Mining Drill Resource Drain


Replace mining productivity with resource drain mechanism

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Changelog

Version: 0.14.0
Date: 2025-12-23
  Features:
    - quality is optional
Version: 0.13.0
Date: 2025-12-23
  Changes:
    - Reduce cost, since I nerf big mining drill
    - quality affect module count of mining drill
  Bugfixes:
    - Check if entity is still valid after order_upgrade, this can happen if another script do
      something with the entity
Version: 0.12.1
Date: 2025-12-23
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix energy usage that what you get when you use undocumented function from wube I guess -_-
Version: 0.12.0
Date: 2025-12-23
  Changes:
    - balance tech cost, since the mechanic is very different that productivity it's cost less
      also first level will require less tech level but a big amount
Version: 0.11.0
Date: 2025-12-22
  Bugfixes:
    - Fixed that without any mining efficienty level quality mining drill didn't have better speed
Version: 0.10.0
Date: 2025-12-21
  Changes:
    - tech create at data stage
    - mining drill create at data-updates
    - remove mining prod done at data-final-fixes
Version: 0.9.0
Date: 2025-12-20
  Minor Features:
    - Buff mining drill quality effect, quality now affect mining radius.
Version: 0.8.0
Date: 2025-12-15
  Features:
    - Add ignore list, ignore burner-mining-drill by default
  Bugfixes:
    - Fix energy consumption for quality drills
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