficienty cost for level 7 : ~1 111 M
It's less but you loose granuality of mining productivity.
- Set all mining drill base resource drain to 100 for balance
- Change icons
- Reduce thumbnail size 288x288 is standard for mod portal and compress
- Rename command mdrd_list_effects to mdrd_info
- rename command mdrd_refresh to mdrd_upgrade_all
- rename command mdrd_reset to mdrd_downgrade_all
- Rename command mdrd_unresearch to mdrd_unresearch_all
- Remove debug output
Version: 0.6.0
Date: 2025-12-14
Changes:
- Rename special mining drill to be sorted better for user
- Max level theorical limit is now 35
- New default is 18 level that represent around 800M science to reach max level.
Mining productivity is 1251M to reach +10000%. I feel it's balanced now.
Features:
- Add mdrd_reset command
- Improve icons
- Improve tech description and I proud of that. recursive rule
Version: 0.5.0
Date: 2025-12-14
Changes:
- Rename to tech Mining Efficiency
- Max value level option is now 30, that 3^24*1000... should be enough of a challenge
Features:
- Quality affect energy usage
- Reduce icon size
Version: 0.4.1
Date: 2025-12-13
Features:
- Changes icon of "hidden" mining drill to reduce the bloat of adding this many entities.
Version: 0.4.0
Date: 2025-12-13
Features:
- Improve diagnostic of command
- Add command to show current effectiveness /mdrd_list_effects
Bugfixes:
- order_upgrade refuse to upgrade hidden entity, mining drill are now not hidden ! Sorry !
Changes:
- Added suffix to special mining drill name. If that delete your mining drill please use
previous save or deconstruct your mining drills before upgrade, I just publish this mod
I don't want to do migration for 0 users :p
Version: 0.3.0
Date: 2025-12-13
Features:
- Add Option to keep mining productivity search
Version: 0.2.2
Date: 2025-12-13
Changes:
- use data-final-fixes to ensure change made on mining drill in data-updates are used
Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2025-12-13
Bugfixes:
- forget to set hiden to true aften debuging
Features:
- ignore quality-unknown
Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2025-12-13
Features:
- Quality miner have better speed
Changes:
- Remove Quality effect on ressource drain for mining drill
Version: 0.1.0 Date: 2025-12-13
Version: 0.0.1
Date: 2025-12-13
Changes:
- Rename command mdrd_update to mdrd_refresh
- Scale to power of 3
Features:
- commands print results to force