Actually Additions in All the Mods 10: To the Sky

Actually Additions is a magitech mod packed with gadgets. This pack ships version 1.3.26 of it. The core idea is that you use the Atomic Reconstructor and the Empowerer to turn ordinary minerals into powerful crystals, and those crystals unlock the rest of the mod.^[1][2]

From there you can build machines for processing and sorting items, lasers that move energy, items and fluids wirelessly, and a renewable oil setup for generating power. If you like tinkering with automation and utility blocks, this mod is for you.^[1]

The mod also comes with its own in-game booklet. It has a getting started entry and chapters such as the intro and the crystals chapter, so open it first when you're unsure where to begin.^[3][4][5]

Where it fits in the pack

Actually Additions sits on the ATM Star path. In Chapter 4: The ATM Star, there are quests that ask for the Empowered Canola Seeds, the Display Stand and the Empowerer. Another asks for the Player Interface, and one asks for the Ender Star. The quests are a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star", a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star" and a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star".^[6]

The mod shows up in a couple of side quests too. The "Flax String" quest quest accepts Flax Seeds as one of several seed options. In the Productive Bees chapter, "Black Quartz Bee" quest has you feed a Block of Black Quartz to a Crystalline Bee.^[7][8]

Unverified The sources don't say how the ATM Star quests use these items beyond collecting them, or what order to tackle them in, so check the quest book in-game for details.

Actually Additions is a magitech mod. The core loop is simple: you use the Atomic Reconstructor and the Empowerer to turn minerals into powerful crystals, and those crystals let you build machines, wireless lasers and power generation. The steps below follow that loop in the order I'd tackle it.^[1]

Step one: craft the manual

Make the Actually Additions Manual (WIP) first. It is the mod's in-game guide, and it's worth having on hand as you unlock new machines. It is crafted from Canola Seeds, and those seeds are crafted from Canola Plant.^[9]

Actually Additions Manual (WIP)Mod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Canola Seeds
• Paper

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:booklet

Canola SeedsMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Canola Plant

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:canola_seeds

Step two: build the Atomic Reconstructor

The Atomic Reconstructor is the machine that turns minerals into crystals, so it is the heart of the early game.^[1]

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

Step three: make coils

Coils are a key crafting component, so you will make plenty. The Basic Coil goes into the Auto-Breaker and the Coffee Maker, while the Advanced Coil goes into the Display Stand. The pack changed the Advanced Coil recipe, so follow the one below rather than anything you remember from the mod's defaults.^[9]

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

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

The pack changed this recipe.

Step four: get some power

The Coal Generator is a natural early power source. The pack changed its recipe too, so use the one shown here.^[9]

Coal GeneratorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	any coal	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:coal_generator

The pack changed this recipe.

Step five: move on to the Empowerer

The Empowerer is built with a Display Stand, so make that first. In the pack's quest book, the chapter called Chapter 4: The ATM Star has a quest, a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star", that asks for the display stand, the empowerer and Empowered Canola Seeds. That makes it a good checkpoint.^[6][9]

Display StandMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Advanced Coil	Empty slot
Ethetic Green Quartz	Ethetic Green Quartz	Ethetic Green Quartz
Ethetic Quartz	Ethetic Quartz	Ethetic Quartz

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:display_stand

EmpowererMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Restonia Crystal	Empty slot
Empty slot	Double Battery	Empty slot
Iron Casing	Display Stand	Iron Casing

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:empowerer

Empowered Canola SeedsMod recipe

Empowering (actuallyadditions)

• 4× Canola Seeds
• Crystallized Canola Seeds

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:empowering/empowered_canola

This one is an Empowerer recipe.

