GeOre guide for FTB Skies 2 1.11.0 to 1.12.0
GeOre guide for FTB Skies 2
Last verified for FTB Skies 2 v1.12.0 on Oct 15, 2026 · text last changed Oct 13, 2026
A newer release (1.24.0) is out Guide for the current version
Also applies to:FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.0.3 to 1.10.0
- Sections
- 7
- Recipes shown
- 17
- Items named
- 70
- Quests covered
- 29
3 sections are written for this pack; 4 are shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against FTB Skies 2 1.12.0's own files.
What is GeOre?
1 part
Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide
GeOre is a resource mod, and this pack ships version 6.2.3 of it. Every resource it covers comes as a pair of items: a budding block and a shard, such as Budding Iron GeOre and Iron GeOre Shard. If you want to produce ores without relying only on mining, this is a mod to learn early.[1][2][3]
Where it shows up in the quests
The pack's quest book treats GeOre as part of its resource progression. The "resources_and_you" chapter has a quest for the budding block of many materials. These include Budding Copper GeOre, Budding Gold GeOre, Budding Lapis GeOre, Budding Redstone GeOre, Budding Osmium GeOre, Budding Uranium GeOre and Budding Platinum GeOre. Many of those quests, for example a quest in "?" for copper, also include an observation task.[2]
Some budding blocks are gated behind other quests. The diamond one, a quest in "?", comes after a quest in the "the_beginning" chapter that also asks for Budding Diamond GeOre alongside diamond, a diamond mesh and diamond seeds. Emerald, ancient debris, quartz, black quartz and zinc also unlock only after earlier quests.[2][4]
The "resource_generation" chapter moves on to shards, and its quests are grouped by material. a quest in "?" accepts shards of the common materials such as iron, gold, copper, coal, redstone, lapis, nickel, tin and lead. a quest in "?" covers black quartz, tungsten and monazite. a quest in "?" covers diamond, emerald, quartz, ancient debris, uranium, silver, aluminum, osmium, zinc and platinum, and it also needs the matching budding block.[3]
Unverified The pack files do not show how budding blocks produce shards, how fast they grow, or whether the pack changed any GeOre config values or recipes, so check those in-game before you plan a build around them. This site does hold FTB Skies 2's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.
How do you get started with GeOre?
3 parts
GeOre is all about shards and budding blocks, and in this pack you start with the shards. Each metal or gem has its own GeOre shard, and the pack gives you two ways to get them: a shapeless crafting recipe that turns a GeOre block back into a shard, and an extractor recipe from the XyCraft machines that has no item inputs. Here's the order I'd tackle things in.[5]
Step 1: Get some basic shards
Start with the common stuff. The quest that follows the first resource-generation quest asks for shards of iron, gold, copper, coal, redstone, lapis, nickel, tin and lead. These make a good first target because the later quests build on them.[6]
Here's the block-to-shard recipe, using iron as the example. Every other shard follows the same pattern, from its own GeOre block.[5]
The extractor route is the same for every shard. This is the iron one.[5]
Extractor (xycraft_machines)
Recipe id: ftb:xycraft_machines/extractor/geore_shards/iron
Step 2: Craft a spyglass
Each shard type has a matching spyglass, for example Iron GeOre Spyglass and Copper GeOre Spyglass. The pack changed these recipes, so don't rely on what you remember from the mod's defaults. Always check the recipe below.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | any copper ingot | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | any copper ingot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: geore:iron_spyglass
The mod has a setting for the intensity of the spyglass colour overlay. I can't confirm what value this pack uses for it.[7]
Step 3: Move on to budding GeOre
The resources quest chapter has a quest for nearly every budding GeOre block, such as Budding Iron GeOre, Budding Copper GeOre and Budding Coal GeOre. Many of these quests also include an observation task.[8]
The pack adds casting recipes for the rarer budding blocks. Here is Budding Diamond, which is also one of the tasks in the early beginning-chapter quest about diamonds.[5][9]
Block Casting (productivemetalworks)
Void Crystal Catalyst
- 900× any molten diamond
Recipe id: ftb:productive_metalworks/budding_diamond_casting
The same casting approach covers emerald, quartz, aluminum, osmium, platinum, silver, uranium and zinc. Ancient debris has its own casting recipe too. A later quest asks for shards and budding blocks of diamond, emerald, quartz, ancient debris, uranium, silver, aluminum, osmium, zinc and platinum. Another covers black quartz, tungsten and monazite.[5][6]
Mixer (modern_industrialization)
Recipe id: ftb:budding_monazite_from_dusts
Unverified Whether GeOre generates naturally in this pack's world is unconfirmed. The mod's own config defaults aren't necessarily the pack's values, and I have no source for the pack's settings. Also unconfirmed is exactly what the spyglass shows you in play.
