GeOre guide for FTB Evolution 2 1.0.2 to 1.3.0
GeOre guide for FTB Evolution 2
Last verified for FTB Evolution 2 v1.1.0 on Oct 13, 2026 · text last changed Oct 13, 2026
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Every recipe and number here was checked against FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0's own files.
What is GeOre?
GeOre is part of this pack at version 1.1.0, where it ships as GeOre 8.0.7 (the file GeOre-26.1.2-8.0.7.jar). It was already in the pack by version 1.0.2, so it isn't a recent addition.[1]
Unverified The sources here do not show what GeOre does in this pack, and they do not show where the quest book places it (chapter, group, or neighbouring quests) or whether the ATM Star path uses it. Check the pack's quest book in game for any of that.
How do you get started with GeOre?
4 parts
GeOre adds GeOre shards, blocks, buds, clusters and budding blocks for many ores. The useful first steps in this pack are to check which GeOres generate in the world, then to learn the recipes that turn shards, blocks and budding blocks into each other. Iron is the example below, and the other metals in the pack follow the same pattern.[2][3][4]
Check which GeOres generate
The pack leaves generation on for the base options. For example, General.generateIronGeore, General.generateDiamondGeore and General.generateCopperGeore are all true, and so are the coal, emerald, gold, lapis, quartz and redstone options. Budding Ancient Debris also generates, through General.generateBuddingAncientDebris.[4]
The modded metals are different. Options such as ModdedGeneration.generateAluminumGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateLeadGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateNickelGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateOsmiumGeore and ModdedGeneration.generatePlatinumGeore are set to false in this pack, so those GeOres are not generated. The pack still adds recipes for their shards, blocks and budding blocks, so you can get them through crafting and machines instead.[2][4]
Shards and blocks
Shards are the basic item. The pack adds a crafting recipe that turns shards into a block, such as Block Of Iron GeOre.[2]
Crafting Shaped
4 × Iron GeOre Shard
Recipe id: ftb:unification/geore/shard_block/iron
Shards into a GeOre block.
You can also go the other way. Crafting a block back down gives you 4 shards, such as Iron GeOre Shard.[2]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: ftb:unification/geore/block_to_shard/iron
One block back into 4 shards.
Getting shards from a budding block
The pack adds an Xycraft extractor recipe that produces a shard, and its id shows it starts from a budding block such as Budding Iron GeOre.[2]
Extractor (xycraft)
Recipe id: ftb:unification/geore/xycraft/extractor/shard_from_budding/iron
Extractor recipe that makes an iron GeOre shard.
Making your own budding blocks
If you cannot find a budding block in the world, the pack adds a recipe for the crystal growth chamber from Energized Power that produces one, for example Budding Iron GeOre.[2]
Crystal Growth Chamber (energizedpower)
Recipe id: ftb:unification/energizedpower/crystal_growing/budding_growth/iron
Crystal growth chamber recipe for Budding Iron GeOre.
How does GeOre work?
5 parts
GeOre is built around geodes. Each ore type gets its own geode with a budding block, small, medium and large buds, and a cluster. The sources here explain how those geodes are put together, where they generate, which config switches control them, and how the pack lets you make the pieces yourself.[3][5]
How a geode is built
The geode files shown here (aluminum, allthemodium and black quartz) all share the same layout. Each is a vanilla-style geode feature with the same layers and settings, and only the blocks change. Take aluminum as the example.[5][6][7]
- The outer layer is smooth basalt and the middle layer is calcite. The filling in the centre is air.[5]
- The inner layer is the ore's block, for example Block Of Aluminum GeOre. The alternate inner layer is the budding block, for example Budding Aluminum GeOre.[5]
- The buds and the cluster are placed facing up in the order small bud, medium bud, large bud, then cluster. The placement chance is set to 0.35.[5]
- The alternate inner layer chance is set to 0.083, and placements require the alternate layer. That is how budding blocks end up inside the geode wall.[5]
- The geode gets a crack with a generation chance of 0.95. It uses 3 to 4 distribution points.[5]
Unverified The exact feature settings for the coal, copper, diamond, emerald, gold, iron, lapis and lead geodes (and the other geode files) live in data/geore/worldgen/configured_feature. The sources here do not show them, so the numbers above are only confirmed for the aluminum, allthemodium and black quartz geodes.
