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<big>Special Thanks to <span class="pops">[http://www.minecraftforum.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=296587 OKamilTan]</span>!</big>
Welcome to IndustrialCraft²! Now that you've finished [[Download|installing the mod]] (you ''have'' installed it, right?), let's get you acquainted with some of its basic features!  


By the end of this tutorial, you will have been quite thoroughly introduced to the workings of IndustrialCraft², as well as several of the basic machines and concepts involved in their construction and use. Let's get to it, shall we?


The tutorial is regularly updated, you can see the first version of it here.
== Before You Begin ==
Whilst waiting for a corrected version, you can download the last unfinished version here: <span class="pops">[http://www.mediafire.com/?j9gem0c4laoeyb5 First Steps in the IndustrialCraft mod for Minecraft V0.5.pdf]</span>
(texture pack used: <span class="pops">[http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1021&t=163329&sid=cdc70e1f885922f1354f76755c7c868d Soartex]</span>)


This tutorial will assume that you have a basic familiarity with playing "vanilla" Minecraft.


== Basics steps in a new world ==
It should be noted that IndustrialCraft² works just fine with both new worlds and existing ones! However, it's recommended that you start a new world to quickly enjoy all that IC² has to offer.


[[file:first_steps1.png |350x350px| link=|left]]
If you want to use a world that already exists, you should know two things:
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:*The new trees and ores that this mod adds will only show up in chunks generated '''after''' the mod was installed. If your world is large, you may need to travel for a long time before you can even get started!
:*Remember to '''back up''' your world folder before playing with IC² for the first time! It is not easy to remove all the custom content a mod adds, and your world may not be playable with a "vanilla" Minecraft.jar after chunks are generated with this mod, or mod-specific items are placed in the world.


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 coal and build a little house (or a cave if you wish) for your first night.
For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll assume you're choosing to start a new world.


== The First Day ==


[[file:first_steps2.png |350x350px| link=|left]]
So you've picked a name and possibly a seed for your world, and you've just loaded in and are starting to look around. If you're playing in Survival mode, on a difficulty above Peaceful, you should spend the first day doing what you normally do; gather wood, make some tools, find food and shelter, etc.
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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.  
While you go about your business, keep an eye out for trees with dark bark and unusual orange spots on them. They're rubber trees, and they show up most often in Swamp biomes. Remember where these trees are if you spot any, as they'll be important soon.  
Beware of the mobs if you are not playing in Peaceful mode, the creepers can blow up what you built. If you want to, use some torches to light the area.
[[Image:Rubbertree_Wood_ig.png|thumb|left|80px|A [[Rubber Wood]] block with a 'Resin Hole'.]]
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[[file:first_steps3.png |350x350px| link=|right]]
== Burning Rubber: The Extractor ==
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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 (you will also need lots of sand for other purposes).
[[Image:Extractor_ig.png|thumb|180px|Extractors allow you to process [[Resin]] into [[Rubber]] more efficiently, as well as create fuel and coolant cells.]]
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. The next part will introduce some new things.
Now that you have a shelter adequate to protect you from the elements (and possibly also the Creepers), let's revisit the trees I mentioned earlier. First you'll need a [[Treetap]], which requires five Wooden Planks arranged thusly:
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== First Ingredients and Machines ==
{| align="center"
 
! align="center" | Treetap
You now have a little base with four walls, a roof, some chests, a bed, a furnace, and a crafting table, but you want more new stuff. Now, you need to gather rubber. You will need a lot of lumber to build our first machine, and a basic generator: 34 logs precisely. However, you should take more to use as fuel.
|-
 
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
<br/> <br/>
{|
{{Grid/Crafting Table
|B1=Wooden Planks
|B1=Wooden Planks
|A2=Wooden Planks|B2=Wooden Planks|C2=Wooden Planks
|A2=Wooden Planks|B2=Wooden Planks|C2=Wooden Planks
|A3=Wooden Planks
|A3=Wooden Planks
|Output=Treetap
|Output=Treetap}}
}}
|}
|}


Find a rubber wood block with an orange spot like the one above, and right-click it with a treetap equipped to harvest between one and three pieces of [[Sticky Resin]]. Smelting one piece of resin in a furnace will yield one piece of [[Rubber]]. However, since rubber is one of the major components in circuitry and wires, we definitely want an Extractor so we can get '''triple''' the amount of Rubber we get.


