Ender IO guide for FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 to 1.9.0

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

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 (a quest in "?"), then the Stirling Generator (a quest in "?"). From there you unlock the Alloy Smelter (a quest in "?") and the Basic Capacitor (a quest in "?"). 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]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.15.0 guide

Welcome to Ender IO in the pack! The pack's Ender IO quest chapter gives you a clear order to follow. It starts with Grains of Infinity, moves to power, then to the alloy smelter, and branches out from there. Here is that order, and why each step matters.^[8][9]

Step 1: Grains of Infinity

Both the Ender IO quest chapter and the opening chapter ask you for Grains of Infinity first. You need them early because the pack's basic capacitor recipe uses them as an ingredient. One pack recipe that produces them is sag milling deepslate cobblestone, which also gives you plain cobblestone back.^[8][9][10]

Unverified How you get your very first Grains of Infinity before you own a Sag Mill is not confirmed by the sources I have. The Sag Mill recipe in the pack needs a dark steel ingot, which comes later in the quest chain.

Step 2: Power with the Stirling Generator

Next comes the Stirling Generator (a quest in "?"), which every later quest in the chapter hangs off. It also has its own quest in the power chapter. You need it to run the machines that follow.^[8][11]

Unverified The Stirling Generator's own crafting recipe is not visible in the sources I have, so I can't show it here. The recipe dump does list pack-added recipes named erase_... for several Ender IO machines, but what they do is not explained.

Step 3: The Alloy Smelter

After the generator, the Alloy Smelter (a quest in "?") is the real gateway. Dark steel, soularium, vibrant alloy, conduits and the vacuum items all unlock after it. This is the pack's recipe:^[8][10]

Alloy SmelterAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any dark steel ingot	Furnace	any dark steel ingot
Furnace	Void Chassis	Furnace
any iron gear	Cauldron	any iron gear

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelter

Step 4: Capacitors and Energetic Alloy

Right after the generator you also get the Basic Capacitor quest (a quest in "?"). This is the start of your capacitor line.^[8]

Basic CapacitorAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Once you have the smelter, make Energetic Alloy Ingot (a quest in "?"). The pack's alloy smelting recipe for it is below. Together with the basic capacitor, it unlocks the Double-Layer Capacitor (a quest in "?").^[8][10]

Energetic Alloy IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any glowstone dust
• any redstone dust
• any gold ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/energetic_alloy_ingot

Double-Layer CapacitorAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

You can also craft the Basic Capacitor Bank (a quest in "?") straight from the basic capacitor.^[8][10]

Basic Capacitor BankAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Step 5: Pick your branch

With the smelter running, the chapter opens several paths at once. You don't have to do them in a fixed order:^[8]

• Dark Steel Ingot (a quest in "?") leads to the SAG Mill, the Enchanter and the The Ender.^[8]
• Soularium Ingot (a quest in "?") leads to the XP Obelisk and the Slice'N'Splice, which opens the soul and spawner quests.^[8]
• Vibrant Alloy Ingot (a quest in "?") leads to the Octadic Capacitor and the Electromagnet.^[8]
• Conduit Bundle and Yeta Wrench (a quest in "?") start your logistics, and the Vacuum Chest and XP Vacuum (a quest in "?") are also unlocked here.^[8]

Dark steel is a good first pick, because the Sag Mill and the Enchanter both need it. Here is the pack's alloy smelting recipe for the ingot:^[8][10]

Dark Steel IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any coal dust
• any iron ingot
• any obsidian

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/dark_steel_ingot

Ender IO is a full-featured tech mod built around machines, conduits and inventory management. It ships as a single jar that bundles its modules, including Base, Machines, Conduits and Inventory Panel. The sources for this pack cover power numbers and a handful of recipes well. They say much less about how the multiblocks and automation actually behave, so this section sticks to what is confirmed.^[1]

Power: how machines use energy

The machines listed below each have an energy buffer (capacity, in uI) and a base draw (usage, in uI/t). Both are set in the machines config. The values below are the ones the pack uses, and they all match the mod defaults:^[12]

