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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.

If this is your first time playing IC2, it is highly recommended to create a creative world and test things like how machines work, how to do this and that... By doing this you can reduce testing things in your survival world as there is a chance of messing things up. You don't want half an hour of your work turns into a hole in the ground, right?

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 set up a base for your first night, just as how you would do in vanilla survival.

Here is an example of a base with some decorative flowers. In the first days, having an pretty base 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.

An example of a rubber farm consisted of 25 rubber trees. A farm with the size of this is enough to provide plenty of rubber as long as you don't build something like a huge rubber trampoline. Note that in this farm there is a 4 block gap between the trees.

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 is produced by smelting Sticky Resin in a furnace, and sticky resin can be collected by right clicking a Resin Hole on a Rubber Tree with a Treetap. While your crops are growing, go to a forest or a swamp biome to find a Rubber Tree. Harvest the tree, and take at least 1 sapling back to your base. With that sapling you can start a rubber tree farm. 3 to 5 rubber trees are enough for now, but more will be always beneficial in the long term. So just plant the tree, destroy the leaves to get the sapling back, and continue on until you have around 20 trees. That should be enough in the long term. Also, start a manual birch tree farm, as you main source of wood. In the meantime, you should always harvest your wheat and craft them into bread, to prepare enough food for mining. Always keep a stack of logs and half a stack of charcoal in your chest if you can.

Use 5 Wooden Planks to craft a Treetap. You will need more of them later, but one is enough for now. It doesn't have to be oak wood planks that works, any wood plank (including some of the modded ones) should work, as long as it is registered as plankWood in the oredict.

Now, extract 7 Sticky Resin from the Rubber Trees. You can leave the rubber in the furnace, as it is needed later.

For now, gather torches, stone pickaxes, a iron pickaxe 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 will 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. The iron pickaxe is a luxury by now, so only use it when it is really needed, like mining redstone ores.

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. It's much more useful in IC2 than it was in vanilla Minecraft, 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. Only get 3 of them and keep them in a chest; leave the rest of the diamond ores. It is not beneficial to mine diamond ores without a fortune pickaxe unless it is really necessary. We will craft something awesome with them(Not the vanilla diamond pickaxe!). You should know that you can produce diamonds with coal. This will be shown later. There is something else to do with them other than wasting them in one-use tools or 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. Also, it can be used to create a nether portal without a diamond pickaxe. 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.

Now you know what you can gather under the surface. To continue, you need to have the following materials:

27 iron ores
4 redstone dusts
3 copper ores
3 tin ores
3 flint

An alternate route is available: If you REALLY can't get that much iron but you are willing to spend 5 extra redstone dusts, you can save yourself 4 iron ore and a tin ore. HAYO!

Now that you’re safe at your base, smelt exactly 27 iron ore, 3 copper ore and 3 tin ore. For the alternate route: smelt exactly 19 iron ore, and 3 copper ore. Don't smelt the tin ore.

Be patient and don’t smelt any more ore than listed above. 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 which will be explained later. However, before you build a Macerator, you need basic crafting tools in IC2: The Forge Hammer and the Cutter. Grab 2 sticks and your freshly-made iron ingots to craft those tools.

Why are there two recipes for the forge hammer? Because it is SYMMETRICAL! HAYO!

Your First Machine: The Macerator[edit]

Now that you have your tools ready, it's time to craft your first machine! Take all of your iron inogts and copper ingots, and craft all of them into iron and copper plates.

Note that these recipes are shapeless, meaning that you can put the two ingredients anywhere you like, and you will still get the same output. Your crafting tool will not be consumed, but they will take 1 damage per use.

You remember the rubber that you have smelted? Take it, and we will craft some Insulated Copper Cables. Place the Copper Plates and the cutter onto the crafting grid cut them into copper wire. Then combine your wire with Rubber to insulate it. These recipes are also shapeless.

Now we will craft our first Electronic Circuit. If you have followed this tutorial, all materials should be prepared by now. Electronic Circuits are the basic circuit boards used in every machine.

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 crafting interface.

FINALLY we can craft our first machine. We just need 3 more flint and 2 cobblestone. They should be lying somewhere in your world. Put the flints, the cobbelstone, the Machine Casing, the Electronic Circuit on the crafting table and TADA!

