Firmalife guide for All the Mods - Gravitas 2.0 to 2.3
Firmalife guide for All the Mods - Gravitas
Last verified for All the Mods - Gravitas v2.3 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
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- Sections
- 7
- Recipes shown
- 20
- Items named
- 63
- Quests covered
- 5
6 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 - Gravitas 2.3's own files.
What is Firmalife?
1 part
Firmalife is a food-and-farming expansion for TerraFirmaCraft, and this pack ships version 1.2.8. It adds a much deeper kitchen: cheese, yeast bread, chocolate, drying, herbs and spices, plus beekeeping. It also adds two multiblock structures, the Cellar and the Greenhouse, both run by a Climate Station.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
It's for you if you enjoy the slower, more crafted side of TFC. The mod changes how some familiar things work. Cheese is a longer process and can be aged in a Cellar. Bread needs yeast and a sweetener, while regular TFC bread only makes flatbread, which is worse nutritionally. Sugar matters more too, so honey from your own bees or sugar from beets are good alternatives to sugar cane.[8]
Where it fits in the pack
The pack's quest chapter introduces Firmalife through beekeeping, right after an early lumberjack quest. The chain looks like this:[12]
- Get a Beehive Frame (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}").[12]
- Make a Wooden Beehive (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}").[12]
- Collect Raw Honey and an Empty Jar (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}").[12]
- Get Beeswax (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}").[12]
- Hand in 8 Treated Lumber (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}").[12]
That order makes sense. Beeswax is the most important ingredient for Treated Lumber, and Treated Wood is one of the greenhouse types. A greenhouse lets you grow crops year round, and a Cellar lets you age cheese and store food with better decay modifiers.[2][4][10][13]
How do you get started with Firmalife?
5 parts
In this pack, Firmalife starts with bees, and the quest chain walks you through it. It begins with a frame and a hive, goes through honey and beeswax, and ends with treated lumber. Here is the order to follow.[2][12]
Step one: Beehive Frame and Wooden Beehive
The first quest asks for a Beehive Frame. The next one asks for a Wooden Beehive. Bees need frames inside a hive to live, so you need both. Quest a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" and quest a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" cover them.[2][12]
Crafting Shaped
| any lumber | any lumber | |
| any lumber | any lumber | |
| any lumber | any lumber |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/beehive
The hive knows about the area within 5 blocks of it. If at least 10 flowers are around, an empty frame can be populated with a queen, and you will see bee particles around the hive. Keeping 4 empty frames in the hive greatly improves the chances of bees moving in.[2]
Step two: Empty Jar and Raw Honey
Next, quest a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" wants Raw Honey and an Empty Jar. Use the empty jar on a hive that visibly has honey to get a Honey Jar. Opening it gives you Raw Honey, which works as a sugar substitute.[2][12]
The pack changes the Honey Jar recipe and the recipe for opening a jar into Raw Honey, so use the versions below rather than what you may remember from other packs.[14]
Crafting Shapeless
- any bottle
- any honeycomb
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/honey_jar
Step three: Beeswax
Quest a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" asks for Beeswax. You get it by pressing a filled frame in your inventory with a Knife.[2][12]
Step four: Treated Lumber
The last step of the chain is Treated Lumber, and quest a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" asks for 8 of it. The in-game guide calls this the most important use of beeswax.[2][12]
Crafting Shaped
| any lumber | any lumber | any lumber |
| any lumber | any lumber | |
| any lumber | any lumber | any lumber |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/treated_lumber
Where to go next
Treated lumber is an ingredient in the Mixing Bowl in this pack, and it is also used for the treated wood greenhouse blocks. The pack changes both of those recipes from the mod's defaults.[14]
A greenhouse and a cellar are both controlled by a Climate Station. Beeswax also goes into Sealed Bricks, which the cellar is built from.[4][7][14]
How does Firmalife work?
