Tekkit:Gameplay Tutorial

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=Industrial Craft 2= If you can't learn this then Tekkit isn't for you.

Basics
At this point; were assuming you have created your minecraft home as you would in normal minecraft, 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, and near lots of sand.

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..

Use 5 Wooden Planks to craft a Treetap. You will need 5 Treetaps total, one for extracting Sticky Resin and four for crafting an Extractor, but wait until later to make the other four to save space.

Now, extract 6 Sticky Resin from the rubber trees. Rubber trees are somewhat random, but I can tell you they're most abundant in Swamp biomes and they never grow in Desert biomes. 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 have a bad spawn point if you don’t find any along the way. Also, you should mine any Copper or Tin you see for later.

You will need to know the basic materials:


 * 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. 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, 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.

Now you’re safe at your base, you could smelt some of the ore you gathered from your trip, but be patient and don’t smelt any more ore than you must. 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. However, before you build a Macerator, you need a Generator, and you may want to craft an Extractor as well, but to build them, you must craft some Electric Circuits, which need some Cables. Yeah, it seems complicated, and it is.

Iron Furnace
One of the first IC2-related things you'll probably want to create is an Iron Furnace. This is an upgrade over the regular Furnace from vanilla Minecraft (a.k.a. Stone Furnace by IC2 users). It operates faster and uses fuel more efficiently. Click on the link for details. There are two recipes available, but you should go with the one that uses less Iron.

All you need for this is five Iron Ore and one piece of Charcoal (or several pieces of Wood) for fuel. Smelt five Iron Ore into ingots in your regular stone Furnace, then pick up your Furnace and use it to craft an Iron Furnace. An Iron Furnace is an important part of making an Electric Furnace later, so making it now lets you use it until we get to that step.

Extractor
You can optionally exchange the Extractor with the Macerator listed below if you have several Rubber trees nearby.

For this project you'll need: 6 Sticky Resin 3 Copper Ore 9 Iron Ore 2 Redstone

You remember the Sticky Resin you kept in the chest? Take it, and your Copper Ingots too. We will create some Copper 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.

Prepare one batch of 6 cables using the recipe that uses 6 Rubber and 3 Copper Ingots. Smelt 9 Iron Ore into Iron Ingots, and then smelt the Iron Ingots again to get 9 Refined Iron.

Now we will craft our first Electronic Circuit. You need 6 cables, 2 Redstone, and one Refined Iron. Like all other things on that page, it’s the base of the industry, so you'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. FINALLY we can craft our first machine. We just need 4 more Treetaps. Take 20 planks and craft them. After that, put the 4 tree taps, the machine block, and the Electronic Circuit on the crafting bench and TADA you can plant your Extractor where you want. Be careful though: you can’t remove any machine by hand. It will be destroyed if you do. You will need a special tool made with a new metal. We will see that later.

Ok, you have your Extractor, but to use it, you need ELECTRICITY, made by a GENERATOR. Now you know what we need to make next.

Generator
For this project you'll need: 2 Sticky Resin (using Extractor) 3 Copper Ore 8 Tin Ore 4 Redstone 8 Cobblestone 8 Iron Ore

There are 2 ways to craft a Generator First, you can use a RE Battery, a Machine Block, and a Furnace (8 Iron needed). Or, you can use a RE Battery, 3 Refined Iron, and an Iron Furnace (8 Iron needed).

You need to assemble two Rechargeable Batteries. One is needed to build the Generator, and the second is needed to power your Extractor. But wait! You just used your last Cable. It’s time to craft more, but this time we will not waste great quantities of resin. Go back in front of your Extractor, put 2 Sticky Resin into the top 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. Next smelt 3 Copper Ore into Copper Ingots. Craft a batch of 6 Insulated Copper Cables with your Rubber.

Lastly, smelt 8 Tin Ore into Tin Ingots. Now you can assemble your two RE Batteries.

