Modifying "mining recipes"

[Rems19]

Hi there,

I'm starting to look into modding and to begin with I wanted to implement what I thought would be simple enough: a clean mining drill that takes water in addition to power and pollutes less than the basic electric mining drill.
The issue I have is that I can't find where in the API are defined the "recipes" of mining drills. Are they not configurable? Actually it seems that the fluid requirement for mining a resource is defined by the resource itself.
Example for the uranium:

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{
    type = "resource",
    name = "uranium-ore",
    ...
    minable =
    {
      mining_particle = "stone-particle",
      mining_time = 2,
      result = (not data.is_demo) and "uranium-ore" or nil,
      fluid_amount = 10,
      required_fluid = "sulfuric-acid"
    },
    ...
}

Is there a way to define special recipes that require water for a custom mining drill?

Thanks in advance

[DaveMcW]

It does not seem possible to have multiple required_fluids for a resource.

A hack could be to duplicate all ores during map generation and add a hidden modded ore with a different fluid. Then periodically synchronize the ore amounts so they deplete at the same rate. This is not a beginner-level trick.

You could also ask for it in Modding Interface Requests forum.

[Rems19]

It does not seem possible to have multiple required_fluids for a resource.

Ideally, I'd like to avoid modifying the resource since it has more to do with the miner itself.

A hack could be to duplicate all ores during map generation and add a hidden modded ore with a different fluid. Then periodically synchronize the ore amounts so they deplete at the same rate. This is not a beginner-level trick.

That seems kind of advanced indeed. I'm not quite ready for that yet.

You could also ask for it in Modding Interface Requests forum.

I'll try to identify what would work best and see what's missing so I can make a proper request. At this time, I think a recipe-like system for mining would be an ideal solution so you could add multiple ways of mining ores, and even modify the result.

Thanks for your help!

[Rems19]

Well... Sounds like it's never gonna happen (see viewtopic.php?f=221&t=77368).