Pylons in All the Mons

Pylons is a small magic block mod that adds a handful of utility blocks, and this pack includes version 5.4.2. The pack's quest book credits it to Mutant Gumdrop and says not to let the size of the mod fool you. Each pylon does one job, and most of them get their settings from a filter item that you right-click on something and then put into the pylon.^[1][2][3]

What the pylons do

• Harvester Pylon works as a simple auto-farm. It harvests crops in a 3x3 to 9x9 area and outputs them to an inventory above it. It needs a hoe in its inventory.^[1][3]
• Infusion Pylon gives you potion effects from a distance, using activated Potion Filter items. The quest book compares it to a Beacon.^[1][3]
• Expulsion Pylon keeps players who aren't whitelisted out of its chunks. You whitelist people with a Player Filter.^[1][3]
• Interdiction Pylon blocks mob spawns in a chunk range of 1x1 to 5x5. You pick the mobs with Mob Filter, or you use the Lifeless Filter to stop every spawn.^[1][3]
• Protection Pylon stops you from accidentally killing certain mobs or breaking certain blocks. It uses Mob Filter and Block Filter items.^[3]

Where it sits in the quest book

The pack gives Pylons its own chapter, "Pylons", in the "Logistics" group. It is chapter 36 of 70 in the book and has 12 quests.^[3]

The chapter opens with "Pylons" quest, which asks you for Polished Blackstone to get started. Every pylon quest comes after it. a quest in "Pylons" follows the untitled hoe quest, a quest in "Pylons" follows a quest in "Pylons", and a quest in "Pylons" follows a quest in "Pylons". a quest in "Pylons" follows a quest in "Pylons" and a quest in "Pylons". a quest in "Pylons" follows a quest in "Pylons" and a quest in "Pylons".^[3]

Pylons lives in the Logistics group of the quest book, as chapter 36 of 70, and it has 12 quests. It starts with "Pylons" quest, which asks you for Polished Blackstone, the base material for the pylons. After that you can pick the pylon that solves your problem, and each one has its own quest.^[3]

Harvester Pylon: a simple auto-farm

The Harvester Pylon is a good first build because it saves you work right away. The quest a quest in "Pylons" comes after the intro quest and a short quest about the hoe (a quest in "Pylons"). Put the pylon on or in a water source, and it harvests and replants fully grown crops around it. The area can be 3x3, 5x5, 7x7 or 9x9 blocks.^[3]

Harvester PylonMod recipe

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	Hay Block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:harvester_pylon

• It needs a hoe inside it. In this pack the tool requirement is on (harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresTool), and each harvest uses 1 durability.^[5][6]
• It needs an inventory such as a chest above it to receive the crops, then it has to be switched on.^[3][6]
• The pack changed the delay between harvest attempts to 20 ticks (the mod default is 60), so it works faster than the mod's defaults would suggest. See harvester_pylon.harvesterWorkDelay.^[5]
• The pack does not let you pipe tools in to automate it (harvester_pylon.harvesterCanBeAutomated is false). A hoe that can't break will work forever, but one that can break needs replacing.^[3][5]

Protection Pylon with Block and Mob Filters

The Protection Pylon stops you from accidentally breaking blocks or killing mobs inside a chunk range of 1x1 to 5x5 chunks. It does nothing until you give it filters. The quest a quest in "Pylons" comes after the Mob Filter (a quest in "Pylons") and Block Filter (a quest in "Pylons") quests, so make those first.^[3][6]

Click a block with the Block Filter to set it, or click a mob with the Mob Filter. Each filter holds only one block or mob, so protecting five things takes five filters. Clicking something different swaps what the filter holds.^[3]

Block FilterMod recipe

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any glass blocks	Honeycomb	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:block_filter

Mob FilterMod recipe

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any glass blocks	any netherite ingot	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:mob_filter

Protection PylonMod recipe

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	Honeycomb Block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:protection_pylon

Interdiction Pylon: stop mob spawns

The Interdiction Pylon blocks spawns of the mobs you put in Mob Filters. Its quest, a quest in "Pylons", comes after the Mob Filter and Lifeless Filter quests. The Lifeless Filter blocks all mob spawns instead and ignores the pylon's working area settings. The pack changed the Interdiction Pylon recipe, so check the one below rather than the mod's default.^[3][7]