Let's look at what exactly an Extractor requires, and the recipes for the parts that it's made of:


Can you smell the fresh air of new toys? Use 5 planks to create a [[Treetap]]. You will need 5 tree taps total, one for extracting [[Sticky Resin]] and four for crafting an [[Extractor]], but wait until later to make the other four to save space.
{| align="center"
<br/> <br/> <br/>  <br/> <br/>
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
 
|A1=Treetap|B1=Machine Block|C1=Treetap
 
|A2=Treetap|B2=Electronic Circuit|C2=Treetap
 
|B1-image=Grid Machine.png|B1-link=[[Machine Block]]
Now, extract 6 [[Sticky Resin]] from the [[Rubber Wood|rubber trees]].
|Output=Extractor
 
}}
But for now drop that into a chest, and gather torches, pickaxes and food, for you will have to go to the center of the earth! The second thing you must gather is Redstone, that next-to useless red powder you have in astronomical quantity is the base of industrial electricity. Of course, you will need an iron pickaxe to extract it, but you must be really unlucky if you don’t find any on the path. Also, you should mine any [[Copper Ore|Copper]] or [[Tin Ore|Tin]] you see.
 
 
 
 
 
[[file:first_steps6.png |500px| link=|center]]
 
 
Here is a screenshot of a natural cave where you can see all but three types of ores you can gather, from left to right:
 
*Gold. Its value is much higher in IC, especially in its dust form. It's involved in many mid-tech machines. You should mine it - it will become more useful in the future
 
*[[Tin]]. It is required for many things, but it is fairly common.
 
*[[Copper]]. Like Tin, it is required for most things in IC, such as cables, so you must gather a good stock in the beginning. Like Tin, there's plenty in the world.
 
*Iron. '''Every''' machine uses Iron, so it will be the ore you must hunt the most. You will be always short of Iron.
 
*Coal. It's value was increased, so if you want torches or furnace fuel, use Charcoal. Use Coal for other, more important things. [[Dusts|Coal Dust]] is used to build [[Solar Collector|Solar Collectors]], it's a more efficient [[Fuel]], and lots of things like the nano-suit use it. In others worlds, you might not care about Coal, but in IC, its invaluable.
 
*[[Uranium]]. You will need it to power your future nuclear reactor or to craft a nuke to blow up a mountain. Besides that, they are not involved in other recipes. They are rarer than other ores, but can be found at every layer. You will need an iron pickaxe to gather them.
 
 
[[file:first_steps7.png |500px| link=|center]]
 
 
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 beginning 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 later, other things.
 
*Diamond: Ha the diamond, everybody runs after them, try to get 3 of them and keep them in a chest, we will craft something awesome with them.  You should know 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 shown 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 have need of them
 
-Lava: I know, it’s not a mineable resource, but it’s used to power one of the most powerful generators: the [[Geothermal Generator]]. Keep in mind where are some lava lakes are to go back to later.
 
-Obsidian: you need some Obsidian for more than one reason: to go in the Nether, because 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 make 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 I'll 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 3 copper, then 9 others for a total of 12
After that, smelt 8 Tin to be able to craft 2 [[RE Battery|Rechargeable Batteries]] to use later on.
 
[[file:first_steps8.png |350x350px| link=|right]]
 
You will need 27 Iron which you must SMELT AGAIN to create [[Refined Iron]], which is a base of a lot of machines.
 
 
You remember the Sticky Resin you kept in the chest? Take it, and your Copper Ingots too. We will create some [[Cable|cables]]. You see it takes 6 Rubber and 3 Copper Ingots for every 6 Cables. Later you will need a large amount of them, but first you want just enough to make an Extractor. Once you have that, you can make Rubber much more efficiently.
 
Smelt your 6 Sticky Resin in any furnace to get 6 [[Rubber]].
 
{|
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|A1=Rubber|B1=Rubber|C1=Rubber
|A1=Refined Iron|B1=Refined Iron|C1=Refined Iron
|A2=Copper|B2=Copper|C2=Copper
|A2=Refined Iron|C2=Refined Iron
|A3=Rubber|B3=Rubber|C3=Rubber
|A3=Refined Iron|B3=Refined Iron|C3=Refined Iron
|Output=Insulated Copper Cable|OA=6
|Output=Machine
|Output-link=Insulated Copper Cable
|Output-link=Machine Block
}}
|{{Grid/Furnace
|Input=Iron|IA= 8
|Output=Refined Iron|OA= 8
|Fuel=Coal|FA= 101
}}
}}
|}
|-
 
Prepare one batch of 6 [[Cable|cables]] using the recipe that uses 6 Rubber and 3 Copper Ingots.
 
