Ars Additions in FTB Skies 2

Ars Additions is an addon for Ars Nouveau that focuses on small tweaks and quality-of-life additions. This pack includes version 1.21.1-21.3.0. It doesn't overhaul Ars Nouveau. It adds handy extras around the edges, so it's aimed at players who are already into Ars magic and want less hassle.^[1][2]

What it adds

• Structures: Ruined Warp Portals, a Warp Portal variant of the Ruined Portals that includes an Explorer's Warp Scroll, and the Nexus Tower, a wizard tower for easier teleportation around your world.^[1]
• Glyphs: Retaliate (a Form that targets the entity that last hit you within the last 5 seconds), Mark (an Effect that stores a reference to a block or entity in a Reliquary), and Recall (a Form that casts a spell on a target stored in a Reliquary).^[1]
• Warp Index and Stabilized Warp Index: remote access to your Storage Lecterns. The upgraded versions allow cross-dimensional access.^[1]
• Ender Source Jar: an Ender Chest for Source. Leave one at your base to fill up, and carry another to reach that Source anywhere.^[1]
• Wixie Enchanting Apparatus: use a Wixie Charm on an Enchanting Apparatus to convert it, so you can automate Enchanting Apparatus recipes, including applying enchantments.^[1]
• Decoration: Ars-themed lanterns, Magelight lanterns and matching chains, Sourcestone walls, Cracked Sourcestone, and a painting called Snoozebuncle.^[1]

Worth knowing

The mod also has Lost and Ancient Codex Entries, which teach a random glyph of their tier. By default, tier 1 drops in basic dungeon loot and higher tiers are unobtainable. The Ritual of Arcane Permanent can chunkload your surrounding area. It is fully configurable and disabled by default. Those are the mod's defaults, so check them in your own world before you rely on them.^[1]

Unverified The sources don't confirm whether this pack changes any of the mod's recipes, configs or defaults. They also don't place the mod in any quest or on the ATM Star path, so where it fits in the pack's progression is unverified.

Ars Additions is an Ars Nouveau addon built around small tweaks and quality-of-life items, so you can pick it up piece by piece. Here is a sensible order to craft things in.^[1]

Handy Haversack

Start with the Handy Haversack. Its tooltip says you click items into it, or click it onto items, which makes it a simple way to stash things. The pack changed this recipe from the mod default.^[3][4]

Handy HaversackChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

String	any gold ingot	String
Purple Wool	Ender Pearl	Purple Wool
Purple Wool	Purple Wool	Purple Wool

Recipe id: ars_additions:handy_haversack

Wayfinder

Next, make the Wayfinder. The pack changed this recipe too. It is also an ingredient in the recipe for the Locate Structure ritual, which locates a nearby structure based on the augments.^[3][4]

WayfinderChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold ingot	Empty slot
any gold ingot	Amethyst Shard	any gold ingot
Empty slot	any gold ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: ars_additions:wayfinder

Locate StructureMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Vexing Archwood Log
• Compass
• any source gem
• Wayfinder

Recipe id: ars_additions:ritual/ritual_locate_structure

Lighting your base

The mod adds standard lanterns with Ars-themed casings, plus Magelight lanterns that are hollowed out and hold Magelights inside. The pack changed the recipes for both of these below. A good first pair is the Sourcestone Lantern and the Magelight Lantern.^[1][3]

Sourcestone LanternChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	Sourcestone	any iron nugget
Sourcestone	Torch	Sourcestone
any iron nugget	Sourcestone	any iron nugget

Recipe id: ars_additions:crafting/lanterns/sourcestone_lantern

Magelight LanternChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	any iron ingot	any iron nugget
any iron ingot	Source Gem	any iron ingot
any iron nugget	any iron ingot	any iron nugget

Recipe id: ars_additions:crafting/lanterns/magelight_lantern

Safety charms

Charms are crafted at the Enchanting Apparatus. The Charm of Featherlight grants feather fall when you fall further than 3 blocks. The Charm of Void's Salvation teleports you back to the last safe space you were on. Both of these keep the mod's own recipes in this pack.^[3][4]

Charm of FeatherlightMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Feather
• Glass Bottle
• Phantom Membrane

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/fall_prevention_charm

Charm of Void's SalvationMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Stabilized Warp Scroll
• End Stone Bricks
• Glass Bottle

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/void_protection_charm

Storage and travel, later on

The Warp Index gives remote access to your Storage Lecterns, and the upgraded version works across dimensions. The pack changed the recipe for the Stabilized Warp Index, which takes a [[item:ars_additions:warp_index}} as an ingredient, so check it before you plan around it.^[1][3]

