Roots Classic in All the Mods 10

Roots Classic is in the pack as version 1.21.1-1.5.10. It was first included in version 0.56 or earlier.^[1]

The pack's quest book intro, "Roots Classic" quest, says Roots Classic may look small in JEI but has a lot to it. It describes the mod as being about using nature's gifts to make rituals, and says you'll find these items everywhere.^[2]

Where the quest book puts it

The Roots Classic quest is in "Chapter 3: The ATM Star", in the "Main Questline" group. That is chapter 7 of 66 in the book. You hand in a Verdant Sprig for it. Other mod intro quests in the same chapter include "Forbidden & Arcanus" quest, "Productive Bees" quest, "Occultism" quest and "Twilight Forest" quest.^[2]

The next step is the quest a quest in "Chapter 3: The ATM Star", which comes after the Roots Classic quest and asks for a Crystal Staff. Its text walks you through a ritual. You build a Casting Altar and Standing Stones in the pattern JEI shows, set up Incense Braziers, light them, then Shift Right Click the altar to start. If it fails, the quest says to check the Standing Stones pattern.^[2]

Since these quests sit in the ATM Star chapter, the pack's quest book does put Roots Classic on that path. The rest of the chapter is told in the quest book itself.^[2]

Roots Classic in the tools chapter

The "Basic Tools" chapter is in the "Tools and Gear" group, chapter 12 of 66 in the book. It lists three Roots Classic tools, each after the "Basic Tools!" quest. The Living Sword is listed at 6 attack damage, as an alternative to a sword from another mod. The Living Pickaxe is listed at Tier 3, also as an alternative to another mod's pickaxe. The Engraved Blade is listed at 12 attack damage. The chapter says the pickaxe and sword quests are optional.^[3]

Roots Classic is about using nature's gifts to run rituals. The pack's quest book says it may look small in JEI but has a lot to it. Here is the order I'd go in, with the exact in-pack recipes.^[2]

Get a Bark Knife

Start with the Bark Knife. You use it on a log to peel off bark, and that bark goes into magic rituals. Oak Bark, Birch Bark and Acacia Bark all show up in the ritual recipes below, so you want the knife first.^[4][5]

Bark KnifeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any sapling	any sapling
any sapling	any plank	any sapling
any wooden rod	any sapling	Empty slot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:bark_knife

Craft the Runic Tablet

Many of the mod's item and block descriptions point you to the Runic Tablet for rituals, patterns and crafting. Make it early and keep it with you.^[4]

Runic TabletMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Old Root	Empty slot
any wheat seed	any stone	any wheat seed
Empty slot	any wheat seed	Empty slot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:runic_tablet

Mortar and Pestle

The Mortar is used with the Pestle to create spells. The pestle also appears in recipes such as Growth Powder and Healing Poultice, so it is worth having from the start.^[4][5]

MortarMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

5 × any stone

Recipe id: rootsclassic:mortar

PestleMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

5 × Diorite

Recipe id: rootsclassic:pestle

Build your ritual setup

The Casting Altar is the centre piece for casting rituals. Around it you place standing stones. The Mundane Standing Stone is the basic ritual stone, and the Attuned Standing Stone is the advanced one. Each Incense Brazier holds incense to burn during rituals.^[4]

Casting AltarMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Verdant Sprig	Poppy	Verdant Sprig
any stone	any gold storage block	any stone
Empty slot	Chiseled Stone Bricks	Empty slot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:altar

Mundane Standing StoneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	Stone Bricks	any stone
Stone Bricks	any lapi storage blocks	Stone Bricks
any stone	Stone Bricks	any stone

Recipe id: rootsclassic:mundane_standing_stone

Attuned Standing StoneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	Nether Brick	any stone
Nether Brick	any diamond gem	Nether Brick
any stone	Nether Brick	any stone

Recipe id: rootsclassic:attuned_standing_stone

Incense BrazierMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any string	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Cauldron	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any wooden rod	any iron ingot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:brazier

Your first ritual: living tools

The Living Sword, Living Pickaxe and Living Axe are self-repairing tools made through a magic ritual. The pack changed all three ritual recipes from the mod's versions, so trust the blocks below rather than older guides.^[4][5]

Living PickaxeChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Wooden Pickaxe
• 2× Oak Bark
• Verdant Sprig
• any gold nugget

