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Build an Inkwell and place that down. Then fill a bottle of water with ink by crafting it with two ink sacs (shapeless) Use the new bottle of ink in the Inkwell by placing it in the top left box. This should empty the vial and the circle in the middle should darken. Next place a piece of paper underneath where you placed the ink, in the bottom left box. A Link Panel should appear on the opposite side. Take that. Now, to create a Linking Book, craft this Link Panel with leather in a grid (shapeless). This gives you an Unlinked Link Book. Choose where you want the teleport to be and r-click with the unlinked book in hand. It'll turn green. You now have a Linking Book. It'll return you to the exact position you were in when you created it. So if you created it in the middle of the nether while staring into a sea of lava, that's exactly where it will return you when you gaze into it. To create a Descriptive Book, build a Book Binder. Place your Link Panel into the large grey box in the Book Binder and place leather in the top left box. Give your Book a name at the top and if you have symbols, add them next to the Link Panel. Pull the book out of the right-hand box. Place that on a bookstand to avoid it being dumped on the floor when you gaze into it. You should preferably also do this with the Linking Book. They do expire if left on the ground for too long and they can "die" and will not drop as a book if "killed". To take a book off the floor, open it up and pick up the book from the top left of the window. The Writing Desk allows you to rename your books as well as hold a notebook full of symbols, though for what purpose is beyond me. You cannot add or change symbols in a book that's been created. If you've never delved into Mystcraft before, then look around for Libraries in the ages you go to when you gaze into your Books. Libraries will have a small selection of symbols to collect. You can also take the Lecterns if you don't like the look of the bookstand. Cut down the bookcases in the left-hand corner as you enter Libraries to find a chest with a lot more symbols. Descriptive Books do not need to be filled with symbols to be created. They shall secretly fill themselves with a random assortment of symbols if you do not put any symbols into them.

Hrm. Just make like a 5x5x5 cube and throw the squiddies in it? Or 5x5x1 (1 deep) with the rancher at one end? I've seen squiddies drowning before if they get clumped up.

-Early- setup? Good gawd, I don't even wanna know what it looks like now. So, would it be okay to just start with a few trees then add more and more plants when I can? I read on the wiki that the BioFuel makers work faster when they have multiple plants in them. Quite low on various resources right now, so I may only be able to just do one type of tree. So it's either just build a planter, harvester and use massive numbers of Birch because they grow the fastest, or if I can get more resources, build lots of smaller set-ups of planters and harvesters that farm all sorts of plants.

Would just the one harvester and planter work okay? Just pipe wood into the BioFuel Generator and saplings back into the planter? Will a planter make a tight tree farm? Plain oak trees can be planted right next to each other to just make walls of solid wood. Not sure where I can find cows. Cows and chickens are something of an endangered species on this world. I've yet to see a chicken in this world. Had to spawn in a feather to make writing desk and visit Mystcraft ages.

What machinery can be used to create perpetual energy? In old versions of Tekkit, HV Solar Arrays sufficed. Starting over in the new Tekkit with a friend, I decided to just use Redstone Engines to start off, having no need to worry about fuels and such. Except those engines didn't work. Whether it be levers, redstone, molten redstone, anything, the basic redstone engine wouldn't turn on. So we had to upgrade to Stirling engines and go from there. That was cut short by one of the Stirling Engines exploding, so I spent an afternoon building a new network with Steam Engines, with a pump and infinite water pool out of the way to keep them going. But like the Stirling Engines, they constantly needed coal. So my idea was to build a Laser Drill. Unlimited Coal to funnel straight into the steam engines. But first we needed to build a passive mob farm and tie it into a slaughter house for all of 10 seconds to have pink slime for the prechargers. Figuring that the slaughter house is a few too may resources for it's very temporary use, I eventually changed into Magmatic Engines. I figured a cobble generator tied to a block breaker that fed a Crucible would be enough. Nope. 24kMJ for a single piece of cobble which then made one bucket's worth of lava that output 18kMJ in a Magmatic Engine. Charming. Currently in the process of rebuilding the network so that the Crucible is accessible and can be filled with Netherrack on occasion. There must be an easier way to do this, the Crucible constantly consumes it's own excess energy meaning it has to be topped up regularly to keep the power going. I want to just have a power network built that can then be left alone and only expanded on when multiple new machines are introduced.