Stabilized Warp IndexChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Warp Index
• Ender Chest
• Nether Star
• any netherite ingot

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/stabilized_warp_index

The Ender Source Jar is an Ender Chest for Source. You leave one at your base to fill with Source and carry another to reach it anywhere. The pack changed its recipe as well, so treat it as a later goal rather than a first craft.^[1][3]

Ender Source JarChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Source Jar
• 2× Prismatic Xychorium
• 2× Proto Chorus
• 2× Ender Pearl
• 2× Popped Chorus Fruit

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/ender_source_jar

Ars Additions is an Ars Nouveau addon built around small tweaks and quality of life features, so most of its systems are items, glyphs and one ritual rather than big multiblocks. Here is how the ones that matter behave in this pack.^[1]

Mark, Recall and Retaliate glyphs

Mark is an effect glyph that marks its target and stores that mark in a Reliquary. Recall is a form glyph that takes the target stored in a Reliquary and casts the spell on it. The item that holds those references is the Unstable Reliquary, and it can store blocks, entities or players.^[1][4]

Unstable ReliquaryMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Conjuration Essence
• Manipulation Essence
• Containment Jar
• Ender Pearl

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/unstable_reliquary

The Unstable Reliquary is made at the Enchanting Apparatus.

Using Recall costs durability, and the amount depends on the target. In this pack the values are the mod defaults: 50 for a location (mark_and_recall.cost_location), 250 for an entity (mark_and_recall.cost_entity) and 1000 for a player (mark_and_recall.cost_player). If you cast Mark on a player, the Marked effect lasts 300 seconds (mark_and_recall.effect_duration).^[5]

• Mark has a glyph cost of 25 (general.cost).^[6]
• Mark can appear only 1 time in a single spell (general.per_spell_limit).^[6]
• Recall has a glyph cost of 50 (general.cost).^[7]
• Retaliate has a glyph cost of 25 (general.cost). It is a form that applies your spell to the last entity that damaged you, and the damage must have happened within the last 5 seconds.^[4][8]
• All three are tier 3 glyphs (general.glyph_tier) and none of them is a starter glyph in this pack.^[6][7][8]

Glyph MarkMod recipe

Glyph (ars_nouveau)

• Manipulation Essence
• Containment Jar
• Containment
• Ender Pearl

Recipe id: ars_additions:glyph_mark

This is the recipe for the Mark glyph.

Ender Source Jar

The Ender Source Jar works like an Ender Chest for Source. You leave one in your base to fill it with Source, and carry another to reach that Source anywhere. The pack changed its recipe from the mod's version.^[1][3]

Ender Source JarChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Source Jar
• 2× Prismatic Xychorium
• 2× Proto Chorus
• 2× Ender Pearl
• 2× Popped Chorus Fruit

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/ender_source_jar

Arcane Permanence chunkloading ritual

The Ritual of Arcane Permanence force-loads the chunks around it as long as it gets a constant stream of Source. The mod makes it fully configurable and disabled by default.^[1][4]

If the ritual is available to you, these are the server settings in this pack.^[5]

• Cost: 10,000 Source per payment (chunkloading.cost), whenever the cost is enabled (chunkloading.has_cost).^[5]
• Timing: the cost is charged every 24,000 ticks, which is one in-game day (chunkloading.interval), and it repeats continuously (chunkloading.repeat_cost).^[5]
• Starting radius is 0 (chunkloading.initial_radius), which means a 1x1 area of chunks.^[5]
• Raising the radius with an item is switched off in this pack (chunkloading.radius_incremental is false).^[5]
• If it were switched on, the configured item is a Source Gem Block (chunkloading.radius_increment_item).^[5]
• The maximum number of augmented increases the ritual accepts is 1 (chunkloading.radius_increment_max).^[5]
• The player who started the ritual must be online for it to run (chunkloading.require_online).^[5]
• The number of rituals players can run is effectively unlimited, at 2,147,483,647 (chunkloading.max_rituals).^[5]

Automating the Enchanting Apparatus

Use a Wixie Charm on an Enchanting Apparatus and it becomes a Wixie Enchanting Apparatus. That version can automate Enchanting Apparatus recipes, including applying enchantments. The game also gives chat messages when its storage is bound or removed. The sources here don't explain more of the setup, so check it in-game.^[1][4]

Warp Index and Nexus

The Warp Index gives you remote access to your Storage Lecterns, and the Stabilized version adds cross-dimensional access. The Warp Nexus works with Warp Scrolls: if you have none stored, the game tells you that you don't have any warp destinations available.^[1][4]

