Getting Started (Tinkers' Construct)

=== Tinker's Construct ===

Tinker's Construct
Tinker's Construct is a mod based on many different tool and weapons that you may customize fairly easily. You can unlock some tools with special abilities and some customization that you may not get off vanilla tools.

Tinker's Basic Tools
To get started with Tinker's, you need a few logs. You should have a book and two other will be given to you later on. You can read it for basic info. Get yourself a few patterns and build yourself a pattern storage, a tool station, a part builder and a stencil table. Grab another three patterns and put them into the stencil table. You now have access to most of the stencil for different part of tools in tinker's! Pull out the tool rod, the tool binding and the pickaxe head. Get into the part builder and make one of each in wood. Store your pattern in the pattern chest and go in the tool station. Click on the pickaxe and place the part in the right spot. Name the pick if you want and pull it out. Voila! your first tinker's tool! Go mine a few cobblestone and redo this whole operation, from the part builder, but in stone! You can also grab yourself an hatchet, which is an axe, a shovel and a basic sword. You can also mix and match the different material. Your tool broke? Go back to the tool station, put it in with a piece of the head's material and pull it out. Now, you know how to repair your tool!

[Insert pattern, pattern storage, tool station, part builder and stencil table recipe][Insert tool station GUI filled]

Building
To make parts out of metal, you will need the smeltery! Grab yourself a stack of clay, sand and gravel to combine them into two stacks of grout. Smelt the grout to get seared brick. While it's smelting, go along and find a pool of lava, since you will need it to smelt items in the smeltery. Grab your seared brick and make a smeltery controller, smeltery tank, two faucet, two drains, one casting bassin, one casting table and the rest in brick. You should have gotten a book on how to build the smeltery! You can read it, it contains information on alloys and other properties of the smeltery! Build a 3x3 out of brick, then go up one and one out and place the remaining block in desired fashion. Be sure the drains' hole is pointing outside and place a faucet on it. Place the casting table and bassin one block below the faucet. Put your lava into the tank. Now you have a ready to proceed smeltery! Note that the smeltery can be expanded upward. It can also be made in a 5x5 of 7x7 fashion instead of the 3x3. Also, it doubles ore!

I want awesome parts now!
To get some new parts, you will need either gold or aluminum brass. Aluminum brass is made out of three aluminum and one copper in the smeltery. It will give you six pieces. This aluminum brass can make cast, which are needed for metallic tools. To make cast, you will need one ingot of molten aluminum brass or two ingot of molten gold and the part you want to make a cast of (Example you need a pickaxe made out of wood or stone to make a pickaxe head cast). Put the part on the casting table and click on the faucet. It will pour out one or two ingot, depending on what metal you are using. After, you need to smelt down one ingot, or more, of iron into the smeltery. If your smeltery was not empty, you will need to switch the metal since it will melt the metal on the bottom. Go in the interface and click what metal you want at the bottom (In this case, iron). Pour it out the same way you did for the cast, but with the cast on the table. Now, you have a iron pickaxe head. You know how to do tools, go for it!

Tiering up!
Now that you can make metal part, you will need to make your way to alumite or steel (if you have a mod that includes steel) since those two materials can break ardite and cobalt, the nether ores. Alumite needs two obsidian (Obsidian ingot, which are doubled when using a smeltery: one block= two ingot!), two iron and five aluminum mixed together. But first, you need a tool to mine obsidian! Any tool with a diamond modifier will be able to. The other materials available are: Obsidian and Thaumium (Thaumcraft). Very little choices!

After you got some cobalt and ardite, you can access manyullyn, the best material for weapons.

Advanced Tinker's
To access the more advanced tinker's tool, you need to build a tool forge.

[Insert tool forge recipe]

This costly little guy will let you build, for a costly price, three important upgrade of regular tools (and many others actually): The hammer, the excavator and the lumber axe.

Material Traits
Reinforced: Act like a level of unbreaking. Find on: