Eccentric Tome guide for FTB Evolution 2 1.0.2

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.18.0 guide

Eccentric Tome is part of the pack's mod list. This version of the pack ships Eccentric Tome 1.21.1-1.2.0, and the mod has been in the pack since version 1.13.0 or earlier.^[1]

Unverified The sources I have for this section only confirm that the mod is installed and which version it is. They don't describe what Eccentric Tome does, its recipes or configs, or where it fits in the pack's progression. I also have no confirmation of a quest or ATM Star path involving it, so I won't guess at any of those. Check the in-game item tooltips and the mod's own documentation for details.

Your first stop with Eccentric Tome is simple: craft the Eccentric Tome. There is only one item to make, so there is no long chain to follow.^[2][3]

Step 1: Craft the Eccentric Tome

Eccentric TomeMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Book
• any bookshelve

Recipe id: eccentrictome:tome

This is a shapeless crafting recipe added by the mod, and the block shows the exact in-pack version.

Step 2: Check what the pack lets it use

The pack sets a whitelist of items in common.items. It names guide books from many mods, such as the guide from Applied Energistics 2, the book from Powah!, the dictionary from Occultism and the runic tablet from Roots Classic. Cooking for Blockheads, EvilCraft, IceAndFire Community Edition, IntegratedDynamics and NauTec 2 have entries too.^[4]

If a mod's book is not on that list, you should not count on the tome handling it in this pack.^[4]

Step 3: Know the other config options

• common.disable_overlay is false in this pack. That option is described in the config as disabling the overlay that previews tome conversion, so the preview stays on.^[4]
• common.aliases maps some mods onto others. For example, integratedtunnels, integratedterminals and integratedcrafting are aliased to integrateddynamics.^[4]

The sources for this pack show Eccentric Tome as one item, the Eccentric Tome, plus a config file that controls which guidebooks it works with. This section covers both. The sources do not describe any machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation for this mod.^[2][3][4]

Getting the tome

The Eccentric Tome has a shapeless crafting recipe in this pack. Here is the exact recipe as the pack has it:^[2]

Eccentric TomeMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Book
• any bookshelve

Recipe id: eccentrictome:tome

This is the pack's own recipe for the tome.

Which books the tome accepts

The list of allowed books lives in common.items, which the config describes as the whitelisted items. The pack's list is made up of guidebooks and manuals from other mods.^[4]

Some of the entries you'll recognise from mods in this pack: the guide from Applied Energistics 2, the no filter edition from Cooking for Blockheads, the origins of darkness book from EvilCraft, the bestiary from IceAndFire Community Edition, the on the dynamics of integration book from IntegratedDynamics, the NauTec guide from NauTec 2, the dictionary of spirits from Occultism, the book from Powah! and the runic tablet from Roots Classic. The list also has books from several other mods, including the Tinkers' Construct books, the Immersive Engineering manual and the RFTools Base manual.^[4]

Mod aliases

common.aliases holds the pack's mod aliases, each written as one mod name equals another. The pack sets mythicbotany to botania and mysticalaggraditions to mysticalagriculture. It also points integratedtunnels, integratedterminals and integratedcrafting at integrateddynamics.^[4]

A big group of RFTools-family names all point at rftoolsbase: rftoolsbuilder, rftoolscontrol, rftoolsdim, rftoolspower, rftoolsstorage, rftoolsutility, deepresonance and xnet. The rftoolspower entry appears twice in this pack's config.^[4]

The conversion overlay

common.disable_overlay is described as disabling the overlay that previews tome conversion. This pack sets it to false, so the overlay is not disabled.^[4]

There is no tier ladder to climb with Eccentric Tome in this pack. The only recipe the pack lists for the mod makes a single item, the Eccentric Tome, so there are no upgrade steps to plan around.^[2]

Eccentric TomeMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Book
• any bookshelve

Recipe id: eccentrictome:tome

This is the mod's own shapeless crafting recipe, and it is the only one listed for the mod in this pack.

The recipe dump shows no item inputs for it, so the recipe block above is the place to check exactly what the pack asks for.^[2]

Unverified Whether the pack's quest book points you toward the Eccentric Tome, or places it at any stage of progression, is not shown in the sources here. Check the quest book chapters in game for any mention of it.

Eccentric Tome is configured through its common config file, and this pack sets the options below explicitly. The sources here only show the pack's values, not the mod's defaults, so I won't claim which of them the pack changed.^[4]

Overlay: disable_overlay

common.disable_overlay is set to false in this pack. The option is described as disabling the overlay that previews tome conversion, so with false the preview overlay stays on.^[4]

Whitelist: items

common.items is the whitelist of items. The pack fills it with guide books and manuals from many mods. Here are some you will likely run into:^[4]

• Guide for Applied Energistics 2 (Applied Energistics 2).^[4]
• Cooking for Blockheads for Cooking for Blockheads (Cooking for Blockheads).^[4]
• Origins of Darkness for EvilCraft (EvilCraft).^[4]
• Bestiary for IceAndFire Community Edition (IceAndFire Community Edition).^[4]
• On the Dynamics of Integration for IntegratedDynamics (IntegratedDynamics).^[4]
• NauTec 2 Guide for NauTec 2 (NauTec 2).^[4]
• Dictionary Of Spirits for Occultism (Occultism).^[4]
• Manual (Powah!) for Powah! (Powah!).^[4]
• Runic Tablet for Roots Classic (Roots Classic).^[4]

Mod aliases: aliases

common.aliases is a list of mod aliases written as name=name pairs. The pack sets these:^[4]

• mythicbotany=botania^[4]
• integratedtunnels, integratedterminals and integratedcrafting all point to integrateddynamics.^[4]
• rftoolsbuilder, rftoolscontrol, rftoolsdim, rftoolspower, rftoolsstorage, rftoolsutility, deepresonance and xnet all point to rftoolsbase. The rftoolspower entry is repeated in the pack's list.^[4]
• mysticalaggraditions=mysticalagriculture^[4]

FTB Evolution 2 1.0.2 ships Eccentric Tome version 26.1-1.2.1. The sources here do not show which earlier pack release first added it, only that it was in the pack by 1.0.2 or earlier.^[5]

The mod's own changelog for 26.1-1.2.1 has a single entry: "Fix recipe". It does not say which recipe was fixed or what changed in it, so check the recipe in the pack itself if you want the details.^[6]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for Eccentric Tome are available in the sources here, so any change the pack made to this mod across its releases is not shown.