Modding mining drills to work without an ore patch

[Octavio]

Hi,
I'm trying to mod the mining drills to work without an ore patch. I mostly succeeded. I changed its type to be an assembler and set the respective recipes. Everything works fine except that the drills are completely invisible. I imagine that they lost all the graphics and animation references.

Does anyone know an easy way to keep the original graphics and animations without having to copy all the respective code from the original?

Here's an extract of the code I have so far (data.lua)...

data:extend({
{
type = "recipe-category",
name = "mining"
}
})

data:extend({
{
type = "recipe",
name = "coal",
category = "mining",
enabled = true,
ingredients = {},
energy_required = 8,
result = "coal"
}
})

local drill = data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill']
data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill'] = nil
drill.type = "assembling-machine"
drill.crafting_speed = 1
drill.crafting_categories = {"mining"}
data:extend({drill})

[Trific]

Use table.deepcopy like this:

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local drill = table.deepcopy(data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill'])
data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill'] = nil
drill.type = "assembling-machine"
drill.crafting_speed = 1
drill.crafting_categories = {"mining"}
data:extend({drill})

[Optera]

If you also want that drill to be affected by mining productivity research you'll have to use hidden beacons with productivity modules and update them in control.

[Octavio]

Use table.deepcopy like this:

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local drill = table.deepcopy(data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill'])
data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill'] = nil
drill.type = "assembling-machine"
drill.crafting_speed = 1
drill.crafting_categories = {"mining"}
data:extend({drill})

That didn't work. Still invisible.
I'm guessing that the program looks for different properties for the animations in assemblers and mining drills.

[DaveMcW]

Yes, assembling-machine uses "animation" while mining-drill uses "animations".

I'm surprised you got as far as you did, I would strongly recommend only copying something of the same type.

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local drill = table.deepcopy(data.raw['assembling-machine']['assembling-machine-2'])
drill.name = "custom-mining-drill"
drill.crafting_speed = 1
drill.crafting_categories = {"mining"}
drill.animation = table.deepcopy(data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill'].animations)
data:extend({drill})

I also recommend you don't steal entity names from the base game, as that will cause a bunch of mod conflicts.

[Octavio]

drill.animation = table.deepcopy(data.raw['mining-drill']['burner-mining-drill'].animations)

Thanks a lot! That worked.
And I appreciate the advice. I'm quite new to modding.