Roots Classic guide for All the Mods 10 1.7 to 1.11
Roots Classic guide for All the Mods 10
Last verified for All the Mods 10 v1.11 on Oct 2, 2026 · text last changed Oct 2, 2026
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- Sections
- 6
- Recipes shown
- 33
- Items named
- 47
- Quests covered
- 6
5 sections are written for this pack; 1 is shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mods 10 1.11's own files.
What is Roots Classic?
1 part
This pack ships Roots Classic 1.21.1-1.5.4, and it has been part of the pack for a long while (it was already included back in version 0.56 or earlier) so you can treat it as a stable, long-standing option rather than a recent addition.[1]
Where it shows up for most players is the quest book: its armour and tools sit alongside the pack's other early progression options, and a couple of its items turn up again in a later chapter. If you want a nature-themed alternative to the usual starts, this is a good line to follow.[2][3][4]
Where it fits in progression
- Early armour: the basic armour chapter has a quest for the full Sylvan set: Sylvan Hood, Sylvan Robe, Sylvan Tunic and Sylvan Boots, in a quest in "?".[2]
- A second set follows in a quest in "?", asking for Wildwood Mask, Wildwood Plate, Wildwood Leggings and Wildwood Boots.[2]
- Early tools: a quest in "?" accepts the Living Sword and a quest in "?" accepts the Living Pickaxe, in each case as one of two accepted items.[3]
- Later on, a quest in "?" wants a Verdant Sprig, which then unlocks a quest in "?" for the Crystal Staff.[4]
Unverified The pack files gathered for this page only cover the mod's version and its quest entries, so Roots Classic's rituals, spells and crafting mechanics as configured in this pack are not documented here.
How do you get started with Roots Classic?
5 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide
Roots Classic might look tiny in JEI, but there's a lot packed into it. The whole mod is about using nature's gifts to perform rituals, and you'll find the ingredients all over the place once you start looking. In All the Mods 10, your entry point is the a quest in "?" quest in the ATM Star chapter, which asks you to pick up a Verdant Sprig.[5]
Unverified The sources don't say how to get a Verdant Sprig in this pack, so check JEI to see where it comes from. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.
Grab the Runic Tablet
Make the Runic Tablet before anything else. It's the mod's guidebook and explains every spell and ritual, and almost every Roots item tooltip points you to it. Keep an eye out for Old Root while you explore. It's a basic spell component that drops from tall grass.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any wheat seed | any stone | any wheat seed |
| Empty slot | any wheat seed | Empty slot |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:runic_tablet
Make a Bark Knife
Plenty of rituals use bark, and you get it with the Bark Knife. Right-click a log block with the knife to peel bark off it. Each use has a chance of breaking the log, so bring some spare wood. You'll collect different kinds of bark, such as Oak Bark, Birch Bark and Acacia Bark.[6]
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
Build your ritual setup
Rituals are cast from the Casting Altar, which is the centerpiece of every ritual. You place standing stones in a pattern around it. The Mundane Standing Stone is the basic ritual stone and the Attuned Standing Stone is the advanced one, and the Runic Tablet shows which pattern each ritual needs. You'll also need some Incense Brazier blocks, which hold the incense you burn during rituals.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any gold storage block | any stone |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:altar
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone | |
| any lapi storage blocks | ||
| any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:mundane_standing_stone
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone | |
| any diamond gem | ||
| any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:attuned_standing_stone
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any string | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| any iron ingot | any wooden rod | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:brazier
Your first ritual: the Crystal Staff
The quest after Roots Classic is a quest in "?", where you craft the Crystal Staff with a ritual. The pack changed this ritual, so follow the in-pack recipe below instead of older guides. The quest walks you through it like this:[5][7]
- Place the Casting Altar and the Standing Stones in the pattern shown in JEI.[5]
- Put the altar ingredients into the Casting Altar.[5]
- Place 4 Incense Braziers around the altar and put one incense ingredient in each.[5]
