Actually Additions in All the Mons

Actually Additions is a magitech mod packed with useful gadgets, and it's a great pick if you like building up from simple tools into wireless logistics and power. The pack includes version 1.3.26 of it.^[1][2]

What it does

Everything starts with the Atomic Reconstructor and the Empowerer, which turn minerals into powerful crystals. Those crystals unlock machines for processing and sorting items, lasers that move energy, items and fluids wirelessly, and renewable oil you can burn for power.^[1]

Where it shows up in the pack

Early on, you'll meet the mod through power. The Coal Generator is one of the accepted options in the a quest in "New Beginning" quest, alongside generators from other mods. It's also accepted in the "Coal Generators" quest quest, which calls these some of the easiest generators to make. They're simple to use, give a decent amount of power depending on the fuel, and automatically pass power to adjacent blocks.^[3][4]

The Lens of Disenchanting is another accepted item in the "Disenchanting Methods" quest quest. You put the lens into an Atomic Reconstructor, then throw an enchanted item and a single book in front of its laser. It separates a single enchantment from the item onto the book.^[5]

Unverified The sources don't show this mod on the ATM Star quest path, so don't count on the quests above to guide you through it.

Actually Additions is a magitech mod built around turning minerals into powerful crystals with the Atomic Reconstructor and the Empowerer. Those crystals then unlock machines, lasers and power generation. Here is the order I'd tackle things in this pack.^[1]

Step one: craft the manual

Start with the Actually Additions Manual (WIP). It's the mod's in-game guide, and the mod even has an achievement for opening it. Here is the in-pack recipe.^[8][9]

Actually Additions Manual (WIP)Mod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Canola Seeds
• Paper

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:booklet

This is the manual's recipe as the pack lists it.

Canola SeedsMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Canola Plant

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:canola_seeds

Canola Seeds have their own recipe too.

Step two: build an Atomic Reconstructor

The Atomic Reconstructor is how you make crystals, and the mod has an achievement for making a crystal with it. It also takes lenses, which come up again at the end of this section.^[1][5][9]

Atomic ReconstructorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any redstone dust	any iron ingot
any redstone dust	Iron Casing	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	any redstone dust	any iron ingot

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:atomic_reconstructor

Craft this early, because crystals depend on it.

Step three: crystals and a Basic Coil

Crystals come in several kinds, such as Restonia Crystal and Void Crystal. Crystal shards can be crafted into full crystals, and crystals can be packed into blocks. Here is the shard-to-crystal step for Restonia.^[8]

Restonia CrystalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Red Crystal Shard

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:compress/restonia_crystal

Red Crystal Shards become a Restonia Crystal.

With a Restonia Crystal and some Black Quartz, you can make a Basic Coil. It is used in the recipes for the Crusher, the Auto-Breaker and the Coffee Maker.^[8]

Basic CoilMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Restonia Crystal	Empty slot
Restonia Crystal	Black Quartz	Restonia Crystal
Empty slot	Restonia Crystal	Empty slot

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:basic_coil

The pack changes the recipe for the Advanced Coil, so it is not the mod's default. Use this in-pack recipe.^[8]

Advanced CoilChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	Basic Coil	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:advanced_coil

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Step four: set up power

Next, make a Coal Generator. The quest "Coal Generators" quest in the Basic Power chapter calls it one of the easiest generators to make. It is simple to use, makes a decent amount of power based on the fuel you put in, and automatically distributes power to adjacent blocks. That quest comes after Early Game Power Options. The generator also counts for the early energy quest a quest in "New Beginning", alongside generators from other mods.^[3][4]

Coal GeneratorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	Coal	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:coal_generator

The in-pack Coal Generator recipe.

Where to go next

The Lens of Disenchanting is a handy extra. It goes into an Atomic Reconstructor, and when you throw an enchanted item and a single book in front of the laser, it separates one enchantment from the item onto the book. The pack covers other disenchanting methods in the quest "Disenchanting Methods" quest.^[5]

Lens of DisenchantingMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Lens
• Enchanting Table
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:lens_of_disenchanting

The in-pack Lens of Disenchanting recipe.

