Skyblock beginnings

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In Enigmatica 2: Expert Skyblock you start with a standard quest book on a tree on a dirt island. This modpack differs from standard Enigmatica by removing some of the exploration mods and injecting mods that help generate resources from your tree and grass. Some benefits of going skyblock rather than standard is you end up finishing the "Getting Started" chapter overflowing with metals at your fingertips rather than needing to optimize mining for them.

# Base, Bed and Better Bonemeal

1. Make a Tinker's Kama to harvest leaves then make plant matter (acts like bone meal). Recall the excavation mod is installed, holding ` while mining will mine a whole vein.
2. Make cabinets rather than chests. Can join up with another cabinet like double chest if placing it pointing at the correct half. Now you have double chest + tinker's crafting station.
3. Make a crafting table on a stick.
4. Apples + sapling -> apple tree; Bonemeal the apples for quick food
5. Crook on leaves gives silk worms. Use on leaves to infest them. Harvested with crook gives string which can be used for making a bed. Makes avoiding night easier
6. [Optional] Leather armor is made from string.
7. Ex Nihilo wooden barrel to collect 2 buckets of water.

# Gunpowder

1. Make a typical mob dark room and shoot for 4 gunpowder and some bones
2. [Optional] Make drying racks to turn rotten flesh into monster jerky.
3. Dirt furnace to make torch
4. [Optional] Make a clay bucket and fetch water from the wooden barrels, then use a survivalists fishing rod to waste time trying to get lucky.
5. Gunpowder in wooden combustion chamber -> blaze powder -> blaze block.

# Cobblestone

1. Cobblestone generator: 7x7 square of crafting tables with blaze block on torch in center. Knight move away are empty. Water in inner corners flowing into these holes.
2. Upgrade tools to stone
3. Plant matter grass to get rice -> paper + sapling -> paperback sapling drops jungle sapling. Lots of wood now
4. [Optional] hold f4 while right clicking on a plant, like potato, with plant matter will use the whole stack
5. Make a Stone Cutting Knife to get 6 planks from logs. Enough durability to chop a jungle tree.
6. Use tinker's hammer on cobblestone generator to get loads of gravel and hammer half to sand. Hammer some into dust.

# Combustion

1. [Optional] Upgrade to stone combustion chamber. Tip: all 5 sides of the combustion air block must be stone-level hardness. Put cobble in this air, press 'p' to place a piece of cobble on its face. Then mine the underlying cobble to drop your items. The combustion chamber recognizes this "placed" item as if it were enclosing. Eject your items against another block so they fall down the gap and into the chamber.
2. [Optional] Combust 4 water bottles into 4 snow. Turn snow into snow block. Place and shift right click with hand to double snow balls. Repeat a few times. 64 plant matter + 8 snow ball -> 8 slime balls -> 2 green slime crystal to upgrade hammer head. Bonus: Slime infrequently pop out when hammering blocks giving you more slime balls
3. Turn 2 chests into wooden hoppers. 1 feeds dust into a wooden barrel, the other pulls clay out. Place near an infinite water source and use bucket to quickly fill barrel. Hoppers add dust and empty barrel for you.

# Iron

1. Cook up 4 clay into bricks, 4 into porcelain and make 3 coke bricks. Rewarding you with a Pump, portable tank, and wonderfully 32 iron plates.
2. Craft Crucible and bucket. Feel free to use a stone rock grinder on the smooth stone from above to get diamonds, emeralds, lapis. Not yet useful.
3. upgrade dirt furnace into vanilla one and cook up a stack of cobblestone.
4. Use other gunpowder to make more furnaces and make grout.
5. Make a smeltery rewarding you with a gear cast
6. Melt down 13 iron plates into 1 gear and 1 block. Break block down into ingots and get a bucket of lava as reward.
7. Make an iron casing

# Redstone

1. Use stone barrel, put water source sitting on top. Use crucible to melt blaze blocks into lava. Fluid dropper to place in world. Bucket to transfer to stone barrel and you have Obsidian.
2. Make a metal hopper+ ender eye + obsidian -> vacuum hopper to automate mod drop collection
3. Turn gravel -> flint. Combust flint into loads of gunpowder. Combust enough to get a supply of gunpowder, blaze powder, and redstone
4. [Optional] Combust 4 green slime + 8 lapis -> 4 blue slime -> blue slime crystal -> 1.3 durability multiplier handle
5. Make 16 netherrack, cook 12 into nether bricks for a nether casing. Use a stone rock grinder on remaining netherrack for dirty nether quartz to clean in the cauldron.

# Condenser getting metals

1. Make just enough primus. Note that because it only makes 75%, you'll need 4 sets of ingredients to make 3 sets of outputs. Thankfully the bar measuring progress carries over. Thus if you put in a single glass and the primus dust starts to process it, you'll only get 75% of the way there. Then if you put in the ingredients for secundus you'll start where the glass left off and get a batch of secundus. Empty the primus and put in secundus to feed your progression. If you've done this right you should have a single iron ingot spare from the iron casing to do this and still have 9 iron plates left over. Not the end of the world if you need to melt those down.
2. Tertius requires glowstone which is gated on the netherrack casing.
3. Netherrack casing + cobble combustion chamber, iron casing + cobble condenser.
4. [Optional] Green slime + blaze powder -> Magma Block. Crucible burns faster with this than lava
5. Use 2 stacked Fluid droppers to pull from a crucible and drop above the condenser.
6. [Optional] Once you have enough iron, make crucible inserters, have wooden hoppers pulling crystal shards from a dedicated alchemical crafting table. 3-4 crucibles surrounding this top fluid dropper should fully automate the condenser.
7. Aim to upgrade to manyulin casing with endstone condenser. Sadly this won't be fast enough to eat through even a single ore dust in a reasonable time so you'll want to replicate the condenser setup 3-4 times. Each dust should then yield about 5 stacks of ingots.
8. Start with iron and gold and build automation blocks(block breaker, fan, iron spikes) and upgrade to gold chests
9. Automate Smeltery with Timer and set it to make 16 Large Iron Plates[Tinker’s Construct]
10. Save time by using IE hammer to make metal plates (not TC).
11. 9 coal and 6 lead gives you a Cobblestone generator[nuclearcraft] making 8 cobble/s w/o power, no gated machines required.

# Minimal Machinery

1. Finish making Coal Bricks and tap with hammer. You can toss in wood rather than coal
2. Put portable tank in the input bucket slot and let collect creosote
3. Craft tank of creosote with 8 wood -> Treated wood
4. Make Engineer’s workbench
5. Make Engineer blueprint for Vacuum Tubes
6. Make a small plate presser to easily and efficiently make rods (4 plates -> 4 sheet metal -> 12 rods). Combine with block placer set to deactivate on redstone. Use redstone torch and repeater to use bud power to trigger the presser.
7. Make a Battery[cyclic] and a couple Survival Generators
8. 8 snow balls + 64 plant matter -> 8 slime balls + 16 plant balls -> 4 sticky resin + infusing stone + spruce -> Rubber tree. Each rubber tree has at least 1 sticky resin. Plant matter repeatedly and cook into rubber.
9. Make a Manufactory and Compressor[IC2], and Enrichment Chamber
10. NuclearCraft's Alloy Furnace for cheap Steel (iron+coal dust)