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've all been waiting for: the incredible MACERATOR which can double your mining productivity. You placed down the macerator, put your ores into it, but you are scratching your head thinking WHY IS THIS THING NOT WORKING? Because to use it, you need ELECTRICITY, made by a GENERATOR.

Alternate route

Still remember there is an alternate route? This is where things will start to be a little different. Skip this section if you have smelted 27 iron ores at the beginning.

What should you do with the 4 iron ores that you didn't smelt before? Macerate it! But power the macerator with what? Redstone dust! Redstone dust can provide the macerator (or any other machine) with 800 EU. Put your 4 iron ore into the top left slot of the macerator, and then a single piece of redstone on the bottom left slot. BOOM! The macerator magically starts to work! By hovering your mouse over the lightning icon, you can see how many EU are left in the machine. If a machine runs out of EU, it will stop working. When there is less than 400 EU, put another piece of redstone into the machine to power it longer. After your iron ore is well-macerated, put 2 tin ore into it and repeat the same process. After all of them are complete, you should use 5 redstone dust.

Now you have 8 Crushed Iron Ore and 4 Crushed Tin Ore, throw them into a furnace to smelt them. The magic appears: each crushed ore is smelted into an ingot! You've got double the ingots out of a single ore block! Awesome!

Take iron ore as an example here. This works with any other Overworld ore.

Generator[edit]

Before making the generator, you also need to craft some items.

Take 3 tin ingots, first craft all of them into plates, them craft only 2 of them into item casings. It is the same with other metals. Time to remember that recipe.

Craft the remaining tin plate into tin cables

Insulate one of the tin cables

Then craft a RE Battery.

There. Now you have crafted one of the main ingredients of the generator.

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.

The iron furnace is crafted as following:

Both recipes cost the same amount of iron plates overall, so take your pick.

Now you have got yourself a generator. Place it next to the macerator, and put charcoal into the generator to generate EU from it. Remember only to put in fuel when needing EU - otherwise precious EU is likely to get wasted.

The Power of Bronze[edit]

Now you have a small base that allows you to get twice as many ingots for every mining run. Unfortunately, you can’t move any of the machines. If you mine them with pickaxes, they will only drop a machine casing. Then you'll have to rebuild it from scrap.

You can craft an optional engi-friendly tool dedicated for moving or rotating machines: the Bronze Wrench. The Bronze Wrench is made from BRONZE. Your little voice is saying: "A new ore I haven't found? How can it be so rare?" YOU FOOL, Bronze is a man-made alloy that is made from COPPER and TIN. You need to use a Macerator to grind Copper and Tin Ingots into dusts, then take the dust and mix them in a 3:1 ratio. This Bronze Dust recipe is shapeless. Note that although you can create bronze, there is no way in vanilla IC2 to separate those metals once they have been mixed. Think carefully before you do that!

To smelt Bronze Dust into ingots, put them in a furnace.

You'll need six Bronze Ingots to make a Bronze Wrench:

Using a Bronze Wrench is incredibly easy: just right-click on a Machine and its primary side will rotate to that face; shift-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: In some versions of IC2, if the wrenched machine isn'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 since 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.

Bronze can also be used to craft Bronze Armor as a replacement of iron armor. It will not be introduced here. Click on the link for more information.

Another important use for bronze is to craft the Toolbox. 2 toolboxes are needed to craft the Metal Former, which will be introduced in the next section. It is better to craft them now. Materials you need to craft 2 toolboxes:

6 copper dusts
2 tin dusts
2 chests

First, mix the dusts to create bronze. Then smelt them to get ingots. Remember how to craft item casings? You need to craft 10 Bronze Item Casings. In case you have already forgotten them, they are shown below.

Now to craft two tool boxes:

Of course there are more things you can do with Bronze, but those aren't necessary for now. Therefore they will be introduced later.

Metal Former[edit]

Worried about having to keep crafting Cutters and Forge Hammers? Wondering if there is a machine that can do all this crafting? Perhaps it's time for you built a Metal Former. It can craft metal into plates, casings, cables, and some other miscellaneous things. Most importantly, it can craft 3 copper wires out of a single ingot, while with your crafting tools you can only craft 2.

