Getting Started (EE2)

Getting started in Tekkit is pretty standard, punch a tree, mine, get resources and then start the mods. But many people feel once you got resources your first step is IndustrialCraft because of macerators and electric furnaces and all that good stuff. But a smart man will dive right into EE2 and at get a minor set up in place as soon as he can then build his machines.

Step One: First resources
You want to make some Covalence Dust of each grade (low, medium, and high) as soon as you can, this means 1 charcoal and 8 cobblestone for the first level, 1 redstone and 1 iron ingot for the second, and 1 coal and 1 diamond for the third level.

Now you want to make a Divining Rod (High) to help you find more diamonds and other minerals. Remember it requires some form of fuel to use so pack plenty of coal, charcoal, redstone, or other form of fuel.

From here keep mining until you have all the resources you need for your other projects as well as enough diamonds for your next stage of development, which involves an Alchemy Bag, an Energy Condenser, a Philosopher's Stone, and a Transmutation Tablet. Which needs 7 diamonds (8 if you need to make more covalence dust) + 3 more for a diamond pickaxe to mine obsidian.

Step Two: First Transformations
Make an Alchemical Chest and turn it into an Alchemy Bag for enhanced storage on the go, dont worry if you die with it, you can just make a new one of the same colour and recover your items even if the original bag fell in lava, this is useful because our next stop is the nether.

Now collect everything you may need in the nether and put your most valuable items you haven't left at home in the bag, and travel to the nether and collect all the glow stone you dare, you will likely need a lot in the future so its good to stock up, it also makes good fuel for powered EE2 items and has decent EMC value. Now make a Philosopher's Stone as soon as you can. This can turn sand to dirt or stone to dirt and do this all in reverse, it can also turn 4 of each "coal" type into the next tier and back again, same with iron to gold to diamonds (Note: takes 9 iron per gold but only 4 gold per diamond), but it's most useful feature is the fact it can work as an on the go crafting table when you press "C". It has other uses as well, such as it is used at no lost to make the Transmutation Tablet.

Now from now on when you get a new resource or item in your base with an EMC value you put it into the left side of the tablet GUI to teach it the item before you use it for something else, this think isn't called the "cheater table" by some people for nothing. You can drop any item with an EMC value into it and if it knows the item you want (and with a little luck to show you that particular item) you can pull that item out of the right side of the tablet.

Next think on the todo list is to make another Alchemical Chest and turn that into an Energy Condenser, or you may do this before the tablet or even the Philosopher's Stone, I just generally don't visit my house much until this stage so it isn't very practical for me to make before now.