• Alloy Smelter: 64,000 uI capacity and 20 uI/t. Smelting a vanilla item in it costs 1,500 uI per item. See energy.alloySmelter.capacity, energy.alloySmelter.usage and energy.alloySmelter.vanillaItemEnergy.^[12]
• SAG Mill: 64,000 uI capacity and 20 uI/t.^[12]
• Slicer: 100,000 uI capacity and 30 uI/t.^[12]
• Soul Binder: 128,000 uI capacity and 60 uI/t.^[12]
• Painting Machine: 64,000 uI capacity and 30 uI/t. Each painting operation needs 2,400 uI in total.^[12]
• Powered Spawner: 100,000 uI capacity and 20 uI/t.^[12]
• Crafter: 64,000 uI capacity, and each crafting recipe costs 3,200 uI.^[12]
• Impulse Hopper: 64,000 uI capacity and 16 uI/t.^[12]
• Drain, Inhibitor and Relocator: 64,000 uI capacity and 10 uI/t each.^[12]

For generation, the config lists a soul engine with a base burn rate of 1 (energy.soulEngine.burnSpeed) and a generation setting of 1 (energy.soulEngine.generation), described as a percentage increase in uI produced. It also gives the Energetic photovoltaic cell a rate of 4 at midday without rain or thunder (energy.photovoltaicCellRates.energetic).^[12]

Capacitor banks

The basic capacitor bank holds 500,000 uI, set by energy.capacitorBankCapacity.basic, and this pack leaves that at the mod default. The pack defines its own recipes for the Basic Capacitor Bank and for upgrading it into the Advanced Capacitor Bank.^[12][13]

Basic Capacitor BankAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Advanced Capacitor BankAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

This pack recipe takes a basic capacitor bank as an input to make the advanced bank.

Conduits and item handling

Conduits are how Ender IO moves things around. The mod lists these types: item, fluid, energy, redstone, Applied Energistics 2 ME, Refined Storage and Mekanism chemicals.^[1]

The pack adds several recipes for the Conduit Bundle item, including ones that tie into AE2 cables. One example is below.^[13]

3× Conduit BundleAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder
any glass cable	any glass cable	any glass cable
Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder

Recipe id: enderio:ae_glass_cable

For filtering, the pack has recipes for the enderio:basic_filter, the enderio:advanced_filter and a redstone AND filter that you can make from the NAND version.^[13]

Basic FilterAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Paper or Black Paper	Empty slot
Paper or Black Paper	Hopper	Paper or Black Paper
Empty slot	Paper or Black Paper	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:basic_filter

Powered gear

Some tools store energy themselves. The electromagnet keeps its mod defaults in this pack: a range of 5 (items.electromagnet.range), up to 20 items (items.electromagnet.maxItems), a maximum energy of 100,000 (items.electromagnet.maxEnergy) and an energy use of 1 (items.electromagnet.energyUse).^[14]

The travelling settings are also unchanged. Block-to-block range is 96 (items.travelling.blockToBlockRange), item-to-block range is 192 (items.travelling.itemToBlockRange) and blink range is 24 (items.travelling.blinkRange). The energy use is 1,000 (items.travelling.energyUse), the maximum energy is 100,000 (items.travelling.maxEnergy) and the disabled time is 5 (items.travelling.disabledTime).^[14]

Enchanter costs

The enchanter adds a base level cost of 2 to every recipe (enchanter.baseLevelCost). The lapis cost is the enchant level times 3 (enchanter.lapisCostFactor), and the final XP cost is multiplied by 0.75 (enchanter.levelCostFactor). Lowering that last value makes enchanting cheaper, and 0.5 would halve it.^[12]

Glass variants

Both Clear Glass and Fused Quartz have variants that you craft by combining the glass with an Animal Token, Monster Token or Player Token. The pack's recipe ids call these collision token recipes, and the variant ids end in a, m or p to match the token. Variants whose ids also carry a d or e are made from the matching d or e glass plus a token.^[13]

8× Fused Quartz MAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Fused Quartz	Fused Quartz	Fused Quartz
Fused Quartz	Monster Token	Fused Quartz
Fused Quartz	Fused Quartz	Fused Quartz

Recipe id: enderio:collision_token_fused_quartz_m

Unverified The sources here do not explain how multiblocks work, what speed or capacity upgrades do, how conduit throughput and redstone control behave, how the filters operate, or what the d and e glass variants mean. The mod has no in-jar guidebook in the sources, so check these in game before relying on them.

