Now that you have increased your mining level to tin, It is time to upgrade your pickaxe again, but this time with either bronze or brass. Both are made with a 3:1 ratio of copper to tin or zinc respectively. It is your choice as to which alloy you use.

After this point I will not be walking you through the pregression of tinker's construct how it is currently setup. It is the same basic steps to upgrade your pickaxe all the way through an alloy called tartarite. This alloy has a mining level of 16. with the bronze/brass pickaxe you only have a mining level of 2.

You will also need to look through each of the tool parts and figure out what wmaterials work well together.

Another thing to make from tinker's is a replacement for the tool station you have. It is called a tool forge. The tool forge unlocks the heavy tools. These heavy tools include:
-hammer(3x3 mining tool)
-excavator(3x3 mining tool)
-lumberaxe(chops entires trees in 1 hit)
-Cleaver(Heavy weapon, 20% base chance to behead a mob)
-Shuriken(fun projectile)
-and a few more