From hungry idiot to machine intelligence
The live world map ↗ is useful for planning routes, finding community builds, and checking claim boundaries before you settle.
Before grand magic or industry, learn how the pack tells you what items do and build a reliable food supply.
Use EMI/JEI to inspect recipes and item uses instead of guessing.
Craft a knife, cutting board, cooking pot and stove from Farmer’s Delight.
Establish renewable crops and one dependable meal you can make in bulk.
Nothing here forces an order. Start with computers on day one, become a wizard forever, or ignore all of it and build a nice house.
Search items, inspect recipes and look up uses. If a guide names a component, these tell you how this exact pack expects you to obtain it.
Look at a block or machine to identify it and see live information. This is often the fastest way to discover which mod owns something.
Hover a Create item and hold W. The animated scene is usually more useful than a static recipe or wiki paragraph.
Ars Nouveau and SecurityCraft ship their own documentation. Treat those books as part of progression, not decorative items.