Ender IO in FTB Skies 2

Ender IO is a full-featured tech mod. It brings armor, tools, weapons, machines, conduits, inventory management and mobs, so it's a big toolbox for automation, power and storage. It's a good fit if you want to wire up a base with conduits and build up your own machine line.^[1]

The pack ships Ender IO 8.2.11-beta. The mod is being rewritten from the ground up for the latest Minecraft, so some features from older versions may not have been ported yet.^[1][2]

Conduit types

Conduits are one of the main features the mod lists. The project page names these conduit types, but it also says the rewrite has not yet ported every feature, so check that a given type is in your version:^[1]

• Item, fluid, energy and redstone conduits.^[1]
• Applied Energistics 2 ME conduits and Refined Storage conduits.^[1]
• Mekanism chemical conduits.^[1]

Where it fits in the pack's progression

Ender IO has its own quest chapter, and it also shows up in several other chapters. The first Grains of Infinity quest sits in the beginning chapter, a Stirling Generator quest is in the power chapter, an Enchanter quest is in the gearing up chapter, and the logistics chapter asks for the Yeta Wrench and conduits.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

Inside the Ender IO chapter, the path starts with Grains of Infinity ("Welcome to EnderIO!" quest), then the Stirling Generator ("Generating Power" quest). From there you unlock the Alloy Smelter ("Alloy Smelter" quest) and the Basic Capacitor ("Basic Capacitor" quest). Most of the rest of the chapter branches off those.^[3]

• Alloys: Energetic Alloy Ingot, Vibrant Alloy Ingot, Dark Steel Ingot and Soularium Ingot all unlock after the Alloy Smelter.^[3]
• Power storage: the capacitor line runs from the Double-Layer Capacitor to the Octadic Capacitor, with capacitor banks up to the Vibrant Capacitor Bank.^[3]
• Logistics: conduits and the Yeta Wrench come first, then the Conduit Facade and Painting Machine.^[3]
• Machines and XP: the SAG Mill and Enchanter follow Dark Steel, and the XP Obelisk follows Soularium.^[3]
• Mobs and travel: the Slice'N'Splice, Soul Binder, the spawners, the Ender Crystal, and finally the Staff of Travelling with the Travel Anchor.^[3]

A good way into Ender IO in this pack is to follow its quest chapter. It starts with one item and fans out into power, machines, alloys and conduits, so each quest points you at the next thing to make.^[3]

The first steps, in order

1. Get Grains of Infinity. It is the first quest in the Ender IO chapter, "Welcome to EnderIO!" quest, and it also appears in the opening chapter of the quest book.^[3][5]
2. Make a Stirling Generator ("Generating Power" quest). The smelter and capacitor quests both unlock after it, and machines will not run without power.^[3][8]
3. Craft an Alloy Smelter ("Alloy Smelter" quest). Most of the quests after it hang off this machine, including the alloy ingots, the vacuum items and the conduits.^[3]
4. Make a Basic Capacitor ("Basic Capacitor" quest). It is a separate branch from the smelter, and machines will not work without a capacitor installed.^[3][8]
5. Smelt an Energetic Alloy Ingot in the Alloy Smelter ("Energetic Alloy" quest). The Double-Layer Capacitor and the Vibrant Alloy Ingot quests both come after it.^[3][9]

The Alloy Smelter

Alloy SmelterMod recipe

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any iron gear	Furnace	any iron gear
Furnace	Void Chassis	Furnace
any iron ingot	any obsidian	any iron ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelter

This is the Alloy Smelter's crafting recipe, a standard mod recipe that the pack has not changed.

Capacitors

Machines need a capacitor, and they tell you so when you open them. Make the Basic Capacitor early so you are not left wondering why a machine sits idle.^[8]

Basic CapacitorMod recipe

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Empty slot	any gold nugget	any grain of infinity dusts
any gold nugget	any copper ingot	any gold nugget
any grain of infinity dusts	any gold nugget	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:basic_capacitor

The Basic Capacitor is also a standard mod recipe in this pack.

Your first alloy

Energetic Alloy is the first alloy the quests ask for after the smelter. It is made in the Alloy Smelter, not on a crafting table.^[3][9]

2× Energetic Alloy IngotMod recipe

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any redstone dust
• any conductive alloy ingot
• any gold ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/energetic_alloy_ingot

This is an alloy smelting recipe, so it runs in the Alloy Smelter.

