Ex Deorum guide for All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.0 to 1.0.2
Ex Deorum guide for All the Mods 10: To the Sky
Last verified for All the Mods 10: To the Sky v1.0.2 on Oct 11, 2026 · text last changed Oct 11, 2026
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- Sections
- 7
- Recipes shown
- 22
- Items named
- 66
- Quests covered
- 16
Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.0.2's own files.
What is Ex Deorum?
1 part
Ex Deorum is a port of the classic SkyBlock companion mod Ex Nihilo to 1.20 and beyond. If you're starting in a world with almost nothing, this is the mod that turns the basics into resources. The pack ships version 3.7.[1][2]
Unlike the original mod and its other ports, Ex Deorum includes a SkyBlock world type out of the box. Its recipes all live in data packs, and its blocks have JEI support, so you can look up what each one does in-game.[1]
Where it fits in the pack
Ex Deorum is built into the pack's first chapter, Starting Out. Its quests there cover the tools and machines you need first, so this mod is your early-game foundation.[3]
- Tools: the Stone Hammer (a quest in "?"), the Crook (a quest in "?") and later the Compressed Stone Hammer (a quest in "?").[3]
- Barrels: the Oak Barrel (a quest in "?") leads to the Stone Barrel (a quest in "?").[3]
- Sieving: the Oak Sieve, String Mesh and gravel come together in a quest in "?". After that, a quest in "?" asks for Grass Seeds and Mycelium Spores.[3]
- Witch water: a quest in "?" asks for the Witch Water Bucket. It unlocks after the barrel quest and the seeds quest.[3]
- Crucibles: the Oak Crucible (a quest in "?") and the Porcelain Crucible (a quest in "?").[3]
- Mesh upgrades: the quests follow a chain from the Flint Mesh, then the Iron Mesh, Golden Mesh and Diamond Mesh, up to the Netherite Mesh.[3]
The mod also adds a watering can item as an alternative to bone meal, with six tiers, starting with a wooden one.[1]
Unverified The mod's default recipes only use vanilla items, and by default the player starts with a wooden watering can and a torch. Whether this pack changes any of these recipes, drops or starting items could not be confirmed from the sources.
How do you get started with Ex Deorum?
6 parts
Welcome to Ex Deorum! You spawn into a SkyBlock void world, so everything starts from almost nothing. The pack's first quest chapter walks you through the early items, and the order below follows it.[3][4]
Barrel and crook
Start with the Oak Barrel (a quest in "?"). Barrels compost organic material into dirt, and dirt is the base of everything else you do here.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot | ||
Recipe id: exdeorum:oak_barrel
Next, craft a Crook (a quest in "?"). It doubles sapling drops from leaves, which helps you get a tree going.[3][4]
Leaves harvested with a crook have a 1 in 100 chance to drop a silk worm. Use the silk worm on a tree to infest its leaves. Once they are 100% infested you can harvest them for string, but they stop dropping saplings.[4]
Sieve and string mesh
The next quest, a quest in "?", asks for an Oak Sieve, a String Mesh and some gravel. Sieves sift soft blocks like gravel and dirt, and they need a mesh to work. Sieves in a 5x5 area can run at the same time.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| any wooden rod | Empty slot | any wooden rod |
Recipe id: exdeorum:oak_sieve
Sifting dirt with a string mesh can give you Grass Seeds and Mycelium Spores, which is what a quest in "?" asks for.[3][5]
Grass seeds turn dirt into a grass block. Mycelium spores turn dirt into mycelium, and used on a cow they turn it into a mooshroom.[4]
Witch water
Once you have mycelium, a quest in "?" asks for a Witch Water Bucket. You make witch water by putting water in a barrel on top of mycelium, and more mycelium speeds it up. Witch water plus lava can also make a netherrack generator.[3][4]
Hammers and dust
The Stone Hammer (a quest in "?") is your first hammer. Later, a quest in "?" asks for Dust, which hammering can produce.[3][5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any stone crafting material | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | any wooden rod | any stone crafting material |
| any wooden rod | Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:stone_hammer
The pack goes further with the Compressed Stone Hammer (a quest in "?"). It adds compressed-hammer recipes that turn compressed sand and red sand, in the 1x, 2x and 3x tiers, into Dust.[3][5]
Crafting Shaped
9 × Stone Hammer
Recipe id: exdeorum:compressed_stone_hammer
Mesh upgrades
Different meshes give different drops, and you can enchant them with Fortune for better drop chances or Efficiency for faster sifting. The quests take you up the tiers one at a time: Flint Mesh, Iron Mesh, Golden Mesh, Diamond Mesh and finally Netherite Mesh. Each tier is crafted from the one before it.[3][4][5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:flint_mesh_from_string_mesh
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any iron ingot | Empty slot |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| Empty slot | any iron ingot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:iron_mesh_from_flint_mesh
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any gold ingot | Empty slot |
| any gold ingot | any gold ingot | |
| Empty slot | any gold ingot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:golden_mesh_from_iron_mesh
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any diamond gem | Empty slot |
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | |
| Empty slot | any diamond gem | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:diamond_mesh_from_golden_mesh
Smithing Transform
Diamond Mesh
Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: exdeorum:netherite_mesh
The last step is a smithing recipe.
