Ars Technica guide for All the Mons 0.4.0-beta to 1.1.1
Ars Technica guide for All the Mons
Last verified for All the Mons v1.1.1 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 16, 2026
A newer release (1.3.0) is out Guide for the current version
Also applies to:All the Mods 10 5.5
- Sections
- 5
- Recipes shown
- 17
- Items named
- 38
- Quests covered
- 1
1 section is written for this pack; 4 are shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mons 1.1.1's own files.
What is Ars Technica?
Same as in the All the Mods 10 5.5 guide
This pack includes Ars Technica version 2.6.1, so any mechanics you look up elsewhere should be checked against that version.[1]
Unverified The available sources don't confirm what Ars Technica adds, who it is aimed at, or where it fits in this pack's progression, so those details are left out here.
How do you get started with Ars Technica?
5 parts
Same as in the All the Mons 1.3.0 guide
Ars Technica sits where Create machinery meets Ars Nouveau spellcraft, so you'll be working with both mods. The Calibrated Precision Mechanism is used by the Source Motor, the Spy Monocle and the Mark of Technomancy, so the order below starts with it.[2][3]
First: the Calibrated Precision Mechanism
Your first target is the Calibrated Precision Mechanism. It is made at an Ars Nouveau Enchanting Apparatus rather than a crafting table. The mod also has an advancement for acquiring one. Make it first because the next items in this list need it.[2][3]
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
Recipe id: ars_technica:calibrated_precision_mechanism
Next: the Source Motor
Then craft the Source Motor. It is a normal crafting table recipe that takes your new mechanism, and it has its own advancement too.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| any brass ingots | any brass ingots | |
| any brass ingots | any brass ingots |
Recipe id: ars_technica:source_motor
Then: the Mark of Technomancy
The Mark of Technomancy is also made at the Enchanting Apparatus, and it needs the Calibrated Precision Mechanism as well. You'll want it if you're chasing a legendary Pokémon, because the Magearna quest uses it to activate the Summoning Ritual Altar.[2][4]
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
Manipulation Essence
Wilden Tribute
Calibrated Precision Mechanism
Precision Mechanism
- any copper ingot
- any iron ingot
- any zinc ingot
- any brass plates
- any gold plate
Recipe id: ars_technica:mark_of_technomancy
The quest is "Magearna" quest in the Legendaries chapter. In the quest book it comes after The Summoning Altar and Volcanion.[4]
After that: your first glyphs
Ars Technica adds spell glyphs that process item entities Create-style. Glyph Press flattens item entities into their pressed variants. Glyph Whirl creates a whirlwind that centrifuges item entities, and you combine it with water, flare, smelt or hex to choose the kind of processing.[2][3]
Save the armor for later
The Artificer, Machinaguard and Technomancer armor sets are upgrades of Ars Nouveau armor, and the pack changed their recipes. Here they use a Mark of Mastery from Ars Elemental, where the mod's default recipes use the Mark of Technomancy. Each set reduces damage from Create machinery and increases the speed of nearby schematic cannons. Here is the pack's recipe for the Technomancer's Boots as an example.[2][3]
Armor Upgrade (sauce)
Mark of Mastery
Arcanist's Treads
- 2× any brass ingots
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: ars_technica:technomancer_boots
This recipe is changed by the pack.
How does Ars Technica work?
7 parts
Ars Technica is described as the intersection of Create machinery and Ars Nouveau spellcraft. In practice that means two things: a Source-powered machine that feeds Create's rotation, and a set of spell glyphs that do Create-style processing on item entities.[3]
Source Motor
The Source Motor converts Source into rotational force. It must be supplied with a nearby Source Jar.[3]
You adjust the RPM on the sides of the motor. Right-click elsewhere on it to adjust the SU-to-RPM ratio. Changing that ratio changes the amount of Source required, so check it before you wire it into a big setup.[3]
Unverified The sources do not give the Source Motor's actual RPM range, SU values or Source consumption in this pack.