Two structures support this travel. Ruined Warp Portals include an Explorer's Warp Scroll, and Nexus Towers make teleporting around your world easier. Both generate in this pack, as do Arcane Libraries.^[1][9][10]

• Arcane Library: spacing 50 (arcane_library.spacing), separation 25 (arcane_library.separation).^[11]
• Nexus Tower: spacing 80 (nexus_tower.spacing), separation 20 (nexus_tower.separation).^[11]
• Ruined portal: spacing 40 (ruined_portal.spacing), separation 15 (ruined_portal.separation).^[11]

The Locate Structure ritual searches for a nearby structure based on the augments you give it. Lookups run on an async thread pool, which is set to 1 thread here (locator.threads). The config says to raise that only if simultaneous lookups cause problems.^[4][5]

Advanced Dominion Wand

The Advanced Dominion Wand can link several targets in one go. Its chat messages report how many of the targets it connected, and tell you if none of the blocks it found can be wanded. The pack changed this recipe from the mod's version.^[3][4]

Advanced Dominion WandChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Dominion Wand
• Amethyst Block
• 2× any gold ingot

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/advanced_dominion_wand

Feeding Source into items

Charms charge over time, and the game tells you to add Source nearby to increase the charge speed. Imbued Spell Parchment works the same way when scribing: more Source nearby means faster scribing.^[4]

The sources here show no quest ladder for Ars Additions, so the order below is a suggested path based on the recipes. It runs from cheap crafting-table builds, to Enchanting Apparatus gear, to the Warp Index line and the other bigger upgrades.^[3]

Unverified The quest sources here do not show any quest involving Ars Additions, so the pack's quest book gives no confirmed starting point for this mod.

Stage 1: Sourcestone and lighting

Start with the building blocks. Sourcestone can be cut in a stonecutter into Cracked Sourcestone, Cracked Polished Sourcestone and the large and small brick versions of both. At a crafting table you can make Sourcestone Wall, Sourcestone Door, Sourcestone Trapdoor and Sourcestone Button.^[3]

The pack also adds a Create sandpaper polishing recipe that turns Cracked Sourcestone into Cracked Polished Sourcestone.^[3]

Cracked Polished SourcestoneAdded by the pack

Sandpaper Polishing (create)

• Cracked Sourcestone

Recipe id: create_dragons_plus:sandpaper_polishing/ars_additions/cracked_sourcestone

This sandpaper polishing recipe is added by the pack.

The pack has changed the chain and lantern recipes, so don't rely on the mod's defaults. That covers Sourcestone Chain, Archwood Chain and Golden Chain. It also covers lanterns such as Sourcestone Lantern, Archwood Lantern, Golden Lantern, Magelight Lantern and Soul Magelight Lantern.^[3]

Sourcestone ChainChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget

Sourcestone

any iron nugget

Recipe id: ars_additions:crafting/chains/sourcestone_chain

The pack changed this chain recipe.

Sourcestone Magelight LanternChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	Sourcestone	any iron nugget
Sourcestone	Source Gem	Sourcestone
any iron nugget	Sourcestone	any iron nugget

Recipe id: ars_additions:crafting/lanterns/sourcestone_magelight_lantern

The pack changed this lantern recipe.

Stage 2: Utility items and charms

Next come the everyday utility items. The pack has changed the recipes for Wayfinder, Handy Haversack and Advanced Dominion Wand. The wand is made at the Enchanting Apparatus.^[3]

WayfinderChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold ingot	Empty slot
any gold ingot	Amethyst Shard	any gold ingot
Empty slot	any gold ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: ars_additions:wayfinder

The pack changed this recipe.

Handy HaversackChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

String	any gold ingot	String
Purple Wool	Ender Pearl	Purple Wool
Purple Wool	Purple Wool	Purple Wool

Recipe id: ars_additions:handy_haversack

The pack changed this recipe.

Advanced Dominion WandChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Dominion Wand
• Amethyst Block
• 2× any gold ingot

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/advanced_dominion_wand

The pack changed this Enchanting Apparatus recipe.

The Jar of Miner's Wisdom is also an Enchanting Apparatus craft, and the pack has changed its recipe too.^[3]

Jar of Miner's WisdomChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Item Scroll: Allow
• Cobblestone
• Furnace
• Glass Bottle
• any lapi gems
• any coal

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/xp_jar

The pack changed this Enchanting Apparatus recipe.

