Ex Nihilo: Sequentia in All the Mods - Gravitas

Ex Nihilo: Sequentia is part of the pack's mod list. This pack ships version 1.18.2-20230528-221633, in the file ExNihiloSequentia-1.18.2-20230528-221633.jar.^[1]

Unverified The sources for this guide don't describe what the mod does in this pack, who it suits, or where it fits in progression. They also don't confirm any pack-specific recipe, config or quest changes for it. Until those are confirmed, treat any mod defaults you know from elsewhere as possibly different here. No quests involving the mod and no ATM Star path placement were found.

Ex Nihilo: Sequentia adds a set of hand-crafted tools and workstations, and in this pack they are all normal crafting recipes. Here is the order I would make them in. The recipe blocks show the exact in-pack recipes, so check those for ingredients.^[2]

Start with a crook

Your first craft is the Wooden Crook. The pack also has other crooks, such as the Stone Crook and the Bone Crook.^[2]

Wooden CrookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any wooden rod

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_wooden_crook

Bone CrookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any bone

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_bone_crook

Make a barrel and a sieve

Next, make an Oak Barrel and an Oak Sieve. Every wood type has its own barrel, sieve and crucible recipe, so you can use whichever wood you have on hand, including the Nether woods like crimson and warped.^[2]

Oak BarrelMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Oak Planks	Empty slot	Oak Planks
Oak Planks	Empty slot	Oak Planks
Oak Planks	Oak Slab	Oak Planks

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_oak_barrel

Oak SieveMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Oak Planks	Empty slot	Oak Planks
Oak Planks	Oak Slab	Oak Planks
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any wooden rod

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_oak_sieve

Pick a mesh

Start with the String Mesh. The Flint Mesh, Iron Mesh and Diamond Mesh are the later meshes.^[2]

String MeshMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × any string

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_string_mesh

Emerald MeshChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any emerald gem	Empty slot	any emerald gem
any emerald gem	Desh Ingot	any emerald gem
any emerald gem	Empty slot	any emerald gem

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_emerald_mesh

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Add a hammer and a crucible

Next up are a hammer and a crucible: the Stone Hammer and the Oak Crucible are shown below. The pack also has the Iron Hammer, the Golden Hammer and the Diamond Hammer.^[2]

Stone HammerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any cobblestone	Empty slot
Empty slot	any rod	any cobblestone
any rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_stone_hammer

Oak CrucibleMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Oak Log	Empty slot	Oak Log
Oak Log	Oak Slab	Oak Log
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any wooden rod

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_oak_crucible

There is also a clay route: Porcelain Clay has its own shapeless recipe, and the Unfired Crucible is crafted from it.^[2]

Porcelain ClayMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any clay
• Bone Meal

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_porcelain_clay

Unfired CrucibleMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

7 × Porcelain Clay

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_unfired_crucible

Ex Nihilo: Sequentia revolves around barrels, crucibles and crooks. The numbers below come from this pack's config file, the mod's tooltips and the pack's recipes, so they are the values you will actually see in this pack.^[2][3][4]

Barrels

Barrels come in several wood types, such as Acacia Barrel, Birch Barrel, Dark Oak Barrel and Crimson Barrel. In this pack a barrel holds 1 bucket of fluid, set by barrel.barrelNumberOfBuckets. Rain fills it by 2 per iteration (barrel.rainFillAmount).^[2][4]

Acacia BarrelMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Acacia Planks	Empty slot	Acacia Planks
Acacia Planks	Empty slot	Acacia Planks
Acacia Planks	Acacia Slab	Acacia Planks

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_acacia_barrel

The other wood barrels follow the same pattern with their own planks and slabs.