Processing with glyphs
Most of the mod's depth is in its glyphs. They work on item entities lying on the ground, so you drop the items, cast, and the spell does the work. Each glyph spawns its own effect (Arcane Press, Arcane Whirl, Arcane Hammer and so on), and most have an AOE augment that widens how many items or how large an area it covers.[3]
- Whirl creates a whirlwind that centrifuges item entities. Combine it with water, flare, smelt or hex to get Washing (Splashing), Smoking, Smelting or Haunting processing. AOE increases the size and range, and Extend Time increases the duration.[3]
- Press flattens item entities into their pressed variants. Polish refines them into polished variants. AOE on either one increases how many item entities are processed.[3]
- Pack condenses identical item entities into 2x2 recipes. Amplify changes the grid to 3x3 and Dampen changes it to 1x1. AOE increases the area in which items get collected.[3]
- Glyph Carve cuts identical item entities into stairs, on stone and wood only. Amplify switches the recipe to walls and Dampen switches it to slabs. AOE increases the collection area.[3]
- Fuse slams item entities together at breakneck speed and picks up fluids from nearby fluid containers. Add Smelt for heated mixing, or Superheat for super-heated mixing (the glyph description says "if enabled"). AOE increases the amount of items processed.[3]
- Glyph Obliterate hits with an arcane hammer. Add Sensitive and it processes item entities instead of destroying them. Fortune increases the chance of extra items from crushing recipes, with diminishing returns, and Amplify increases the hammer's size and damage.[3]
Press modes
Press has several modes depending on its augments. Extract makes it use Compact recipes, which take nearby fluids into account, instead of plain Press, whenever the items can form one. Add Smelt for heated Compact recipes. Superheat together with Extract allows super-heated Compact recipes. Sensitive switches Press to Packing instead, which is 2x2 or 3x3 same-item crafting.[3]
Item tooltips list the possible processing, and they label the three compacting modes (Compacting, Heated Compacting and Superheated Compacting) as fluid aware.[3]
Moving items in and out
- Insert puts item entities into nearby containers in a medium radius around where the spell is activated. Add Split to distribute items evenly across all valid containers.[3]
- Glyph Apply uses the item in your offhand to perform Manual Item Application or Deploy on blocks or items. Non-player casters use adjacent inventories instead of the offhand, which is what lets automated casters use it. AOE increases how many items can be applied and the area of blocks affected, and Pierce increases the depth when targeting blocks.[3]
- Telefeast consumes the first edible or potion, or some amount of liquid, found in the container or tank it was cast on. Sensitive makes it try to use items that are not food or drink, such as experience gems, and Pierce forwards the consumable in a magic bubble.[3]
Focus of Transmutation
The Focus of Transmutation augments your spells with Luck and improves several glyphs. Hold shift on the item to see the full list. It gives +1 Luck Augment per glyph in your spell and doubles several things: chance-based outputs from Crush, Obliterate and Whirl, the damage Obliterate deals, the items Press and Polish process, and the speed of Press, Polish and Whirl.[3]
The pack has changed this focus's crafting recipe from the mod's own version.[5]
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
Rabbit Foot
- any emerald gem
- any brass ingots
Recipe id: ars_technica:transmutation_focus
Pack-changed recipe, made at the Enchanting Apparatus.
The Transmutation Infused Turret casts spells infused with the Focus of Transmutation and costs extra Source for it. The multiplier is not given in the sources.[3]
The pack has also changed the recipe for the Obliterate glyph.[5]
Glyph (ars_nouveau)
Anvil
- any diamond storage block
Recipe id: ars_technica:glyph_obliterate
Pack-changed recipe.