Where geodes generate
Every geode is added by a biome modifier that names a biome tag and an enabled config. Most target the Overworld tag, including aluminum, black quartz, coal, copper, diamond, emerald, gold and iron.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
- Allthemodium geodes are added in the deep dark, using a GeOre biome tag that contains only the deep dark biome.[16][17]
- Unobtainium geodes are added in the End.[18]
- Vibranium geodes are added in the Nether. Quartz also has a separate Nether entry that reuses the quartz geode.[19][20]
- Budding ancient debris is not a geode. It is a scattered ore feature in the Nether, with a size of 1, that replaces netherrack. Its discard chance on air exposure is 1.0.[21][22]
What the pack turns on
In this pack the config file decides which geodes actually generate. The vanilla-style ones are on: General.generateCoalGeore, General.generateCopperGeore, General.generateDiamondGeore, General.generateEmeraldGeore, General.generateGoldGeore, General.generateIronGeore, General.generateLapisGeore, General.generateRedstoneGeore, General.generateQuartzGeore, General.generateQuartzInNetherGeore and General.generateBuddingAncientDebris are all true.[4]
Every option in the ModdedGeneration group is false, including ModdedGeneration.generateAluminumGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateAllthemodiumGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateUnobtainiumGeore and ModdedGeneration.generateVibraniumGeore. The config describes each of these as a generate switch for that GeOre.[4]
Budding block behaviour
The General group also has options for how budding blocks behave. General.disableImmovability disables the immovability of budding GeOre blocks and enables a built-in datapack. General.disablePistonPushForBuddingGeOre overrides the vanilla behaviour of breaking the block when it is pushed. The pack leaves both at false.[4]
Making the pieces yourself
The pack adds recipes so you do not depend on finding geodes. A crystal growth chamber from Energized Power makes budding blocks. The pack has 48 of these recipes that output GeOre items, covering aluminum, coal, copper, diamond, emerald and gold among the ones listed here.[2]
Crystal Growth Chamber (energizedpower)
Recipe id: ftb:unification/energizedpower/crystal_growing/budding_growth/aluminum
The aluminum budding block, grown in the crystal growth chamber. Other ores follow the same pattern.
Once you have a budding block, a Xycraft extractor recipe added by the pack gives you a shard from it. The pack has 24 extractor recipes for GeOre shards.[2]
Extractor (xycraft)
Recipe id: ftb:unification/geore/xycraft/extractor/shard_from_budding/aluminum
Extractor recipe from a budding block to Aluminum GeOre Shard.
Shards and blocks convert both ways with ordinary crafting. A block breaks down into 4 shards, and shards are crafted back into a block.[2]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: ftb:unification/geore/block_to_shard/aluminum
One block gives 4 shards.
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: ftb:unification/geore/shard_block/aluminum
Shards are crafted back into the block.
How do you progress through GeOre?
4 parts
GeOre in this pack comes down to one material chain that repeats for every ore and gem it covers. You get shards, turn them into blocks, and can grow budding blocks to keep a supply going. The recipes below use aluminum as the example, and the others follow the same pattern.[2]
The pack covers aluminum, coal, copper, diamond, emerald, gold, iron, lapis, lead, monazite, nickel, osmium, platinum, quartz, redstone, ruby, sapphire, silver and tin, plus ancient debris. Each has a shard and a block. For example, you have Aluminum GeOre Shard and Block Of Aluminum GeOre, or Ancient Debris GeOre Shard and Block Of Ancient Debris GeOre. Each also has a budding block, such as Budding Aluminum GeOre.[2]
Shards from clusters
Shards drop from clusters. An Aluminum GeOre Cluster drops itself if you break it with Silk Touch. Without Silk Touch, a tool in the cluster_max_harvestables tag gives 4 shards, boosted by Fortune. Any other tool gives a smaller fixed amount.[23]
Some clusters are stingier. The ancient debris cluster drops just 1 shard without Silk Touch.[24]
Shards and blocks
The pack adds a conversion in both directions between shards and blocks for each material. Shards craft into the block, and the block breaks back down into 4 shards.[2]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: ftb:unification/geore/shard_block/aluminum
Shards into a block, shown here for aluminum.
