IceAndFire Community Edition in FTB Evolution 2

Same as in the All the Mods 11 0.8.0-beta guide

IceAndFire Community Edition is an unofficial fork of the original Ice and Fire mod. It adds optimizations, new content and rewrites. The pack ships it as an alpha build, and that is the version this guide describes.^[1][2]

It carries over everything from the original mod except the myrmex series, and it adds netherite-related things on top.^[1]

The mod's in-game guide book opens with a tattered note stuck behind the cover. It says the book holds manuscripts on designing supernatural tools and a guide to tracking down wondrous creatures, and that it is offered to anyone willing to explore those mysteries.^[3]

Good to know

• Don't swap this mod in directly for the original Ice and Fire, or your saves will be corrupted. The fork's authors also ask you not to report its issues to the original mod.^[1]
• You may not find a config file. The config system only saves the data it needs, so you change settings through the in-game client GUI via Mod Menu, and that needs server operator permission.^[1]
• Biome settings are changed by editing biome tags with datapacks.^[1]

Unverified Whether the pack's quest book has any chapter, group or quest that involves this mod, and whether the ATM Star path uses it, is not shown by the sources here. Check the quest book itself for details.

IceAndFire Community Edition has its own advancement tree, and it makes a handy checklist for your first steps. The root advancement is "Enter a world of magical creatures", and the rest walks you from reading about dragons to forging with their blood.^[4]

Step 1: Start your bestiary

The mod's advancements say you create a bestiary using 3 manuscripts found in dungeons. Once you have one, a Bestiary Lectern lets you learn more about the world of Ice and Fire. The in-game guide opens with a worn note on the inside cover. It says the book records supernatural tool designs and a guide to seeking out magical creatures, left for anyone willing to explore.^[4][5]

Step 2: Find a dragon den

Dragonsteel starts with dragon blood, so you need a dragon. In this pack the cave chances are 0.4 for fire, 0.4 for lightning and 0.3 for ice. Roosts are rarer, at 0.18 for each type. The pack also leaves dragon blood drops switched on.^[6]

Step 3: Make dragonsteel

The advancements describe dragonsteel as an ingot made from dragon blood and iron, and they also ask you to create a dragon forge brick and a dragon forge core. Here are the mod's own forge recipes for the fire, ice and lightning ingots.^[4]

Fire Dragonsteel IngotMod recipe

Dragonforge (iceandfire)

Recipe id: iceandfire:dragonforge/dragonsteel_fire_ingot

Fire Dragonsteel Ingot from the dragon forge.

Ice Dragonsteel IngotMod recipe

Dragonforge (iceandfire)

Recipe id: iceandfire:dragonforge/dragonsteel_ice_ingot

Ice Dragonsteel Ingot from the dragon forge.

Lightning Dragonsteel IngotMod recipe

Dragonforge (iceandfire)

Recipe id: iceandfire:dragonforge/dragonsteel_lightning_ingot

Lightning Dragonsteel Ingot from the dragon forge.

Pack-added shortcuts

The pack adds extra routes of its own. With Hephaestus Forge you can cast any of the three ingots from 90 units of the matching molten dragonsteel, and a block takes 810 units in a casting basin.^[7]

Fire Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Dragonsteel Fire

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_fire/ingot

Casting a Fire Dragonsteel Ingot. The ice and lightning versions work the same way.

Block of Fire DragonsteelAdded by the pack

Casting Basin (hephaestus)

• 810× Molten Dragonsteel Fire

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_fire/block

Casting a Block of Fire Dragonsteel.

For the fire and ice ingots, the pack also adds alloy smelting recipes in Ender IO, Energized Power and FTB Industrial Contraptions.^[7]

Ice Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelting (ftbic)

Recipe id: ftb:unification/ftbic/alloy_smelting/from_ingots/dragonsteel_ice_ingot

One of the pack's alloy smelting routes to an Ice Dragonsteel Ingot.

Unverified The sources here do not show where the pack's quest book places this mod, or whether it guides you through it. Check the quest chapters in game.