Barrels handle composting, fluid transformation and mob spawning, and each one is timed in the config. All of these timers are set to 10 seconds in this pack:^[4]

• Composting: the barrel needs 1,000 solids before composting starts (barrel.compost.maxSolidAmount). Composting then takes 10 seconds (barrel.compost.secondsToCompost).^[4]
• Fluid transformation takes 10 seconds (barrel.fluid_transform.secondsToTransformFluid).^[4]
• Mob spawning takes 10 seconds (barrel.mob_spawn.secondsToSpawnMobs).^[4]

barrel.woodBarrelMaxTemp sets the hottest fluid a wooden barrel accepts. It is 300 here, and the config notes that water is 300.^[4]

Dolls and mob spawning

Mobs come from dolls added to a barrel with the right fluid. The mod's tooltips say a Buzzing Doll goes into witch water to spawn a Bee. A Blazing Doll goes into lava to spawn a Blaze. An Creeping Doll goes into witch water to spawn an Enderman. The mod also has a Guardian doll for sea water and a Shulker doll for witch water.^[2][3]

The bee, blaze and enderman dolls are each crafted from a Procelain Doll. That base doll can be made from Porcelain Clay with either a diamond or an emerald.^[2]

4× Procelain DollMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Porcelain Clay	any diamond gem	Porcelain Clay
Empty slot	Porcelain Clay	Empty slot
Porcelain Clay	Empty slot	Porcelain Clay

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_doll_x4

6× Procelain DollMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Porcelain Clay	any emerald gem	Porcelain Clay
Empty slot	Porcelain Clay	Empty slot
Porcelain Clay	Empty slot	Porcelain Clay

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_doll_x6

Buzzing DollMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any yellow dye	any flower	any yellow dye
any glowstone dust	Procelain Doll	any glowstone dust
any yellow dye	Beehive Frame	any yellow dye

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_bee_doll

Blazing DollMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Blaze Powder	any redstone dust	Blaze Powder
any glowstone dust	Procelain Doll	any glowstone dust
Blaze Powder	any nether wart crop	Blaze Powder

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_blaze_doll

Creeping DollMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any black dye	any redstone dust	any black dye
any glowstone dust	Procelain Doll	any glowstone dust
any black dye	any nether wart crop	any black dye

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_enderman_doll

Crucibles

Crucibles use the same wood variants, for example Acacia Crucible and Dark Oak Crucible. Here a crucible holds 4 buckets (crucible.crucibleNumberOfBuckets) and does one melting operation every 20 ticks (crucible.ticksBetweenMelts).^[2][4]

A wood crucible heats at a fixed rate of 2 regardless of its heat source (crucible.wood.woodHeatRate).^[4]

Acacia CrucibleMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Acacia Log	Empty slot	Acacia Log
Acacia Log	Acacia Slab	Acacia Log
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any wooden rod

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_acacia_crucible

Crooks and infested leaves

Crooks are how you get string from infested leaves. A crook drops at least 2 string (crook.minStringCount). It can add up to 3 bonus string on top (crook.maxBonusStringCount). It also simulates breaking a leaf block 3 times to collect the normal drops (crook.vanillaDropSimulateCount).^[4]

Infested leaves spread on their own. A spread attempt happens every 100 ticks (infested_leaves.ticksBetweenSpreadAttempt) with a 0.3 chance (infested_leaves.spreadChance). Leaves take 10 seconds to become fully infested (infested_leaves.secondsToTransformLeaves).^[4]

Tool durability in this pack

The pack changed the durability of the gold and iron crooks compared with the mod defaults. The Gold Crook has 64 durability instead of the default 32 (durability.crook.crookGoldValue). The iron crook has 512 instead of the default 256 (durability.crook.crookIronValue).^[4]

The other crook values listed match the mod defaults. Andesite, diorite, granite, stone and Bone Crook each have 256. Wood has 128, Diamond Crook has 2,048 and netherite has 8,192.^[2][4]

Hammers also use the mod defaults. Golden Hammer has 64, iron has 512, Diamond Hammer has 4,096 and netherite has 8,192. Wood has 128 and stone has 256.^[2][4]

Meshes and pack recipe changes

The config lists these mesh durabilities, all at the mod defaults: String Mesh 59, Flint Mesh 131, Iron Mesh 250, Diamond Mesh 1,561, Emerald Mesh 1,561 and netherite 2,031. The config comments say these only matter if mesh durability is enabled.^[2][4]

The pack also rewrote the recipe for the Emerald Mesh, so don't rely on the mod's default. The End Cake recipe was changed too.^[2]

Emerald MeshChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any emerald gem	Empty slot	any emerald gem
any emerald gem	Desh Ingot	any emerald gem
any emerald gem	Empty slot	any emerald gem

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_emerald_mesh

Changed by the pack.

End CakeChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Ender Eye	End Crystal	Ender Eye
Ender Eye	any cake	Ender Eye
Ender Eye	End Crystal	Ender Eye

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_end_cake

Changed by the pack.

Ore pieces

The config has per-metal toggles for ore pieces, chunks and ingots, covering aluminum, copper, gold, iron, lead, nickel and platinum. They only take effect when ore.enableOreOverride is true, and it is false in this pack. The toggles themselves, such as ore.enableIron, are all true.^[4]

Unverified The sources here show no quests that involve this mod, and nothing places it on the main quest path. So there is no official quest order to follow, and the tiers below are built from the in-pack recipes only.

Ex Nihilo: Sequentia progression is mostly about upgrading your tools. The recipes show a clear ladder of crooks, hammers and sieve meshes, and each step builds on the one before. Here is how it looks in this pack.^[2]

Wood and stone basics

You can start with wooden gear: a Wooden Crook and a Wooden Hammer. The wooden machines are the Oak Barrel, Oak Sieve and Oak Crucible. Spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, crimson and warped each have their own barrel, sieve and crucible too. A Stone Barrel is also available.^[2]

The String Mesh is crafted from string, and it is the base of the mesh upgrade chain. Dirt can also be sieved into seeds such as Acacia Seeds.^[2]

String MeshMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × any string

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_string_mesh

Crooks turn leaves into a Silkworm, and they also work on Infested Leaves. You can cook a silkworm into a Cooked Silkworm in a furnace, blast furnace, smoker or campfire.^[2]

Pebble and metal tools

Crooks come in several grades. There are pebble crooks such as the Stone Crook, Andesite Crook, Diorite Crook and Granite Crook, plus the Bone Crook. Above those are the Iron Crook, Gold Crook and Diamond Crook.^[2]

Hammers follow the same pattern: Stone Hammer, Iron Hammer, Golden Hammer and Diamond Hammer. Hammers crush blocks, for example sand into Dust and netherrack into Crushed Netherrack. They also crush andesite, diorite, granite and end stone.^[2]

Meshes build on each other. The Flint Mesh comes after the string mesh, the Iron Mesh comes after the flint mesh, and the Diamond Mesh comes after the iron mesh.^[2]

Flint MeshMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Flint	Empty slot	Flint
Flint	String Mesh	Flint
Flint	Empty slot	Flint

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_flint_mesh

Iron MeshMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Flint Mesh	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_iron_mesh

Diamond MeshMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any diamond gem	Empty slot	any diamond gem
any diamond gem	Iron Mesh	any diamond gem
any diamond gem	Empty slot	any diamond gem

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_diamond_mesh

Fluids and the porcelain crucible

Sea Water and Witch Water are both made through fluid transformation recipes. Porcelain Clay also leads to the crucible you fire: first the Unfired Crucible, then the Fired Crucible, which you get by smelting or blasting.^[2]

Sea WaterMod recipe

Fluid Transform (exnihilosequentia)

• Water
• any sand

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:fluid_transform/ens_sea_water

Witch WaterMod recipe

Fluid Transform (exnihilosequentia)

• Mycelium
• Water

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:fluid_transform/ens_witch_water

Porcelain ClayMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any clay
• Bone Meal

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_porcelain_clay

Unfired CrucibleMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

7 × Porcelain Clay

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_unfired_crucible

Late game: netherite and pack-changed recipes

The top tools are smithing upgrades. The Netherite Hammer is upgraded from the diamond hammer, and the Netherite Mesh is upgraded from the Emerald Mesh.^[2]

Emerald MeshChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any emerald gem	Empty slot	any emerald gem
any emerald gem	Desh Ingot	any emerald gem
any emerald gem	Empty slot	any emerald gem

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_emerald_mesh

This recipe is changed by the pack.

