Pylons guide for All the Mons 0.3.0-beta to 0.6.0-beta
Pylons guide for All the Mons
Last verified for All the Mons v0.6.0-beta on Oct 16, 2026 · text last changed Oct 15, 2026
A newer release (1.3.0) is out Guide for the current version
Also applies to:All the Mods 10 1.27 to 8.3All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.1.1 to 2.0.2
- Sections
- 7
- Recipes shown
- 11
- Items named
- 10
- Quests covered
- 8
2 sections are written for this pack; 5 are shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mons 0.6.0-beta's own files.
What is Pylons?
1 part
Same as in the All the Mods 10 7.1 guide
Pylons is a compact "magic block" mod. Each pylon is a single block that does one useful job for your base, and this pack ships version 5.4.2. You get four of them: the Harvester Pylon, Infusion Pylon, Interdiction Pylon and Expulsion Pylon.[1][2]
- The Harvester Pylon is a very simple auto-farm. Put it on or in your farm's water source and it harvests and replants fully grown crops in a 3x3, 5x5, 7x7 or 9x9 area. It needs a hoe inside it and an inventory such as a chest above it.[1][3]
- The Infusion Pylon is like a better, cheaper beacon. It keeps giving you the effect stored in a Potion Filter with no range limit, although it may need to be chunkloaded.[1][3]
- The Interdiction Pylon blocks mob spawns. Each Mob Filter holds 1 mob. A Lifeless Filter stops every natural spawn in a 25x25 chunk area at every Y level, but it does not stop spawners or spawn eggs.[3]
- The Expulsion Pylon is made for servers. It keeps players who aren't whitelisted out of 1x1, 3x3 or 5x5 chunks around it, and you whitelist friends with a Player Filter.[1][3]
This mod is for you if you want quality-of-life upgrades without building big machines. It covers hands-off crop farming, permanent buffs, spawn-proofing without lighting up every cave, and protecting your base on a multiplayer server.[1][3]
Where it fits in this pack
The pack gives Pylons its own quest chapter. In that chapter, each pylon's quest follows the quest for the filter it uses. The Potion Filter quest a quest in "Pylons" leads to the Infusion Pylon quest a quest in "Pylons". The Player Filter quest a quest in "Pylons" leads to the Expulsion Pylon quest a quest in "Pylons". The Mob Filter quest a quest in "Pylons" and the Lifeless Filter quest a quest in "Pylons" both lead to the Interdiction Pylon quest a quest in "Pylons". The Harvester Pylon has its own quest, a quest in "Pylons".[3]
How do you get started with Pylons?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 7.1 guide
Pylons are single blocks that each do one handy job: farming your crops, keeping potion effects on you, stopping mob spawns, or keeping other players out of your base. Most of them get their behavior from filters you slot into them. So the usual rhythm is: craft the pylon, craft the matching filter, then set the filter up by right-clicking something with it.[3][4]
Step 1: Automate your crops with the Harvester Pylon
A great first pylon is the Harvester Pylon, a very simple auto-farm that works with no filter at all. Place it inside the water block of your farm. It harvests fully grown crops and replants them in an area you choose, anywhere from 3x3 to 9x9 blocks around the pylon. Put an inventory like a chest on top of it to catch the crops. Its quest is a quest in "Pylons".[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:harvester_pylon
Step 2: Permanent buffs with the Infusion Pylon
Next, start on the Potion Filter (a quest in "Pylons"). To fill it, get a potion effect on yourself, then right-click with the filter to pull the effect off you and into the filter. Repeat until it's filled and active. The quest notes this also works with modded effects and with effects you can't normally get from potions, like Haste or Resistance.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any emerald gem | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:potion_filter
By default, the smallest duration you can extract is 60 seconds, and a filter needs 1 hour of total duration to activate. If you have two filters with the same effect, hold one in each hand and right-click to combine them.[4]
Once a filter is active, put it into an Infusion Pylon (a quest in "Pylons"). The pylon keeps giving you the effect no matter how far away you are. By default it also loads the chunk it sits in while its owner is online. This pack changed the Infusion Pylon recipe, so check the block below rather than the mod's default.[3][4][5]
Crafting Shaped
| any emerald storage block | ||
Recipe id: pylons:infusion_pylon
Recipe changed by this pack.
