Getting Started



This article is heavily a WIP by me, TheStuntMan9630, so expect an update every day or so.

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New World
Well, you've got Tekkit up and running and you can't wait to jump in and build all the amazing things you've seen on YouTube. You imagine quarries, digging up all the ores you'll need, huge solar arrays, powering the various engines running your machines, elaborate redstone mechanics to alter whether you want to make diamonds, gold, iron, or any other block.

However, you need to start small. If you plan on doing things normally without spawning stuff in, it will take a while to get up to this 'ideal' set-up. To begin with, it's like any normal Minecraft world, punching down trees to get wood, making yourself a wooden pick, mine some stone etc. Many of Tekkit's mods are mostly used later on in the game, but there are many things you can do to start off right from the beginning. After getting a few basic supplies and some form of shelter, Rubber Trees are what you should begin searching for to start incorporating some of the additions that Tekkit has to offer. You could also begin by searching the open pits for copper, tin, etc.

Mining
Mining is made much easier with the help of Equivalent Exchange's Divining Rod. Later on you can also use Energy Collectors to create almost anything you need. Also once you have most of the machines on this page you could make a Antimatter Relay. This would convert all the 'junk' you have into EMC which is used to 'buy' things from a Transmutation Tablet.

Rubber Farms
To start out with IndustrialCraft, you will need wires. For these, you will need two key ingredients: Copper and Rubber.

Copper Ore is fairly common, much like coal and it comes in rather large veins. Smelt it in a furnace to get copper ingots. Once you have them, you are one step closer to starting with IndustrialCraft.

To get rubber, you will need a Treetap.

Then you will need to find Rubber Trees. You are more likely to find them in swampland, but it's possible to find them elsewhere. Rubber Trees can be distinguished by having 3 leaf blocks above their trunks, above the normal 1. Once you find a tree, look for little yellow marks on the trunk of the tree, there can be up to 3 on each tree (they can also be found beneath the leaves, higher up the trunk).

Once you have this, right click on the yellow mark and you will get Sticky Resin. This can then be cooked in a furnace to make rubber.

Chop down the Rubber Wood, as it can be used later on to make extra rubber. Saplings are not as common on rubber trees than normal trees, so make sure you stockpile on quite a few to prevent further trips out. Once you have a good amount of saplings (around 16 should last) you can plant them like any other tree farm in Minecraft.

So, you've set-up a rubber farm for a good supply of rubber and the next part will deal with building the basic machines.

The Basic Machines
So, you've got some rubber and some copper. But what use is that? To start making the machines you'll need to make Copper Cables.

These are fundamental in making some of the starter machines, such as the Extractor, which will help with rubber production, as rubber is needed much of to continue further.

We know how to make treetaps, but for this you need a Machine Block and Electronic Circuit. Both of these recipes require Refined Iron, which is made by smelting iron ingots.

To make a machine block, you place Refined Iron in the crafting table like you would with a chest or furnace.

Next up, you will need to make an Electronic Circuit.

Once you have all the components, you can assemble the Extractor (recipe above). Putting Sticky Resin into the top of the Extractor will make 3 Rubber instead of cooking it to make only one. You can even extract rubber from the sticky resin rubber trees or from the redpower rubber trees to make 1 rubber.

Another essential machine is the Macerator.

This uses the same Machine Block and Electronic Circuit as above, but you may also need to go and get the 3 flint to make it.

This machine is very useful for ingot production, as it can double the amount of them you make from the ores you gather. One ore block macerated becomes two dust of the same ore type. Dust can then be smelted into it's accompanying ingot.

But, how do we use these machines? You can't use coal as a fuel. It requires power, and we don't have any way of storing or producing electricity. So next, we need a Generator. (Alternatively you could use redstone in the bottom slot to power the machines.)

Making Electricity
It's all well and good to have these great machines, but if you don't have any way of making power, they are useless. For now, we are going to make ourselves a Generator.

We know about making a furnace and a machine block, but now we need RE Batteries. It may be worthwile making a few of these as they are useful for storing energy and taking it with you (10,000 EU per battery, which is 2.5x the storage capacity of a generator, which stores 4,000 EU).

Simply place the generator down like you would with any other block, and put some fuel (coal, for example) in the bottom slot. This will then be burnt off into energy, which will slowly accumulate until full. Once full, it will not burn off any more fuel unless its already started burning.

Place down your Extractor next to it, it will automatically drain the energy from the generator when it's being used. If you wish to use machines which are not adjacent to the generator, you will need to wire them up with cables.

Remember those RE-Batteries that you made? They are also needed in another item you can make which stores power. This is called a BatBox.

This can store 40,000 EU, which is 4 batteries worth!

However, the Generator is behind us now. You will eventually run out of coal, and tree farms will eventually not keep up with the demand for charcoal in the generator. What we need is an alternate energy source. That's right, we're going eco-friendly!

Natural Energy
A good source of natural energy (energy that is created using natural and sustainable sources) is the Wind Mill, as it is quite cheap, and produces a fair amount of energy, depending mainly on placement.

The aim with a Windmill is to place it as high in the world as possible, because the amount of energy produced depends on this.

The average amount of energy produced is 250 EU per day, but it could be anywhere from 0-1000 EU per day.

This is then multiplied by the layer it is placed on, so at a layer 70 one Windmill would produce 17500 EU per day. But obviously you could place one upto layer 126.

However, obstructions can bring the production down. Obstructions can be in a 9x9x7 area around it. Basically, the obstructions are 4 blocks off of each side except only 2 blocks off the bottom.

Each obstruction takes of a multiplication of the layer by 1, so having cables connected from the bottom will reduce the layer by a minimum of 2. This means that the Windmill on layer 70 would instead produce 17000 EU.

Read more into this on the Wind Mill page.

You then need to wire them up to a storage device.

Seeing as they only hold 40000 EU, you may want a few Batboxes.

These require 3 RE Batteries to make, and can be used as a portable storage device for 10000 EU.

Batboxes have 5 input sides for things like Windmills, Solar Panels and you could keep your Generator to fuel it as well.

The only other side is the output side, to power your machines. To change the output side you use a Wrench.

For it you will need Bronze Ingots, made by first combining 3 copper dust with 1 tin dust...

...and then smelting it in a furnace.

At this low voltage stage you only need to use copper cables to wire everything up, and the only thing you need to worry about is breaking all these machines without using the Wrench (above), as you will end up with nothing (any storage) or a Machine Block (any machine).

Advanced Natural Energy
A higher level natural energy producer would be a Solar Panel.

It requires coal dust which is made by macerating coal.

Now even though a single panel only produces 13050 EU a day, multiple can be placed together without obstructing each other. The only obstruction is if any full block is above it or if it becomes night time.

They can also be upgraded into Solar Arrays (Low, Medium and High Voltage), which will give 8 times more energy per tick on every tier.

- 8 EU/t

- 64 EU/t

- 512 EU/t

However for Medium Voltage Arrays and above, you will want better cables (and in turn better storage). Glass Fibre Cable is most recommended because it can carry a voltage of 512 EU/t and will only lose 1 EU every 40 blocks. They are also quite expensive, using 1 diamond for 6 of them.

When using a Medium voltage Solar Array you will need a MFE Unit minimum, which stores 600,000 EU

This needs 4 energy crystals to build.

A High Voltage Array will require an MFS Unit (or MFSU), but this is not recommended until you have a Nuclear Reactor set-up. Crafting recipe via the link ^

When you have a steady supply of energy from Solar Panels/Wind Mills, you'll want to move on to a use for the power.

Now that you have finished this page and built all the machines, check out Equivalent Exchangethis will introduce many new aspects to your game!