Materials needed:

15 copper ingots (8 copper ores)
12 iron ingots (6 iron ores)
6 rubber
2 redstone dusts

Craft all 15 copper ingots into copper wires, and insulate 6 of them. Then craft only 9 iron into plates. You'll need to make three Copper Coils.

Then craft an electronic circuit and a basic machine casing. If you have already forgot those recipes, they are in section 2.1. Now you should have all needed to craft a metal former.

Place the metal former according to the picture on the right. It can be mirrored to the left. The cables can be either tin or copper, or a mix of them.. You might want to craft either of them if you don't have some left-over cables. Remember to insulate them: Uninsulated cables will electrify you if you get too close to them, causing unwanted but easily avoidable damage.

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.

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.

If you have only crafted one of them, don't place it down yet. The Iron Furnace is an important part of making an Electric Furnace in the next step.

Electric Furnace[edit]

Materials you'll need:

6 rubber
4 Redstone dusts
2 copper ingots
1 iron ingot
1 Iron Furnace

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. Remember that you can craft 3 copper cables by extruding a copper ingot in the Metal Former?

I know, it’s another Circuit to craft, but you are warned that it would be everywhere.

You can place the electric furnace next to the cable that is connected to the metal former. Don't put it next to the cable directly connected to the generator. Something else will replace that cable later. Like the vanilla furnace, you put the stuff you want to heat in the upper part, and a EU source in the bottom. It's 12.5% faster than the Iron Furnace, and there is no energy wasted. If there is nothing left in the top, it immediately stops consuming EU.

You now have 1 Metal Former, 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 your operation. You'll need three Rechargeable Batteries to build it.

Materials needed:

8 tin ingots
6 redstone dusts
4 rubber

Without the cable

Replace the cable next to the generator with the BatBox that you just crafted. Make sure the output side, marked with a white dot, faces the cable. You can open a creative mode world to test how to place the batbox in the correct direction. Don't make the cable longer than four blocks to avoid wasting energy. If you need to change the direction of the BatBox's output facing, you'll need to use the Bronze Wrench.

With the cable

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 and copper cable is four before it loses 1 EU/t. By placing a BatBox at the end of four blocks of Cables, you can then go another four segments without energy loss. Keep these ideas in mind as you expand your base.

Extractor[edit]

Thinking it is a waste of rubber by simply smelting sticky resin? That's why we're going to craft the extractor!

Materials needed:

9 Iron Ingots
6 rubber
4 Treetap
2 Copper Ingots
2 Redstone dust

The treetap used in this recipe must be a new one, i.e. have a full durability of 16.

Now, extend your cable by a block and then place down your extractor. With the extractor, you an get 3 rubber out of a single sticky resin. Awesome!

The content in the next few sections below is currently WIP, with some parts being re-ordered and is quite messy. You might see some duplicate content that aren't yet deleted. These are for reference and will be cleaned up once I'm done. Please go to wiki.industrial-craft.net/index.php?title=Tutorial:First_Steps&oldid=66506 for a cleaner version. I will keep working on it. Apologies for the inconvenience.

--KrisBigK (talk) 02:13, 31 July 2019 (CET)

Alternative Power Sources[edit]

Solar Power[edit]

For this project you'll need:

1 Generator
3 Coal (not Charcoal!)
3 Glass blocks
2 Electronic Circuits (2 Iron, 4 Redstone, 6 Copper, and 12 Rubber)

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:

22 Iron
1 Stick
1 Wood Plank
1 Generator
1 Tin
6 Copper

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.

To provide a significant amount of energy from solar, you'll need a lot of Solar Panels.

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.

Second Steps[edit]

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.

The Chainsaw provides an energy-based version of the axe, shears, and sword in one device.

The Recipes and Resources page has a list of all available power tools.

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.

Now, we will craft it! We'll need to make some Universal Fluid Cells to craft it:

Place the pump directly over a lava lake and place a chest right next to it (it has to touch). Place some empty buckets or universal fluid cells in the chest and start the pump. It will start filling them and placing them back into the chest for you to pick up later.

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.

Run three Lead Ingots through a Macerator to get three Lead Dust.

Assemble three Advanced RE-Batteries, then use them to build the CES Unit.

Before you place your shiny new CES Unit, there's one more thing we need: a Low-Voltage Transformer. Don't worry, it's not hard to make.

