User blog comment:Mattplaz/Tutorials 1: Your First Machine/@comment-130.160.145.223-20121029055159

Personally, I think an extractor is the first machine to go for. It's really frustrating trying to get rubber, and given that an extractor triples output, I think it's quite worth it.

Of course, if you don't have the metals that would be required to go ahead and make a macerator too, then just make the macerator. Rubber, as hard as it is to get, is renewable. Metals are not. (until you get aurelia and ferru)