Where to go next

Once you have the Alloy Smelter, several quests open up at once. You can take them in whatever order suits you.^[3]

• Dark Steel Ingot ("Dark Steel Ingot" quest) leads on to the Enchanter and The Ender.^[3]
• Soularium Ingot ("Soularium Ingot" quest) leads on to the XP Obelisk and the Slice'N'Splice.^[3]
• Vacuum Chest and XP Vacuum share one quest, "Other Useful Machines" quest.^[3]
• Conduits and the Yeta Wrench ("EnderIO Conduits" quest) are the start of moving power and items around your base. The logistics chapter also begins with the Yeta Wrench.^[3][4]
• The Basic Capacitor Bank ("Basic Capacitor Bank" quest) follows the Basic Capacitor.^[3]

Basic Capacitor BankMod recipe

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any iron ingot	Basic Capacitor	any iron ingot
Basic Capacitor	any redstone storage block	Basic Capacitor
any iron ingot	Basic Capacitor	any iron ingot

Recipe id: enderio:basic_capacitor_bank

The Basic Capacitor Bank is built from the Basic Capacitor you already made.

The pack also adds its own recipes that turn Applied Energistics 2 cables and Mekanism tubes and conductors into Ender IO conduits.^[9]

Ender IO is a full-featured tech mod built around machines, conduits and inventory management. This section covers how power, machines, conduits and filters fit together, using what the pack's own config and recipes show.^[1]

Power and capacitors

The machine config gives energy in uI, and the mod describes its energy unit as equivalent to FE, so you can plan your power with FE in mind.^[8][10]

A machine with no capacitor tells you to install one, and the machine GUI asks you to insert any capacitor so it can work. Capacitors change how a machine behaves through these modifiers: energy capacity, energy use, burning energy generation and fuel efficiency. You can see these in the capacitor's tooltip.^[8]

Basic CapacitorMod recipe

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Empty slot	any gold nugget	any grain of infinity dusts
any gold nugget	any copper ingot	any gold nugget
any grain of infinity dusts	any gold nugget	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:basic_capacitor

This is how you craft the Basic Capacitor in the pack.

Capacitor banks

A Basic Capacitor Bank holds 500,000 in this pack, which is the mod default, set by energy.capacitorBankCapacity.basic. The mod also has an advancement for building a capacitor bank.^[8][9][10]

Basic Capacitor BankMod recipe

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any iron ingot	Basic Capacitor	any iron ingot
Basic Capacitor	any redstone storage block	Basic Capacitor
any iron ingot	Basic Capacitor	any iron ingot

Recipe id: enderio:basic_capacitor_bank

The Advanced Capacitor Bank can be crafted from scratch, or you can upgrade a basic bank with the upgrade recipe.^[9]

Advanced Capacitor BankMod recipe

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any energetic alloy ingot	any energetic alloy ingot	any energetic alloy ingot
Basic Capacitor Bank	Double-Layer Capacitor	Basic Capacitor Bank
any energetic alloy ingot	any energetic alloy ingot	any energetic alloy ingot

Recipe id: enderio:advanced_capacitor_bank_upgrade

Machine power budgets

Each machine has a base energy capacity and a base energy use per tick in the config file. Capacitors modify these, so treat the numbers as a starting point. Here are the values this pack uses:^[8][10]

• Alloy Smelter: capacity 64,000 (energy.alloySmelter.capacity) and usage 20 per tick (energy.alloySmelter.usage).^[9][10]
• Alloy Smelter, vanilla smelting items: 1,500 each, set by energy.alloySmelter.vanillaItemEnergy.^[10]
• SAG Mill: capacity 64,000 and usage 20 per tick.^[10]
• Slicer: capacity 100,000 and usage 30 per tick.^[10]
• Soul Binder: capacity 128,000 and usage 60 per tick.^[10]
• Powered Spawner: capacity 100,000 and usage 20 per tick.^[10]
• Painting Machine: capacity 64,000, usage 30 per tick, and 2,400 for each painting operation.^[10]
• Crafter: capacity 64,000, and a cost of 3,200 for each crafting recipe.^[10]
• Farming Station: capacity 64,000 and usage 40 per tick.^[10]
• Drain: capacity 64,000 and usage 10 per tick.^[10]
• Impulse Hopper: capacity 64,000 and usage 16 per tick.^[10]

Alloy SmelterMod recipe

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any iron gear	Furnace	any iron gear
Furnace	Void Chassis	Furnace
any iron ingot	any obsidian	any iron ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelter

The SAG Mill uses grinding balls, and its tooltips show that the chance of an output is modified by the grinding ball you use. The Drain only works with a source block under it.^[8]