Ice and Fire is less about machines and more about creatures, but it has one real multiblock: the dragon forge. This section covers that, the dragonsteel routes this pack offers, and the dragon settings the pack has chosen. The sources here do not show the forge's exact layout or how its items and fluids are piped, so check the in-game bestiary for that.^[4][6][7]

The dragon forge

The forge comes in three elements: fire, ice and lightning. Each has its own Dragonforge Brick, Dragonforge Core and Dragonforge Aperture (the input block). The core also has a disabled version, which suggests it switches state when the forge is not active.^[4]

The mod's advancements treat the brick and the core as separate crafting milestones: "Create a dragon forge brick" and "Create a dragon forge core". There is also a Dragon Forge Speed attribute in the language file, so forge speed is something that can be modified.^[4]

The forge has its own recipe type, iceandfire:dragonforge. This pack contains 6 recipes of that type, each with a different result.^[7]

Making dragonsteel

The mod's advancement describes dragonsteel as an ingot made from dragon blood and iron. The two dragon forge recipes below turn out the fire and ice versions.^[4][7]

Fire Dragonsteel IngotMod recipe

Dragonforge (iceandfire)

Recipe id: iceandfire:dragonforge/dragonsteel_fire_ingot

Forge recipe for the Fire Dragonsteel Ingot.

Ice Dragonsteel IngotMod recipe

Dragonforge (iceandfire)

Recipe id: iceandfire:dragonforge/dragonsteel_ice_ingot

Forge recipe for the Ice Dragonsteel Ingot.

The pack also gives you machine routes that skip the forge. Hephaestus Forge can cast both ingots from molten dragonsteel: 90 units of Molten Fire Dragonsteel or Molten Ice Dragonsteel make one ingot on a casting table, and 810 units make a full block on a casting basin. These recipes were added by the pack.^[7]

Fire Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Dragonsteel Fire

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_fire/ingot

Casting table recipe for the fire ingot. The ice version works the same way.

Block of Fire DragonsteelAdded by the pack

Casting Basin (hephaestus)

• 810× Molten Dragonsteel Fire

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_fire/block

Casting basin recipe for Block of Fire Dragonsteel. The ice block works the same way.

The pack adds alloy smelting recipes for both dragonsteel ingots in three tech mods: Ender IO, Energized Power and FTB Industrial Contraptions. They are listed here for the fire ingot, and each mod has a matching ice recipe.^[7]

Fire Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

Recipe id: ftb:unification/enderio/alloy_smelting/from_ingots/dragonsteel_fire_ingot

Ender IO alloy smelting.

Fire Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Furnace (energizedpower)

Recipe id: ftb:unification/energizedpower/alloy_furnace/from_ingots/dragonsteel_fire_ingot

Energized Power alloy furnace.

Fire Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelting (ftbic)

Recipe id: ftb:unification/ftbic/alloy_smelting/from_ingots/dragonsteel_fire_ingot

FTB Industrial Contraptions alloy smelting.

Taming and handling creatures

Most creature mechanics are hands-on, and the mod's advancement text gives the key triggers. You tame a hippogryph by dropping rabbit feet near it, a hippocampus by feeding it kelp, and a pixie by dropping cake near it. A cockatrice can be tamed from an egg or by staring at it repeatedly. For an amphithere, you shoot it down and ride it.^[4]

The pack sets the amphithere tame time to 400 via amphithere.tameTime.^[6]

For dragons, the mod provides a few control items. The dragon flute stops runaway dragons, the dragon horn stores dragons, and the dragon command staff lets you control them. Dragon Meal rapidly grows baby dragons. You can also trap a pixie in a jar to farm its dust.^[4]

Dragon settings in this pack

These are the pack's values in the common config, so they are what you will actually see in play.^[6]

• Egg hatching and growth: dragon.eggBornTime is 7,200 and dragon.maxTamedDragonAge is 128.^[6]
• Hunger: dragon.hungerTickRate is 3,000.^[6]
• Health and flight: dragon.maxHealth is 2,500, dragon.maxFlight is 256 and dragon.fluteDistance is 8.^[6]
• Sleeping and despawning: dragon.sleep and dragon.canDespawn are both true.^[6]
• Block damage: wild dragons can grief (dragon.griefing is true), but tamed dragons do not (dragon.tamedGriefing is false). Soft block griefing and explosive breath are both off.^[6]
• Dragon drops: blood, heart and skull loot are all enabled through dragon.loot.blood, dragon.loot.heart and dragon.loot.skull.^[6]

This page walks through IceAndFire Community Edition gear by how each piece is made, using the pack's recipe list. Here is what the recipes show.^[7]

Copper gear

The plainest armor in the list is the metal set: iceandfire:armor_copper_metal_helmet, iceandfire:armor_copper_metal_chestplate, iceandfire:armor_copper_metal_leggings and iceandfire:armor_copper_metal_boots. The recipe below shows the chestplate.^[7]

Dragon scale armor

Dragon scale armor also comes from shaped crafting. The recipe list has full sets in amethyst, black, blue, bronze and copper, each with helmet, chestplate, leggings and boots. One example is Blue Dragon Scale Chestplate.^[7]

Blue Dragon Scale ChestplateMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

8 × Dragonscales Blue

Recipe id: iceandfire:armor_blue_chestplate

One of the dragon scale armor recipes.

