FTB Materials guide for FTB Skies 2 1.0.1

FTB Materials supplies the basic metal and material items that the pack's tech chapters ask you to make or collect. Think ingots, plates, rods, wire, dusts and raw ores, all under the ftbmaterials namespace. This pack ships version 21.1.2 of the NeoForge build.^[1][2][3]

The mod is for anyone working through the tech questlines. You won't follow a quest line for FTB Materials itself. Its items show up as quest tasks in chapters for other mods, so you'll keep running into them as you progress.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Where its items show up in the quests

• Modern Industrialization: Copper Rod, Iron Plate, Copper Plate, Steel Ingot and Bronze Ingot come first. Later quests ask for Coal Coke Gem, Aluminum Ingot, Ruby Dust, Chromium Dust, Stainless Steel Dust, Tungsten Ingot, Titanium Ingot, Raw Platinum, Platinum Ingot and Raw Iridium.^[2]
• Create: a quest accepts an Iron Plate, Copper Plate or Gold Plate. After that come Brass Ingot, Brass Plate, Obsidian Dust and Obsidian Plate.^[3]
• Mekanism: Uranium Ingot and Steel Ingot, then the obsidian line of Refined Obsidian Dust, Refined Obsidian Ingot and Refined Glowstone Ingot.^[4]
• Immersive Engineering asks for Iron Plate, Copper Wire and Steel Ingot.^[5]
• AE2 asks for Silicon.^[6]
• Smaller appearances: Iron Rod in Gearing Up, Silver Ingot in Occultism, Raw Nickel in Oritech, Tin Chunk in Resources & You and Zinc Ingot in The Beginning.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

The quest chapters above are the clearest picture of where the mod fits in this pack. Plain metals like zinc and tin turn up in the opening chapters. The rarer materials, such as platinum, titanium, tungsten and iridium, come later in Modern Industrialization.^[2][10][11]

Unverified No mod description, in-jar guidebook or platform page was available for FTB Materials, so how its items are obtained (recipes, ore generation, config options) and whether this pack changed any of it is unverified here.

FTB Materials supplies shared metals, plates, dusts and wires that show up as quest tasks in many chapters of this pack, including Create, Immersive Engineering, Mekanism and AE2. So getting started is about making a handful of basic materials. Here is a sensible order, following what the quest book asks for.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

Make plates

Start with plates. The Create chapter quest a quest in "?" accepts any one of Iron Plate, Copper Plate or Gold Plate. The pack adds pressing recipes for all of them, and plates feed into later quests like the Modern Industrialization one that asks for copper and iron plates.^[2][3][13]

Iron PlateAdded by the pack

Pressing (create)

• any iron ingot

Recipe id: ftb:create/pressing/plate/iron

Pressing an iron ingot with Create.

Copper PlateAdded by the pack

Pressing (create)

• any copper ingot

Recipe id: ftb:create/pressing/plate/copper

Same idea for copper.

Don't have Create set up yet? The pack also adds plate recipes for the Immersive Engineering metal press and the Actually Additions crusher, so you can use whichever machine you reach first.^[13]

Cut copper wire

Next up is Copper Wire. The Immersive Engineering quest a quest in "?" asks for a wirecutter, an iron plate and copper wire together. In this pack, wire is made from a copper plate, and Create's cutting recipe is one of several ways to do it.^[5][13]

2× Copper WireAdded by the pack

Cutting (create)

• any copper plate

Recipe id: ftb:create/cutting/wire/copper

The metal press and the Modern Industrialization wiremill also turn copper plates into wire.^[13]

Brass

a quest in "?" asks for a Brass Ingot, and the follow-up a quest in "?" asks for a Brass Plate. The Create mixing recipe for brass is changed by the pack, so check this one rather than relying on what you remember from the base mod.^[3][13]

2× Brass IngotChanged by the pack

Mixing (create)

• any copper ingot
• any zinc ingot

Recipe id: create:mixing/brass_ingot

Brass PlateAdded by the pack

Pressing (create)

• any brass ingots

Recipe id: ftb:create/pressing/plate/brass

Pressing brass into a plate.

