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

Hey there. I've just started using Tekkit Classic and after snooping around for info and playing a bit. I'm wondering which Item I should go for first. I've made myself an underground base that starts on 50Y. Above ground is a decent sized oil pool and my base is inside a ravine. I have a strip mine started on 16Y, yet I've found no diamonds so far. Everything but diamonds, to be honest. So when I find diamonds, I'm wondering what to spend them on.

In total, I think a Philo stone will cost 4 diamonds (3 to make a pickaxe to get glowstone and 1 for the stone itself.) While the energy condenser will cost 7 (1 for the chest, 1 for the covalence dust 4 for the condenser and 1 more diamond to make more with via EMC.) I should be able to use either one to make the other as I have I can use 29 gold on the philo stone for more diamonds, or condense 11 tungsten ore to make diamonds that way. Oh and I currently have a medium divining rod to assist me in my branch mining. It may cost 1 coal per use, but it finds more than it uses so I'm happy with that.

Of course, while I'm on the topic of assistance, any tips on progressing? Seeing as I've just started, I don't know too much about Tekkit itself. Thanks in advance for any help you can give. 