Crucibles
The chapter also has quests for the Oak Crucible (a quest in "?") and the Porcelain Crucible (a quest in "?"). The porcelain one is made by smelting the Unfired Porcelain Crucible.[3][5]
How does Ex Deorum work?
8 parts
Ex Deorum is built around a few simple blocks and machines: barrels, sieves, crucibles, hammers, crooks and watering cans. This section covers how they behave in this pack and what the sources say about powering the mechanical versions.[1][4]
Barrels and witch water
The barrel is where you compost organic material into dirt. The pack has barrels for many wood types, such as the Acacia Barrel, the Cherry Barrel and the Bamboo Barrel.[4][5]
Barrels can also make witch water. Put water in a barrel on top of mycelium, and more mycelium speeds the process up. A barrel with witch water will grow mushrooms on nearby mycelium. Witch water and lava can also make a netherrack generator, similar to a cobblestone generator.[4]
Sieves
Sieves sift items out of soft blocks like gravel and dirt, and they need a mesh to work. Different meshes yield different drops. You can enchant a mesh with Fortune to raise the likelihood of drops, or with Efficiency to sift faster.[4]
Sieves in a 5x5 area can be used simultaneously. The mod's advancement for the string mesh simply tells you to craft one to use in a sieve.[4]
Crucibles
Crucibles come in many wood types, for example the Birch Crucible and the Dark Oak Crucible. The recipe viewer has a Crucible Heat Source category, so heat sources matter for them, but the sources here do not spell out the melting rules. Wooden crucibles can also supply water for filling watering cans.[4][5]
Hammers and crooks
Hammers come in tiers from the Wooden Hammer up to the Netherite Hammer. Each tier has a compressed version that you craft from the normal hammer, such as the Compressed Diamond Hammer. The compressed crushed blocks also unpack back into their crushed form, for example Compressed Crushed Netherrack into Crushed Netherrack.[5]
The Crook doubles sapling drops from leaves. Here is its recipe:[4][5]
Silk worms have a 1 in 100 chance to drop from leaves harvested with a crook. Use a silk worm on a tree's leaves to infest them, and the infestation gradually spreads through the entire tree. Leaves that are 100% infested can be harvested for string, but they do not drop saplings.[4]
Mechanical machines and power
The Mechanical Hammer hammers blocks without you doing it yourself, and it runs on Forge Energy (FE). It can operate without a hammer, but adding any hammer doubles its speed, and efficiency enchantments on that hammer increase the speed further. It supports three different modes of redstone control.[4]
The Mechanical Sieve sifts blocks for you when it is supplied with a mesh and FE. It also supports three different modes of redstone control.[4]
Watering cans
Watering cans speed up crop growth, tree growth and grass spreading, among other things. The mod has six tiers of them.[1][4]
- You can fill a can with water from barrels and wooden crucibles.[4]
- Golden and above watering cans do not need to be refilled once full.[4]
- Diamond watering cans water a 3x3 area.[4]
- Netherite watering cans are usable by machinery.[4]
Spores, seeds and the sculk core
- Grass seeds turn dirt into a grass block.[4]
- Mycelium spores turn dirt into mycelium, and turn a cow into a mooshroom.[4]
- Crimson nylium spores and warped nylium spores turn netherrack into the matching nylium block.[4]
- A sculk core used on a Sculk Shrieker lets it spawn Wardens. Shriekers placed by players normally cannot, so this is useful for obtaining Sculk items in a SkyBlock world.[4]
Pack changes to Archwood blocks
The pack has changed the recipes for the Archwood barrel, the Archwood sieve and the Cascading Archwood crucible, so do not assume the mod's defaults. These are the exact in-pack recipes:[5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot | ||
Recipe id: exdeorum:archwood_barrel
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| any wooden rod | Empty slot | any wooden rod |
Recipe id: exdeorum:archwood_sieve
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot | ||
Recipe id: exdeorum:blue_archwood_crucible
This is the Cascading Archwood Crucible, and the pack changed its recipe.
