Early Game

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This page includes planned content for the next season of TCE Survival.

Everything here is subject to change before implementation!

This page is a continuation of the main Progression page. Read that first if you haven't already!

This page has been split up into "tiers" of progression. Each contains a checklist of exactly what you need to do and a more detailed overview of how to progress in that tier.

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Tier 1: Stone Age

Logs and planks can no longer be broken using your fists. Instead, on your first day you should seek out the following items:

Sticks: From Leaves and Dead Bushes

Flint: From Gravel

With these items you can craft a Stone Knife, which can be used to kill spiders for String or to cut grass and vines for Twine.

You can also craft a Stone Hatchet, which can be used to chop down trees for wood.

String or Twine can be used to craft a Sifter.

Stone Knife

Stone Hatchet

Sifter

Sifter

The sifter can be used on gravel and soil-like blocks to get resources, however the block is lost regardless of whether anything drops.

Gravel

Overworld, The End:

Drop	Chance
Flint	25%
Raw Iron	2%

The Nether:

Drop	Chance
Flint	25%
Raw Gold	5%

Dirt

Dirt, Coarse Dirt:

Drop	Chance
Seeds	10%
Stick	10%
Clay	10%
Hanging Roots	5%

Rooted Dirt:

Drop	Chance
Seeds	10%
Stick	10%
Clay	10%
Hanging Roots	25%

Grass

Grass, Podzol:

Drop	Chance
Seeds	25%
Stick	10%
Clay	10%
Hanging Roots	5%

Mycelium:

Drop	Chance
Clay	10%
Hanging Roots	5%

Sand

Sand:

Drop	Chance
Clay	10%

Red Sand:

Drop	Chance
Stick	10%
Gold Nugget	10%

Soul Sand, Soil Soil:

Drop	Chance
Quartz	10%
Gold Nugget	2%

Clay

Clay:

Drop	Chance
Raw Copper	5%

Campfire

Once you have wood, you can make a campfire to cook food using logs, sticks and twine.

Rotten flesh can be cooked to make leather pelts, 4 of which can be crafted into 1 leather.

Crafting Table

A crafting table is used to craft armour, advanced tools and the furnace.

It is made using logs, flint and twine in a shapeless recipe.

Once you have a stone mattock, cobblestone can also be used to make stone tools more easily.

Campfire

Crafting Table

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Leather

Stone Mattock

Stone Trowel

Stone Adze

Checklist

1. Craft a Stone Knife and Hatchet

   • Punch leaves for sticks

   • Punch gravel for flint

   • (Optional) Craft a Sifter

2. Craft a Campfire and Crafting Table

   • Chop wood for logs

   • Cut grass for twine

   • (Optional) Cook food

3. Craft leather armour

   • Obtain leather by any method:

     • a) Kill zombies and cook rotten flesh on campfire

     • b) Kill cows or horses

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Tier 2: Copper Age

It's time to upgrade your equipment!

Furnace

The furnace is your first smelting block, capable of smelting raw copper. It can be built using bricks of any kind, however mud bricks are the easiest to obtain for now.

First you'll need clay, which can be obtained using a flint trowel.

Packed mud can be crafted using clay (or mud) and twine in a 2x2.

Baking packed mud over a campfire will produce mud bricks. 8 mud bricks can be crafted into a furnace.

Once you have a furnace, you can smelt cobblestone for stone to make stone bricks. More furnaces!

Packed Mud

Mud Bricks

Furnace

Copper

Copper ore is commonly found near the surface and can be mined using stone tools. Note that stone tools cannot mine deepslate. Alternatively, you can sift clay for raw copper.

Copper tools are crafted via conventional tool recipes and can be used to mine iron. There is no copper armour, to maintain a purpose for leather armour.

Buckets and shears are now made using copper.

Farming

For stable food and easier access to twine, start a farm. Wheat can be crafted into 3 twine each.

Seeds can be obtained by sifting dirt or punching grass and farmland can be tilled using an adze or hoe.

Producing bone meal from bones now requires a millstone, so to fertilise crops you'll need to use a composter.

Optional: Baking & Cooking

The process for making bread has been reworked to involve multiple steps. Now that you have copper to make a bucket, you'll be able to make some.

1. Craft 3 wheat -> 1 flour

2. Combine flour + water bucket to make dough

   (You can use up to 3 flour with one water bucket to get an equal amount of dough!)

3. Cook dough in a furnace or smoker to make bread

Using Farmer's Delight, you can also begin to hop into cooking recipes at this stage! Recipes are available ingame or on its respective wiki, note that recipes that normally require iron now accept copper as an alternative.

Copper Tools

Bucket

Shears

Checklist

1. Craft Furnace

   • Craft a Stone Trowel to dig clay

   • Craft packed mud from clay and twine

   • Bake packed mud for mud bricks

2. Craft Copper Tools

   • Obtain raw copper via any method:

     • a) Craft a Flint Mattock and mine for copper

     • b) Craft a Sifter and sift clay for copper

   • Smelt raw copper in furnace

   • (Optional) Craft a bucket

3. Farm Wheat

   • Craft an adze or hoe to till farmland

   • Sift dirt or punch grass for seeds

   • (Optional) Craft Composter

4. (Optional) Bake Bread

   • Craft Flour from wheat

   • Mix with water to make dough

   • Cook in furnace or smoker

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Tier 3: Iron Age

Blast Furnace

Blast furnaces can be used to smelt ores even faster and refine iron and andesite alloy.

First, you need fire clay, crafted by shapelessly combining clay, granite and gunpowder:

4 Clay + 4 Granite + 1 Gunpowder -> 2 Fire Clay

Smelting fire clay yields fire bricks. Fire bricks are used to craft blast furnaces, depots, basins and blaze burners.

A blast furnace is crafted from 8 fire bricks.

Iron

Iron spawns frequently below Y24. Raw iron cannot be smelted directly and must first be mixed with charcoal to form iron bloom, which blasts into iron. Iron bloom can only be refined in a blast furnace.

1 Raw Iron + 1 Charcoal -> 1 Iron Bloom

Iron can be used for tools, shields and armour.

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Fire Clay

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Fire Brick

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Blast Furnace

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Iron Bloom

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Iron Ingot

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Iron Tools

Andesite Alloy

Combining raw iron, charcoal and andesite yields iron flux which can be blasted to form andesite alloy.

2 Raw Iron + 1 Andesite + 1 Charcoal -> 1 Iron Flux

Iron ingots can be used in place of raw iron to reprocess them into andesite alloy.

Regular coal can be blasted to obtain coal coke, an improved fuel and alternative to charcoal for refining iron and andesite alloy. One coal coke smelts 16 items.

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Coal Coke

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Iron Flux

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Andesite Alloy

Checklist

1. Craft Blast Furnace

   • Mine granite

   • Kill creepers

   • Combine clay, granite and gunpowder for fire clay

   • Smelt fire clay for fire brick

2. Craft Iron Tools

   • Mine raw iron

   • Smelt logs for charcoal

   • Combine raw iron and charcoal for iron bloom

   • Blast iron bloom

3. Refine Andesite Alloy

   • Mine andesite

   • Combine iron, charcoal and andesite for iron flux

   • Blast iron flux

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The Mid-Game

At this stage, you will progress towards automation and industry, generating power to run facilities ranging from small contraptions up to full scale factories.

Advanced materials require multiple steps to craft, making use of different stations provided by the Create mod.

For more information, refer to Mid Game.