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/living_pickaxe

Living SwordChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Wooden Sword
• 2× Oak Bark
• Verdant Sprig
• any gold nugget

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/living_sword

Living AxeChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Wooden Axe
• 2× Oak Bark
• Verdant Sprig
• any gold nugget

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/living_axe

The Crystal Staff

In the quest book, the "Roots Classic" quest quest sits in Chapter 3: The ATM Star, in the Main Questline group. Its task is to obtain a Verdant Sprig. The next quest after it, a quest in "Chapter 3: The ATM Star", asks for the Crystal Staff.^[2]

That quest tells you to lay out the Casting Altar and Standing Stones in the pattern shown in JEI, then place 4 Incense Braziers around the altar. You light them all with a Flint and Steel and Shift Right Click the Altar to start the ritual. If nothing happens, check your stone pattern first.^[2]

Crystal StaffChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Blaze Powder
• Coal Block
• Stick
• Acacia Bark
• Birch Bark
• Verdant Sprig
• any diamond storage block

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/crystal_staff

The pack changed this ritual, so use this recipe as the source of truth.

This chapter has more quests that are not covered here. You can read them in the quest book.^[2]

Roots Classic works through rituals and crafting rather than machines. The mod's own text describes a Runic Tablet guidebook, a Casting Altar that serves as the centerpiece of casting rituals, standing stones that form ritual patterns, and Spell Powder for spells. This section covers those systems as the sources document them.^[4]

Start with the Runic Tablet

The Runic Tablet is the in-game guidebook for the mod, and it explains all the spells and rituals. Almost every altar, stone and component description in the mod's own text says "see Runic Tablet", so the exact ritual layouts live there. Craft it first.^[4]

Runic TabletMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Old Root	Empty slot
any wheat seed	any stone	any wheat seed
Empty slot	any wheat seed	Empty slot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:runic_tablet

Altar, brazier and ritual stones

The Casting Altar is the centerpiece for casting rituals. The Incense Brazier holds incense that burns during rituals.^[4]

Casting AltarMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Verdant Sprig	Poppy	Verdant Sprig
any stone	any gold storage block	any stone
Empty slot	Chiseled Stone Bricks	Empty slot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:altar

Incense BrazierMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any string	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Cauldron	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any wooden rod	any iron ingot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:brazier

Ritual patterns are built from standing stones. The Mundane Standing Stone is the basic ritual stone, and the Attuned Standing Stone is the advanced one. Both are used to create the ritual patterns shown in the Runic Tablet.^[4]

Mundane Standing StoneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	Stone Bricks	any stone
Stone Bricks	any lapi storage blocks	Stone Bricks
any stone	Stone Bricks	any stone

Recipe id: rootsclassic:mundane_standing_stone

Attuned Standing StoneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any stone	Nether Brick	any stone
Nether Brick	any diamond gem	Nether Brick
any stone	Nether Brick	any stone

Recipe id: rootsclassic:attuned_standing_stone

Other standing stones come from crafting rituals defined in the Runic Tablet. Each one gives an effect around it:^[4]

• Accelerating Standing Stone: a speed beacon.^[4]
• Entangling Standing Stone: a slowness beacon.^[4]
• Growing Standing Stone: a growth booster for your plants.^[4]
• Healing Standing Stone: a regeneration beacon.^[4]
• Igniting Standing Stone: burns your enemies.^[4]
• Repulsing Standing Stone: repulses nearby stuff.^[4]
• Vacuum Standing Stone: vacuums in nearby stuff.^[4]

There is also a plain Standing Stone that is only for decoration. Most of the effect stones have a lower half in their block state, and their loot tables only drop the item when the lower half is broken.^{[4][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

The Runic Focus and the Charged Runic Focus store energy for Roots rituals.^[4]

Spell Powder and staffs

Spells start as Spell Powder, which the mod describes as a combination of ingredients that makes up a spell. The Mortar is used with the Pestle to create spells. The pack stores the powder recipes as component recipes, one for each key ingredient. Some use the mod's own berries or the Flare Orchid and Midnight Bloom plants, which the mod calls advanced spell components.^[4][5]

MortarMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

5 × any stone

Recipe id: rootsclassic:mortar

PestleMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

5 × Diorite

Recipe id: rootsclassic:pestle

Spell PowderMod recipe

Component (rootsclassic)

• Allium
• Brown Mushroom
• Soul Sand
• Elderberry

Recipe id: rootsclassic:component/allium

One of the component recipes that makes Spell Powder.

The pack changes several of these component recipes from the mod's defaults, including azure bluet, blue orchid, midnight bloom and oxeye daisy. They are shown below as the pack has them, so don't trust older guides for these.^[5]

Spell PowderChanged by the pack

Component (rootsclassic)

• Azure Bluet
• Spruce Sapling
• Whitecurrant
• any iron ingot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:component/azure_bluet

Changed by the pack.

Spell PowderChanged by the pack

Component (rootsclassic)

• Blue Orchid
• Prismarine Shard
• Vine
• any lapi gems

Recipe id: rootsclassic:component/blue_orchid

Changed by the pack.

Spell PowderChanged by the pack

Component (rootsclassic)

• Dragon Breath
• Obsidian
• 2× Midnight Bloom
• any diamond gem

Recipe id: rootsclassic:component/midnight_bloom

Changed by the pack.

Spell PowderChanged by the pack

Component (rootsclassic)

• End Stone
• Oxeye Daisy
• Sugar
• any gold ingot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:component/oxeye_daisy

Changed by the pack.

To turn powder into a weapon, use the Imbuer. It creates any magical Staff from Spell Powder.^[4]

ImbuerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden rod	Empty slot	any wooden rod
any log	Chiseled Stone Bricks	any log

Recipe id: rootsclassic:imbuer

Gathering ritual materials

• Bark: craft a Bark Knife and right-click a log to harvest its bark. There is a chance of breaking the log. Bark exists for acacia, birch, dark oak, jungle, oak and spruce.^{[4][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]}
• Berries: breaking some leaves by hand may occasionally give you a random berry. There are five kinds, nightshade, Blackcurrant, Redcurrant, Whitecurrant and Elderberry, each with different properties.^[4][22]
• Old Root: a basic spell component that drops from tall grass.^[4]

Bark KnifeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any sapling	any sapling
any sapling	any plank	any sapling
any wooden rod	any sapling	Empty slot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:bark_knife

Powders and food

Growth Powder grows grass on dirt. Right-click to throw it at a block within 4 blocks of you, and it grows grass in a small area. Mutating Powder mutates flora in magical ways, and the Runic Tablet covers it.^[4]

4× Growth PowderMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any wheat seed
• Short Grass
• any redstone dust
• Pestle

Recipe id: rootsclassic:growth_powder

Mutating PowderMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Growth Powder
• Growth Powder
• Growth Powder
• Growth Powder
• any nether star
• any nether wart crop
• Pestle

Recipe id: rootsclassic:mutating_powder

For eating, Healing Poultice heals instantly when eaten, Fruit Salad is described as delicious and filling, and Rooty Stew is hearty food.^[4]

Fruit SaladMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Melon
• Melon
• Melon
• Apple
• Bowl
• Elderberry
• Whitecurrant
• Blackcurrant
• Redcurrant

Recipe id: rootsclassic:fruit_salad

2× Healing PoulticeMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Redcurrant
• Paper
• Pestle
• Verdant Sprig

Recipe id: rootsclassic:healing_poultice

Rooty StewMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any wheat crop
• Bowl
• Old Root

Recipe id: rootsclassic:rooty_stew

Roots Classic is all about using nature's gifts to make rituals. In this pack, almost everything past the basics is a ritual recipe, and the pack has changed many of them. Here is the order I'd follow: set up the altar, craft your first nature tools, then move on to armor, runic focuses and standing stones.^[2][5]

Where it sits in the quest book

The "Roots Classic" quest quest lives in Chapter 3: The ATM Star, in the Main Questline group (chapter 7 of 66 in the book). Its task is to get a Verdant Sprig. Right after it comes the a quest in "Chapter 3: The ATM Star" quest for the Crystal Staff. The rest of that chapter is told in the quest book.^[2]

Step 1: The ritual setup

Rituals happen at the Casting Altar, surrounded by standing stones in the pattern JEI shows you. The Crystal Staff quest also has you place 4 Incense Brazier blocks around the altar, light them with flint and steel, then Shift Right Click the altar to start the ritual. If nothing happens, the quest says to check your standing stone pattern first.^[2][5]

Casting AltarMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Verdant Sprig	Poppy	Verdant Sprig
any stone	any gold storage block	any stone
Empty slot	Chiseled Stone Bricks	Empty slot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:altar

The altar and the brazier both use the mod's own recipes in this pack.