Dragon blood and dragonsteel

The dragon bloods (Fire Dragon Blood, Ice Dragon Blood and Lightning Dragon Blood) and the dragonsteel ingots (Fire Dragonsteel Ingot, Ice Dragonsteel Ingot and Lightning Dragonsteel Ingot) all have dragonforge recipes.^[7]

Fire Dragon BloodMod recipe

Dragonforge (iceandfire)

Recipe id: iceandfire:dragonforge/fire_dragon_blood

Fire Dragon Blood in the dragonforge. The ice and lightning versions have their own dragonforge recipes.

Fire Dragonsteel IngotMod recipe

Dragonforge (iceandfire)

Recipe id: iceandfire:dragonforge/dragonsteel_fire_ingot

Fire dragonsteel in the dragonforge. The ice and lightning versions follow the same pattern.

The pack adds extra routes for dragonsteel. In Hephaestus Forge, molten dragonsteel casts into an ingot at a casting table for 90 units, or into a block at a casting basin for 810 units. This exists for the fire, ice and lightning types.^[7]

Ice Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Dragonsteel Ice

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_ice/ingot

Casting an Ice Dragonsteel Ingot from molten metal.

The pack also adds alloy smelting recipes for the fire and ice ingots in Ender IO, Energized Power and FTB Industrial Contraptions. The recipe list shows no such alloy recipe for the lightning ingot.^[7]

Fire Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelting (ftbic)

Recipe id: ftb:unification/ftbic/alloy_smelting/from_ingots/dragonsteel_fire_ingot

Fire dragonsteel through FTB Industrial Contraptions alloy smelting.

Netherite upgrades

The top-end gear is made by smithing upgrades. That covers the Netherite dragon armor pieces (Netherite Dragon Armor Head, Netherite Dragon Armor Neck, Netherite Dragon Armor Body and Netherite Dragon Armor Tail), Netherite Hippogryph Armor and the Epic Dragon Seeker.^[7]

Epic Dragon SeekerMod recipe

Smithing Transform

Recipe id: iceandfire:epic_dragon_seeker

The smithing recipe for the Epic Dragon Seeker.

Dreadstone and extras

Dreadstone building blocks are made at a stonecutter: Dreadstone Bricks, Chiseled Dreadstone Bricks, Dreadstone Bricks Slab, Dreadstone Bricks Stairs and Dreadstone Tile. Cracked Dreadstone Bricks comes from smelting instead.^[7]

A few smaller extras round things out: the Bestiary, Ambrosia, Amphithere Macuahuitl and Amphithere Arrow. The mod also has crafting recipes for banner patterns.^[7]

AmbrosiaMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Pixie Dust
• Bowl

Recipe id: iceandfire:ambrosia

The Ambrosia recipe.

BestiaryMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Manuscript
• Manuscript
• Manuscript

Recipe id: iceandfire:bestiary

The Bestiary recipe.

4× Amphithere ArrowMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Flint

Stick

Amphithere Feather

Recipe id: iceandfire:amphithere_arrow

This recipe makes 4 arrows at a time.

The link between IceAndFire Community Edition and another mod that the pack's recipes show is with Hephaestus Forge. The pack adds casting recipes so you can turn molten dragonsteel into the dragonsteel ingots and blocks from Ice and Fire for each dragon type.^[7]

Casting dragonsteel

Each dragon type has its own molten fluid: ftb:molten_dragonsteel_fire, ftb:molten_dragonsteel_ice and ftb:molten_dragonsteel_lightning. Pour them into a casting table to get an ingot, or into a casting basin to get a full block. Every one of these casting recipes is added by the pack.^[7]

The amounts are the same for every dragon type. An ingot takes 90 of the molten fluid at a casting table, and a block takes 810 at a casting basin.^[7]

Fire dragonsteel

Fire Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Dragonsteel Fire

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_fire/ingot

Casting table: 90 molten fire dragonsteel makes one Fire Dragonsteel Ingot.