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: ftb:unification/geore/block_to_shard/aluminum
One block back into 4 shards.
Growing budding blocks
Budding blocks come from the Crystal Growth Chamber in Energized Power. The pack adds a budding growth recipe there for each material.[2]
Crystal Growth Chamber (energizedpower)
Recipe id: ftb:unification/energizedpower/crystal_growing/budding_growth/aluminum
Growing a budding block in the Crystal Growth Chamber.
Extracting shards
The pack also adds XyCraft extractor recipes, named "shard from budding", that produce shards from a budding block. That gives you a steady shard supply without breaking clusters.[2]
Extractor (xycraft)
Recipe id: ftb:unification/geore/xycraft/extractor/shard_from_budding/aluminum
The XyCraft extractor recipe for aluminum shards.
Which GeOre config options matter?
3 parts
All of GeOre's settings live in one file, General.disableImmovability is in the General group of that same file. Good news: every value in this pack matches the mod default, so the pack changed nothing here. What you see below is the stock behaviour.[4]
Budding block behaviour
- General.disableImmovability is false. Budding GeOre blocks stay immovable, and the built-in datapack that removes this is not enabled.[4]
- General.disablePistonPushForBuddingGeOre is false. The vanilla behaviour of breaking the block when a piston pushes it is not overridden.[4]
Vanilla ore GeOres that generate
Every option in the General group that controls world generation is true, so these GeOres generate: coal, copper, diamond, emerald, gold, iron, lapis, quartz and redstone. Quartz also generates in the Nether, and Budding Ancient Debris generates too.[4]
- General.generateCoalGeore, General.generateCopperGeore, General.generateIronGeore and General.generateGoldGeore are all true.[4]
- General.generateDiamondGeore, General.generateEmeraldGeore, General.generateLapisGeore and General.generateRedstoneGeore are all true.[4]
- General.generateQuartzGeore and General.generateQuartzInNetherGeore are both true.[4]
- General.generateBuddingAncientDebris is true.[4]
Modded ore GeOres are all off
Every option in the ModdedGeneration group is false, so none of the modded-metal GeOres generate in this pack. That covers allthemodium, aluminum, black quartz, lead, monazite, nickel, osmium, platinum, ruby, sapphire, silver, tin, topaz, tungsten, unobtainium, uraninite, uranium, vibranium and zinc. This is also the mod default.[4]
- Examples: ModdedGeneration.generateTinGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateLeadGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateOsmiumGeore and ModdedGeneration.generateZincGeore are all false.[4]
Sources
- FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 mod list · pack file
- FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 recipe dump: recipes making GeOre items · pack recipe dump
- geore names, screen text and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 config: config/geore-common.toml · pack file
- data/geore/worldgen/configured_feature/aluminum_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/worldgen/configured_feature/allthemodium_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/worldgen/configured_feature/black_quartz_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/aluminum_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/black_quartz_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/coal_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/copper_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/diamond_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/emerald_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/gold_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/iron_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/allthemodium_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/tags/worldgen/biome/is_deep_dark.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/unobtainium_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/vibranium_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/quartz_nether_geode.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/neoforge/biome_modifier/budding_ancient_debris.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/worldgen/configured_feature/budding_ancient_debris.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/loot_table/blocks/aluminum_cluster.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/loot_table/blocks/ancient_debris_cluster.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
- data/geore/loot_table/blocks/budding_aluminum.json (geore's jar) · official mod data
Where this guide comes from
Written from what FTB Evolution 2 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 13, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 1.3.1 to 1.4.0