Generators and charging

These are the Stirling Generator and Soul Engine values in this pack. The config shows the mod default is the same for each of them.^[10]

• Base energy produced: 40 per tick (energy.stirlingGenerator.generation).^[10]
• Capacity: 64,000 (energy.stirlingGenerator.capacity).^[10]
• Burn speed: 0.375 burn ticks per machine tick (energy.stirlingGenerator.burnSpeed).^[10]
• Fuel efficiency starts at a base of 80 percent (energy.stirlingGenerator.fuelEfficiencyBase).^[10]
• Efficiency rises by 20 for each capacitor level (energy.stirlingGenerator.fuelEfficiencyStep).^[10]
• The Soul Engine's base burn rate is 1 (energy.soulEngine.burnSpeed) and its generation setting is 1 (energy.soulEngine.generation).^[10]

Photovoltaic cells depend on the sky. The advanced cell's tooltip says it produces power during daylight hours and needs a clear line of sight to the sky. For the energetic tier, energy.photovoltaicCellRates.energetic sets a rate of 4 at midday without rain or thunder.^[8][10]

Here is how the chargers are set up in this pack:^[10]

• Wired charger usage is 64 per tick. The pack changed this from the mod default of 60 (energy.wiredCharger.usage).^[10]
• Wired charger capacity is 128,000 (energy.wiredCharger.capacity).^[10]
• Wireless charger capacity is 128,000 (energy.wirelessCharger.capacity).^[10]
• Wireless charger charge rate is 60 per tick (energy.wirelessCharger.chargeRate).^[10]
• Wireless charger upkeep is 2 per tick (energy.wirelessCharger.energyUpkeep).^[10]

Reading machine status

When a machine isn't working, its status message usually says why. The mod has messages for these cases:^[8]

• Active: the machine is running.^[8]
• Blocked by redstone.^[8]
• No capacitor installed.^[8]
• Not enough power to use the machine.^[8]
• Energy storage is full.^[8]
• No item in the input.^[8]
• Not enough room for the output.^[8]

Obelisks

The base ranges in this pack match the mod defaults:^[10]

• Attractor Obelisk: base range 8 (obelisks.attractorRange).^[10]
• Aversion Obelisk: base range 16 (obelisks.aversionRange).^[10]
• Inhibitor Obelisk: base range 16 (obelisks.inhibitorRange).^[10]

The attractor does not attract bosses in this pack, because obelisks.attractorAttractBosses is set to false.^[10]

The pack lowered the base energy usage of three machines to 10 per tick, down from the mod default of 20:^[10]

• Aversion Obelisk (energy.aversion.usage).^[10]
• Inhibitor (energy.inhibitor.usage).^[10]
• Relocator (energy.relocator.usage).^[10]

The attractor keeps its usage of 20 per tick (energy.attractor.usage).^[10]

The pack also changed the recipe for the Aversion Obelisk. Use the recipe below, not the mod's default one.^[9]

Aversion ObeliskChanged by the pack

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Empty slot	any enderman head	Empty slot
any energetic alloy ingot	any soularium ingot	any energetic alloy ingot
any soularium ingot	Ensouled Chassis	any soularium ingot

Recipe id: enderio:aversion_obelisk

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Conduits

Conduits are Ender IO's way of moving things around. The types are Item, Fluid, Energy, Redstone, Applied Energistics 2 ME, Refined Storage and Mekanism Chemicals.^[1]

Conduits move things on a network tick. Their tooltips show the raw rate per network tick, the number of network ticks per second, and an effective rate. Items are shown as items per second, and fluids as mB per tick. Conduit facades can be hardened to resist breaking and explosions, and they can be transparent. A transparent facade hides conduits when it is painted with a translucent block. A conduit probe stores copied conduit data.^[8]

The pack adds recipes that combine a Conduit Binder with an AE2 glass, covered or dense covered cable to make a conduit.^[9]

Filters

Ender IO has several filters for sorting what goes through your automation: the Basic Item Filter, Advanced Item Filter, Big Item Filter, Big Advanced Item Filter, Basic Fluid Filter and Basic Soul Filter. There are also the Redstone AND Filter and Redstone NAND Filter.^[9]

A new filter is unconfigured. Use it while crouching to configure it. If a filter warns that it uses component matching that is no longer available, clear it in the crafting grid to remove the warning.^[8]

Basic Item FilterMod recipe

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Empty slot	Paper	Empty slot
Paper	Hopper	Paper
Empty slot	Paper	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:basic_item_filter

Other settings

The pack leaves the enchanter and the Ender IO interaction range at the mod defaults:^[10]

