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=== Introduction to the IC2 E-net === | === Introduction to the IC2 E-net === | ||
( | In IC2, a E-net is a series of blocks involved in the production, transportation and usage of EU. EU is produced by [[Generator (disambiguation)|Generator]]s, transported in [[EU/p|packet form]] by [[Cable]]s, [[Transformer]]s, [[EU storage block]]s or in item form by different kinds of Batteries, and consumed by mostly machines. The size of a [[EU/p|packet]] determines the voltage (rounded up, available voltages are 32 EU/p, 128 EU/p, 512 EU/p, 2048 EU/p and 8192 EU/p), and a voltage too high can melt cables and blow up machines. EU storage blocks have a certain output voltage, and only outputs if it has enough EU stored for a single packet unless it powers the machines directly. For example, Batboxes, which sends out 32 EU per packet, won't output anything unless it has 32 EU. What is also worth noticing is that EU storage blocks can accept any packet sizes equal or lower to its own output packet size without exploding, meaning that a [[CESU]] can accept power from a batbox, but not vice versa. | ||
Machines, batteries and electric tools each have their own [[Power Tier]]s, usually labelled in the tooltips. Power tier is just another name for voltage, or EU per packet. Since packets don't apply to items, it is called "Power Tier" instead. Tier 1 refers to 32 EU/p, tier 2 refers to 128 EU/p, tier 3 refers to 512 EU/p... The tier for machines decides the maximum acceptable packet size, which exceeding that packet size makes machines explode, just like EU storage blocks. Batteries can only be put into machines that have a equal or higher power tier, not the lower ones. For example, a tier 2 battery can be placed into a tier 2 machine or a tier 3 machine, but not a tier 1 machine. The tier of electric tools decide which EU storage blocks/generators can power them. They can only be charged in an EU storage block that has an equal or higher power tier. | |||
To increase or decrease voltage, a [[transformer]] is needed. The transformer will be introduced later, as you don't need to know or use it now. | |||
Currently, you are on LV (low voltage). You will gradually progress upwards the voltage tiers, and only by then will you need the transformer. | |||
=== Alternative Power Sources === | === Alternative Power Sources === | ||
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==== Plant Power ==== | ==== Plant Power ==== | ||
See [[Biofuel energy production]] for more details on how to turn green things into EU. HAYO! | |||
=== Etcetera === | === Etcetera === | ||
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After completed its warm-up process, your Blast Furnace should be ready to use. Place an iron source (can be any stages of the iron ore, either the ore itself, the [[Crushed Iron Ore|crushed]], or the [[Purified Iron Ore|purified]]. Can also be iron ingot or iron dust.) and compressed air cells inside the Blast Furnace. It takes six compressed air cells to make 1 Refined Iron. You get the empty fluid cells back, and you can put them back in the Compressor again to refill them. | After completed its warm-up process, your Blast Furnace should be ready to use. Place an iron source (can be any stages of the iron ore, either the ore itself, the [[Crushed Iron Ore|crushed]], or the [[Purified Crushed Iron Ore|purified]]. Can also be iron ingot or iron dust.) and compressed air cells inside the Blast Furnace. It takes six compressed air cells to make 1 Refined Iron. You get the empty fluid cells back, and you can put them back in the Compressor again to refill them. | ||
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=== Transformer === | === Transformer === | ||
( | As you've been told before, the [[Transformer]] is needed to change voltages. It is actually quite dangerous, as if you did anything wrong, everything will explode. The transformer has a side with 5 dots, and 5 sides with a single dot. The 5 dot side is the high voltage face, while the single dot size is the low voltage face. They are two-ways, meaning that they can both take EU in and output EU. There are three options that you can choose, but depending on your needs '''DO NOT EVER''' choose the default one (Redstone = step-up) as you might place a redstone block onto it one day. If that happens and your transformer is set to Redstone = step up, '''all''' of your machines connected to that transformer '''WILL EXPLODE'''. Be careful! | ||
=== Age of MV: CES Unit === | === Age of MV: CES Unit === | ||
Now, we have more machines, and we | Now, we have more machines, and we have more ways to power them. But what should we do when the BatBox runs out of energy? 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, exactly 5x as much as the BatBox. | |||
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Before we begin, you'll need to get your hands on at least three [http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Gunpowder Gunpowder] or 27 netherrack. | |||
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Run three Gunpowder through an Extractor to get three [[Sulfur Dust]]. | Run three Gunpowder through an Extractor to get three [[Sulfur Dust]]. | ||
You can also produce sulfur from Netherrack. | |||
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|Bottom=RE_Battery_(Charged) | |||
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|Type = Extractor | |||
|Top = Netherrack Dust | |||
|Bottom = RE_Battery_(Charged) | |||
|Output = Tiny Pile of Sulfur Dust | |||
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Run three Lead Ingots through a Macerator to get three [[Lead Dust]]. | |||
