Getting Started

*This page is about the quest line Getting Started. If you are looking for a guide for beginners please visit This Page.*

This quest line intends to give a bit of direction to new players. The majority of it is getting higher Harvest Level pickaxes.

## Welcome

Check the checkbox to get your starterkit.
I suggest you make a Backpack out of the Tanned Leather & Wooden Frame.
Good luck!

**Required:** Check box task

**Reward:** Leather cap, Leather tunic, Leather pants, Leather boots, Tanned leather x8, Wooden frame

The first quest in the game. All you need to do is press the check box and you get a very nice reward to start off.

### Did you know we have veinminer?

**Required:** Oak wood x16

**Reward:** Oak chest x4

OreExcavation is a mod that allows you to hold a key (` by default) while breaking a block to also instantly break all adjacent blocks of the same type. For example if you break one oak log on a tree while holding ` It will also break the rest of the logs on the tree. This does not work unless you are holding an item in your hand. **Be careful using this as it will drain your hunger fast and can cause huge damage in the terrain or even your base.**

### Scanning

Nuclearcraft ores only spawn in superveins.
The pack has a few different items that can help you find ores - The scanner being one of them.

**Required:** Scanner x1

**Reward:** Loot Chest x1

This quest cannot be completed until later, as crafting the scanner requires gold and iron bars.

### Rare Ores

Explore the galaxy to find them.
Among those are Iridium, Rutile, All Clathrates, Starmetal, Draconium and Dilithium.

**Required:** Check box task

**Reward:** Experience + 10 levels

## Tools

However first you will need to make patterns in the Stencil Table, and parts for your tools in the Part Builder.
(Hint: You can place all these workbenches next to each other to access all of them at once in the UI)

**Required:** Blank pattern x3, Stencil table, Part builder, Tool station

**Reward:** Blank pattern x4

### Your First Pickaxe

**Required:** Wooden Tool Rod, Wooden Binding, Wooden Pickaxe Head

**Reward:** Loot Chest, Materials and You

This quest and the previous will teach you how to make a tool with Tinkers Construct. You will need to make all these items out of wood then make a pickaxe head, a tool rod and a binding, all out of wood on the part builder. Combine each of the pickaxe pieces on a tool station and you have a brand new wooden pickaxe. Different tools use different parts and can be made out of most material types. You repair the tools by putting it into the center of a tool station and putting the material you made it out of in one of the sides.

Hold on to the book you get from this quest as it is useful. It explains all the pros and cons and unique effects of all the different tool materials in Tinkers Construct.

### Harvest level 0

The harvest levels of ores are custom made. These quests will show you the materials needed to reach the next level.

**Required:** Flint x2

**Reward:** Netherrack Pan **OR** Cactus sword blade **OR** Steel knife blade

None of these rewards are very useful. You could pick one and make a weapon out of it if you want to try it out.

### Clay Bucket

**Required:** Unfired Clay Bucket

**Reward:** Loot Chest

Now is time to collect some clay, gravel and sand. You will need a couple stacks of each for the next quest. It is very easy to collect a lot with OreExcavation. You must make an unfired clay bucket then smelt it in a Furnace. If used to pick up lava, this bucket will destroy itself when placing the lava.

### Smeltery

The items required to complete the quest match the block in the smallest possible smeltery, with Casting table and Faucet.
Remember temporary casts can be made from liquid clay.

**Required:** Smeltery controller, Seared tank, Seared bricks x2, Seared drain, Seared faucet, Casting table, Clay x2

**Reward:** Loot Chest

You need to create grout out of clay, sand and gravel then smelt it in a furnace to get seared bricks. You then need to make all the things listed here plus more "seared bricks". If you do not know how to make a Smeltery then click here.

### Harvest level 1

**Required:** Copper Ore x2

**Reward:** Coal x8 **OR** Grout x32 **OR** Glass x16

To create a copper tool, you must first create each part in stone. Then melt 4 clay balls in the smeltery and place each tool piece on the casting table and use the faucet to create a clay cast. Then melt 4 copper and drain the liquid copper into each cast. Put the pieces together in the tool station.

### Harvest level 2

**Required:** Certus Quartz Crystal x2

**Reward:** Bow **OR** Copper Hammer **OR** Torch x32

I would definitely take the copper hammer as it is a 3x3 pickaxe. Very useful for making tunnels. At this point you can mine aluminum and copper to make aluminum brass by putting aluminum and copper into a smeltery at a 3:1 ratio. you can make permeant casts out of this. You can make tool casts, a gear cast out of a stone gear and an ingot cast out of a seared or regular brick.

### Harvest level 3

**Required:** Iron ore x2

**Reward:** Lava clay bucket

At this point you can make a "forge hammer" to make an iron plate and turn that into a plate cast. You can also make a regular vanilla minecraft bucket out of iron plates rather than ingots. It'd also be a good idea to make a hopper and put it under your casting table as it will automatically pull out the finished item, making using the smeltery easier.