Changelog

Version: 1.0.3
Date: 2026-11-07
  Compatibility:
    - Updated compatibility for Factorio 2.1.
  Features:
    - Enabled Quality module support on Big Miner drills.
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed a critical bug where resource mining times were globally overwritten to 1 across the game.
    - Fixed false-positive removal in destruction event handling that could lead to leaked hidden chests.
    - Fixed item quality preservation when depositing items onto transport lines and player inventory.
    - Added immediate belt cache invalidation when rotating the single-sided Big Miner.
    - Optimized on_tick per-tick table allocations for reduced garbage collector overhead.
    - Ensured technology unlocks safely verify effects table existence for both Automation and Electric Mining Drill.

Version: 1.0.2
Date: 19. 08. 2026
  Features:
    - Added a startup setting to configure the mining area size (default 13x13, range between 11x11 and 32x32).

Version: 1.0.1
Date: 30. 07. 2026
  Features:
    - Added a second variant of the Big Miner that outputs exclusively to one side (8 loaders).
    - Drills are now unlocked in both the automation and electric mining drill technologies (if available).
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed an issue where bots deconstructing the drill would drop raw resources on the ground.
    - Fixed a visual bug where the fluid pipe graphic on the driller would disappear when connected to an external pipe.

Version: 1.0.0
Date: 22. 7. 2026
  Features:
    - Initial release.
    - Adds the Big Miner entity with configurable mining speed (default 250).
    - Power usage auto-calculated from mining speed (default 45 MW at speed 250).
    - Unlocked with Automation technology.
    - 3 module slots with productivity module support.
    - Compatible with Space Age (mines hard solids, supports fluid mining).