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Now, you have a little basic survival base. Want to plant crops in IC2 style? Sure! However, keep in mind that empty [[Crops]], which is the IC2 block to plant crops on, will grow [[Weed]] after some time and it can destroy all of your farmed crops. Weed can be removed by breaking and replacing the crop block, or with a [[Weeding Trowel]], which needs iron. However, the advantage of the IC2 crops is that you don't need to re-plant the wheat after harvesting it. | |||
Of course, you should till some soil near a water source and gather a crop to plant. Wheat is a good crop to plant as wheat seeds are fairly simple to get in early game. For the hydration of farmland, use a natural water source if you can to save the iron needed to craft a bucket. | |||
If you have decided to go with the IC2 crops, take some wood and create some sticks for [[Crops]]. | |||
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Take these, and place one on each block of | Take these, and place one on each block of farmland. Go get some Wheat seeds by punching grass and then plant them. When your wheat is ready to harvest, you can right-click to harvest it and wheat seedlings will remain, saving you from having to use more seeds to replant! There's a lot more you can do with crops in IC2, but this will help get you basic food to survive. | ||
Now, you need to gather Rubber. | Now, you need to gather [[Rubber]]. Rubber can be found on [[Rubber Wood|rubber trees]]. Also, you will need a lot of wood to build your first machines. Always keep a stack of logs in your chest if you can. | ||
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Revision as of 13:53, 29 July 2019
The most recent version of IC² is V2.8.<html>.
This tutorial is regularly updated. You can see the first version of it here: First Steps in the IndustrialCraft mod for Minecraft V0.5.pdf (texture pack used: Soartex).
Important: This tutorial is made for v2.X of IndustrialCraft².
Basic steps in a new world[edit]
Now that you have downloaded and installed the mod and generated a new map, you really don't know where to begin. Like all other maps you begin in, gather some wood, then some cobblestone, and build a shelter for your first night, just as how you would do in vanilla survival.
Here is an example of a shelter with some decorative flowers. In the first days, having an pretty shelter is not recommended, as it will be much easier to do this in late game.
Beware of the mobs if you are not playing in Peaceful mode; the creepers can blow up what you built. Lighting up wherever you go with torches is always a good thing to do.
Keep in mind that you will need a lot of room for your industry. Try to get a good spot with a lot of open space not too far away, like the sandy beach in the picture. Don’t forget to add some chests and a bed in your little place. Once you acquire stone tools, growing trees and wheat are essential if you don't want to travel long distances to get wood and food.
Nothing new here, but a good base is a good start. The next part will introduce some new things.
First Ingredients and Machines[edit]
Now, you have a little basic survival base. Want to plant crops in IC2 style? Sure! However, keep in mind that empty Crops, which is the IC2 block to plant crops on, will grow Weed after some time and it can destroy all of your farmed crops. Weed can be removed by breaking and replacing the crop block, or with a Weeding Trowel, which needs iron. However, the advantage of the IC2 crops is that you don't need to re-plant the wheat after harvesting it.
Of course, you should till some soil near a water source and gather a crop to plant. Wheat is a good crop to plant as wheat seeds are fairly simple to get in early game. For the hydration of farmland, use a natural water source if you can to save the iron needed to craft a bucket.
If you have decided to go with the IC2 crops, take some wood and create some sticks for Crops.
Take these, and place one on each block of farmland. Go get some Wheat seeds by punching grass and then plant them. When your wheat is ready to harvest, you can right-click to harvest it and wheat seedlings will remain, saving you from having to use more seeds to replant! There's a lot more you can do with crops in IC2, but this will help get you basic food to survive.
Now, you need to gather Rubber. Rubber can be found on rubber trees. Also, you will need a lot of wood to build your first machines. Always keep a stack of logs in your chest if you can.
Use 5 Wooden Planks to craft a Treetap. You will need 5 Treetaps total, one for extracting Sticky Resin and four for crafting an Extractor, but wait until later to make the other four to save space.
Now, extract 6 Sticky Resin from the Rubber Trees. Rubber trees are somewhat random, but I can tell you they're most abundant in Swamp biomes and they never grow in Desert biomes.
For now, drop that into a chest, and gather torches, pickaxes, and food, for you will have to go to the center of the earth! The second thing you must gather is Redstone; that next-to useless red powder you have in astronomical quantity is the base of industrial electricity. Of course, you will need an iron pickaxe to extract it, but you must have a bad spawn point if you don’t find any along the way. Also, you should mine any Copper or Tin you see for later.
