Quickstart with technic, pipeworks, digtron
This guide assumes that the basics are already done, ie. tools, food, a safe place to live and work, and access to a mine.
A public farm, public mine, public workshop and shops that sell technic-items will make it all much more quick and easy.
Autocrafters
For crafting items with many parts, and/or mass-production.
Needs 5 iron, 2 mese, 2 plastic.
For a starter-base, i usually don't bother with tubes and injectors
for automating the autocrafters,
as that will need a lot of space,
and requires more resources to build.
Digtron
For digging/mining.
Parts needed:
- Crate (optionally locked)
- Combined-Inventory
- Auto-Controller
- Digger-Head
- Builder-Head
- Rotation-Axle (optional)
All those parts need a digtron-core, made of 4 iron + 1 mese-fragment.
The crate and controller need mese, and the diggerheads need diamonds.
Small designs;
- Tunnel-digger, eg. with 2x3 digger-heads, plus 1 builder for placing lights
- Shaft-digger, eg. 2x2 digger-heads, with builders for support-column, ladder, lights
Machines
For planting/harvesting etc.
Parts needed:
- Deployer
- Nodebreaker
- BlnkyPlant
- Tubes
- Vac.Tube
- SortingTubes
- Nodedetector
- Delayer
Examples:
- Cactus/Papyrus-Harvester
- Nodebreaker digs 2nd node of plant, moves them via tube to chest, blinkyplant triggers nodebreaker
- Mithril-Scythe-Harvester
- Mithril-Scythe in the nodebreaker harvests+replants
- Rubbertree-Harvester - rubbertree-block with leaves+light
- Tap in the nodebreaker to suck rubber from rubbertree
- Stone-Generator - Lava above water
- Pickaxe in the nodebreaker to dig the generated stones
- Sapling-Mill
- Deployer puts leave, nodebreaker digs it (with chance to get a sapling),
- sortingtube to move leaves to deployer, saplings into chest
- Regular Harvester
- with nodedetector looking for ripe fruit/crops to trigger nodebreaker + deployer.
- Use a chainsaw in the nodebreaker for harvesting trees (needs recharging)
- Surround this with vac.tubes to catch more leaves
Powered Machines
Common parts for LV-machines:
- Cables - needs paper, copper
- Machine-Casing - needs cast iron, brass (from copper, zinc)
- RE-Battery - needs wood, copper, tin
- Spool of copper wire - needs copper, and plastic for the spools
For ore-processing:
- Grinder - needs machine-casing & cable, diamond, desert-stone, granite
- Furnace - needs machine-casing & cable, cobble
LV works, but has no pipeworks-connectors, so no automation.
So, wie want MV as soon as possible.
MV also has the toolworkshop, for repairing tools.
MV-machines in general need the corresponding LV-machine as one of the components.
- Generator
- Hydro-Generator - needs machine-casing & cable, wood, marble, diamond
- Solar-Generator - cable, silver-wire, glue, doped silicon-wafer
- SwitchingStation - needs machine-casing & cable, copper, LV-transformer
- LV-transformer - needs iron, fiber (from glue, from saplings), copper-coils (from iron, copper wire)
- BatteryBox - needs machine-casing & cable, wood, 4x RE-Batterys
Tools
- Chainsaw - for harvesting whole trees, including leaves.
- Leaves are the raw material to make oil->parafin->plastic, twigs->sticks->wood, and more saplings.
The chainsaw needs to be charged in a batterybox.
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Other
- Transport
- Tubes, Injectors, SortingTubes, LUA-tubes - to move stuff between machines
- Storage-System
- as above, to move stuff to processing machines and/or a system of chests.
See also technic-chests, techage-chests, drawers.
Setup
Some essential production-lines:
- leaves -> twigs -> sticks -> wooden planks
- wooden items: ladders, signs, chests, fences ...
- leaves -> oil-extract -> parafin -> plastic
- pipeworks-tubes
- also: oil-extract as fuel
- papyrus -> paper
- books, LV-cables -> MV-cables
- ore -> grinder -> furnace
- to get more ingots
- cobble -> stone -> stonebrick
- sand -> sandstone -> sandstonebrick
- wheat -> flour -> bread
- cotton -> wool, string
- small, medium, large bags
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