Generators and Battery Boxes.

Power is a very key piece to working machinery as I have mentioned before in Industrial Craft and you are at the stage where you can begin to create it. First you will need your tin bars, redstone dust, and copper cables.

Create three RE-Batteries for crafting a battery box, which will store all of your excess power, and one more RE-Battery for use in crafting a generator.

And of course to store the power you will need a place a block to generate power, and the first block that you can create is the generator.

Of course this recipe takes up your iron furnace, but it's for a good cause because now you can make an electrical furnace, but I will cover this later, so create a spare furnace for now.

Returning to the Mines

After you have stored your items away into your chest you might be wondering what you need to continue, and the answer is a small list: tin, redstone, gold, and more iron. I unfortunantly did not get a good picture of gold or redstone, as these photos were pitch black after I looked at the photos. Gold looks similer to coal except that the color of the ore inside of the stone is a glowing yellow, and redstone has a red and a light red glow to it.

The top photo is tin which is used in many crafting recipies and is vital to working in Industrial Craft. The bottom picture is Tungstonion (or something close to that) and is used in Equivilent Exchange so you may want to go ahead and mine this.

Return back to the surface and go ahead and begin smelting your tin ore into some tin bars.

Copper, Rubber, and Cables

In order to begin working with blocks and objects that require power you will need to create many things.

Copper is made by placing the ore in the top slot of the furnace with some burnable object on the bottom slot.

Rubber is made in the same way, and now you will need some copper cables. These are used in crafting recipes and can also be placed in the world.

But at this point you may have a cluttered inventory and you may be running out of space to place things in your inventory. You can fix this problem with a chest.

This picture was taken before i began crafting so my inventory is a little filled, but its no worry, just click and drag them into the chest up top and they will be stored safely into the chest.