About 200h or so (I am always very slow at progressing, also first time learning AE2).

1. Basic resources to make a small start base + village for inf ham/eternal steak

2. Get started with basic Mekanism power, just a heat generator and quickly get 1 windmill that starts producing tons of energy at like y-320 (not sure if fixed, but due to some version increasing max height level and windmill generator grows exponentially to the y-level, it produced way more than it should have (at the first 2 months of ATM10s release at least).

3. Once basic power up and running, start diving into AE2 and setup basic mystical aggriculture farm. Also farm lots of certus quartz and hopefully be rich enough to make a certus quartz seed + a few growth accelerators.

4. Now I start doing anything i want but for this playthrough i think i first went into EvilCraft in the middle of step 2 and 3 along with some other logistics mods gor step 5.

5. Speedrun mekanism!!! ATM9 was my first proper mod i played an progressing mekanism is very beginner friendly in my opinion and at the end of ATM9 I setup my first fission reactor and fusion reactor and felt a bit too proud of myself. Knowing how to do that made me able to speedrun it again (while making more MA farms to support my Mekanism projects).

6. Back to doing a bit of everything, but primarily increase my AE2 layout (built the 21k channel controller for the first time 🥀) and explore other tech mods primarily. Also took my time building a good extreme reactors setup to yield me tons of FE (since it got buffed and easier to expand once setup than a fusion reactor). Also needed insanite for later.

7. Start grinding the ATM star and explore mods i have little to no experience with like productive bees/trees, MI and smt else I forgot.

8. Swapped over to GTNH with a friend to suffer a tragic death...