Modding Help Turning the mech beam drill into its own handheld mining tool

I have a mod that hacked in the old laser mining tool that was never implemented, but it's really just a re-skinned, extra-powerful drill. It uses the drill.miningtool file to describe its behavior. Coming back after a long break, I see now that there is a mech part that behaves much more like a beam mining tool should be, but I don't know how to go about giving the old laser miner the behavior of this new tool. Digging around in the files, I see a .lua file for the behavior and some .item/.description/etc files for the tool itself, but I'm not quite sure what to do with all that information. Now that I think about it, I'm not even sure how the game discerns pickaxes from drills.

How exactly would I change this tool's behavior to what I want?

 

Sounds like something you I'll just have to tinker with. In order to even tell you what needs to be done, one would basically have to do the whole thing anyway.