Tutorial:First Steps

Special Thanks to OKamilTan!

The tutorial is regularly upgraded, you can see here the first version of it In the wait of a corrected version, you can download here the last unfinished version: First Steps in the IndustrialCraft mod for Minecraft V0.5.pdf (texture pack used: Soartex)

Basics steps in a new world

You have downloaded and installed the mod and generated a new map, but you really don’t know where you begin. I must answer that: like all other maps you begin in, gather some wood, then some cobblestone and coal and build a little house (or a cave if you wish) for your first night.

Here is mine with some flowers, having a pretty house is always a plus, even if it’s just for you, and I can easily expand it. Beware of the mobs if you are not in peaceful, the creepers can blow up what you built, so use some torches to light the area.

Keep in mind you will need a lot of room for your industry. Try to get a good spot with a lot of space not too far away, like that sand plain I can see from my roof (and lot of sand for more purposes) Don’t forget to add some chests and a bed in your little place.

Nothing new here, but you must begin with a good base if you want to go further. Next part we will see new things.

In search of the first ingredients and first machines

You have a little base with 4 walls and a roof, with some chests, a bed, a furnace and a crafting table, but you want more I think and I agree with you, so take some axes and we will gather our first needed material: RUBBER You will need a LOT of lumber to build our first machine, an extractor, and a basic generator, 34 logs precisely, but take more, it will be needed to power the generator and others stuff. And keep the saplings, I’ll explain why in a future section.

Can you smell the fresh air of new toys? So put 5 planks into the workshop and craft your first IC tool: a tree tap; Now craft 5 others ones and…

…extract rubber from logs like that!! I know, 30 planks + 18 logs for just 6 rubber is expensive, but trust me, it will cost less soon.

But for now drop that into a chest, and gather torches, pickaxes and food, we will go to the center of the earth!! The second thing you must gather is REDSTONE, yes that next-to useless red powder you have in astronomical quantity are the base of industrial electricity. Of course you will need an iron pickaxe to extract it, but you must be really unlucky if you don’t find any on the path. And same thing for copper and Tin, there is a lot of them on the way.

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 value is much higher with IC, especially in it's dust form, it's involved in mid-tech machines, we will come back in the future

-the white thing in the top: Tin, involved in base of IC, you must have a little at the beginning, luckily, their is a lot of them in the world

- under the tin: Copper, like the tin, it's involved in base of IC, like the cable, you must gather a good stock for the beginning, and like tin, there's plenty in the world

-Iron: EVERY SINGLE MACHINE uses iron, it’s the ore you must hunt the most, you will be always short in iron, you know what you must do now.

-Coal: it's value was GREATLY increased, if you want torches or furnace’s fuel, think charcoal, the coal is involved in a lot of things, including the most advanced. With macerated coal (coal in dust form) you can build solar panel, fuel, and lots of things like the nano-suit, in others worlds, you don’t care about coal, in industrycraft, its invaluable.

-the green ore at the right: Uranium, yes you heard right, uranium, like the thing you will need to power your future nuclear reactor, or to craft a NUKE to blow up a mountain !! Instead of that, they are not involved in other craft, it’s rarer than other ores, but can be found at every layer (need iron pickaxe to gather)

Further away in the cave:

-redstone: good news, it’s much faster to mine with IC (Alblaka fixed the bug Mojang left) it will not take you ages, like I said in the begin of that part, the 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 others things later

-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 must know we can craft an industrial diamond 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.

-not here but you know it: the lapis-lazuli: involved in the more advanced machines, you need BLOCKS of lapis to craft them, so if you find them now, just keep them until you need

-lava: I know, it’s not a minable resource, but it’s used to power one of the most powerful generators: the geothermal generator, keep in mind where are some lava lakes are to go back to later.

-obsidian: you must need some obsidian for more than one reason: to go in the nether, you will need some glowing dust for mid-tech machines. The obsidian is the only thing that can resist a nuke, keep in mind the nuclear reactor can do a nice hole. And obsidian is a part of crafting an industrial diamond.

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 you’re safe at your base, you can smelt some of the ore you gathered from your trip; but be patient and don’t smelt all your ore, 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 ill explain later. So, before you build a macerator you need an extractor and a generator, 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. You must smelt in 3 copper, then 9 others for a total of 12 After that, smelt 9 tin to be able to craft 3 batteries

And you will need 27 iron which you must SMELT AGAIN to create refined iron, which is a base of lot of machines and stuff

You remember the rubber you kept in the chest? Take it, and your copper too, we will create some cables, you see 6 rubbers and 3 copper for 8 cables, later you will need a large amount of them, but remember we must use 34 logs to be able to craft 6 rubber.