Actually Additions is built around one idea: you turn minerals into crystals, and the crystals unlock machines for processing and sorting items, plus lasers that move energy, items and fluids wirelessly. It also gives you renewable oil to burn for power. Here is how those systems fit together in this pack.^[1]

Making crystals

The Atomic Reconstructor and the Empowerer are the machines that turn minerals into crystals. The mod even has an achievement for making a crystal with the Atomic Reconstructor. In this pack's config the reconstructor stores up to 300,000 energy (machineSettings.reconstructorPower), and its Mining Lens uses 60,000 energy (machineSettings.minerLensEnergy). Both values are the mod's own defaults.^{[1][8][9][10]}

The pack's recipe list also has laser-type recipes that turn ordinary items into crystals. These two show the exact inputs:^[8]

Diamatine CrystalMod recipe

Laser (actuallyadditions)

• any diamond gem

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:laser/crystalize_diamatine_crystal

Void CrystalMod recipe

Laser (actuallyadditions)

• any coal

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:laser/crystalize_void_crystal

Empowering comes after that. It takes a base crystal plus a few extra items and gives you the empowered version. This is the Diamatine one:^[1][8]

Empowered Diamatine CrystalMod recipe

Empowering (actuallyadditions)

• Diamatine Crystal
• Clay
• 2× Clay Ball
• any light blue dye

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:empowering/diamatine

Power generation and storage

The simplest generator is the Coal Generator, and crafting one has its own achievement. The mod also has a Leaf-Eating Generator and an Oil Generator, and this pack's config shows their settings below.^[8][9]

Coal GeneratorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	Coal	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:coal_generator

• Leaf-Eating Generator: in this pack's config it harvests a 7x7x7 area (machineSettings.leafGeneratorArea) and makes 300 CF per leaf (machineSettings.leafGeneratorCPPerLeaf). The cooldown between generation cycles is 5 ticks (machineSettings.leafGeneratorCooldown). All of these are the mod defaults.^[10]
• Oil Generator: in this pack's config it can transfer 500 power per tick (machineSettings.oilGeneratorTransfer), which is also the mod default.^[10]

For storage you have the Single Battery, the Double Battery and the Battery Box. The pack changed the Advanced Coil recipe, so check the one below rather than a wiki for the base mod.^[8]

Advanced CoilChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	Basic Coil	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:advanced_coil

Battery BoxMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Energizer
• Enervator
• Basic Coil

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:battery_box

Laser relays

Laser relays are how you move things wirelessly. The mod has Energy, Advanced Energy and Extreme Energy Laser Relays, a Fluid Laser Relay, and Item and Advanced Item Laser Relays.^[1][9]

In this pack's config, machineSettings.laserRelayLoss is true, so Energy Laser Relays lose energy. The Fluid Laser Relay is different: the pack changed machineSettings.fluidLaserTransferRate from the mod default of 10,000 to 2,147,483,647 per tick.^[10]

Oil chain

The pack adds extra fluid recipes (type justdirethings:fluiddrop) to the oil line. With Crystallized Canola Seeds as the catalyst, refined canola oil becomes Crystallized Oil. With the empowered canola seed as the catalyst, Crystallized Oil becomes Empowered Oil. The pack also changed the Immersive Engineering cloche recipe that grows Canola Plant from seeds.^[8][11]

Crystallized Canola SeedsMod recipe

Laser (actuallyadditions)

• Canola Seeds

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:laser/crystallized_canola_seed

Canola SeedsChanged by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Canola Seeds
• any dirt

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:compat/cloche_canola

Crushing

The mod has a Crusher and a Double Crusher, and the pack adds its own crushing recipes through a script. Raw iron, copper and gold each give 1 dust with a 0.5 chance of an extra one. Clay gives 4 clay balls and stone gives cobblestone, with no bonus. Sulfur and salt ores give 4 items each, also with a 0.5 chance of a bonus. Uraninite ores give 2, 4 or 6 raw uraninite for poor, regular and dense ores, with no bonus.^[9][12]