The reason we need a transformer is because the CES Unit puts out too much power at a time. Most machines only accept low voltage (32 EU-p), and the CES Unit outputs 128 EU-p. If you hook it up without a transformer, all of your machines will be destroyed!

Place the CES Unit and the LV Transformer so that the output of the CES Unit connects to the five-dotted side of the transformer. From there, you can run a cable from any of the one-dotted sides of the transformer to your machines.

BatPacks[edit]

Power tools use a lot of energy. Wouldn't it be nice to carry more energy at a time? You can with a BatPack. A BatPack (Battery Pack) is worn in the Chest slot, so it cannot be worn at the same time as chest armor.

The simplest version carries 60,000 EU.

The Advanced BatPack carries 600,000 EU.

Canning Machine[edit]

Uhh. I have got hunger. Eat a sandwich! But... Food... The Canning machine! It is a cheap, useful, and multipurpose machine. It can be used for filling Tin Cans with food, which you can gulp down fast while on the go. It can also be used to fill Universal Fluid Cells with liquids, such as Biogas. Craft it!

Since food comes in all shapes and sizes, some food fits in a few cans, while other foods need more than a few cans. The FOOD-TIN CAN list can be found here: Food List.

Kinetic Wind Generator[edit]

The Kinetic Wind Generator replaced the Wind Mill from earlier versions of IC2. There are different rotors you can put on it. Unfortunately, they all wear out. If you get all of your iron from mining, there are better options, although they do last a long time. However, it's a great option if the iron consumption isn't a problem for your operation.

A Metal Former is required before you can build one. To build the machine itself, you'll need a machine block and two iron shafts, like so:

Metal Former

Here's how you make a wooden rotor for it:

The Wood Rotor lasts 3 IRL hours inside the KWG and requires wind levels between 10 and 60 MCW. It has a wingspan of 2 blocks.

It takes 18 wood blocks and one iron to make a single wooden rotor, so it needs to be in a location where it can generate more power than 16 pieces of Charcoal (using 2 pieces to turn the wood into charcoal) in a regular Generator to be worthwhile, and that still isn't taking the piece of iron into account.

Place the KWG in a good location and place the rotor inside. It will then start producing kinetic energy. What's that? You want it to produce EU? Well, another machine is required for that.

Connect this Kinetic Generator directly to the Kinetic Wind Generator to change the Kinetic Energy Units into Energy Units.

Now connect a cable going to your base.

Compressor[edit]

A Compressor is used to make several different things, but the important ones to know right now are that it can compress Sand into Sandstone and it can make Advanced Alloys. Advanced Alloys can be used to make things like Reinforced Stone and Composite Armor.

Smelt some Cobblestone, craft a circuit, and then a Machine block.

Place that machine, give "him" energy, and place a Mixed Metal Ingot in it!

Now you have yourself plenty of Advanced Alloy, bane of Creepers (also good for advanced machines, as you will learn later on)! One of the first things you can do with this Advanced Alloy is make yourself a Composite Armor Vest. This is as good as an Iron Chestplate, but lasts even longer than a Diamond Chestplate.

You can also make Reinforced Glass, which is more Creeper-resistant than normal Glass:

Blast Furnace[edit]

Moving forward, there are a small number of advanced things that require Refined Iron, or heat-treated iron. You make Refined Iron by heating it in a Blast Furnace. In addition to the Blast Furnace itself, it requires a heat source, a Metal Former (listed above) is required to make six Empty Cells, and a Compressor (listed above) is needed to make Compressed Air Cells. For this guide we will use an Electric Heat Generator with four Coils.

Place the Electric Heat Generator where you want it, making sure the output side faces in the direction you want to place the Blast Furnace.

Place the Blast Furnace so that it touches the Electric Heat Generator, with its input side facing the Electric Heat Generator's output side. Since you generally don't need to interact with the Electric Heat Generator, it can be placed behind or beneath the Blast Furnace, rather than side-by-side. Run a power cable to the Electric Heat Generator. The Blast Furnace doesn't need one.

Make four Coils and place them inside the Electric Heat Generator. The Blast Furnace can accept a maximum of 20 Heat Units, and each Coil produces 5 Heat units. Adding more than four Coils will just waste EU.