And now we will craft our first electric circuit, you need 6 cables, 2 redstone, and one refined iron, like all other things on that page, it’s the base of the industry, so you must remember that recipe because you will repeat it a lot.

And now we must craft the recipe of all machines: the machine (yes, it’s the name of that part). Just take 8 refined iron and draw a box with them in the craft interface.

FINALLY we can craft our first machine, but we need just 4 more tree taps, take 20 planks and craft them, after that take the 4 tree taps, a machine and an electric circuit and TADA you can plant your extractor where you want, but be careful, 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 how does it work? You need ELECTRCITY, made by a GENERATOR, now you know what we need to make next. There are 2 ways to craft a generator:

First, you can use a Battery, a Machine and a Furnace (8 iron needed) center>

Or, you can use a Battery, 3 refined iron and an iron furnace (10 or 11 iron needed)

As you can see the first one is cheaper, and I recommend you to use that recipe as the 2 are exactly the same. I know you are asking yourself: how do I create a battery and an iron furnace, for the iron furnace we will come back later, and for the battery its now!!

2 cables, 3 tin and 1 Redstone, easy no?

Time to remember that recipe.

But wait! You just used your last cable, it’s time to craft more, but this time we will not waste great quantities of logs. Go back in front of your extractor, and put 6 logs into the upper left hole, and put some redstone into the bottom hole (pure redstone is like a 1 use low-efficient battery but it works), then craft other cables with your rubber, and craft 2 batteries, not more or you will need to craft another cable before being able to build a macerator. Now we can craft the generator to fill up your batteries. Don't place the generator next to anything, I’ll explain why in the wiring section, and then put your 2 empty batteries in the upper slot and put some (char)coal or other things that burn in the lower slot, you will need 3.5 coal to fill up a single battery, but it is more efficient. You can place a chest just near the generator; it will gather all your filled up batteries. The empty batteries can stack up to 16, but the filled up ones can’t be stacked; it’s the drawback of the re-usability. With a fully charged battery, power the extractor for more rubber and cables, you must craft 2 more circuits.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the incredible MACERATOR which can double your mining productivity. Craft the 2 electric circuits I asked for, another machine and 3 new stone pickaxes.

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 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 and final step of 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, and I recommend you gather 3 or 4 stacks of coal dust as soon as possible. The macerator can make flint out of gravel, it not seem so, but it’s really useful, it can also make cobble from smooth stone, and, incredibly, make SAND out of cobblestone, cool isn’t it?

And Now the electric Furnace, but first you need to craft an iron furnace, the second recipe is here because of a certain mod that overwrites the 1st recipe, but it’s the same thing

The iron furnace is 20% faster than the standard furnace, you will only need 6 coal to heat 60 units instead of the 8 coal for 64 units for the stone furnace, but we can do it faster with the Electric furnace:

I know, it’s another circuit to craft, but I warned you it will be everywhere. Like the other machine, you put the stuff you want to heat in the upper part, and the battery in the bottom, its 12.5% faster than the iron furnace, and there is no energy waste, if there is nothing, it won’t consume energy.

You have 1 extractor, 1 generator, 1 macerator and 1 electric furnace, it’s not much, and you think you can use more things, and your right, craft 1 more generator, 2 macerators and 2 electric furnace, and all will be faster, don't forget the batteries, 2 is not enough. You can see the inside of my little home, 3 macerators, 3 electrics furnaces, 1 extractor, 1 generator in view and 2 unknown machines, you can see I’ve put a chest in front of my generator for gather the charged batteries when I stalk outdoor. Next time we will need lot of batteries and cables for see the basics of wiring.

Basics of Wiring

Now you have a little but fully functional base, that allow you to get twice more ingot for every run you get. But you can’t move any of the machine or you must rebuild it from scrap. Now we will craft the engi-friend tool: the wrench. But the wrench is not made in iron, it’s made of BRONZE. But I can listen your little voice: but I it’s a new ore I didn’t found? It’s so rare? YOU FOOL, bronze is made from COPPER + TIN.

You need the dust form of that 2 ores, and mix them in a 3:1 ration (place in the craft table doesn’t matter)

After that, you have just have just to smelt the bronze powder in a furnace

And TADAA you have a new metal to play with, you can use the recipe to craft all the tools and armor you can build with iron, they are little slower, but they are 30% more durable HAYO.

With all that bronze you can keep your iron for build machines, and now, you know how to craft a wrench (the Y on the right screen, made of 6 bronze ingots). The use of a wrench is incredibly easy: just right click on the machine you want to remove, be careful, if the machine wasn’t empty you will lose everything it contained. And sometimes you can make a mistake, and you can’t retrieve the machine you craft, its unlucky, but it happen, only 4 machines can be retrieve safely :

MFE transmitter, HV transformer, terraformer and MINERs (we will see them later).

TO BE CONTINUED