Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10940479-20130616194325/@comment-8540798-20130616204832

Oh my. Well I'll try to explain on how to get started in Tekkit so here goes.

Treat the first day as you would in Vanilla Minecraft, get food, wood, shelter, tools.

After that, you should craft a Treetap and look for Rubber Trees which are easily distinguishable from Vanilla trees. With any luck, you should get a few Rubber Tree Saplings as well, so plant them up around your base. Then it's back to the Vanilla basics; go mining! You'll need plenty of Iron, Copper and Redstone to get started initially, but get as much as you can of everything. Once you've got Rubber, Redstone and the Ingots you need, you can start making the Industrial Craft 2 machines. You'll need to craft some Insulated Copper Cables with three Copper Ingots in a horizontal line, and rubber surrounding the rest of the grid (Or you can add the rubber to the cables seperately after they've been crafted). These form the basis of your power transferance and storage, as well as being used in components. Then Smelt 8 Iron Ingots into some Refined Iron. Put all of thise into your crafting a grid, leaving the centremost square empty, to craft a Machine Block. Next you need to take one of your Cables, and place it in the top center square of your crafting grid. Then place 2 Tin Ingots on each side of the crafting grid, at the bottom and center of the vertical columns, and 2 pieces of Redstone Dust in the bottom 2 spaces of the center vertical column to craft the RE-Battery. Once you have that, place the Battery in any top slot of your crafting grid, the Machine Block directly below it, and a standard Vanilla Furnace directly beneath the Machine Block, and voila! You've just made your first Generator. This is what you'll use to power your Industrial Craft machines early on in the game, as it only needs Fuel (Coal, Charcoal, Wooden Planks etc) to operate. Once you've made your first machine, usually the Macerator, you can connect the two with your Cables.

This is getting started using the Industrial Craft 2 Mod. Hope this helps a little, and didn't seem too lengthy.