Bronze

The pack adds an alloy smelter recipe that turns ingots into a Bronze Ingot. The bronze quest a quest in "?" comes after a quest in "?", the one asking for copper rods, iron plates and a copper plate, so that's a good order to follow.^[2][13]

Bronze IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelter (extended_industrialization)

• 3× any copper ingot
• any tin ingot

Recipe id: ftb:bronze_ingot_from_ingots

Coal coke

a quest in "?" wants both Coal Coke Gem and Coal Coke Dust. The pack lets you crush the gem into dust with Mekanism, or smash coke with a hammer on a cutting board. A Block of Coal Coke can also be turned back into gems with a shapeless crafting recipe.^[2][13]

Coal Coke DustAdded by the pack

Crushing (mekanism)

• Coal Coke Gem

Recipe id: ftb:coke_crushing

9× Coal Coke GemAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Block of Coal Coke

Recipe id: ftb:decompress/coal_coke_gem

Steel and rods

Steel Ingot is requested by quests in several chapters, including Immersive Engineering, Mekanism, MFFS and Modern Industrialization. Iron Rod and Copper Rod also appear as quest tasks.^{[2][4][5][7][12]}

Unverified The recipes for steel ingots, iron rods and copper rods are not in the sources available for this guide, so how to craft them is unconfirmed here. Check the in-game recipe viewer for the exact routes. 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 FTB Skies 2 1.1.1 guide

Here's the honest picture for this section: the sources I have for FTB Materials only show crafting recipes. They don't describe any machines, multiblocks, power, fluid handling or automation for this mod, so I'm not going to guess at any of that. What they do show is how the pack wires its materials together through the crafting grid.^[14]

Compressing and decompressing in the crafting grid

The pack adds simple compress and decompress recipes for some materials, all done by hand. You can pack Fluorite Gem into a Block of Fluorite and break the block back down again. Coal Coke Gem and Block of Coal Coke work the same way.^[14]

Block of FluoriteAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × Fluorite Gem

Recipe id: ftb:compress/fluorite_gem

9× Fluorite GemAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Block of Fluorite

Recipe id: ftb:decompress/fluorite_gem

Block of Coal CokeAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × Coal Coke Gem

Recipe id: ftb:compress/coal_coke_gem

9× Coal Coke GemAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Block of Coal Coke

Recipe id: ftb:decompress/coal_coke_gem

The pack also adds recipes that split vanilla items into smaller pieces: Tiny Coal, Tiny Charcoal, Copper Nugget and Netherite Nugget. All of these are shapeless crafting recipes added by the pack.^[14]

Metal conversions use item tags

The aluminum and antimony conversion recipes (ingots, nuggets, blocks, raw blocks, dust and tiny dust) are marked as changed by the pack. They take any item from the matching common tag rather than one specific item. So an ingot, nugget or dust from another mod that carries the same tag can be used in these recipes.^[14]

Aluminum IngotChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × any aluminum nugget

Recipe id: ftbmaterials:aluminum_ingot

Nuggets to ingot: any item in the aluminum nugget tag works.

Block of AluminumChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: ftbmaterials:aluminum_block

Antimony IngotChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

9 × any antimony nugget

Recipe id: ftbmaterials:antimony_ingot

The recipe for Aluminum Cluster from Aluminum Chunk is the one listed here that is not marked as changed by the pack, so it's the mod's own recipe.^[14]

Aluminum ClusterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Aluminum Chunk

Recipe id: ftbmaterials:aluminum_cluster

Steel plates and silicon

Steel Plate is made in the crafting grid with a recipe added by the pack, so no machine is needed for it. Check the recipe below for what it takes.^[14]

Steel PlateAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Steel Ingot
• Engineer's Hammer

Recipe id: ftb:steel_plate_hammer

Silicon has two routes in this pack. One is a pack-added recipe that uses Mystical Agriculture's silicon essence. The other is a pack-changed Extended AE recipe that turns a Block of Silicon back into silicon.^[14]

8× SiliconAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
Silicon Essence	Silicon Essence	Silicon Essence
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: ftb:silicon

9× SiliconChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Block of Silicon

Recipe id: extendedae:silicon_decompress

Raw ores from Mystical Agriculture essences

The pack adds shaped crafting recipes that turn Mystical Agriculture essences into this mod's raw ores: Raw Lead, Raw Nickel, Raw Platinum, Raw Silver and Raw Uranium. Here is the silver one as an example.^[14]

4× Raw SilverAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

8 × Silver Essence

Recipe id: ftb:mysticalagriculture/essence/common/silver_ingot

Unverified Whether FTB Materials adds any machines, multiblocks, power or fluid systems, or any automation behavior, could not be confirmed. The sources provided contain no guidebook, tooltips or configs for this mod, and the recipe excerpt I could see only covers crafting recipes.

Here's the honest picture first: the pack's quests for this mod are untitled, and nothing in the sources gives named tiers. So I'm grouping things by what the quests ask for and by how each quest chains to the next. Treat it as a rough path, not an official tier list.^[2][3]

Early game: zinc, tin and plates

Your first materials quests ask for a Zinc Ingot (a quest in "?") and a Tin Chunk (a quest in "?"). Next comes the Create chapter's plate quest (a quest in "?"), which accepts an Iron Plate, Copper Plate or Gold Plate.^[3][10][11]

The pack added several ways to make these plates. Create pressing, the Immersive Engineering metal press and Actually Additions crushing all turn ingots into plates. Copper plates can then become Copper Wire by Create cutting, the metal press or the Modern Industrialization wiremill.^[13]

For zinc, the pack added Immersive Engineering arc furnace recipes that turn zinc ore or raw zinc into an ingot.^[13]

Zinc IngotAdded by the pack

Arc Furnace (immersiveengineering)

• any zinc raw material

Recipe id: ftb:immersive/arc/raw_ore/zinc

Brass and obsidian

Once you have zinc, the Create chapter sends you to Brass Ingot (a quest in "?") and then Brass Plate (a quest in "?"). The pack changed the Create mixing recipe for brass.^[3][13]

2× Brass IngotChanged by the pack

Mixing (create)

• any copper ingot
• any zinc ingot

Recipe id: create:mixing/brass_ingot

The obsidian branch starts with Obsidian Dust and a Create crushing wheel (a quest in "?"), then moves on to the Obsidian Plate (a quest in "?"). In the pack, the plate comes out of Create's sturdy sheet sequenced assembly recipe, which the pack changed.^[3][13]

Obsidian PlateChanged by the pack

Sequenced Assembly (create)

• 4× Unprocessed Obsidian Sheet
• 500× Lava
• any obsidian dust

Recipe id: create:sequenced_assembly/sturdy_sheet

Modern Industrialization: bronze, steel and coke

The Modern Industrialization chapter wants a batch of parts first: Copper Rod, Iron Plate, Copper Plate and some of that mod's own copper parts (a quest in "?"). Bronze Ingot follows (a quest in "?"). A separate quest asks for a Steel Ingot and a steel machine casing (a quest in "?").^[2]

In the pack, the alloy smelter makes bronze from copper and tin, either as ingots or as dusts.^[13]

Bronze IngotAdded by the pack

Alloy Smelter (extended_industrialization)

• 3× any copper ingot
• any tin ingot

Recipe id: ftb:bronze_ingot_from_ingots

Steel shows up all over the pack's quest book: the Modern Industrialization, Mekanism, Immersive Engineering and MFFS chapters all ask for a Steel Ingot. Coal coke has its own quest for Coal Coke Gem and Coal Coke Dust (a quest in "?"). Several machines turn the gem and the Block of Coal Coke into dust.^{[2][4][5][12][13]}

Mid game: aluminum, ruby and stainless steel

After that the Modern Industrialization chapter asks for Aluminum Ingot (a quest in "?") and Ruby Dust (a quest in "?"). The pack lets you make ruby dust from Ruby Gem in the Modern Industrialization macerator or the Oritech pulverizer.^[2][13]

