Started a new world and need some advice

[Posivated]

I'm fairly new to Infinity Evolved and most of what I have done in the past has been with magic and today I decided to start a new world and try to explore everything I can within the pack. My new world had a village at the start and had 10 Dark Steel bars, 2 Pulsating iron bars, 20 coal coke, and 3 gold bars, since I haven't done anything with enderIO I was wondering what I should do with the dark steel? I would assume make a pick but as this early in the game I'm not sure exactly what to use, can anyone give some advice please? Thanks.

 

[mvpgman1425]

I would make tinkers' construct tools. Use that to get some resources, make a forge to double ore and after that to get better tools from tinkers' and just expand from that. Head for the hammer and learn how tinkers' work so you can mine faster and get a lot more resources quicker. After that, I would make a big reactor to get a lot of power and use that power to use and make thermal expansion machines to automate the process of getting double ores. Then I would head for Applied energistics to store all my items that I make. After that, I would usually make a even bigger big reactor to get a lot of surplus power to start with IC2 and make a lot of ender quarries from Extra Utilities. This is just me tho, you can do whatever you feel like doing.

 

[Inaeo]

I'm fairly new to Infinity Evolved and most of what I have done in the past has been with magic and today I decided to start a new world and try to explore everything I can within the pack. My new world had a village at the start and had 10 Dark Steel bars, 2 Pulsating iron bars, 20 coal coke, and 3 gold bars, since I haven't done anything with enderIO I was wondering what I should do with the dark steel? I would assume make a pick but as this early in the game I'm not sure exactly what to use, can anyone give some advice please? Thanks.

Ingots are always nice loot, because it offers more choice. If it was Day 1 and I was given 10 ingots of Dark Steel, I would strongly consider making a full set of tools (pick (3), axe (3), sword (2), shovel (1), and one ingot to repair with as needed). This would get me by a fair while, and have the possibility of upgrading as tech progresses. If that village has a Tinker's workshop, I would do Tinker's tools and use the Dark Steel for armor. Boots (4) and a helmet (5) is a nice jump in survivability and they can be upgraded as you go on. A chest plate (8) is also a consideration. Otherwise, the hoarder in me will just stash it somewhere until a recipe driving my progress forward calls for it.

 

[GreenZombie]

The dark steel tools can be empowered later. I think they are the one set of mod tools available in the early game (Should you find dark steel) that can compete with Tinkers tools.