How do you progress through Ex Deorum?
5 parts
In this pack, Ex Deorum progression runs through the starting-out quest chapter. The quests cover basic tools, barrels, the sieve, a ladder of meshes, hammers and crucibles. Here is how those steps connect.[3]
First tools and barrels
The Oak Barrel quest a quest in "?" and the Crook quest a quest in "?" both unlock after the same earlier quest, so you can take them in either order.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot | ||
Recipe id: exdeorum:oak_barrel
The Stone Barrel comes next a quest in "?", right after the oak barrel quest. The Stone Hammer has its own quest a quest in "?".[3]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot | ||
Recipe id: exdeorum:stone_barrel
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any stone crafting material | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | any wooden rod | any stone crafting material |
| any wooden rod | Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:stone_hammer
The sieve and your first seeds
The sieve quest a quest in "?" asks for three things: an Oak Sieve, a String Mesh and gravel. The next quest a quest in "?" wants Grass Seeds and Mycelium Spores. In this pack both come from sifting dirt with a mesh.[3][5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| any wooden rod | Empty slot | any wooden rod |
Recipe id: exdeorum:oak_sieve
After that, the Witch Water Bucket quest a quest in "?" opens. It needs both the oak barrel quest and the seeds quest finished first.[3]
Mesh tiers
Each mesh is an upgrade of the one before it, and the quests follow that ladder in order:[3][5]
- String Mesh, the starting mesh from the sieve quest.[3][5]
- Flint Mesh, upgraded from the string mesh a quest in "?".[3][5]
- Iron Mesh, upgraded from the flint mesh a quest in "?".[3][5]
- Golden Mesh, upgraded from the iron mesh a quest in "?".[3][5]
- Diamond Mesh, upgraded from the golden mesh a quest in "?".[3][5]
- Netherite Mesh, the final mesh, made with a smithing recipe from the diamond mesh a quest in "?".[3][5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:flint_mesh_from_string_mesh
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any iron ingot | Empty slot |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| Empty slot | any iron ingot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:iron_mesh_from_flint_mesh
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any gold ingot | Empty slot |
| any gold ingot | any gold ingot | |
| Empty slot | any gold ingot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:golden_mesh_from_iron_mesh
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any diamond gem | Empty slot |
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | |
| Empty slot | any diamond gem | Empty slot |
Recipe id: exdeorum:diamond_mesh_from_golden_mesh
Smithing Transform
- any netherite ingot
Recipe id: exdeorum:netherite_mesh
Every mesh tier from string to netherite has a sieve recipe that turns dirt into grass seeds and another that turns dirt into mycelium spores. The compressed sieve has matching recipes for each tier, using compressed dirt.[5]
Hammers and dust
The quest book asks you to make Dust a quest in "?". A hammer makes it by crushing sand or red sand. There is also a Compressed Stone Hammer quest a quest in "?", and that tool is crafted from the regular stone hammer.[3][5]
Crafting Shaped
9 × Stone Hammer
Recipe id: exdeorum:compressed_stone_hammer
The pack adds its own compressed hammer recipes too. They turn the 1x, 2x and 3x versions of both sand and red sand into dust. These are pack additions, not mod defaults.[5]
Crucibles
The Oak Crucible has its own quest a quest in "?". The Porcelain Crucible quest a quest in "?" is a separate route. You get the porcelain version by smelting an Unfired Porcelain Crucible.[3][5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot | ||
Recipe id: exdeorum:archwood_barrel
This recipe is changed by the pack.
How does Ex Deorum work with other mods?