Next create a regular Furnace and follow one of the two recipes above to craft the Generator. Don't place the generator next to anything; I’ll explain why in the wiring section. Put your empty battery in the upper slot and put some (char)coal or other things that burn in the lower slot. You will need 2.5 (char)coal to fill up a single battery. I usually don't worry about completely filling my battery at this point. Feel free to make more RE Batteries. However, we'll be adding a cable shortly which will make the batteries unnecessary.

The empty Rechargeable Batteries can stack up to 16, but the fully charged ones can’t be stacked. It’s the drawback of the re-usability. You can place a chest right next to the generator and it will gather your full batteries.

For now, you can use a partially or fully charged battery to power the Extractor. This will give you a lot more Rubber for making cables, which in turn will make it easier to build other machines.

Double End
Under construction

=Redpower= Redpower is a simple mod used to make advanced red stone circuitry. This makes redstone contraptions much more condensed and less of an eye sore. Notable differences include the ability to go up walls and 1 block arrays.

You can use Redpower from these simple recipies :

We will use this system for advanced recipes -

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The letter X is never used, any other letter is the first letter of the material used

Alloy Furnace
In RedPower the alloy furnace is used in many things. This Furnace is required to create alloys used in RedPower wiring technology and machine technology It can also be used to recover metals from some items that are no longer needed.

An alloy furnace is crafted with 8 bricks and you will need a 3*3 crafting grid to make it. Place the bricks as if making a furnace.

Alloy Furnace Recipies
When right clicking on a placed alloy furnace you are given a GUI inside you can place fuel into the fuel cell at the left and put the necessary items in the smelting grid to make the desired items you wish for

these are the items you can make using the alloy furnace

These recipes are shapeless, many variations are possible


 * Rail - 3 Iron
 * Bucket - 3 Iron
 * Minecraft - 5 Iron
 * Iron Door - 6 Iron
 * 4 Redstone and 1 Iron OR 4 Redstone and 1 Copper - Red Alloy

Red Alloy Wires
Red Alloy Wires Regular redstone wiring is really a trail of dust sprinkled on the ground. This is convenient, but you lose all your energy from the resistance between the grains. And water can come along and wash it all away! Instead, if you add a little bit of metal to your redstone, you can get the mysterious and wonderful Red Alloy!

Red Alloy is a soft, ductile, highly conductive metal. How conductive? 16 times the conductivity of regular redstone! While it's much too soft to make tools out of, it's easily made into a red wire.

Making Red Alloy
To make the red alloy wires you will need an Alloy Furnace to create the red alloy ingots (See above)

Place a row of vertical 3 red alloys in order to create twelve wires.

Bare Red Alloy wires will connect to almost anything, and they will power the block that they are sitting on, in addition to the blocks they are actually connected to. In fact, they are capable of indirectly powering or being powered indirectly from the block that they are sitting on. But only bare wires can sense or power indirectly!

Insulated Red Alloy Wires
Still, sometimes you don't want to splash power everywhere, or sometimes you may wish to run wires right next to each other without connecting to each other. To accomplish this, simply wrap some wire in nice insulating wool! Use the same recipe for Red Wire only put any color wool all around it.

Now insulated wire can only connect to things on their ends, and different colors of wire won't connect to each other! Very useful for compact mechanisms!

You can recolor the wire by placing dyes next to the wire in a 2x2 or 3x3 crafting table.

Bundled Cables
Bundled Cables allow up to 16 different redstone signals to travel through the same block without interfering with each other. These redstone signals are introduced to the bundled cable via Insulated Wire. Redstone signals can then be extricated from the Bundled Cable by the same colored Insulated Wire attached further down the cable. Red Alloy Wire cannot connect directly to Bundled Cable and must pass its redstone signal through Insulated Wire first.

Crafting
To make Bundled Cable you will need 5 Insulated Wire and 4 String. Any color of Insulated Wire can be used in the crafting grid so long as it is all of the same color. You will always create plain Bundled Cable.