The charms are Enchanting Apparatus crafts that use the mod's own recipes, unchanged by the pack:^[3]

• Charm of Featherlight, Charm of Emberward and Charm of Ocean's Breath^[3]
• Charm of Darkvision, Charm of Snowstride and Charm of Ender Serenity^[3]
• Charm of Unyielding Magic, Charm of Decay's End and Charm of Resonant Shield^[3]
• Charm of Second Wind, Charm of Gilded Friendship and Charm of Void's Salvation^[3]

Charm of Second WindMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Crying Obsidian
• Glass Bottle
• Glowstone
• Totem Of Undying

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/undying_charm

Example charm recipe, which is the mod's own.

Stage 3: Warp, summoning and bigger upgrades

The Warp Index uses the mod's own recipe. The Stabilized Warp Index is its upgrade, and the pack has changed that recipe.^[3]

Warp IndexMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Bookwyrm Charm
• Enchanter's Eye
• Mundane Belt
• Scry Crystal
• Starbuncle Charm

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/warp_index

This is the mod's own recipe.

Stabilized Warp IndexChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Warp Index
• Ender Chest
• Nether Star
• any netherite ingot

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/stabilized_warp_index

The pack changed this recipe.

The pack has also changed the Ender Source Jar recipe, and it calls for items from other mods as well as Ars Nouveau.^[3]

Ender Source JarChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Source Jar
• 2× Prismatic Xychorium
• 2× Proto Chorus
• 2× Ender Pearl
• 2× Popped Chorus Fruit

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/ender_source_jar

The pack changed this Enchanting Apparatus recipe.

Source Spawner, Unstable Reliquary and the Reach thread are Enchanting Apparatus crafts that use the mod's own recipes.^[3]

The mod also adds the glyphs Glyph Mark, Glyph Recall and Glyph Retaliate, plus the ritual Locate Structure.^[3]

Locate StructureMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Vexing Archwood Log
• Compass
• any source gem
• Wayfinder

Recipe id: ars_additions:ritual/ritual_locate_structure

This is the mod's own recipe for the ritual.

Ars Additions is an Ars Nouveau addon, so almost all of its connections run through Ars Nouveau. The pack also ties a few Ars Additions items into other mods, mostly through changed recipes. This pack has no quests that involve the mod, so everything below comes from in-pack recipes.^[1][3]

Ars Nouveau: the main link

The Enchanting Apparatus items, such as the Warp Index, Source Spawner, Unstable Reliquary, Charm of Void's Salvation and Reach, are built from Ars Nouveau essences, charms, scrolls and jars.^[3]

Warp IndexMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Bookwyrm Charm
• Enchanter's Eye
• Mundane Belt
• Scry Crystal
• Starbuncle Charm

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/warp_index

Unstable ReliquaryMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Conjuration Essence
• Manipulation Essence
• Containment Jar
• Ender Pearl

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/unstable_reliquary

The Mark and Recall glyphs (Glyph Mark and Glyph Recall) are made through Ars Nouveau's glyph recipe type, shown below. The decorative blocks follow the same pattern: sourcestone doors, trapdoors, walls and buttons, plus the cracked and polished variants, all connect to Sourcestone or Smooth Sourcestone, and stonecutter recipes move you between them. The Magebloom Carpet also links back to Ars Nouveau through Magebloom Block.^[3]

Glyph MarkMod recipe

Glyph (ars_nouveau)

• Manipulation Essence
• Containment Jar
• Containment
• Ender Pearl

Recipe id: ars_additions:glyph_mark

Glyph RecallMod recipe

Glyph (ars_nouveau)

• Conjuration Essence
• Enchanter's Eye
• Scryer's Scroll
• Ender Pearl

Recipe id: ars_additions:glyph_recall

Recipes the pack changed

The pack has changed several Ars Additions recipes. The sources don't show what they looked like before, so treat the recipes on this page as the real ones for this pack. The changed ones are the Advanced Dominion Wand, the Ender Source Jar, the Jar of Miner's Wisdom, the archwood and sourcestone chains, and the lantern and magelight lantern recipes.^[3]

Advanced Dominion WandChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Dominion Wand
• Amethyst Block
• 2× any gold ingot

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/advanced_dominion_wand

This Enchanting Apparatus recipe is changed by the pack.

Jar of Miner's WisdomChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Item Scroll: Allow
• Cobblestone
• Furnace
• Glass Bottle
• any lapi gems
• any coal

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/xp_jar

This Enchanting Apparatus recipe is changed by the pack.

