【Minecraft】How to Play IndustrialCraft 2 Mod? Beginner's Tutorial 1: Getting Started
IndustrialCraft 2 has always been a very popular mod, featuring highly modern equipment that can create many unexpected devices. However, because its content is so vast, it can be tough for beginners. Here comes a beginner's tutorial for IC2 (there are four common versions of this mod, but this guide only applies to the original).
1. Getting Started
1. Mining
The industrial mod adds many new ores. To find these, you need to refresh your map. There are two ways: either travel far enough so new chunks generate, or start a new save. If you're attached to the house you worked hard on, you can use MCEdit's export and import functions to move your house, gear, and materials to a new location, saving you a lot of trouble.
Alright, let's start from the beginning. You start a new save, easily punch down a tree, craft a workbench, then an axe, shovel, and pickaxe, followed by your first dirt hut. OK, head underground and start digging. After a while, you might notice something new.
Copper and tin. These are common ores in the industrial mod. Copper is mostly used for making copper cables, but also for various tools and equipment. Tin is mainly used for making batteries and cans.
There's also a rarer ore—Uranium, like this. It holds immense energy and can be used for power generation or even nuclear bombs, but you can ignore it for now.
2. Power Generation
After all that heavy mining, your inventory should be packed with ores. Now, let's build your first Generator.
To make a Generator, you need a Battery, a Machine Block, and a Stone Furnace. The Stone Furnace is straightforward, so let's start with the Machine Block. It requires 8 Refined Iron Ingots: smelt iron ore in a stone furnace to get Iron Ingots, then smelt those again to get Refined Iron.
Making a Battery is a bit trickier. Here's the recipe. You need Cable, Redstone, and Tin Ingots. Tin and copper are easy to get; you just need to mine deeper for Redstone. For the Cable: smelt copper ore into Copper Ingots, and Rubber is made by smelting Resin in a stone furnace. That yellow stuff is Resin. Finding it might take some effort—if you're lucky, it's right next to your base; if not, you could search for hours. Keep your eyes peeled, kid. To extract Resin, you need a Treetap. Right-click on the rubber tree's sap hole to get Resin.
PS: Rubber trees are hard to find, but once you find one, you're set. When you chop down the tree, it drops at least one Rubber Tree Sapling. You can take that sapling home and plant a rubber tree farm, so you'll never run out of rubber again.
OK, so you've made a Generator. Don't rush to generate power just yet. Craft a few Batteries to make a Bat-Box for storing energy—otherwise, you'll waste it. A Bat-Box can store 40,000 EU of energy. The side with a dot is the output face, and it can emit 32 EU/t. EU stands for the amount of energy, and EU/t is energy per tick (though in the game, it's not exactly one second, but who cares?).
PS: To change the output direction, just right-click the side you want with a Wrench, and the output will turn that way. This is a Wrench; this is an Electric Wrench—it never breaks, just needs charging.
Now place the Bat-Box next to the Generator, right-click the Generator to open its GUI, and toss some coal inside. Bingo, you've got power!
3. Machines
You have power now, so let's build some machines. I recommend starting with a Macerator. One ore in a Macerator gives you two ore dusts, and smelting those yields two ingots—so you can double your ore output. Plus, it can crush stone into sand and gravel into flint. That's awesome, you definitely want one.
The item at the bottom is a Circuit Board—you know how to make it, XD. So, you've got the Macerator; place it somewhere nice. Connect it with cable, like this, starting from the Bat-Box's output dot and attaching to any side of the Macerator. Now it's powered. Toss in all your ores.
Now that you have a Macerator, your ore output has skyrocketed. But are you still using a Stone Furnace to smelt? That's way too slow. You'll need an Electric Furnace. If you want an even faster smelting rate, there's the Induction Furnace, which I'll cover below.