The same quest chapter also asks for the Player Interface in a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star" and the Ender Star in a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star". Treat those as your next goals once the Empowerer is running.^[6][9]

Player InterfaceMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Ender Casing	Wither Skeleton Skull	Ender Casing
Empowered Diamatine Crystal	Ender Casing	Empowered Diamatine Crystal
Ender Casing	Advanced Coil	Ender Casing

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:player_interface

Ender StarMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Nether Star
• Dragon Breath
• Black Quartz
• Prismarine Shard

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:ender_star

Actually Additions is built around crystals and lasers. You make crystals with the Atomic Reconstructor and the Empowerer, and those crystals unlock machines for processing and sorting items, lasers that move energy, items and fluids wirelessly, and renewable oil for power. Here is how the parts the sources explain actually work.^[1]

Starting point: the Atomic Reconstructor

Everything starts with the Atomic Reconstructor, the machine that turns minerals into crystals. Here is how it's crafted in this pack.^[1][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

Coils as the machine gate

In this pack, coils show up in the recipes of many machines, including the Auto-Breaker, the Battery Box and the Canola Press. The Basic Coil is the first step, and the Advanced Coil comes after it. The Advanced Coil recipe is changed by the pack, so don't rely on the mod's default recipe.^[9]

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 Basic Coil comes before the Advanced Coil.

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 is the pack's changed Advanced Coil recipe, not the mod default.

Laser relays and item networks

Item movement runs on Item Laser Relay networks. On its own, such a network only knows about all the items and slots in the containers connected to it. To actually work with those items, you use an Item Interface.^[10]

The Item Interface pretends to be one very large chest containing every slot of every connected container. You can put a Hopper or any other item transport on it and it behaves like a chest: it accepts items and lets items be pulled out. Nothing is stored in the interface itself. Items go into and come out of the laser relay network. To connect an Item Interface to a network, place an Item Laser Relay next to it.^[10]

The Hopping Item Interface connects the same way, by sitting next to an Item Laser Relay. The difference is that it pulls and pushes items on its own, so you don't need to pipe anything into it. It has every function of a Hopper, but it stores items in the network instead of an internal inventory.^[10]

Relay modes and filters

Laser relays have a mode setting for how they treat the blocks next to them. One mode only takes items out of adjacent blocks, and the other only puts items into adjacent blocks.^[10]

Filters work as a whitelist or a blocklist. An empty blocklist lets all items through, and an empty allowlist lets no items through. To filter certain items, place them, or configured Item Filters, in the slots. The smart button adds every item from inventories adjacent to the relay to that part of the list. If you enable the respect-mod option, the filter compares the mods items come from instead of the items themselves. That's handy for storage systems with mod-based chests.^[10]

Machines that read from a connected inventory use a slot range. The first field is the first slot to work on, and the second is the slot after the last one. For example, entering 2 and 5 covers slots 2, 3 and 4.^[10]

Machine controls and quirks

• Redstone mode can be toggled with a right-click while holding the right tool.^[10]
• Batteries can be switched with a sneak-right-click between charging other items in your inventory and not charging them.^[10]
• The Phantom Placer can place blocks in mid-air. Because of that it doesn't know which side to place against, so you should usually set it to a solid side.^[10]
• Drill augments must be installed in tier order. You need the previous tier first, an augment can't be installed twice, and you must remove the highest tier augments first.^[10]
• Some machines use a multiblock with a Controller. If the Controller isn't part of the right multiblock, the game tells you to look at the Controller's description.^[10]
• Some machines can shatter if you try to break them, with a message that they weren't sturdy enough to be broken.^[10]

Actually Additions in this pack runs from coils and crystals, through early machines, up to the Empowerer and the late-game pieces that the Chapter 4 quests ask for. This path is built from the pack's quests and the in-pack recipes.^[6][9]

Tier 1: Coils

The Basic Coil is your first target. It is built from Black Quartz and Restonia Crystal, and it feeds into the Crusher, the Auto-Breaker, the Coffee Maker and the Battery Box.^[9]

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

Crystal shards compress into full crystals, and crystals compress into storage blocks. Empowered crystals have storage blocks too.^[9]

Advanced Coils and early machines

The pack changed the Advanced Coil recipe, so don't rely on memory of the mod's defaults here. This coil is used in the Display Stand, the Player Interface, the Canola Press and the Double Crusher.^[9]

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

The Coal Generator recipe was also changed by the pack. The Atomic Reconstructor is a mod recipe that needs no coil at all.^[9]

Coal GeneratorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	any coal	any cobblestone
any cobblestone	Iron Casing	any cobblestone

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:coal_generator

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 Double Crusher is the upgrade step: it builds on a finished Crusher and an Advanced Coil.^[9]