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Jacketed Wire And Cable
There may be cases where you want or need to run power without walls or blocks. This is where jacketed wires come into play. They allow for free-standing placement of wires and are self-supporting. It is possible to create jacketed wires using any material that can be cut into covers.

Simply place a red alloy in the middle of a 3x3 crafting grid covered by Stone Covers

Jacketed Bundle Cable
It is also possible to create jacketed cable bundles in addition to the normal red alloy wire.

Simply use the same recipe above - but with a bundled cable instead of Red Alloy.

Jacketed cables are the self-supporting version of bundled cables. They do not require a surface to sit upon. They can be made from any material that can be cut into covers and an uncolored bundled cable in the center. It cannot be crafted from colored cables. It will also only connect ("stitch") to a surface with an uncolored cable.

Sub Blocks
Redpower 2 Wiring brings sub blocks to the game. Sub blocks can be used for many things, including decoration, compact circuiting, covering wires and much more. Only certain blocks in Minecraft can be cut into sub blocks. Most sub blocks only require a 2x2 crafting grid, but some need 3x3.

To begin, you will need to craft a saw. You can either craft an iron saw or a diamond one. An Iron Saw will only cut soft materials while a diamond one will cut hard. It can be crafted with 3 sticks, 4 iron or 3 sticks, 2 iron and 2 diamond.

Iron

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Diamond

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Hierarchy


Crafting is when you put the block and saw together. Cutting is when you hit the block with the saw.

If no explanation on how to make the block via crafting is given, visit

Cutable Blocks

 * Bookshelf
 * Dirt Block
 * Snow
 * Wood
 * Wooden Planks
 * Wool
 * Basalt
 * Basalt Brick
 * Basalt Cobblestone
 * Brick
 * Cobblestone
 * Diamond block
 * Emerald Block
 * Glass
 * Gold block
 * Lapis Lazuli Block
 * Marble
 * Marble Brick
 * Moss Stone
 * Nether Brick
 * Obsidian
 * Ruby Block
 * Rubber Wood
 * Sandstone
 * Sapphire Block
 * Stone
 * Stone Brick

=Redpower Alloy/Logic= Alloy is used for advanced circuity such as the extremely useful timers.

Screwdriver
The screwdriver is the tool in RedPower used to reorient an already placed logic gate or to modify the properties of certain blocks.

Right-clicking a machine block or logic gate with the screwdriver will rotate the block without the need to replace it. The block cycles through all 6 possible orientations, beginning at the start on further clicks. This will work on RedPower 2 logic gates and machines as well as vanilla pistons, repeaters and dispensers.

Shift-right-clicking on many RedPower 2 logic gates will change some property associated with the gate; for example, on an RS latch, the gate can be mirrored (exchanging output sides without exchanging input sides) and the reflection of an output signal through the corresponding input (in addition to the regular output) can be enabled or disabled. RedPower Control monitors, disk drives, and I/O expanders can also be shift-right-clicked with a screwdriver; doing so opens up the control panel where the DIP switches setting the device's Redbus address can be changed.

(Note: I don't know how to craft this. Somebody edit this?)

Parts
'''Note : All crafting recipes can be obtained from as they are quite advanced.

Wafer
The wafer is the most basic part used in redpower logic it's one of the five base items and also the four other ones are crafted using it. it can't be placed but it is used in all most every single recipe in redpower logic.

The smooth stone is needed to make the Stone Wafers, it can be obtained by smelting cobblestone in a furnace, using coal, or another source of energy.

By smelting 1 smooth stone in a furnace (also works in an Alloy Furnace) using coal, or another source of energy, you get 2 stone wafers

Logic Wire
The wire is one of the five base items used in redpower logic, it can't be placed but it is used in recipes to make advanced integrated redstone circuits

A stone wafer and one peice of redstone is needed to make the stone wire Placing a peice of redstone above a stone wafer will give you 1 stone wire

Cathode
Placing a redstone torch above a stone wafer will give you one stone cathode. It can't be placed but it is used in recipes to make advanced integrated redstone circuits