4 parts
In this pack, Ex Deorum connects to other mods mostly through the sieve. The pack adds many sieve recipes that turn a base block plus a mesh into items from other mods.[5]
The pattern is the same everywhere. You sieve a block (or an Ex Deorum drop like Dust) with a mesh, and the result is an item from another mod. Better meshes unlock more of these drops.[5]
Dirt, dust and gravel
- Sieving Dirt gives you Canola Seeds, Coffee Beans and Flax Seeds. This works with the flint, iron, golden, diamond and netherite meshes.[5]
- Sieving Dust with the flint, iron, diamond or netherite mesh gives you all five Xychorium gems: Blue Xychorium Gem, Dark Xychorium Gem, Green Xychorium Gem, Light Xychorium Gem and Red Xychorium Gem.[5]
- Dust also gives Arcane Crystal, Salt and Sulfur with the iron, golden, diamond or netherite mesh.[5]
- Sieving Gravel with the iron, golden, diamond or netherite mesh gives you Asurine, Crimsite, Veridium and Kivi.[5]
Moss, sand and soul sand
- Sieving Moss Block with the iron, golden, diamond or netherite mesh gives you tree starters from other mods: Growing Edelwood, Menril Sapling and Flashing Archwood Sapling.[5]
- Sieving Sand with the iron, golden, diamond or netherite mesh gives you Black Quartz and Fluorite.[5]
- Sand also gives Allthemodium Nugget and Uraninite, but only with the diamond or netherite mesh.[5]
- Sieving Soul Sand gives you Prosperity Shard with the iron, golden, diamond or netherite mesh. Soulium Dust needs the diamond or netherite mesh.[5]
Nether and End materials
The rarest drops come from crushed blocks and need a diamond or netherite mesh. Sieving Crushed Blackstone gives you Allthemodium Nugget and Raw Iesnium. Sieving Crushed End Stone gives you Draconium Dust.[5]
Sieve (exdeorum)
Recipe id: allthemods:exdeorum/diamond_mesh/crushed_blackstone/raw_iesnium
Raw Iesnium from the sieve, added by the pack.
Sieve (exdeorum)
Recipe id: allthemods:exdeorum/netherite_mesh/crushed_end_stone/draconium_dust
Draconium Dust from the sieve, added by the pack.
Quests
The Ex Deorum quests in the starting chapter only ask for Ex Deorum items and vanilla gravel. One example is a quest in "?", which asks for Oak Sieve, String Mesh and Gravel. The mesh quests then run in a chain: flint, iron, golden, then a quest in "?" for the diamond mesh and a quest in "?" for the netherite mesh. Those are the meshes the other-mod drops above are sieved with.[3][5]
Which All the Mods 10: To the Sky quests use Ex Deorum?
4 parts
In this pack, every quest that involves Ex Deorum is in the Starting Out chapter. All of them are item tasks: each one is tied to an Ex Deorum item, and the sieve quest also includes a vanilla item. The quests have no titles, so you identify them by their ids. Several of them continue from quests that aren't listed in the sources, so I can only describe the order between the quests below.[3]
Barrels and water
- a quest in "?" has an item task for the Oak Barrel. It is the first barrel step.[3]
- a quest in "?" comes right after it and asks for the Stone Barrel.[3]
- a quest in "?" asks for the Witch Water Bucket. It needs both the oak barrel quest and the seeds and spores quest (see below) to be done first.[3]
Sieve and spreading seeds
- a quest in "?" has three item tasks: the Oak Sieve, the String Mesh and Gravel.[3]
- a quest in "?" follows it and asks for Grass Seeds and Mycelium Spores.[3]
- That quest is one of the two prerequisites for the witch water quest, a quest in "?".[3]
The mesh upgrade line
The meshes form a straight chain, so you complete them in this order:[3]
- a quest in "?": Flint Mesh.[3]
- a quest in "?": Iron Mesh.[3]
- a quest in "?": Golden Mesh.[3]
- a quest in "?": Diamond Mesh.[3]
- a quest in "?": Netherite Mesh.[3]
Tools and crucibles
- a quest in "?" asks for the Crook. It shares its prerequisite with the oak barrel quest, so you can do the two in either order.[3]
- a quest in "?" asks for the Stone Hammer.[3]
- a quest in "?" asks for the Compressed Stone Hammer. Its prerequisite is a different quest from the stone hammer one.[3]
- a quest in "?" asks for Dust.[3]
- a quest in "?" asks for the Oak Crucible.[3]
- a quest in "?" asks for the Porcelain Crucible. It requires two other quests to be done first, and neither is described in the sources.[3]
Unverified The quests have no titles or descriptions in the sources, and their rewards are not shown. The prerequisite quests outside this list are also not described, so the full chapter order can't be confirmed here.
What changed in Ex Deorum between versions?
1 part
All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.0.2 ships with Ex Deorum 3.7. The mod has been in the pack since 1.0 or earlier, so this is the version you get when you play the pack.[2]
Ex Deorum 3.7
Sources
- Ex Deorum project page (modrinth) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.0.2 mod list · pack file
- All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.0.2 quests: "chapter_1_starting_out" · pack file
- exdeorum tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.0.2 recipe dump: recipes making Ex Deorum items · pack recipe dump
- Ex Deorum 3.7 changelog · changelog
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mods 10: To the Sky 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 11, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 1.6 to 2.1.0 · 1.2 to 1.2.1 · 1.1.1 to 1.1.2