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
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.

Furnace3Copper Ingot10Leather6Iron Ingot22Tin Ingot10Coal64Redstone (Dust)64Redstone (Dust)64Platinum Ignot16

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.

In order to get them, we first need to craft the Metallurgic Infuser.


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  
Finally, 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)

Before we can make Bronze and Steel, we need some Enriched Iron and some Compressed Carbon to be used inside the infuser:

To make Enriched Iron, we need Enriched Alloys
  Redstone Dust   Grid layout Arrow (small).png Enriched Alloy
Redstone Dust Iron Ingot Redstone Dust
  Redstone Dust  
Use those to make Enriched Iron
Enriched Alloy     Grid layout Arrow (small).png Enriched Iron6
Iron Ingot    
Enriched Alloy    
Then make some Compressed Carbon
Coal Grid layout Furnace Progress.png Compressed Carbon
Grid layout Fire.png
Coal

Using the Compressed Carbon, some Enriched Iron and some Redstone for power, we can finally create Steel:

Metalurgic steel dust.png

Using Steel, we can create the Enrichment Chamber, which is the final machine needed to produce Bronze Dust. First, create a Steel Block with 9 Steel Ingots:


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

Then make 2 more Control Circuits, 4 more Enriched Alloy and get 2 more Redstone Dust, then put them all together to craft 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

Now that we have the Enrichment Chamber, we can get dust straight from ore. We will do this with Tin Ore to get our Tin Dust:

EC Tinore to dust.png

Using the dust and some copper ore, create some Bronze Ingots:

Bronze metallurgic.png

Finally, we have the materials to make our power generation and storage.

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

When you think you're ready, go on over to the Electricity Tutorial to continue.

See also

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