Getting Started (SkyFactory 3)

Introduction
"It's skyblock like you've never seen it before! High tech mods and full automation! Sky Factory starts the player in the void with nothing but a tree and a *single* piece of dirt between you and certain death! Version 3 adds a variety of new mods to the pack and gives the player much more choice than ever before. Pick up your achievement book today and start your journey!"

- SkyFactory's CurseForge page

Before we get started, this guide assumes a basic understanding of the mechanics of vanilla (i.e. non-modded version of) Minecraft, such as how to move, how to interact with blocks, how to craft, how to mine and how to attack. If you have not played vanilla at all, here's a guide for complete newcomers. Also there are lots of different paths to take. This guide only shows a good route, feel free to experiment at any point!

When pressing your inventory key, you will see a list of all available items in the modpack next to your inventory. Use the search bar below to find what you want. Clicking on any item (also in a recipe) will show you (almost) every possible way to obtain this item!

The first steps
As expected, you will spawn on top of a tree. Carefully break the Oak Leaves to obtain an Oak Sapling. Make sure you don't accidentally break the block below you and the void or cut the way to the log, as detached leaves will despawn quickly. If you have cleared all reachable leaves, mine your way down through the Oak Logs until you reach the dirt block. Usually, you will have 2-3 Saplings. If you are extremely unlucky and could not catch any sapling, you can either /give you a sapling or create a new world.

Now craft a crafting table and place it on top of the dirt block (jump). Craft your remaining wood to Oak Slaps and break the crafting table again. Now place the slaps in every direction around the dirt so anything that drops from the tree lands on them (make sure to hold the sneak key so you don't fall down). The 30 slaps you get are enough to build a 5x6 base with the dirt block in the center.

Certainly, this base is way too small, so we need more wood. Place the sapling on the dirt block and quickly press the sneak key. This causes near instant growth of the tree. Punch your way through the leaves to get more saplings and craft the wood to slaps and increase your base's range. Repeat this once more so you end up with a solid 9x9 base, which is enough for the start.

The wood of the next tree is used to craft a Compressed Crook which has a number of advantages over a regular Crook. To quickly mine through the leaves, we use a mod called Ore Excavation. By pressing a key, you can mine all connected blocks of the same type within a certain range, as long as you have any item in your hand. The key to press is usually the one above the TAB-Key (called Grave). It might differ between different keyboard layouts through (if you cannot find it, head to your controls, search for Ore Excavation and bind the Excavation action to any key you like). Note that this will deplete your hunger quickly, so have an eye on that bar. Also do not use this before you have a bigger base so you don't risk your items falling into the void. With the crook, saplings and Apples are more likely to drop, so go ahead and farm some of them. We will need the wood in a moment, you can make a Chest so you do not loose all your item if you fall off by now.

Getting Water
Once you have 30-40 saplings and a few apples its time to go on. You surely noticed the Silkworms that dropped from the trees as you used the crook. Right-Click on the leaves, so they turn them into String. This will spread between the leaves so one silkworm is enough. While they do their work, craft 4 Wooden Barrels, 4 Sieves and place them. Collect the Infested Leaves with the crook (by hand won't work) and craft String Meshes for the sieves. You can place a mesh in a sieve by right-clicking on the sieve with the mesh in your hand.

To compost Dirt, we need leaves. To collect them, we use Wooden Shears, then place them into the barrel. We then sieve the dirt, which will give us Stone Pebbles, which we can craft to cobblestone. First we will need a Furnace. Once we have it, smelt 3 cobblestone to get Stone. Use wooden planks as fuel or make charcoal. With the stone we craft a Juicer. By now our hunger bar is pretty low and this item allows us to make apple juice out of our apples (which give us more than twice the saturation and hunger). Then craft Torches, place two of them on the ground and put two Oak_Crucibles on top of them. Fill them up with leaves, which will convert to water. Meanwhile, we craft a Wooden Hammer and crush two cobblestone into Gravel, the Gravel into Sand and the sand into Dust. Right click on the crucible to get Clay, hammer the clay block to get 4 clay per block, which we use to craft a clay bucket. Refill the crucibles, when the water production is done, surround a two by two are with slaps and place the water inside in a diagonal shape to create an infinite water source. You can then break the wooden crucibles, you will no longer need them.

Guide to be continued...