Forbidden and Arcanus guide for All the Mods 10 0.56 to 0.59
Forbidden and Arcanus guide for All the Mods 10
Last verified for All the Mods 10 v0.59 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
A newer release (8.3) is out Guide for the current version
Also applies to:All the Mods 11 0.1.0 to 0.12.0-beta
- Sections
- 7
- Recipes shown
- 25
- Items named
- 47
- Quests covered
- 3
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 Mods 10 0.59's own files.
What is Forbidden and Arcanus ?
Same as in the All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta guide
Forbidden & Arcanus adds magical themed content in a style that could fit into vanilla Minecraft. If you want your modded world to feel mystical without looking out of place next to normal blocks, that is what this mod is going for.[1]
On top of the magic content, it adds many new building related blocks, which open up new possibilities for decorating and designing your base.[1]
The pack ships a beta build of the mod, so what you read in this guide describes that build and not necessarily what other releases offer.[2]
The mod's developers say it gets regularly updated with new content and improvements. They also point to a video tutorial that covers most things in the mod, which is a good place to start for a full walkthrough.[1]
How do you get started with Forbidden and Arcanus ?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 0.64 guide
Forbidden & Arcanus is a magic-themed mod with a vanilla-ish look, and it comes with a big pile of new building blocks alongside the magical gear. That means your first hour with it is mostly about collecting a few odd materials and turning them into the handful of base items everything else branches off from.[1]
Start with arcane crystal dust
Dust specks are the entry point. Combine them into Arcane Crystal Dust and you unlock most of the mod's early crafts, because the dust shows up again and again in later recipes.[3]
With dust in hand, the two cheapest things worth making right away are an Aureal Bottle and Arcane Bone Meal. The bottle is the mod's own container item, and the bone meal is a magical counterpart to the vanilla stuff.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_bone_meal
If you are swimming in Arcane Crystal, you can pack them into Arcane Crystal Block for storage and unpack them again later.[3]
Crafting Shaped
9 × Arcane Crystal
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_crystal_block_from_arcane_crystal
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_crystal_from_arcane_crystal_block
Get your Darkstone working
Darkstone is the mod's workhorse stone. Your first real machine part from it is the Clibano Core, so grab Darkstone early and keep a stack aside.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:clibano_core
Darkstone also feeds the mod's own Smithing Template, which is worth crafting once you have a spare netherite upgrade template lying around. Its tooltip tells you the base slot takes armor, a weapon or a tool.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:apply_modifier_smithing_template
Unverified Exactly which upgrades this Smithing Template applies, and what the Clibano Core builds into, is not confirmed by the pack files used for this guide. Check JEI and the item tooltips in-game. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.
Build toward the Hephaestus Forge
The pack's quest book points you at the mod's centrepiece next: a quest in "?" asks you to produce a Hephaestus Forge Tier 1, and the follow-up it unlocks, a quest in "?", asks for an Eternal Stella. Treat those two as your medium-term goals once the basic crafts are done.[5]
The mod's pedestal is a Darkstone craft that runs through Arcane Polished Darkstone, so line those up while you are already mining Darkstone and smelting Deorum Ingot.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_polished_darkstone
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_polished_darkstone_pillar
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_polished_darkstone_slab
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:darkstone_pedestal
Advanced Beehive (productivebees)
Recipe id: productivebees:bee_produce/forbidden_arcanus/stellarite_bee
Bee produce, made in an advanced beehive.
Where it leads
The long-term target on the tool side is the Draco Arcanus Pickaxe, which has its own quest, a quest in "?", in the pack's basic tools chapter. Do not expect it early: just know it is the pickaxe the pack wants you to work toward from this mod.[6]
After that, most of what is left is dragon scales, Obsidiansteel Ingot and the corrupted crystal line, plus a very large set of decorative Darkstone, Aurum and Deorum blocks for building. Open JEI on any of those items and the pack's exact recipe will show up.[1][3]
How does Forbidden and Arcanus work?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 4.5 guide
Forbidden and Arcanus adds magical content in a style that fits vanilla, plus a lot of new building blocks. This section covers the crafting chains that can be confirmed for this pack. Every recipe shown here is the mod's own recipe as it's loaded in the pack.[1][7]
Arcane Crystal processing
Arcane Crystal and its dust show up in lots of the mod's recipes, so this is the chain you'll run most often. It covers Arcane Crystal Dust Speck, Arcane Crystal Dust, Arcane Crystal and the Arcane Crystal Block, and the pack's recipes below show each step, including packing crystals into a block and unpacking them again.[7]
Crafting Shaped
9 × Arcane Crystal
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_crystal_block_from_arcane_crystal
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_crystal_from_arcane_crystal_block
The dust chain feeds several more items. The pack's recipes below cover Arcane Bone Meal, the Aureal Bottle and the Aquatic Dragon Scale, which is the upgraded form of the plain Dragon Scale.[7]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_bone_meal
Deorum upgrades
The Deorum Ingot is what turns ordinary building materials into their arcane versions. Polished Darkstone has an arcane counterpart, Arcane Polished Darkstone, and the pack loads the usual shaped variants on top of it: the Arcane Polished Darkstone Pillar, Arcane Polished Darkstone Slab, Arcane Polished Darkstone Stairs and Arcane Polished Darkstone Wall.[7]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_polished_darkstone
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_polished_darkstone_pillar
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_polished_darkstone_slab
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_polished_darkstone_stairs
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_polished_darkstone_wall
Wood works the same way. Arcane Edelwood Planks is the arcane counterpart of Edelwood Planks, and those planks have their own Arcane Edelwood Door and Arcane Edelwood Trapdoor.[7]
Crafting Shaped
| any deorum ingot | ||
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_edelwood_planks
This one accepts anything in the deorum ingot tag, not just the mod's own ingot.