• Base level cost added to all enchanter recipes: 2 (enchanter.baseLevelCost).^[10]
• The lapis cost is the enchant level multiplied by 3 (enchanter.lapisCostFactor).^[10]
• The final XP cost is multiplied by 0.75 (enchanter.levelCostFactor).^[10]
• The maximum distance from which an Ender IO can interact with blocks is 8, and the config allows 1 to 20 (enderface.enderIoRange).^[10]

Ender IO in this pack has its own quest chapter, and it works as a tech tree. Each quest asks you to get one or two items, and each one unlocks the next. If you follow it in order, you move from basic power and alloys up to the big machines.^[3]

Stage 1: Power and alloys

The chapter starts with Grains of Infinity in quest "Welcome to EnderIO!" quest. The opening chapter has the same item as a task too, in quests "Grains of Infinity" quest and "Not so Infinity" quest. Sag milling deepslate cobblestone gives you these grains along with a cobblestone.^[3][5][9]

Grains of Infinity, CobblestoneMod recipe

Sag Milling (enderio)

• any deepslate cobblestone

Recipe id: enderio:sag_milling/cobbled_deepslate

Next, "Generating Power" quest asks for a Stirling Generator. This quest also has a checkmark task, and the generator has its own quest in the power chapter, "Stirling Generator" quest. After that comes the Alloy Smelter in "Alloy Smelter" quest, and most of the rest of the tree hangs off it.^[3][7]

Alloy SmelterMod recipe

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any iron gear	Furnace	any iron gear
Furnace	Void Chassis	Furnace
any iron ingot	any obsidian	any iron ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelter

Stage 2: Capacitors and the alloy ladder

With the Alloy Smelter running, the quests split into two lines. The first is capacitors, starting with the Basic Capacitor in "Basic Capacitor" quest. The Basic Capacitor Bank follows in "Basic Capacitor Bank" quest.^[3]

Basic CapacitorMod recipe

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Empty slot	any gold nugget	any grain of infinity dusts
any gold nugget	any copper ingot	any gold nugget
any grain of infinity dusts	any gold nugget	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:basic_capacitor

The second line is alloys. "Energetic Alloy" quest wants an Energetic Alloy Ingot. That quest and the basic capacitor quest both lead to the Double-Layer Capacitor in "Double Layer Capacitor" quest. The Advanced Capacitor Bank in "Advanced Capacitor Bank" quest comes after the double-layer capacitor.^[3]

2× Energetic Alloy IngotMod recipe

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any redstone dust
• any conductive alloy ingot
• any gold ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/energetic_alloy_ingot

Double-Layer CapacitorMod recipe

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Empty slot	any energetic alloy ingot	Empty slot
Basic Capacitor	any coal dust	Basic Capacitor
Empty slot	any energetic alloy ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:double_layer_capacitor

If you already have a Basic Capacitor Bank, there is also an upgrade recipe that turns it into the Advanced bank.^[9]

Advanced Capacitor BankMod recipe

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any energetic alloy ingot	any energetic alloy ingot	any energetic alloy ingot
Basic Capacitor Bank	Double-Layer Capacitor	Basic Capacitor Bank
any energetic alloy ingot	any energetic alloy ingot	any energetic alloy ingot

Recipe id: enderio:advanced_capacitor_bank_upgrade

The top of the energy line needs the Vibrant Alloy Ingot from "Vibrant Alloy" quest. Together with the double-layer capacitor quest, it leads to the Octadic Capacitor in "Octadic Capacitor" quest. The Vibrant Capacitor Bank is the last step, in "Vibrant Capacitor Bank" quest. The vibrant ingot also unlocks the Electromagnet in "Electromagnet" quest.^[3]

2× Vibrant Alloy IngotMod recipe

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any glowstone dust
• any ender pearl
• any energetic alloy ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/vibrant_alloy_ingot

Octadic CapacitorMod recipe

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Empty slot	any vibrant alloy ingot	Empty slot
Double-Layer Capacitor	Glowstone	Double-Layer Capacitor
Empty slot	any vibrant alloy ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:octadic_capacitor

Stage 3: Dark steel

"Dark Steel Ingot" quest asks for a Dark Steel Ingot and opens three more quests. They are the Enchanter in "Enchanter" quest, the sword The Ender in "The Ender" quest, and the SAG Mill in "SAG Mill" quest. The Enchanter also has a separate quest in the gearing up chapter, a quest in "Gearing Up".^[3][6]

2× Dark Steel IngotMod recipe

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any coal dust
• any iron ingot
• any obsidian

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/dark_steel_ingot

EnchanterMod recipe

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Empty slot	Book	Empty slot
any diamond gem	Lectern	any diamond gem
any dark steel ingot	any dark steel ingot	any dark steel ingot

Recipe id: enderio:enchanter

SAG MillMod recipe

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any iron gear	Flint	any iron gear
any iron ingot	Void Chassis	any iron ingot
any obsidian	Piston	any obsidian

Recipe id: enderio:sag_mill

The SAG Mill quest also asks for one grinding ball. It accepts several kinds, including the Dark Steel Grinding Ball, the Soularium Grinding Ball and the End Steel Grinding Ball. Any one of them completes the task.^[3]

Stage 4: Soularium, souls and the End

"Soularium Ingot" quest asks for a Soularium Ingot, which opens the next set of quests. The XP Obelisk comes in "XP Obelisk" quest, and the Slice'N'Splice in "Slice'N'Splice" quest.^[3]

Soularium IngotMod recipe

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• Soul Sand
• Soul Soil
• any gold ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/soularium_ingot

Slice'N'SpliceMod recipe

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any soularium ingot	any skull	any soularium ingot
any soularium ingot	Ensouled Chassis	any soularium ingot
any energized gear	Iron Bars	any energized gear

Recipe id: enderio:slice_and_splice

After the Slice'N'Splice you need a Soul Vial and a Soul Binder in "Binding Souls" quest. That quest and the Slice'N'Splice quest together unlock the Broken Spawner and Powered Spawner in "Powered Spawner" quest.^[3]

Soul BinderMod recipe

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any soularium ingot	Soul Vial	any soularium ingot
any energized gear	Ensouled Chassis	any energized gear
any soularium ingot	Z-Logic Controller	any soularium ingot

Recipe id: enderio:soul_binder

Powered SpawnerMod recipe

Shaped Entity Storage (enderio)

Shaped Entity Storage (enderio)

any soularium ingot	Broken Spawner	any soularium ingot
any soularium ingot	Ensouled Chassis	any soularium ingot
any vibrant crystal gem	Z-Logic Controller	any vibrant crystal gem

Recipe id: enderio:powered_spawner

The Soul Vial and Soul Binder quest also leads to the Ender Crystal in "Ender Crystal" quest, which the Soul Binder makes from a vibrant crystal. That quest opens two more. "Grains of the End" quest asks for Grains of the End, which you get by sag milling an ender crystal. "Staff of Travelling" quest asks for the Staff of Travelling and the Travel Anchor.^[3][9]

Ender CrystalMod recipe

Soul Binding (enderio)

• any vibrant crystal gem

Recipe id: enderio:soulbinding/ender_crystal

Grains of the EndMod recipe

Sag Milling (enderio)

• any ender crystal gem

Recipe id: enderio:sag_milling/ender_crystal

Staff of TravellingMod recipe

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Empty slot	Empty slot	any ender crystal gem
Empty slot	any dark steel ingot	Empty slot
any dark steel ingot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:staff_of_travelling

Side branch: Conduits and utility

Also branching off the Alloy Smelter, "EnderIO Conduits" quest asks for a conduit and the Yeta Wrench. "Hiding Conduits" quest follows with the Conduit Facade and the Painting Machine. A separate quest, "Other Useful Machines" quest, covers the Vacuum Chest and the XP Vacuum.^[3]

The logistics chapter starts with the Yeta Wrench in "EnderIO" quest. Five conduit quests then follow it, among them "Redstone Conduit" quest and "Energy Conduit" quest.^[4]

Conduit FacadeChanged by the pack

Painting (enderio)

• Conduit Facade

Recipe id: enderio:painting/conduit_facade

This painting recipe is changed by the pack.

Ender IO connects to a lot of other mods in this pack, mostly through recipes the pack added or changed. The big pattern is that Grains of Infinity works as a crafting ingredient well outside Ender IO. Ender IO's conduit parts, nuggets and soul items also show up in recipes from other mods.^[9]

Grains of Infinity in other mods' recipes

• Applied Energistics 2: the pack adds a shapeless recipe for Tiny TNT and a transform recipe that makes Black Quartz from Grains of Infinity, nether quartz and lava. Both use Grains of Infinity.^[9]
• Functional Storage: the Dripping Upgrade is a pack-added shaped recipe that uses Grains of Infinity and a Lava Lamp.^[9]
• Simple Magnets: the recipe for Basicmagnet was changed by the pack and now uses Grains of Infinity.^[9]
• Gateways: the pack changed the Overworldian Nights recipe, which makes a Gate Pearl and includes Grains of Infinity.^[9]
• FTB items: Void Crystal Catalyst is a pack-added shapeless recipe built from Grains of Infinity and cobblestone.^[9]
• Lychee world recipes: the pack adds burning, exploding and item-inside recipes that use Grains of Infinity together with things like Crushed Basalt, Tiny Obsidian Dust, Grass Seed, a Menril Sapling or compressed blocks. The recipe dump doesn't show their outputs, so check them in the recipe viewer.^[9]

Tiny TNTAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Grains of Infinity
• Paper
• Paper
• Gunpowder

Recipe id: ftb:ae2/tiny_tnt_from_grains_of_infinity

A pack-added recipe that uses Grains of Infinity to make Tiny TNT.

Mystical Agriculture

Mystical Agriculture essences can be turned into Ender IO materials. The pack changed the recipes that make Conductive Alloy Ingot, Soularium Ingot and Grains of Infinity from their essences.^[9]

8× Grains of InfinityChanged by the pack

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Grains Of Infinity Essence	Grains Of Infinity Essence	Grains Of Infinity Essence
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:essence/enderio/grains_of_infinity

Mekanism and Oritech

The pack adds recipes that produce Conduit Bundle from Mekanism transport parts, including the Basic, Advanced and Elite Pressurized Tubes and the Advanced Thermodynamic Conductor. There are also separate upgrade recipes. Items that show up in these recipes: Conduit Binder, Infused Alloy and Reinforced Alloy. Two of the recipes are shown below.^[9]

3× Conduit BundleAdded by the pack

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Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder
Basic Pressurized Tube	Basic Pressurized Tube	Basic Pressurized Tube
Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder

Recipe id: enderio:mek_basic_pressurized_tube

8× Conduit BundleAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

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Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Infused Alloy	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:mek_basic_pressurized_tube_upgrade

Going the other way, the pack changed Oritech's Fluid Pipe and Pump recipes so they use the Conduit Binder.^[9]

PumpChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

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any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	Motor	any copper ingot
Conduit Binder	any plating	Conduit Binder

Recipe id: oritech:compat/enderio/crafting/pump

Machines, mobs and bees

• Modern Industrialization: the pack adds a shaped recipe for the Deep Mob Binder and a pack-added Deep Mob Binder machine recipe. Ender IO items involved: Ensouled Chassis, Skeletal Contractor, Soul Chain and Soul Vial, plus an Easy Villagers Villager. Both recipes are shown below.^[9]
• Productive Bees: the pack changed centrifuge recipes so they return Ender IO nuggets plus Wax. The nuggets are conductive alloy, dark steel, end steel, energetic alloy, pulsating alloy, redstone alloy, soularium and vibrant alloy. A separate centrifuge recipe returns Grains of Infinity and Wax.^[9]
• Pressure Chamber: the pack's recipes for Ender Transmitter and Dimensional Memory Fragment use Ender IO items. The transmitter uses the Octadic Capacitor and Sentient Ender. The fragment uses Grains of Prescience.^[9]
• Cognition: a pack-added Molecular Metamorphosis recipe uses Grains of Infinity to make Osmium Essence.^[9]

Deep Mob BinderAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Soul Chain	Soul Chain	Soul Chain
Skeletal Contractor	Ensouled Chassis	Skeletal Contractor
Soul Chain	Soul Chain	Soul Chain

Recipe id: ftb:shaped/modern_industrialization/deep_mob_binder

Food

The pack changed the "Enderios" recipe, which involves Ender Dust from Applied Energistics 2. It also added an Alloy Smelting recipe for a cake base that involves Create's Wheat Flour. Both are shown below.^[9]

"Enderios"Changed by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Bowl
• Milk Bucket
• Wheat
• Ender Dust

Recipe id: enderio:enderios

Quests

The pack's quest tasks for Ender IO only ask you to have the items. The logistics chapter starts with the Yeta Wrench and then has several conduit quests that come after it, such as "Redstone Conduit" quest.^[3][4]

Ender IO shows up in five quest chapters in this pack. The big one is the dedicated enderio chapter. The rest are small appearances in logistics, the_beginning, gearing_up and power. The quests have no titles in the pack files, so I'll describe each one by what it asks you to hold.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

The enderio chapter

This chapter starts with "Welcome to EnderIO!" quest, which asks for Grains of Infinity. "Generating Power" quest follows. It wants a Stirling Generator plus a checkmark task. Almost everything else branches from there.^[3]