Areas and configurator items

• In this pack's config the Farmer works a 9x9 area (machineSettings.farmerArea), which is the mod default. The value must be odd.^[10]
• The item used to set the farmer's area is a compass (other.farmerConfigurator).^[10]
• The item used to set a laser relay's direction is a compass too (other.relayConfigurator).^[10]
• The item used to set Redstone Mode is a redstone torch (other.redstoneConfigurator).^[10]
• The Vertical Digger mines everything in the ore tag. In this pack's config its blacklist (machineSettings.verticalDiggerBlacklist) and extra whitelist (machineSettings.verticalDiggerExtraWhitelist) are both empty. The whitelist only applies in Ores Only Mode.^[10]

In this pack, Actually Additions progression is mostly set by the recipes themselves. The quest book only touches the mod in a few places, so use the machines and crafting chain below as your roadmap.^[3][4][8]

First power

Your first quest contact is power. The quest a quest in "New Beginning" sits in the New Beginning chapter, after the Power quest. It accepts a list of simple generators, and the Coal Generator is one of them.^[4]

The Basic Power chapter then has "Coal Generators" quest in the Fossil Fuels group, after Early Game Power Options. It accepts the Coal Generator from this mod or one from Just Dire Things or RFTools Power. The quest describes these generators as simple to use. They make a decent amount of power based on the fuel you feed them, and they automatically hand power to adjacent blocks.^[3]

Coal GeneratorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	Coal	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:coal_generator

The recipe is built around the Iron Casing, which also shows up in many of the machines below.^[8]

Basic Coil machines

The Basic Coil is your first real gate. Once you have it, early machines open up, such as the Crusher, the Auto-Breaker, the Coffee Maker and the Battery Box. The recipe for the coil itself is just below.^[8]

Basic CoilMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Restonia Crystal	Empty slot
Restonia Crystal	Black Quartz	Restonia Crystal
Empty slot	Restonia Crystal	Empty slot

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:basic_coil

CrusherMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Restonia Crystal	Flint	any cobblestone
Basic Coil	Iron Casing	Basic Coil
any cobblestone	Flint	Restonia Crystal

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:crusher

The Void Crystal also matters at this stage, because both the Auto-Breaker and the Coffee Maker use it. Crystals come as shards that compress into full crystals and then into blocks, and each of those steps can be reversed. The Restonia Crystal follows the same shard, crystal and block pattern. Black Quartz is the other base material to know: it crafts into a block, and that block can become stairs, slabs and walls.^[8]

Advanced Coil

The Advanced Coil is the next step up, and this pack changed its recipe. Don't rely on what you remember from the mod's defaults. Use the recipe below.^[8]

Advanced CoilChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	Basic Coil	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:advanced_coil

This recipe is changed by the pack.

• Double Crusher: the upgrade of the Crusher, which also needs an Advanced Coil.^[8]
• Canola Press: needs an Advanced Coil, plus Canola Plant and an Enori Crystal.^[8]
• Advanced Leaf Blower: needs an Advanced Coil and a Diamatine Crystal.^[8]

Empowered crystals and the Atomic Reconstructor

The top tier uses empowered crystals. The Bio Reactor needs an Empowered Enori Crystal, and the Lens of Disenchanting needs an Empowered Diamatine Crystal. Empowered crystals also compress into blocks, and those blocks can be turned back into crystals.^[8]

Bio ReactorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empowered Enori Crystal	Iron Casing	Empowered Enori Crystal
Empowered Enori Crystal	any sapling	Empowered Enori Crystal
Empowered Enori Crystal	Iron Casing	Empowered Enori Crystal

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:bio_reactor

The Atomic Reconstructor is the machine that uses lenses. The pack's Disenchanting Methods quest ("Disenchanting Methods" quest) accepts the Lens of Disenchanting as one option. You put the lens into the Atomic Reconstructor, then throw an enchanted item and a single book in front of its laser. It moves one enchantment from the item onto the book.^[5]

Atomic ReconstructorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any redstone dust	any iron ingot
any redstone dust	Iron Casing	any redstone dust
any iron ingot	any redstone dust	any iron ingot

