Crystalix guide for All the Mods 10 2.32

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Crystalix is a building and decoration mod that adds colored glass blocks with a lot of different functions. The pack includes version 3.0.0. It's a great pick if you like detailed builds, or if you want glass that does more than look pretty.^[1][2]

Since version 2.3.0 there are only 3 kinds of glass, and you can apply any color to any of them. That gives you a huge number of color combinations without a crowded creative menu.^[1]

The Crystalix Wand

The wand is how you customize your glass. You hold V by default to open a config window, then cycle through the properties to set them on a block. Left clicking or scrolling down cycles forwards, and right clicking or scrolling up cycles backwards.^[1]

• Crouch to edit all connecting blocks at once.^[1]
• Hold CTRL to apply properties without changing the color.^[1]
• Press X to copy the properties from the block you're currently targeting onto the wand.^[1]

What the properties can do

Properties can be mixed however you like. You can make a block invisible, fully transparent with only a few colored specks, waterloggable, or shadeless. You can also make it emit a redstone signal of 15, or let it conduct redstone like a solid block.^[1]

Reinforced blocks are indestructible to everything, including the wither and the ender dragon, except for a player mining them. Mining them is also 10x harder. The Ghost property lets chosen groups pass through the block, such as only players or only hostile mobs. The Light property can make a block glow at light level 15, block light like tinted glass, or glow at 15 while still allowing mob spawns.^[1]

Unverified Where Crystalix fits in this pack's progression is unconfirmed. The available sources show no quests for it and no place on the ATM Star path, so treat it as an optional building and decoration mod.

Crystalix is all about coloured glass-style building blocks. In this pack the recipes form a chain: you craft a plain base block first, then upgrade it step by step into named variants. The black set is the clearest example, so that's what we'll follow here.^[1][3]

The base block

Everything starts with the plain coloured block. For black, that's crystalix:black_block. It's the ingredient the first round of upgrades builds on, so make a few before anything else.^[3]

Pick your upgrade

From the base block, each upgrade is its own recipe that turns it into a named variant. These are the ones you'll reach for first:^[3]

• crystalix:black_dark_block is the Dark variant.^[3]
• crystalix:black_ghost_block is the Ghost variant.^[3]
• crystalix:black_light_block is the Light variant.^[3]
• crystalix:black_shaded_block is the Shaded variant.^[3]
• crystalix:black_reinforced_block is the Reinforced variant.^[3]

4× Black Ghost BlockMod recipe

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Black Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Block
Phantom Membrane	any black dye	Phantom Membrane
Black Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Block

Recipe id: crystalix:black_ghost_block

The Ghost variant is crafted from the base block.

Stack the upgrades

You don't have to stop at one upgrade. Variants can be combined, which gives names like crystalix:black_reinforced_ghost_block and crystalix:black_shaded_reinforced_dark_ghost_block. Each combination can be reached from more than one starting point. The Reinforced Ghost block, for example, has one recipe that starts from the Ghost block and another that starts from the Reinforced block, so you can add the upgrades in whichever order suits what you already have.^[3][4]

4× Black Reinforced Ghost BlockMod recipe

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Black Reinforced Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Reinforced Block
Phantom Membrane	Empty slot	Phantom Membrane
Black Reinforced Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Reinforced Block

Recipe id: crystalix:black_reinforced_ghost_block_from_black_reinforced_block

This route upgrades a Reinforced block into a Reinforced Ghost block.

Other colours

Black isn't the only colour. The mod's language file lists the same family of variant names for other colours such as blue, brown, cyan, gray and green.^[4]

Crystalix doesn't work like a tech mod. The project page describes it as adding colored glass blocks with many different functions, and the sources here don't describe machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation. So this section covers how the glass blocks and their properties work, as the project page explains them, and how you craft them in the pack.^[1]

Properties are the core system

Each block gets its behavior from properties, and you can mix and match them however you want. You can also apply any color to any type of glass.^[1]

• Invisibility: the project page says this makes the block invisible, which is useful when you want the glass's properties without a visible block.^[1]
• Transparent: the project page says the texture becomes fully transparent and the color is only applied to a few specs on the glass.^[1]
• Waterloggable: sets whether the block can be waterlogged.^[1]
• Reinforced: the project page says the block is indestructible to everything, including the wither and the ender dragon, except for a player mining it, and that it is 10x harder to mine.^[1]
• Shadeless: the project page says this removes the shadows and shade from the block.^[1]
• Redstone: the project page says the block emits a redstone signal of 15.^[1]
• Conductor: the project page says the block conducts redstone through it like a solid block.^[1]
• Color: opens a color picker so you can choose any color for your glass.^[1]

Ghost and Light modes

The project page lists several modes for both Ghost and Light. Ghost makes the block passthrough for one of these options: nothing, everything, only players, everything except players, only hostile mobs, everything except hostile mobs, only passive mobs, or everything except passive mobs.^[1]

According to the project page, Light cycles through None, Light, Dark and Fake Light. None is no special property. Light glows at a light level of 15. Dark blocks light the same way tinted glass does. Fake Light glows with a light level of 15 and still allows mobs to spawn.^[1]

