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 ** See the photo for a visualization of the ideal placement.
 * After placing the Wind Turbine, if the "No Power" icon did not go away on the Iron Miner, use the Deconstruct icon (large X, right above mecha power, or on keyboard: {{kbd|X}}) to deconstruct it, and try to place it closer.
+* The Iron Miner should now be gathering Iron Ore. Because we have not yet researched belts, it cannot put them anywhere. It can hold a maximum of 50 before it stops working. Note, too, that it uses more energy than the single Wind Turbine can provide. We will correct this soon.
+* Click on the Iron Miner, and wait until it has 50 Iron Ore gathered in the output circle on the top left of the window.
+* Click on the 50 Iron Ore to collect it.
+* Press {{kbd|F}} to open your Crafting screen and switch to the Buildings tab.
+* Click to start crafting 1x [[Miner]] and 1x [[Wind Turbine]].
+* While these are crafting, walk over to the Copper deposit, and clear the trees and stones from around it.
+* Place the Miner on 6 nodes, like we did with the Iron miner. Orient it so that its Output end is facing towards the Iron deposit.
+* Place the Wind Turbine in the same manner  we did with the Iron miner - behind and to one side of the Copper miner, as close to the Iron deposit as possible.
+* Click the Copper miner to open it and wait until it has gathered 50 [[Copper Ore]].
+* Collect the 50 Copper Ore from the Copper miner and close its window.
+That may have been fairly wordy, but you've now learned how to place buildings, how to power them, and how to interact with them. You've also Automated mining of both Iron and Copper ore! You'll have a [[Dyson Sphere]] in no time!
+== Automating Smelting ==
+We're still using our mecha for too many things, eating up precious power. Almost everything we want to make will require the ore that we're gathering to be Smelted into Ingots, Magnets, etc first. So let's get ready to automate smelting!
+Note: For the rest of this guide, we will stop telling you when to gather ore from the miners. If you find that you do not have enough in your inventory to accomplish something, head to the appropriate miner and collect more ore from it. Try to refrain from gathering a whole bunch at once - your inventory is still quite small and you can't build any storage chests just yet!
+* We can't automate smelting until we've learned how! So open your Crafting menu, go to Components, and start 5 runs of Circuit Board (10 Circuit Boards total) and 4 runs of Magnetic Coil (10 Magnetic Coils total).
+* Once those are made, open up the Technology tree ({{kbd|T}}), and find and research [[Automated_Metallurgy_(Tech)|Automated Metallurgy]]. Don't forget to click Activate!
+* While this is researching, you should still have a [[Tesla Tower]] in your inventory from our last Technology.
+* Place the Tesla Tower approximately halfway between the two Wind Turbines that we have already placed. While moving it into position, you should see a dashed line connecting it to the nearest Wind Turbine. Move it around until you see a dashed line to BOTH Wind Turbines, and then click to place it. This will join the two power grids together, and help alleviate the power-shortage problems for the Miners.
+** Try to center it as best you can - overlapping power supply circles on one side may leave an area unsupplied on the other. See the screenshot for an example.
+* Open your Crafting menu, and craft 2x more Wind Turbines. You will probably need to grab some more Copper and/or Iron Ore.
+* Place these Wind Turbines near the outer skirts of your power network - such as near one or both of the miners. Be mindful that you cannot place a Wind Turbine too close to another one, and it is beneficial to cover as much 'new' area with the wind turbine's supply circle as possible.
+** Be sure to place it where it can connect with the existing network! it will show a dashed line to the nearest power network connection if it can connect where you have it positioned.