Moving Forward

Now that you have built a tech table, you can begin moving forward. The first thing you need to do is craft a part press. You need this to create iron parts so that you can craft a researcher and a scanner--two of the most critical items in the mod. The crafting recipes are fairly simple: two pistons, iron bars, and six iron ingots. Once you have this, you can create iron parts by putting a few pieces of coal in the part press and putting a few iron ingots in the first slot; this will give you iron parts.

Next, you will use those with a few other materials in your tech table to receive a scanner and then a researcher; again, these are critical to your progression. Note that you can use white, light grey, or black colored metal and that you can use any crystal (alutine, neon, retium, glowtite, bioterium) to craft these two things. The first image is the Scanner and the second is the Researcher.

After this, break your Tech Table, put it in your Scanner, and click the Thermodynamics option (the flame icon). This will give you your Production I blueprint. Put this in your Researcher, click the green arrow or the big button at the bottom, and it will show you the required items to complete the research. Production 1 requires three furnaces in the Time slot. Putting the required items in the slots, enables research to begin. Completing a research may require up to 4 different items of varying number: Time, NE, SP, and XP. If your Researcher has a lit star (not early versions), then you have bonus items which help your progress. Status may be obtained by opening the Researcher or scanning with an E-Scanner. When completed, the icon is enabled in the Tech Tree of the E-Scanner or Scanner.

After that, open your E-Scanner and click (i) button to view the Tech Tree. On the Production tab, Industrial Furnace is now enabled. Click on it and read everything you need to know about it. Craft the industrial furnace--it's another crucial item. (Even if you don't find diamonds, if you smelt a lot of stuff you will quickly get enough obsidian to eventually build a nether portal because obsidian is a by product of the industrial furnace.) You have now taken the first step forward.



There are blinking items on your e-scanner that you can't read in the production section. Those are the items you can research right now. Researching those items will unlock more items to research. You're probably wondering how you research them. Well, first, look at what it's branching off of in the Tech Tree.

For instance, look at Composite Metal; it's branching off of the Industrial Furnace, along with a few other items. To research composite metal, you will just need to scan the industrial furnace after choosing the right options, and you'll get the research blueprint. After you research the blueprint, you can click on it in the Tech Tree, and you can read about it.

Congratulations on moving forward!

What is next?

Support Point generators

Experience Point generators