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Assemble three [[Advanced RE-Battery|Advanced RE-Batteries]], then use them to build the CES Unit. | |||
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Before you place your shiny new CES Unit, there's one more thing we need: a [[LV Transformer|Low-Voltage Transformer]]. Don't worry, it's not hard to make. | Before you place your shiny new CES Unit, there's one more thing we need: a [[LV Transformer|Low-Voltage Transformer]]. Don't worry, it's not hard to make. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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Hate to see freakin' transformer blocks everywhere in your working station? Well, get yourself a machinery transformer upgrade! | Hate to see freakin' transformer blocks everywhere in your working station? Well, get yourself a machinery transformer upgrade! | ||
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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 must be placed in the slots on the right-hand side of certain machine (though not all machines accept upgrades). Like so: | ||
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'''Overclocker Upgrade''' | '''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! | 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. | And yes there are still some more upgrades! But it is time that you explore them yourself. | ||
=== Further down into the ore processing chain === | |||
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==== Ore Washing Plant ==== | |||
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==== Thermal Centrifuge ==== | |||
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=== Kinetic Wind Generator === | === Kinetic Wind Generator === | ||
The [[Kinetic Wind Generator]] | The [[Kinetic Wind Generator]] is a great alternative of the [[Wind Mill]]. There are different rotors you can put on it. Unfortunately, they all eventually 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. | ||
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To build the kinetic wind generator, you'll need a machine block and two iron shafts, like so: | |||
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Revision as of 06:25, 4 August 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.
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 the need for 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?
If you find something mentioned in this tutorial not working, there is a big chance that your IC2 version is too old. There is a small chance that this tutorial is wrong, and a smaller chance that you have actually discovered a bug.
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.
In this tutorial, wood and cobblestone will not be included in the material list unless a great amount is needed because of their abundance and how easy it is to get them.
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 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:
Other uses of Bronze[edit]
Besides the uses mentioned above, bronze can also be used as a replacement for Iron.
Also, Bronze can be crafted into tools and armor. Bronze tools performs exactly the same like iron tools, but their durability is 100 point higher than that of iron. Bronze armor is the same as iron ones, with the only difference of names and textures.
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 needed:
- 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
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.
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.
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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!
From now on Rubber will be no longer included in material lists as it is easy to produce them in mass quantities. Always keep a stack of them in your chest.
Introduction to the IC2 E-net[edit]
In IC2, a E-net is a series of blocks involved in the production, transportation and usage of EU. EU is produced by Generators, transported in packet form by Cables, Transformers, EU storage blocks or in item form by different kinds of Batteries, and consumed by mostly machines. The size of a packet determines the voltage (rounded up, available voltages are 32 EU/p, 128 EU/p, 512 EU/p, 2048 EU/p and 8192 EU/p), and a voltage too high can melt cables and blow up machines. EU storage blocks have a certain output voltage, and only outputs if it has enough EU stored for a single packet unless it powers the machines directly. For example, Batboxes, which sends out 32 EU per packet, won't output anything unless it has 32 EU. What is also worth noticing is that EU storage blocks can accept any packet sizes equal or lower to its own output packet size without exploding, meaning that a CESU can accept power from a batbox, but not vice versa.
Machines, batteries and electric tools each have their own Power Tiers, usually labelled in the tooltips. Power tier is just another name for voltage, or EU per packet. Since packets don't apply to items, it is called "Power Tier" instead. Tier 1 refers to 32 EU/p, tier 2 refers to 128 EU/p, tier 3 refers to 512 EU/p... The tier for machines decides the maximum acceptable packet size, which exceeding that packet size makes machines explode, just like EU storage blocks. Batteries can only be put into machines that have a equal or higher power tier, not the lower ones. For example, a tier 2 battery can be placed into a tier 2 machine or a tier 3 machine, but not a tier 1 machine. The tier of electric tools decide which EU storage blocks/generators can power them. They can only be charged in an EU storage block that has an equal or higher power tier.