Incense BrazierMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any string	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Cauldron	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any wooden rod	any iron ingot

Recipe id: rootsclassic:brazier

Step 2: Living tools

The Living Pickaxe, Living Sword, Living Axe, Living Hoe and Living Shovel are all ritual recipes, and the pack has changed every one of them.^[5]

Living PickaxeChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Wooden Pickaxe
• 2× Oak Bark
• Verdant Sprig
• any gold nugget

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/living_pickaxe

Living SwordChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Wooden Sword
• 2× Oak Bark
• Verdant Sprig
• any gold nugget

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/living_sword

In the Basic Tools chapter (group Tools and Gear), the Living Pickaxe is placed at Tier 3, the same tier as an iron pickaxe, and Tier 3 mines most ores like diamond, emerald and gold. The Living Sword is listed at 6 attack damage, the same as an iron sword.^[3]

Step 3: Armor

There are two armor sets, and the pack changed the ritual recipes for both: Sylvan Hood, Sylvan Robe, Sylvan Tunic and Sylvan Boots, plus Wildwood Mask, Wildwood Plate, Wildwood Leggings and Wildwood Boots.^[5]

Sylvan RobeChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Golden Apple
• Leather Chestplate
• Poppy
• Vine
• 2× Birch Bark
• any diamond gem

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/sylvan_robe

The other Sylvan pieces use the same pattern, each with its own base piece.

Wildwood PlateChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Iron Chestplate
• Oak Planks
• Oak Sapling
• Wheat
• 2× Oak Bark
• any diamond gem

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/wildwood_plate

The other Wildwood pieces use the same pattern, each with its own base piece.

Step 4: Runic focuses and the Engraved Blade

The Runic Focus and Charged Runic Focus are both ritual recipes changed by the pack. The Engraved Blade ritual is the mod's own recipe. The Basic Tools chapter lists the blade at 12 attack damage, which beats a netherite sword at 8.^[3][5]

Runic FocusChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Stone
• Acacia Bark
• Jungle Bark
• Oak Bark
• Spruce Bark
• Verdant Sprig
• any diamond gem

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/runic_focus

Charged Runic FocusChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Glowstone Dust
• Wheat
• Infernal Bulb
• Runic Focus
• any redstone dust

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/charged_runic_focus

Engraved BladeMod recipe

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Glowstone Dust
• Golden Apple
• Golden Carrot
• Stone Sword
• Runic Focus

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/engraved_crafting

Step 5: Crystal Staff and standing stones

The Crystal Staff ritual is changed by the pack. It is the item the quest book asks for right after the Roots Classic quest.^[2][5]

Crystal StaffChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Blaze Powder
• Coal Block
• Stick
• Acacia Bark
• Birch Bark
• Verdant Sprig
• any diamond storage block

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/crystal_staff

The special standing stones are ritual recipes too. In this pack the Healing Standing Stone and Igniting Standing Stone are changed. The Accelerating Standing Stone, Standing Stone, Entangling Standing Stone, Growing Standing Stone, Repulsing Standing Stone and Vacuum Standing Stone use the mod's own recipes.^[5]

Healing Standing StoneChanged by the pack

Ritual (rootsclassic)

• Chiseled Stone Bricks
• Ghast Tear
• Wheat
• Attuned Standing Stone
• Infernal Bulb
• Verdant Sprig
• any redstone dust

Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/healer_standing_stone

The pack also changes these Spell Powder component recipes: azure bluet, blue orchid, midnight bloom, oxeye daisy, radiant daisy and rose bush.^[5]

The cross-mod links I can confirm for Roots Classic in this pack come from one pack-added recipe and a few quests in the tools chapter of the quest book.^[3][5]

Pulsating Black Hole recipe

The Crystal Staff is one of the ingredients in this pack's recipe for the Pulsating Black Hole. The recipe is a KubeJS shaped recipe added by the pack, not by Roots Classic. The other ingredients come from several different mods, and the recipe below shows the exact in-pack layout.^[5]

Pulsating Black HoleAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Manhattan Module	ME Quantum Ring	Micromissiles
Paradox Machine	Pocket Storage Unit Tier: 4	Stable Wormhole
Crystal Staff	Explosive Mycelial Generator	Lightning Bomb

Recipe id: allthemods:pressure/allthetweaks/pulsating_black_hole

Pack-added recipe that uses the Crystal Staff.