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_edelwood_trapdoor
Smithing templates and dragon items
You craft the Smithing Template from Darkstone and a vanilla netherite upgrade smithing template. That means you'll need a netherite template before you can make one.[7]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:apply_modifier_smithing_template
The mod also has a darkstone upgrade smithing template. Its tooltip says the base slot takes an armor piece, a weapon or a tool.[8]
If you've got a Golden Dragon Scale, you can combine it with a vanilla dragon egg to craft the Arcane Dragon Egg.[7]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_dragon_egg
The Hephaestus Forge
The mod adds a JEI category called Hephaestus Forge Upgrading. It also has an item called the Reinforced Deorum Blacksmith Gavel. Open that JEI category in-game to see how the forge's upgrades work in this pack.[8]
How do you progress through Forbidden and Arcanus ?
5 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 0.64 guide
Forbidden and Arcanus isn't a long quest line in this pack, but it does have a clear material ladder: darkstone and arcane crystals feed into Deorum, Deorum unlocks the arcane building set and the ritual pedestal, and the heavy endgame items lean on Obsidiansteel, dragon materials and the Eternal Stella. Here's how the pack's quests and recipes line up with that.[3][5][6]
The quest path
- In the "allthemodium" chapter, a quest in "?" asks you for a tier 1 Hephaestus Forge (Hephaestus Forge Tier 1).[5]
- Once that's done, a quest in "?" unlocks and asks for an Eternal Stella.[5]
- Separately, over in the "basic_tools" chapter, a quest in "?" wants a Draco Arcanus Pickaxe, the mod's contribution to the pack's tool checklist.[6]
Unverified The quests themselves carry no text in the pack files, and higher Hephaestus Forge tiers beyond tier 1 aren't covered by the sources used here, so treat the forge upgrade path as something to confirm in-game with JEI. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.
Step one: darkstone and arcane crystal dust
Darkstone is the entry material. It cuts into the usual slab, stair and wall set, and more importantly it feeds the Clibano Core, the mod's upgraded furnace block, and the smithing template used for applying modifiers.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:clibano_core
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:apply_modifier_smithing_template
The other half of the early game is Arcane Crystal and its dust. Crystals pack into blocks and back out again for storage, and dust specks combine into full Arcane Crystal Dust, which is the single most-used reagent in the mod's recipe list.[3]
Once you have dust, you can already make an Aureal Bottle and Arcane Bone Meal, so don't hoard it all, it comes back as fast as you can mine crystals.[3]
You'll also want a gavel early. It's a cheap tool built from a Blacksmith Gavel Head, which itself comes out of the crafting table with no special materials.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | |
| any diamond gem | any wooden rod | any diamond gem |
| Empty slot | any wooden rod | Empty slot |
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:diamond_blacksmith_gavel
Step two: Deorum
Deorum Ingot is the gate between the early and mid game. Heads up: this pack changed the Deorum ingot recipe, so check the in-pack version below rather than anything you remember from the mod's defaults.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| any gold ingot | ||
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:deorum_ingot
Changed by the pack.
With ingots in hand, Deorum branches two ways. The decorative branch gives you Deorum glass, panes, chains, doors, trapdoors and both lantern variants. The functional branch upgrades your existing blocks: Polished Darkstone becomes Arcane Polished Darkstone, and Edelwood Planks become Arcane Edelwood Planks.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:arcane_polished_darkstone
That arcane darkstone is what you actually need it for: it cuts into pillars and slabs, and those are what build the Darkstone Pedestal that ritual setups are based around.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: forbidden_arcanus:darkstone_pedestal
Step three: Obsidiansteel and dragon materials
Obsidiansteel Ingot marks the late tier. It shows up as an ingredient in Corrupti Dust, the Dark Nether Star and the Cracked Obsidian Skull, and that last one also wants a Fragmented Obsidian Skull, so the skull line is a multi-stage repair job.[3]
Dragon materials sit at the same level. Dragon Scale upgrades into an Aquatic Dragon Scale, and a Golden Dragon Scale turns a vanilla dragon egg into an Arcane Dragon Egg, so plan on beating the Ender Dragon before this part of the tree opens up.[3]
Getting the Eternal Stella
For the second quest, this pack gives you an automation-friendly route: a Stellarite Bee working in an advanced beehive produces Eternal Stella from pollen, no crafting bench involved.[3]
Advanced Beehive (productivebees)
Recipe id: productivebees:bee_produce/forbidden_arcanus/stellarite_bee
How does Forbidden and Arcanus work with other mods?