Step 3: Stop mob spawns with the Interdiction Pylon
For spawn control, you have two filters to pick from. A Mob Filter (a quest in "Pylons") holds one mob: right-click the mob you want gone to set it, or click a different mob to swap it. To block Zombies, Skeletons, Spiders, Creepers and Endermen, you'd need 5 filters. The Lifeless Filter (a quest in "Pylons") blocks all natural spawns, hostile or passive, in a 25x25 chunk area at every Y level. It has no whitelist, and it doesn't stop mobs from spawners or spawn eggs.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any netherite ingot | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:mob_filter
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any nether star | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:lifeless_filter
Both filters go into the Interdiction Pylon (a quest in "Pylons"). With Mob Filters, it blocks natural and forced spawns of those mobs within a range you choose, from 1x1 to 5x5 chunks. A Lifeless Filter overrides those settings and disables any other mob filters in the pylon. This pack changed the Interdiction Pylon recipe.[3][4][5]
Crafting Shaped
| any netherite storage block | ||
Recipe id: pylons:interdiction_pylon
Recipe changed by this pack.
Step 4 (servers): Keep players out with the Expulsion Pylon
If you're on a server, the Expulsion Pylon (a quest in "Pylons") pushes non-whitelisted players out of a 1x1, 3x3 or 5x5 chunk area, which you set in its GUI. It can't be placed too close to spawn. By default the pylon's owner isn't expelled, and OPs are always whitelisted. To let a friend in, right-click them with a Player Filter (a quest in "Pylons") and put the filter in the pylon. This pack changed the Expulsion Pylon recipe.[3][4][5]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any diamond gem | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:player_filter
Crafting Shaped
| any diamond storage block | ||
Recipe id: pylons:expulsion_pylon
Recipe changed by this pack.
Unverified The 60-second minimum and 1-hour activation for Potion Filters are the mod's defaults. It is not confirmed whether this pack's config changes them.
How does Pylons work?
6 parts
Pylons is a small set of magic blocks. You place a pylon, give it filters, and it does its job over a chunk range or a block range. The five pylons are the Expulsion Pylon, Harvester Pylon, Infusion Pylon, Interdiction Pylon and Protection Pylon. Every one of them can be toggled automatically with redstone.[1][6]
Filters
Most pylons are configured with filter items. Each filter is set by right-clicking something in the world. The Mob Filter picks a mob, the Block Filter picks a block, and the Player Filter picks a player. The Potion Filter picks up an active potion effect.[6]
The pack also has shapeless clearing recipes for the Mob, Player and Potion Filters.[7]
Expulsion Pylon
The Expulsion Pylon expels other players from a selected chunk range, from 1x1 up to 5x5 chunks. Add players to its whitelist with a Player Filter. Operators are whitelisted automatically, and so are team members when team support is enabled.[6]
In this pack, general.teamSupportEnabled is true. It only does anything if a compatible team mod (FTB Teams or Argonauts) is installed.[8]
expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonMaxRadius is 2, the same as the mod default. The radius does not count the center chunk, so 2 gives you the full 5x5 area.[8]
expulsion_pylon.expulsionAllowedDimensions limits where it works to minecraft:overworld, allthemodium:the_beyond, eternal_starlight:starlight and compactmachines:compact_world. In any other dimension the pylon shows "This dimension is disabled."[6][8]
It also won't work close to world spawn. expulsion_pylon.expulsionWorldSpawnRadius is 1 here, and it only takes effect if it is larger than the world spawn radius. Explosions can't destroy the pylon, because expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonCanExplode is false.[8]
Crafting Shaped
| any diamond storage block | ||
Recipe id: pylons:expulsion_pylon
This recipe is changed by the pack.