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:atomic_reconstructor

Lens of DisenchantingMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Lens
• Enchanting Table
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• Empowered Diamatine Crystal

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:lens_of_disenchanting

Actually Additions doesn't live on its own in this pack. The pack's recipes and quests tie it into several other mods, and the clearest links are around Black Quartz, power generation and disenchanting.^[3][4][5][8]

Mystical Agriculture: Black Quartz

The pack adds its own crafting recipe that turns Black Quartz Essence into Black Quartz. This recipe is a pack addition, so you won't find it in the mods' default content.^[8]

3× Black QuartzAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

8 × Black Quartz Essence

Recipe id: kubejs:mysticalagriculture/black_quartz_essence_crafting

A shaped recipe added by the pack that gives Black Quartz from Black Quartz Essence.

Productive Bees: Black Quartz Bee

Productive Bees has a bee conversion recipe that takes Block of Black Quartz and gives the Productive Bees black quartz result. The pack has changed this recipe from the mod's version, so rely on the recipe below rather than any default.^[8]

Early power: shared generator quests

The Coal Generator appears in the quest "Coal Generators" quest in the Basic Power chapter, which comes after Early Game Power Options. The quest accepts it or the Just Dire Things tier 1 generator or the RFTools Power coal generator. It describes these generators as some of the easiest to make and says they automatically distribute power to adjacent blocks.^[3]

It also shows up in quest a quest in "New Beginning" in the New Beginning chapter, which comes after the Power quest. That quest accepts a long list of starter generators from Industrial Foregoing, Generator Galore, Mekanism Generators, Powah and RFTools Power. It frames them as the simple first step in energy creation, usually burning coal or lava to make FE.^[4]

Disenchanting with other mods

The quest "Disenchanting Methods" quest lists the Lens of Disenchanting as one of several ways to move enchantments from an item onto a book. The others come from Draconic Evolution, Industrial Foregoing and Apothic Enchanting, plus a plain anvil setup.^[5]

1. Put the Lens of Disenchanting into an Atomic Reconstructor.^[5]
2. Throw an enchanted item and a single book in front of the laser the Atomic Reconstructor emits.^[5]
3. It separates a single enchantment from the item onto the book.^[5]

Actually Additions shows up in quests in the New Beginning, Basic Power and Tips and Poke Tricks chapters of this pack. The New Beginning and Basic Power quests are about early power, and the Tips and Poke Tricks quest is about disenchanting. In each one the mod's item is only one of several accepted options for the task, so you can finish the quest with Actually Additions or with another mod's item.^[3][4][5]

Early power

In the New Beginning chapter, the untitled quest a quest in "New Beginning" comes after the Power quest. It explains that energy creation starts with something very simple, usually a generator that uses coal or lava to make FE. Its task accepts generators from several mods, including the Coal Generator, plus ones from Industrial Foregoing, Generator Galore, Mekanism Generators, Powah and RFTools Power.^[4]

The Basic Power chapter then has "Coal Generators" quest, in the Fossil Fuels group, which comes after the Early Game Power Options quest. The quest calls these some of the easiest generators to make. It says they are very simple to use, create a decent amount of power based on the combustible material you put in, and automatically distribute power to adjacent blocks. The Coal Generator counts here too, alongside generators from Just Dire Things and RFTools Power.^[3]

Disenchanting

In the Tips and Poke Tricks chapter, "Disenchanting Methods" quest covers many ways to extract enchantments from items onto books. The task accepts any one of a list of items, including an anvil, the Draconic Evolution disenchanter, the Industrial Foregoing Enchantment Extractor, the Apothic Enchanting tomes and the Lens of Disenchanting.^[5]

For the Actually Additions method, the quest says the lens goes into an Atomic Reconstructor. You throw an enchanted item and a single book in front of the laser the Atomic Reconstructor emits, and it separates a single enchantment from the item onto the book.^[5]

Everything here lives in config/actuallyadditions-common.toml. Of the options in this pack's file that list a mod default, only one is marked as changed by the pack: the Fluid Laser Relay transfer rate.^[10]

