AllTheCompressed guide for All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

AllTheCompressed adds compressed versions of common blocks and items, so you can store a lot of material in much less space. This pack includes version 4.2.0 of AllTheCompressed, and it has been part of the pack since 1.0 or earlier.^[1]

It matters most in a skyblock start. You'll be collecting huge amounts of basic materials like cobble, sand and dust for processing, and your chests fill up fast. Compressing them in a crafting table keeps your storage manageable.^[2]

Where it fits in progression

You meet the mod early, in Chapter 1: Starting out. The quest "Compressed Items" quest unlocks after the quest "All rock, No roll" and asks you to get Cobblestone 1x. The quest describes compressing as something that "saves space and time". It also mentions hammering compressed items in bulk, but the quest text available to me cuts off before saying what that requires.^[2]

Unverified The sources I have don't show AllTheCompressed on the ATM Star quest path, and they give no further detail on its role beyond Chapter 1.

AllTheCompressed lets you pack common blocks into compressed versions so your Skyblock storage doesn't explode. The pack introduces it in Chapter 1 with the quest "Compressed Items" quest. It points out that you'll be collecting a lot of basic items like cobble, sand and dust, and compressing them saves room.^[2]

Your first steps, in order

1. Work through the quest chain until you reach Compressed Items. It comes after the quest called All rock, No roll, so finish that one first.^[2]
2. Make your first compressed item, Cobblestone 1x. It's the item the quest asks for. The quest says you compress items by combining 9 of them in a crafting table. The recipe below is the exact in-pack one.^[2][3]
3. Keep stacking tiers once you're comfortable. Each tier is crafted from the previous one. Acacia logs, for example, run from Acacia Log 1x up to Acacia Log 9x.^[3]
4. Break things back down when you need the raw material. The decompress recipe turns Cobblestone 2x back into Cobblestone 1x.^[3]

Cobblestone 1xMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Cobblestone

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/cobblestone_1x

Your first compressed item, and the task for the Compressed Items quest.

9× Cobblestone 1xMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cobblestone 2x

Recipe id: allthecompressed:decompress/cobblestone_2x

Stepping one tier back down.

Same as in the All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 guide

Here's the honest picture for this one: in this pack, the sources I have only show AllTheCompressed as a set of compressed blocks made by hand in a crafting grid. There are no machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation described anywhere in them.^[4]

Compression happens in the crafting grid

Every compression recipe I can see is a shaped crafting recipe, so you don't need any special machine. They all live under the compress recipe path of the mod and are named after the tier they produce, from 1x up to 9x.^[4]

The tiers form a chain. The 1x item is made from the plain base block, and every tier after that is made from the tier directly below it. So to get a 9x block you have to build every step from 1x to 8x first. You can't skip tiers.^[4]

Acacia is a good example. The first step turns a vanilla acacia log into Acacia Log 1x, and the next step turns that into Acacia Log 2x.^[4]

Acacia Log 1xMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Acacia Log

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/acacia_log_1x

The first step of the chain starts from the vanilla acacia log.

Acacia Log 2xMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Acacia Log 1x

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/acacia_log_2x

Later steps use the tier directly below as the input.

Planks work the same way, running from Acacia Planks 1x up to Acacia Planks 9x.^[4]

Recipes the pack changed

Not every chain is a plain mod default. The pack changed the recipes for the Allthemodium and Aluminum chains, while the acacia recipes are shown as the mod's own.^[4]

The Allthemodium chain starts from the Block of Allthemodium (Block of Allthemodium) and produces Allthemodium Block 1x. Each later tier, up to Allthemodium Block 9x, is built from the previous one.^[4]

Allthemodium Block 1xChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × Block of Allthemodium

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/allthemodium_block_1x

This recipe is changed by the pack and starts from the Block of Allthemodium.

The Aluminum chain is a bit more flexible at the start. Aluminum Block 1x accepts any block from the common aluminum storage block tag, so it isn't tied to one mod's aluminum block. After that it continues with Aluminum Block 2x and the higher tiers.^[4]

Aluminum Block 1xChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × any aluminum storage block

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/aluminum_block_1x

This recipe is changed by the pack and accepts any block in the aluminum storage block tag.

Unverified Anything beyond crafting-table compression is unconfirmed: whether the compressed blocks have special properties, whether they can be uncompressed again, how they behave with automation, and whether any config options exist. The sources here show no guidebook, tooltips or config files for this mod.

AllTheCompressed doesn't have a tech tree. Its tiers are simply compression levels, and you climb them in the crafting table. The pack introduces it early, in Chapter 1 with the quest "Compressed Items" quest (Compressed Items). It unlocks after the quest All rock, No roll, and its task is to get Cobblestone 1x.^[2]

The quest explains why you want this in Skyblock: you'll be collecting a lot of basic items like cobble, sand and dust, and compressing them saves room. It tells you to combine 9 in a crafting table.^[2]

How the tiers stack

The materials in the recipe list all follow the same ladder. The normal item becomes the 1x version, the 1x becomes the 2x, and so on, with each step using only the previous tier. Acacia Log 1x through Acacia Log 9x are one example, running from 1x up to 9x.^[3]

Cobblestone 1xMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Cobblestone

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/cobblestone_1x

The first step of the cobblestone ladder, which is also what the Compressed Items quest asks for.