Harvester Pylon
The Harvester Pylon harvests crops in a range from 3x3 to 9x9 blocks around itself and outputs them to an inventory above it. Place it inside the water block of the farm, or level with the crops. If there is no inventory above it, it tells you to place one, and if the inventory is full it stops.[6]
In this pack it needs a hoe inside the pylon, because harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresTool is true. Each harvest uses 1 durability, unless the hoe is unbreakable. Unbreaking and other durability enchants are supported.[6][8]
harvester_pylon.harvesterCanBeAutomated is false in this pack, so you can't pipe tools in to automate the hoe supply. The config notes that unbreakable tools are required for full automation by default.[8]
The pack changed one value here. harvester_pylon.harvesterWorkDelay is 20 ticks between harvest attempts, down from the mod default of 60.[8]
There is also a power mode. If harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresPower is enabled, the tool requirement is dropped and each harvested block costs RF instead. It is off in this pack. The cost is set by harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerCost (5 RF per block) and the internal buffer by harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerBuffer (1,000 RF). Both are the mod defaults. The config says the buffer should be greater than the cost per block times 80.[8]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:harvester_pylon
This is the mod's own recipe.
Infusion Pylon
The Infusion Pylon lets you apply potion effects to yourself from any distance, using activated Potion Filter items. To activate a filter, get the effect on yourself, then right-click with the filter in hand to extract it.[6]
Two limits apply, both at their mod defaults in this pack. infusion_pylon.infusionMinimumDuration is 60 seconds, the shortest duration you can extract. infusion_pylon.infusionRequiredDuration is 3,600 seconds, the total a filter needs before it works. That is 1 hour, or 7.5 vanilla extended potions. The filter tooltip shows your progress in seconds.[6][8]
Duplicate Potion Filters can be combined: hold one in each hand and right-click.[6]
While the pylon is working, infusion_pylon.infusionAppliedDuration caps the applied effect at 20 seconds, refreshed every 60 ticks.[8]
infusion_pylon.infusionMaximumPotency is 3 in this pack, the same as the mod default. That value is 0-indexed, so a Resistance V potion would be potency 4.[8]
The pylon chunkloads itself, since infusion_pylon.infusionChunkloads is true. This is limited to one pylon per player, and only while that player is online.[8]
infusion_pylon.infusionAllowedEffects is empty in this pack, which means every effect is allowed except those in infusion_pylon.infusionDeniedEffects. The denied list is 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.[8]
Crafting Shaped
| any emerald storage block | ||
Recipe id: pylons:infusion_pylon
This recipe is changed by the pack.
Interdiction Pylon
The Interdiction Pylon stops natural and forced spawns of the mobs you choose, inside a chunk range from 1x1 to 5x5. Select a mob by right-clicking it with a Mob Filter, then add the filter to the pylon.[6]
The Lifeless Filter works differently. It blocks all mobs, but only natural spawns, over a much larger range of 25x25 chunks. It also disables any other mob filters in the pylon.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| any netherite storage block | ||
Recipe id: pylons:interdiction_pylon
This recipe is changed by the pack.
Protection Pylon
The Protection Pylon stops you, the pylon owner, from breaking blocks or killing mobs inside a chunk range from 1x1 to 5x5. It only protects against your own accidents. Use Mob Filter and Block Filter items to say which mobs and blocks are covered.[6]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:protection_pylon
This is the mod's own recipe.
How do you progress through Pylons?