- Light all the braziers with Flint and Steel.[5]
- Shift-right-click the altar to start the ritual.[5]
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Blaze Powder
Coal Block
Stick
Acacia Bark
Birch Bark
Verdant Sprig
- any diamond storage block
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/crystal_staff
Changed by the pack
Living tools and Sylvan armor
Once your altar works, the same setup gets you some great early gear. The Living Pickaxe and Living Sword are self-repairing tools made by ritual, and they count for the Basic Tools quests a quest in "?" and a quest in "?". The pack changed both of these rituals.[6][7][8]
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Wooden Pickaxe
2× Oak Bark
Verdant Sprig
- any gold nugget
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/living_pickaxe
Changed by the pack
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Wooden Sword
2× Oak Bark
Verdant Sprig
- any gold nugget
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/living_sword
Changed by the pack
For armor, the a quest in "?" quest covers the mod's basic armor set, and every piece is made by ritual. The pack changed all four Sylvan rituals, so check each recipe below. Later on, a quest in "?" is the mod's late-game armor.[6][7][9]
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Golden Apple
Leather Helmet
Poppy
Vine
2× Birch Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/sylvan_hood
Changed by the pack
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Golden Apple
Leather Chestplate
Poppy
Vine
2× Birch Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/sylvan_robe
Changed by the pack
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Golden Apple
Leather Leggings
Poppy
Vine
2× Birch Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/sylvan_tunic
Changed by the pack
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Golden Apple
Leather Boots
Poppy
Vine
2× Birch Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/sylvan_boots
Changed by the pack
How does Roots Classic work?
7 parts
Roots Classic doesn't run on power or fluids. Its whole loop is physical: you gather rare plant materials by hand, grind them into Spell Powder, and then either bind that powder to a staff or lay out a ritual pattern of blocks in the world and let it cast. Every step of that chain is documented in-game by the Runic Tablet, which is the mod's guidebook and explains all of its spells and rituals.[10]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any wheat seed | any stone | any wheat seed |
| Empty slot | any wheat seed | Empty slot |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:runic_tablet
Make this first, almost every other block tells you to check it.
Gathering components
Your raw materials come from ordinary world interaction rather than from machines, and each one has its own drop source and rate.[10]
- Old Root drops at a 1/40 chance when breaking tall grass. It's needed for a lot of early magic because it's required for spells without modifiers, and it can be eaten to restore a very small amount of hunger.[10]
- Verdant Sprig drops at a 1/30 chance when harvesting fully-grown crops of all kinds. It keeps its life force after harvest, so its uses tend to involve bringing life to objects.[10]
- Infernal Bulbs drop at a 1/20 chance from grown nether wart. They hold a lot of energy, work as fairly effective furnace fuel, and can be given to skeletons to make them withered.[10]
- Dragon's Eyes drop at a 1/10 chance from chorus flowers. Besides spell uses, they can be eaten for a more powerful chorus fruit effect, or smelted to yield one ender pearl.[10]
- Berries turn up occasionally when you break leaves by hand. There are five kinds, each with different properties, and several are used in spells and rituals.[10]
Bark is the other staple. The Bark Knife peels bark from logs for use in recipes and rituals: right-click a log block to harvest its bark, with a chance of breaking the log in the process.[10]
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
Mortar and Pestle: making Spell Powder
The Mortar is used together with the Pestle to create spells. Spell Powder is a combination of ingredients that makes up a single spell, and every component recipe in the mod produces Spell Powder as its output. Which ingredients you grind in determines what the resulting spell does, and the Runic Tablet lists the combinations.[10][11]
Component recipes are their own recipe type rather than normal crafting, so you won't find them on a crafting grid. Here are two examples of what a grind looks like: the first uses a common flower, the second one of the mod's own advanced blooms.[11]
Component (rootsclassic)
Azure Bluet
Spruce Sapling
Whitecurrant
- any iron ingot
Recipe id: rootsclassic:component/azure_bluet
Changed by the pack.