3 parts
Forbidden & Arcanus ties into other mods in this pack through a handful of recipes: sawing its wood, a couple of pack-made crafting recipes, and Productive Bees. There's nothing deeper than that in the recipe data I have, so this section is short.[9]
Sawing the mod's wood
The pack adds sawing recipes for the mod's three wood types, so you can turn them into Aurum Planks, Edelwood Planks and Fungyss Planks with other mods' machines. Aurum comes from the mysterywood logs, Edelwood from the edelwood logs and Fungyss from the fungyss stems.[9]
In Mekanism's sawing recipes, each log or stem gives you the planks plus Sawdust as a second output. In Productive Trees' sawmill recipes, Sawdust goes in alongside the log or stem and the planks come out.[9]
Sawing (mekanism)
- any edelwood log
Recipe id: allthemods:mekanism/sawing/forbidden_arcanus/edelwood_planks
Mekanism sawing, Edelwood example
Sawmill (productivetrees)
2× Sawdust
- any edelwood log
Recipe id: allthemods:productivetrees/sawing/forbidden_arcanus/edelwood_planks
Productive Trees sawmill, Edelwood example
Productive Bees
Productive Bees has recipes that use the mod's materials. Two bee conversion recipes take an Arcane Crystal Block or a Rune Block and turn it into the matching Productive Bees entry. These are recipes from the mod itself, not changes made by the pack.[9]
Productive Bees centrifuge recipes also give you Forbidden & Arcanus items along with Wax. One gives Arcane Crystal, one gives Deorum Nugget and one gives Rune. A fourth gives Stellarite Piece and Xpetrified Orb together with the wax. These are also recipes from the mod itself.[9]
Unverified The recipe data doesn't show what goes into the centrifuge for these four recipes, so check the in-game recipe viewer before planning a bee setup around them. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.
Pack-made crafting recipes
The pack adds a recipe for Oblivion Shard that uses Eternal Stella together with items from EvilCraft.[9]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot | ||
| Empty slot |
Recipe id: allthemods:allthetweaks/oblivion_shard
Philosopher's Fuel is a much bigger endgame recipe. It needs the Smelter Prism along with items from many other mods.[9]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot |
Recipe id: allthemods:allthetweaks/philosophers_fuel
Which Forbidden and Arcanus config options matter?
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide
Unverified We couldn't confirm any config options or values for Forbidden and Arcanus in All the Mods 10 8.1. The pack's config files for this mod weren't available, so we can't tell you which settings exist, what they're set to, or whether the pack changed anything from the mod's defaults.
If you're trying to change how the mod behaves or you run into a problem, the mod's project page points you to its Discord server for news, feature suggestions and support.[1]
What changed in Forbidden and Arcanus between versions?
1 part
All the Mods 10 0.59 ships Forbidden and Arcanus 2.5.4-beta. The mod has been in the pack since 0.56 or earlier, so you may have already played with it before this version.[10]
2.5.4-beta
- Some missing recipes were added back.[11]
- The Hephaestus Forge tier tooltip was untranslated, and that is now fixed.[11]
Unverified No pack changelog entries for this mod were available, so what changed in earlier releases, and which exact pack version first included it, is unverified.
Sources
- Forbidden and Arcanus project page (modrinth) · official mod data
- All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta mod list · pack file
- All the Mods 10 0.64 recipe dump: recipes making Forbidden and Arcanus items · pack recipe dump
- forbidden_arcanus tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 0.64 quests: "allthemodium" · pack file
- All the Mods 10 0.64 quests: "basic_tools" · pack file
- All the Mods 10 4.5 recipe dump: recipes making Forbidden and Arcanus items · pack recipe dump
- forbidden_arcanus tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 0.59 recipe dump: recipes connecting Forbidden and Arcanus with other mods · pack recipe dump
- All the Mods 10 0.59 mod list · pack file
- Forbidden and Arcanus 2.5.4-beta changelog · changelog
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mods 10 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 17, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 4.6 to 8.3 · 3.0 to 4.5 · 2.16 to 2.47 · 2.9 to 2.15 · 2.0 to 2.8 · 0.65 to 1.27 · 0.60 to 0.64