Mystical Agriculture in FTB Evolution 2

Mystical Agriculture is all about growing your resources as crops. You plant crops to harvest essences, then use those essences to make materials, mob drops, tools and armor. This pack ships version 9.0.10 of the mod.^[1][2]

What the mod gives you

• Resource crops for lots of vanilla and modded ingredients, materials and mob drops.^[1]
• 6 sets of tools and armor that you can upgrade with extra abilities using Augments.^[1]
• Faster crop growth with Growth Accelerators and Watering Cans.^[1]
• Easier harvesting with Scythes and Sickles, or automatic harvesting with the Harvester.^[1]
• Upgradable Furnaces, plus the Seed Reprocessor to get more out of your spare seeds.^[1]
• The Enchanter, which turns spare resource essences into enchantments for tools, armor or books.^[1]
• The Soulium Spawner, which uses spare mob essences to spawn mobs.^[1]

How the progression starts

The mod's own getting started notes give you a clear order to follow. These are written for version 2.x and later of the mod, which covers the version in this pack.^[1][2]

1. Go mining for Prosperity and Inferium ore.^[1]
2. Make some Seed Bases, which you need for any seed you want to create.^[1]
3. Craft seeds with an Infusion Altar and Infusion Pedestals. Placing the altar in the world shows you where the pedestals go.^[1]
4. Make Inferium Seeds as another source of Inferium Essence. Planting them on Essence Farmland gives you more essence per harvest.^[1]
5. Make normal resource seeds from some of their resource plus the tier essence of the seed. To upgrade the tier of an essence, you need an Infusion Crystal.^[1]

Mob seeds work differently. They need Soul Jars of the matching mob type, and you fill the jars by killing those mobs with a Soulium Dagger while the jars are in your inventory.^[1]

Mystical Agriculture is all about growing your resources as crops. Everything starts with Inferium Essence, so the first steps are about getting a steady supply of it and the Prosperity Shards you need for seeds.^[1][3]

Your first steps, in order

1. Go mining for Inferium and Prosperity ore. Both ores still generate in this pack (World.generateInferiumOre and World.generateProsperityOre are on), and they give you Inferium Essence and Prosperity Shard.^[1][3][4]
2. Make some Seed Bases. You need them for any seed you want to craft later.^[1]
3. Build an Infusion Altar with Infusion Pedestals. Seeds are crafted there, not in a normal crafting grid. Place the altar first and it shows you where the pedestals go.^[1][4]
4. Craft Inferium Seeds. They are your second source of Inferium Essence.^[1]
5. Plant them on Essence Farmland for more Inferium Essence per harvest. You can craft it, or right-click vanilla Farmland with an essence. General.essenceFarmlandConversion is on in this pack, so the right-click method works.^[1][4]
6. Make an Infusion Crystal when you want to upgrade the tier of your essence. The basic one has 1,000 uses in this pack, which matches the mod default (General.infusionCrystalUses).^[1][4]

Getting essence from ore

Besides smelting, the pack adds machine recipes that turn the ores into essence and shards. The Ender IO SAG Mill, for example, gives Inferium Essence or Prosperity Shards along with cobbled deepslate. Here are two of the recipes.^[3]

Inferium EssenceMod recipe

Smelting

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:inferium_essence_smelted

A smelting recipe from the mod that makes Inferium Essence.

Cobbled Deepslate, Prosperity ShardAdded by the pack

Sag Milling (enderio)

Recipe id: ftb:unification/enderio/sag_milling/ores/deepslate/gem_ore_to_gem/prosperity

Added by the pack: an Ender IO SAG Mill recipe that gives Prosperity Shard plus cobbled deepslate.

Mystical Agriculture is built on three ideas: you grow essences on resource crops, you use altars to turn those essences into seeds, tools and upgrades, and you use a handful of machines to process everything. Here is how those pieces behave in this pack.^[1][5]

Growing: farmland, accelerators and watering

Right-clicking vanilla Farmland with an essence turns it into Essence Farmland, and the pack leaves that on. The pack also leaves resource crops free to grow on any farmland: General.requiresEffectiveFarmland is false, so a crop does not need its matching tier of farmland to grow. The farmland tiers still exist as blocks (Inferium, Prudentium, Tertium, Imperium, Supremium and Awakened Supremium).^[4][5]

Growth Accelerators come in the same tiers. In this pack the time between each accelerator growth tick is 10 seconds, which is the mod default (General.growthAcceleratorCooldown). Watering Cans also speed crops up, and General.fakePlayerWatering is on, so fake players (for example from automation mods) can use them.^[1][4][5]

