Better Advancements in FTB Skies 2

Same as in the All the Mods 10 2.12 guide

Better Advancements is a small but handy upgrade to the vanilla advancements screen. It improves the look and usability of the advancements menu, and it's built for modded setups where the screen has a lot more to show than in vanilla.^[1]

The mod is purely cosmetic and quality of life. It doesn't add blocks, machines or new things to unlock. It changes how you browse the advancements you already have, so there's nothing to craft or set up before you can use it.^[1]

What it changes

• The advancements UI fills your whole screen instead of using the small vanilla window, so you can see much more of each tab at once.^[1]
• You can change the colors of the advancement icons instead of the default gray, blue and orange.^[1]
• A setting can stop the background from fading when you hover over an advancement.^[1]
• Description boxes can grow a little larger, which makes them easier to read.^[1]
• The name of the tab you're viewing is added to the title of the advancements screen.^[1]

Who it's for

If you open the advancements screen to check your progress or see what's left to do, this mod makes that much easier. With so many mods adding their own advancement tabs, the bigger screen and clearer descriptions save you a lot of squinting and scrolling.^[1]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Good news: Better Advancements doesn't ask you to craft anything or hunt for a special item. It's a cosmetic and quality-of-life mod that improves the advancements screen, so your first steps are just about opening that screen and seeing what's different.^[1]

What changes when you open the advancements screen

• The advancements UI fills the whole screen instead of the tiny default window.^[1]
• You can change the color of the advancement icons, instead of the default gray, blue and orange.^[1]
• There's a setting to stop the advancements background from fading when you hover over it.^[1]
• Description boxes can grow slightly larger, so they're easier to read.^[1]
• The title of the current tab is added to the title of the advancements UI.^[1]

That's the mod's whole scope. It tidies up how advancements look and read, and it doesn't add gameplay content of its own.^[1]

Unverified I found no recipes, quests or in-game tooltips tied to Better Advancements in this pack, so there's no crafting order to follow and no recipe block for this section. This site does hold FTB Skies 2's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 2.12 guide

Better Advancements is a cosmetic and quality-of-life mod. It improves the look and usability of the vanilla advancements screen in a modded setting. It has no machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or automation. Its core mechanics are the redesigned advancements screen and the client-side settings that control how that screen looks and behaves.^[1]

The screen-filling advancements UI

The biggest change is that the advancements screen now fills your whole screen, replacing the tiny vanilla window. Description boxes can grow slightly larger so they're easier to read. The title of the tab you're viewing is also added to the screen's title, so you always know which mod's or category's advancements you're looking at.^[1]

The size of this screen is controlled by uiScaling. This pack leaves it at the mod default of 100, and the allowed range is 1 to 100.^[3]

Criteria detail

Some advancements need several criteria before they complete. A good example is Adventuring Time, which needs a whole list of biomes. The criteriaDetail option controls whether the screen lists those criteria for partially completed advancements. The config describes three modes: Off gives vanilla behaviour, Spoiler reveals only the criteria you haven't obtained yet, and All shows both obtained and unobtained criteria.^[3]

This pack changed this setting away from the mod's default and sets it to "Default". Separately, criteriaDetailRequiresShift is set to false in this pack.^[3]

Unverified The pack's "Default" value for criteria detail is not one of the three modes the config describes (Off, Spoiler, All), so exactly which criteria it shows in-game could not be confirmed. The exact effect of the shift-requirement setting is also not documented in the available sources.

Advancement colors

Better Advancements lets you change the colors of advancement icons instead of using vanilla's default gray, blue and orange. In this pack, the icons, connecting lines and titles use these colors:^[1][3]

• defaultCompletedIconColor is #DBA213.^[3]
• defaultCompletedTitleColor is #DBA213.^[3]
• defaultCompletedLineColor is #FFFFFF.^[3]
• defaultUncompletedIconColor is #FFFFFF.^[3]
• defaultUncompletedLineColor is #FFFFFF.^[3]
• defaultUncompletedTitleColor is #0489C1.^[3]

Other display settings

The mod adds a setting to stop the advancements background from fading when you hover over something. In this pack, doAdvancementsBackgroundFade is set to true, so the background fade stays on.^[1][3]

The remaining client settings are all set to false in this pack:^[3]

• addInventoryButton^[3]
• defaultDrawDirectLines^[3]
• defaultHideLines^[3]
• onlyUseAboveAdvancementTabs^[3]
• orderTabsAlphabetically^[3]
• showDebugCoordinates^[3]

Better Advancements is cosmetic and quality-of-life only, so its config is small. All of it lives in the client file, starting with criteriaDetail. Here's what's worth knowing and how this pack sets it.^[1][4]

The one value the pack changed

criteriaDetail controls the criteria listed for partially completed advancements, like the biomes needed for 'Adventuring Time'. The mod's default is to list which criteria you have already obtained. This pack changes it and sets it to "Default".^[4]

The file's own comment describes these modes: Off is the vanilla default, Spoiler only reveals unobtained criteria, and All shows both obtained and unobtained criteria.^[4]

Screen size and layout

• uiScaling is 100, the same as the mod default. The allowed range is 1 to 100, and the file warns that values below 50% might give odd results.^[4]
• addInventoryButton is false in this pack.^[4]
• orderTabsAlphabetically is false and onlyUseAboveAdvancementTabs is false.^[4]
• showDebugCoordinates is false.^[4]

Visual options

The mod lets you recolour advancement icons and stop the advancements background from fading on hover. In this pack doAdvancementsBackgroundFade is true, so the fade stays on. Set it to false if you want to stop the fade.^[1][4]

The line options are defaultDrawDirectLines and defaultHideLines, and both are false here.^[4]

• Completed icons and titles use #DBA213 (defaultCompletedIconColor and defaultCompletedTitleColor).^[4]
• Completed lines are #FFFFFF (defaultCompletedLineColor).^[4]
• Uncompleted icons and lines are #FFFFFF (defaultUncompletedIconColor and defaultUncompletedLineColor).^[4]
• Uncompleted titles are #0489C1 (defaultUncompletedTitleColor).^[4]

Better Advancements has been in the pack since FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 or earlier. FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 ships version 0.4.3.21, using the NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1.^[5]

Version 0.4.3.21

The mod's changelog for this version has a single entry: it creates the config file for Fabric if it doesn't exist. That change is about the Fabric build, and this pack uses the NeoForge build, so it's nothing you need to act on.^[5][6]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for Better Advancements were available, so any changes made to the mod between FTB Skies 2 releases are unverified.