Tutorials/Getting Started Guide

Hello and welcome to the starting guide for the Voltz mod pack. For information on how to install the Voltz modpack, go here.

Now that you have it installed, you are probably wondering where to start, or what to do next. Well you have come to the right page to help you out. By now, you already know how to make all your basic tools, shelter and most of everything found in the vanilla Minecraft. What Voltz mod pack does is expands on vanilla Minecraft, while maintaining a "universal electricity" system, unlike Tekkit. It also adds many new features, equipment, and ores. Here we will go over some of the new some of the things that will help you get started on new projects and game play.

First Steps: Preparing Materials

Basic Electricity

Getting Started Guide

Assuming you already have your basic tool set and a form of shelter already, we can begin some of the basic construction.

Tools

One of the first tools you're gonna wanna make is a Paxel. This way you can have all the benefits of a shovel, axe, and pickaxe all in one tool. All you need to do is gather some sticks and cobblestone. Make yourself a stone shovel, stone pickaxe, and a stone axe. Place those along the top row in a crafting table, and then two sticks down the middle. Then you have yourself a Paxel. Paxels can also be made from different types of tool sets such as diamond or gold tools, as well as many other ore tools that have been added to the game by Mekanism.

Note: The Paxel has the same as a single normal tool. While it will save inventory space by combining three tools into one, it will wear out after as many uses as a single normal tool.

Let's Go Mining!

Now that you have your Paxel now we can go do some mining for some of the new ores introduced by the Voltz mod pack. Some of the basic materials we are going to need to mine right now are Iron Ore, Tin Ore, Copper Ore and Platinum Ore. You will also need to mine a whole bunch of coal and redstone to power the machines in the beginning. Once you have collected all of that, melt some into ingots, but not all of them. Here is a good minimum shopping list of materials for a Coal Generator and a Battery Box.

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Farming

This is an optional (but useful!) step. In addition to your basic home, you should invest in a few small farms to help in gathering additional resources:

1. Cows / Sheep: Several recipes require Insulated Wire, which uses either leather or wool for the insulation. A farm provides a convenient, renewable source for these components, so you don't need to go running out in the middle of the night looking for an animal to butcher. (The best option is to make a sheep farm and use shears to obtain wool without killing your animals.)
2. Wheat: In addition to providing food for yourself, a wheat farm will allow you to replace any cows or sheep that you lose in your farm. Wheat can also be used as Bio Fuel later on.
3. Trees: Early on, you will want to save up your coal to use in a few recipes. Although it's a less efficient form of fuel, wood is infinitely renewable (since trees will often drop more than one sapling) and can be easily farmed, unlike coal which cannot be grown or harvested as easily. With a tree farm, you can use abundant wood planks instead of coal for cooking and smelting.

Once you have done that, we can move onto the next step.

Second Step: Get Power

The first order of business is to start producing some electricity. To do this, we will build a Coal Generator, along with a Battery Box in order to store the power we create. Later on, you will be able to build other types of generators (e.g. a Solar Generator), but for now our coal-powered electricity will work just fine.

Steel and Bronze

We'll first need to turn some of our raw materials into Bronze Ingots and Steel Ingots. Combine the Tin Ingots and Copper Ingots you mined previously to make Bronze Dust, and then smelt that into Bronze Ingots:

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Similarly, Steel Ingots are crafted from Steel Dust, which is made using regular coal and iron ingots:

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Important: This recipe for steel is extremely expensive, as it requires 4 coal and 1 iron ingot to make a single Steel Ingot. In just a little while, we'll be creating machines to make steel more efficiently, so don't waste all of your coal on making steel ingots at this stage!

After this step make sure you have 10 and 7

Motors, Batteries, and Wire

Now we start making some component parts. The generator requires a Motor, which in turn requires Insulated Copper Wire:

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Combine the wires with your Steel Ingots and a Tin Ingot to create our Motor:

The last component we need is a Battery for the Battery Box. Make 3 of these:

After all your crafting you should have , 2, and 3

Put It All Together

Finally, we have everything we need to make our first power connection! Build the Coal Generator and Battery Box from all the components you just crafted:

You can now place the Battery Box and the Coal Generator in the world. To connect them, use the remaining Insulated Copper Wire on the ground like you would redstone, making sure to connect the black hole on the Coal Generator to the red hold in the Battery Box.

A note about placement: At this stage, you probably won't have a Wrench to help rotate your machines, unless you managed to find diamonds during your mining excursion. By default, when you place the Coal Generator, the black hole will be on the back side (the side facing away from you). When you place the Battery Box, the black hole will be on the left-hand side, the red hole will be on the right-hand side. It's a bit awkward at first, but luckily, both machines can be removed quite easily with your bare hands (unlike machines from other mods, which are sometimes destroyed without using a special tool).

Place some Coal into the Coal Generator and it should spring to life after about 10 seconds.

Right-click on the Battery Box and you should see it filling with power!

Third Step: Using Power

Once you have gathered all your materials from the previous step, we can move on to the next phase.

craft 3 alloys

craft 2 Control circuits

craft the infuser

Now that we have the infuser, we can go ahead and make some Bronze Ingot (Mekanism) as well as Steel Dust (Mekanism). First will be the Steel ingots by putting enriched iron and compressed carbon in the infuser.

craft some Enriched Iron

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now for some Compressed Carbon

Add those together in the infuser with some redstone in the charge slot and you get steel dust, make 9 dust and smelt them dust in a furnace. We will use the steel for the next machine, the Enrichment Chamber, which is where the saved Tin Ore will go.

Make a Steel Block with the 9 ingots you just created, 2 more Control Circuits, 2 redstones, and 4 Enriched Alloys.

Add all those items from the previous steps together like so to create the Enrichment Chamber.

With the Enrichment Chamber we can make dust straight from ores, which is what were gonna do with Tin Ore. The Enrichment Chamber will give 2 dust per ore.

Once you have some Tin Dust, go back to the Metallurgic Infuser and insert the Tin Dust and Copper Ore. This will then start producing your Bronze Ingots. Which will create our power source, when you're ready continue on the next tutorial located here Electricity Tutorial

See also

• Nuclear Energy Tutorial
• ICBM Tutorial