Lifeless FilterMod recipe

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any glass blocks	any nether star	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:lifeless_filter

Interdiction PylonChanged by the pack

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	any netherite storage block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:interdiction_pylon

Infusion Pylon: a cheaper Beacon

The Infusion Pylon gives you a potion effect continuously while you are in its set chunk area. First fill a Potion Filter: get the effect on yourself, then right click with the filter to move it in. Repeat until the filter is full and active. The quest is a quest in "Pylons", after the Potion Filter quest (a quest in "Pylons").^[3]

In this pack a Potion Filter needs 3600 seconds (1 hour) of effect before it can be used. See infusion_pylon.infusionRequiredDuration.^[5]

Each extraction must be at least 60 seconds long. See infusion_pylon.infusionMinimumDuration.^[5]

The pack also bans a few effects, including Absorption, so check infusion_pylon.infusionDeniedEffects if one won't go in. The Infusion Pylon recipe was changed by the pack.^[5][7]

Potion FilterMod recipe

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Cyan Terracotta	any green dye	Cyan Terracotta
any glass blocks	any emerald gem	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:potion_filter

Infusion PylonChanged by the pack

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	any emerald storage block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:infusion_pylon

Expulsion Pylon: keep players out

The Expulsion Pylon pushes non-whitelisted players out of a set number of chunks around it: 1x1, 3x3 or 5x5, chosen in its GUI. Right click a player with a Player Filter and put it in the pylon to whitelist them. The owner is not expelled by default. The pylon can't be placed too close to spawn. Its quests are a quest in "Pylons" and a quest in "Pylons". The pack changed the Expulsion Pylon recipe.^[3][7]

In this pack the maximum radius is 2, which is the 5x5 size. See expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonMaxRadius.^[5]

Player FilterMod recipe

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Cyan Terracotta	any green dye	Cyan Terracotta
any glass blocks	any diamond gem	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:player_filter

Expulsion PylonChanged by the pack

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	any diamond storage block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:expulsion_pylon

Pylons is a small mod built around five single-block machines: the Expulsion Pylon, Harvester Pylon, Infusion Pylon, Interdiction Pylon and Protection Pylon. Each one does a single job, and most are set up by giving them filters. Every one of them can be toggled automatically with redstone.^[6]

A pylon needs a known owner to work. If the owner can't be found, the pylon shows "Owner not found. Pylon disabled."^[6]

Filters

• Player Filter: right-click a player to select them. The Expulsion Pylon uses these as its whitelist.^[6]
• Mob Filter: right-click a mob to select it. The Interdiction Pylon uses it to pick which mobs to block, and the Protection Pylon uses it to pick which mobs to protect.^[6]
• Block Filter: right-click a block to select it. The Protection Pylon uses it to pick which blocks to protect.^[6]
• Potion Filter: loaded with a potion effect, then used in the Infusion Pylon.^[6]
• Lifeless Filter: a special filter for the Interdiction Pylon, explained below.^[6]

The pack also has "clear" recipes for the mob, player and potion filters:^[7]

Mob FilterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Mob Filter

Recipe id: pylons:clear_mob_filter

Clear recipe for the Mob Filter.

Player FilterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Player Filter

Recipe id: pylons:clear_player_filter

Clear recipe for the Player Filter.

Potion FilterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Potion Filter

Recipe id: pylons:clear_potion_filter

Clear recipe for the Potion Filter.