You can go back down too. The pack has a shapeless decompress recipe that turns Cobblestone 2x into Cobblestone 1x.^[3]

9× Cobblestone 1xMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Cobblestone 2x

Recipe id: allthecompressed:decompress/cobblestone_2x

Decompressing a 2x cobblestone back to 1x.

Materials the pack changed

Some ladders use the mod's own recipes, with the first step starting from the vanilla item. That covers cobblestone, acacia logs, acacia planks, amethyst blocks and andesite. Other ladders are marked as changed by the pack, and in those the first step starts from a block from another mod.^[3]

• Allthemodium: Block of Allthemodium is the input for Allthemodium Block 1x.^[3]
• Aluminum: any storage block tagged as aluminum can start Aluminum Block 1x, so you aren't tied to one mod's block.^[3]
• Ancient materials: Ancient Log and Ancient Stone lead into Ancient Log 1x and Ancient Stone 1x.^[3]
• Antimatter: Antimatter Pellet is compressed into Antimatter Block first, and that block then starts the numbered tiers at Antimatter Block 1x.^[3]

Antimatter BlockChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × Antimatter Pellet

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/antimatter_block

The pack-changed first step for antimatter, before the numbered tiers begin.

AllTheCompressed is mostly a bridge mod in this pack. Its blocks are compressed "1x" versions of storage blocks that other mods already add, so almost every connection runs through a compress recipe and a matching decompress recipe. The recipe dump marks all of them as changed by the pack, so what you see here is the pack's setup, not the mod's defaults.^[3]

Compressing is a shaped crafting recipe and decompressing is a shapeless one. Here is the pair for Fluix.^[3]

Fluix Block 1xChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × Fluix Block

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/fluix_block_1x

Compressing a Fluix Block.

9× Fluix BlockChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Fluix Block 1x

Recipe id: allthecompressed:decompress/fluix_block_1x

Getting the Fluix Block back.

Which mods connect

• Allthemodium: compressed versions of Block of Allthemodium, Block of Raw Allthemodium, Block of Raw Unobtainium, Block of Raw Vibranium, Block of Unobtainium, Block of Vibranium, Block of Unobtainium - Allthemodium Alloy, Block of Unobtainium - Vibranium Alloy, Block of Vibranium - Allthemodium Alloy, Ancient Log, Ancient Stone and Block of Piglich Hearts.^[3]
• AllTheOres: the dump shows decompress recipes for blocks like Aluminum Block, Bronze Block, Osmium Block, Platinum Block and Raw Aluminum Block. Salt Block has both a compress and a decompress recipe.^[3]
• AllTheTweaks: Nether Star Block, ATM Star Block and GregStar Block have compress and decompress recipes, and Ender Pearl Block has a decompress recipe.^[3]
• Applied Energistics 2 and its add-ons: Certus Quartz Block, Fluix Block, Sky Stone, Entro Block, Block of Silicon, Sky Bronze Block, Sky Osmium Block, Sky Steel Block and Charged Redstone Crystal Block.^[3]
• Powah: Block Of Blazing Crystal, Block Of Niotic Crystal, Block Of Nitro Crystal, Block Of Spirited Crystal, Block Of Energized Steel and Block Of Uraninite.^[3]
• Ender IO: alloy blocks such as Dark Steel Block, End Steel Block, Soularium Block, Vibrant Alloy Block and Pulsating Alloy Block.^[3]
• Others: Block of Compressed Iron from PneumaticCraft, Wax Block from Productive Bees, and Kivi from XyCraft, plus its Xychorium gem storage blocks: Blue Xychorium Gem Storage, Dark Xychorium Gem Storage, Green Xychorium Gem Storage, Light Xychorium Gem Storage and Red Xychorium Gem Storage.^[3]

Mekanism is a slightly different case. Compressing Antimatter Pellet gives you Antimatter Block, which has no "1x" in its name, and decompressing it gives the pellet back.^[3]

Antimatter BlockChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × Antimatter Pellet

Recipe id: allthecompressed:compress/antimatter_block

Antimatter Pellet to Antimatter Block.

In the quests

The quest "Compressed Items" quest sits in Chapter 1: Starting out, right after the quest "All rock, No roll". Its task is to obtain Cobblestone 1x. The quest text explains that in Skyblock you will collect lots of basic items like cobble, sand and dust, and that you can save room by combining 9 in a crafting table.^[2]

In this pack, AllTheCompressed shows up in just one quest, and it's in the first chapter, "Chapter 1: Starting out". That makes it an early, easy one to pick up.^[2]

Chapter 1: Starting out

The quest is "Compressed Items" quest. It unlocks after you finish the quest called "All rock, No roll", so that's the one to clear first.^[2]

The task is to hand in Cobblestone 1x. The quest text explains why: in Skyblock you'll collect lots of basic items for processing, like cobble, sand and dust. To save room, you can compress them by combining 9 in a crafting table.^[2]

The quest text goes on to mention what you'll need if you want to hammer compressed items in bulk. The text I have cuts off there, so I can't tell you what it asks for.^[2]

Unverified Whether any other chapters have quests that involve this mod could not be confirmed from the available quest data.