1. The Macerator
I would be starting with the beginning. When creating a new world, you should start playing as if you were playing regular minecraft. Punch a tree, find some food, mine stone etc. As soon as you make a decent looking house made out of anything but dirt, the game of tekkit starts.
People like to make challenges for themselves. "No using energy collectors", "no EE in this world" or sometimes "no buildcraft or industrialcraft in this world" are a few examples. For this set of blog post, I would be covering the game fully without any challenges.
I recommend starting with getting a source of electricity from industrialcraft. This is because the macerator is probably the most important piece of machinery as a new player in the world.
Definition: Macerator
A macerator is an industrialcraft machine that uses electricity to grind up ores. Grinding up an ore would provide you with 2 dust of that ore. Each dust can then be smelted in a furnace to get 1 bar/item each. This effectively allows you to multiply the amount of minerals you get by 2.
A macerator can be built with 3 flint, 2 cobblestone, 1 machine block and 1 electronic circuit. This may sound complicated, but do not be frightened. Once you start getting the hang of it, you would be able to recall what all of these are immediately.
Everything else on this post from here on is to reach one goal. Build a macerator.
1. Machine block
A machine block is composed of 1 ingredient and that would be refined iron. Making refined iron is simple. Smelt iron ingots in a furnace and you would get 1 refined iron ingot. You would be needing 8 of these to make a machine block because it is crafted by filling in all the spaces and removing the center space.
2. Electronic circuit
This would be slightly more complicated. To make one, you need 3 copper ingots, 6 rubber, 1 refined iron and 2 redstone dust. Copper can be found while mining and is usually quite common. Rubber is a very important part in tekkit and can be found on rubber trees.
Rubber trees can be very easily distinguished from other trees because their wood is very different and, if you play with fast graphics on, the leaves are see-though compared with the regular trees in minecraft. Collect as many sapling as possible as you would need them when starting a rubber farm. You may have seen the odd orange spot on the wood of the tree. This dot is the rubber you are looking for. Punching down the tree is possible to extract the rubber but there is a renewable and more efficient way then that. This would be with a tree tap. A tree tap can be crafted with 5 wooden planks in the shape of
oxo
xxx
xoo
where the "x"s are the planks and the "o"s are empty spaces. Hold your tap and right click on the orange spot. Items should jump out of the spot and onto the floor. These items are called "Sticky Resin". By using an extractor or a furnace, you can get rubber from this item. Only take just the right amount of rubber you need because, when an extractor is built, you would be able to get x3 times the amount you get from smelting it.
You should now have all the items needed to create a macerator. It is crafted like this.
Insulated rubber wire:
xxx
yyy
xxx
where x = rubber and y = copper ingot
Electronic circuit:
xxx
yoy
xxx
where x = insulated rubber wire, y = redstone dust and o = refined iron ingot
and finally,
Macerator:
xxx
oyo
kgk
where x = flint, o = cobblestone, y = machine block, g = electronic circuit and k = empty space.
You have now created your own macerator. Now the only problem left is a power source to allow you to use your macerator. This shall be covered in the next post.
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