Stainless steel is a longer chain. Chromium Dust (a quest in "?") has two prerequisites. Stainless Steel Dust (a quest in "?") needs chromium dust plus one more quest. Both dusts are made in the pack by macerating the matching plates.^[2][13]

Later metals

Three quests unlock together after the same earlier quest: Tungsten Ingot (a quest in "?"), Raw Platinum (a quest in "?") and Titanium Ingot (a quest in "?"). Platinum Ingot (a quest in "?") and Raw Iridium (a quest in "?") come after other quests.^[2]

In the pack, tungsten comes from smelting or blasting a tungsten geore shard.^[13]

Tungsten IngotAdded by the pack

Smelting

• Tungsten GeOre Shard

Recipe id: ftb:geoore/smelting/tungsten

Raw platinum, raw iridium and raw nickel can all come from crushing their ores, and the pack added recipes for this in many machines, such as the Immersive Engineering crusher and the Modern Industrialization macerator. Platinum ingots come from the Immersive Engineering arc furnace.^[13]

Other chapters that ask for these materials

• Mekanism asks for Uranium Ingot (a quest in "?"). It then moves on to Refined Obsidian Dust (a quest in "?"), followed by Refined Obsidian Ingot and Refined Glowstone Ingot (a quest in "?").^[4]
• AE2 asks for Silicon (a quest in "?"). The pack changed several recipes that produce it, including smelting and blasting certus quartz dust.^[6][13]
• Occultism asks for Silver Ingot (a quest in "?"). The pack changed the Ars Ocultas imbuement recipe that makes it from a gold ingot.^[8][13]
• Oritech asks for Raw Nickel (a quest in "?").^[9]
• Gearing Up asks for an Iron Rod (a quest in "?"). Immersive Engineering asks for a wirecutter, an iron plate and copper wire (a quest in "?").^[5][7]

Unverified The sources don't show how titanium ingots or steel ingots are made in the pack, so check the in-game recipe viewer for those two. This site does hold FTB Skies 2's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

FTB Materials supplies the metals, dusts and plates that a lot of other mods in the pack ask for. Below is where its items show up in recipes and quests alongside other mods.^[2][3][13]

Create

The pack changed several Create recipes so they return FTB Materials items. Crushing Asurine gives you Crushed Raw Zinc plus a Zinc Nugget. Crushing Veridium gives Crushed Raw Copper plus a Copper Nugget. The recycling versions that take any stone of those types give the same results.^[13]

Splashing crushed ore with a Create fan also hands you nuggets. Crushed raw copper and crushed raw zinc each give their nugget, and Crushed Raw Uranium gives a Uranium Nugget. Create can also crush Immersive Engineering Coal Coke or a Block of Coal Coke block into Coal Coke Dust.^[13]

The sturdy sheet sequenced assembly was changed too. It now produces an Obsidian Plate along the way.^[13]

Obsidian PlateChanged by the pack

Sequenced Assembly (create)

• 4× Unprocessed Obsidian Sheet
• 500× Lava
• any obsidian dust

Recipe id: create:sequenced_assembly/sturdy_sheet

The Create quest chapter checks for several FTB Materials items:^[3]

• a quest in "?" accepts an iron, copper or gold plate (Iron Plate, Copper Plate or Gold Plate).^[3]
• a quest in "?" asks for a Brass Ingot, and a quest in "?" follows with a Brass Plate.^[3]
• a quest in "?" pairs Obsidian Dust with the Create crushing wheel, and a quest in "?" asks for the obsidian plate.^[3]

Mekanism

The pack adds Mekanism-style ore processing for FTB Materials metals, including aluminum, antimony, copper, gold, iridium, iron and lead. Purifying with Liquid Oxygen makes a clump, such as Aluminum Clump. Injecting with Liquid Hydrogen Chloride makes a shard, such as Aluminum Shard. Crystallizing makes a crystal, such as Aluminum Crystal. Ores, raw materials, raw storage blocks and crystals all work as inputs.^[13]

In the Mekanism quest chapter, a quest in "?" includes a Uranium Ingot and a quest in "?" includes a Steel Ingot. a quest in "?" and a quest in "?" cover obsidian dust, refined obsidian dust, the refined obsidian ingot and the refined glowstone ingot.^[4]

