Tutorials/Getting Started Guide

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

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

First Steps: Preparing Materials

Basic Electricity
Getting Started Guide

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

One of the first tools you'll want to 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 make yourself a stone shovel, pickaxe, and axe, place them along the top row of a crafting table, and then place two sticks down the middle. Now you have yourself a Paxel. Paxels can 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.

Stone Axe Stone Pickaxe Stone Shovel Grid layout Arrow (small).png Stone Paxel
  Stick  
  Stick  

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

Now that you have your Paxel 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 the materials, melt some of your metal ores into ingots, but not all of them. Here is a good minimum shopping list of materials for a Coal Generator and a Battery Box.

FurnaceCopper Ingot17Leather6Iron Ingot11Tin Ingot22Coal64Redstone (Dust)3

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

Second Step: Get Power

Steel and Bronze

Now that we have our stuff we need to start combining it all together. First we need to turn some of our materials into Bronze Ingots and Steel Ingots.

Make some Bronze Dust
Copper Ingot Tin Ingot Copper Ingot Grid layout Arrow (small).png Bronze Dust
     
     
And smelt it to make Bronze Ingots
Bronze Dust7 Grid layout Furnace Progress.png Bronze Ingot7
Grid layout Fire.png
Coal
Do the same thing for Steel Dust and Steel Ingots
  Coal   Grid layout Arrow (small).png Steel Dust
Coal Iron Ingot Coal
  Coal  

Steel Dust10 Grid layout Furnace Progress.png Steel Ingot10
Grid layout Fire.png
Coal2

Before moving on to the next step make sure you have Steel Ingot10 and Bronze Ingot7.

Motors, Batteries, and Wire

Now we can start making some components.

Insulated Copper Wire - These are used for the Motor Below
Leather Copper Ingot Leather Grid layout Arrow (small).png Insulated Copper Wire6
Leather Copper Ingot Leather
Leather Copper Ingot Leather
Now we can make a Motor
Insulated Copper Wire Steel Ingot Insulated Copper Wire Grid layout Arrow (small).png Motor
Steel Ingot Iron Ingot Steel Ingot
Insulated Copper Wire Steel Ingot Insulated Copper Wire
The last components we need are some Batteries.
  Tin Ingot   Grid layout Arrow (small).png Battery
Tin Ingot Redstone (Dust) Tin Ingot
Tin Ingot Coal Tin Ingot

After all your crafting you should have Motor, Insulated Copper Wire2, and Battery3

Put It All Together

Finally, we have everything we need to make our first power connection. Here are the final things we need to build.


Coal Generator
Bronze Ingot Bronze Ingot Bronze Ingot Grid layout Arrow (small).png Coal Generator
Bronze Ingot Furnace Bronze Ingot
Bronze Ingot Motor Bronze Ingot


Battery Box
Steel Ingot Steel Ingot Steel Ingot Grid layout Arrow (small).png Battery Box
Battery Battery Battery
Steel Ingot Steel Ingot Steel Ingot

You can now place the Battery Box and the Coal Generator in the world. To connect them, place 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.

Generator Battery Front.pngGenerator BatteryBox Back.png


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

Coal Generator Interface.png

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

Battery Box Interface.png

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 Enriched Alloys
  Redstone (Dust)   Grid layout Arrow (small).png Enriched Alloy
Redstone (Dust) Iron (Ingot) Redstone (Dust)
  Redstone (Dust)  
Craft 2 Control Circuits
  Platinum Ignot   Grid layout Arrow (small).png Control Circuit
Platinum Ignot Enriched Alloy Platinum Ignot
  Platinum Ignot  
Craft the Metallurgic Infuser
Iron (Ingot) Furnace Iron (Ingot) Grid layout Arrow (small).png Metallurgic Infuser
Control Circuit Enriched Alloy Control Circuit
Iron (Ingot) Furnace Iron (Ingot)

Now that we have the Infuser, we can go ahead and make some Bronze Ingots as well as Steel Ingots. First will be the Steel Ingots, which are made by putting Enriched Iron and Compressed Carbon in the Infuser.

Craft some Enriched Iron
Enriched Alloy     Grid layout Arrow (small).png Enriched Iron6
Iron Ingot    
Enriched Alloy    


Now for some Compressed Carbon
Coal Grid layout Furnace Progress.png Compressed Carbon
Grid layout Fire.png
Coal


Add those together in the Infuser with some redstone in the charge slot and you get Steel Dust. Make 9 Steel Dust and smelt it in a furnace. We will use the steel for the next machine, the Enrichment Chamber, which is where the Tin Ore will go.


Metalurgic steel dust.png


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

Steel Ingot Steel Ingot Steel Ingot Grid layout Arrow (small).png Steel Block
Steel Ingot Steel Ingot Steel Ingot
Steel Ingot Steel Ingot Steel Ingot


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

Enriched Alloy Redstone (Dust) Enriched Alloy Grid layout Arrow (small).png Enrichment Chamber
Control Circuit Steel Block Control Circuit
Enriched Alloy Redstone (Dust) Enriched Alloy


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

EC Tinore to dust.png


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


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