 
 
{|
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|A1=Insulated Copper Cable|B1=Insulated Copper Cable|C1=Insulated Copper Cable
|A1=Insulated Copper Cable|B1=Insulated Copper Cable|C1=Insulated Copper Cable
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|Output=Electronic Circuit
|Output=Electronic Circuit
}}
}}
|}
Now we will craft our first [[Electronic Circuit]]. You need 6 [[Cable|cables]], 2 Redstone, and one [[Refined Iron]]. Like all other things on that page, it’s the base of the industry, so you'll be using it a lot.
Next we must craft the recipe of all machines: the [[Machine Block]].
Just take 8 [[Refined Iron]] and draw a box with them in the craft interface.
{|
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|A1=Refined Iron|B1=Refined Iron|C1=Refined Iron
|A1=Rubber|B1=Rubber|C1=Rubber
|A2=Refined Iron|C2=Refined Iron
|A2=Copper|B2=Copper|C2=Copper
|A3=Refined Iron|B3=Refined Iron|C3=Refined Iron
|A3=Rubber|B3=Rubber|C3=Rubber
|Output=Machine
|Output=Insulated Copper Cable|OA=6
|Output-link=Insulated Copper Cable
}}
|{{Grid/Furnace
|Input=Copper Ore
|Output=Copper
|Fuel=Coal
}}
}}
|}
|}


FINALLY we can craft our first machine, but we need just 4 more [[Treetap|tree taps]], take 20 planks and craft them, after that take the 4 tree taps, a machine and an [[Electronic 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 [[Wrench|special tool]] made with a [[Bronze|new metal]]. We will see that later.
Okay, wow, that's kind of a lot of stuff. Unfortunately this is the point where I give you an assignment. Fortunately, this is also the part where you get to have fun looking for the new ores! Get yourself an Iron Pickaxe so you can mine Redstone, then go hunt down:
 
{| align="right"
{|
|[[Image:Copper_Ore_ig.png|thumb|180px|Copper Ore block. Requires Stone pickaxe or better.]]
{{Grid/Crafting Table
|[[Image:Tin_Ore_ig.png|thumb|180px|Tin Ore block. Requires Iron pickaxe or better.]]
|A1=Treetap|B1=Machine|C1=Treetap
|[[Image:Uranium_Ore_ig.png|thumb|180px|Uranium Ore block. Not necessary right now, but if you find any, save it for later. [[Nuclear_Reactor|Much, much later]]. Requires Iron pickaxe or better.]]
|A2=Treetap|B2=Electronic Circuit|C2=Treetap
|Output=Extractor
}}
|}
|}
:*3 Copper Ores
Ok, you have your Extractor, but how does it work? You need '''ELECTRICITY''', made by a '''[[Generator|GENERATOR]]'''. Now you know what we need to make next. There are 2 ways to craft a [[Generator]]:
:*9 Iron Ores
 
:*6 Sticky Resin
:*2 Redstone Dust
:*20 Wooden Planks
::*Enough fuel to smelt everything properly. Don't forget that [[Refined Iron]] requires you to smelt Iron Ore twice.


{{Grid/Crafting Table
That should be enough to make yourself an Extractor. '''Be careful''' where you place it, because you cannot get it back if you destroy it with any of the tools you currently have. Set it down somewhere fairly spacious.
|A1=|B1=RE Battery|C1=
|A2=|B2=Machine|C2=
|A3=|B3=Furnace|C3=
|linkB3=
|Output=Generator
}}


First, you can use a [[RE Battery]], a [[Machine Block]] and a Furnace (8 Iron needed).
Don't feel bad if you came back with way more materials than I asked for, because if you did, you've got a head start on the NEXT machines we're building. You see, Extractors are cool, but they run on [[EU|electricity]]. You ''could'' use redstone dust to power your Extractor for a little while (it can be sacrificed for a small amount of electrical energy), but wouldn't you much rather have an efficient, and possibly reusable, solution to this problem?