Tier 3: The Empowerer

In Chapter 4 of the pack's quests, the quest a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star" covers the Empowered Canola Seeds, the Display Stand and the Empowerer. The in-pack recipes for the Display Stand and then the Empowerer are shown below.^[6][9]

Display StandMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Advanced Coil	Empty slot
Ethetic Green Quartz	Ethetic Green Quartz	Ethetic Green Quartz
Ethetic Quartz	Ethetic Quartz	Ethetic Quartz

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:display_stand

EmpowererMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Restonia Crystal	Empty slot
Empty slot	Double Battery	Empty slot
Iron Casing	Display Stand	Iron Casing

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:empowerer

Empowered Canola Seeds are made in the Empowerer, so they make a good first test of the machine.^[6][9]

Empowered Canola SeedsMod recipe

Empowering (actuallyadditions)

• 4× Canola Seeds
• Crystallized Canola Seeds

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:empowering/empowered_canola

Tier 4: Player Interface and Ender Star

The rest of Chapter 4 asks for the Player Interface (a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star") and then the Ender Star (a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star"). Their in-pack recipes are shown below, and the Player Interface is the one that calls for an Empowered Diamatine Crystal.^[6][9]

Player InterfaceMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Ender Casing	Wither Skeleton Skull	Ender Casing
Empowered Diamatine Crystal	Ender Casing	Empowered Diamatine Crystal
Ender Casing	Advanced Coil	Ender Casing

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:player_interface

Ender StarMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Nether Star
• Dragon Breath
• Black Quartz
• Prismarine Shard

Recipe id: actuallyadditions:ender_star

Side quests and pack changes

• The Productive Bees quest "Black Quartz Bee" quest asks you to feed a Block of Black Quartz to a Crystalline Bee.^[8]
• The Food and Farming quest "Flax String" quest accepts Flax Seeds from several mods, including Flax Seeds.^[7]
• The pack adds Ex Deorum sieve recipes that give Flax Seeds from dirt with flint, iron, golden, diamond or netherite meshes.^[9]
• The pack also changed the Immersive Engineering cloche recipe, which now returns Flax Seeds and string, and the Farming for Blockheads market entry for Flax Seeds.^[9]

Actually Additions connects to several other mods in this pack. Most links come from recipes the pack added, plus a few quests that ask for items from more than one mod. Here is where you will run into them.^[7][8][9]

Ex Deorum sieving

The Ex Deorum sieve hands out Actually Additions items. The pack adds recipes that turn dirt into Canola Seeds, Coffee Beans and Flax Seeds. These work with the flint, iron, golden, diamond and netherite meshes.^[9]

Black Quartz comes from sifting sand. The sand recipes use the iron, golden, diamond and netherite meshes.^[9]

Black QuartzAdded by the pack

Sieve (exdeorum)

• Iron Mesh
• Sand

Recipe id: allthemods:exdeorum/iron_mesh/sand/actuallyadditions/black_quartz

Sifting sand with an iron mesh. The golden, diamond and netherite meshes have matching recipes added by the pack.

Black Quartz from other mods

Neovitae connects here too. The pack lets you smelt or blast Black Quartz Dust into Actually Additions' Black Quartz.^[9]

Black QuartzAdded by the pack

Smelting

• Black Quartz Dust

Recipe id: neovitae:materials/smelting_black_quartz_dust

Productive Bees uses the same material. The pack changed the bee conversion recipe that turns a Block of Black Quartz into the Productive Bees black quartz item. The quest "Black Quartz Bee" quest asks you to feed a Black Quartz Block to a Crystalline Bee.^[8][9]

Pack-made crafting recipes

The pack adds shaped recipes where an Actually Additions item is one ingredient among many from other mods. The recipes below are added by the pack itself.^[9]

• Dragon Soul uses the Ender Star together with Focus of Summoning, Chaotic Core, Chaotic Energy Controller, Dragon Scale, Soul Gem and Inactive Dragon Egg.^[9]
• Philosopher's Fuel uses the Empowered Canola Seeds together with Draconic Reactor Core, Sentient Ender, Deorum Block, Ender Generator, Unobtainium Furnace, Eclipse Ember Block and Insanium Coal Block.^[9]
• Wither's Compass uses the Player Interface together with 8x Netherstar Generator, Wither Builder and Witherless Rose.^[9]