How does GeOre work?
4 parts
Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide
The sources for GeOre cover world generation toggles, spyglasses, budding blocks and a few settings, so that's what this section walks through.[7][10]
World generation in this pack
This is the big one. In this pack, every vanilla-material GeOre generation option is switched off. That includes General.generateCoalGeore, General.generateIronGeore, General.generateDiamondGeore and the rest of the General group. The mod's own defaults for these are true, so the pack changed them.[7][10]
The same goes for General.generateQuartzInNetherGeore and General.generateBuddingAncientDebris. Both default to true in the mod and are false here.[7][10]
The modded options, like ModdedGeneration.generateAluminumGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateOsmiumGeore and ModdedGeneration.generateZincGeore, are also all false. That matches the mod default. The same applies to the Allthemodium, Unobtainium and Vibranium toggles.[7][10]
Spyglasses
Each GeOre type has its own spyglass, for example Copper GeOre Spyglass and Diamond GeOre Spyglass. The pack has changed the crafting recipes for the spyglasses listed in the recipe dump. Here's the in-pack recipe for the copper one.[11]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | any copper ingot | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | any copper ingot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: geore:copper_spyglass
The other spyglasses in the recipe dump follow the same pattern with their own shard.
The spyglasses use a color overlay, and you can tune its strength with the client option Client.spyglassIntensity. It's set to 0.5 in this pack, which is the mod default, meaning 50%. The allowed range is 0.01 to 1.0.[7][12]
Budding GeOres
The pack adds its own recipes for two budding blocks. Budding Osmium GeOre is made through an Applied Energistics 2 transform recipe.[11]
Transform (ae2)
Primordial Assembly
4× Obsidian Dust
Block of Silver
- any molten ender
Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/budding_osmium
Budding Monazite GeOre is made in a Modern Industrialization mixer.[11]
Mixer (modern_industrialization)
Recipe id: ftb:budding_monazite_from_dusts
Budding GeOre has one special setting, General.disablePistonPushForBuddingGeOre. By default, pushing the block with a piston breaks it, which is the vanilla behavior. Turning this option on overrides that. The pack leaves it at false, so pistons still break budding GeOre here.[7][10]
Compressing shards
The pack adds recipes that turn shards into storage blocks, such as Block Of Aluminum GeOre and Block Of Ancient Debris GeOre.[11]
Unverified The sources here don't explain how budding GeOres grow or how shards are harvested, and no in-jar guidebook or reusable documentation was available for the mod, so those details aren't covered. They also don't describe any machine, power, fluid or automation features for GeOre.
How do you progress through GeOre?
