How did I not think of this... I'm already well into the first chapter of quests all just by using ore-berries. (Lots of YouTube videos where watched while MC was in the corner, watering the bushes)Use the Sieve. First thing I did was save up resources for an igneous extruder, then used a hammer to break cobble down into gravel, then ran that through the sieve. Used the resources from this to build an autonomous activator followed by a pulverisor. A bit of a grind with the ore berries to get started, but automated infinite resources is worth some effort.