Quest book: Basic Tools

Roots Classic tools show up in the "Basic Tools" chapter, which sits in the "Tools and Gear" group (chapter 12 of 66 in the book). The chapter compares tools from many mods, with swords sorted by base damage. The quests for all the pickaxes and swords are optional, and each one comes after "Basic Tools!" quest.^[3]

• a quest in "Basic Tools" is the 6 Attack Damage sword quest. Its task accepts either the Living Sword or the Infused Iron Sword from Nature's Aura.^[3]
• a quest in "Basic Tools" is a Tier: 3 pickaxe quest. It accepts the Living Pickaxe or the Infused Iron Pickaxe from Nature's Aura. Its text says the Botanist's Pickaxe turns blocks it interacts with into their mossy variants, assuming they have one.^[3]
• a quest in "Basic Tools" is the 12 Attack Damage quest for the Engraved Blade.^[3]

25 of the 76 quests in this chapter are not covered by the sources here, so check the quest book for those.^[3]

Roots Classic shows up in three chapters of the quest book: the main ATM Star chapter and two gear chapters, Basic Armor and Basic Tools. Here is what each one asks for.^[2][3][23]

Chapter 3: The ATM Star

This is chapter 7 of 66 in the Main Questline group. The entry quest is "Roots Classic" quest, which asks you to hand in a Verdant Sprig. Its text says Roots is all about using nature's gifts to make rituals.^[2]

Right after it comes a quest in "Chapter 3: The ATM Star", which asks for a Crystal Staff. You make it with a ritual. Place the Casting Altar and Standing Stones in the pattern shown in JEI, put 4 incense braziers around the altar and light them with a Flint and Steel, then Shift Right Click the altar to start. If it doesn't work, check the Standing Stones pattern first.^[2]

This is not a side quest. The Crystal Staff quest is one of the quests listed before "Pulsating Black Hole" quest, and that quest is in turn listed before "ATM Star" quest.^[2]

Basic Armor

Basic Armor is chapter 11 of 66 in the Tools and Gear group, and it has 127 quests. The Roots Classic quests shown to me are for armor sets, and each asks for every piece of the set:^[23]

• "Sylvan Gear" quest wants Sylvan Hood, Sylvan Robe, Sylvan Tunic and Sylvan Boots. The quest calls it basic armor from Roots Classic and says you need a ritual to get it.^[23]
• "Wildwood Gear" quest wants Wildwood Mask, Wildwood Plate, Wildwood Leggings and Wildwood Boots. The quest calls it late game armor for Roots Classic.^[23]

The quest text for the other 117 quests in this chapter isn't included here. Open the chapter in the quest book to read them.^[23]

Basic Tools

Basic Tools is chapter 12 of 66, also in the Tools and Gear group, with 76 quests. It starts from "Basic Tools!" quest, and every tool quest below is listed after it. The chapter says the pickaxe and sword quests are all optional. They show where each tool sits among the others, with swords sorted by base damage.^[3]

• a quest in "Basic Tools" is tagged 6 Attack Damage. It accepts either the Living Sword or an infused iron sword from another mod.^[3]
• a quest in "Basic Tools" is tagged Tier: 3. It accepts either the Living Pickaxe or an infused iron pickaxe from another mod. Its note describes a pickaxe that turns blocks it touches into their mossy variants, if they have one.^[3]
• a quest in "Basic Tools" is tagged 12 Attack Damage and asks for the Engraved Blade.^[3]

Roots Classic has been in All the Mods 10 since version 0.56 or earlier, and the pack has bumped it a few times since. Here are the updates the pack changelogs record, newest first.^[1]

• All the Mods 10 8.2: updated from 1.21.1-1.5.7 to 1.21.1-1.5.10. This is the version the pack ships now (RootsClassic-1.21.1-1.5.10.jar).^[1][24]
• All the Mods 10 6.5: updated from 1.21.1-1.5.6 to 1.21.1-1.5.7.^[25]
• All the Mods 10 5.2: updated from 1.21.1-1.5.5 to 1.21.1-1.5.6.^[26]

If you're updating an older world, you'll see these as plain version bumps of the mod. The pack changelogs don't say whether any of them changed recipes, balance or config values.^[24][25][26]

Unverified What changed inside Roots Classic itself between these versions (new content, fixes or balance changes) is unverified, because no changelogs for the shipped jars are stored.