1. "Alloy Smelter" quest asks for the Alloy Smelter. "Basic Capacitor" quest asks for the Basic Capacitor. Both unlock after the Stirling Generator quest.^[3]
2. Once you have the Alloy Smelter quest done, five quests open up: "Energetic Alloy" quest (Energetic Alloy Ingot), "Dark Steel Ingot" quest (Dark Steel Ingot), "Soularium Ingot" quest (Soularium Ingot), "Other Useful Machines" quest (Vacuum Chest and XP Vacuum) and "EnderIO Conduits" quest (Conduit Bundle and Yeta Wrench). "Vibrant Alloy" quest, for the Vibrant Alloy Ingot, needs both the Alloy Smelter quest and the Energetic Alloy Ingot quest.^[3]
3. Conduit branch: "Hiding Conduits" quest comes after the conduit quest. It asks for a Conduit Facade and a Painting Machine.^[3]

Capacitor line

1. "Basic Capacitor Bank" quest asks for the Basic Capacitor Bank after the Basic Capacitor quest.^[3]
2. "Double Layer Capacitor" quest asks for the Double-Layer Capacitor. It needs the Basic Capacitor quest and the Energetic Alloy Ingot quest.^[3]
3. "Advanced Capacitor Bank" quest asks for the Advanced Capacitor Bank.^[3]
4. "Octadic Capacitor" quest asks for the Octadic Capacitor. It needs the Double-Layer Capacitor quest and the Vibrant Alloy Ingot quest.^[3]
5. "Vibrant Capacitor Bank" quest finishes the line with the Vibrant Capacitor Bank.^[3]

The Vibrant Alloy Ingot quest also unlocks "Electromagnet" quest, which asks for the Electromagnet.^[3]

Dark steel and soularium branches

After the Dark Steel Ingot quest you get three quests. "Enchanter" quest asks for the Enchanter. "The Ender" quest asks for The Ender. "SAG Mill" quest asks for the SAG Mill plus any one of several grinding balls, such as the Dark Steel Grinding Ball.^[3]

The soularium side starts with "XP Obelisk" quest (XP Obelisk) and "Slice'N'Splice" quest (Slice'N'Splice). The Slice'N'Splice quest leads to "Binding Souls" quest, which asks for a Soul Vial and a Soul Binder. "Powered Spawner" quest needs both of those two quests. It asks for a Broken Spawner and a Powered Spawner.^[3]

The Soul Vial and Soul Binder quest also unlocks "Ender Crystal" quest, for the Ender Crystal. That opens two final quests: "Grains of the End" quest (Grains of the End) and "Staff of Travelling" quest (Staff of Travelling and Travel Anchor).^[3]

Other chapters

• logistics: it starts with "EnderIO" quest, the Yeta Wrench. Five more quests unlock after it, and each one asks for a Conduit Bundle: "Redstone Conduit" quest, "Energy Conduit" quest, "Item Conduit" quest, "Fluid Conduit" quest and "Chemical Conduit" quest.^[4]
• the_beginning: "Grains of Infinity" quest asks for Grains of Infinity. "Not so Infinity" quest comes after it, asks for the same item and adds a checkmark task.^[5]
• gearing_up: a quest in "Gearing Up" asks for the Enchanter.^[6]
• power: "Stirling Generator" quest asks for the Stirling Generator.^[7]

Most of Ender IO's config in this pack is left at the mod default. A handful of values were changed, and those are the ones that affect how you play, so we'll start there.^[10][11]

What the pack changed

• energy.aversion.usage is 10 in this pack (mod default 20). The Aversion Obelisk is cheaper to run, in uI/t.^[10]
• energy.inhibitor.usage is also 10 (mod default 20), so the Inhibitor Obelisk is cheaper too.^[10]
• energy.relocator.usage is also 10 (mod default 20), so the Relocator draws half the default base energy.^[10]
• energy.wiredCharger.usage is 64 (mod default 60). This is the one change that goes up: the Wired Charger uses slightly more energy than normal.^[10]
• items.levitationstaff.maxEnergy is 1,000 (mod default 10,000). The Levitation Staff holds only a tenth of its default energy, so plan to recharge it more often.^[11]