7 parts
Most of Firmalife's big machines are multiblocks: you build a structure, and a block inside it brings the whole thing to life. The ones you will use most are the cellar, the greenhouse and the oven. The sections below cover how each one works, plus the smaller devices that plug into them.[4][10][15]
The Climate Station
The Climate Station manages both the greenhouse and the cellar. Place it on the first level of the multiblock, touching a wall. When the structure is built correctly it shows water on its sides, and when it is invalid it shows ice, so you can tell whether the structure is valid.[7]
It updates on its own periodically, and also when it is placed or broken. Each update tells every block inside the multiblock that it can operate. That is what lets cheese start aging, for example.[7]
Crafting Shaped
| any plank | any plank | |
| any redstone dust | any redstone dust | |
| any plank | any plank |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/climate_station
Cellars
A cellar only needs to be an enclosed area surrounded on all sides by Sealed Bricks or Sealed Brick Doors. The Climate Station goes on the first level, touching a wall. Cellars are used for aging cheese and for food preservation.[4]
Inside a valid cellar, Food Shelves hold a full stack of one food item and give a decay modifier better than vessels. Hangers store meat or garlic, and their decay modifier is better than shelves or vessels. Both only work in a valid cellar.[13][16]
Cooler cellars preserve food better. Below 0 degrees the decay modifiers work slightly better, and below -12 degrees they work much better. The pack sets those thresholds with general.cellarLevel2Temperature at 0 and general.cellarLevel3Temperature at -12. They are compared against the average temperature.[4][17]
Cheese wheels placed in a cellar age through Fresh, Aged and Vintage. In this pack, general.cheeseAgedDays is 28 days and general.cheeseVintageDays is 112 days. Slice the wheel with a Knife to get cheese. If you break the block, the aging is lost.[5][17]
Greenhouses
The greenhouse is also controlled by a Climate Station and lets you grow crops year round. Like the cellar, it is an enclosed area, but every wall, door and roof block must belong to the same greenhouse type. The floor can be any solid block.[10]
There are four block shapes: walls, doors, roofs (stairs) and roof tops (slabs). Most greenhouse blocks weather over time, but the weathered versions belong to the same type, so the greenhouse keeps working.[10]
- Treated Wood can age into Weathered.[10]
- Copper can age into Exposed, Weathered and Oxidized.[10]
- Iron can age into Rusted.[10]
- Stainless Steel does not age.[10]
The pack changed the crafting recipes for the treated wood, copper and iron greenhouse blocks. Here is the in-pack recipe for the iron wall.[14]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron rod | any iron rod | |
| any iron rod | any iron rod | |
| any iron rod | any iron rod |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/greenhouse/iron_greenhouse_wall
Changed by the pack.
Planters and watering
Planters grow crops inside a valid greenhouse that has been activated with a Climate Station. They need at least some natural sunlight and consume nutrients much like regular crops. Hold a Hoe and look at one to see its status. They also must be watered, using a Watering Can on nearby planters.[18]
- Large Planters grow one crop each: green beans, tomatoes, sugarcane, jute and grains. Grains need a copper or better greenhouse.[18]
- Quad Planters grow four crops that share one nutrient pool. They suit beets, cabbage, carrots, garlic, onions, potatoes and soybeans in any greenhouse type.[18]
- Bonsai Planter grows small fruit trees, all except bananas, and needs an iron or better greenhouse.[18]
- Hanging Planters grow squash (any greenhouse) and bananas (iron or better). They must anchor to a solid block above.[18]
- Trellis Planters grow berry bushes, except cranberries, and need an iron or better greenhouse. A mature bush can grow upward into a trellis planter stacked on top.[18]
- Hydroponic Planters grow rice and cranberries without watering, but need a Nutritive Vat below them, filled with water.[18]
For hands-off watering, the Sprinkler waters a 5x6x5 area centered on the block below it. It fills itself from any fluid tank or pipe placed above it, and a barrel of water is the easiest setup. The dribbler works the same way but only waters the 7 blocks below it.[19]
Ovens and oven appliances
An oven is a Bottom Oven, a Top Oven and optionally chimneys. Food baked in it decays at 90% of the normal rate. The Bottom Oven holds fuel, which can only be logs, and is where you light it. It passes heat up to the Top Oven, which holds the food and releases heat slowly, so it keeps working for a while after the fuel runs out.[15]
Cover every side of each oven part except the front with oven insulation. That can be bricks, other oven blocks, or anything that insulates a forge. Stack chimneys directly behind the oven so the smoke goes up and out instead of filling your house.[15]
The oven blocks start as clay and must be cured. In this pack, general.ovenCureTemperature is 600 and general.ovenCureTicks is 2,000 ticks. The in-game guide estimates about 80 seconds, so go by the config value. Curing spreads to nearby oven blocks and up nearby chimneys.[15][17]
general.ovenRequirePeel is true here, so touching a hot oven without a Peel in hand hurts you. Use the Peel to take items out.[15][17]
- The Oven Hopper feeds logs into the Bottom Oven it faces. It holds 16 logs, you fill it by dropping items in the top, and it can also be fed by automation from other mods.[20]
- The Ashtray goes below a Bottom Oven and has a 0.5 chance of gaining Wood Ash whenever fuel is consumed.[20]
- The Vat sits on the block above a Bottom Oven and brews select boiling recipes in bulk. It has one item slot and fluid space similar to a barrel. One example is Olive Oil Water, at 1 Olive Paste to 200 mB Water.[20]
- TFC Pots and Grills can sit on top of a Bottom Oven and take heat automatically. Each has only 4 slots, and the pot only makes soup.[20]
Crafting Shaped