Here is a screenshot of a natural cave where you can see all but three types of ores you can gather, from left to right:
- Gold. Its value is much higher in IC, especially in its dust form. It's involved in many mid-tech machines. You should mine it - it will become more useful in the future.
- Tin. It is required for many things, but it is fairly common.
- Copper. Like Tin, it is required for most things in IC, such as cables, so you must gather a good stock in the beginning. Like Tin, there's plenty in the world.
- Iron. Every machine uses Iron, so it will be the ore you must hunt the most. You will be always short of Iron.
- Coal. Its value was increased, so if you want torches or furnace fuel, use Charcoal. Use Coal for other, more important things. Coal Dust is used to build Solar Panels; it's a more efficient Fuel, and lots of things like the nano-suit use it. In other worlds, you might not care about Coal, but in IC, it is valuable.
- Uranium. You will need it to power your future nuclear reactor or to craft a nuke to blow up a mountain. Besides that, it is not involved in other recipes. It is rarer than other ores, but can be found at every layer. You will need an iron pickaxe to gather it.
Further away in the cave:
- Redstone: Redstone is involved in most parts of IC crafting, especially the basic ones. We need some for crafting the first part of a machine, and later, other things.
- Diamond: Ha, the diamond. Everybody runs after them. Try to get 3 of them and keep them in a chest; we will craft something awesome with them. You should know that you can produce diamonds with coal. I’ll show you later. There is something else to do with them other than waste them in tools or one-use armor.
- Lapis lazuli: Not shown here, but you know it. Involved in the more advanced machines, you need BLOCKS of lapis to craft them, so if you find it now, just keep it until you have a need to use it.
- Lava: I know, it’s not a mineable resource, but it’s used to power one of the most powerful generators: the Geothermal Generator. Keep in mind where some lava lakes are to go back to later.
- Lead: Not shown here. You won't need lead for a quite a while, and even then only in small quantities. It's primary used in nuclear reactors, but is also used in intermediate batteries.
- Obsidian: You need some Obsidian to go in the Nether because you will need some Glowstone Dust for mid-tech machines (alternatively, Glowstone Dust can be crafted using Gold Dust and Redstone Dust). Obsidian is also a part of the process of producing Diamonds out of Coal.
You know what you can gather under the surface. Continue to collect some resources and go back to your base for the next step.
Now that you’re safe at your base, you could smelt some of the ore you gathered from your trip, but be patient and don’t smelt any more ore than you must. Soon you will be able to craft an incredible machine: the Macerator, which will give you 2 ore dust from one ore and other stuff I'll explain later. However, before you build a Macerator, you need a Generator, and you may want to craft an Extractor as well, but to build them, you must craft some Electric Circuits, which need some Cables. Yeah, it seems complicated, and it is. That's why I'm writing a little tutorial just for you.
Iron Furnace[edit]
One of the first IC2-related things you'll probably want to create is an Iron Furnace. This is an upgrade over the regular Furnace from vanilla Minecraft (a.k.a. Stone Furnace by IC2 users). It operates faster and uses fuel more efficiently. Click on the link for details. But wait! You need to make a Forge Hammer in order to create the Iron Plates for the Iron Furnace.
Now the Iron Furnace itself:
Together you will need ten Iron Ore, two Sticks, and two pieces of Charcoal (or several pieces of Wood) for fuel. Smelt the ten Iron Ore into ingots in your regular stone Furnace. Take the Sticks and five Iron Ingots and make the Forge Hammer. Next place the Forge Hammer and the remaining five ingots on the crafting grid to create five Iron Plates. Now pick up your Furnace and use it to craft an Iron Furnace as shown above. An Iron Furnace is an important part of making an Electric Furnace later, so making it now lets you use it until we get to that step.
Before you proceed, you'll need to make a Cutter tool in order to make cables. It requires five Iron Ingots. Make three of them into Iron Plates using the Forge Hammer. Here's the recipe:
Your First Machine[edit]
You can optionally exchange the Extractor with the Macerator listed below if you have several Rubber trees nearby.
