How to Get Started in Tekkit

If you haven't already, download the Technic Launcher. This is a customized launcher that contains other modpacks as well, including the RPG-like Hack/Mine, or the singleplayer version of Tekkit, Technic. (It can be found at http://technicpack.net)

Gather wood,coal,stone and iron like any other Minecraft world. Tekkit is, after all, still Minecraft.

Craft a treetap. One of the biggest mods in Tekkit, IndustrialCraft 2, requires this device to craft nearly all of the machines. While searching for wood, you may have noticed darker trees with strange orange spots on them. Right-clicking on these spots with a treetap will yield sticky resin, which can be smelted in a furnace to obtain rubber at a ratio of 1:1.

• An IC2 machine obtainable later on, the extractor, will produce rubber at a ratio of about 1:3.

After you have obtained six rubber, you can sandwich copper in between them to create copper wiring. Copper wire, redstone, and refined iron (made by smelting iron ingots) are needed for (arguably) the most important IC2 produced material, the electronic circuit.

Craft a macerator and a generator. These important and helpful blocks double your ingot output and provide energy for the former, respectfully. Their recipes can be found to the right, or in the in-game Not Enough Items recipe book.

The alloy furnace (recipe pictured at right) is necessary when working with the upgraded (and hideable) version of redstone, red alloy wire. The alloy furnace, much like the vanilla furnace, can be powered off of any fuel (like coal or wooden planks).

Automate your mining trips with turtles. By using some very simple Lua code, you can automate in-game robots named turtles. They can be equipped with diamond tools and crafting tables to further their abilities. Lua code is common in video games (such as in World of Warcraft and Garry's Mod, among many others), and examples of code for mining turtles can be found on the ComputerCraft forums.

Experiment with BuildCraft pipes and engines. BuildCraft pipes are used to move items, blocks, and liquid from machine to machine without player intervention. To get started, surround one piece of glass with wooden planks, cobblestone, regular stone, gold, redstone, or diamond to get pipes with different abilities. Their abilities differ depending on what material you use for them (diamond pipes sort, wooden pipes can pipe out of machinery with the help of engines, and so on). If you craft cactus green dye into pipe waterproofing and craft it onto a normal BC pipe, it can also be used to hold liquids.

Harness the power of IC2 energy storage devices and alternative generators. One big thing to craft early on is the BatBox, which can hold generator power for later use. Commonly, you would have your generator wired up to a BatBox, or its big brother, the MFE, which you would then wire up to the rest of your machines. Also, crafting solar panels and water mills provides an alternative energy source that's not reliant on your coal supply.

Transmutate items with the Minium Stone (Tekkit Lite)/Philosopher's Stone (Tekkit Classic). Depending on the defined worth of an item, you can turn one item into another. After crafting one of these two items and dropping it into a crafting table you can do things such as turning one dye into another, turning four cobblestone into flint, turning four gold into diamond, and so on. Both stones also have a portable 3x3 crafting grid, accessible by pressing C with it equipped.