Harvesting a resource crop has a 0.1 chance to drop a Fertilized Essence (General.fertilizedEssenceChance, same as the mod default). Crops do not give a second seed when harvested, because General.secondarySeedDrops is false, and vanilla-style crafting recipes for seeds are not generated (General.seedCraftingRecipes is false).^[4]

Altars and pedestals

Seeds are made at an Infusion Altar surrounded by Infusion Pedestals. When you place the altar in the world, it shows you where the pedestals go. The Awakening Altar and Awakening Pedestal are a second altar set used for the elemental, Awakened Supremium content. There are also Infusion and Awakening Altarnator entries in the guide book.^[1][5][6][7]

The pack holds 59 recipes of the infusion type and 19 of the awakening type. Here is one awakening recipe, which makes an Awakened Supremium Block.^[3]

Awakened Supremium BlockMod recipe

Awakening (mysticalagriculture)

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:awakened_supremium_block_awakening

Awakening recipes are made at the Awakening Altar.

To upgrade the tier of an essence you need an Infusion Crystal. The basic one has 1,000 uses in this pack (General.infusionCrystalUses, the same as the mod default).^[1][4]

Machines

The machine blocks in the mod are the Harvester, Furnace, Seed Reprocessor, Enchanter, Ore Infuser, Soul Extractor and Soulium Spawner, plus a Machine Frame block and the Tinkering Table for tools and armor. The in-game guide has a Machines category that covers them.^[5]

• Harvester: harvests your fields automatically.^[1]
• Furnace: processes resources and can be upgraded.^[1]
• Seed Reprocessor: gets more out of your extra seeds. The pack has 86 reprocessor recipes.^[1][3]
• Enchanter: spends extra resource essences to enchant tools, armor or books.^[1]
• Soulium Spawner: spawns mobs using your extra mob essences.^[1]

2× Air EssenceMod recipe

Reprocessor (mysticalagriculture)

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:seed/reprocessor/air

The Seed Reprocessor recipe for Air gives 2 Air Essence.

Mob seeds need Soul Jars of their mob type. You fill the jars by carrying them in your inventory while you kill that mob with a Soulium Dagger.^[1]

Automating with other mods

The pack adds recipes in other mods so essences and seeds can come from machines. FTB Industrial Contraptions has 102 hydroponic growth recipes and 39 hydroponic mutation recipes that make Mystical Agriculture items. LTX Industries has 136 garden simulating recipes, one per result. The Air recipe below makes Air Essence, Air Seeds and Fertilized Essence.^[3]

Air Essence, Air Seeds, Fertilized EssenceAdded by the pack

Hydroponic Growth (ftbic)

Recipe id: ftbic:hydroponic_growth/mysticalagriculture/air

A pack-added hydroponic growth recipe.

Air EssenceAdded by the pack

Garden Simulating (ltxi)

Recipe id: ltxi:garden_simulating/mysticalagriculture/air

The LTX Industries version gives Air Essence.

Mystical Automation adds a Farmer machine, and it has a recipe that outputs Inferium Essence for Inferium Seeds. That is handy since mobs no longer drop it in this pack. The pack also adds a mutation recipe that produces Amethyst Seeds.^[3][4]

Inferium EssenceMod recipe

Farmer (mysticalautomation)

Recipe id: mysticalautomation:farmer/inferium_seeds_tier_0

Ore, fluid and bee processing

The pack adds unification recipes so Prosperity Ore gives Prosperity Shard in several mods' machines: Ender IO (SAG Mill), FTB Industrial Contraptions (macerator), Horse Powered, LTX Industries and Occultism. Energized Power has a pulverizer recipe that gives Inferium Essence.^[3]

For fluids, Hephaestus Forge has a pack-added casting table recipe that turns 90 of Molten Awakened Supremium (a fluid from Mystical Agradditions) into an Awakened Supremium Gemstone. Productive Bees also has a centrifuge recipe that gives Awakened Supremium Essence and Wax from an Awakened Supremium honeycomb.^[3]

Awakened Supremium GemstoneAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Awakened Supremium

