# Getting started: your first drone in ten minutes

Everything here is plain survival crafting with vanilla materials. No power mod is needed.

## 1. Make a Blank Chip (2 minutes)

Shapeless: **copper ingot + redstone + iron nugget** gives two Blank Chips. Every companion and every chip starts
from one.

## 2. Craft a Helper Drone Capsule

Shapeless: **glass + Blank Chip + 2 iron ingots + redstone + feather**. The result is a Companion Capsule with a
Helper Drone inside; its tooltip says "New Helper Drone. Use on a block to activate it."

## 3. Deploy it

Use the Capsule on a block. The drone appears, binds to you as its owner and starts in **Follow**. It has a full
battery. The empty Capsule stays in your hand: use it on the drone again to put it back.

## 4. Get to know it

- **Right-click it with an empty hand** to pat it (bond grows a little).
- Press **K** to open its **Companion screen**: name, job, energy, bond, chips and looks. Type a name and press
  Enter to rename it (24 characters at most).
- After a few seconds near you it hops onto your **right shoulder**. Sneak to set it down.
- The **HUD strip** in the top-left corner shows your companions' type, charge, job and name.

## 5. Make a Remote

Shaped: redstone torch on top; iron ingot, glass pane, iron ingot in the middle; iron ingot, Blank Chip, iron
ingot at the bottom. With the **Companion Remote**:

- **tap** a companion to open its screen,
- **hold** use to open the job radial, then either aim at a mode and let go, or let go and left-click a mode
  (keys 1-8 pick a mode, 9 is "Come here", 0 recalls, Esc closes),
- **sneak-use** a companion to recall it into a Capsule.

## 6. Keep it charged

A companion uses energy while awake and more while working. At about 10 % it heads home to charge, or sleeps where
it is. The **Hand Crank Charger** (stick on top; copper ingot, piston, copper ingot; three iron ingots) needs no
power at all: stand the drone on it and right-click to crank 60 FE per turn. With any power source, a
**Charging Pad** (redstone, copper ingot, redstone over three iron ingots) charges it for you. See
[Charging & Bays](Charging-and-Bays.md).

## 7. Give it a chip

Craft a **Speed Chip I** (Blank Chip + sugar), hold it and click an empty slot on the Companion screen, or simply
right-click the drone with it. See [Chips](Chips.md).

## Where next

- [Companions](Companions.md): all seven types and what they do.
- [Modes](Modes.md), [Chips](Chips.md), [Bond & Personality](Bond-and-Personality.md), [Skins & Hats](Skins-and-Hats.md).
- Lost one? [Recovery & Death Salvage](Recovery-and-Death-Salvage.md).