Ender IO progression in this pack follows a quest chapter that moves from a very basic smelter up through alloy tiers, capacitors and soul-powered machines. Almost every quest asks you to obtain an item, so the path doubles as a tier list. The quest names are blank in this pack, so I refer to them by ID.^[15]

Tier 1: Grains of Infinity and dark steel

The chapter starts with Grains of Infinity in quest a quest in "?". The Beginning chapter has its own pair of quests for the same item, a quest in "?" and a quest in "?". The pack also adds a recipe that sag-mills deepslate cobblestone into the grains plus regular cobblestone, and it changed the Mystical Agriculture essence recipe that produces them.^[13][15][16]

Next comes the enderio:primitive_alloy_smelter in quest a quest in "?", then your first Dark Steel Ingot in quest a quest in "?". Dark steel is the gate for most of what follows, since the stirling generator, alloy smelter and sag mill recipes below all use it.^[13][15]

Primitive Alloy SmelterAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Furnace	Furnace	Furnace
Deepslate	any grain of infinity dusts	Deepslate
Deepslate	Deepslate	Deepslate

Recipe id: enderio:primitive_alloy_smelter

Dark Steel IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any coal dust
• any iron ingot
• any obsidian

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/dark_steel_ingot

The pack's alloy smelting recipe for dark steel.

Tier 2: Power and core machines

Dark steel unlocks three quests at once: the Stirling Generator (a quest in "?"), the Enchanter (a quest in "?") and the The Ender (a quest in "?"). The generator also has a quest in the Power chapter.^[15][17]

Stirling GeneratorAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Stone Bricks	Furnace	Stone Bricks
any dark steel ingot	Void Chassis	any dark steel ingot
any iron gear	Piston	any iron gear

Recipe id: enderio:stirling_generator

The generator opens the next set of quests. These are the Alloy Smelter (a quest in "?"), the SAG Mill together with any grinding ball (a quest in "?"), and the Basic Capacitor (a quest in "?"). The pack's alloy smelter and sag mill recipes both use a Void Chassis and dark steel.^[13][15]

Alloy SmelterAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any dark steel ingot	Furnace	any dark steel ingot
Furnace	Void Chassis	Furnace
any iron gear	Cauldron	any iron gear

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelter

SAG MillAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Flint	Flint	Flint
any dark steel ingot	Void Chassis	any dark steel ingot
any iron gear	Piston	any iron gear

Recipe id: enderio:sag_mill

Tier 3: Energetic alloy, soularium and conduits

The alloy smelter opens several branches. Energetic Alloy Ingot (a quest in "?") leads to the Double-Layer Capacitor (a quest in "?") and then the Advanced Capacitor Bank (a quest in "?"). The basic capacitor also leads to the Basic Capacitor Bank (a quest in "?").^[15]

Energetic Alloy IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any glowstone dust
• any redstone dust
• any gold ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/energetic_alloy_ingot

Double-Layer CapacitorAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

The same smelter also covers utility quests. You get the Vacuum Chest and XP Vacuum in a quest in "?", and Soularium Ingot in a quest in "?". Soularium leads on to the XP Obelisk in a quest in "?".^[15]

In the Ender IO chapter, the Conduit Bundle and Yeta Wrench come together in a quest in "?". a quest in "?" then asks for the Conduit Facade and Painting Machine. The Logistics chapter starts from the wrench and then has five separate conduit quests. In the pack, conduit variants such as energy, item, fluid and redstone are each crafted with a Conduit Binder plus a type-specific material. The pack also adds conduit recipes that start from Applied Energistics 2, Refined Storage and Mekanism cables and tubes.^[13][15][18]

Yeta WrenchAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any copper alloy ingot	Empty slot	any copper alloy ingot
Empty slot	any stone gear	Empty slot
Empty slot	any copper alloy ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:yeta_wrench

Tier 4: Vibrant alloy and the top capacitors

Vibrant Alloy Ingot (a quest in "?") needs both energetic alloy and the alloy smelter. It leads to the Electromagnet (a quest in "?"). Combined with the double-layer capacitor it leads to the Octadic Capacitor (a quest in "?"), and from there to the Vibrant Capacitor Bank (a quest in "?").^[15]

Vibrant Alloy IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelting (enderio)

• any ender pearl
• any energetic alloy ingot

Recipe id: enderio:alloy_smelting/vibrant_alloy_ingot

Octadic CapacitorAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

The pack also adds upgrade recipes that turn an existing capacitor bank into the next tier. One goes from the basic bank to the advanced bank, and another goes to the vibrant bank, so you don't have to rebuild from scratch.^[13]

Vibrant Capacitor BankAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any copper alloy ingot	Octadic Capacitor	any copper alloy ingot
Octadic Capacitor	any vibrant crystal gem	Octadic Capacitor
any copper alloy ingot	Octadic Capacitor	any copper alloy ingot

