Because Factorio description has 10k character limit and I exceeded that as of v4.0.6. Updates after 4.0.7 found in replies further down.
v4.0.7 - Sorry about the constant updates; this should be the last one for a while, until either shinybobs updates, or I get annoyed with the refinery/mining drill icons all looking identical. Recipes and power consumption changed to dynamic, not hard-coded. If mini-balance is enabled, recipes are set to 2/3 of the original machines, and power consumption for furnaces and miners are set to 2/3 of their regular-sized variants.
Logic is that they are smaller, so you can place more of them in the same area, but the total pollution should remain the same, since they work a little bit slower.
I had to borrow some of Bobs Library functions (everything needed for replace_ingredient), hopefully that's not illegal or anything.
EDIT: It technically was. Bobs license includes no modification/redistribution, including no copying functions without permission. He seemed willing, but encouraged me to write my own functions, which I have done as of v4.0.9. Thanks!
v4.0.6 - Readded Bob Mining compatibility. Did not bring back the "remove bob area miners" config option, as you can toggle that in-game under Bob Mining config options. Recipes dynamically change to match Bob Intermediates and Electronics.
v4.0.5 - Checked if bobmods existed before attempting to check for subsets of bobmods. That was a dumb slip on my part. Also fixed mini assembler 1's recipe when using bob electronics; uses basic circuit board instead of basic electronic board, just like the regular assembling machine 1.
v4.0.4 - Readded compatibility with Bob Assembly, Electronics, and Intermediates. Mini machines go up to the highest tier available in bobs, and dynamically change their recipes to match. Config options now actually affect availability of mini-machines (doh!). Removed mini-assembler prereq from mini-refinery research; requires only Basic Miniaturization tech. Still waiting on Bob Miner to update to 0.15, then all functionality from 0.14 will be restored.
v4.0.3 - Disabled mini miner available from game start. This only applies to new games, not existing ones. This renders the mini-miner technology useless in any game started in v4.0.1 or v4.0.0, but you should still research it to make me feel better :D
v4.0.2 - Disabled mini miner available from game start. This should apply to existing games, but because of the convoluted way I had to achieve this (by disabling everything, then resetting everything) some thing or other may break in another mod. Please do report any issues, if found Removed as it broke all technology. If you have this version, please delete it
v4.0.1 - Readded config options, including balance changes, tech tree, and toggling each type of mini machine. Added "basic miniaturization" technology, prereq for all other mini machine techs. Very cheap, only 5 red science, as it has no "real" unlocks. It was just weird that a mini miner required mini assembler and automation 1.
v4.0.0 - Complete rewrite of mod, starting from scratch, but more efficiently. Contains all 5 mini-machines, unchanged aside from size. Locked by respective miniaturization tech.
Do not attempt to upgrade existing game with this mod from Factorio 0.14 to 0.15. It probably won't work.
v3.3.1 - Set mini.balance to true in config.lua; this value was supposed to be the default.
v3.3.0 - Hid mini-miners t2-5 behind respective bob-mining technologies. Removed non-existing reference to electric-furnace-4 in data-updates. Don't know if this was responsible for certain issues, but removing it fixed an issue with another in-development mod I was creating. Implemented miniaturization tech tree. Mini-assembly 1 is the gateway for all 4 mini machine types. Each subsequent level requires the mini machine tech of the previous tier, as well as the same tier of base machine.
(ex: Mini-assembler t3 requires Automation 3 and Mini-Assembly-2 before unlocking)
Additional functionality when used with my other new mod here, a replacement for bob's intermediates. Meant for vanilla-ish playthroughs, who want to use bob's fancy machines, without being forced to use bob's complex recipes or have extremely simplistic vanilla recipes (e.g. most high tier machines are simply more iron and steel)
v3.2.0 - Been holding onto this update far longer than I should have. Added shinybobs compatibility, so icons and entities will change to match those. Probably only works with the default settings, I didn't test changing the config.
Invisible background stuffs for my other mod, which is the reason I've been holding onto it, in case I needed to change something to make it compatible. Decided to just throw it out there, then when I release my other mod, if I need to change this one, I'll just update it again then.
v.3.1.1 - Minor bugfix to properly check config before removing bob's area mining drills. Most likely incompatible with default configs with shinybob mod; please be sure to set mini.miner and mini.removearea to false to remedy the issue.
v.3.1.0 - Small balance update. Added mini electric miners by request of TatsuZZMage.
--Slightly tweaked mini furnace numbers (reduced pollution/power consumption)
--Mini miners are surprisingly well balanced in vanilla/vanilla+, as regular-sized miners produce ore roughly 1.5x as fast as their miniature counterparts, but you can fit 2x as many mini miners on any given patch of ore (4 tile area vs 9 tile area). Late game however, with speed module 3's, the regular-sized miner produces at 2.5x the speed of a mini miner. Did not calculate with productivity 3's, but mini miners have only one native slot, so regular-sized miners should still be more efficient in this regard. Added bob miners support, did not check for balance.
--(hidden) Large Area Mining Drills (tech, recipe, entity, and item) from Bob's Mining are disabled by default. Config option to reenable if desired.
--(hidden) Selection and collision box of stone/steel furnaces resized to match the mini furnaces, allowing for fast replacing. Can be disabled in the config if undesired.
v3.0.2 - Fixed beacon support. Thanks to TatsuZZMage for the catch.
v3.0.1 - Fixed minor recipe mistake with mini-assembler t5 and 6
v3.0.0 - Rebalancing Update.
--Reduced Mini-Assembler-2 module slots from 2 to 1
--Moved Mini-Furnace to Advanced Material Processing 2 (same as Electric Furnace)
--Increased Mini-Furnace crafting speed from 1 to 1.5 (better than stone, less than steel or electric)
--Increased Mini-Furnace module slots from 0 to 1
--Increased Mini-Refinery module slots from 0 to 1
--Improved Bob Assembly compatibility. Adds higher tiers of all mini-machines when detected, with dynamic recipes similar to the originals. Also changes Bob's Assembling Machine 6 icon to actually have 6 gears on it
--Removed alternate icons for Mini-Furnace and Mini-Refinery; config option now only changes Mini-Assembler icons.
--Added in-game descriptions to all assemblers (including Bobs) detailing the amount of ingredients they can use
v2.0.3 - New balance config option, when changed to false, makes mini machines exactly as good as originals (defaults true)
v2.0.2 - Shrunk icons to more easily see the difference between regular and mini machines (inspired by ZGroupChange mod)
v2.0.1 - Added migration scripts to enable recipes for game in progress
v2.0.0 - Updated to Factorio 0.14 (older version still available)
v1.2.3 - Fixed check for bobs mods (hopefully no more false positives)
v1.2.2 - Fixed config issues
v1.2.1 - Mini assemblers + Bobs mods recipe consistency
v1.2.0 - Added mini refinery
v1.1.1 - Slight nerf to t3 mini assembler, crafting speed reduced from 1.25 to 1
v1.1.0 - Adds mini assembler tiers 2 and 3, renames original mini assembler entity (in code)
--(hidden) removed .psd files from package
v1.0.0 - Initial release, includes mini furnace and mini assembler
