Getting Started

Getting Started

Foreman's instruction: Establish sound transport before blaming the boiler or dynamo.

Follow installation first. Establish a furnace, iron tools, Base Metals steel and copper. Brass becomes useful with baseSteam. Recipes accept properly registered Ore Dictionary equivalents, not arbitrary lookalikes.

First Conveyor Line

1. Make steel plates, sprockets and a hopper, then craft conveyors.
2. Place an input chest, a conveyor pointing away from it and an output chest at its front.
3. Put a small, counted stack of dirt in the first chest. No power is required.
4. Check the receiving chest. Use the rotation tool if the arrow points the wrong way.

Plan: [input chest] -> [conveyor] -> [output chest]
                       arrow ->

For sorting, replace the conveyor with a filter and put another chest immediately below. Read Item Transport before feeding mixed stock.

First Fluid Installation

1. Craft fluid pipes, a drain and a metal tank. Normal mode permits iron in the metal-tank recipe.
2. Put the drain directly beneath a water source. Connect it to the tank with fluid pipe, not steam pipe.
3. Leave the tank's filter slot empty initially. Inspect its GUI for stored fluid.
4. Check the water moved into storage. A drain collects source blocks; it does not create water from nothing.

Elevation:
 [water source]
 [fluid drain] === fluid pipe === [metal tank]

A portable tank needs bioplastic: crush potatoes with a Base Metals Crack Hammer or compatible crusher, then smelt the starch. See Materials.

Count inputs and outputs, save/reload, then close Minecraft completely and reopen. Test redstone in both states before concealing pipework. Successful animation alone does not prove stock arrived.

Next: steam machinery or electrical machinery.