Expulsion Pylon

This one expels other players from a chunk range you choose, from 1x1 up to 5x5 chunks. You can whitelist players with a Player Filter, and OPs are whitelisted automatically. If team support is enabled, team members are whitelisted too. It's on in this pack through general.teamSupportEnabled, and it only does something if a compatible team mod such as FTB Teams or Argonauts is installed.^[5][6]

In this pack expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonMaxRadius is 2, the same as the mod default. The center chunk isn't counted, so a radius of 2 gives that 5x5 maximum.^[5]

• Allowed dimensions: the Overworld, The Beyond, Starlight and the Compact Machines world. Anywhere else the pylon shows "This dimension is disabled." This is set in expulsion_pylon.expulsionAllowedDimensions.^[5][6]
• Explosions can't destroy it, because expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonCanExplode is false.^[5]
• It won't operate close to world spawn. expulsion_pylon.expulsionWorldSpawnRadius is 1 here, and it only matters if it is larger than the world spawn radius gamerule. Too close, and the pylon says so.^[5][6]

The pack changed the Expulsion Pylon recipe from the mod's own, so don't rely on other guides for it.^[7]

Expulsion PylonChanged by the pack

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Iron Bars	any diamond storage block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:expulsion_pylon

This recipe was changed by the pack.

Harvester Pylon

The Harvester Pylon harvests crops in a range from 3x3 to 9x9 blocks around it and outputs to an inventory above it. Place the pylon inside the water block of the farm, or level with the crops. If there is no inventory above, it tells you to place one, and it also warns you when that inventory is full.^[6]

By default it needs a hoe inside the pylon and uses 1 durability per harvest, unless the hoe is unbreakable. Unbreaking and other durability enchants are supported. This pack keeps that default: harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresTool is true.^[5][6]

The pack changed the speed. harvester_pylon.harvesterWorkDelay is 20 ticks between harvest attempts, where the mod default is 60.^[5]

Power and automation

The harvester can use power instead of tool durability. That is off here, since harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresPower is false. If you turn it on, the tool requirement is disabled and each harvested block costs RF. harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerCost is 5 RF per block and harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerBuffer is 1,000, both the mod defaults. The config notes that the buffer should be greater than the cost per block times 80.^[5]

For automation, harvester_pylon.harvesterCanBeAutomated is false in this pack, so you can't pipe tools into the harvester. The config says that, by default, unbreakable tools are required for full automation.^[5]

Apricorns

The pack adds its own harvesting recipes for Cobblemon apricorns, in black, blue, green, pink, red, white and yellow. Each one gives 1 apricorn of the same colour, and the recipes only load when Cobblemon is installed.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Infusion Pylon

The Infusion Pylon applies effects to you from any distance, using activated Potion Filters. By default it loads its own chunk while the owner is online. In this pack infusion_pylon.infusionChunkloads is true, and that is limited to one pylon per player.^[5][6]

1. Get a potion effect on yourself, from a potion for example.^[6]
2. Right-click with the Potion Filter in hand to extract the effect onto the filter.^[6]
3. Keep going until the filter has enough duration. It needs 3,600 seconds (1 hour), which equals 7.5 vanilla extended potions. The minimum effect duration that can be used for a filter is 60 seconds.^[5]
4. Put the activated filter in the pylon.^[6]

Both numbers are the mod defaults here: infusion_pylon.infusionMinimumDuration is 60 and infusion_pylon.infusionRequiredDuration is 3,600. Duplicate potion filters can be combined by placing one in each hand and right-clicking.^[5][6]

The pack leaves infusion_pylon.infusionAppliedDuration at 20 seconds. That is the max duration applied to you, and it is refreshed up to that amount every 60 ticks. infusion_pylon.infusionMaximumPotency is 3. It is 0-indexed, so Resistance V would be potency 4 and is above the cap.^[5]

Some effects are blocked. infusion_pylon.infusionAllowedEffects is empty, so everything is allowed except what infusion_pylon.infusionDeniedEffects names. This pack denies minecraft:absorption, tombstone:ghostly_shape, irons_spellbooks:heartstop, relics:immortality, irons_spellbooks:evasion and irons_spellbooks:abyssal_shroud. The denied list overrides the allowed list, and effects can also be banned with the pylons:infusion_banned tag. A blocked effect's tooltip says whether it is disabled by tag or by the config.^[5][6]

The pack changed the Infusion Pylon recipe too.^[7]

Infusion PylonChanged by the pack

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	any emerald storage block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:infusion_pylon

This recipe was changed by the pack.