Make six Empty Cells using the Metal Former, then place them into the Compressor to turn them into Compressed Air Cells. Place them inside the Blast Furnace. It takes six to make 1 Refined Iron. You get the Empty Cells back, and you can put them back in the Compressor again to refill them.

Your Blast Furnace should be ready to use.

Upgrades[edit]

Transformer Upgrade Hate to see freakin' transformer blocks everywhere in your working station? Well, get yourself a machinery transformer upgrade!

The transformer upgrade must be placed in the slots on the right-hand side of certain machine(though not all machines accept upgrades). Like so:

The transformer upgrade can increase the tier of voltage that the machine can accept. You can stack 1 or more transformer upgrade for higher voltage tier! So go ahead, feel free to stack some transformer upgrades!

Overclocker Upgrade Is your machine lazily working its way to get what you want? Do you wish that you can make machines do the jobs so much faster? Then go ahead and craft yourself an Overclocker Upgrade! And yes there are still some more upgrades! But it is time that you explore them yourself.

The Way to Industry[edit]

Automated Mining[edit]

Now we have some machines, but don't stop whining. Pardon, mining. The Miner. It's a very good machine for lazy people. But if you want one, you must work hard.

For the mining pipe, you need 6 Iron Plate and a treetap:

For a working miner, you have to craft another two things: First, you need a scanner. There are two types: an OD Scanner, or a more precise, energy-eating OV Scanner.

The OD Scanner scans a 5x5 area and submits the results on the player's screen. The OV Scanner scans a 9x9 area, and also submits the results on the player's screen. Either one can be used in the Miner. The second item your miner needs is a Mining Drill.

The Mining Drill is a useful item. It can mine stone fast, and dirt even faster. It's also a hand-held tool, not just an item for the Miner.

Put the drill and the scanner in the miner with a few mining pipes, give them energy, and go to the bed, relax, watch TV, but don't do hard jobs!

MFE Unit[edit]

For an even bigger energy storage unit, there is the MFE Unit. It can store 4,000,000 EU, as much as 100 BatBoxes!! If you can empty a fully-loaded MFE Unit during a night, you are a very spendthrift player. But! It isn't cheap. You must have at least SIXTEEN diamonds! Go to layer 1-16, and search for some diamonds. Can you find sixteen diamonds? Are they genuine? Okay. Craft them into Energy Crystals!

Craft a machine block, search for 4 cables, and craft an MFE Unit like this:

Now, we can store a lot of EU for difficult times.

NOTE: Tin cable and most machines can only handle 32EU/t, and the MFE outputs 512EU/t. You must use a MV Transformer and a LV Transformer, or a Gold Cable and a couple of Transformer upgrade add-ons.

Making Diamonds[edit]

Having trouble finding all of those diamonds? You can use the Compressor to convert all of that coal you have been hoarding into diamonds! HAYO!

Mining Laser[edit]

Uhh... So we've got some energy. I want to MINE, but I don't like tapping my toes waiting for that Miner to get everything. Time to craft something hot and shiny: the Mining Laser!

Compress 4 Advanced Alloys, craft another two energy crystals, and an Advanced Circuit.

It's very expensive!

I know! But if you want mine with style...

When will we finish that laser?

Now!

To charge the mining laser, put it in the MFE Unit. Let the laser charge for awhile, then head back to your mine. To change the firing mode, hold M and right-click. The firing modes can be found here: Mining Laser. Every firing mode has advantages and disadvantages. The default firing mode is the mining mod. It's balanced. Now, use your weapon, mine resources, because soon we will start a new chapter. Listen to a good music, chop down trees, get some cobblestone, manage your farm. Please, RELAX.

Refined Iron Rotors[edit]

So you've got some crazy mining going on, you've built lots of expensive machines, your efficiency is through the roof, and hopefully you've built some food and mob-drop farms. Maybe now's a good time to look at Refined Iron (Steel) Rotors for the Kinetic Wind Generators (listed above). These are entirely optional, as there are a number of ways to generate EU. Rotors wear out. You will need the Blast Furnace (listed above) to make these.

Just in case you were wondering, in game they're called Kinetic Gearbox Rotor (Steel) as Refined Iron is ore dictionary'd as steel.