To increase or decrease voltage, a transformer is needed. The transformer will be introduced later, as you don't need to know or use it now.
Currently, you are on LV (low voltage). You will gradually progress upwards the voltage tiers, and only by then will you need the transformer.
Alternative Power Sources[edit]
Solar Power[edit]
An 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.
Materials needed:
- 13 Rubber
- 10 Iron Ingots
- 6 redstone dusts
- 4 copper ingots
- 3 glass
- 3 coal (not Charcoal!)
- 3 tin ingots
Craft 2 electronic circuits, a generator, and macerate 3 coal into 3 coal dusts in the [Macerator]. Then you can craft the solar panel.
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.
Manual Power[edit]
The Manual Kinetic Generator allows you to generate some kinetic power (Unit: KU, short for kinetic unit) by simply standing there clicking on it over and over again. You will gradually use your hunger bar in this process.
Materials needed:
- 31 Iron ingots
- 6 Copper ingots
- 4 tin ingots
- 2 redstone
Craft a generator, a basic machine casing, a lever, 2 Tin Item Casings, 2 Coils, and 6 Iron Item Casings.
Craft a manual kinetic generator.
Kinetic power can't be directly used, but you can convert it into Electric Units with the Kinetic Generator. But you still need to craft something else before you can craft the kinetic generator.
First the iron shaft. This is made by extruding an iron block in the Metal Former.
Then the Electric Motor, You need two Tin Casings, one Iron Ingot, and two Copper Coils:
Now you can craft the kinetic generator.
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 completely black circle) is in contact with the high voltage side (indicated by 5 dots) of a [[LV Transformer]. Set the transformer to fixed step down mode and connect the low voltage side (indicated by 1 dot) of the transformer to a cable or the batbox. 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!
Plant Power[edit]
See Biofuel energy production for more details on how to turn green things into EU. HAYO!
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 a little base, 3 Macerators, 3 Electric Furnaces, 1 Extractor, 1 Generator in view, and 2 unknown machines. You can see there is a chest in front of there is a generator to gather the charged batteries when the player stalk outdoors.
Second Steps[edit]
The content in the sections 3 and 4 is currently WIP. Some parts are being re-ordered , re-written and new parts are being added. Thus it might not be coherent in general. 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=66534 for a cleaner version. I will keep working on it. Apologies for the inconvenience.
--KrisBigK (talk) 03:20, 2 August 2019 (CET)
Universal Fluid Cell[edit]
The Universal Fluid Cell is a stackable container capable of carrying fluids, similar to the vanilla bucket. It is also used in many crafting recipes of fluid-related machines.
With the freakin' awesome fluid cell, you can walk around with 1728 buckets of lava in your inventory, instead of a mere 27 buckets. The practical use of this will be introduced later.
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 can fill buckets or Universal Fluid Cells for us.
Materials needed:
- 15 iron ingots
- 8 tin ingots
- 6 glass
- 2 copper ingots
- 2 redstone dusts
Now, we will craft it! We'll need to make 2 Universal Fluid Cells, some mining pipes, a treetap, and the basic stuff 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 power the pump. It will start filling them up. Take 10 Universal Fluid Cells/buckets of lava and bring them to your base. Choose a good place and make a nether portal with them by placing water next to lava. If you don't know, this will cause lava to solidify into obsidian.
Geothermal Power[edit]
Once you've acquired a Pump, you'll have the option of making a Geothermal Generator. This generator isn't renewable like solar or wind based ones, 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 after you've created the nether portal, as there are huge lava lakes that generates at y=32 and below in the nether.
Materials needed:
- 9 iron ingots
- 7 tin ingots
- 4 glass
- 2 glass pane (you should have some left when crafting the pump)
- 2 redstone dusts
If you didn't craft enough Universal Fluid Cells, you can also use Bucket for gathering lava. IC2 added a tin based recipe while the vanilla recipe is still usable.
