Getting Started

## Mekanism

Mekanism can become pretty powerful for Ore Processing, in this Getting started guide we'll cover the basics, Power generation and Doubled Ores

What you will need:

* A(n) House,
* Storage Facility
* 2 Chests,
* 1 Hopper
* a Selection of Ores
* Some Space
* Combustable Material
* Iron
* Osmium
* Redstone
* Wooden Planks
* 1 bucket of lava
* Some Cabling

#### Power Generation

First up, you'll need some form of power Provider, For this, we'll Use a Heat Generator, but use what ever you're most comfortable with if you're not using a heat gen skip this section, a heat gen uses...you guessed it, Heat to make power, but unlike other combustable powered generators these will run passively from heat sources around them, so go ahead and place down your heat gen, remember, the power output will face toward you,

With this down, dig out a couple of blocks so you can see under the device, make sure all blocks surrounding this are ***Not*** Flammable, that'd make a mess, now pour your lava bucket into the space under the Heat Gen, RAVIOLI! Passive infinite power... Whats that? its a bit slow you say for a quick burst open its GUI and throw in some of that Combustable Material(tm) bewarned however, this is Very inefficient and we recommend upgrading to a more sustainable powersource ASAP

#### Infusions

Now you have Rudimentary Power we can look at using it, The main stay of *ANY* Mekanism setup is the Metallurgic Infusuer Craft one of these and place it at the power output side of your Powersource, this will turn coal and Iron into "Enriched Iron" and this and more Coal into Steel Blend which can then been cooked to make steel, Note for 1 steel you'll need 2 coal or 1 charcoal, Enriching coal/charcoal will provide the carbon for 4 Steel but more on that later, Or if you're more old school, Tin Dust and 3 Copper into Bronze, what? you've already got steel and bronze? Why would you ask if you actually need this step? i said its the main stay.... alright smart arse, throw some redstone in the left and some Iron in the ingot slot of the machine... see that, its Enriched Alloy which is used in the more advanced machinery go ahead and make 4 of those, if you've got Redstone left over in the left side you can either hit the Dump button to vent it into the atmosphere or throw some osmium in the infuser, that'll make you some basic circuits that you'll need later, this machine will also upgrade the Alloy into the next 2 Teirs (Elite and Atomic) and also create the Refined Obsidian Blend later Down the line...

#### Energy Storage

Ok Cool, so now we've got power but its not enough to maintian your machines, time to add a Resevoir if you're using Thermal Foundatiom... you can ignore this Paragraph too.... you heathen, take your Alloys some redstone and some gold to a Crafting bench, and make yourself a Basic Energy Cube... i'm not going to tell you how to do that, you've got the JEI Interface, while you're here turn some steel into basic energy cable, this will further boost your resevoir, done?

Ok, dig up the Infuser, its fine to use a Pickaxe for this, we're not using Industrial Crap2, now throw down a cable to connect to your powersource, see the middles gone green? its hoarding power like a Corona Isolationist Hoards TP... place the Energy Cube down, by Default the Output faces you, this is completely configurable in the GUI, to get thewre its the little boxes on the left if you've done this right the Cube should slowly be filling up, run some more cables from the Output face for this i would suggest 1 for your infuser plus another 3,

#### Ore Processing

*Finally*, the good stuff right? you're going to want to build yourself 2 more machines, an Energized Smelter and an Enrichment Chamber, stick these down side by side, pick a side on the Smelter to place a Chest, next to the Enrichment do the same with the Hopper, Make sure the hopper "points" to the Enrichment Chamber and slap the other chest on top, they should now be charging off the Energy Resevoir you placed in the last step,

With these connected and taking power the only thing left is to Configue the automatic Flow, On the left is the sellection of 6 squares nicely shaped like a Net map of a cube? open it, the center represents the front, the bottom left corner: the back, click the side that lines up with your hopper, this should now accept goods from the hopper into the chamber, while you're here make sure the side with the smelter is setup to be Output (default is right hand side) *BEFORE* you close this window, click the A in the upper right corner, this enables "Auto Eject" to feed into the Smelter (or other devices connected) do the same with the smelter but with the input accepting from the Enrichment Chamber and the output to the chest, Don't forget the A now

And there you have it, a Basic ore doubler, any of the processing machines can be interchanged for factories and the cube/cables can be interchanged for any teir

How is this better than other mods? simple answer...*Expansion*