== Batteries and Generators: Shockingly Useful ==


{{Grid/Crafting Table
Luckily, such a solution exists. But first, let's talk about electricity for a little while.
|A1=|B1=RE Battery|C1=
|A2=|B2=Refined Iron|C2=
|A3=|B3=Iron Furnace|C3=
|linkB2=|linkC2=
|linkB3=
|Output=Generator
}}


Or, you can use a [[RE Battery]], a [[Refined Iron]] and an [[Iron Furnace]] (6 Iron needed).
The '''EU''' ('''E'''electrical '''U'''nit) is the quantity used to represent electrical energy in IC². As you continue to build more and more sophisticated technology, you will eventually be able to produce power through various methods, store it in blocks and items, and harness it to do amazing things by connecting your contraptions with electrical cabling! <font color="#FFFFFF">(Beam me up, Scotty.)</font>


<!-- Not entirely sure if this section is correct -->
As a reference, one piece of Coal or Charcoal is worth 4000 EU. In a traditional Furnace, a piece of coal is worth eight smelts.


As you can see the second 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 an [[RE Battery]] and an [[Iron Furnace]]? For the Iron Furnace we will come back later, and for the battery it's now!!
One smelt takes ten seconds, so we can say 80 seconds = 4000 EU, or in other words, a normal Furnace uses 50 EU per second, or 2.5 EU/s (Remember, EU/s is per tick, not per actual second.)
<!-- Doing the math backward, if 1 coal == 3,200 EU then it works out to a round 2 EU/s and also explains how 10,000 EU (RE Battery) is around 3.5 coal. Hmmm. Developer confirmation please? -->


So you have two options now -- there are both disposable and rechargeable batteries available to use. However, we don't have a machine necessary to create materials for the disposable batteries yet!


{{Grid/Crafting Table
{| align="center"
|A1=|B1=Insulated Copper Cable|C1=
! align="center" | Rechargeable (RE) Battery
|-
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|B1=Insulated Copper Cable
|A2=Tin|B2=Redstone|C2=Tin
|A2=Tin|B2=Redstone|C2=Tin
|A3=Tin|B3=Redstone|C3=Tin
|A3=Tin|B3=Redstone|C3=Tin
|Output=RE Battery
|Output=RE Battery
}}
}}
1 Cable, 4 Tin and 2 Redstone. Easy, no?
|}


Time to remember that recipe.
Well this isn't very convenient, the battery is empty when we craft it! How do you get EU into a battery? Enter the [[Generator]]:
[[Image:Generator_ig.png|thumb|180px|Generators provide electricity at the cost of combustible fuel.]]


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.
{| align="center"
 
! align="center" colspan="2" | Generator
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]], and put 4 [[Sticky Resin]] into the top hole, and put some Redstone into the bottom hole (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. Craft 2 batches of 6 [[Cable|cables]] with your [[Rubber]].
|-
 
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
Now you can assemble your two RE Batteries.
|B1=RE Battery
 
|B2=Machine Block|B2-image=Grid Machine.png
Next we can craft the [[Generator]] to charge your batteries. Don't place the generator next to anything; I’ll explain why in the wiring section. 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 (char)coal to fill up a single battery, but it is more efficient. You can place a chest right next to the generator and it will gather all your full batteries.
|B3=Furnace
 
|Output=Generator
The empty batteries can stack up to 16, but the fully charged 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 [[Cable|cables]].
}}
 
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
 
|B1=RE Battery
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|electronic circuit]], another [[Machine Block]] and collect the needed Cobblestone and Flint.
|B2=Refined Iron
 
|B3=Iron Furnace
{{Grid/Crafting Table
|Output=Generator
|A1=Flint|B1=Flint|C1=Flint
|A2=Cobblestone|B2=Machine|C2=Cobblestone
|B3=Electronic Circuit
|Output=Macerator
}}
}}
 
|-
 
! align="center" colspan="2" | Iron Furnace
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 [[Electro Furnace]] and you will have 2 ingots for one ore. What, you don’t know how to create an [[Electro 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 [[Dusts|dust]] from ore. It can create dust from coal too. The [[Dusts|coal dust]] is used in a lot of things. I recommend you gather 3 or 4 stacks of coal dust as soon as possible. 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 Stone, and incredibly, make SAND out of Cobblestone. Cool, isn’t it?
 
And Now the [[Electro 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.
 
{|
|-
|-
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
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|A2=Iron|B2=|C2=Iron
|A2=Iron|B2=|C2=Iron
|A3=Iron|B3=Iron|C3=Iron
|A3=Iron|B3=Iron|C3=Iron
|Output=Iron Furnace}}
|Output=Iron Furnace
||{{Grid/Crafting Table
}}
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|A1=|B1=Iron|C1=
|A1=|B1=Iron|C1=
|A2=Iron|B2=|C2=Iron
|A2=Iron|B2=|C2=Iron
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|}
|}


The Iron Furnace is 25% faster than the standard Furnace. You 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:
Notice that not only does the Generator require a Rechargeable Battery of its own to create, but that there are several different ways to combine materials to end up with a Generator.


To use a Generator, simply place a combustible fuel into the bottom slot, the same as you would use a furnace. As electricity is generated from the fuel, you will notice the red bar on the Generator GUI begin to fill. This is the ''storage capacity'' of the Generator, which is simply how much EU it can hold without wasting any.


{{Grid/Crafting Table
There are two ways to use the EU stored inside a Generator like this:
|B1=Electronic Circuit
:*Transfer the EU to a [[RE Battery]] or other energy-storing item by placing it in the top slot to charge. (A RE Battery has a 10,000 EU capacity, which is roughly three pieces of Coal.)
|A2=Redstone|B2=Iron Furnace|C2=Redstone
:*Connect the Generator's power output to the power input of another machine using [[cable]].
|Output=Electro Furnace
::*Be careful about how much power you use, connecting a machine to a bigger power source than it can handle will cause an explosion!
}}


I know, it’s another [[Electronic Circuit|circuit]] to craft, but I warned you it will be everywhere.
So, I suppose by now you're wondering what it is we need to make ourselves ''disposable'' batteries. "Surely it can't be that much more difficult," you say. And you're quite right. There's only one more machine left to cover in this introductory tutorial... and it is...
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 left in the top, it immediately stops consuming energy.


You have 1 [[Extractor]], 1 [[Generator]], 1 [[Macerator]] and 1 [[Electro Furnace]]. It’s not much, and you think you can use more things, and you're right. Craft 1 more [[Generator]], 2 [[Macerator|Macerators]] and 2 [[Electro Furnace|Electro Furnaces]], and all will be faster. Don't forget the [[RE Battery|batteries]]; 2 is not enough.
== Boil 'Em, Mash 'Em: The Macerator ==
[[Image:Macerator_ig.png|thumb|180px|A Macerator will pulverize many materials into more pure forms.]]
{| align="center"
! align="center" | Macerator
|-
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|A1=Flint|B1=Flint|C1=Flint
|A2=Cobblestone|B2=Machine Block|C2=Cobblestone
|B3=Electronic Circuit
|B2-image=Grid Machine.png
|Output=Macerator
}}
|}


You can see the inside of my little home, 3 Macerators, 3 Electro 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 outdoor.
The Macerator is one amazing machine. Trust me when I say I saved the best for last. And for good reason: compared to the Extractor, the Macerator is a fairly EU-hungry beast! It wouldn't have done us much good to make ourselves one of these before we had the means to power it. It's probably a good idea to make several [[RE Battery|Rechargeable Batteries]] so you can recharge one on a Generator while another powers the Macerator. Or, depending on what fuel is available to you, you might simply connect it directly.
Next time we will need lot of batteries and cables for see the basics of wiring.


[[file:first_steps20.png |650px| link=|center]]
Either way, this machine is amazing:
:*It pulverizes most ore blocks into two [[Dusts]], which ''each'' can be smelted into an ingot at a furnace. This effectively doubles the amount of ingots you get from mining ore.
::*Coal dust can eventually be used to make [[Industrial Diamond]]s.
:*It reduces Cobblestone and Sandstone back down into Sand.
:*It makes Flint from Gravel.


Two very convenient things are made possible with dust. First, you can combine Copper and Tin dusts at a 3:1 ratio to create Bronze dust:


==The power of bronze==
{| align="center"
! align="center" | Bronze Dust
|-
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|A1=Copper Dust|B1=Copper Dust
|A2=Copper Dust|B2=Tin Dust
|Output=Bronze Dust|OA=2
}}
|}


Now you have a little but fully functional base, that allow you to get twice as many ingots for every run you get. But you can’t move any of the machines or you must rebuild it from scrap.
This smelts into Bronze ingots, which can be used to make tools and armor. The products will perform slightly slower than Iron but are significantly more durable. They can break the same things.