Gathering Lava in the Nether[edit]
Before you actually go into the nether, you need to prepare some materials to build a basic base in the Nether to defend yourself against hostile mobs (mainly the ghast). Materials needed:
- 5 stacks of cobblestone
- 1 stack of wood
- 1 stack of "smooth" stone
- 1 flint and steel
- 1 iron door (at least)
An optional but very helpful step:
If you have access to the save file of the world that you are currently playing in, create a copy of your world after you have created the nether portal, but you haven't gone to the nether yet. In the copy of your world, switch to creative or spectator mode and enter the nether portal. Fly around in the nether to get a rough idea of the landscape that you are going to spawn in. Most importantly, go to find the closest lava lake. Remember how you can go to there, by ladders and tunnels, by staircases or by simply walking on near-flat land if your portal generates next to the lava lake.
Once you feel that you are ready, go into the nether portal! If you are playing on a server/multiplayer world, look for hostile mobs as soon as you spawned in the Nether. Presence of hostile mobs when you have just spawned indicates the presence of a player within 128 blocks of the mob you spotted. However, if you don't spot any, that doesn't mean there must be no players around. This can happen when the server/multiplayer world has a mob switch that is turned on, and a player have come into the nether not long enough that no mobs spawned where you can see them.
Now that you are in the nether, you need to quickly build a small base out of cobblestone that completely surrounds the nether portal, even if it is as simple and ugly as a matchbox. Cobblestone can't be destroyed by fireballs shot by ghasts. Don't put down any windows yet, for glass can be destroyed easily by ghasts. There will be information about how to do that on the next few paragraphs. Remember to add an iron door to go out!
Then, block any flowing lava with cobblestone, so that you don't accidentally walk into them. Next, replace the netherrack around your base with cobblestone. This is to prevent the ghast from creating holes right out of your door.
After you've done with all these, go to mine 4 to 6 stacks of netherrrack. Go back to the overworld and smelt them. Then craft them into nether brick blocks. You will need them to craft Nether brick fences as your windows in the nether base. Go to the nether, craft some Nether Brick Fences, and replace some of the walls with the fences. Now you have got "windows", and your basic base is finished.
Now you can finally go on to collecting a lava. You need a pump, and an RE-battery to do that. You should have already crafted a pump.
To collect lava, place the pump with its side that has a hole facing lava. Put the RE-battery inside and it should be sucking lava for you. Put in some empty Universal Fluid Cells and it will automatically fill them up. Bring those lava cells back to the overworld, put them in the Geothermal Generator, and you have got a free source of EU!
Electric tools[edit]
Tired of making pickaxe after pickaxe? What about an EU-based version?
All electric tools use EU instead of durability. After using, you just need to recharge it by placing it either in a generator or in a EU-storaging block like the Batbox.
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Mining Drill[edit]
The Mining Drill is the EU-based version of the pickaxe.
Chainsaw[edit]
The Chainsaw is an EU-based version of the axe, shears, and sword, all in one.
Electric Wrench[edit]
Upgrade your Bronze Wrench to an Electric Wrench! This is a very useful tool.
The Electric Wrench works the same way as the bronze wrench. It's a lot of work to make, but using it doesn't decrease its durability. Just be careful not to drop it in lava.
Electric Treetap[edit]
Going nuts making all those treetaps for resin? Then this is your tool: The Electric Treetap.
The Recipes and Resources page has a list of all available power tools.
Bigger portable batteries[edit]
Electric tools use a lot of EU. Wouldn't it be nice to carry more EU at a time? You can do this with a BatPack. A BatPack (short for Battery Pack) is worn in the Chest slot, so it cannot be worn at the same time as chest armor. It can carry 60,000 EU. This will be helpful when powering your miners in the future. Although BatPacks are nice, you can carry more EU per slot by stacking fully charged RE-batteries, and taking a single one out to use it.
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Walking around with 60 thousand EU is still not enough? You can craft a more advanced one called the Advanced BatPack! A single one of them can carry 600,000 EU, ten times that of the BatPack!
Compressor[edit]
The Compressor is used to make several different things, but the important ones to know right now are that it can create Compressed Air Cell by compressing air into Universal Fluid Cells, and it can make Advanced Alloys. These will be introduced later.
