Mods/TechAge-Guide

TechAge-Guide

TechAge is a technical mod, forum github

Players advance thru 5 ages: Iron Age, Steam Age, Oil Age, Present, Future (TA1..TA5).

There is a Quick Start Guide, but it doesn't go into much details.

Overview

There are a few special materials:

• TA1-Iron (in addition to regular steel)
• Charcoal - for making TA1-Iron
• sieved gravel
• usmium - produced from sieved gravel
• baborium
• Oil - to make bitumen, naphta, fueloil, gasoline, propan
• Bauxite - for making aluminium
• carbon fiber

The first key concept is the gravel-sieve, that produces most kinds of ore from gravel (plus sieved gravel).
Also special hammers (and grinders) to make gravel from stone or cobblestone.

The next key concept is TA1-Iron that is used in most techage-parts.
It is produced in a special melting-pot, that needs charcoal as fuel.
Charcoal is produced in charcoal-piles, from wood.

The next key concepts are the gravel-rinser, e-fab2 and steam-engine:

• gravel-rinser produces usmium from sieved gravel (plus sand and some copper-ore).
• e-fab2 uses usmium to produce vaccuum-tubes
• steam-engine to provide mechanical power for the e-fab, grinder, gravel-rinser (and other machines)

Almost all TA3-parts need a vaccuum-tube.

TA3 is mostly about oil and aluminium:

• finding oil needs an oil-explorer
• drilling oil needs a drillbox/derrick (plus drillbits, and power)
• getting oil out needs an pumpjack (plus pipes, tanks and power)
• processing oil needs a refinery (plus ...)

Aluminium (and other stuff) is produced with a chemical reactor, and a TA3-industrial-furnace (or TA4-heater).

...

e-fab3 uses silicon-wafers to produce WLAN-chips.
Almost all TA4-parts need a WLAN-chip.

...

e-fab4 produces AI-chips.
Almost all TA5-parts need an AI-chip.

To produce AI-chips, the player must have XP (experience-points).
Those XP are gained/produced by a collider. Each player must build its own.

A collider needs lots of aluminium, isobutan and power.
Isobutan is produced with a chemical reactor, eg. from gasoline.

TA5 finally has some nice toys, such as the fusion-reactor and the flightcontroller.

Power can be produced from coal, oil, solar, or wind. Also hydrolyse/fuelcells.

Some supporting equipment:

• quarry - automated digging
• grinder - grind stone to gravel
• minecarts, hoppers, tubes, pusher, distributor - move materials around
• autocrafter - automated production
• LUA-controller, ICTA-controller, timer, sequencer ... - for automation
• TA-InfoTool
• forceload-blocks - to keep machines working when player is not nearby
• signbot - robot that can dig, harvest, build etc.

There are some optional parts of techage:

• growlamp - lets flowers grow
• autobahn - faster movement
• hyperloop - fast transport
• paraglider - flying/soaring
• jetpack - flying
• PDP13 - computer
• Barduino - computer

TA1

Iron Age

Player needs to cover the basics (food, bed, housing, tools ...)

Then build a charcoal-pile, and the tower with the meltingpot. Also plant trees, to get wood, and mine iron, and some copper and gold.

TA2

Steam Age

TA3

Oil Age

TA4

Present

TA5

Future

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