Now we will craft the engi-friend tool: the [[Wrench]]. The Wrench is not made of Iron, it’s made of [[Bronze|BRONZE]]. But 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'''.
In addition, and you've been waiting for this a while... You can make a wrench out of bronze ingots that allows you to (usually) recover placed machinery without destroying it!


[[file:first_steps21.png | link=|left]]
{| align="center"
! align="center" | Bronze Wrench
|-
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|A1=Bronze|B1=|C1=Bronze
|A2=Bronze|B2=Bronze|C2=Bronze
|A3=|B3=Bronze|C3=
|Output=Wrench
}}
|}


You need the dust form of those 2 ores, and mix them in a 3:1 ratio (place in the crafting table doesn’t matter)
And finally, you can combine coal dust with Redstone dust and Insulated Copper Cable in various ways to create disposable (1,000 EU) batteries:


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{| align="center"
 
! align="center" colspan="2" | Single-Use Battery
After that, you have just have just to smelt the [[Bronze|Bronze Powder]] in a furnace.
|-
 
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
'''TADA''', 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 a little slower, but 30% more durable '''HAYO'''.
|B1=Insulated Copper Cable
|B2=Hydrated Coal Dust
|B3=Redstone
|Output=Single-Use Battery|OA=8
}}
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|B1=Insulated Copper Cable
|B2=Redstone
|B3=Hydrated Coal Dust
|Output=Single-Use Battery|OA=8
}}
|-
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|B1=Insulated Copper Cable
|B2=Coal Dust
|B3=Redstone
|Output=Single-Use Battery|OA=5
}}
|{{Grid/Crafting Table
|B1=Insulated Copper Cable
|B2=Redstone
|B3=Coal Dust
|Output=Single-Use Battery|OA=5
}}
|}


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== Alpha and Omega: Wrapping Up ==


With all that Bronze you can keep your Iron for building machines, and now, you know how to craft a wrench (the Y on the right screen, made of 6 Bronze Ingots).
We've gone from humble beginnings to promising places. It wasn't that long ago that we were staring at an oddly shaped hole in a tree and wondering what it was for. But we've still barely scratched the surface.


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 happens. Only 4 machines can be retrieved safely every time:  [[MFE Transmitter]], [[HV Transformer]], [[Terraformer]] and '''[[Miner|MINERs]]'''.
I have only covered three of dozens of machines it is possible to build! I haven't even touched on any of the unique weaponry and armor you can make, or the machines that do busywork for you... there are even teleporters and nuclear reactors for the particularly talented engineers among us.


<big>TO BE CONTINUED</big>
Check the navigation box right below for an overview of the things this mod has to offer... and good luck!


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[[Category:Tutorial]]
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Revision as of 06:22, 13 October 2011

Welcome to IndustrialCraft²! Now that you've finished installing the mod (you have installed it, right?), let's get you acquainted with some of its basic features!

By the end of this tutorial, you will have been quite thoroughly introduced to the workings of IndustrialCraft², as well as several of the basic machines and concepts involved in their construction and use. Let's get to it, shall we?

Before You Begin[edit]

This tutorial will assume that you have a basic familiarity with playing "vanilla" Minecraft.

It should be noted that IndustrialCraft² works just fine with both new worlds and existing ones! However, it's recommended that you start a new world to quickly enjoy all that IC² has to offer.

If you want to use a world that already exists, you should know two things:

  • The new trees and ores that this mod adds will only show up in chunks generated after the mod was installed. If your world is large, you may need to travel for a long time before you can even get started!
  • Remember to back up your world folder before playing with IC² for the first time! It is not easy to remove all the custom content a mod adds, and your world may not be playable with a "vanilla" Minecraft.jar after chunks are generated with this mod, or mod-specific items are placed in the world.

For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll assume you're choosing to start a new world.

The First Day[edit]

So you've picked a name and possibly a seed for your world, and you've just loaded in and are starting to look around. If you're playing in Survival mode, on a difficulty above Peaceful, you should spend the first day doing what you normally do; gather wood, make some tools, find food and shelter, etc.

