Getting Started (RotaryCraft)

This guide is currently a work-in-progress.

RotaryCraft
RotaryCraft (RC) is a technological mod based on realism. It has uses in automating many tasks, such as ore processing, mining, farming, and many other processes. The main additions of RotaryCraft are the high-tier machines, and the new power system.

Before you start with RC, get yourself the RotaryCraft Handbook, the Screwdriver, and the Angular Transducer

[Insert RCbook recipe][Insert screwdriver recipe][Insert angular transducer recipe]

What mods will work well with RotaryCraft?
Most notably, the BuildCraft mod will work best with this mod. RotaryCraft adds machines to turn it's own power into Buildcraft's Minecraft Joules, and back. You can also convert BuildCraft Fuel into RotaryCraft Jet Fuel. (Needs verification)

Thermal Expansion will also work with this mod and offer a less laggy piping system. You may also turn your RC power into TE's redstone flux and back.

What should I have before I begin?
To start with RotaryCraft, you will need a few stacks of Iron, a bucket of Lava, some Gunpowder, Ender Pearls, and Sugar Canes. You may consider making a Sugar farm. Having a way to the nether will be needed quickly.

The Power System
This power system seems daunting and complicated, but once explained, it makes sense. The power system in RotaryCraft is based on rotational power from the real world. It uses torque and speed to power machines. Torque and speed can be transmitted through gearboxes and shafts, which are explained below.

Gearboxes and Shafts
Gearboxes and Shafts come in five tiers: Wood, Stone, Steel, Diamond, and Bedrock. Shafts are used to move torque and speed, which will be referred to as power throughout the rest of this guide. No power will be lost, no matter how long they force the travel of power. Though, each tier has a different max power that they can carry. Stone tier will probably a high enough tier for most of the beginning machines. Bevel Gearboxes are used for corners.

[Insert shaft recipe][Insert bevel recipe]

The Gearboxes are a bit more complicated than the Shafts. They require Lubricant. Gearboxes have different modes, speed and torque mode. In speed mode, they reduce the torque and increase the speed. They do the opposite in torque mode.

[Insert gearbox recipe]

Power Storage
[Insert Industrial Coil recipe]

The device to store power is the Industrial Coil. Accessing the UI will let you change the power output setting. You need a redstone signal to output. It cannot receive power when it is outputting power, and vice versa.

Getting started
If you have some basic materials set-up, and you somewhat understand the power system, then it's time to get started! The first thing you will want to make is the Blast Furnace, so that you can obtain HSLA Steel. Alternatively, you can take HSLA Steel from treasure chests, but that supply will run low very quickly.

[Insert blast furnace recipe]

Put the Blast Furnace over a source block of lava and let it heat up to 600ºC. You can view how hot it is by viewing the UI. After this stage, you will need to put gunpowder (gets used every few batch), coal or charcoal (one per batch) and preferably iron in all 9 slots available. Cook up a stack of iron into HSLA. You will receive some experience and around 80 HSLA steel.

[Insert Filled Gui of furnace here]

Now that you have HSLA Steel, it is time to create the Worktable. The Worktable is the RotaryCraft equivalent of the Crafting Table. This is where you will craft the machines of RC. Watch out! Almost only the "end" result will be crafted in the Worktable, the parts and materials are in a regular crafting table!

[Insert Worktable recipe Here]

Powering Time
Now, you will have access to crafting everything in RC. However, you will not be able to use everything now! The first three engine you will be able to use are free of charge: The DC Electric Engine (powered by redstone), the Wind Turbine (powered by wind) and the Steam Engine (powered by boiling water) The DC Engine is not very useful, other than the fact that it can power a Fermenter by itself. The Wind Turbine requires high altitude, which will result in a lot of Shafts being needed. There must also be a lot of turbines for it to be effective. The Steam Engine requires a Pump and a trip to the nether for Netherrack or lava and a Cooling Fin.

[Insert DC engine recipe][Insert Windmill recipe][Insert Steam Engine recipe]

Yeast, Sludge, and Ethanol Crystals
Most of us won't have access to the nether yet. Therefore, we will use the DC Engine and the Fermenter to move along and a steam engine with a cooling fin on a pump to keep on going. The fermenter will require water to work. To create Yeast, you will need dirt and sugar. Get about a stack of it. Apply a redstone signal to the Fermenter, and you will be able to create Sludge. Insert the Yeast and any plant materal to create Sludge. Then, smelt this sludge to get Ethanol Crystals.

Pro tip! Magic leaves, such as the ones from Thaumcraft 3/Thaumcraft 4, and the Twilight Forest can produce up to 64 sludge per Yeast. Other plant materials may only create up to 2.

[Insert Fermenter recipe][Insert Pump recipe][Insert Cooling fin recipe]

Ore Processing
[Insert Grinder Recipe][Insert Grinder Gui][insert gasoline engine recipe]

The Grinder is one of the most useful machines from RotaryCraft. It is used to process ores, create Lubricant, and create Jet Fuel. First of all, we will need to power it. Remember those Ethanol Crystal you got while smelting sludge? Get those back out. Also, grab yourself some gold and craft a Gasoline Engine. This engine will give you just enough power for the Grinder. The Grinder will take 17.95 seconds to grind a item while the Ethanol Crystal will power the engine for 60 seconds. This means that a single stack of items being ground will cost 19.14 Ethanol Crystals, or 20, if you round up. Now, the Grinder is a fairly slow machine. However, it is mandatory to use RotaryCraft.

Farming Basics
First step of getting lubricant: farming Canola. Go punch some grass and bring back a few Canola Seeds. Bone Meal would be useful at this point. You will probably need some more HSLA Steel, as well. Now, make a 9x9 Canola farm.

Note: You don't need to automate it, you can have a manual farm.

To make an automatic 9x9 farm in RotaryCraft you will need: 4 Steam Engines, 3 Fans, 3 Clutches, 1 Item Vacuum, some water, some fire, 1 Hopper, 1 Chest, 1 Redstone Comparator, and some Redstone (Redstone, Comparator, Hopper and Chest part can be changed by any "Stop when overflow system" like ComputerCraft or Applied Energistics).


 * 1) Make your 9x9 farm.
 * 2) Place a Fan on the second, fifth, and eighth rows.
 * 3) Behind each Fan, place a Clutch. Then, a Steam Engine with fire/Netherrack under, and water flowing in the back.
 * 4) On the other side that you placed the Fans, place the Item Vacuum with the Steam Engine powering it.
 * 5) Place a Hopper under it, with the output side facing the chest.
 * 6) Put the Comparator going out of the hopper in Substraction mode.
 * 7) Invert the signal and make a redstone wire towards the Clutch.

The Comparator will give a positive redstone signal when the Hopper gets filled and will stop the Clutch. The Fan will then stop running.

Note that the Clutch will let the power out when it has a positive redstone signal.

Now, we need to get the lubricant!

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Lubricant
Remember that slow machine that tripled your ores? The Grinder? Well, I hope you do, since you will need it now! Pull yourself a Reservoir, or any tank system you want, and a Lubricant Hose, or another liquid transport solution. Place the Hose under the Grinder and pipe it to your Reservoir or tank. You need at least one Hose to move the Lubricant. Get yourself a stack of Canola Seeds and put them in the Grinder. Don't forget to power your engine!

[Insert reservoir recipe][Insert lubricant hose recipe]

The Lubricant will be used in the Gearbox, but also in a powerful, and costly engine call the Hydrokinetic Engine. Each one of them costs about one stack of iron, and their power needs to be Gearboxed or transmitted with Diamond Shaft.