Ceramic Shears in FTB Skies 2

Ceramic Shears is part of this pack's mod list. The pack ships version 1.21-3.2.1.1, built for NeoForge, and it was already included by FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 at the latest.^[1]

Unverified The sources I have don't describe what Ceramic Shears does, what its items do, or how it is crafted, so I can't tell you its mechanics or whether the pack changes any recipes or configs for it. There is also no confirmed information on where it fits in the pack's progression, and no confirmed quest or ATM Star path involvement.

Getting your first Ceramic Shears is a short chain of three crafts. Here's the order to follow, and why each step comes where it does.^[2]

1. Make a Clay Shears Part. This is the raw, unfired piece, so it has to come first.^[2]
2. Fire that piece to get a Ceramic Shears Part. The mod's recipe uses smelting, and this pack adds a campfire cooking recipe that gives the same result.^[2]
3. Craft the fired part into the finished Ceramic Shears.^[2]

Step 1: the clay part

The mod's own shaped recipe produces the unfired part. Open the recipe below to see exactly what the pack uses.^[2]

Clay Shears PartMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Clay Ball
Clay Ball	Empty slot

Recipe id: ceramicshears:clay_shears_part

Shaped crafting recipe from the mod, unchanged by the pack.

Step 2: fire it

There are two ways to fire the part. The mod's recipe is smelting, and the pack adds a second recipe that uses campfire cooking.^[2]

Ceramic Shears PartMod recipe

Smelting

• Clay Shears Part

Recipe id: ceramicshears:ceramic_shears_part

Smelting recipe from the mod.

Ceramic Shears PartAdded by the pack

Campfire Cooking

• Clay Shears Part

Recipe id: ftb:ceramic_shear_part_from_campfire

Campfire cooking recipe added by the pack.

Step 3: finish the shears

Once the part is fired, a shapeless crafting recipe turns it into the finished shears.^[2]

Ceramic ShearsMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Ceramic Shears Part
• Ceramic Shears Part

Recipe id: ceramicshears:ceramic_shears

Shapeless crafting recipe from the mod.

About durability

The mod has a durability option that sets the maximum durability of the shears. It accepts values from 0 to 10,000, and 0 deactivates durability.^[3]

Ceramic Shears is a very small mod, and the sources don't describe any machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or automation for it. What they do cover is how you make the shears and how durable they are, so that's what this section explains.^[2][3][4]

The crafting chain

You make the Ceramic Shears through a short chain of recipes. It starts with a Clay Shears Part, which is fired into a Ceramic Shears Part, and that part becomes the finished shears. The recipes below follow that order.^[2]

Clay Shears PartMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Clay Ball
Clay Ball	Empty slot

Recipe id: ceramicshears:clay_shears_part

First, a shaped crafting recipe from the mod makes the raw clay part.

Ceramic Shears PartMod recipe

Smelting

• Clay Shears Part

Recipe id: ceramicshears:ceramic_shears_part

Next, the mod's own smelting recipe fires the clay part.

Ceramic ShearsMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Ceramic Shears Part
• Ceramic Shears Part

Recipe id: ceramicshears:ceramic_shears

Last, a shapeless crafting recipe turns the fired part into the shears.

A campfire shortcut added by the pack

This pack adds another way to do the firing step. Besides smelting, you can cook the Clay Shears Part on a campfire to get the same Ceramic Shears Part. The mod doesn't include this recipe, so it only works because the pack adds it.^[2]

Ceramic Shears PartAdded by the pack

Campfire Cooking

• Clay Shears Part

Recipe id: ftb:ceramic_shear_part_from_campfire

Pack-added campfire cooking alternative to the smelting step.

Durability

The shears' maximum durability is set by [[config:config/ceramicshears-server.toml#Balance Options.durability]]. The option accepts values from 0 to 10,000, and setting it to 0 turns durability off entirely.^[3][4]

In this pack the value is 179, which is the same as the mod's default. The pack hasn't changed it, so your shears have 179 durability here.^[4]

Ceramic Shears come from a short crafting chain that starts with clay and ends with Ceramic Shears. The recipes below are the whole path, so you can work through them in order.^[2]

The crafting chain

Each step makes the item the next step needs.^[2]

1. Craft a Clay Shears Part from clay.^[2]
2. Cook the Clay Shears Part to turn it into a Ceramic Shears Part.^[2]
3. Craft the Ceramic Shears Part into the finished Ceramic Shears.^[2]

Shaping the clay

Clay Shears PartMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Clay Ball
Clay Ball	Empty slot

Recipe id: ceramicshears:clay_shears_part

This is the mod's own shaped recipe, and it uses clay balls.

Firing the part

The mod's own recipe fires the Clay Shears Part by smelting it into a Ceramic Shears Part.^[2]

Ceramic Shears PartMod recipe

Smelting

• Clay Shears Part

Recipe id: ceramicshears:ceramic_shears_part

The mod's smelting recipe.

The pack also lets you cook the Clay Shears Part on a campfire. That is a pack addition, not something the mod does on its own, so you can skip the furnace if you like.^[2]

Ceramic Shears PartAdded by the pack

Campfire Cooking

• Clay Shears Part

Recipe id: ftb:ceramic_shear_part_from_campfire

Added by the pack: campfire cooking gives the same result as smelting.

The finished shears

The last step is a shapeless craft that takes the fired part and gives you the shears.^[2]

Ceramic ShearsMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Ceramic Shears Part
• Ceramic Shears Part

Recipe id: ceramicshears:ceramic_shears

A shapeless craft using the Ceramic Shears Part.

Unverified The sources here do not show any quest in the pack's quest book that involves Ceramic Shears, so there is no quest chapter to follow for this mod.

Ceramic Shears only has one config option that the sources cover, and it's the one most players will care about: how long the shears last. It lives in the server config file, under the Balance Options section.^[4]

Durability

The [[config:config/ceramicshears-server.toml#Balance Options.durability]] option sets the maximum durability of your Ceramic Shears. This pack sets it to 179, which is exactly the mod default, so the pack did not change this value. The allowed range is 0 to 10,000.^[4]

Unverified No other Ceramic Shears config options are listed in the sources for this pack, so we can't confirm whether any other values were changed from the mod defaults.