Getting Started (Immersive Engineering)

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This guide is on getting started with Immersive Engineering. It is meant to get you up and running like a pro.

Getting started on getting started
The Engineer's Manual is one of the most useful items in Immersive Engineering. It is an in-game guide to the mod, and contains information on all of the crazy blocks and items Immersive Engineering adds. In fact, it's almost as good as this guide.

You'll also want an Engineer's Hammer. This handy tool can be used for a lot of things.

Resources
Immersive Engineering adds a couple of resources. Unlike other mods, Immersive Engineering isn't wimpy on using them; you'll want to collect as much ore as possible. This includes vanilla ores too, not just the ones listed below.
 * (Aluminium)
 * (Aluminium)

Villagers and villages
Immersive Engineering, like many mods, has its own villager and villager house. The Engineer's House is pretty much guaranteed to have some useful loot in it, and the Engineer Villager can help get you a few useful things in exchange for those useless Emeralds.

If you find an Engineer Villager, you'll probably want to mark and protect it. Their deals really aren't half-bad.

Industrial Hemp
Industrial Hemp is a crop added by Immersive Engineering. There's really not much to say about it. Industrial Hemp Seeds can be obtained by breaking Grass. It grows much like Wheat, although it is two blocks tall. It drops Industrial Hemp Fiber and of course, more Industrial Hemp Seeds.

They aren't super-vital, but you'll need them later for things.

Getting hot
What's the best way to get hot? By making a Crude Blast Furnace and a Coke Oven of course! The Crude Blast Furnace is used to make Steel, which you'll want a ton of. It also makes Slag, although that isn't very useful.

The Coke Oven makes Coal Coke and Creosote Oil. Coal Coke is pretty useful, but Creosote Oil is actually required to progress; you'll need Treated Wood for a lot of things.

Instead of making a Crude Blast Furnace, you could make an Improved Blast Furnace, but that requires Steel... and there's no way you would cheat using a lame mod like Railcraft, right?

A revolution!
Electricity! Well, sort of electricity. Immersive Engineering uses Redstone Flux (RF), one of the most popular energy frameworks.

Redstone Flux is supposably magical, but in Immersive Engineering it acts a bit like electricity. There are three voltages- low, medium and high, with 256 RF/t being low, 1024 RF/t being medium and 4096 RF/t being high. Different voltages can't connect, but if they did, very bad things would happen.

Immersive Engineering wiring is a bit different from other mods. There are Wire Connectors and Wire Coils. Wire Coils are what transmit RF, but they aren't actually blocks; they're entities. Wire Coils always require Wire Connectors to exist and to transmit power. Wire Connectors are actual blocks that exist in the world.



The above image shows a LV Capacitor transmitting power to a LV Wire Connector, through the LV Wire Coil, to another LV Wire Connector, and to an External Heater.

The LV Capacitor is a RF storage block, and the External Heater is a RF consumer, but you'll learn more about those two blocks soon.

From this point on, you'll want an Engineer's Wire Cutters. It's how you discount wire coils.