User:Aspyro95/DraftGregtechTools

This tutorial covers making your first GregTech Tools following the quest order. This version of the tutorial is based on GTNH 2.6.1.

Note that your textures may be different than those depicted in this guide.

By now, you have probably gotten used to using NEI and searching for recipes through the NEI interface. However, GregTech tools will be one of the first times you will encounter items made from all the possible GT materials. As such, there may be 30+ pages of recipes to sort through.

Here we will cover ho to make each of the first tools that will help you start along the much longer journey to come.

Soft Mallet

The first GregTech tool you will need following the quests is the Soft Mallet. It is also the easiest one to craft as it only requires 6 planks and a stick.

Soft Mallet Crafting Recipe

The Soft Mallet is required in "Soft Mallet Adventure" quest from "And So, It Begins" chapter as it is needed to craft a bed in the following quest.

Later in the game, you will be able to craft more resistant Soft Mallets using Rubber (or Rubber Bar), Steeleaf or other non metallic materials.

Soft Mallets main use is to activate or desactivate machines, but it is also used in many crafting recipes.

Mortar

Second tool is the Mortar. Not harder to craft than the Soft Mallet, it requires 5 Stone and 2 Flint.

Flint Mortar Crafting Recipe

The Mortar is required in "Macerator v0.1 Alpha" quest from "Tier 0 - Stone Age" chapter as it is needed to make Clay Dust for the following quest.

Mortar main uses are to reduce 1 Gravel into 1 Flint (instead of 3 Gravel for 1 Flint) as well as some food recipes.

Hammer

Next up on the list is the Hammer. It is as easy to craft as the Soft Mallet is as it only requires 6 metallic ingots and a stick.

Iron Hammer Crafting Recipe

The Hammer is the first tool you will need to craft to complete the "Important Tools" quest from the "Tier 0 - Stone Age" chapter.

The Hammer you just made will be of use to craft the other tools required in this quest, either directly or to make the required parts.

The Hammer is mostly useful to craft metallic plates or in other manual crafts as long as you don't have machinery.

Wrench

The second tool you will need for the "Important Tools" quest is a Wrench. It requires 6 metallic ingots and the hammer you just made.

Iron Wrench Crafting Recipe

The Wrench is used primarily for setting up machine and pipe interfaces and is the main way you should be dismantling most machines that you want to get back because mining them with a pickaxe will break them.

File

The third tool requested for the quest is a File. A File is crafted using 2 metallic plates and a stick, hence the need of a Hammer.

Iron File Crafting Recipe

Wire Cutter

But how do we make plates? Well, we will need to use the hammer again.

Note that you need two metal ingots per plate. Later on, you will have compressors and other machines that will reduce your iron use, but for now every plate costs you 2 iron. That's fine. You can always mine more.

Now we can finally make the file.

You might have noticed by now that I'm making two of everything. No, it's not one for me and one for you, it's multiple so I have to craft these less time in the near future. As you might have noticed, tools have durability and get used up in every recipe they are used in, just like soft mallets made out of wood you've probably been using for smoothies and juice from berries. (Thankfully, iron is more durable than wood, so you will get a lot more uses out of them, but they will run out. Later on you can make tools out of more durable metals and they'll stick around even longer.)

Next up is a screwdriver made from a stick and two metal rods:

How do you make rods? I'm glad you asked. We need to use that file we just made.

Note that this is a SHAPED recipe, along with the others made so far. So you'll need to ensure that it looks like the pictures. Putting ingots next to the file or under the file doesn't work.

And now we have our screwdriver:

Note also that the order of the tools is important. If you switch the hammer and file as in the picture...

Sadness ensues.

So at this point, you might be wondering how you look up these tool recipes for other tools that aren't covered in this tutorial.

Recently, the developers of GTNH have improved the lookup of tools if you ever need to figure out how to make something out of your current material instead of seeing 30+ pages of random metal hammers, etc.

In the quest book you should already know how to click on a task item to see the recipe, which will bring you to this page (as of version 2.1.2.1):

Now you can click the second tab and try to work out how to make things from the layout of the various metals (in this case looking at how to make a saw):

But... that's kinda useless at the moment, because we don't know how to make a saw blade off hand. And different saw blade materials may require different processing methods.

HOWEVER, it turns out that earlier tools tab is actually quite useful. (By the way, if you're looking up sub-parts, you can hit BACKSPACE to go to the last recipe you were looking at. No need to re-lookup the original recipe)

You'll note there is a saw in the Gregtech Material Tools page midway through the first row of the largest box of items (as of this writing, clicking on them or hitting R does nothing), but there is also a saw blade in the third position of second row of the top-right box:

You CAN click on that.

When you do you'll be sent to another page that's probably useful for shortcuts in the future... but for now, we only care about how to make it. So hit the crafting bench tab (the third tab).

Ah ha! Now we only have one recipe to look at. Much simpler.

Two plates, a file and a hammer in order give us:

And thankfully the final recipe is easy enough:

Now you should be fully proficient and prepared for your future tool-making endeavors.

Go forth and GregTech!