For this project you'll need:
- 6 Sticky Resin
- 3 Copper Ingots
- 9 Iron Ingots
- 2 Redstone
You remember the Sticky Resin you kept in the chest? Take it, and three Copper Ingots too. We will create some Copper Cables. You see it takes 6 Rubber and 3 Copper Ingots for every 6 cables. Later you will need a large amount of them, but first you want just enough to make an Extractor. Once you have that, you can make Rubber much more efficiently.
Smelt your 6 Sticky Resin in any furnace to get 6 Rubber.
Place the Forge Hammer and three Copper Ingots on the crafting grid to make three Copper Plates. Then place the Copper Plates on the crafting grid and replace the Forge Hammer with the Cutters to cut them into wire. Lastly combine your wire with Rubber to create Insulated Copper Cables.
Use the Forge Hammer to turn your Iron Ingots into nine Iron Plates.
Now we will craft our first Electronic Circuit. You need 6 cables, 2 Redstone, and one Iron Plate. Electronic Circuits are the basis industry, used in every machine, so you'll be using them a lot.
Next we must craft the recipe of all machines: the Basic Machine Casing.
Just take 8 Iron Plates and draw a box with them in the craft interface. FINALLY we can craft our first machine. We just need 4 more Treetaps. Take 20 planks and craft them. After that, put the 4 Treetaps, the Machine Casing, and the Electronic Circuit on the crafting table and TADA! You can plant your Extractor where you want. Be careful though: you can’t remove any machine by hand. It will be destroyed if you do. You will need a special tool made with a new metal. We will see that later. Ok, you have your Extractor, but to use it, you need ELECTRICITY, made by a GENERATOR. Now you know what we need to make next. Generator[edit]For this project you'll need:
There are 2 ways to craft a Generator, but both actually requires the same amount of raw materials: First, you can use a RE Battery, a Basic Machine Casing, and a Furnace. Or, you can use a RE Battery, 3 Iron Plates, and an Iron Furnace. Both recipes cost the same amount of iron overall, so take your pick. Do not use your existing Iron Furnace. You will need it later, and you will need something to smelt with in the meantime. I know you are asking yourself: How do I create an RE Battery? Let's do that now! 1 Cable, 4 Tin Casings, and 2 Redstone. Easy, no? In order to create Tin Casing (or any material casing), simply use the Forge Hammer on a Tin (or respective material) Plate. Time to remember that recipe. You need to assemble two Rechargeable Batteries. One is needed to build the Generator, and the second is needed to power your Extractor. But wait! You just used your last Cable. It’s time to craft more, but this time we will not waste great quantities of resin. Go back in front of your Extractor, put 2 Sticky Resin into the top slot, and put some Redstone into the bottom slot (pure Redstone is like a 1 use low-efficient battery, but it works). With the Extractor, you get 3 Rubber for each Sticky Resin instead of just 1. Now craft two Tin Cables. Now you can assemble your two RE Batteries. Next follow one of the two recipes above to craft the Generator. Don't place the generator next to anything; I’ll explain why in the wiring section. Put your empty battery in the upper slot and put some (Char)Coal or other things that burn in the lower slot. You will need 2.5 (Char)Coal to fill up a single battery. I usually don't worry about completely filling my battery at this point. Feel free to make more RE Batteries. However, we'll be adding a cable shortly which will make the batteries unnecessary. The empty Rechargeable Batteries can stack up to 16, but the fully charged ones can’t be stacked. It’s the drawback of the re-usability. You can place a chest right next to the generator and it will gather your full batteries. For now, you can use a partially or fully charged battery to power the Extractor. This will give you a lot more Rubber for making cables, which in turn will make it easier to build other machines. Macerator[edit]For this project you'll need:
And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the incredible MACERATOR which can double your mining productivity. Craft another Electronic Circuit, another Basic Machine Casing and collect the needed Cobblestone and Flint. If you didn't already know, you occasionally get Flint when you break Gravel blocks. After you craft the Macerator, you can also macerate Gravel with it to get Flint faster. Put your ore in the upper slot, and a battery in the bottom one, and wait for 2 dust to magically appear from one ore, then put that dust in an Electric Furnace (next section!), or actually any furnace, and you will have 2 ingots for one ore. What, you don’t know how to create an Electric Furnace? It will be our next step in this long section. You must know that the Macerator can do more things than create dust from ore. It can create dust from Coal too. The Coal Dust is used in a lot of things. The Macerator can make Flint out of Gravel. This may not seem so, but it’s really useful. It can also make Cobblestone from smooth (regular) Stone, and incredibly, make SAND out of Cobblestone. Cool, isn’t it? Note: It's easier to store ores and Macerate as needed since dusts use up twice the chest space. Electric Furnace[edit]For this project you'll need:
The Electric Furnace will allow you to smelt using electricity instead of using Char(Coal). This is the thing you'll use your Iron Furnace to craft. I know, it’s another Circuit to craft, but I warned you it would be everywhere. Like the other furnaces, you put the stuff you want to heat in the upper part, and a battery in the bottom. It's 12.5% faster than the Iron Furnace, and there is no energy waste. If there is nothing left in the top, it immediately stops consuming energy. You now have 1 Extractor, 1 Generator, 1 Macerator, and 1 Electro Furnace. It’s not much. If you think you can use more things, you're right. BatBox[edit]Adding a BatBox will provide a much larger energy storage buffer for your Generator and therefore simplify its operation. You'll need three Rechargeable Batteries to build it. Run Tin Cable (Copper if you really want) from the output face of the BatBox to your machines, marked with a white dot. On the plus side, you get three Tin Cable per ingot rather than the two you got making Copper Cable earlier. Don't make the cable longer than four to five segments to avoid wasting energy. Once you have the machines connected to the BatBox via cable, you won't need to use batteries to run them anymore. Place your Generator on the opposite side of the BatBox from the Output facing. If you find you need to change the direction of the BatBox's output facing, you'll need to look at The Power of Bronze section below for information on how to make a Bronze Wrench. BatBoxes can be daisy-chained to provide more EU storage. They can also be used to break up lengths of cable to avoid energy loss. The maximum length you can have of Tin Cable is about four before it loses 1 EU/t. By placing a BatBox at the end of four segments of Tin Cable, you can then go another four segments without energy loss. Keep these ideas in mind as you expand. Alternative Power[edit]Solar Power[edit]For this project you'll need:
Another option for renewable energy is to add a Solar Panel to reduce your Coal/Charcoal usage. Keep in mind that Solar Panels require an unobstructed view of the sky and they only work in the daytime. Connect your Solar Panel (with or without a cable) to the top of the BatBox. Now your BatBox will receive a constant trickle from the Solar Panel and can also receive energy from your Generator. The downside is that these are pretty expensive, but just one or two helps immensely early on. If you want more advanced solar panels, or ones that work without sun, get the Advanced Solar Panels addon. Manual Kinetic Generator[edit]For this project you'll need:
This hand crank allows you to generate some kinetic power (Ku) by simply standing there clicking on it over and over again. Kinetic power isn't all too useful on its own, but you can convert it into Electric Units with the Kinetic Generator. See that Iron Shaft? You make it by "Extruding" an Iron Block in a Metal Former. You'll learn about that later. To make the Electric Motor, You need two Tin Casings, one Iron Ingot, and two Copper Coils: To make a Coil, put 8 Copper Cable around an Iron Ingot: Place the Kinetic Generator next to the Manual Kinetic Generator so that the input face (look for that Iron Shaft in the middle of a dark hole) is in contact with the Manual Kinetic Generator. Now make sure the output face of the Kinetic Generator (just a hole) is in contact with a cable or Battery Block. Now you can produce about 13 EU/t by just standing there and holding the USE button (default: right mouse button). This setup is great for Batbox Chargepads early on! Etcetera[edit]In this image you can see the BatBox, with the Generator to its left, and a length of copper cable four squares long to its right. In the current version of IC2, Tin Cable has taken the place where Copper Cable used to be in the cable hierarchy, so pretend that cable is Tin. Up to four machines can then be placed directly in front of the cable. Going up from the BatBox is a four-square-long cable that connects to a second BatBox, and then from there to either a Solar Panel or a wind generator of sorts using Tin Cables. NOTE: Most textures in images are outdated.
