Industrial Foregoing: Souls guide for All the Mods 10 4.0 to 4.12

Industrial Foregoing: Souls is a small add-on mod with one big idea: you harvest souls from Wardens and spend them to make your machines run faster. This pack ships version 1.10.4.^[1][2]

The loop is short. You extract souls from a Warden using a Soul Laser Base fitted with a Blue Lens, which means you first need a way to hold the Warden still, so a Stasis Chamber is your friend here. The mod also adds a way to get more Echo Shards, since they are used heavily throughout its recipes.^[1]

Once souls are stored, you place a Soul Surge pointing at the block you want sped up and connect it back to the Soul Laser Base with Soul Pipes. Applying a redstone signal to the Soul Surge stops it, so you can gate acceleration however you like.^[1]

Who it's for

This is a mid-to-late game throughput mod rather than a progression gate. If you already have machines you want running four times faster, and you're comfortable dealing with a Warden, it slots in nicely as an upgrade layer on top of your existing setups.^[1]

• By default each soul lasts 15 seconds and makes the target machine 4 times faster.^[1]
• Blocks can be excluded from acceleration by adding them to the block tag industrialforegoingsouls:cant_accelerate.^[1]

Unverified The numbers above are the mod's own defaults; whether this pack tweaks the Soul Laser Base or Soul Surge config values has not been confirmed from the pack files.

Industrial Foregoing: Souls is a small add-on with one big idea: you pull souls out of a Warden and spend them to speed up your other machines. The whole setup comes down to three items, and in this pack you craft all of them in the Dissolution Chamber from Industrial Foregoing.^[1][3]

The three items you need

The pack adds its own Dissolution Chamber recipe for each item below. The recipe blocks show exactly what the pack asks for, so gather the parts from there.^[3]

1. Start with the Soul Surge. This is the block that does the speeding up. You place it pointing at the machine you want to accelerate.^[1]
2. Next, make some Soul Pipe. These Soul Pipes connect the Soul Surge to the Soul Laser Base.^[1]
3. Finally, build the Soul Laser Base. This is the block that extracts souls from a Warden, and it needs a Blue Lens to do it.^[1]

4× Soul SurgeAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 20× Unstable Portal Fluid Source
• 3× Echo Shard
• Sculk Shrieker
• 2× any plastic
• 2× any simple machine frame

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_surge

Soul Surge: a Dissolution Chamber recipe added by the pack.

32× Soul PipeAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 20× Pink Slime
• 2× Echo Shard
• 2× any iron gear
• 4× any plastic

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_network_pipe

Soul Pipe: a Dissolution Chamber recipe added by the pack.

Soul Laser BaseAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 1000× Unstable Portal Fluid Source
• Sculk Catalyst
• Sculk Shrieker
• 2× any netherite gear
• 2× any plastic
• 2× any supreme machine frame

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_laser_base

Soul Laser Base: a Dissolution Chamber recipe added by the pack.

Putting it together

Once you have some souls stored, place the Soul Surge pointing at the block you want to speed up and connect it to the Soul Laser Base with Soul Pipes. Applying a redstone signal to the Soul Surge stops it from working, which is handy when you don't want to burn through souls.^[1]

What to expect from the souls

The mod's own default is that each soul lasts 15 seconds and makes the machine 4 times faster. Those values can be changed in the mod's config.^[1]

If there is a block you never want accelerated, add it to the block tag industrialforegoingsouls:cant_accelerate. The mod also adds a way to get more Echo Shards, which is useful because the Soul Surge and Soul Pipe recipes in this pack both call for them.^[1][3]

Industrial Foregoing: Souls is a small add-on with one idea: you pull souls out of a Warden and spend them to speed up other blocks. The whole system is three parts, a Soul Laser Base that produces and stores souls, Soul Pipe pieces that carry them, and a Soul Surge that applies the speed boost.^[1]

Getting souls from a Warden

You extract souls by pointing a Soul Laser Base at a Warden. It needs a Blue Lens to work, so don't forget to add a lens. The mod's page also suggests the Stasis Chamber for holding the Warden.^[1]

Each finished operation generates souls and hurts the Warden. This pack tunes those numbers, so they differ from the mod's defaults:^[4]

• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulLaserBase.SOULS_PER_OPERATION is 4 souls per operation in this pack.^[4]
• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulLaserBase.DAMAGE_PER_OPERATION is 12 in this pack (the mod default is 4), so the Warden takes more damage with every operation.^[4]
• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulLaserBase.MAX_PROGRESS is 30 in this pack (the mod default is 20). It is the machine's maximum progress per operation.^[4]
• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulLaserBase.SOUL_STORAGE_AMOUNT is 1500 in this pack (the mod default is 1350). It is the size of the base's soul tank.^[4]
• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulLaserBase.KILL_WARDEN is true in this pack, so the Warden is killed when its life gets near 0 instead of being kept alive.^[4]

Moving souls: Soul Pipes

Once the base has souls stored, you connect it to a Soul Surge using Soul Pipes. Each pipe can hold 4 souls, set by IFSoulsMachines.SOUL_AMOUNT_PER_PIPE, which is the same as the mod default.^[1][4]

Speeding things up: the Soul Surge

Place the Soul Surge so it points at the block you want to accelerate, then link it to the Soul Laser Base with pipes. If you ever want it to stop, apply a redstone signal to the Surge.^[1]

By default each soul lasts 15 seconds and makes the target 4 times faster. In this pack a soul lasts for 200 ticks, because IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.SOUL_TIME is lowered from the mod default of 300.^[1][4]

The Surge boosts three kinds of targets, and the pack leaves each of these at 4 extra ticks, the same as the default:^[4]

• Tile entities, such as machines, through IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.ACCELERATION_TICK.^[4]
• Blocks, through IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.BLOCK_ACCELERATION_TICK.^[4]
• Mobs, through IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.ENTITIES_ACCELERATION_TICK.^[4]

For random-tick blocks, the chance of a tick being accelerated is set by IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.RANDOM_TICK_ACCELERATION_CHANCE. The pack lowers it to 0.025 from the mod default of 0.03.^[4]

Crafting the parts

In this pack the Soul Laser Base, the Soul Pipe and the Soul Surge are all made in the Dissolution Chamber with recipes the pack added, so they are not the mod's own recipes. Here is the Soul Laser Base:^[3]

Soul Laser BaseAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 1000× Unstable Portal Fluid Source
• Sculk Catalyst
• Sculk Shrieker
• 2× any netherite gear
• 2× any plastic
• 2× any supreme machine frame

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_laser_base

The Soul Pipe:^[3]

32× Soul PipeAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 20× Pink Slime
• 2× Echo Shard
• 2× any iron gear
• 4× any plastic

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_network_pipe

And the Soul Surge:^[3]

4× Soul SurgeAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 20× Unstable Portal Fluid Source
• 3× Echo Shard
• Sculk Shrieker
• 2× any plastic
• 2× any simple machine frame

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_surge

This mod does not have a long tier ladder in this pack. What the sources show are the Soul Pipe, the Soul Surge and the Soul Laser Base, and each one is crafted in Industrial Foregoing's Dissolution Chamber. The pack added all of these recipes itself, so they are the pack's own and not the mod's defaults.^[3]

The recipes, ordered by machine frame

The Soul Pipe is made with Pink Slime from Industrial Foregoing, so that fluid has to be part of your setup first.^[3]

32× Soul PipeAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 20× Pink Slime
• 2× Echo Shard
• 2× any iron gear
• 4× any plastic

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_network_pipe

The Soul Surge calls for a simple-tier Industrial Foregoing machine frame.^[3]

4× Soul SurgeAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 20× Unstable Portal Fluid Source
• 3× Echo Shard
• Sculk Shrieker
• 2× any plastic
• 2× any simple machine frame

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_surge

The Soul Laser Base calls for a supreme-tier machine frame, so you need to have progressed through Industrial Foregoing's frame tiers before you can craft it.^[3]

Soul Laser BaseAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 1000× Unstable Portal Fluid Source
• Sculk Catalyst
• Sculk Shrieker
• 2× any netherite gear
• 2× any plastic
• 2× any supreme machine frame

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_laser_base

Quests

Unverified The sources here do not show any quest chapter that covers this mod, so there is no quest-guided path I can point you to. The order above is based only on the machine frame tier each recipe asks for.