Interdiction Pylon

This pylon prevents natural and forced spawns of the mobs you specify, within a chunk range from 1x1 to 5x5. Add Mob Filter items to say which mobs to block, and right-click a mob to select it for the filter.^[6]

The Lifeless Filter works differently. It blocks all mobs, but only natural spawns, and it raises the range to 25x25 chunks. It also disables any other mob filters in the pylon.^[6]

The pack changed this recipe as well.^[7]

Interdiction PylonChanged by the pack

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	any netherite storage block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:interdiction_pylon

This recipe was changed by the pack.

Protection Pylon

The Protection Pylon stops you, the owner, from breaking blocks or killing mobs inside a chunk range of 1x1 to 5x5. It's a safety net against accidents. Add Mob Filter and Block Filter items to say which mobs and blocks to protect.^[6]

The Pylons chapter sits in the Logistics group of the quest book (chapter 36 of 70) and has 12 quests. The book doesn't number them as tiers. You start with one entry quest, then branch into five pylons, and each pylon quest follows the filter (or Hoe) that pylon works with.^[3]

Where it starts

The first quest, "Pylons" quest, asks you for Polished Blackstone. That's the material you need to start making pylons, and all five pylon recipes in the pack use it.^[3][7]

Quest order at a glance

• a quest in "Pylons" comes after the Pylons quest and the Hoe quest a quest in "Pylons".^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" comes after the Pylons quest and a quest in "Pylons".^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" comes after the Pylons quest, a quest in "Pylons" and a quest in "Pylons".^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" comes after the Pylons quest and a quest in "Pylons".^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" comes after the Pylons quest, a quest in "Pylons" and a quest in "Pylons".^[3]

The filter quests themselves show no prerequisite in the book, so you can grab them in whatever order suits you.^[3]

Farming: the Harvester Pylon

The Harvester Pylon is a simple auto-farm. Put it on or in a water source and it harvests and replants fully grown crops in a set area. You can set that area to 3x3, 5x5, 7x7 or 9x9 blocks. It needs a Hoe, and an inventory such as a chest above it to receive the crops. A Hoe that can't break works forever, while a breakable one needs replacing.^[3]

Harvester PylonMod recipe

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	Hay Block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:harvester_pylon

The pack also adds its own Pylons harvesting recipes for the Cobblemon apricorns: black, blue, green, pink, red, white and yellow. They only load when Cobblemon is present, and each one gives 1 of the same apricorn.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Potion effects: Potion Filter and Infusion Pylon

To fill a Potion Filter, have a potion effect on you and right click with the filter. The effect moves from you into the filter. Repeat until it's filled and active. The quest says this also works with modded effects and ones you can't normally get from potions, like Haste or Resistance.^[3]

Potion FilterMod recipe

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any glass blocks	any emerald gem	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:potion_filter

Put the filled filter into an Infusion Pylon and it keeps giving you that effect while you're in its set chunk area. The quest compares it to a Beacon that's much better and cheaper. The pack changed this pylon's recipe from the mod's own.^[3][7]

Infusion PylonChanged by the pack

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	any emerald storage block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:infusion_pylon

Recipe changed by the pack.

Preventing accidents: Mob Filter, Block Filter and Protection Pylon

Click a mob with the Mob Filter to set it, or click a block with the Block Filter. Each filter holds only 1 entry, so protecting five different mobs takes 5 Mob Filters. Clicking something different swaps what the filter holds.^[3]

Mob FilterMod recipe

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any glass blocks	any netherite ingot	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:mob_filter

Block FilterMod recipe

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any glass blocks	Honeycomb	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:block_filter

The Protection Pylon then stops you from accidentally killing those mobs or breaking those blocks within its selected chunk radius. You can stack several Mob and Block Filters in it. This one uses the mod's own recipe.^[3][7]

Protection PylonMod recipe

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	Honeycomb Block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:protection_pylon

Stopping spawns: Lifeless Filter and Interdiction Pylon

The Interdiction Pylon blocks mob spawns. Feed it Mob Filters to stop only certain mobs, stacking more for more spawns, and adjust its working area to set how far it reaches. Swap in the Lifeless Filter and it blocks every mob spawn instead, ignoring those area settings.^[3]

The Lifeless Filter covers a 25x25 block area at every Y level, above and below the pylon, so cave lighting stops mattering. It has no whitelisting. The pack changed the Interdiction Pylon's recipe from the mod's own.^[3][7]

Lifeless FilterMod recipe

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any glass blocks	any nether star	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:lifeless_filter

Interdiction PylonChanged by the pack

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	any netherite storage block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:interdiction_pylon

Recipe changed by the pack.

