Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4603881-20130107135130/@comment-128.208.36.196-20130107191315

Or you could just use one diamond...and either block breakers(tedious) or lavacells+water cells (uses up a fair amount of tin though) for the obsidian. So the philstone->tablet is cheaper.

The tablet won't forget stuff unless you reset your cache.

The condensor can turn fuel->matter and vice versa without a klein star. The use of 2-3 alchemical chests to hold samples of everything with emc is recommended.

...you're mining at y=16? you will RARELY find dias there. mine a bit lower-say, y=12. or better yet, use a...oh, just go over to the vanilla wiki and look at the mining pages for ideas.

For the technology side, I recommend building a generator and a macerator asap, then upgrading the generator to a geothermal generator so you don't waste power. (especially if you want to live in the nether. tekkit nether is much more livable than vanilla nether)

when you're ready to automate stuff, you can use cheap buildcraft stuff (redstone engines and wood pipes) for small machines and getting stuff out of an autocraftmk2.

However, redpower is much better for anything complicated, since it doesn't make a laggy mess if you make a mistake and it is NOT made of explodium. (buildcraft stuff blows up except for the redstone engine.  but even that *can* explode if you feed one into another.)

If you decide to go with the power of the technomage, macerate bones or blazerods and then condense the results back into bones/blazerods as the emc source for your factories.