While you go about your business, keep an eye out for trees with dark bark and unusual orange spots on them. They're rubber trees, and they show up most often in Swamp biomes. Remember where these trees are if you spot any, as they'll be important soon.

A Rubber Wood block with a 'Resin Hole'.

Burning Rubber: The Extractor[edit]

Extractors allow you to process Resin into Rubber more efficiently, as well as create fuel and coolant cells.

Now that you have a shelter adequate to protect you from the elements (and possibly also the Creepers), let's revisit the trees I mentioned earlier. First you'll need a Treetap, which requires five Wooden Planks arranged thusly:

Treetap


Grid Wooden Planks.png
Grid Wooden Planks.png
Grid Wooden Planks.png
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Grid Wooden Planks.png


Grid Treetap.png

Find a rubber wood block with an orange spot like the one above, and right-click it with a treetap equipped to harvest between one and three pieces of Sticky Resin. Smelting one piece of resin in a furnace will yield one piece of Rubber. However, since rubber is one of the major components in circuitry and wires, we definitely want an Extractor so we can get triple the amount of Rubber we get.

Let's look at what exactly an Extractor requires, and the recipes for the parts that it's made of:

Grid Treetap.png
Grid Treetap.png


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Grid Electronic Circuit.png


Grid Treetap.png
Grid Treetap.png


Grid Extractor.png

Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Machine.png

Grid Iron.png
Grid Coal.png
Grid Refined Iron.png

Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Redstone.png
Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Redstone.png
Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Electronic Circuit.png

Grid Rubber.png
Grid Copper.png
Grid Rubber.png
Grid Rubber.png
Grid Copper.png
Grid Rubber.png
Grid Rubber.png
Grid Copper.png
Grid Rubber.png
Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png

Insulated Copper Cable

Insulated Copper Cable


Grid Copper Ore.png
Grid Coal.png
Grid Copper.png

Okay, wow, that's kind of a lot of stuff. Unfortunately this is the point where I give you an assignment. Fortunately, this is also the part where you get to have fun looking for the new ores! Get yourself an Iron Pickaxe so you can mine Redstone, then go hunt down:

Copper Ore block. Requires Stone pickaxe or better.
Tin Ore block. Requires Iron pickaxe or better.
Uranium Ore block. Not necessary right now, but if you find any, save it for later. Much, much later. Requires Iron pickaxe or better.
  • 3 Copper Ores
  • 9 Iron Ores
  • 6 Sticky Resin
  • 2 Redstone Dust
  • 20 Wooden Planks
  • Enough fuel to smelt everything properly. Don't forget that Refined Iron requires you to smelt Iron Ore twice.

That should be enough to make yourself an Extractor. Be careful where you place it, because you cannot get it back if you destroy it with any of the tools you currently have. Set it down somewhere fairly spacious.

Don't feel bad if you came back with way more materials than I asked for, because if you did, you've got a head start on the NEXT machines we're building. You see, Extractors are cool, but they run on electricity. You could use redstone dust to power your Extractor for a little while (it can be sacrificed for a small amount of electrical energy), but wouldn't you much rather have an efficient, and possibly reusable, solution to this problem?

Batteries and Generators: Shockingly Useful[edit]

Luckily, such a solution exists. But first, let's talk about electricity for a little while.

The EU (Eelectrical Unit) is the quantity used to represent electrical energy in IC². As you continue to build more and more sophisticated technology, you will eventually be able to produce power through various methods, store it in blocks and items, and harness it to do amazing things by connecting your contraptions with electrical cabling! (Beam me up, Scotty.)

As a reference, one piece of Coal or Charcoal is worth 4000 EU. In a traditional Furnace, a piece of coal is worth eight smelts.

One smelt takes ten seconds, so we can say 80 seconds = 4000 EU, or in other words, a normal Furnace uses 50 EU per second, or 2.5 EU/s (Remember, EU/s is per tick, not per actual second.)

So you have two options now -- there are both disposable and rechargeable batteries available to use. However, we don't have a machine necessary to create materials for the disposable batteries yet!