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/awakened_supremium/gem

Where the ores come from

• Inferium Ore generates in the Overworld in veins of size 8, 16 attempts per chunk, between height -32 and 64, in stone and deepslate. World.generateInferiumOre is on.^{[4][8][9][10]}
• Prosperity Ore generates in the Overworld in veins of size 8, 12 attempts per chunk, between height -60 and 24, in stone and deepslate. World.generateProsperityOre is on.^{[4][11][12][13]}
• Soulstone generates in the Nether by replacing netherrack, in clusters of size 64, 4 attempts per chunk, between height 0 and 128. World.generateSoulstone is on.^{[4][14][15][16]}
• Soulium Ore has a 0.05 chance to spawn in a Soulstone cluster (World.souliumOreChance, same as the mod default).^[4]

Mystical Agriculture splits its progression into essence tiers, and you can see the names right in the items: Inferium Essence, Imperium Essence, Supremium Essence and Awakened Supremium Essence. This page follows the in-pack recipes for each of them.^[3]

Inferium essence

Deepslate inferium ore drops 2 to 4 Inferium Essence, and Fortune boosts that. If you mine it with Silk Touch you get the ore block itself instead.^[17]

The pack adds a lot of machine recipes that turn the ore into essence, from Ender IO, Energized Power, FTB Industrial Contraptions, Occultism, Oritech and more, so whichever tech you use can process it. Plain smelting works too.^[3]

Inferium EssenceAdded by the pack

Macerating (ftbic)

Recipe id: ftb:unification/ftbic/macerating/end/ore_to_dust/inferium

One of the pack's machine recipes for ore into inferium essence.

Inferium EssenceMod recipe

Smelting

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:inferium_essence_smelted

The smelting route.

Growing essence in machines

The pack adds its own farming recipes for the resource crops. LTX Industries has garden simulating recipes, and FTB Industrial Contraptions has hydroponic growth recipes that give essence, seeds and Fertilized Essence together. Air, aluminum and amethyst all have both.^[3]

Air Essence, Air Seeds, Fertilized EssenceAdded by the pack

Hydroponic Growth (ftbic)

Recipe id: ftbic:hydroponic_growth/mysticalagriculture/air

Hydroponic growth for air, added by the pack.

Hydroponic mutation recipes added by the pack also make Amethyst Seeds and Blaze Seeds.^[3]

Blaze SeedsAdded by the pack

Hydroponic Mutation (ftbic)

Recipe id: ftbic:hydroponic_mutation/mysticalagriculture/blaze_from_ghast_and_fire

Imperium

Imperium Essence has a shaped crafting recipe. Imperium also has a gemstone cast on a Hephaestus Forge casting table, a recipe the pack adds.^[3]

Imperium EssenceMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Tertium Essence	Empty slot
Tertium Essence	any tertium infusion crystal	Tertium Essence
Empty slot	Tertium Essence	Empty slot

Recipe id: matc:imperium_essence

Imperium GemstoneAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Imperium

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/imperium/gem

Casting table recipe added by the pack.

Imperium Farmland is made by tilling, and the tier also has gear such as the Imperium Watering Can, Imperium Axe and Imperium Boots.^[3]

Imperium FarmlandMod recipe

Farmland Till (mysticalagriculture)

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:imperium_farmland_till

Supremium and Awakened Supremium

There is a recipe that gives 4 Supremium Essence.^[3]

Awakened Supremium items are made through awakening recipes, and the Awakening Altar and Awakening Pedestal both exist as blocks. The Awakened Supremium Block and the Awakened Machine Supremium Upgrade both come from awakening.^[3][18][19]

Awakened Supremium BlockMod recipe

Awakening (mysticalagriculture)

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:awakened_supremium_block_awakening

The block can be uncrafted into 9 Awakened Supremium Essence. The pack also adds a casting table recipe for the Awakened Supremium Gemstone.^[3]

Awakened Supremium GemstoneAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Awakened Supremium

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/awakened_supremium/gem

Casting table recipe added by the pack.

In this pack, Mystical Agriculture connects to other mods mainly through recipes: Productive Bees turns bee products into Mystical Agriculture materials, and a casting table turns molten fluids from Mystical Agradditions into gemstones. The sources here do not show any quests involving the mod, so everything below comes from the recipe data.^[3]

Productive Bees

Productive Bees has centrifuge recipes for Mystical Agriculture materials. Each one gives you an essence (or a similar material) together with Wax. These are the outputs:^[3]

• Inferium Essence and Wax^[3]
• Prudentium Essence and Wax^[3]
• Tertium Essence and Wax^[3]
• Imperium Essence and Wax^[3]
• Supremium Essence and Wax^[3]
• Awakened Supremium Essence and Wax^[3]
• Prosperity Shard and Wax^[3]
• Soulium Dust and Wax^[3]