Recipe id: enderio:vibrant_capacitor_bank_upgrade

Tier 5: Souls, spawners and travel

Soularium also unlocks the soul branch. The Slice'N'Splice (a quest in "?") leads to the enderio:empty_soul_vial and Soul Binder (a quest in "?"). The soul binder then leads to the Ender Crystal (a quest in "?").^[15]

The ender crystal leads to Grains of the End (a quest in "?") and to the Staff of Travelling with the Travel Anchor (a quest in "?"). The slice and splice and soul binder together lead to the Broken Spawner and Powered Spawner in a quest in "?". The pack defines two powered spawner recipes, which are shown below.^[13][15]

Soul BinderAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any soularium ingot	Empty 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

Ender CrystalAdded by the pack

Soul Binding (enderio)

• any vibrant crystal gem

Recipe id: enderio:soulbinding/ender_crystal

In the pack, the soul binder turns a vibrant crystal into an ender crystal.

Staff of TravellingAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Powered SpawnerAdded by the pack

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

Powered SpawnerAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Recipe id: ftb:enderio/powered_spawner

Ender IO connects to a lot of the pack's other mods, mostly through recipes the pack adds or changes. The quest chapters only ask for Ender IO items, so these links show up in recipes rather than in the quest book. Below, the links are grouped by the mod on the other side.^{[13][15][16][17][18]}

Mekanism transport parts become Ender IO conduits

The pack adds several recipes that produce Conduit Bundle from Mekanism transport parts: basic, advanced and elite pressurized tubes, the advanced thermodynamic conductor, and two upgrade recipes that start from Infused Alloy or Reinforced Alloy. Here are two of them.^[13]

3× Conduit BundleAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Added by the pack: a Basic Pressurized Tube plus a conduit binder gives a conduit.

8× Conduit BundleAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Reinforced Alloy	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: enderio:mek_advanced_pressurized_tube_upgrade

Added by the pack: the Reinforced Alloy route to a conduit.

Grains of Infinity

Grains of Infinity is the Ender IO item that shows up in the most recipes from other mods. It is the first quest in the Ender IO chapter, and it appears in two quests in the opening chapter as well.^[13][15][16]

Grains of infinity feed pack-added recipes for items from other mods, including AE2's Tiny TNT, Black Quartz, the Void Crystal Catalyst, the Dripping Upgrade and the Basicmagnet. The pack also changed the Gateways recipe for the Gate Pearl to include the grains. A number of in-world Lychee recipes (burning, exploding and item inside) involve the grains too.^[13]

Tiny TNTAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Grains of Infinity
• Paper
• Paper
• Gunpowder

Recipe id: ftb:ae2/tiny_tnt_from_grains_of_infinity

Added by the pack: Tiny TNT from the grains, gunpowder and paper.

Void Crystal CatalystAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Cobblestone
• Grains of Infinity

Recipe id: ftb:void_crystal_catalyst

Added by the pack: a shapeless recipe using the grains and cobblestone.

2× Black QuartzAdded by the pack

Transform (ae2)

• Grains of Infinity
• any all nether quartz
• any lava

Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/black_quartz

Added by the pack: an AE2 transform recipe that makes black quartz.

Dripping UpgradeAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any deepslate ore bearing ground	Pointed Dripstone	any deepslate ore bearing ground
any redstone dust	Grains of Infinity	any redstone dust
any deepslate ore bearing ground	Lava Lamp	any deepslate ore bearing ground

Recipe id: ftb:dripping_upgrade

Added by the pack: the dripping upgrade recipe.

Mystical Agriculture essences

The pack changed the Mystical Agriculture recipes that turn essences into Ender IO materials. Conductive alloy essence gives Conductive Alloy Ingot, copper alloy essence gives enderio:copper_alloy_ingot and soularium essence gives Soularium Ingot. Grains of infinity essence gives Grains of Infinity itself.^[13]

8× Grains of InfinityChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Changed by the pack: the essence to grains recipe.

Productive Bees

The pack changed the Productive Bees centrifuge recipes for Ender IO honeycombs. Each gives you Wax plus a nugget of one alloy: conductive, copper, dark steel, end steel, energetic, pulsating, redstone, soularium or vibrant. The infinity honeycomb recipe gives Grains of Infinity instead of a nugget.^[13]

Oritech and Modern Industrialization

The pack changed the Oritech Fluid Pipe and Pump recipes so that both use Conduit Binder.^[13]

PumpChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

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

Changed by the pack: the Oritech pump uses a conduit binder.