Settings worth knowing

• Conduit tiers can be mixed. conduits.canMixEnergyConduitTiers, conduits.canMixFluidConduitTiers and conduits.canMixItemConduitTiers are all true. mekanism.canMixChemicalConduitTiers is true as well.^[12][13]
• Soul vials cannot change spawners, because items.soulVials.allowSpawners is false.^[11]
• The Attractor Obelisk does not attract bosses, because obelisks.attractorAttractBosses is false.^[10]
• Capacitor banks: energy.capacitorBankCapacity.basic is 500,000, energy.capacitorBankCapacity.advanced is 2,000,000 and energy.capacitorBankCapacity.vibrant is 4,000,000. All match the mod defaults.^[10]
• Powered Spawner: poweredSpawner.defaultSpawnEnergyCost is 50,000 for mobs without custom soul data, poweredSpawner.spawnAmount is 4 and poweredSpawner.spawnType is "NEW". These are the mod defaults, and "NEW" spawns the same entity types as the soul vial rather than an exact copy.^[10]
• obelisks.attractorRange is 8, which is the mod default.^[10]
• obelisks.aversionRange is 16, which is the mod default.^[10]
• obelisks.inhibitorRange is 16, which is the mod default.^[10]
• obelisks.relocatorRange is 16, which is the mod default.^[10]

Dark Steel upgrade tuning

The armory file sets the Dark Steel numbers. The sources don't mark any of them as changed from the mod defaults, so treat them as this pack's values. Here are the ones you are most likely to look up.^[14]

• darksteel.upgrades.empowered.maxEnergy_l1 is 100,000.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.empowered.maxEnergy_l2 is 150,000.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.empowered.maxEnergy_l3 is 250,000.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.empowered.maxEnergy_l4 is 1,000,000.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.empowered.damageAbsorptionChance_l1 is 0.5.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.empowered.damageAbsorptionChance_l4 is 0.85.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.speed.speedBoost_l1 is 0.15.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.speed.speedBoost_l2 is 0.3.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.speed.speedBoost_l3 is 0.45.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.jump.jumpCount_l1 is 2.^[14]
• darksteel.upgrades.jump.jumpCount_l2 is 3.^[14]

Client-side options

A couple of client options are worth knowing. visual.machineParticles is true, and general.machineVolume is 1, which is the top of its allowed range. Both only affect your own game, so lower the volume or turn off particles if a big machine room gets noisy.^[15][16]

FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 ships Ender IO 8.2.11-beta, and the mod has been in the pack since FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 or earlier. Below are the notable changes from the mod's own changelogs, newest first. They describe the mod itself, so check the pack in game before assuming a change applies unaltered.^[2]

Betas 8.2.9 to 8.2.11

• 8.2.11-beta improved fire crafting handling, so fire water can now properly be used for fire crafting. It also discards networks that were corrupted by the update from 8.0.7 to 8.2.9, and fixes a crash on servers caused by the coordinate selector.^[17]
• 8.2.10-beta fixed loading conduit data from saved data and increased the pickup range for vacuum blocks.^[18]
• 8.2.9-beta added a potential fix for both poor energy conduit performance and crashes, and fixed a missing Jade translation.^[19]

8.0.x alphas

• 8.0.7-alpha was a hotfix that fixed a hang on load when using the attractor obelisk.^[20]
• 8.0.4-alpha ported the Conduit Probe to 1.21.1, added a Soul Vial whitelist tag so modpacks can bypass the blacklist, and fixed a bug where releasing a mob from a stack of vials deleted the rest of the stack.^[21]
• 8.0.3-alpha fixed a freeze during world load when upgrading conduits from v7 to v8. Earlier hotfixes in the 8.0 line fixed conduits failing to load because of removed filters (8.0.2) and Refined Storage conduits not loading from 7.x saves (8.0.1).^[20][22][23]

What 8.0 changed

The big one is a rewrite of the core conduit block logic and data storage, with much more efficient ticking and FTB Ultimine integration, so you can vein mine individual conduits or facades within bundles. Item, energy, fluid and chemical conduits gained a priority option. Energy conduits also got buffed rates and now distribute energy equally across all outputs with the same priority, and redstone conduits gained a "strong power" option.^[22]

• Filters: all filters got bigger, and an advanced item filter and big item filter variants were added.^[22]
• Machines: the primitive alloy smelter was removed, and the Alloy Smelter and SAG Mill no longer require dark steel to craft. Raw ore SAG Mill recipes were buffed.^[22]
• New things: a wireless charger with range extending antennas, VAT recipes, the Attractor Obelisk and the Weather Obelisk.^[22]
• Removed: the old enchantments code (enchantments are not being re-added to Ender IO for now), the light and powered light blocks, and the wood and stone gear.^[22]

The 7.x line

7.1.8-alpha fixed powered machines not updating their state correctly, ported a fix for loading large conduit networks from 1.20.1, and updated to the beta release of Refined Storage. It was later marked as a beta and recommended over the incoming 8.0 alphas if you wanted stability.^[23]