[MOD 0.12.x] SlowerMining_0.2.0

[Adil]

Type: Mod
Name: SlowerMining
Description: Reduces the speed, pollution and power consumption of all the mining drills.
License: CC BY 3.0
Version: 0.2.0
Tested-With-Factorio-Version: 0.12.4
Category: Item
Tags: Balancing
Download: Attached.

Long description

Slows down every mining drill in the game in order to stimulate the expansion. The power consumption is decreased accordingly as well.

Since the version 0.2.0 burner drills are only 4 times slower, since otherwise the initial manual mining gets too tiresome. A bunch of well-known drawbacks related to them should balance the things out. All other drills are now 8 times slower.
The original idea is by FluxFaraday, but I've rewritten it completely (all 4 lines) to work for every mining drill, so I've figured I'd post it in the same board, where all the others slower/harder_somethings are located, rather than in uclassifiable unofficial updates. (The implementation is also more correct than the one suggested by L0771 in the original thread.)

The code

data-updates.lua

Code: Select all

function divisor(prototype)
    if prototype.name=='burner-mining-drill' then
        return 4
    else
        return 8
    end
end
for _,drill in pairs(data.raw["mining-drill"]) do
    drill.mining_speed=drill.mining_speed/divisor(drill);
    local _,_,en,un=drill.energy_usage:find('^(%d+)(.*)')
    drill.energy_usage=(en/divisor(drill))..un;
end

Version history

0.1.0 Initial release.
0.2.0 Burner drill is now 4 times slower, any other is 8 times slower.