I have found a few similar things but nothing as simple as that :
This mod add 3 fuel powered machines, each one do one of this actions
- Carving : dig nodes horizontally
- Drilling : dig nodes vertically
- Bridge : place nodes horizontally
Recipes may not be optimal yet but there are designed to be demanding so that machines don't become craftable too soon.
They depends on pipeworks and mesecons but they are only registered if all of the dependences are satisfied.
I'm opened to suggestions and ideas on how to improve code, machines behaviors, naming, recipes, ....
Download : https://github.com/xisd/simple_machines/archive/master.zip
Code : https://github.com/xisd/simple_machines