| any wrought iron sheet |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/ashtray
Drying, smoking and composting
The Drying Mat works in the sun, and rain resets the process. In this pack, general.dryingTicks is 12,000 ticks, which is half a day. The solar drier is 12x as fast, and general.solarDryingTicks is 1,000 ticks.[9][17]
Smoking uses wool string above a firepit. The firepit must be directly underneath the string, within four blocks. It takes 8 in-game hours, and the pack sets general.smokingTicks to 8,000 ticks. Meat must be brined first, but cheese has no such requirement.[17][21]
The Composter can be upgraded to an Iron Composter, which works the same but is four times as fast. The pack sets general.ironComposterTicks to 72,000 ticks.[17][22]
Smaller machines
The Mixing Bowl mixes items and fluids, but it needs a Spoon. Use the Spoon on the bowl to add it, which lets the bowl operate.[23]
Beehives need Beehive Frames inside. A hive knows the area within a 5 block radius, and with at least 10 flowers around it an empty frame can get a queen. Having 4 empty frames greatly improves the chances of bees moving in. This pack has general.enableBeeSwarm turned on, so provoked bees can swarm and hurt you.[2][17]
How do you progress through Firmalife?
4 parts
Firmalife progression in this pack runs through a few clear stages: beekeeping first, then a cellar, then a greenhouse that you upgrade through four material types. The pack's quest chapter covers the opening stage, and the in-pack recipes cover the rest.[4][10][12][14]
Stage 1: Beekeeping and Treated Lumber
The quest chapter is a straight chain. It starts after the early lumberjack quest and ends with a stack of treated lumber, which is the gateway to most of the mod.[12]
- Craft a Beehive Frame for a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}".[12]
- Build a Wooden Beehive for a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}".[12]
- Collect Raw Honey and an Empty Jar for a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}".[12]
- Get Beeswax for a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}". This also unlocks the next quest.[12]
- Hand in 8 Treated Lumber for a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}".[12]
Crafting Shaped
| any lumber | any lumber | |
| any lumber | any lumber | |
| any lumber | any lumber |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/beehive
Frames need to be inside a hive for bees to live there. Each hive checks the area within a 5 block radius. With at least 10 flowers nearby, an empty frame can get a Queen, and having 4 empty frames in a hive greatly improves the chances of bees moving in.[2]
Using an Empty Jar on a hive that visibly has honey gives you a Honey Jar, and opening that jar gives you Raw Honey. The pack changed the recipe for opening a honey jar, so check the in-game recipe viewer rather than assuming the mod default.[2][14]
Pressing a filled frame with a Knife gives you Beeswax. Beeswax's most important use is making Treated Lumber.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any lumber | any lumber | any lumber |
| any lumber | any lumber | |
| any lumber | any lumber | any lumber |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/treated_lumber
Stage 2: The Cellar
A cellar is an enclosed area surrounded by Sealed Bricks or Sealed Brick Doors on all sides. It is controlled by a Climate Station, which goes on the first level of the cellar, touching a wall. Beeswax from your hives is what gets you here.[4][7]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone brick | any stone brick | any stone brick |
| any stone brick | any stone brick | |
| any stone brick | any stone brick | any stone brick |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/sealed_bricks
Crafting Shaped
| any plank | any plank | |
| any redstone dust | any redstone dust | |
| any plank | any plank |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/climate_station
The climate station shows water on its sides when the multiblock is valid and ice when it is not. You can press it to force an update.[7]
Once the cellar works, you can age cheese wheels such as Cheddar Cheese Wheel in it, and store food on shelves and hangers. Slice cheese off the wheel with a Knife, because breaking the block loses the aging.[4][5][13][14][16]
Stage 3: The Greenhouse Tiers
The greenhouse is also controlled by a climate station and lets you grow crops year round. It is an enclosed area built from one greenhouse type. There are four block kinds: walls, doors, roofs and roof tops. Roofs are stairs and roof tops are slabs.[10]
- Treated Wood: ages into Weathered Treated Wood, which still counts as the same type. Uses Treated Wood Greenhouse Wall and its matching door and roof blocks.[10][14]
- Copper: ages through Exposed, Weathered and Oxidized. Uses Copper Greenhouse Wall and its matching blocks.[10][14]
- Iron: ages into Rusted. Uses Iron Greenhouse Wall and its matching blocks.[10][14]
- Stainless Steel: does not age. Uses Stainless Steel Greenhouse Wall and its matching blocks.[10][14]
The pack changed the greenhouse recipes for the treated wood, copper and iron types, while the stainless steel ones are the unchanged mod recipes. Here are the pack's iron and stainless steel walls as examples.[14]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron rod | any iron rod | |
| any iron rod | any iron rod | |
| any iron rod | any iron rod |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/greenhouse/iron_greenhouse_wall
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/greenhouse/stainless_steel_greenhouse_wall
Drying upgrades
Along the way you will want the Drying Mat, which is made from fruit leaves. Place it in the sun, and after half a day the item on it is dried. Rain resets the process. The Solar Drier does the same job 12x as fast, and the pack changed its recipe.[9][14]
Crafting Shaped
| any stainless steel rods | any stainless steel rods | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any treated lumber | any treated lumber | any treated lumber |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/solar_drier
How does Firmalife work with other mods?