Calibrated Precision Mechanism
Several of the mod's progression items are built on the Calibrated Precision Mechanism, which has its own advancement. It feeds into the Focus of Transmutation, the Spy Monocle, the Mark of Technomancy and the Pressure thread.[3][5]
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
Recipe id: ars_technica:calibrated_precision_mechanism
Gear that supports the machinery
- The Pressure thread, Pressure, grants the wielder ultra-high-pressure air. The air refills over time, and higher levels mean more capacity and a faster fill rate.[3]
- The armor sets (Artificer, Machinaguard and Technomancer) reduce damage from Create machinery and increase the speed of nearby schematic cannons.[3]
- The Spy Monocle zooms in when you press its key.[3]
How do you progress through Ars Technica?
6 parts
Same as in the All the Mons 1.3.0 guide
Ars Technica bridges Ars Nouveau magic and Create machinery. In this pack, the progression is a ladder of gadgets, glyphs and armor upgrades. Several of the mod's items are built from one component, the Calibrated Precision Mechanism, so that is where you start.[2]
The Calibrated Precision Mechanism
You make this at an Ars Nouveau Enchanting Apparatus. It feeds into the Mark of Technomancy, the Source Motor, the Spy Monocle, the Pressure thread and the Focus of Transmutation, so it's worth making a few early.[2]
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
Recipe id: ars_technica:calibrated_precision_mechanism
The Mark and the machines
The Mark of Technomancy is also crafted at the Enchanting Apparatus. The pack's quest book asks for it in the Magearna quest "Magearna" quest in the Legendaries chapter.[2][4]
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
- any copper ingot
- any iron ingot
- any zinc ingot
- any brass plates
- any gold plate
Recipe id: ars_technica:mark_of_technomancy
The Source Motor is a normal crafting table recipe and a natural first machine to build.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any brass ingots | any brass ingots | |
| any brass ingots | any brass ingots |
Recipe id: ars_technica:source_motor
The Focus of Transmutation recipe is changed by the pack, so use the recipe below rather than the mod's default. Once you have the focus, the Transmutation Infused Turret is the next step up.[2]
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
- any emerald gem
- any brass ingots
Recipe id: ars_technica:transmutation_focus
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
Recipe id: ars_technica:transmutation_turret
Glyphs
The mod adds its own spell glyphs. Most use the mod's recipes, but the pack changed some of them.[2]
- Glyph Obliterate and Glyph Pack have recipes changed by the pack, so don't trust the mod defaults for these.[2]
- Glyph Apply, Glyph Carve, Glyph Fuse, Glyph Insert, Glyph Polish, Glyph Press, Glyph Superheat, Glyph Telefeast and Glyph Whirl use the mod's own recipes.[2]
Glyph (ars_nouveau)
- any diamond storage block
Recipe id: ars_technica:glyph_obliterate
Glyph (ars_nouveau)
Chest
Crafting Table
- any iron storage block
Recipe id: ars_technica:glyph_pack
Armor sets
Each Ars Technica armor set is an upgrade of an Ars Nouveau set, and the pack changed every one of these upgrade recipes.[2]
- The Technomancer's set, starting with Technomancer's Robes, upgrades the Arcanist armor.[2]
- The Artificer's set, starting with Artificer's Tunic, upgrades the Sorcerer armor.[2]
- The Machinaguard's set, starting with Machinaguard's Chestplate, upgrades the Battlemage armor.[2]
Armor Upgrade (sauce)
Arcanist's Robes
- 2× any brass ingots
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: ars_technica:technomancer_chestplate
Armor Upgrade (sauce)
Sorceror's Wrap
- 2× any brass ingots
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: ars_technica:artificer_tunic
Armor Upgrade (sauce)
Battlemage's Gambeson
- 2× any brass ingots
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: ars_technica:machinaguard_chestplate
Experience gems
Experience gems step up through shapeless crafting: a Greater Experience Gem becomes a Giant Experience Gem, and that becomes a Gargantuan Experience Gem. You can also turn a Gargantuan gem back into a Giant one.[2]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: ars_technica:gargantuan_experience_gem
Quest use: Magearna
