Suggestion: Basic Circuit + recipes for Extractor and Battery that use it

    There are various reasons for this proposal, but the most prominent two are: 1) the possibility of starting on a world where rubber is a very remote resource. 2) Other mods which have items that can be /extracted/ to make rubber (but you can't build an extractor without rubber).


    I thus propose creating a Basic Circuit which would be composed of uninsulated wire of some kind (I'd favor tin, but copper or gold might feel better for balance), a wool block, one redstone dust, and one Refined Iron.


    This basic circuit would substitute directly for the Electronic Circuit in the Extractor.
    It would also substitute for the wire in a Battery.


    With the three above additional recipes and one additional /item/ the initial set of generator and extractor could be built without using rubber.


    This would allow any sticky sap/resin to be extracted at the more efficient rate instead of cooking; or if using a mod like Redpower2 which adds other potential extraction sources (but not direct sources) of rubber a way of unlocking the alternate flow.

    It might help if I laid things out like this.


    In order to get the three basic 'required' machines for normal production rates you need these items. The electro furnace is included for completeness but is in fact optional at this stage (I'd rather build a miner which more or less requires a few gold and a few full redstone blocks).



    The 'basic circuit' is a trade; valuable (At this stage fairly so) tin and some wool you can find off a sheep in order to unlock rubber production without needing to find an IC2 rubber tree. This way you can get started on bootstraping technology without going for a full Basic Circuit. Given the cost of tin if you /do/ have rubber this is a non-preferential route. However if you have a few good RP2 rubber trees (which have rubber -wood- but no resin to cook) or any other item that equates to 'extractable rubber' but no or very few IC2 rubber trees (maybe it didn't drop a sapling or maybe you messed it up (oops)) you can get over that initial hurdle to unlocking the local rubber source.


    This can be crucial when the world you're on only has 1-2 rubber trees within a game-day's run (which makes /quite/ a search domain at a time when you are struggling to get food growth going).


    Generator
    8 Cobblestone
    2 Redstone
    * 4 Tin Ingot
    * 3 Copper Ingot (for 1 wires)
    * 5 Iron Ingot
    * 1 Re-Iron
    # 1 Rubber


    Extractor
    5 Wood
    2 Redstone
    * 3 Copper Ingot
    * 9 Re-Iron Machine Block + Circuit
    # 6 Rubber


    Macerator
    2 Cobblestone
    3 Flint
    2 Redstone
    * 3 Copper Ingot
    * 9 Re-Iron Machine Block + Circuit
    # 6 Rubber


    Electro Furnace
    8 Cobblestone
    4 Redstone (generator upgrade) + Circuit
    * 3 Copper Dust
    * 6 Iron (generator upgrade) + Circuit
    # 6 Rubber



    edit: Fixed ingredient count for generator.