Drilling Veins

Large ore veins are generated in the world and cannot be dug by hand the way ordinary ore is. A drill is assembled from a drill base, a drill head and a vein chunk, and it is supplied with kinetic energy to excavate the vein. The first excavation of a vein is automated once the drill is running, so the resource is taken out in one process rather than block by block.

Kinetic energy for the drill comes from an electric motor, which converts RF into the rotation the machinery needs. The mod is compatible with Mystical Mechanics for energy and with Better With Mods for both generation and usage. Mystical Mechanics and Moment are required dependencies, and Moment is a hard dependency. Recommended use pairs the drills with Mechanical Crafting and Immersive Engineering, which is an optional dependency that adds integration options.

The mod is released under the MIT License and is open source, with a public source code repository, issue tracker and wiki. It runs on client and server and is published for Forge only, in version 1.0.3 for 1.12.2, dated 2023-03-14. Vein generation, depletion behavior and the Immersive Engineering excavator interaction can be changed in the dveins.cfg configuration file.