The pack also changed the End Cake recipe, so check it before you plan around it.^[2]

End CakeChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Ender Eye	End Crystal	Ender Eye
Ender Eye	any cake	Ender Eye
Ender Eye	End Crystal	Ender Eye

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_end_cake

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Dolls and ore pieces

Dolls start from a Procelain Doll, which has a diamond version and an emerald version of its recipe. Specialised dolls built on it include the Blazing Doll, Creeping Doll, Floating Doll, Protecting Doll and Buzzing Doll.^[2]

Ore pieces such as Tin Pieces and Zinc Pieces convert into their raw forms, Raw Tin and Raw Zinc. Raw Platinum can be smelted or blasted into a Platinum Ingot.^[2]

Ex Nihilo: Sequentia gives you raw metals from sifting, and this pack decides what those metals turn into. The in-pack recipes link the mod with Immersive Engineering, TFC, Beyond Earth and Ex Machinis. No quests in this pack involve the mod, so everything below comes from recipes.^[2]

Raw metals smelt into other mods' ingots

The pack changed the smelting and blasting recipes for this mod's raw metals. Instead of giving you an ingot of its own, each raw metal gives you an ingot from another mod. That keeps everything you sift compatible with the rest of the pack.^[2]

• Raw Aluminum becomes Aluminium Ingot.^[2]
• Raw Lead becomes Lead Ingot.^[2]
• Raw Uranium becomes Uranium Ingot.^[2]
• Raw Nickel becomes Nickel Ingot.^[2]
• Raw Silver becomes Silver Ingot.^[2]
• Raw Tin becomes Tin Ingot.^[2]
• Raw Zinc becomes Zinc Ingot.^[2]

Each of these metals has both a smelting recipe and a blasting recipe, and the pack changed both. Here is the aluminium pair as an example. The other metals follow the same pattern.^[2]

Aluminium IngotChanged by the pack

Smelting

• Raw Aluminum

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_aluminum_ingot

Aluminium IngotChanged by the pack

Blasting

• Raw Aluminum

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_aluminum_ingot_blast

Emerald Mesh needs a Beyond Earth metal

The pack changed the recipe for Emerald Mesh so it uses Desh Ingot from Beyond Earth. If you want this mesh in your sieve setup, you need to reach that mod's progression first.^[2]

Emerald MeshChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any emerald gem	Empty slot	any emerald gem
any emerald gem	Desh Ingot	any emerald gem
any emerald gem	Empty slot	any emerald gem

Recipe id: exnihilosequentia:ens_emerald_mesh

From Diamond Hammer to Flux Hammer

The Flux Hammer is crafted from this mod's Diamond Hammer, so the hammer you already use is the starting point for the automated version. The source marks this as a mod recipe, not a pack change.^[2]

Flux HammerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any glass panes	any glass panes	any glass panes
any glass panes	Diamond Hammer	any glass panes
any iron storage block	Hopper	any iron storage block

Recipe id: exmachinis:flux_hammer

Everything here lives in one file, config/exnihilosequentia-common.toml. Good news: the pack leaves almost every option at the mod default. Only two values differ, and both are crook durabilities.^[4]

What the pack changed

• Gold crook durability (durability.crook.crookGoldValue) is 64 in this pack. The mod default is 32.^[4]
• Iron crook durability (durability.crook.crookIronValue) is 512 in this pack. The mod default is 256.^[4]

Sieve settings

• sieve.maxSieveClicks is 10, the maximum of its 1 to 10 range. That is how many clicks it takes to sieve one block.^[4]
• sieve.flattenSieveRecipes is true, so the sieve gives results for all mesh tiers below the one in the sieve.^[4]
• sieve.enableMeshDurability is false, so meshes don't break and they stack up to the sieve.meshStackSize of 64. The mesh durability values only matter if you turn mesh durability on.^[4]
• sieve.sieveRange is 2. That is the radius in which a sieve tries to activate other sieves.^[4]

Barrels and crucibles

• A barrel holds barrel.barrelNumberOfBuckets bucket (1), and a crucible holds crucible.crucibleNumberOfBuckets buckets (4).^[4]
• Composting starts once the barrel has barrel.compost.maxSolidAmount (1,000) solids, and it then takes barrel.compost.secondsToCompost (10) seconds.^[4]
• Rain fills a barrel by barrel.rainFillAmount (2) per iteration.^[4]
• Crucibles melt every crucible.ticksBetweenMelts (20) ticks.^[4]

Crooks and infested leaves

• A crook drops at least crook.minStringCount (2) string from infested leaves, plus up to crook.maxBonusStringCount (3) extra.^[4]
• Infested leaves spread with a infested_leaves.spreadChance chance of 0.3, with 100 ticks between attempts (infested_leaves.ticksBetweenSpreadAttempt).^[4]