Productive Bees also has bee conversion recipes for two Mystical Agriculture bees. The Prosperity bee comes from a Prosperity Block, and the Soulium bee comes from a Soulium Dagger.^[3]

Casting gemstones

The pack adds its own casting table recipes that turn molten fluids from Mystical Agradditions into Mystical Agriculture gemstones. Every one of them needs 90 of the matching molten fluid. Hephaestus Forge is the other mod in the pack's mod list, and the recipe type here is the Hephaestus casting table.^[3]

• Molten Prudentium casts into Prudentium Gemstone^[3]
• Molten Tertium casts into Tertium Gemstone^[3]
• Molten Imperium casts into Imperium Gemstone^[3]
• Molten Supremium casts into Supremium Gemstone^[3]
• Molten Awakened Supremium casts into Awakened Supremium Gemstone^[3]
• Molten Prosperity casts into Prosperity Gemstone^[3]
• Molten Soulium casts into Soulium Gemstone^[3]

Supremium GemstoneAdded by the pack

Casting Table (hephaestus)

• 90× Molten Supremium

Recipe id: ftb:hephaestus_materials/casting/supremium/gem

One example of the pattern: 90 molten fluid makes one gemstone.

Ender IO's Copper Alloy

Mystical Agriculture has a Copper Alloy crop in its Ender IO set. The pack hides Copper Alloy Seeds and Copper Alloy Essence from recipe viewers, so you will not find them by browsing JEI.^[1][21]

Nearly everything you can tweak in Mystical Agriculture lives in one file, config/mysticalagriculture-common.toml. Here is how this pack sets the options you are most likely to care about.^[4]

The value the pack changed

The file marks one option as changed by the pack: General.inferiumDropChance. It controls the chance that a passive or hostile mob drops an Inferium Essence when killed. The mod default is 0.2, but this pack sets it to 0.^[4]

Farming and growth

• General.requiresEffectiveFarmland is false, so resource crops do not need to be planted on their effective Farmland to grow.^[4]
• General.secondarySeedDrops is false, so crops do not get a chance of dropping a second seed when harvested.^[4]
• General.seedCraftingRecipes is false, so the vanilla crafting recipes for seeds are not generated.^[4]
• General.essenceFarmlandConversion is true, so right-clicking Farmland with an Essence creates Essence Farmland.^[4]
• General.fertilizedEssenceChance is 0.1 (the mod default is also 0.1). That is the chance that harvesting a Resource Crop drops a Fertilized Essence.^[4]
• General.growthAcceleratorCooldown is 10 seconds between each Growth Accelerator growth tick (the mod default is also 10).^[4]
• General.fakePlayerWatering is true, so fake players can use watering cans.^[4]

Gear and boss drops

• General.unbreakableSupremiumArmor is false, so Supremium and Awakened Supremium Armor can break.^[4]
• General.awakenedSupremiumSetBonus is true, so a full set of Awakened Supremium armor grants the Plant Growth AOE set bonus.^[4]
• General.infusionCrystalUses is 1000 uses for the basic Infusion Crystal (the mod default is also 1000).^[4]
• General.dragonDropsEssence and General.witherDropsEssence are both true, so the Ender Dragon and the Wither drop essence when killed with an essence weapon.^[4]
• General.dragonDropsCognizant and General.witherDropsCognizant are both true, so those bosses drop Cognizant Dust when killed with a Mystical Enlightenment enchanted essence weapon.^[4]

World generation

• World.generateInferiumOre, World.generateProsperityOre and World.generateSoulstone are all true, so Inferium Ore, Prosperity Ore and Soulstone generate in the world.^[4]
• World.souliumOreChance is 0.05 (the mod default is also 0.05). That is the chance a Soulium Ore spawns in a Soulstone cluster.^[4]

The version of Mystical Agriculture in FTB Evolution 2 1.1.0 is 9.0.10, built for Minecraft 26.1.2. It was already in the pack in 1.0.2 or earlier, so you may have been playing with this mod for a while.^[2]

9.0.10

• Fixed a crash that happened when you inserted fuel into the Soulium Spawner. This is the only change listed in the mod's 9.0.10 changelog.^[22]

Unverified The sources here do not show any pack changelog entries for Mystical Agriculture, so changes made to the mod between pack releases are not covered. Check the pack's own release notes for those.