3 parts
Firmalife sits on top of TFC, so most of its connections are with TFC items. The pack also ties Firmalife's chocolate, honey jars and tea into Create and Create Additions through recipes. Here is where the mods meet.[8][14]
TFC
- Cheese: the cheese wheels (Cheddar Cheese Wheel, Chevre Cheese Wheel and Rajya Metok Cheese Wheel) and the curdling barrel recipe with Rennet both lean on TFC items, including Salt and Curdled Milk. Some of these recipes are shown below.[5][14]
- Bread: Firmalife's dough recipes (for example Wheat Dough) start from TFC flours plus a sweetener. TFC breads such as Wheat Bread can be cut with a knife into Firmalife slices like Wheat Slice. Those slices and the Firmalife flatbreads then work in TFC's sandwich recipes, for example Wheat Bread Sandwich. The same pattern exists for barley, maize, oat, rice and rye.[14]
- Cooking: Bacon, Salsa, Tomato Sauce Mix, Pickled Egg, Pumpkin Chunks and Garlic Bread all use TFC foods such as Raw Pork, Tomato, Garlic, Boiled Egg and Pumpkin.[14]
- Compost and planters: the Large, Quad, Hanging and Trellis planters and the Seed Ball build on TFC's Compost. The Iron Composter builds on the TFC Composter, as shown below.[14]
- Metals: Chromium Ingot and Stainless Steel Ingot are cast using the TFC Ingot Mold.[14]
- Tools and utility blocks: the Watering Can, Pineapple Yarn, Ashtray and Wooden Beehive each draw on TFC items such as the Wooden Bucket, Spindle, Salt and Thatch. The watering can recipe is shown below.[14][24]
- Wood: the Food Shelves, Hangers and Jarbnets are made from TFC planks, lumber and logs, one version per TFC wood type. The Jarbnets also need brass rods.[14]
- Beeswax and candles: Firmalife's Beeswax can be crafted into a TFC Candle.[14]
Crafting Shaped
| any wrought iron sheet | any wrought iron sheet |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/iron_composter
Crafting Shapeless
Wooden Bucket
- any lumber
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/watering_can
Crafting Shaped
| any plank | any plank | |
| any redstone dust | any redstone dust | |
| any plank | any plank |
Recipe id: firmalife:crafting/climate_station
The Climate Station uses TFC's Brass Mechanisms, and it manages both the Cellar and the Greenhouse.
The jar recipes for Compost Jar, Guano Jar and Rotten Compost Jar turn TFC's compost, guano and rotten compost into jars. The pack changed these recipes, but the sources here do not show what was changed. Opening a jar gives the TFC item back.[14]
Create and Create Additions
These links are all changed by the pack, so they are not mod defaults. Create's Chocolate can be compacted into Dark Chocolate. Note that this uses Create's chocolate, not Chocolate.[14]
Going the other way, Firmalife's Chocolate is the chocolate used in two filling recipes. One makes Chocolate Glazed Berries, and the other makes Chocolate Cake from a Baked Cake Base. The chocolate itself comes from Firmalife's own processing chain.[6][14]
Filling (create)
250× Chocolate
- any berry
Recipe id: create:filling/chocolate_glazed_berries
Create's emptying recipes also hand back Firmalife's Empty Jar. Emptying honey gives Honey, and emptying Builder's Tea gives Builder's Tea. That fits nicely with the Honey Jars you collect from beehives.[2][14]
Emptying (create)
- any honey
Recipe id: create:emptying/honey_bottle
Quests
The quests that feature Firmalife only ask for Firmalife items. The chain starts with Beehive Frame (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}") and moves on to the Wooden Beehive (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}"). After the beehive come two branches: Raw Honey with an Empty Jar (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}"), and Beeswax (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}"). The beeswax quest is followed by a quest for Treated Lumber (a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}"). The first quest unlocks after the lumber jack quest. The most important use of beeswax is treated lumber, so this chain walks you through the whole beekeeping loop.[2][12]
Which All the Mods - Gravitas quests use Firmalife?
