Changelog

Version: 0.2.1
Date: 2026-08-11
  Bugfixes:
    - The very first dig of a run no longer happens a full cooldown earlier than manual mining
      would allow. Digging now charges before it mines: the first time a target is seen it is
      only recorded and a full mining cooldown is served, and the rock is mined on the next
      eligible tick only if it is still the same target. This mirrors holding the mouse button
      for mining_time before the rock breaks. Long-run rate was already correct; only the first
      dig broke the "never faster than mining by hand" guarantee. Reported by The Cave's author.
    - Side effect, recorded honestly rather than hidden: each rock now costs roughly one extra
      tick, because charging for the next rock can only start on the tick after the previous one
      was mined. That is about 0.5% slower than the theoretical manual rate. The error is in the
      safe direction — auto-dig is never faster than hand mining.
  Optimizations:
    - Auto-clear mode now backs off for 15 ticks when it finds nothing to dig, instead of
      rescanning every single tick. The scan is a find_entities_filtered over the character's
      full resource-reach radius (about 23 tiles fully researched) plus a can_reach_entity call
      per result, running once per enabled player per tick, so an idle player on a multiplayer
      server was measurably wasting UPS. Cursor and forward modes are deliberately not backed
      off: cursor reads player.selected with no world query at all, forward does at most three
      radius-0.4 point queries, and adding latency to cursor mode would make "point at a rock and
      it starts digging" feel sluggish. Reported by The Cave's author.

Version: 0.2.0
Date: 2026-08-01
  Features:
    - New "Auto-clear" dig mode: no pointing or walking required. Digs the nearest reachable
      rock or rubble pile within your mining reach automatically, over and over. Reach is
      exactly your character's own resource-reach-distance stat (same as manual mining and the
      other two modes), so it grows with the same research and never exceeds what you could
      already reach by hand. Select it from the GUI panel's mode dropdown or the
      autodig-default-mode setting.

Version: 0.1.1
Date: 2026-08-01
  Changes:
    - Removed the autodig-cycle-mode hotkey (Shift+C) — it conflicted with another enabled
      mod's hotkey on the live server. Switching mode was never hotkey-only: use the GUI panel's
      mode dropdown instead (open it with the toggle button or the autodig-toggle hotkey,
      Shift+X, which is unaffected).
  Locale:
    - autodig-stress-margin's tooltip now notes that The Cave ships the collapse gate disabled
      by default, so an admin who only reads the in-game tooltip still learns the gate is likely
      inert out of the box.

Version: 0.1.0
Date: 2026-07-27
  Features:
    - Initial release: cursor-mode and forward-mode auto-digging in The Cave, GUI control panel,
      enemy-proximity safety gate, and an optional collapse-stress safety gate (only active when
      The Cave's own the-cave-collapse-mode setting is enabled).