The Refined Iron (Steel) Rotor lasts 3 IRL days (72 hours) inside the KWG and requires wind levels between 17 and 90 MCW. It has a wingspan of 4 blocks.

Terraformer[edit]

We did a lot of jobs, we have got a little house, and a few machines, BUT. Why don't we make a big house for our machines? I said, that keep in your mind a big, flat place. If it takes a lot of time to go to your flat place, we will craft a Teleporter, or a Terraformer.

For a Teleporter, you need a lot of energy, two metal blocks, some glowstone dust, and some coal dust. For a Terraformer, you need energy, two TFBP, an advanced machine, and some glowstone dust.

Craft two carbon plates, and then compress two metal block. Make a machine, and craft them to an advanced machine!

Now make an electronic circuit, an advanced circuit, and take two redstone.

Now, craft that amazing TERRAFORMER!

Make another Tfbp, and program that!

Flatificator

It makes a flat area with dirt ground.

Cultivation

It replaces sand with dirt, and places a few saplings.

Irrigation

It forces saplings and seeds to grow faster, and causes sugar cane to grow 4 blocks high.

Desertification

It replaces dirt with sand, destroys plants and saplings, melts ice and snow. It sets forests on fire!

To put a Tfbp in a Terraformer, just hold it and right-click in the Terraformer. To remove it, just right-click in the Terraformer with a wrench. Supply the Terraformer with energy, and after 2-3 days, it will finish the job.

Teleporter[edit]

DAWN OF THE HIGH VOLTAGE

Do you think that solar collectors or coal-based generators can't serve your purposes?
Do you get tired of waiting for that stupid sun?
Do you think that pollution isn't an important thing?
Then, I think, the reactor is your best machine!
But why doesn't your neighbor have a reactor?
Because it's very expensive! You can find out all about Nuclear Reactors in the Nuclear Power guide.

MFSU[edit]

Think that your MFE isn't storing enough power? Then craft the amazing MFSU!

Before you can even craft your MFSU, you will need several blue crystals called lapotron crystals.

To craft one, you will need your existing energy crystals and upgrade them with advanced circuits and lapis. The MFSU is capable of storing 40 million EU, making it the highest tier of the energy storage device! The MFSU will output HV(high voltage) and will destroy your wires and machine if transformers are not installed into your EU network properly. So you would want to consider crafting the MV Transformer!

Place the MV Transformer with the three-dots side facing the MFSU and the single-dot side facing the LV Transformer. This way it will "step-down" the high voltage to medium voltage and the low voltage.

That's it![edit]

Of course this is just the first steps so now you are pretty much on your own! You might want to craft a Mass Fabricator or a Tesla Coil, whatever... So, go ahead and do what you like do and yes, go and browse some pages on this wiki when you have some troubleshooting!

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Contents

Basic steps in a new world[edit]

First Ingredients and Machines[edit]

Your First Machine: The Macerator[edit]

Generator[edit]

The Power of Bronze[edit]

Metal Former[edit]

Iron Furnace[edit]

Electric Furnace[edit]

BatBox[edit]

Extractor[edit]

Alternative Power Sources[edit]

Solar Power[edit]

Manual Kinetic Generator[edit]

Etcetera[edit]

Second Steps[edit]

Mining Drill and Chainsaw[edit]

Pump[edit]

Geothermal Power[edit]

CES Unit[edit]

BatPacks[edit]

Canning Machine[edit]

Kinetic Wind Generator[edit]

Compressor[edit]

Blast Furnace[edit]

Upgrades[edit]

The Way to Industry[edit]

Automated Mining[edit]

MFE Unit[edit]

Making Diamonds[edit]

Mining Laser[edit]

Refined Iron Rotors[edit]

Terraformer[edit]

Teleporter[edit]

MFSU[edit]

That's it![edit]

