Crafting Tweaks guide for FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 to 1.14.3

Same as in the All the Mods 10 2.12 guide

Crafting Tweaks is a small quality-of-life mod that makes crafting grids a lot less fiddly. It adds buttons to crafting tables so you can rotate, balance or clear the grid with a single click. That saves you from dragging items around slot by slot.^[1]

This pack includes Crafting Tweaks version 21.1.5. It isn't limited to the vanilla table either: it supports many modded crafting tables, so the same buttons turn up in plenty of the crafting screens you'll use.^[1][2]

What it lets you do

• Rotate the outer ring of the crafting grid, which is handy when a recipe needs the same pattern turned around.^[1]
• Balance the materials in the grid so every slot has an even stack size. Hold Shift on the balance button to spread a single stack across the entire grid.^[1]
• Clear the whole crafting grid back into your inventory in one go.^[1]
• Hold the W key while clicking items to move them into the grid, or use Shift+W to move every item of that type.^[1]
• Right-click the result slot to craft a full stack at once.^[1]
• Use a keybind to compress items into their 3x3 or 2x2 recipe, or to decompress blocks back into their ingot forms.^[1]

Who it's for

If you do a lot of hand crafting, and in a big modded pack you will, this mod is for you. It adds shortcuts to crafting screens you already use, so there's nothing extra to build before you can start using it.^[1]

Same as in the All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.2 guide

Crafting Tweaks adds buttons and keybinds to crafting grids, so a good first step is to open a crafting table and take a look at what it gives you.^[1]

Open a crafting table and find the buttons

The mod adds buttons to many supported crafting tables. They let you rotate, balance or clear the crafting grid in one press. It also supports many modded crafting tables.^[1]

• Rotate turns the outer circle of the crafting grid.^[1]
• Balance evens out the materials in the grid to equal stack sizes.^[1]
• Clear sends the grid contents back to your inventory.^[1]

Try the extras

Hold shift on the balance button to spread a single stack over the entire grid. Right-clicking the result slot crafts an entire stack. You can also hold the W key while clicking items to transfer them into the grid, and Shift+W transfers all items of that type.^[1]

There is also a keybind for compressing items into their 3x3 or 2x2 recipe, and for decompressing them back. It is great for turning loose ingots into blocks and back again without opening a recipe.^[1]

Check your keybinds

Open your controls screen and look for the Crafting Tweaks category. It has keybinds for Rotate Grid (and a counter-clockwise version), Balance Grid, Spread Grid, Clear Grid, Force Clear Grid, Transfer to Crafting Grid, Refill Last and Refill Last Stack. There are also Compress and Decompress binds, each for a single item, a stack or all. Force Clear Grid drops items if it needs to, so be careful where you use it.^[3]

Unverified This pack has no config file for Crafting Tweaks that we could check, so the values the pack uses for options such as the button and hotkey mode, or right-click crafting a full stack, are unconfirmed.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 2.11 guide

Crafting Tweaks is all about making the crafting grid faster to use. Instead of dragging items around one slot at a time, you get buttons on many supported crafting tables that rotate, balance or clear the grid with a single press, plus a few handy shortcuts on top.^[1]

The grid buttons

Once the mod is running, supported crafting tables, including many modded ones, show a small set of extra buttons next to the grid. Each one does one job:^[1]

• Rotate moves the items around the outer circle of the crafting grid. It's great for fixing a recipe you placed in the wrong orientation.^[1]
• Balance evens out the materials in the grid so every occupied slot ends up with an even stack size.^[1]
• Holding shift while you press the balance button spreads a single stack across the entire grid instead.^[1]
• Clear empties the crafting grid back into your inventory.^[1]

There's also a force clear action that will drop items if it has to, so keep that in mind if your inventory is full when you use it.^[4]

Shortcuts and keybinds

Beyond the buttons, the mod adds a few quality-of-life controls that speed up bulk crafting quite a bit.^[1]

• Hold the W key while clicking items to transfer them into the grid. Use Shift+W to transfer every item of that type.^[1]
• Right-click the result slot to craft a full stack in one go. The mod's settings include an option that controls whether right-clicking the result slot in a crafting table crafts a full stack.^[1][4]
• A compress keybind instantly turns items into their 3x3 or 2x2 recipe result, and it can also decompress them again, for example turning ingots into blocks and back.^[1]

How compressing works

Compressing uses the item's 3x3 or 2x2 crafting recipe, so it only does what a normal craft could do, just much faster. The mod has a denylist of modid:name entries that the compress key will never craft, which lets specific items be excluded.^[1][4]

By default, compressing is tied to crafting screens. The mod has a setting that lets (de)compressing work outside crafting GUIs, but that only works in your player inventory, and only when Crafting Tweaks is also installed on the server.^[4]

Client and server

Crafting Tweaks is bi-optional. Only the players who want it need it installed, and it still works for them even if the server doesn't have it. It requires Balm, which has to be installed alongside it.^[1]

Controlling how it behaves

The client settings let you choose how the mod shows up. Its mode can be set to DEFAULT for both buttons and hotkeys, BUTTONS for buttons only, HOTKEYS for hotkeys only, or DISABLED to turn it off completely. You can also add mod ids to a list to disable Crafting Tweaks support for those mods.^[4]

There's also an option to hide the vanilla crafting book button instead of just moving it out of the way, which is handy if you rely on JEI for recipe lookups anyway.^[4]

Unverified This pack doesn't ship config files for Crafting Tweaks, so which of these options are turned on or changed in the pack couldn't be confirmed. Check the mod's settings in-game if something behaves differently than described here.

Crafting Tweaks keeps its settings in one file, config/craftingtweaks-common.toml. Here is how the pack sets each option you're most likely to touch.^[5]

• client.mode is set to "DEFAULT", which turns on both the crafting grid buttons and the hotkeys. The other allowed values are BUTTONS (buttons only), HOTKEYS (hotkeys only) and DISABLED (turns the mod's features off completely).^[5]
• client.rightClickCraftsStack is true, so right-clicking the result slot of a crafting table crafts a full stack in one go.^[1][5]
• common.compressDenylist holds two entries in this pack: Sandstone and Iron Trapdoor. The compress key will not craft those.^[5]
• common.compressRequiresCraftingGrid is false. That means the compress and decompress feature can work outside crafting screens too, but the config notes this only works if the mod is installed on the server while you're in your player inventory.^[5]
• client.hideVanillaCraftingGuide is false, so the vanilla recipe book button is moved rather than hidden.^[5]
• client.disabledAddons is an empty list, so no mods have their Crafting Tweaks support switched off.^[5]

Unverified The sources only show the values this pack uses, not the mod's own defaults, so which of these options the pack changed from default is unconfirmed.