Keeping players out: Player Filter and Expulsion Pylon

The Expulsion Pylon pushes out any player who isn't whitelisted from a set number of chunks around it. You choose 1x1, 3x3 or 5x5 chunks in its GUI, top left. It can't be placed too close to spawn.^[3]

To whitelist someone, right click them with a Player Filter, then put the filter in the pylon. By default the pylon's owner isn't expelled. The pack changed the Expulsion Pylon's recipe from the mod's own.^[3][7]

Player FilterMod recipe

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Cyan Terracotta	any green dye	Cyan Terracotta
any glass blocks	any diamond gem	any glass blocks
any glass blocks	any glass blocks	any glass blocks

Recipe id: pylons:player_filter

Expulsion PylonChanged by the pack

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Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab	Quartz Slab
Iron Bars	any diamond storage block	Iron Bars
Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone	Polished Blackstone

Recipe id: pylons:expulsion_pylon

Recipe changed by the pack.

Resetting filters

The pack has shapeless clearing recipes for the Mob, Player and Potion Filters, where one filter goes in and one comes out. Block Filters and Lifeless Filters have no such recipe in the pack.^[7]

Mob FilterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Mob Filter

Recipe id: pylons:clear_mob_filter

The Player and Potion Filters have matching clear recipes.

The pack's quest book gives this mod its own chapter, "Pylons" quest. It sits in the Logistics group as chapter 36 of 70 and holds 12 quests. The chapter covers the Pylons themselves and the filters that control what they do.^[3]

Where it starts

The opening quest, "Pylons" quest, introduces the mod and asks you for Polished Blackstone, which you need to make Pylons. The book lists no prerequisite for the five filter quests or for the untitled Hoe quest, so you can pick those up whenever you like. Every Pylon quest comes after the opening quest.^[3]

The filter quests

• a quest in "Pylons" asks for a Mob Filter. You click a mob with it to set it, and each filter holds only 1 mob. Clicking a different mob swaps the one inside.^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" asks for a Block Filter. It works the same way but with a block, and again each filter holds only 1.^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" asks for a Potion Filter. You fill it by having a potion effect on you and right clicking with the filter. That moves the effect from you into the filter, and you repeat until it is filled and active.^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" asks for a Player Filter. Right click a player with it to set them, then put it in an Expulsion Pylon to whitelist them. By default the owner of the Pylon is not expelled.^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" asks for a Lifeless Filter. It stops every mob spawn, hostile or passive, in a 25x25 block area, at every Y level. There is no whitelisting with this filter.^[3]

The Pylon quests

Each of these quests asks you to have the Pylon itself. They unlock after the opening quest plus the quests listed below.^[3]

• a quest in "Pylons" for the Harvester Pylon comes after the opening quest and the untitled quest a quest in "Pylons". That untitled quest explains that the Harvester Pylon needs a Hoe to work. The Pylon harvests and replants fully grown crops, and the area can be set to 3x3, 5x5, 7x7 or 9x9 blocks.^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" for the Infusion Pylon comes after the Potion Filter quest. It works like a Beacon: a potion effect loaded through a Potion Filter is given to you continuously while you are in the set chunk area.^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" for the Protection Pylon comes after the Mob Filter and Block Filter quests. It stops you accidentally destroying chosen blocks or mobs in the selected chunk radius, and you can stack several Mob and Block Filters.^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" for the Expulsion Pylon comes after the Player Filter quest. It keeps non-whitelisted players out of 1x1, 3x3 or 5x5 chunks around it, and it cannot be placed too close to spawn.^[3]
• a quest in "Pylons" for the Interdiction Pylon comes after the Mob Filter and Lifeless Filter quests. It blocks mob spawns, either only the mobs in your Mob Filters or everything with a Lifeless Filter. The working area can be changed, but a Lifeless Filter ignores those settings.^[3]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