6 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 7.1 guide
Pylons doesn't use numbered tiers in this pack. Each pylon is its own branch in the quest chapter, and you usually craft a filter first because it unlocks and powers the pylon that comes after it. The only exception is the Harvester Pylon, which needs no filter, so it's a good first build.[3]
How the quest chapter is laid out
- Farming branch: a quest in "Pylons" asks for a Harvester Pylon and has no filter quest in front of it.[3]
- Buff branch: a quest in "Pylons" (the Potion Filter) leads into a quest in "Pylons" (the Infusion Pylon).[3]
- Base protection branch: a quest in "Pylons" (the Player Filter) leads into a quest in "Pylons" (the Expulsion Pylon).[3]
- Spawn control branch: a quest in "Pylons" (the Mob Filter) and a quest in "Pylons" (the Lifeless Filter) both lead into a quest in "Pylons" (the Interdiction Pylon).[3]
Starting out: the Harvester Pylon
The Harvester Pylon is a very simple auto-farm. Put it on or in the water source, give it a hoe, and put an inventory such as a chest above it. Once you turn it on, it harvests and replants fully grown crops around it. You can set the area to 3x3, 5x5, 7x7 or 9x9 blocks.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:harvester_pylon
Buffs: Potion Filter into Infusion Pylon
To fill a Potion Filter, you need to have a potion effect on you. Right-click with the filter to take the effect off you and store it. Repeat until the filter is full and active. This works with modded effects too, and with effects you can't normally get from potions, like Haste or Resistance.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any emerald gem | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:potion_filter
Put a filled Potion Filter into the Infusion Pylon and it keeps giving you that effect wherever you are. Unlike a beacon, it has no set radius. This pack has changed the Infusion Pylon recipe, so check the recipe below instead of relying on memory from other packs.[3][5]
Crafting Shaped
| any emerald storage block | ||
Recipe id: pylons:infusion_pylon
Recipe changed by the pack
Keeping players out: Player Filter into Expulsion Pylon
The Expulsion Pylon keeps players who aren't whitelisted out of an area around it. You set that area in the top left of its GUI: 1x1, 3x3 or 5x5 chunks. You can't place it too close to spawn. By default, the pylon's owner is never pushed out.[3]
To let a friend stay, right-click them with a Player Filter and put the filter into the pylon to whitelist them. This pack has changed the Expulsion Pylon recipe.[3][5]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any diamond gem | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:player_filter
Crafting Shaped
| any diamond storage block | ||
Recipe id: pylons:expulsion_pylon
Recipe changed by the pack
Spawn control: Mob and Lifeless Filters into the Interdiction Pylon
To set a Mob Filter, click the mob you want gone with it. Each filter holds just 1 mob, so blocking Zombies, Skeletons, Spiders, Creepers and Endermen takes 5 filters. You can swap the mob by clicking a different one.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any netherite ingot | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:mob_filter
The Lifeless Filter blocks every natural spawn, hostile or passive, in a 25x25 chunk area, at every Y level above and below the pylon. It has no whitelist. It doesn't stop forced spawns from spawners or spawn eggs.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any nether star | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:lifeless_filter
The Interdiction Pylon is where these filters go. You can stack several Mob Filters and adjust the working area. If you add a Lifeless Filter, those settings are ignored. This pack has changed the Interdiction Pylon recipe.[3][5]
Crafting Shaped
| any netherite storage block | ||
Recipe id: pylons:interdiction_pylon
Recipe changed by the pack
Extras outside the quests
The pack also has recipes for a Protection Pylon and a Block Filter, but no quest covers them. There are also shapeless clear recipes for the Mob, Player and Potion Filters. Each one takes a filter and gives back the same filter.[5]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:protection_pylon
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:block_filter
Unverified The provided material doesn't describe what the Protection Pylon and Block Filter do, which quest must be completed before the Harvester Pylon quest, or which parts of the three changed pylon recipes differ from the mod's defaults.
Which All the Mons quests use Pylons?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 7.1 guide
All of the questing for Pylons happens in its own chapter called Pylons. The chapter is built as a few short branches: most of the Pylons need a matching filter first, so you'll usually grab the filter quest and then unlock the Pylon that uses it. Here's each branch in the order the quests unlock.[3]
Mob control: filters, then the Interdiction Pylon
- a quest in "Pylons" ("He's uninvited!") asks for a Mob Filter. To set it, you click the mob you never want to see again with the filter in hand. Each filter holds only 1 mob, so blocking Zombies, Skeletons, Spiders, Creepers and Endermen takes 5 Mob Filters. You can swap the stored mob by clicking a different one.[3]