In this pack, Industrial Foregoing: Souls connects to other mods through crafting. The pack adds its own Dissolution Chamber recipes for the Soul Laser Base, the Soul Pipe and the Soul Surge, and those recipes pull in items from other mods.^[3]

Dissolution Chamber recipes added by the pack

The Dissolution Chamber is an Industrial Foregoing machine. The Soul Laser Base, the Soul Pipe and the Soul Surge are all crafted there, so you will be using it a lot.^[3]

• Soul Laser Base: this is the block that extracts souls from a Warden. Its pack recipe uses a Unstable Portal Fluid Source, vanilla sculk blocks and a supreme Industrial Foregoing machine frame.^[1][3]
• Soul Pipe: the pipes that link the laser base to the surge. Its pack recipe, shown below, includes Industrial Foregoing's Pink Slime.^[1][3]
• Soul Surge: the block that accelerates the machine it points at. Its pack recipe uses a simple Industrial Foregoing machine frame, so it asks for a lower frame tier than the laser base.^[1][3]

Soul Laser BaseAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 1000× Unstable Portal Fluid Source
• Sculk Catalyst
• Sculk Shrieker
• 2× any netherite gear
• 2× any plastic
• 2× any supreme machine frame

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_laser_base

The pack adds this Dissolution Chamber recipe for the Soul Laser Base.

32× Soul PipeAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 20× Pink Slime
• 2× Echo Shard
• 2× any iron gear
• 4× any plastic

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_network_pipe

The pack adds this Dissolution Chamber recipe for the Soul Pipe.

4× Soul SurgeAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 20× Unstable Portal Fluid Source
• 3× Echo Shard
• Sculk Shrieker
• 2× any plastic
• 2× any simple machine frame

Recipe id: kubejs:dissolution_chamber/soul_surge

The pack adds this Dissolution Chamber recipe for the Soul Surge.

What ties these recipes together

Plastics are part of every one of these recipes, and the Soul Laser Base and the Soul Surge both use the Unstable Portal Fluid Source and the Sculk Shrieker. The Soul Laser Base also uses a Sculk Catalyst.^[3]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Industrial Foregoing: Souls has two groups of options: the Soul Laser Base, which pulls souls out of a Warden, and the Soul Surge, which spends those souls to speed up machines. This pack changed most of the laser settings and two of the surge settings. Everything below comes from the pack's machines config file.^[1][5]

Soul Laser Base: what the pack changed

• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulLaserBase.SOULS_PER_OPERATION is 4 in this pack. The mod default is 2, so each operation yields more souls.^[5]
• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulLaserBase.MAX_PROGRESS is 30 here, up from the mod default of 20. That is the machine's maximum progress.^[5]
• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulLaserBase.DAMAGE_PER_OPERATION is 12 here, tripled from the mod default of 4. This is the damage the Warden takes each time an operation completes.^[5]
• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulLaserBase.SOUL_STORAGE_AMOUNT is 1500 here, up from the mod default of 1350. That is the size of the soul storage tank.^[5]

Soul Surge: shorter souls, slightly fewer random ticks

• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.SOUL_TIME is 200 ticks in this pack, down from the mod default of 300. The mod's project page describes the default as 15 seconds per soul, so souls last less time here.^[1][5]
• IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.RANDOM_TICK_ACCELERATION_CHANCE is 0.025 here, lowered from the mod default of 0.03. It controls how often a random-tick block gets accelerated.^[5]

Left at the mod default

The acceleration strength is unchanged at 4 extra ticks for each target type: IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.ACCELERATION_TICK for tile entities, IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.BLOCK_ACCELERATION_TICK for blocks and IFSoulsMachines.ConfigSoulSurge.ENTITIES_ACCELERATION_TICK for mobs. IFSoulsMachines.SOUL_AMOUNT_PER_PIPE is also still 4, so each Soul Pipe holds 4 souls.^[5]

Unverified The mod's project page lists a default of false for the Warden-kill option, but the pack's config file does not mark that option as changed, so whether the pack actually differs from the mod default there is unconfirmed.

The sources I have only cover a couple of moments in this mod's life in the pack, so this section is short. Industrial Foregoing: Souls has been in All the Mods 10 since version 2.2 or earlier, and All the Mods 10 4.12 ships version 1.10.4 of it.^[2]

• All the Mods 10 2.32: the mod was updated from 1.10.3 to 1.10.4.^[6]
• All the Mods 10 4.12: still on 1.10.4, using the file industrial-foregoing-souls-1.21.1-1.10.4.jar.^[2]

Unverified What actually changed between 1.10.3 and 1.10.4 (new features, fixes or balance tweaks) is unverified, because no changelog for the shipped jars is stored. Changes in other pack releases are not covered by the sources either.