IndustrialCraft 2/Guide

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What is IndustrialCraft 2?
IndustrialCraft 2 (IC2) adds a variety of electrically-powered machines to the Minecraft world, bringing Minecraft to the Industrial Age and beyond. It offers machines that can double ore output and generate power, as well as nuclear power and quantum armor. This mod also tends to have other mods that either work through it (Nuclear Control, Modular Force Field Systems, etc) as well as a major mod that can affect how it works (GregTech).

A Note on GregTech
GregTech is a mod that adds several new tiers of technology to IC2; it also changes a lot of recipes within IC2 (and sometimes other mods such as Forestry, Thermal Expansion, and BuildCraft). Many consider GregTech to be "hard mode", however, it is very much configurable as to what it changes as well as how materials may be processed. It is recommended, however, if this is one's first time learning IC2 to disable GregTech or to set it so the recipe changes are not obtrusive (note to Coder - link to "easy" GT config here); this may mean having to play single player survival instead of on some servers.

New Resources
IC2 adds 4 new resources for players to find within their world; Rubber, uranium, tin, and copper. Rubber is supplied by Rubber Trees, which can be discerned from regular tree usually by the presence of an extra 3 blocks of leaves on the top-center of the tree; these trees are most plentiful in swamp biomes but can also be found in forest biomes as well. The other resources are often found buried in the ground.

Gathering Resources
To get started with IC2, one needs to gather some of the new resources as well as some old favorites. Start out by harvesting a stack or so of wood, as well as digging up some copper, iron, tin, gold, redstone, and coal; don't go processing this stuff yet, there will be a more efficient way very shortly.

On top of these basic resources, one will also need rubber... and lots of it. Make a wooden treetap and go out looking for some rubber trees (remember, they're usually found in swamps be can also be found in the forest; they're discernible by the three blocks of leaves on the top). Once a rubber tree has been located, break all of it's leaves and gather any resulting saplings (these can be planted someplace much more convenient later). After the leaves have been broken, use the tree tap to harvest sticky resin from the sap holes (orange spots) on the tree (note that one can harvest each hole multiple times, however, doing so can render the hole unable to generate more sticky resin in the future... if the tree is going to be used for continued rubber production, it may be best to let the holes regenerate sap between harvests).