Navigation menu

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-You need to assemble two [[RE Battery|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 [[Cable|cables]], which in turn will make it easier to build other machines.
-=== Iron Furnace ===
-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 Plate]]s for the Iron Furnace.
-{{Grid/Crafting_Table
-|A1=|B1=Iron|C1=Iron
-|A2=Stick|B2=Stick|C2=Iron
-|A3=|B3=Iron|C3=Iron
-|Output=Forge_Hammer
-}}
-Now the Iron Furnace itself:
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=|B1=Iron Plate|C1=
-|A2=Iron Plate|B2=|C2=Iron Plate
-|A3=Iron Plate|B3=Furnace|C3=Iron Plate
-|Output=Iron Furnace
-}}
-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:
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Iron Plate|C1=Iron Plate
-|B2=Iron Plate
-|A3=Iron|C3=Iron
-|Output=Cutter|OA=
-}}
-=== Extractor ===
-''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 Cable]]s. 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]].
-{|
-|{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A2=Copper Plate|B2=Cutter
-|Output=Copper Cable|OA=2
-|Output-link=Copper Cable
-}}
-|{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Rubber|B1=Copper Cable
-|Output=Insulated Copper Cable
-|Output-link=Insulated Copper Cable
-}}
-|}
-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 Cable]]s.
-Use the Forge Hammer to turn your Iron Ingots into nine Iron Plates.
-{|
-|{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Insulated Copper Cable|B1=Insulated Copper Cable|C1=Insulated Copper Cable
-|A2=Redstone|B2=Iron Plate|C2=Redstone
-|A3=Insulated Copper Cable|B3=Insulated Copper Cable|C3=Insulated Copper Cable
-|Output=Electronic Circuit
-}}
-|}
-Now we will craft our first [[Electronic Circuit]]. You need 6 [[Cable|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]].
-{|
-|{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Iron Plate|B1=Iron Plate|C1=Iron Plate
-|A2=Iron Plate|C2=Iron Plate
-|A3=Iron Plate|B3=Iron Plate|C3=Iron Plate
-|Output=Machine
-}}
-Just take 8 [[Iron Plate]]s and draw a box with them in the craft interface.
-FINALLY we can craft our first machine. We just need 4 more [[Treetap|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'''!
-{|
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Treetap|B1=Machine|C1=Treetap
-|A2=Treetap|B2=Electronic Circuit|C2=Treetap
-|Output=Extractor
-}}
-|}
-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 [[Wrench|special tool]] made with a [[Bronze|new metal]]. We will see that later.
-Ok, you have your Extractor, but to use it, you need '''ELECTRICITY''', made by a '''[[Generator|GENERATOR]]'''. Now you know what we need to make next.
-=== Generator ===
-For this project you'll need:
-* 1 Sticky Resin (using Extractor)
-* 5 Tin Ore
-* 4 Redstone
-* 8 Iron Ore
-There are 2 ways to craft a [[Generator]], but both actually requires the same amount of raw materials:
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=|B1=RE Battery|C1=
-|A2=|B2=Machine|C2=
-|A3=|B3=Furnace|C3=
-|linkB3=
-|Output=Generator
-}}
-First, you can use a [[RE Battery]], a [[Basic Machine Casing]], and a Furnace.
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=|B1=RE Battery|C1=
-|A2=Iron Plate|B2=Iron Plate|C2=Iron Plate
-|A3=|B3=Iron Furnace|C3=
-|linkB2=|linkC2=
-|linkB3=
-|Output=Generator
-}}
-Or, you can use a [[RE Battery]], 3 [[Iron Plate]]s, 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!
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=|B1=Insulated Tin Cable|C1=
-|A2=Tin_Casing|B2=Redstone|C2=Tin_Casing
-|A3=Tin_Casing|B3=Redstone|C3=Tin_Casing
-|Output=RE Battery
-}}
-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 [[RE Battery|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 [[Cable|cables]], which in turn will make it easier to build other machines.
-=== Macerator ===
-For this project you'll need:
-* 3 Flint
-* 2 Cobblestone
-* 9 Iron Ore
-* 2 Sticky Resin (using Extractor)
-* 3 Copper Ore
-* 2 Redstone
-And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the incredible '''[[Macerator|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.
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Flint|B1=Flint|C1=Flint
-|A2=Cobblestone|B2=Machine|C2=Cobblestone
-|B3=Electronic Circuit
-|Output=Macerator
-}}
-Put your ore in the upper slot, and a battery in the bottom one, and wait for 2 [[Dusts|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 [[Dusts|dust]] from ore. It can create dust from Coal too. The [[Dusts|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 ===
-For this project you'll need:
-* 1 Iron Furnace (existing)
-* 2 Sticky Resin (using Extractor)
-* 2 Copper Ore (using Macerator)
-* 4 Redstone
-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.
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|B1=Electronic Circuit
-|A2=Redstone|B2=Iron Furnace|C2=Redstone
-|Output=Electric Furnace
-}}
-I know, it’s another [[Electronic Circuit|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 ===
-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.
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Wooden Planks|B1=Insulated Tin Cable|C1=Wooden Planks
-|A2=RE Battery|B2=RE Battery|C2=RE Battery
-|A3=Wooden Planks|B3=Wooden Planks|C3=Wooden Planks
-|Output=BatBox
-}}
-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|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 Sources ===
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-== The Power of Bronze ==
-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|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'''.
-{|
-|-
-|{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|B2=Copper Dust|B3=Copper Dust
-|C2=Copper Dust|C3=Tin Dust
-|Output=Bronze Dust|OA=4}}
-||{{Grid/Machine
-|Type=Electro Furnace
-|Top=Bronze Dust
-|Bottom=RE Battery (Charged)
-|Output=Bronze}}
-|}
-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:
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Bronze|A2=Bronze
-|B2=Bronze|B3=Bronze
-|C1=Bronze|C2=Bronze
-|Output=Wrench
-|Output-link=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 '''[[Miner|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 [[Recipes and Resources#Tools|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?
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Bronze|A2=Bronze|A3=Bronze
-|B2=Stick
-|C1=Bronze|C2=Bronze|C3=Bronze
-|Output=Rail|OA=8}}
-Also, you can craft armor from Bronze.
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Bronze|A2=Bronze|A3=Bronze
-|B2=Bronze|B3=Bronze
-|C1=Bronze|C2=Bronze|C3=Bronze
-|Output=Bronze Chestplate}}
 == Second Steps ==
-=== Metal Former ===
-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.
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=Bronze Item Casing|B1=Chest|C1=Bronze Item Casing
-|A2=Bronze Item Casing|B2=Bronze Item Casing|C2=Bronze Item Casing
-|Output=Tool Box
-}}
-You'll need to make two [[Toolbox]]es using a Chest and five Bronze Casings each.
-You'll also need to make three Copper [[Coil]]s.
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=|B1=Electronic Circuit|C1=
-|A2=Tool Box|B2=Machine|C2=Tool Box
-|A3=Coil|B3=Coil|C3=Coil
-|Output=Metal Former
-}}
-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 ===
-If you find your Bronze Wrenches keep wearing out, I suggest upgrading your Bronze Wrench to an [[Electric Wrench]].
-{|
-|{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=|B1=Tin Casing|C1=
-|A2=Coil|B2=Iron|C2=Coil
-|A3=|B3=Tin Casing|C3=
-|Output=Electric Motor
-}}
-|{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|A1=|B1=Copper Cable|C1=Iron Casing
-|A2=RE Battery|B2=Electronic Circuit|C2=Electric Motor
-|A3=|B3=Copper Cable|C3=Iron Casing
-|Output=Small Power Unit
-}}
-|}
-{{Grid/Crafting Table
-|B1=Wrench
-|B1-link=Bronze Wrench
-|B2=Small Power Unit
-|
-|Output=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 ===

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Revision as of 02:21, 31 July 2019

Basic steps in a new world[edit]

First Ingredients and Machines[edit]

Your First Machine: The Macerator[edit]

Generator[edit]

The Power of Bronze[edit]

Metal Former[edit]

Iron Furnace[edit]

Electric Furnace[edit]

BatBox[edit]

Extractor[edit]

Alternative Power Sources[edit]

Solar Power[edit]

Manual Kinetic Generator[edit]

Etcetera[edit]

Second Steps[edit]

Mining Drill and Chainsaw[edit]

Pump[edit]

Geothermal Power[edit]

CES Unit[edit]

BatPacks[edit]

Canning Machine[edit]

Kinetic Wind Generator[edit]

Compressor[edit]

Blast Furnace[edit]

Upgrades[edit]

The Way to Industry[edit]

Automated Mining[edit]

MFE Unit[edit]

Making Diamonds[edit]

Mining Laser[edit]

Refined Iron Rotors[edit]

Terraformer[edit]

Teleporter[edit]

MFSU[edit]

That's it![edit]

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