The Crystalix Wand

The project page describes the Wand as the tool for changing a block's properties: it lets you cycle through all possible properties, and a config window lets you set the property of a block.^[1]

• By default, holding V opens the config window, per the project page.^[1]
• Per the project page, left clicking or scrolling down cycles forwards, and right clicking or scrolling up cycles backwards.^[1]
• Per the project page, crouching lets you edit all connecting blocks at once.^[1]
• Per the project page, holding CTRL makes the wand apply only properties and not color.^[1]
• Per the project page, pressing X copies the properties from the block you're currently targeting onto the wand.^[1]

Crafting property variants in the pack

In this pack the property variants also exist as separate craftable blocks. The language file lists reinforced and shaded reinforced versions in colors such as black, blue, brown and cyan, and the recipe dump shows how the black set is built.^[3][4]

Everything starts with the plain crystalix:black_block.^[3]

From the base block you add a property. The reinforced version is crystalix:black_reinforced_block.^[3]

The ghost version is crystalix:black_ghost_block.^[3]

4× Black Ghost BlockMod recipe

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Black Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Block
Phantom Membrane	any black dye	Phantom Membrane
Black Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Block

Recipe id: crystalix:black_ghost_block

The light version is crystalix:black_light_block.^[3]

The shaded version is crystalix:black_shaded_block.^[3]

The dark version is crystalix:black_dark_block.^[3]

Combined blocks can be reached from several starting points. For example, crystalix:black_reinforced_dark_ghost_block can be made from the dark ghost, the reinforced dark or the reinforced ghost block, so you can add the last property to whichever block you already have.^[3]

Crystalix has no power tiers like a tech mod. Its progression is a ladder of decorative colored blocks, and every rung is a shaped crafting recipe. The recipes shown for this pack are all listed as mod recipes, and the sources do not show any pack changes to them.^[3]

The base block

Everything starts with a plain colored block, such as crystalix:black_block or crystalix:blue_block. Each color has its own base recipe, and in the recipes shown the later variants of that color build on this block.^[3]

First-tier variants

From the base block you craft a single-modifier variant. The black set shows the modifiers Dark, Light, Ghost, Reinforced and Shaded. Blue shows Dark, Light and Ghost versions in the recipes available here.^[3]

• crystalix:black_dark_block is the Dark variant.^[3]
• crystalix:black_light_block is the Light variant.^[3]
• crystalix:black_ghost_block is the Ghost variant.^[3]
• crystalix:black_reinforced_block is the Reinforced variant.^[3]
• crystalix:black_shaded_block is the Shaded variant.^[3]

4× Black Ghost BlockMod recipe

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Black Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Block
Phantom Membrane	any black dye	Phantom Membrane
Black Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Block

Recipe id: crystalix:black_ghost_block

The Ghost variant is also crafted from the base block.

Stacking modifiers

Variants can be combined. You craft a combined block from a block that already has some of its modifiers, plus an item that adds the missing one. The names read in order, so crystalix:black_shaded_reinforced_dark_ghost_block carries every modifier on top of black.^[3]

Combined blocks usually have multiple routes. For example, crystalix:black_dark_ghost_block can be made from the Dark block or from the Ghost block, so you can take whichever route fits what you already have in your inventory.^[3]

4× Black Dark Ghost BlockMod recipe

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Black Dark Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Dark Block
Phantom Membrane	Empty slot	Phantom Membrane
Black Dark Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Dark Block

Recipe id: crystalix:black_dark_ghost_block_from_black_dark_block

Route to the Dark Ghost block starting from the Dark block.

The top of the ladder

The longest chains in the black set end at crystalix:black_shaded_reinforced_dark_ghost_block and crystalix:black_shaded_reinforced_light_ghost_block. Each can be reached from several different blocks just below it.^[3]

4× Black Shaded Reinforced Dark Ghost BlockMod recipe

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Black Shaded Reinforced Dark Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Shaded Reinforced Dark Block
Phantom Membrane	Empty slot	Phantom Membrane
Black Shaded Reinforced Dark Block	Phantom Membrane	Black Shaded Reinforced Dark Block

Recipe id: crystalix:black_shaded_reinforced_dark_ghost_block_from_black_shaded_reinforced_dark_block

One way to reach the top Dark Ghost block.

Unverified The sources here do not show any quests in this pack that involve Crystalix, so there is no quest-guided progression to follow. The recipe list was also cut off, so the full set of colors and which modifiers each color has are not confirmed.

There isn't much history to tell yet. The All the Mods 10 2.32 changelog lists Crystalix as a new addition, at version 1.0.1.^[5]

The 2.32 mod list shows the jar as crystalix-1.0.1_neoforge_1.21.1.jar, which is a NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1. The list only says it was first included in 2.32 or earlier, so the changelog entry is the clearest sign of when it arrived.^[6]

Unverified No changelog for the shipped Crystalix 1.0.1 jar is available, so what changed inside the mod itself, and any pack-specific tweaks to it, is unverified.