Extended Vanilla: Mining & Drills


This mod adds 5 brand new tiers of electric mining drills with their relative techs. The drills have enhanced stats that get better with each tier. They also have some useful base productions that stack with mining technologies. The mod is fully configurable: you can decide up to which tier you can unlock and setup multipliers for hps, mining speed, base production, emissions per minute and consumption via startup settings. Repices are modified by: Ev Refining, Bz Mods, and more.

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1.0 - 1.1
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Mining

Changelog

Version: 2.1.0
Date: 2024.03.18
  Features:
    - Introduced cross-mod compatibility with the Krastorio2 mod.
  Krastorio2 Compatibility:
    - All settings are still configurable.
    - The recipes and time required to craft the drills were balanced around Krastorio2.
    - All stand alone recipes cost even more. (Better do the full recipe chain imo.)
      (Didn't want to remove this feature entirely, but in a modpack like this having
      all this speed and base production at a cheap price is too op Imo.)
    - The Krastorio drills remain and become an interesting alternative to the ev drills in some cases.
      (No base production, but a wider area to mine on.)
  Modding:
    - Obviously fixed game crash if Krastorio 2 is installed.
Version: 2.0.0
Date: 2023.12.31
  Features:
    - You can now decide up to which tier you can unlock through the game.
    - You can now decide the crafting difficulty of each tier. (Multiplier from 1 to 10)
    - You can now decide the mining drill base stats as hps, mining speed, base productivity,
      emissions per minute and electric consumption. (Multiplier from 0.01 to 100)
  Balancing:
    - Drastically reduced crafting times.
    - Reduced the amount of resources needed to craft each tier of drills.
    - Now mining drill mk6 requires effectivity module mk3 to be researched, since it is required in its crafting.
    - Stats were rebalanced: (The custom settings allow you to apply a multiplier to these stats individually.)
      + Hps: from "350", "400", "500", "750", "1250" to "400", "500", "650", "800", "1000".
      + Speed: from "0.75", "1", "1.25", "1.5", "2.0" to "0.75", "1", "1.5", "2.0", "2.5".
      + Base prod.: from "0.10", "0.20", "0.35", "0.50", "0.75" to "0.05", "0.10", "0.20", "0.35", "0.50".
      + Emissions: from "15", "20", "30", "50", "75" to "15", "20", "30", "40", "20".
      + Cons.: from "150kW", "400kW", "750kW", "1MW", "1.5MW" to "150kW", "300kW", "500kW", "750kW", "500kW".
  Modding:
    - Created two dedicated subgroups for the mining drill crafting repices and for the upgrade chain.
    - Changed denomination of the "recycling" chain of craftings to make everything more clear.
    - Adapted the mining drill denomination to the normal vanilla style. (mk instead of MK, etc.)
  News:
    - What about quarrys and the famous heavily utilized denomination on modded factorio of "deep mining"?
      I'm currently evaluating some interesting mining concepts, expect some news next month.
      For now: Happy new year, have a good time, and thanks for all the support you gave me on this awelsome game!
Version: 1.4.0
Date: 2020.12.06
  Features:
    - Updated to 1.1!
    - Added the Electric Mining Drill Mk6:
      + Designed for the best late-game setups;
      + Base productivity: 75%;
      + Mining Speed: 2.0.
  Minor Features:
    - Differentiated the way you can craft the Electric Mining Drill mk5: now it can be crafted
      both with or without the previous mining drill.
  Balancing:
    - Changed the productivity per tier:
      + Mk2: From 25 to 20;
      + Mk3: From 30 to 35.
    - Changed the emissions per tier:
      + Mk2: 15 per minute;
      + Mk3: 20 per minute;
      + Mk4: 30 per minute;
      + Mk5: 50 per minute;
      + Mk6: 75 per minute.
    - Changed the number of module slots per tier:
      + Mk5: From 6 to 5.
  Modding:
    - Updated the item and technology descriptions.
Version: 1.3.2
Date: 2020.10.11
  Graphics:
    - Fixed the entity icons: now you won't see anymore the icons glitched on the planners and blueprints.
Version: 1.3.1
Date: 2020.10.11
  Info:
    - Updated the thumbnail.
Version: 1.3.0
Date: 2020.10.11
  Features:
    - Now mining drills can be crafted in two different ways:
      + Direct Crafting: Each mining drill has its own crafting that doesn't require the previous
        ones (the old normal crafting);
      + Recursive Crafting: The drills now have also an "upgrade" crafting that will allow you
        to recycle your old drills once you'll research a new tier. No more drill waste.
    - Upgrading a tier to another will be less expensive than directly craft the same drill,
      but will take more time.
  Graphics:
    - Created some new textures for the new upgrade recipes;
    - Minor changes to the tech icons;
    - Changed the item icons.
Version: 1.2.0
Date: 2020.09.26
  Bug-Fix:
    - Removed Mining productivity 4 as a prerequisite for Electric Mining Drill mk5 (I thought that this 
      research existed as "normal" and not "infinite") and so it's now unlockable.
        + Thanks to OldTownRoad's report on the discord page.
Version: 1.1.0
Date: 2020.09.25
  Features:
    - Added the Electric mining drill mk5 for the most advanced and powerful endgame setups.
  Modding:
    - Slightly buffed the healths of the Electric mining drill mk2 and mk3.
    - Slightly reduced the base productivity of the Electric mining drill mk2.
  Optimisations:
    - Optimised the code with some clear, procedural methods, this should:
      + Simplify me the work;
      + Let me update the mod faster;
      + Speed up the loading process when you start the game.
Version: 1.0.1
Date: 2020.09.07
  Minor-Features:
    - Created an italian local file for the mod. / La mod può esser giocata anche in italiano adesso.
Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2020.09.07
  Major-Features:
    - First release: added 3 new tiers of mining drills (specs on the modpage).