4 parts
GeOre progression in this pack runs through two quest chapters. The resource_generation chapter asks for shards, and the resources_and_you chapter asks for the budding blocks that produce them. The shard quests split the ores into three groups, so that's how I'll break things down.[6][8]
Group 1: the basic metals and dusts
In a quest in "?" you hand in one of these: Iron GeOre Shard, Gold GeOre Shard, Copper GeOre Shard, Coal GeOre Shard, Redstone GeOre Shard, Lapis GeOre Shard, Nickel GeOre Shard, Tin GeOre Shard or Lead GeOre Shard. It is the only one of the three shard quests that doesn't also ask for a budding block.[6]
The budding quests for iron, gold, copper, coal, redstone, lapis, nickel, tin and lead each pair the budding block with an observation task. The same goes for ruby, sapphire and topaz. Here are the first few: a quest in "?" for Budding Iron GeOre, a quest in "?" for Budding Gold GeOre and a quest in "?" for Budding Copper GeOre.[8]
Group 2: black quartz, tungsten and monazite
The next shard quest, a quest in "?", asks for a shard from Black Quartz GeOre Shard, Tungsten GeOre Shard or Monazite GeOre Shard. It also asks for a matching budding block: Budding Black Quartz GeOre, Budding Tungsten GeOre or Budding Monazite GeOre.[6]
This pack adds its own route to Budding Monazite GeOre. It's made in a Modern Industrialization mixer rather than a crafting grid.[5]
Mixer (modern_industrialization)
Recipe id: ftb:budding_monazite_from_dusts
This recipe is added by the pack and runs in a Modern Industrialization mixer.
Group 3: gems and the rarer metals
The last shard quest, a quest in "?", covers diamond, emerald, quartz, ancient debris, uranium, silver, aluminum, osmium, zinc and platinum. It needs one of those shards and one of the matching budding blocks. It has two prerequisite quests, and one of them is shared with the other two shard quests.[6]
Every one of these budding blocks has a casting recipe added by the pack, made with Productive Metalworks. Here is Budding Diamond GeOre:[5]
Block Casting (productivemetalworks)
- 900× any molten diamond
Recipe id: ftb:productive_metalworks/budding_diamond_casting
The diamond quest a quest in "?" comes after a quest from the early game. That earlier quest, a quest in "?", lists Budding Diamond GeOre among several items it asks for.[8][9]
Budding Ancient Debris GeOre has its own casting recipe, and its quest a quest in "?" also has a prerequisite.[5][8]
Block Casting (productivemetalworks)
Budding Diamond GeOre
- 810× any molten netherite
Recipe id: ftb:productive_metalworks/budding_ancient_debris_casting
Budding Osmium GeOre has two pack-added routes, a casting recipe and an AE2 transform. The quest for it is a quest in "?".[5][8]
Block Casting (productivemetalworks)
- 810× any molten osmium
Recipe id: ftb:productive_metalworks/budding_osmium_casting
Transform (ae2)
- any molten ender
Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/budding_osmium
Emerald, quartz, silver, uranium, aluminum, zinc and platinum also have casting recipes added by the pack. The matching quests include a quest in "?" for Budding Emerald GeOre and a quest in "?" for Budding Zinc GeOre.[5][8]
Other ways to get shards
Shards can also come from machines. The pack adds an XyCraft Machines extractor recipe for each of the shard types in the three groups above, and none of them needs an item input.[5]
You can also pack shards into a block and break the block back down. Here are the pack's block and shard recipes for diamond:[5]
This block recipe is added by the pack.
Shapeless (kubejs)
Recipe id: ftb:geore/shapeless/diamond_shard
This shapeless recipe turns the block back into a shard and is added by the pack.
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | any copper ingot | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | any copper ingot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: geore:diamond_spyglass
This spyglass recipe is changed by the pack.
How does GeOre work with other mods?
4 parts
In this pack, GeOre connects to other mods through recipes the pack adds, plus a few quests. GeOre shards turn into items from other mods, and several of the budding blocks that grow those shards are made with other mods' machines.[5]
Shards that become other mods' items
The pack adds both a smelting recipe and a blasting recipe for each of these shards, so a furnace or a blast furnace works. The results come from several different mods:[5]
- Black Quartz GeOre Shard gives Black Quartz.[5]
- Coal GeOre Shard gives Tiny Coal.[5]
- Monazite GeOre Shard gives Monazite Dust.[5]
- Ruby GeOre Shard gives Ruby Gem, and Sapphire GeOre Shard gives Sapphire Gem.[5]
- Topaz GeOre Shard gives Topaz.[5]
- Tungsten GeOre Shard gives Tiny Tungsten Dust.[5]
- Uraninite GeOre Shard gives Uraninite.[5]
This is the blasting version. A matching smelting recipe gives the same result.