The Pylons options all live in the server config file, config/pylons-server.toml. Here is how the pack sets the ones you are most likely to touch. The only value the file marks as changed from the mod default is the Harvester Pylon's work delay, so I start with that one.^[16]

The one value the pack changed

harvester_pylon.harvesterWorkDelay is set to 20 ticks in this pack. The mod default is 60, so the Harvester Pylon waits much less between harvest attempts than in a stock install. The allowed range is 10 to 120.^[16]

Harvester Pylon

• harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresTool is true, so the harvester needs a hoe and uses 1 durability per harvest action.^[16]
• harvester_pylon.harvesterCanBeAutomated is false. You cannot pipe tools in to automate it, and the config notes that unbreakable tools are required for full automation by default.^[16]
• harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresPower is false. If you turned it on, the tool requirement would be disabled and each harvested block would cost RF instead.^[16]
• The power settings are at the mod defaults: harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerCost is 5 RF per block and harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerBuffer is 1,000. They only matter if power usage is enabled.^[16]

Infusion Pylon

• infusion_pylon.infusionRequiredDuration is 3,600 seconds (1 hour), the mod default. That is the total duration a Potion Filter needs before it can be used, equal to 7.5 vanilla extended potions.^[1][16]
• infusion_pylon.infusionMinimumDuration is 60 seconds, the mod default. It prevents unintended interactions with other mods that add persistent potion effects at low durations.^[16]
• infusion_pylon.infusionMaximumPotency is 3, the mod default. It is 0-indexed, so a Resistance V potion would be potency 4.^[16]
• infusion_pylon.infusionAppliedDuration is 20 seconds, the mod default. The duration is refreshed up to this amount every 60 ticks.^[16]
• infusion_pylon.infusionChunkloads is true. The pylon chunkloads itself, limited to one pylon per player while that player is online.^[16]
• infusion_pylon.infusionAllowedEffects is empty, so every effect is allowed unless it is denied. infusion_pylon.infusionDeniedEffects blocks minecraft:absorption, tombstone:ghostly_shape, irons_spellbooks:heartstop, relics:immortality, irons_spellbooks:evasion and irons_spellbooks:abyssal_shroud. The denied list overrides the allowed list.^[16]

Expulsion Pylon

• expulsion_pylon.expulsionAllowedDimensions limits where it works: minecraft:overworld, allthemodium:the_beyond, eternal_starlight:starlight and compactmachines:compact_world.^[16]
• expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonCanExplode is false, so explosions do not destroy it.^[16]
• expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonMaxRadius is 2, the mod default and also the top of its range. The center chunk is not counted, so a radius of 2 means a 5x5 chunk area.^[16]
• expulsion_pylon.expulsionWorldSpawnRadius is 1, the mod default. It only takes effect if it is larger than the world spawn radius from the spawnRadius gamerule.^[16]

Teams

general.teamSupportEnabled is true. Team support is active whenever a compatible mod (FTB Teams or Argonauts) is installed.^[16]

All the Mons 1.3.0 ships Pylons 5.4.2, and the mod has been in the pack since 0.3.0-beta or earlier. Here are the recent Pylons releases from the mod's own changelogs, and since you have 5.4.2, you have all of these changes.^[2]

Pylons 5.4.0

• Added harvesting recipes for Cobblemon Apricorns.^[17]
• Added dye support. Right click a pylon with any dye item to color it, and both vanilla and Dyenamics colors work.^[17]
• Reworked redstone support to fix #42.^[17]

Pylons 5.4.1

• Added harvesting compatibility for Cobblemon berries, mint and grain.^[18]

Pylons 5.4.2

• Refactored the Cobblemon compatibility to fix a bug where a berry bush instantly reset to fully grown after harvesting because of its growth timer.^[19]

If you farm Cobblemon berries with a pylon, 5.4.2 is the release that fixes the instant reset after a harvest, and that is the version you have in 1.3.0.^[2][19]

Unverified No pack changelog entries about Pylons were available to the sources here, so any pack-specific changes to this mod across All the Mons releases are unverified.