Component (rootsclassic)
Blue Orchid
Prismarine Shard
Vine
- any lapi gems
Recipe id: rootsclassic:component/blue_orchid
Changed by the pack.
Component (rootsclassic)
Dragon Breath
Obsidian
2× Midnight Bloom
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:component/midnight_bloom
Changed by the pack.
Component (rootsclassic)
End Stone
Oxeye Daisy
Sugar
- any gold ingot
Recipe id: rootsclassic:component/oxeye_daisy
Changed by the pack.
Flare Orchid and Midnight Bloom are advanced spell components, and getting hold of new flora is what Mutating Powder is for: it mutates flora in magical ways, and it's only used in the very specific circumstances laid out in the spell components section of the tablet.[10]
Crafting Shapeless
Growth Powder
Growth Powder
Growth Powder
Growth Powder
- any nether star
- any nether wart crop
Pestle
Recipe id: rootsclassic:mutating_powder
The Imbuer: turning powder into staffs
The Imbuer is where Spell Powder becomes a usable tool. Use the powder on the Imbuer to create any magical Staff, that's the standard way to carry a spell around with you.[10]
Crafting Shaped
| any wooden rod | Empty slot | any wooden rod |
| any log | any log |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:imbuer
Rituals: altar, standing stones and braziers
Rituals are the mod's multiblock system, and they're assembled out of three block types placed in a pattern. The Casting Altar is the centre piece for casting rituals. Standing stones channel into it: the Mundane Standing Stone is the basic ritual stone and the Attuned Standing Stone is the advanced one, and both are used to build the ritual patterns shown in the Runic Tablet. The Incense Brazier holds incense to burn during a ritual, which is how extra ingredients get fed into it.[10]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any gold storage block | any stone |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:altar
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone | |
| any lapi storage blocks | ||
| any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:mundane_standing_stone
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone | |
| any diamond gem | ||
| any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:attuned_standing_stone
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any string | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| any iron ingot | any wooden rod | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:brazier
Rituals also need energy, which is stored in Runic Foci: both the runic focus and the charged runic focus store energy for Roots rituals.[10]
Once your ritual setup is running it's the source of most of the mod's best gear. The self-repairing living axe, hoe, pickaxe, shovel and sword are all obtained through magic rituals, as are the sylvan hood, robe, tunic and boots and the wildwood mask, plate, leggings and boots. Animal summoning rituals use the enhanced channeling of the standing stones to pour healing energy into a dead creature: give them the flesh and bones of a passive mob and that mob comes back to life on top of the altar.[10]
The crystal staff
A normal staff has a limited number of uses. The crystal staff is the advanced spellcasting staff, and it stores spells indefinitely, up to four at a time. Sneak and right-click to cycle through the spells it's holding.[10]
Loading it is a separate ritual from making it. On top of that ritual's displayed components you may add up to four additional Spell Powders as incenses, and each one gets added to the staff, overwriting previous spells if necessary.[10]
Functional standing stones
Beyond ritual patterns, standing stones have upgraded variants that act as permanent area effects once placed. Each of these is itself crafted by a ritual defined in the Runic Tablet.[10]
- Accelerator standing stone: a speed beacon.[10]
- Entangler standing stone: a slowness beacon.[10]
- Healer standing stone: a regeneration beacon.[10]
- Grower standing stone: a growth booster for your plants.[10]
- Igniter standing stone: burns your enemies.[10]
- Vacuum and repulsor standing stones: pull in or push away nearby stuff.[10]
- Aesthetic standing stone: purely decorative.[10]
Small utilities
A few side products fall out of the same grinding workflow. Growth Powder is a simple mixture that grows grass on dirt: right-click to throw it at a block within 4 blocks of you and grass spreads over a small area. Healing Poultice applies verdant sprig pulp to your wounds to heal a small amount of health when eaten, and Rooty Stew cooks an otherwise unappetising Old Root into something that replenishes much more hunger. Fruit Salad is the berry sink, delicious and filling.[10]
Crafting Shapeless
- any wheat seed
Short Grass
- any redstone dust
Pestle
Recipe id: rootsclassic:growth_powder
Unverified The exact ritual layouts (how many standing stones of each type, at what spacing around the altar, and how much focus energy each ritual costs) aren't covered by the available sources. Open the Runic Tablet in game for the pattern diagrams.