Ender IO's mob parts also feed Modern Industrialization. The pack adds a crafting recipe for the Deep Mob Binder, shown below, where Ender IO parts like Ensouled Chassis, enderio:nethercotta and Skeletal Contractor appear. It also adds a Deep Mob Binder machine recipe that involves an enderio:empty_soul_vial, an Villager and a enderio:filled_soul_vial, shown after it.^[13]

Deep Mob BinderAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Nethercotta	Nethercotta	Nethercotta
Skeletal Contractor	Ensouled Chassis	Skeletal Contractor
Nethercotta	Nethercotta	Nethercotta

Recipe id: ftb:shaped/modern_industrialization/deep_mob_binder

Added by the pack: the Deep Mob Binder is crafted from Ender IO parts.

Odds and ends

• The Ender Transmitter has a pack-added Pressure Chamber recipe, shown below, with Ender IO parts such as the Octadic Capacitor and the Sentient Ender.^[13]
• The pack adds a Pressure Chamber recipe for the Dimensional Memory Fragment that uses Grains of Prescience.^[13]
• enderio:cake_base has a pack-added alloy smelting recipe that uses Create's Wheat Flour.^[13]
• "Enderios" has a pack-added shapeless recipe that uses AE2's Ender Dust.^[13]

Ender TransmitterAdded by the pack

Pressure Chamber (pneumaticcraft)

• Range Booster
• 64× Grains of Infinity
• Octadic Capacitor
• Sentient Ender
• 2× any grain of the end dusts
• 8× any end steel ingot

Recipe id: ftb:ender_transmitter

Added by the pack: a Pressure Chamber recipe with Ender IO inputs.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

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 a quest in "?", which asks for Grains of Infinity. a quest in "?" follows. It wants a Stirling Generator plus a checkmark task. Almost everything else branches from there.^[3]

1. a quest in "?" asks for the Alloy Smelter. a quest in "?" 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: a quest in "?" (Energetic Alloy Ingot), a quest in "?" (Dark Steel Ingot), a quest in "?" (Soularium Ingot), a quest in "?" (Vacuum Chest and XP Vacuum) and a quest in "?" (Conduit Bundle and Yeta Wrench). a quest in "?", for the Vibrant Alloy Ingot, needs both the Alloy Smelter quest and the Energetic Alloy Ingot quest.^[3]
3. Conduit branch: a quest in "?" comes after the conduit quest. It asks for a Conduit Facade and a Painting Machine.^[3]

Capacitor line

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

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

Dark steel and soularium branches

After the Dark Steel Ingot quest you get three quests. a quest in "?" asks for the Enchanter. a quest in "?" asks for The Ender. a quest in "?" 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 a quest in "?" (XP Obelisk) and a quest in "?" (Slice'N'Splice). The Slice'N'Splice quest leads to a quest in "?", which asks for a Soul Vial and a Soul Binder. a quest in "?" 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 a quest in "?", for the Ender Crystal. That opens two final quests: a quest in "?" (Grains of the End) and a quest in "?" (Staff of Travelling and Travel Anchor).^[3]

Other chapters

• logistics: it starts with a quest in "?", the Yeta Wrench. Five more quests unlock after it, and each one asks for a Conduit Bundle: a quest in "?", a quest in "?", a quest in "?", a quest in "?" and a quest in "?".^[4]
• the_beginning: a quest in "?" asks for Grains of Infinity. a quest in "?" comes after it, asks for the same item and adds a checkmark task.^[5]
• gearing_up: a quest in "?" asks for the Enchanter.^[6]
• power: a quest in "?" asks for the Stirling Generator.^[7]

Good news: in the base and machines configs, Ender IO sits at its mod defaults almost everywhere in this pack. Only two values there are flagged as changed, so most guides you read for the mod will match what you see in game. Both changes are below, followed by the settings you're most likely to go looking for.^[12][14]

Values the pack changed

• items.levitationstaff.maxEnergy is 1,000 in the pack, down from the mod default of 10,000. The levitation staff holds a tenth of its usual charge, so you'll recharge it often.^[14]
• energy.wiredCharger.usage is 64 uI/t in the pack, up from the mod default of 30. The wired charger draws more than usual, so plan your power budget around it.^[12]