Rechargeable (RE) Battery


Grid Tin.png
Grid Tin.png
Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Redstone.png
Grid Redstone.png


Grid Tin.png
Grid Tin.png
Grid RE Battery.png

Well this isn't very convenient, the battery is empty when we craft it! How do you get EU into a battery? Enter the Generator:

Generators provide electricity at the cost of combustible fuel.
Generator



Grid RE Battery.png
Grid Refined Iron.png
Grid Iron Furnace.png



Grid Generator.png

Iron Furnace
Grid Iron.png
Grid Iron.png
Grid Iron.png
Grid Iron.png
Grid Iron.png
Grid Iron.png
Grid Iron.png
Grid Iron.png
Grid Iron Furnace.png


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Grid Furnace.png


Grid Iron.png
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Grid Iron Furnace.png

Notice that not only does the Generator require a Rechargeable Battery of its own to create, but that there are several different ways to combine materials to end up with a Generator.

To use a Generator, simply place a combustible fuel into the bottom slot, the same as you would use a furnace. As electricity is generated from the fuel, you will notice the red bar on the Generator GUI begin to fill. This is the storage capacity of the Generator, which is simply how much EU it can hold without wasting any.

There are two ways to use the EU stored inside a Generator like this:

  • Transfer the EU to a RE Battery or other energy-storing item by placing it in the top slot to charge. (A RE Battery has a 10,000 EU capacity, which is roughly three pieces of Coal.)
  • Connect the Generator's power output to the power input of another machine using cable.
  • Be careful about how much power you use, connecting a machine to a bigger power source than it can handle will cause an explosion!

So, I suppose by now you're wondering what it is we need to make ourselves disposable batteries. "Surely it can't be that much more difficult," you say. And you're quite right. There's only one more machine left to cover in this introductory tutorial... and it is...

Boil 'Em, Mash 'Em: The Macerator[edit]

A Macerator will pulverize many materials into more pure forms.
Macerator

The Macerator is one amazing machine. Trust me when I say I saved the best for last. And for good reason: compared to the Extractor, the Macerator is a fairly EU-hungry beast! It wouldn't have done us much good to make ourselves one of these before we had the means to power it. It's probably a good idea to make several Rechargeable Batteries so you can recharge one on a Generator while another powers the Macerator. Or, depending on what fuel is available to you, you might simply connect it directly.

Either way, this machine is amazing:

  • It pulverizes most ore blocks into two Dusts, which each can be smelted into an ingot at a furnace. This effectively doubles the amount of ingots you get from mining ore.
  • It reduces Cobblestone and Sandstone back down into Sand.
  • It makes Flint from Gravel.

Two very convenient things are made possible with dust. First, you can combine Copper and Tin dusts at a 3:1 ratio to create Bronze dust:

Bronze Dust
Grid Copper Dust.png
Grid Copper Dust.png


Grid Copper Dust.png
Grid Tin Dust.png




Grid Bronze Dust.png

Bronze Dust

Bronze Dust


This smelts into Bronze ingots, which can be used to make tools and armor. The products will perform slightly slower than Iron but are significantly more durable. They can break the same things.

In addition, and you've been waiting for this a while... You can make a wrench out of bronze ingots that allows you to (usually) recover placed machinery without destroying it!

Bronze Wrench
Grid Bronze.png
Grid Bronze.png


Grid Bronze.png
Grid Bronze.png
Grid Bronze.png
Grid Bronze.png


Grid Wrench.png

And finally, you can combine coal dust with Redstone dust and Insulated Copper Cable in various ways to create disposable (1,000 EU) batteries:

Single-Use Battery



Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Hydrated Coal Dust.png
Grid Redstone.png



Grid Single-Use Battery.png

Single-Use Battery

Single-Use Battery




Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Redstone.png
Grid Hydrated Coal Dust.png



Grid Single-Use Battery.png

Single-Use Battery

Single-Use Battery




Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Coal Dust.png
Grid Redstone.png



Grid Single-Use Battery.png

Single-Use Battery

Single-Use Battery




Grid Insulated Copper Cable.png
Grid Redstone.png
Grid Coal Dust.png



Grid Single-Use Battery.png

Single-Use Battery

Single-Use Battery


Alpha and Omega: Wrapping Up[edit]

We've gone from humble beginnings to promising places. It wasn't that long ago that we were staring at an oddly shaped hole in a tree and wondering what it was for. But we've still barely scratched the surface.

I have only covered three of dozens of machines it is possible to build! I haven't even touched on any of the unique weaponry and armor you can make, or the machines that do busywork for you... there are even teleporters and nuclear reactors for the particularly talented engineers among us.

Check the navigation box right below for an overview of the things this mod has to offer... and good luck!





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