How do you progress through Roots Classic?
4 parts
Roots Classic progression in this pack is driven by three groups of quests: basic tools, basic armor, and the Star chapter. Each one asks you to get a Roots Classic item, and most of those items are made through ritual crafting, with recipes the pack has changed.[2][3][4][11]
Step 1: Living tools
The basic tools chapter has two quests. a quest in "?" wants a Living Sword, and a quest in "?" wants a Living Pickaxe. Each quest also accepts an infused iron version of the same tool from Nature's Aura, so you can skip the Roots route if you'd rather go that way.[3]
Both Living recipes are ritual recipes that the pack has changed, so don't trust older guides or the mod's defaults. The Living Axe, Living Hoe and Living Shovel have pack-changed ritual recipes too, but the quests I have don't ask for them.[3][11]
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Wooden Sword
2× Oak Bark
Verdant Sprig
- any gold nugget
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/living_sword
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Wooden Pickaxe
2× Oak Bark
Verdant Sprig
- any gold nugget
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/living_pickaxe
Step 2: Armor
The basic armor chapter has one quest per armor set. a quest in "?" asks for the full Sylvan set: Sylvan Hood, Sylvan Robe, Sylvan Tunic and Sylvan Boots. a quest in "?" asks for the full Wildwood set: Wildwood Mask, Wildwood Plate, Wildwood Leggings and Wildwood Boots.[2]
All eight pieces are ritual recipes that the pack has changed. Here are the Sylvan pieces first, then the Wildwood pieces.[11]
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Golden Apple
Leather Helmet
Poppy
Vine
2× Birch Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/sylvan_hood
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Golden Apple
Leather Chestplate
Poppy
Vine
2× Birch Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/sylvan_robe
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Golden Apple
Leather Leggings
Poppy
Vine
2× Birch Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/sylvan_tunic
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Golden Apple
Leather Boots
Poppy
Vine
2× Birch Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/sylvan_boots
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Iron Helmet
Oak Planks
Oak Sapling
Wheat
2× Oak Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/wildwood_mask
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Iron Chestplate
Oak Planks
Oak Sapling
Wheat
2× Oak Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/wildwood_plate
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Iron Leggings
Oak Planks
Oak Sapling
Wheat
2× Oak Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/wildwood_leggings
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Iron Boots
Oak Planks
Oak Sapling
Wheat
2× Oak Bark
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/wildwood_boots
Step 3: The Star chapter
The Star chapter has two Roots Classic quests, and they unlock in order. First, a quest in "?" asks you to get a Verdant Sprig. Once that is done, a quest in "?" asks for a Crystal Staff.[4]
The Crystal Staff is another ritual recipe that the pack has changed. The Verdant Sprig is worth stocking up on, because it shows up in the Living tool, Crystal Staff and Runic Focus recipes.[11]
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Blaze Powder
Coal Block
Stick
Acacia Bark
Birch Bark
Verdant Sprig
- any diamond storage block
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/crystal_staff
Unverified The sources don't say how you obtain a Verdant Sprig or how to perform the ritual itself, so check in-game (for example in the recipe viewer) before planning 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.
Beyond the quests
The quests I have don't cover everything in the mod. The next step up is the Runic Focus, whose ritual recipe the pack has also changed. The Charged Runic Focus and the Engraved Blade are both made from a Runic Focus using mod-default ritual recipes.[11]
Ritual (rootsclassic)
Stone
Acacia Bark
Jungle Bark
Oak Bark
Spruce Bark
Verdant Sprig
- any diamond gem
Recipe id: rootsclassic:ritual/crafting/runic_focus
The standing stones are a separate branch. Start with an Attuned Standing Stone, which is a normal crafting recipe. Each ritual standing stone is then made from an Attuned Standing Stone, for example the Healing Standing Stone and the Growing Standing Stone. These ritual recipes are the mod's defaults, not pack changes.[11]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone | |
| any diamond gem | ||
| any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: rootsclassic:attuned_standing_stone
How does Roots Classic work with other mods?