The one value the pack changed

machineSettings.fluidLaserTransferRate is set to 2,147,483,647 in this pack. The mod default is 10,000. The config describes this option as the amount of fluid the Fluid Laser Relay can transfer per tick.^[10]

Machine settings at their defaults

In this pack's config file, these machine options are set to the same value as the mod default:^[10]

• machineSettings.farmerArea is 9, which the config describes as a 9x9 farming area that must be an odd number.^[10]
• machineSettings.leafGeneratorArea is 7, which the config describes as a 7x7x7 harvesting area that must be an odd number.^[10]
• machineSettings.leafGeneratorCooldown is 5 ticks between generation cycles, and machineSettings.leafGeneratorCPPerLeaf is 300 CF per leaf.^[10]
• machineSettings.oilGeneratorTransfer is 500, the amount of power the oil generator can transfer per tick according to the config.^[10]
• machineSettings.reconstructorPower is 300,000, the power the Atomic Reconstructor can store according to the config. machineSettings.minerLensEnergy is 60,000, the energy use of its Mining Lens.^[10]

machineSettings.laserRelayLoss is set to true in this pack's file. The config describes it as whether Energy Laser Relays have energy loss.^[10]

Drill and Vertical Digger lists

itemsSettings.drillExtraWhitelist holds one entry in this pack's file, TConstruct:GravelOre. The config describes this list as extra blocks the Drill should be able to mine. The config also says the Vertical Digger mines everything in the forge:ores tags by default, and this pack's file leaves both machineSettings.verticalDiggerBlacklist and machineSettings.verticalDiggerExtraWhitelist empty.^[10]

Gameplay toggles

• other.superDuperHardRecipes is false in this pack's file. The config calls it a joke feature that makes the mod completely unplayable.^[10]
• other.tinyCoal is true. The config describes it as whether Tiny Coal and Tiny Charcoal are craftable.^[10]
• other.waterBowl and other.waterBowlSpilling are both true. The config describes them as right-clicking a bowl on water to make a water bowl, and the water bowl spilling if you don't sneak while using it.^[10]
• other.tillingWorms is true, which the config describes as worms dropping from tilling soil. other.wormDeathTime is 0, and the config says that at 0 ticks a worm will not die.^[10]
• Bat wing drops (other.doBatDrops), cat drops (other.doCatDrops), dungeon loot (other.villageAndDungeonLoot) and the booklet on first craft (other.giveBookletOnFirstCraft) are all set to true in this pack's file.^[10]

Configurator items

In this pack's file, the item for configuring the farmer area is Compass (other.farmerConfigurator), and the same item is set for relay direction (other.relayConfigurator). The item for Redstone Mode is Redstone Torch (other.redstoneConfigurator).^[10]

World generation

In this pack's file, the options for canola, coffee, flax, black quartz and rice world generation are all set to true: worldgenSettings.generateCanola, worldgenSettings.generateCoffee, worldgenSettings.generateFlax, worldgenSettings.generateQuartz and worldgenSettings.generateRice.^[10]

All the Mons 1.3.0 ships Actually Additions 1.3.26 for Minecraft 1.21.1. The mod has been in the pack since All the Mons 0.3.0-beta or earlier. Here are the most recent releases of the mod covered by its own changelogs, newest first.^[2]

1.3.26 (the version in the pack)

• Opening the booklet without Patchouli installed now shows a warning.^[13]
• Fixed the Infrared Engineer Goggles not making mobs glow.^[13]
• Fixed the farmer replacing custom soil with regular farmland.^[13]

1.3.25

• Fixed a crash when summoning the snail manually.^[14]
• Added a missing lang key for the snail.^[14]
• The Vertical Digger's checkY is now set to the minimum build height on first load.^[14]

1.3.24

• The coffee item is now marked as non-repairable.^[15]
• The drill screen was reworked. You can no longer insert a higher tier upgrade without the lower tier installed, as originally intended.^[15]
• You can no longer remove a lower tier upgrade while a higher tier is still installed, and you can no longer install duplicate upgrades.^[15]

Unverified The sources here show no pack changelog entries for this mod, so this history only covers the mod's own changelogs.