You can see the inside of my little home, 3 Macerators, 3 Electric Furnaces, 1 Extractor, 1 Generator in view, and 2 unknown machines. You can see I’ve put a chest in front of my generator to gather the charged batteries when I stalk outdoors. The Power of Bronze[edit]Now you have a small, but fully functional base that allows you to get twice as many ingots for every mining run. Unfortunately, you can’t move any of the machines or you'll have to rebuild it from scrap. Now we will craft the engi-friend tool: the Bronze Wrench. The Bronze Wrench is made from BRONZE. I can hear your little voice: "A new ore I haven't found? How can it be so rare?" YOU FOOL, Bronze is made from COPPER + TIN. You need to use a Macerator to grind Copper and Tin Ingots (or Ores) into dust, then take the dust from those 2 ores and mix them in a 3:1 ratio (location in the crafting grid doesn’t matter). This gives you Bronze Dust. To smelt Bronze Dust into ingots, put them in a furnace. You'll need six Bronze Ingots to make a Bronze Wrench: The use of a Bronze Wrench is incredibly easy: just right-click on a Machine and its primary side will rotate to that face; sneak-right-click to rotate it to the opposite side you clicked; right-click the same face a second time and the machine will be removed; be careful: if the machine wasn’t empty, you will lose everything it contained. And sometimes you can make a mistake (about a 20% chance of failure), and you can’t retrieve the machine you craft; it's unlucky, but it happens (now a 100% success rate in IC2 Experimental so feel free to crank away! But removing some machines will cause them to lose 20% of their stored power). Only 4 machines can be retrieved safely every time: MFE Unit, HV Transformer, Terraformer and MINERs. However, if you upgrade your wrench into an Electric Wrench, and toggle it to loss-less mode (this mode removed starting in IC2 v2.3.222), you are guaranteed to get your machines back no matter what, at a cost of 9000 EU per operation. The Recipes and Resources page has a list of all available Bronze tools. IRON! A very important topic. Every machine is based on Iron. It also costs a lot of Iron for Mine Carts and Rails. But we have Bronze! Why we can't use Bronze for Rails? Also, you can craft armor from Bronze. Second Steps[edit]Metal Former[edit]Tired of having to keep making Cutters and Forge Hammers? Think it's strange that you have all these machines, but still have to use hand tools to shape metal? Perhaps it's time you built a Metal Former. It can craft plates, casings, cables, and some other miscellaneous things. You'll need to make two Toolboxes using a Chest and five Bronze Casings each. You'll also need to make three Copper Coils. Combine those with an Electronic Circuit and a Machine Casing, which you already know how to make, like so. The Metal Former has 3 modes: Rolling, Extruding and Cutting. Rolling takes the place of the Forge Hammer; turning Ingots into Plates and Plates into Casings. Cutting replaces the cutting tool, though it has no real use, as the Extruding mode converts ingots directly into 3 to 4 cables (instead of 2 to 3 from cutting plates, amount also depends on material, higher tier materials make more cables). The Extruding mode also makes most of the miscellaneous stuff, like Shafts for use in kinetic machines and Iron Fences from Iron Casings. Electric Wrench[edit]If you find your Bronze Wrenches keep wearing out, I suggest upgrading your Bronze Wrench to an Electric Wrench.
The Electric Wrench works the same way. It's a lot of work to make, but using it doesn't decrease its durability. You just need to recharge it, which is easy enough. Just be careful not to drop it in lava.
Mining Drill and Chainsaw[edit]Tired of making pickaxe after pickaxe? How about an energy-based version? The Mining Drill uses EU instead of wearing out, so you just need to recharge it by placing it either in any generator or in a BatBox or higher.
Pump[edit]Remember that lava lake you found waaaaay back when you made your first trip in the mines? Now it's time to take advantage of it with a Pump. The pump will fill buckets or Universal Fluid Cells for us and place them in a chest.
Geothermal Power[edit]Once you've acquired both a Metal Former and a Pump, you'll have the option of making a Geothermal Generator. This option isn't renewable like solar or wind, but it's a great alternative or supplement to Coal/Charcoal. A Geothermal Generator generates energy from lava. Building one of these is a good option if you build your base deep underground where lava lakes are more common, or if you happen to find a lava lake on the surface. These are almighty in the Nether as well. The Metal Former machine is required in order to make the Empty Cells used in this recipe.
You'll also need at least one Bucket for gathering lava. IC2 let's you make them using Tin as well as the vanilla Iron.
CES Unit[edit]Now, we have more machines, and we can power them with solar panels. But what should we do when the BatBox runs out of energy at night? Let's put our knowledge of bronze to use making a bigger storage unit! For that job, there is the CES Unit. The CES Unit stores 300,000 EU, or 5x as much as the BatBox. Before we begin, you'll need to get your hands on at least three Gunpowder. You may need to go hunt some Creepers to get some.
Run three Gunpowder through an Extractor to get three Sulfur Dust.
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