2 parts
Roots Classic doesn't have a lot of crossover with other mods in this pack. It meets them in one crafting recipe and in a couple of quests that accept items from another mod. Everything below comes from the pack's own recipe and quest files.[3][11]
The Crystal Staff in the Pulsating Black Hole recipe
The Crystal Staff is one of the ingredients in the recipe for the Pulsating Black Hole. That is a shaped crafting recipe added by the pack, so you won't find it in the mods' defaults. It also pulls in items from several other mods, such as the ME Quantum Ring, the Paradox Machine and the Stable Wormhole. The Crystal Staff is the Roots Classic piece.[11]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: allthemods:pressure/allthetweaks/pulsating_black_hole
The Crystal Staff is the Roots Classic ingredient.
The staff also has its own quest in the chapter_2_the_star chapter. a quest in "?" asks for the Crystal Staff and comes after a quest in "?", which asks for a Verdant Sprig. So the quest book walks you through the sprig first and the staff second.[4]
Quests that accept items from another mod
In the basic_tools chapter, two quests accept either a Roots Classic tool or an alternative from another mod. a quest in "?" takes either the Living Sword or the Botanist's Blade. a quest in "?" takes either the Living Pickaxe or the Botanist's Pickaxe. Either item completes the quest, so you can use whichever one you prefer.[3]
Which All the Mods 10 quests use Roots Classic?
3 parts
Roots Classic items turn up in the quest chapters basic_armor, basic_tools and chapter_2_the_star. The quests are untitled in the pack files, so below I point to them by their quest refs and describe what each one asks for.[2][3][4]
basic_armor
This chapter holds armor quests. The first, a quest in "?", asks for the full Sylvan set: Sylvan Hood, Sylvan Robe, Sylvan Tunic and Sylvan Boots.[2]
The next, a quest in "?", asks for the Wildwood set: Wildwood Mask, Wildwood Plate, Wildwood Leggings and Wildwood Boots. The sources list no prerequisite for either quest, so you can pick whichever set you want to work on first.[2]
basic_tools
Here the tool quests each accept a Roots Classic item or an alternative from another mod. a quest in "?" wants either the Living Sword or the infused iron sword from naturesaura. a quest in "?" wants either the Living Pickaxe or the infused iron pickaxe from naturesaura.[3]
Because of that either-or setup, you don't need Roots Classic to complete these quests. As with the armor chapter, no order between them is listed in the sources.[3]
chapter_2_the_star
This is the only place where the sources show a clear order. First comes a quest in "?", which asks you to obtain a Verdant Sprig. Once that is done, a quest in "?" follows and asks for the Crystal Staff.[4]
Unverified The quests have no titles or descriptions in the available files, and the sources don't say how you are meant to obtain each item or what rewards the quests give.
Sources
- All the Mods 10 1.11 mod list · pack file
- All the Mods 10 1.11 quests: "basic_armor" · pack file
- All the Mods 10 1.11 quests: "basic_tools" · pack file
- All the Mods 10 1.11 quests: "chapter_2_the_star" · pack file
- All the Mods 10 8.1 quests: "Chapter 3: The ATM Star" · pack file
- rootsclassic tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 8.1 recipe dump: recipes making Roots Classic items · pack recipe dump
- All the Mods 10 8.1 quests: "Basic Tools" · pack file
- All the Mods 10 8.1 quests: "Basic Armor" · pack file
- rootsclassic tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 1.11 recipe dump: recipes making Roots Classic items · pack recipe dump
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 2, 2026.
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