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Smelt some Cobblestone, craft a circuit, and then a Machine block.
Place that machine, give it energy, and place an empty Universal Fluid Cell in it!
Now you can produce universal fluid cells filled with air. Don't right click with them in your hand though, or you will spend some time clean the air up!
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. While you get refined iron from iron, Slag is also produced at a 1:1 ratio to refined iron. Slag is an very important source of Carbon Dust, which you can get by processing it in an Thermal Centrifuge, which will be introduced later. It takes about 5 minutes for a single blast furnace to produce a single piece of refined iron (and slag), so you need to build it so early. In addition to the Blast Furnace itself, it requires a heat source, 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. You can also use a Fluid Heat Generator, that consumes Biogas instead of EU.
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Place the 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 heat generator, with its input side (marked by a orange square) facing the Electric Heat Generator's output side (also marked by a orange square). If you are using the Electric Heat Generator, it can be placed behind or beneath the Blast Furnace, rather than side-by-side since you generally don't need to interact with it. Run a power cable to the Electric Heat Generator, or put Biogas fluid cells into the heat generator. The Blast Furnace doesn't need one. After you begin to heat the Blast Furnace, it won't start working instantly. It needs warming up, indicated by the red bar that you can see in its GUI. Only after being completely warmed up can it process Iron.
Make a Coil and place them inside the Electric Heat Generator. If you have forgotten the recipe, it is below. One coil is enough to keep the blast furnace warm and working, but more coils have no use except making it warm up faster and wasting your materials. The Blast Furnace can accept a maximum of 20 Heat Units, and each Coil produces 5 Heat units.
After completed its warm-up process, your Blast Furnace should be ready to use. Place an iron source (can be any stages of the iron ore, either the ore itself, the crushed, or the purified. Can also be iron ingot or iron dust.) and compressed air cells inside the Blast Furnace. It takes six compressed air cells to make 1 Refined Iron. You get the empty fluid cells back, and you can put them back in the Compressor again to refill them.
Transformer[edit]
As you've been told before, the Transformer is needed to change voltages. It is actually quite dangerous, as if you did anything wrong, everything will explode. The transformer has a side with 5 dots, and 5 sides with a single dot. The 5 dot side is the high voltage face, while the single dot size is the low voltage face. They are two-ways, meaning that they can both take EU in and output EU. There are three options that you can choose, but depending on your needs DO NOT EVER choose the default one (Redstone = step-up) as you might place a redstone block onto it one day. If that happens and your transformer is set to Redstone = step up, all of your machines connected to that transformer WILL EXPLODE. Be careful!
Age of MV: CES Unit[edit]
Now, we have more machines, and we have more ways to power them. But what should we do when the BatBox runs out of energy? 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, exactly 5x as much as the BatBox.
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Before we begin, you'll need to get your hands on at least three Gunpowder or 27 netherrack.
Run three Gunpowder through an Extractor to get three Sulfur Dust.
You can also produce sulfur from Netherrack.
Run three Lead Ingots through a Macerator to get three Lead Dust.
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. 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. Upgrades[edit]Transformer Upgrade Hate to see freakin' transformer blocks everywhere in your working station? Well, get yourself a machinery transformer upgrade! (needs material list) 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. Further down into the ore processing chain[edit](waiting to be added) Ore Washing Plant[edit](waiting to be added) Thermal Centrifuge[edit](waiting to be added) Kinetic Wind Generator[edit]The Kinetic Wind Generator is a great alternative of the Wind Mill. There are different rotors you can put on it. Unfortunately, they all eventually 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. (needs material list) To build the kinetic wind generator, you'll need a machine block and two iron shafts, like so:
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. Fluid/Solid Canning Machine[edit]The Fluid/Solid Canning Machine is a multipurpose machine 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. The Way to Industry[edit]Advanced Alloy[edit]
You can also make Reinforced Glass, which is more Creeper-resistant than normal Glass: 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!
When will we finish that laser?
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 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!
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. 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!
It makes a flat area with dirt ground.
It replaces sand with dirt, and places a few saplings.
It forces saplings and seeds to grow faster, and causes sugar cane to grow 4 blocks high.
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]
Do you think that solar collectors or coal-based generators can't serve your purposes? 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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