The pack also adds a stonecutting conversion between Mekanism's Fluorite Ore and the FTB Materials Fluorite Ore. The exact recipe is shown below.^[13]

Fluorite OreAdded by the pack

Stonecutting

• Fluorite Ore

Recipe id: ftb:fluorite_ore_conversion

Applied Energistics 2 and ExtendedAE

Quartz Blend turns into Silicon in a furnace, a blast furnace or a Mekanism enriching chamber. Decompressing a Block of Silicon also gives you silicon. The AE2 chapter's a quest in "?" asks for the silicon and Printed Silicon.^[6][13]

The pack adds AE2 transform recipes that produce FTB Materials items. This one makes the Block of Aluminum:^[13]

Block of AluminumAdded by the pack

Transform (ae2)

• 2× Cognitive Flux
• Iron Block
• any molten ender

Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/aluminum_block

Other transform recipes use Quartz Dust to make the Xychorium gems, for example Blue Xychorium Gem. One more makes Budding Osmium GeOre using Obsidian Dust and a Block of Silver.^[13]

Geore and Modern Industrialization

The pack added smelting and blasting recipes for Geore shards: Monazite GeOre Shard, Sapphire GeOre Shard and Tungsten GeOre Shard each lead to an FTB Materials item (Monazite Dust, Sapphire Gem and Tungsten Ingot). The tungsten smelting recipe is shown first. After it comes the pack's Modern Industrialization mixer recipe for Budding Monazite GeOre, which is where Diamond Dust and Helium come in.^[13]

Tungsten IngotAdded by the pack

Smelting

• Tungsten GeOre Shard

Recipe id: ftb:geoore/smelting/tungsten

Budding Monazite GeOreAdded by the pack

Mixer (modern_industrialization)

• Void Crystal Catalyst
• Diamond Dust
• 1000× Helium

Recipe id: ftb:budding_monazite_from_dusts

Extended Industrialization macerates a Silver Curved Plate into Silver Dust. The Modern Industrialization quest chapter asks for FTB Materials items in many places:^[2][13]

• a quest in "?" combines rods and plates from FTB Materials with Modern Industrialization copper parts.^[2]
• a quest in "?" pairs the steel ingot with a steel machine casing, and a quest in "?" asks for a Bronze Ingot.^[2]
• a quest in "?" asks for Coal Coke Gem and coal coke dust.^[2]
• a quest in "?" asks for an Aluminum Ingot, and a quest in "?" asks for Ruby Dust.^[2]
• a quest in "?" asks for Chromium Dust, and a quest in "?" asks for Stainless Steel Dust.^[2]
• a quest in "?", a quest in "?", a quest in "?", a quest in "?" and a quest in "?" ask for the tungsten ingot, Raw Platinum, Titanium Ingot, Platinum Ingot and Raw Iridium.^[2]

Magic mods

Silver IngotChanged by the pack

Imbuement (ars_nouveau)

• Manipulation Essence
• Demon's Dream Essence
• Spirit Attuned Gem
• any gold ingot

Recipe id: ars_ocultas:silver_transmute

The pack changed this Ars Nouveau imbuement recipe.

Silver comes from magic here: the recipe above is a pack-changed Ars Nouveau imbuement that makes a Silver Ingot and involves Manipulation Essence, Occultism's Demon's Dream Essence and the Spirit Attuned Gem. The pack also added a Malum favor of the void recipe linking a Block of Silver and an Iesnium Ingot, shown below. The Occultism chapter's a quest in "?" lists silver ingots too.^[8][13]

Iesnium IngotAdded by the pack

Favor Of The Void (malum)

• Block of Silver

Recipe id: ftb:malum/favor_of_the_void/iesnium_ingot

Other connections

The Explorer's Compass has a recipe added by the pack that uses FTB Materials parts:^[13]

Explorer's CompassAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Amethyst Shard	Netherite Nugget	Amethyst Shard
Netherite Nugget	Diamond Gear	Netherite Nugget
Amethyst Shard	Netherite Nugget	Amethyst Shard