Ender Source Jar: Integrated Dynamics and FTB

The Ender Source Jar is the clearest crossover. It ties Ars Nouveau's Source Jar to Integrated Dynamics (Proto Chorus) and to the pack's own FTB item Prismatic Xychorium. The recipe is marked as changed by the pack, and the exact version is shown below.^[3]

Ender Source JarChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Source Jar
• 2× Prismatic Xychorium
• 2× Proto Chorus
• 2× Ender Pearl
• 2× Popped Chorus Fruit

Recipe id: ars_additions:apparatus/ender_source_jar

Changed by the pack.

Charm of Resonant Shield: Malum and Oritech

The pack adds a Molecular Metamorphosis recipe that turns the Charm of Resonant Shield into Ethereal Essence. Malum (Iridescent Ether) and Oritech (Plutonium Pellet) both feature in it, and the exact recipe is shown below. If you want that charm for its protection, keep in mind the pack has another use for it.^[3]

Ethereal EssenceAdded by the pack

Molecular Metamorphosis (cognition)

• Charm of Resonant Shield
• Ethereal Essence
• Iridescent Ether
• Plutonium Pellet

Recipe id: cognition:kjs/zol8dfb9l2vq34k1hv28plb9

This recipe is added by the pack.

Pack-added button recipe

The pack adds a shapeless recipe that turns Smooth Sourcestone into a Polished Sourcestone Button.^[3]

4× Polished Sourcestone ButtonAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Smooth Sourcestone
• Smooth Sourcestone
• Smooth Sourcestone
• Smooth Sourcestone

Recipe id: ftb:ars_additions/crafting/buttons/polished_sourcestone_button

This recipe is added by the pack.

Most of what you will want to know in this pack's Ars Additions setup is the chunkloading ritual, the Mark and Recall costs, the glyph settings and the structures. Wherever the config files list a mod default, the pack's value matches it. The one headline difference in behavior is that the ritual's default recipe is switched off.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Chunkloading ritual

chunkloading.ritual_enabled is set to false, which turns off the default recipe for the Ritual of Arcane Permanent. The mod's project page describes this ritual as disabled by default, so the pack keeps that behavior rather than changing it.^[1][9]

If the ritual does get enabled, these are the pack's server settings for it:^[5]

• chunkloading.has_cost is true and chunkloading.cost is 10,000 source, the same as the mod default.^[5]
• chunkloading.repeat_cost is true, so the cost is continuous. chunkloading.interval is 24,000 ticks, which is one in-game day.^[5]
• chunkloading.require_online is true, so the player who started the ritual must be online.^[5]
• chunkloading.initial_radius is 0, which means a 1x1 chunk area.^[5]
• chunkloading.max_rituals is 2,147,483,647, the mod default, so there is effectively no cap on how many rituals players can run.^[5]
• chunkloading.radius_incremental is false, so the radius can't be grown with an item.^[5]
• chunkloading.radius_increment_item is set to Source Gem Block and chunkloading.radius_increment_max is 1, but those only matter if incremental radius is turned on.^[5]

Mark and Recall

Recall costs durability depending on what it targets. In this pack, mark_and_recall.cost_location is 50, mark_and_recall.cost_entity is 250 and mark_and_recall.cost_player is 1,000. All of these match the mod defaults.^[5]

When Mark is cast on a player, the Marked effect lasts for the time set in mark_and_recall.effect_duration, which is 300 seconds here (also the mod default).^[5]

Glyph settings

The Mark, Recall and Retaliate glyphs are all enabled, and none of them is a starter glyph. Each has its glyph tier set to 3, as in the mod defaults, and the costs and spell limits below also match the defaults.^[6][7][8]

• Mark: general.cost is 25, and general.per_spell_limit is 1, so it can appear only once in a spell.^[6]
• Recall: general.cost is 50, and general.per_spell_limit is 2,147,483,647, the mod default.^[7]
• Retaliate: general.cost is 25, and general.per_spell_limit is 2,147,483,647, also the mod default.^[8]
• The augment cost overrides and augment limits are empty lists in the Mark, Recall and Retaliate glyph configs, so no extra augment rules are set there.^[6][7][8]

Structures

Arcane libraries, nexus towers and ruined warp portals are all switched on through structures.arcane_library_enabled, structures.nexus_tower_enabled and structures.ruined_warp_portals_enabled. The separate structure toggle file also has the arcane library, nexus tower, ruined portal and large ruined portal all set to true.^[9][10]

For placement, the pack uses a spacing of 50 and separation of 25 for the arcane library, 80 and 20 for the nexus tower, and 40 and 15 for the ruined portal.^[11]

Locator threads

locator.threads is 1, the mod default. The config notes say to raise it only if simultaneous location lookups cause issues and your hardware can handle extra threads.^[5]