Tutorial:Shopping List

NOTICE: This tutorial is not yet finished.

NOTICE: Pictures will be added, if you would like to do please do, but stick as close as possible to the instruction as you can.

Getting aquainted

You've generated your new world with Industrial Craft, but what can you do? Well, you can do many things. Some of them are expensive, and even worse most of them are complicated. Industrial Craft has a tiered crafting system that needs you to craft/process raw materials to make secondary items just to use those to craft what you really wanted. Your best bet is to find a nice flat spot near a cave and settle in because you've got a day or two of hard mining before you'll get to see you're first functional machine.

This is not (just) and introduction to Industrial Craft, its also about making the most of what you have. To do that, you'll need to make you're machines in the right order and use those you've made to make the next one easier. The first two we'll start with are a generator and a macerator. You can use these two in conjunction with each other to (theoretically) reduce the metal cost of all other machines by half (in the terms of ore mined anyways).

Shopping List:

 •  iron pick (for the redstone, otherwise any pick will do)
 •  access to a workbench
 •  55 logs
 •  18 iron ore
 •  6 copper ore
 •  6 tin ore
 •  6 redstone
 •  17 cobblestone
 •  4 coal

Now the only two items on here you're probably not familiar with are copper and tin ore. Well the good news is you'll be seeing them quite often while you're mining (They appear at the same level as iron and seem to be more common). The bad news is you'll be using them in every machine you make.

You'll need everything on that list with 2 extra planks, so try and make a separate chest to store it all in. Any extra metal ore you find should be saved until after the macerator is fully functional. So grab you're workbench and get ready because here we go.

To Do List:

 •  19 logs -> 76 wooden planks
 •  60 planks -> 12 treetaps
 •  12 treetaps + 36 logs -> 12 rubber
 •  4 planks -> 8 sticks
 •  6 sticks + 9 cobblestone -> 3 stone picks
 •  8 cobblestone -> Furnace
 •  place furnace
 •  use 1 plank, 1 stick and 2 coal to smelt 18 iron ore to iron
 •  use 1 plank, 1 stick and 2 coal to smelt 18 iron to refined iron
 •  use 4 planks to smelt 6 copper ore to 6 copper
 •  use 4 planks to smelt 6 tin ore to 6 tin
 •  6 copper + 12 rubber -> 16 cables
 •  4 cables + 2 redstone + 6 tin -> 2 batteries
 •  2 refined iron + 4 redstone + 12 cables -> 2 circuits
 •  use pick to remove furnace
 •  16 refined iron -> 2 machines
 •  1 furnace + 1 machine + 1 battery -> Generator
 •  1 machine + 3 stone picks + 2 circuits -> Macerator

You'll end up with 2 planks, 1 battery, 1 generator, and 1 macerator. Place the macerator on the ground, and the generator one up and one to the left or right of it. You'll charge the battery in the generator with 3 coal and place it in the macerator for the next step.

MFE's and Solar generators

To be written.