Block of Fire DragonsteelAdded by the pack

Casting Basin (hephaestus)

• 810× Molten Dragonsteel Fire

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_fire/block

Casting basin: 810 molten fire dragonsteel makes one Block of Fire Dragonsteel.

Ice dragonsteel

Ice Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Dragonsteel Ice

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_ice/ingot

Casting table: 90 molten ice dragonsteel makes one Ice Dragonsteel Ingot.

Block of Ice DragonsteelAdded by the pack

Casting Basin (hephaestus)

• 810× Molten Dragonsteel Ice

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_ice/block

Casting basin: 810 molten ice dragonsteel makes one Block of Ice Dragonsteel.

Lightning dragonsteel

Lightning Dragonsteel IngotAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Dragonsteel Lightning

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_lightning/ingot

Casting table: 90 molten lightning dragonsteel makes one Lightning Dragonsteel Ingot.

Block of Lightning DragonsteelAdded by the pack

Casting Basin (hephaestus)

• 810× Molten Dragonsteel Lightning

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/dragonsteel_lightning/block

Casting basin: 810 molten lightning dragonsteel makes one Block of Lightning Dragonsteel.

Here are the IceAndFire Community Edition options you are most likely to want to tweak, with the exact values this pack ships. The common settings live in config/iceandfire/iaf-common.json and the visual ones in iaf-client.json.^[6][8]

Dragon griefing and behaviour

Dragon griefing is on: dragon.griefing is true. Tamed dragons are safer, since dragon.tamedGriefing is false. dragon.softBlockGriefing is false and dragon.explosiveBreath is false.^[6]

• dragon.maxHealth is 2,500 and dragon.attackDamage is 17.^[6]
• Breath damage is 7 for fire (dragon.attackDamageFire), 7.5 for ice (dragon.attackDamageIce) and 7.5 for lightning (dragon.attackDamageLightning).^[6]
• dragon.maxTamedDragonAge is 128 and dragon.eggBornTime is 7,200.^[6]
• dragon.canDespawn is true, dragon.sleep is true and dragon.neutralToPlayer is false.^[6]
• Dragon loot drops are all on: dragon.loot.blood, dragon.loot.heart and dragon.loot.skull are true.^[6]

Structure chances

• worldgen.generateFireDragonCaveChance is 0.4.^[6]
• worldgen.generateLightningDragonCaveChance is 0.4.^[6]
• worldgen.generateIceDragonCaveChance is 0.3.^[6]
• worldgen.generateFireDragonRoostChance is 0.18.^[6]
• worldgen.generateIceDragonRoostChance is 0.18.^[6]
• worldgen.generateLightningDragonRoostChance is 0.18.^[6]
• worldgen.generateGorgonTempleChance is 0.25.^[6]
• worldgen.generateSirenIslandChance is 0.25.^[6]
• worldgen.generateCyclopsCaveChance is 0.15.^[6]
• worldgen.generateHydraCaveChance is 0.15.^[6]
• worldgen.generateGraveYardChance is 0.15.^[6]
• worldgen.generateMausoleumChance is 0.15.^[6]
• worldgen.generatePixieVillageChance is 0.12.^[6]
• worldgen.dangerousDistanceLimit is 2,000.^[6]

Other mobs

• cyclops.griefing is true, while seaSerpent.griefing is false.^[6]
• pixie.stealItems is false.^[6]
• ghost.fromPlayerDeaths is false.^[6]
• troll.dropWeapon is false and cockatrice.chickensLayRottenEggs is false.^[6]

Dragonsteel gear

• armors.dragonsteelHelmetArmor is 7.^[6]
• armors.dragonsteelChestplateArmor is 12.^[6]
• armors.dragonsteelLeggingsArmor is 9.^[6]
• armors.dragonsteelBootsArmor is 6.^[6]
• armors.dragonsteelArmorToughness is 6.^[6]
• armors.dragonsteelArmorKnockbackResistance is 0.1.^[6]
• armors.dragonSteelBaseDurability is 8,000 and armors.dragonSteelBaseDamage is 14.^[6]
• tools.dragonFireAbility, tools.dragonIceAbility and tools.dragonLightningAbility are all true.^[6]

Client options

client.customMainMenu is false, client.dragonAuto3rdPerson is false and client.siren.shader is true.^[8]