Recipe id: ftb:explorerscompass

• Immersive Engineering: a quest in "?" has a wirecutter, an iron plate and Copper Wire, and a quest in "?" asks for steel.^[5]
• Gearing Up: a quest in "?" asks for an Iron Rod.^[7]
• MFFS: a quest in "?" pairs steel with the focus matrix.^[12]
• Oritech: a quest in "?" asks for Raw Nickel.^[9]
• Resources: a quest in "?" asks for a Tin Chunk.^[10]
• The Beginning: a quest in "?" asks for a Zinc Ingot.^[11]

FTB Materials supplies many of the plates, ingots, dusts and raw ores that quests in this pack ask you to hand in. The quests are untitled in the pack files, so this section refers to them by ID and by what they ask for. The Modern Industrialization chapter has the largest group, and the rest are spread across other chapters.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Modern Industrialization chapter

Each quest here lists the quests that must come before it, but many of those prerequisites are not FTB Materials quests and are not covered by these sources. The chains below are the ones the sources confirm.^[2]

1. a quest in "?" asks for 2 Copper Rod, 2 Iron Plate and a Copper Plate. It also asks for a copper bolt and 2 copper curved plates from Modern Industrialization.^[2]
2. a quest in "?" comes right after it and asks for a Bronze Ingot.^[2]

a quest in "?" unlocks from the same prerequisite quest as the first quest above. It asks for a Steel Ingot and a steel machine casing.^[2]

• a quest in "?" asks for both a Coal Coke Gem and Coal Coke Dust.^[2]
• a quest in "?" asks for an Aluminum Ingot.^[2]
• a quest in "?" asks for Ruby Dust.^[2]
• a quest in "?" asks for Chromium Dust. After it, a quest in "?" asks for Stainless Steel Dust. That second quest also needs another quest completed first.^[2]

Three quests share one prerequisite quest, so you can do them in any order once it is done: a quest in "?" asks for a Tungsten Ingot, a quest in "?" asks for Raw Platinum, and a quest in "?" asks for a Titanium Ingot. Two more metal quests have their own prerequisites: a quest in "?" asks for a Platinum Ingot, and a quest in "?" asks for Raw Iridium.^[2]

Create chapter

1. a quest in "?" accepts any one of an Iron Plate, Copper Plate or Gold Plate.^[3]
2. a quest in "?" follows and asks for a Brass Ingot.^[3]
3. a quest in "?" follows that and asks for a Brass Plate.^[3]

There is a second chain in this chapter. a quest in "?" asks for Obsidian Dust and a Create crushing wheel. a quest in "?" comes after it and asks for an Obsidian Plate.^[3]

Mekanism chapter

a quest in "?" asks for sulfur dust, a fluorite gem and a Uranium Ingot. a quest in "?" asks for enriched iron and a Steel Ingot.^[4]

The refined obsidian line has two steps. a quest in "?" asks for Obsidian Dust, Refined Obsidian Dust and enriched refined obsidian. After it, a quest in "?" asks for an osmium compressor, a Refined Obsidian Ingot and a Refined Glowstone Ingot.^[4]

Other chapters

• Immersive Engineering: a quest in "?" asks for a wirecutter, an Iron Plate and a Copper Wire. a quest in "?" asks for a Steel Ingot.^[5]
• AE2: a quest in "?" asks for Silicon and printed silicon.^[6]
• Gearing Up: a quest in "?" asks for an Iron Rod.^[7]
• MFFS: a quest in "?" asks for a Steel Ingot and a focus matrix. The sources list no prerequisite for it.^[12]
• Occultism: a quest in "?" has an observation task. It also asks for copper, iron and gold ingots, a Silver Ingot and a bound foliot book of binding.^[8]
• Oritech: a quest in "?" asks for Raw Nickel. The sources list no prerequisite for it.^[9]
• Resources (You): a quest in "?" asks for a Tin Chunk and needs two other quests done first.^[10]
• The Beginning: a quest in "?" asks for a Zinc Ingot.^[11]