MineCraft: Tinkers Construct Basic Tools!

  Hey guys, welcome back for part two of my Tinkers Construct how to tutorial! When we left off we had just finished making our basic tinkers workspace and silly me I forgot to tell you one little bitty thing. If you take all of the blocks that you made and put them into your crafting screen you can actually make slab versions of all of those blocks. That's right, teeny versions! These are great for saving space as they can be put into your floor or ceiling dropped right on top of chests (nope they will not interfere with opening the chest) or even slipped into that pesky corner that never seems to have any use.  The possibilities are endless! These little guys function just like a slab.

OMG it's so teeny!

   One other thing I forgot to mention because I was so focused on getting our tinkers workspace up and running was the slab furnace which like our other teeny blocks functions just like a slab and costs only six cobblestone to make instead of the normal eight you need to make a furnace. It is made the same way as you would make a normal furnace but you use slabs instead.

Ain't it cute?!

   Now then let's get down to business! Yesterday I promised we would make us some basic tools and get a better understanding of what each of our tables does. I'm not one to go back on my promises so without further ado grab seven blank patterns and let's head over the the Stencil Table. The stencil table is our first stop to making super awesome unbreakable (sort of) tools. When you open this bad boy up you will see a single square just waiting for something to be put into it. This is where your blank patterns go, drop one in and what do we see? Yes, it's a tool rod pattern! Grab yourself one of those and then click the button on the left hand side that says Next Pattern this will scroll through to the next pattern you can make. The patterns we will need are the tool rod pattern, a shovel head pattern, a pickaxe head pattern, a wide guard pattern, a sword blade pattern, an axe head pattern, and a tool binding pattern. Grab those up using the Next Pattern button to scroll through and head on over to the part builder.

   Now that we have our patterns it is time to make the pieces that will combine to become our simple tool set. Open up your Part Builder and drop your tool rod pattern into the top left corner as shown below. Now there are many different materials that can be used to make tools and weapons this way but for now we are going to go with good old stone tools (you cannot make metal tools yet since they require a smeltery). Put some cobblestone to the right of your tool rod pattern and you will see a stone tool rod and a little stone shard pop up. You will also see a lot of text in the black box on the right. Ignore that for now we will go into it much later when we make our more advanced tools. Now the pick up the stone tool rod.

   You will notice that you do not have the option of making another stone tool rod. This is because of the stone shard still sitting in your part builder. Stone tool rods only cost 0.5 materials to make and you gave it a whole cobblestone piece. To make up for waste the part builder has returned half of your materials to you in the form of a stone shard.

   Grab the shard and the Part Builder will once again let you make tool rods. You can recycle the stone shards by dropping them in the place of the cobblestone. One stone shard will make one tool rod.

   Another way to make stone tool rods is to drop two cobblestone into your crafting screen one on top of the other. This way does cost a little bit more material wise but if you are crawling around in a mine and find yourself out of both torches and wood these little guys can be used to make torches! Finally a way for us to use all of that excess cobblestone we end up with while mining!

 
   Ok sorry we're getting a bit off target here hehe.  Make yourself four stone tool rods and one of each of your other patterns and head on over to the Tool Station and open it up.

   Uh oh, there are a lot of buttons here. Don't worry it is not nearly as complicated as it looks. All of those buttons on the left are simply a list of the different tools you can make. Let's make ourselves a pickaxe. Click the little pickaxe button on the left and this will bring up the crafting interface for the appropriate tool. You will notice several little boxes with shapes similar to the pieces we made earlier at the part builder. Drop these tool parts in the matching boxes and poof you now have a handy dandy pickaxe! Once again there is a bunch of text on the right hand side. Just ignore it I promise we will get into it later.

   Now if you choose to you can give your little pick a name before you pick it up. Just click in the text box at the top of the tool station and enter in whatever name you want, pick up your new tool, and congrats you have made your very first tinkers construct tool. The process is the same for the sword shovel and axe, so just repeat and you have your first tool set.

   I know I know you are saying LK you made me go through this long drawn out process for crappy stone tools I could have made much quicker with some sticks and cobble?! But you see the thing is these tools don't disappear when they break! You simply drop them into your tool station with some cobblestone and poof all better annnnd it only costs one stone shard (but you can use cobblestone) to fully repair a simple stone tool! Take a tool station with you when you shoot into the mines and the only thing in your way will be inventory space and food!

   Time to put these new tools to work, because next time I see you we will be making our very own Smeltery and Tool Forge in preparation for the REAL weapons and tools TC has to offer. Until then get on the hunt for loads of iron, gravel, sand and clay.

Good Luck!
<3 LK