Dragon SoulAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Dragon Scale	Soul Gem	Dragon Egg
Chaotic Core	Ender Star	Chaotic Energy Controller
Dragon Head	Inactive Dragon Egg	Focus of Summoning

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/allthetweaks_dragon_soul

Philosopher's FuelAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Ender Generator	Unobtainium Furnace	Eclipse Ember Block
Empowered Canola Seeds	Insanium Coal Block	Deorum Block
Sentient Ender	Draconic Reactor Core	Sentient Ender

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/allthetweaks_philosophers_fuel

Wither's CompassAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Witherless Rose	Empty slot	Witherless Rose
8x Netherstar Generator	Wither Builder	8x Netherstar Generator
Witherless Rose	Player Interface	Witherless Rose

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/allthetweaks_withers_compass

Quests that touch Actually Additions

The quests in Chapter 4: The ATM Star include several Actually Additions items. Quest a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star" has tasks for the Empowered Canola Seeds, the Display Stand and the Empowerer. Quest a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star" asks for the Player Interface, and quest a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star" asks for the Ender Star.^[6]

The Food and Farming quest "Flax String" quest accepts flax seeds from Actually Additions or from several other mods, so any of them completes it. The quest text says some of these let you grow string directly, while others give an alternative that works in recipes.^[7]

Actually Additions shows up in the Food and Farming, Productive Bees and Chapter 4: The ATM Star quest chapters in this pack. Here is what each one asks for.^[6][7][8]

Food and Farming

The "Flax String" quest quest is subtitled "Who needs Spiders anyway?" and asks you to grow your own string. It comes after the quest called Punch the Grass.^[7]

Its task accepts seeds from several mods, and Flax Seeds is one of the accepted options. The quest text says some of these let you grow string directly, while others give an alternative that works in recipes.^[7]

Productive Bees

"Black Quartz Bee" quest asks you to feed a Black Quartz Block to a Crystalline Bee. Its first task accepts any one of several Productive Bees items: a configurable honeycomb, a configurable comb, a configurable bee spawn egg, a bee cage or a sturdy bee cage. Its second task is the Block of Black Quartz.^[8]

This quest comes after another quest in the same chapter, which the quest data identifies only by the id 17419401147B5C02.^[8]

Chapter 4: The ATM Star

This chapter has several Actually Additions quests. None of them has a title in the quest data, so they appear by id only.^[6]

• a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star" has item tasks for Empowered Canola Seeds, Display Stand and Empowerer.^[6]
• a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star" has a single task: the Player Interface.^[6]
• a quest in "Chapter 4: The ATM Star" has a single task: the Ender Star.^[6]

All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 ships Actually Additions 1.3.26 for Minecraft 1.21.1, and the mod has been in the pack since version 1.0 or earlier. Below are the notable changes from the mod's own changelogs, newest first. I only have changelogs for some releases, so this isn't a complete history.^[2]

1.3.26 (the version in the pack)

• Opening the booklet without Patchouli installed now shows a warning.^[11]
• Infrared Engineer Goggles now make mobs glow, as they should.^[11]
• The farmer no longer overrides custom soil with regular farmland.^[11]

1.3.25

• Fixed a crash when manually summoning the snail, and added its missing lang key.^[12]
• The Vertical Digger's checkY is now set to the minimum build height on first load.^[12]

1.3.24

• The coffee item is now marked as non-repairable.^[13]
• The drill screen was reworked. You can no longer insert a higher tier upgrade without the lower tier installed, as originally intended.^[13]
• You also can't remove a lower tier upgrade while a higher tier is still installed, and you can't install duplicate upgrades.^[13]

1.3.22

• The Feeder block's redstone output changed. It is now based on the number of animals nearby relative to the maximum it can feed.^[14]
• The configuration and filters on the Void Sack work again.^[14]
• Fixed the alignment of the Atomic Reconstructor related JEI categories.^[14]

1.3.20

• Rice now generates in the world.^[15]
• The Mini-torch no longer has collision.^[15]

1.3.19

• Added the missing Ender Star recipe.^[16]
• Added null checks to the worm and to other items and blocks to prevent crashes.^[16]