Getting Started

After World Generation
So you finally generated your first world with SimCraft installed. At a quick glance everything looks the same and then you start to walk around and will notice new flower types nicely populated in each Biome and upon further inspection will come across new fruit trees. Your new world has also now been populated with 48 new ores, 16 new stone types and 16 new marble types. Everything that has been generated is Biome specific. In the oceans you will come across coral reefs and 32 types of fish that you can catch, with a fishing net and transport to your pond at home.

Everything that you gather or mine is unprocessed and will drop the actual block, that block can be replaced, but to turn this into another material you will need to process it first.

What to do next
First, you need to make the Recipe Books and work benches. The recipe books will really help you view the recipe's quickly, and you need the crafting benches to craft basically all of the SimCraft blocks and items. Apart from the normal Work Bench, Advanced Work Benches can be created with 2 work bemches side by side. These have extra function, and are used to process ores, stone, wood and other related materials; You can eventually craft mining machines to do the job for you, as it is time-consuming to do it manually.

Each Bench represent it's own category; The Iron Work Bench is used for steel works and crushing blocks, the Carpenter's Bench is used for wood working, and so on. To start of craft the Iron Work Bench using 3 Iron Blocks at the top followed by 4 iron ingots to represent the feet and a normal crafting table in the middle. Now you can craft your Carpenters Work Bench using the Iron Work Bench in the middle surrounded by 8 Minecraft Oak Logs. Now that you have your 1st Carpenters Bench you can place that down.

Making you're first recipe book
Gather some saplings from the trees around you and in your furnace burn them into Tree Sapp, then inside your Carpenters Bench place 3 Tree Sapp in any row to craft Wood Hardener.

What you want to do then is find a Pear Tree and get the logs from the Pear Tree. In your Carpenters Workbench place your logs on the crafting grid and turn them into Brown Oak Wooden Planks, then place 3 Wood Hardeners in the 3 middle slots and place 6 Brown Oak Wooden Planks in the row above and below and this will give you Ebonized Brown Oak Wooden Planks.

Your next step would be to place 4 of the newly crafted wood into the crafting grid forming a square and this will craft or give you 1 Work Bench.

Your final step would be to place the Work Bench and a normal Minecraft book onto the crafting grid and this will give you your first Recipe Book.

Now that you have your first Recipe Book, you are on your way to create your first factory. Each Bench Recipe Book can be crafted with the Bench and a book as the recipe Item. Hold the book in your hand and right click to open it. The books only shows SimCraft Recipe's and when you use your SimCraft key 'R' by default and you hold that down and right click a recipe book you will also be able to view the Extra Recipe's not included in the normal book.

Mechanics behind SimCraft
As you now know, you have to basically process everything to be able to use the metals gain in recipe to craft your Machines. The hard work at the start only becomes easier once you have Machines, to use the Benches to do your work is a very slow and tiresome job to say the least, so you need to set a goal for yourself to get those Machines done. Because of the complexity around the components needed to craft the machines and the lack of available resources at start the processing phase via Benches has been brought in. But once you have running Machine I don't think unless you quickly want 1 or 2 metals that you will ever want to use the Benches again other than for crafting. So the start is very very slow and you will do a lot of exploring to find all the correct ores you need to craft the machines. We will in later version after 1.6.2 add more Machine to make your life even better.

Basic Mining phase would be ores are crushed, then washed and then depending on what the ore will be used for is either crushed again or placed in a Induction Furnace to be melted int ingots. To create advanced metals like steel for instance a combination of ingots and other materials are required, these will at first be melted in your Coke Oven or once you have an Induction Furnace you will use that. Take careful note on your Machines some have double function and can crush or melt simultaneous ores at the same time, use this to your advantage.

Bricks phase would be any stone or marble crushed and then thru a variation of mixing you will be able to craft your desired brick, extra ingredients like cement is needed for some of the bricks while others are simply crafted thru different variations.

Wood phase, at the moment is basically placing the logs in your Carpenters Work Bench and you will get the wooden plank, and to make your wood stronger you wood just apply wood hardener. The Bandsaw has also been included to help you craft different shapes out of the wood instead of doing everything manually.

SimCraft Machines
Once you have crafted your first machine, you would realize how hard it was and I would recommend you take real good care of it, you cannot destroy your Machine with a pickaxe you will get nothing but scrap metal back, to remove your Machine use the Pipe Wrench and you can only remove the Machine if your maintenance levels is above a certain level.

Machine requires components to operate and they requires frequent maintenance as to simulate real Machines. make sure you are familiar with the tools in SimCraft, they all used to maintain different aspects of the Machines, for instance the wrench is used to do general maintenance on your Machine, Screwdriver is use to fix your screws and tighten them again and so on.

Also very important each Machine will show you what components it needs before you can start it, starting your Machine without adding the components will result in failure and your Machine will exploded so take real great care of that and make sure Machine is 100% operational. Maintenance levels on components will also affect the speed at which the Machine runs, for optimal performance ensure that everything on your Machine is in 100% working condition.

Lastly your Gent-100 can also be refueled using Coal Gas which can be obtain as a by product when using your Distillery, to refuel simply right-click with the bottle in your hand. The same for the GenT-500 it works on fuel refueling is done by right-clicking with the fuel can on the Machine.

All the Machine do have a on/off switch make sure to switch your Machines off when your playing on a server and your done for the day, because if by accident you have enough fuel or provide enough electricity long enough to any Machine that has a very low maintenance that Machine might just completely break down.

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Getting Started Video set: by Prayr