- a quest in "Pylons" ("Finally peace and quiet.") asks for a Lifeless Filter. It stops every natural mob spawn, hostile or passive, in a 25x25 chunk area at every Y level above and below the Pylon. It has no whitelist, and it doesn't stop forced spawns like spawners or spawn eggs.[3]
- Once both filter quests are done, a quest in "Pylons" unlocks and asks for an Interdiction Pylon. You can stack multiple Mob Filters in it and adjust its Working Area. If you put in a Lifeless Filter, it ignores those settings.[3]
Potion effects: Potion Filter, then the Infusion Pylon
- a quest in "Pylons" asks for a Potion Filter. To fill it, you need the effect on yourself. Right-click with the filter to move the effect from you into the filter, and repeat until it's filled and active. The quest says this also works with modded effects and with effects you can't normally get from potions, such as Haste or Resistance.[3]
- That unlocks a quest in "Pylons", which asks for an Infusion Pylon. It works like a better Beacon: it gives you the effect from its Potion Filter continuously, with no set radius, so it reaches you wherever you are.[3]
Keeping players out: Player Filter, then the Expulsion Pylon
- a quest in "Pylons" asks for a Player Filter. Right-click a player with it to store them, then put it into an Expulsion Pylon to whitelist them. The Pylon's owner isn't expelled by default.[3]
- That unlocks a quest in "Pylons" ("Get off my lawn!"), which asks for an Expulsion Pylon. It keeps non-whitelisted players out of a 1x1, 3x3 or 5x5 chunk area, which you choose in the top left of its GUI. You can't place it too close to spawn.[3]
Farming: the Harvester Pylon
a quest in "Pylons" asks for a Harvester Pylon and unlocks after another quest in the Pylons chapter. The Harvester Pylon is a simple auto-farm. Place it on or in the water source and it harvests and replants fully grown crops in a 3x3, 5x5, 7x7 or 9x9 area around it. It needs a hoe and an inventory, such as a chest, above it to hold the crops, and it has to be switched on.[3]
Unverified The quest that the Harvester Pylon quest depends on isn't described in the available sources, so it's unclear what it asks for.
Which Pylons config options matter?
5 parts
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.[9]
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.[9]
Harvester Pylon
- harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresTool is true, so the harvester needs a hoe and uses 1 durability per harvest action.[9]
- 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.[9]
- harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresPower is false. If you turned it on, the tool requirement would be disabled and each harvested block would cost RF instead.[9]
- 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.[9]
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][9]
- infusion_pylon.infusionMinimumDuration is 60 seconds, the mod default. It prevents unintended interactions with other mods that add persistent potion effects at low durations.[9]
- infusion_pylon.infusionMaximumPotency is 3, the mod default. It is 0-indexed, so a Resistance V potion would be potency 4.[9]
- infusion_pylon.infusionAppliedDuration is 20 seconds, the mod default. The duration is refreshed up to this amount every 60 ticks.[9]
- infusion_pylon.infusionChunkloads is true. The pylon chunkloads itself, limited to one pylon per player while that player is online.[9]
- 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.[9]
Expulsion Pylon
- expulsion_pylon.expulsionAllowedDimensions limits where it works: minecraft:overworld, allthemodium:the_beyond, eternal_starlight:starlight and compactmachines:compact_world.[9]
- expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonCanExplode is false, so explosions do not destroy it.[9]
- 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.[9]
- 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.[9]
Teams
general.teamSupportEnabled is true. Team support is active whenever a compatible mod (FTB Teams or Argonauts) is installed.[9]
What changed in Pylons between versions?
1 part
All the Mons 0.6.0-beta ships with Pylons 5.4.0. The mod has been in the pack since 0.3.0-beta or earlier.[10]
Pylons 5.4.0
This is the version you get in this pack. Here is what the mod's own changelog lists for it:[10][11]
- New harvesting recipes for Cobblemon Apricorns.[11]
- Dye support. Right click the pylon with any dye item, and both vanilla and Dyenamics colors are supported.[11]
- A rework of redstone support, which fixes #42.[11]
Unverified No pack changelog entries for Pylons were available, so what changed for this mod between individual pack releases is unverified.
Sources
- Pylons project page (modrinth) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 7.1 mod list · pack file
- All the Mods 10 7.1 quests: "Pylons" · pack file
- pylons tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 7.1 recipe dump: recipes making Pylons items · pack recipe dump
- pylons names, screen text and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mons 0.6.0-beta recipe dump: recipes making Pylons items · pack recipe dump
- All the Mons 0.6.0-beta config: config/pylons-server.toml · pack file
- All the Mods 10 8.1 config: config/pylons-server.toml · pack file
- All the Mons 0.6.0-beta mod list · pack file
- Pylons 5.4.0 changelog · changelog
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 16, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 0.7.0-beta to 1.3.0