The Magearna quest sits in the Legendaries chapter and comes after The Summoning Altar and Volcanion. First you charge a Soul-Heart Mechanism by defeating 50 Pokémon in battle within 10 blocks of it. Then you build Magearna's body around it on a Summoning Ritual Altar, with one of your own Volcanion present. You activate the altar with the Mark of Technomancy, then an Enchanted Soul.[4]
How does Ars Technica work with other mods?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mons 1.3.0 guide
Ars Technica ties Ars Nouveau and Create together, and the pack's recipes show it. Most of the crossovers are crafting steps where a Create item goes into a source-magic recipe. One Cobblemon legendary quest also depends on it.[2][4]
Create items in Ars Technica recipes
The key crossover item is the Calibrated Precision Mechanism. It is made at the enchanting apparatus from Create's Precision Mechanism, a Source Gem and an amethyst shard. Several other Ars Technica recipes then build on it.[2]
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
Recipe id: ars_technica:calibrated_precision_mechanism
- The Source Motor is a normal crafting-table recipe that combines the Calibrated Precision Mechanism with Create's Cogwheel and Electron Tube.[2]
- The Pressure thread is made at the enchanting apparatus and needs a Copper Backtank.[2]
- Several glyph recipes use Create items: Apply needs a Brass Hand, Polish needs Sand Paper, Press needs a Mechanical Press, and Superheat needs a Blaze Cake.[2]
- The Runic Spanner recipe takes a Create Wrench as an input, along with a Calibrated Precision Mechanism.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any brass ingots | any brass ingots | |
| any brass ingots | any brass ingots |
Recipe id: ars_technica:source_motor
The pack also changes some recipes in this area. The Obliterate and Pack glyphs and the Focus of Transmutation are all marked as changed by the pack, so go by the recipe shown on this site rather than the mod's defaults.[2]
Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)
- any emerald gem
- any brass ingots
Recipe id: ars_technica:transmutation_focus
Armor upgrades and Ars Elemental
Ars Technica's armor sets are upgrades of Ars Nouveau armor. Sorcerer pieces become Artificer pieces, Arcanist pieces become Technomancer pieces, and Battlemage pieces become Machinaguard pieces. The helmet-slot upgrades also need Create's Engineer's Goggles, and every upgrade needs a brass ingot and a netherite ingot.[2]
Here the pack makes a notable change. Each armor upgrade recipe is marked as changed by the pack and asks for the Mark of Mastery from Ars Elemental. The mod's original versions, which ask for the Mark of Technomancy instead, are listed separately as mod recipes.[2]
Armor Upgrade (sauce)
Sorceror's Collar
Engineer's Goggles
- any brass ingots
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: ars_technica:artificer_cap
The pack's armor upgrade for the cap, using the Mark of Mastery.
Experience gems and Create Enchantment Industry
The Giant Experience Gem and Ars Nouveau's Greater Experience Gem can be swapped for each other, one gem for one gem, in shapeless crafting. Create Enchantment Industry can grind Giant and Gargantuan gems into Liquid Experience.[2]
Cobblemon: Magearna
The Mark of Technomancy also plays a part in the pack's Cobblemon content. The pack adds a summoning altar recipe for Magearna that uses the Mark together with an Enchanted Soul from Forbidden Arcanus. The quest "Magearna" quest walks you through it. Its description says to charge a Soul-Heart Mechanism by defeating 50 Pokémon within 10 blocks of it. You then build the body on the altar with one of your own Volcanion present, and activate the altar with the Mark and then the Soul.[2][4]
Sources
- All the Mods 10 5.5 mod list · pack file
- All the Mons 1.3.0 recipe dump: recipes making Ars Technica items · pack recipe dump
- ars_technica tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mons 1.3.0 quests: "Legendaries" · pack file
- All the Mons 1.1.1 recipe dump: recipes making Ars Technica items · pack recipe dump
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mons itself ships: its files and recipes, the in-game guidebooks and the mods' own pages. Every statement links to the source it came from, and the numbers are checked against the pack before publishing.
Guide last verified Oct 17, 2026.
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