Power storage and generation

• Capacitor bank capacity is 500,000 for energy.capacitorBankCapacity.basic, 2,000,000 for energy.capacitorBankCapacity.advanced and 4,000,000 for energy.capacitorBankCapacity.vibrant, all at the mod defaults.^[12]
• The stirling generator makes 40 uI/t (energy.stirlingGenerator.generation) with a capacity of 64,000 (energy.stirlingGenerator.capacity), both at the defaults.^[12]
• The alloy smelter uses 20 uI/t (energy.alloySmelter.usage) and has a capacity of 64,000 (energy.alloySmelter.capacity).^[12]
• The SAG mill also uses 20 uI/t (energy.sagMill.usage) with a capacity of 64,000 (energy.sagMill.capacity).^[12]
• energy.throttleEnergyUsage is true, so machines throttle their energy input to 2x their consumption rate.^[12]

Powered spawner

All of these powered spawner settings are mod defaults in the pack.^[12]

• Energy use is 20 uI/t (energy.poweredSpawner.usage) and the capacity is 100,000 (energy.poweredSpawner.capacity).^[12]
• poweredSpawner.spawnAmount is 4, the amount of mobs that spawn from the spawner.^[12]
• poweredSpawner.maxSpawners is 10, the maximum amount of spawners before they suffer a loss of efficiency.^[12]
• poweredSpawner.maxEntities is 2, the amount of entities that will turn off a powered spawner if in range.^[12]
• poweredSpawner.spawnType is ENTITY_TYPE, which spawns the same entity types as the soul vial rather than an exact copy of the mob.^[12]

Travel and utility items

• Travelling ranges: items.travelling.blinkRange is 24, items.travelling.blockToBlockRange is 96 and items.travelling.itemToBlockRange is 192. All are mod defaults.^[14]
• Travelling energy: items.travelling.energyUse is 1,000 and items.travelling.maxEnergy is 100,000, with items.travelling.disabledTime at 5. All are mod defaults.^[14]
• The electromagnet has a items.electromagnet.range of 5, picks up at most 20 items (items.electromagnet.maxItems) and holds 100,000 energy (items.electromagnet.maxEnergy). These are mod defaults too.^[14]
• Enderios teleport you with a chance of 0.3 (items.food.enderioChance) over a range of 16 (items.food.enderioRange), both unchanged from the defaults.^[14]

Enchanter and Dark Steel

The enchanter uses a enchanter.baseLevelCost of 2, a enchanter.lapisCostFactor of 3 and a enchanter.levelCostFactor of 0.75. The lapis cost is the enchant level multiplied by the lapis factor.^[12]

• The empowered upgrade holds 100,000 energy at level 1 (darksteel.upgrades.empowered.maxEnergy_l1), 150,000 at level 2 (darksteel.upgrades.empowered.maxEnergy_l2), 250,000 at level 3 (darksteel.upgrades.empowered.maxEnergy_l3) and 1,000,000 at level 4 (darksteel.upgrades.empowered.maxEnergy_l4).^[19]
• Its damage absorption chance climbs from 0.5 (darksteel.upgrades.empowered.damageAbsorptionChance_l1) to 0.6 (darksteel.upgrades.empowered.damageAbsorptionChance_l2), 0.7 (darksteel.upgrades.empowered.damageAbsorptionChance_l3) and 0.85 (darksteel.upgrades.empowered.damageAbsorptionChance_l4).^[19]

Client-side options

visual.machineParticles is on (true). ioconfig.neighbourTransparency is 0.4. Range boxes are color-coded, as the list below shows.^[20][21]

• blocks.aversionRangeColor is 8B0000.^[21]
• blocks.inhibitorRangeColor is 8B0000.^[21]
• blocks.relocatorRangeColor is 8B0000.^[21]
• blocks.poweredSpawnerRangeColor is FF0000.^[21]
• blocks.drainRangeColor is FFA500.^[21]
• blocks.vacuumChestRangeColor is 0000FF.^[21]
• blocks.vacuumXpRangeColor is 00FF00.^[21]

FTB Skies 2 1.9.0 ships Ender IO 7.1.8-alpha. The mod has been in the pack since FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 or earlier, so that is as far back as the pack files let me trace it.^[22]

Ender IO 7.1.8-alpha

This is the build you are playing with in 1.9.0. Its changelog lists three bug fixes:^[22][23]

• Powered machines now update their state correctly.^[23]
• Loading large conduit networks from 1.20.1 has been fixed (a port of the fix).^[23]
• The mod was updated to the beta release of Refined Storage.^[23]

The changelog also carries an update dated 28/08/2025: this build is now marked as a beta, and the developers suggest it over the incoming 8.0 alphas if you want stability.^[23]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for Ender IO were available, so earlier version changes inside FTB Skies 2 are unverified.