Getting Started - FreshAlacrity/cottage-industry GitHub Wiki

First Steps

  • JEI is your friend; make sure you know how to toggle the overlay panel on and off (default Control + O)
    • Right-click on items in the side panel to see what they can be crafted into, and left click to see how to craft them
    • To show recipes in JEI and in inventories: Hover over item + R
    • To show uses in JEI and in inventories: Hover over item + U
    • If nothing happens, it may not be craftable or used as a crafting ingredient (or your keybinds may be conflicting!)
    • If you think it should be craftable or used as a crafting ingredient for something, absolutely get in touch and let us know! That's exactly the sort of thing this pack is intended to add.
  • Make a Dowsing Rod from Hexerei using sticks and leaves to find the nearest Swamp and Jungle biomes! You can find what you need to get started with Hexerei in those two biomes - look for the leaves changing color to guide you in the right direction (Mahogany trees and Selenite geodes in the Jungle and all the various plants to collect and harvest plus Coven Villages and Willow trees in the Swamp)
    • Watch out though! There's currently a bug where throwing the dowsing rod or placing it in an item frame will crash the game (should be fixed in the next update!)
    • See how the Dowsing Rod looks in use
  • Look for and activate the Waystones you find along the way - that will let you jump between locations easily
  • Collect a bunch of Wood to get you started with Tinker's Construct
    • Craft a bunch of Patterns (at least 8; 16-32 is great)
    • Make the Part Builder and Tinker Station to construct your first tool parts and then put those together
    • Consult the Materials and You handbook for more information about what each material's bonus is for different tool parts
      • All the parts can be replaced with upgrades as you go, so I encourage testing out different materials to find out what suits you best!
    • A Seared Melter and a fuel source will get you started with metal tool parts as well
      • Craft a Book and some Grout together for the Puny Smelting book to learn about the new materials
  • Collect Andesite and Iron to get started with Create
    • Craft a Water Wheel or a Windmill Bearing and 8+ Sail Frames to get some rotational power going
    • A Millstone and a Mechanical Press are a great first step into seeing what Create can do
      • The Millstone will help you get the most out of your early-game crops and process Cobblestone into Gravel for later washing
      • The Mechanical Press takes a lot of Iron but it's definitely worth it!
        • With Iron Sheets you can make your first Encased Fan; placing water in front of the fan will let you get Iron from Gravel
    • Make sure to use Create's "Ponder" function, to see what all the items can do!
  • More information here soon!

Useful Tools & Techniques

Keybindings

Many of the keybinding tips below can be applied all at once by downloading the options.txt file from the repository and replacing the one in your instance with that - please note that doing so will also remap several other things to what I personally use, like changing Q from 'Drop Item' to opening the quest menu.

Brooms (from Hexerei)

  • Currently the default keybinding for descending on a broom is SHIFT which unfortunately conflicts with the default dismount button; consider remapping the descend keybinding to something else - try LEFT ALT and see if that works for you. (Thanks to @IXarr from the Hexerei Discord for the tip!)