1 part
Firmalife shows up in a single quest chapter in the pack, and it's a nice little beekeeping line. Every quest in it is an item-submission task, and the quests have no titles in the data I have, so I'll point to them by quest ref. The chapter's own title isn't readable in that data either.[12]
The order, step by step
- a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" asks you to hand in a Beehive Frame. It unlocks after a lumber jack quest from the caveman line, so that quest comes first.[12]
- a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" asks for a Wooden Beehive. It follows the beehive frame quest.[12]
- a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" asks for Raw Honey and an Empty Jar. It opens once the beehive quest is done.[12]
- a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" asks for Beeswax. It also opens after the beehive quest, so you can do it before or after the honey quest.[12]
- a quest in "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" asks for 8 Treated Lumber. It unlocks after the beeswax quest.[12]
After the beehive quest the line branches. The honey and jar quest and the beeswax quest are both open at that point. The treated lumber quest only follows the beeswax branch, though.[12]
Which Firmalife config options matter?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods - Gravitas 4.0 guide
Firmalife keeps its main settings in one server config file. Here is how this pack sets the options you're most likely to care about. All the tick values use the same conversion: 24,000 ticks is 1 day.[25]
Cheese and cellars
- general.cheeseAgedDays is 28. That's the number of days cheese spends in a cellar to become Aged.[25]
- general.cheeseVintageDays is 112 days in a cellar for cheese to become Vintage.[25]
- general.cellarLevel2Temperature is 0. Below this average temperature, stronger decay modifiers apply to cellar blocks.[25]
- general.cellarLevel3Temperature is -12. Below this average temperature, even stronger decay modifiers apply.[25]
Drying, smoking and composting times
- general.dryingTicks is 12,000 ticks to dry something on a drying mat.[25]
- general.solarDryingTicks is 1,000 ticks to dry something on a solar drier.[25]
- general.smokingTicks is 8,000 ticks to smoke something on a string.[25]
- general.ironComposterTicks is 72,000 ticks for an iron composter to finish.[25]
Oven behavior
- general.ovenCureTemperature is 600. This is the minimum temperature for an oven to start curing.[25]
- general.ovenCureTicks is 2,000 ticks for an oven to cure.[25]
- general.ovenRequirePeel is true, so ovens hurt you if you touch them without a peel in hand.[25]
Other toggles
- general.enableBeeSwarm is true, so provoked bees can swarm and hurt you.[25]
- general.enableSeedBalls is true, so you can throw seed balls.[25]
- general.hollowShellCapacity is 100 mB. The file's own comment lists 100 as the default, so this one matches it.[25]
Unverified The pack's config file doesn't list mod defaults for most of these options, apart from the hollow shell capacity. I can't confirm which of the values above the pack changed, so treat them as this pack's settings rather than as changes.
Sources
- All the Mods - Gravitas 2.3 mod list · pack file
- In-game guide: Beekeeping (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Bread (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Cellars (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Cheese (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Chocolate (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Climate Station (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Differences from TFC (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Drying (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Greenhouse (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Herbs and Spices (firmalife) · official docs
- All the Mods - Gravitas 2.3 quests: "{gravitas.chapters.1.title}" · pack file
- In-game guide: Food Shelves (firmalife) · official docs
- All the Mods - Gravitas 2.3 recipe dump: recipes making Firmalife items · pack recipe dump
- In-game guide: Ovens (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Hangers (firmalife) · official docs
- All the Mods - Gravitas 2.3 config: defaultconfigs/firmalife-server.toml · pack file
- In-game guide: Planters (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Sprinklers (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Oven Appliances (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Smoking (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: More Fertilizer Options (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Mixing Bowl (firmalife) · official docs
- In-game guide: Berry Bushes (firmalife) · official docs
- All the Mods - Gravitas 4.0 config: defaultconfigs/firmalife-server.toml · pack file
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mods - Gravitas 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: 3.7 to 4.0 · 2.4 to 3.6b