Coal shards have a second use. A Modern Industrialization advanced coke oven turns a Coal GeOre Shard into Coal Coke Gem and Creosote Oil.[5]
Advanced Coke Oven (modern_industrialization)
Recipe id: modern_industrialization:kjs/7s49ls4iq93zddvfxzpkjce61
The advanced coke oven recipe for coal shards.
Making budding blocks with other mods
Several budding blocks are made with Productive Metalworks block casting, using a Void Crystal Catalyst and the matching molten material. The pack adds this for the aluminum, diamond, emerald, osmium, platinum, quartz, silver, uranium and zinc budding blocks. Here is Budding Aluminum GeOre as an example:[5]
Block Casting (productivemetalworks)
- 810× any molten aluminum
Recipe id: ftb:productive_metalworks/budding_aluminum_casting
The other casting recipes follow the same pattern with a different molten material.
Two budding blocks have extra routes. Budding Monazite GeOre is made in a Modern Industrialization mixer, and Budding Osmium GeOre also has an Applied Energistics 2 transform recipe on top of its casting recipe.[5]
Mixer (modern_industrialization)
Recipe id: ftb:budding_monazite_from_dusts
The mixer recipe for Budding Monazite GeOre.
Transform (ae2)
- any molten ender
Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/budding_osmium
The Applied Energistics 2 transform recipe for Budding Osmium GeOre.
Storage
The pack adds Functional Storage custom compacting recipes that pair a GeOre shard with the matching raw block. They cover aluminum, lead, nickel, osmium, platinum, silver, tin, uranium and zinc, for example Tin GeOre Shard with Block of Raw Tin.[5]
Quests
Most GeOre quests only ask for GeOre items. The one that mixes mods is a quest in "?" in the_beginning chapter. It asks for Budding Diamond GeOre alongside Diamond, Mechanical Diamond Mesh and Diamond Seeds.[9]
The resources_and_you chapter has quests that ask you to obtain a budding block, such as a quest in "?" for Budding Platinum GeOre. In the resource_generation chapter, quests such as a quest in "?" ask for shards instead.[6][8]
Which FTB Skies 2 quests use GeOre?
3 parts
Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide
GeOre shows up in three quest chapters in this pack: resources_and_you, resource_generation and the_beginning. The quests are all untitled, so you'll find them by their IDs. Most of them just ask you to get a budding GeOre block or a shard, so they work as a checklist for the ores you can grow.[2][3][4]
the_beginning
The earliest GeOre-related quest is a quest in "?". It has several tasks: a Minecraft diamond, a Budding Diamond GeOre, an Mechanical Diamond Mesh and Diamond Seeds. It also acts as the gate for the diamond quest in resources_and_you.[2][4]
resources_and_you
This chapter is the big budding GeOre checklist. Each quest asks for one budding block. Many of them also have an extra observation task alongside the item task.[2]
These quests have no prerequisite listed in this chapter, so you can do them in any order. Each one asks for a single budding block:[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Copper GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Iron GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Gold GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Coal GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Redstone GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Lapis GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Nickel GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Tin GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Lead GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Ruby GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Topaz GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Sapphire GeOre, plus an observation.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Platinum GeOre.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Uranium GeOre.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Osmium GeOre.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Silver GeOre.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Monazite GeOre.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Tungsten GeOre.[2]
- a quest in "?" asks for Budding Aluminum GeOre.[2]
A few quests in the chapter unlock only after another quest is done. The diamond quest a quest in "?" (asks for Budding Diamond GeOre) comes after the the_beginning quest above. Four more are also gated: a quest in "?" for Budding Emerald GeOre, a quest in "?" for Budding Ancient Debris GeOre, a quest in "?" for Budding Zinc GeOre, and a quest in "?" for Budding Quartz GeOre. The quartz quest shares its prerequisite with a quest in "?", which asks for Budding Black Quartz GeOre. The sources I have don't show which quests those prerequisites are or which chapters they sit in, so I can't say more about them.[2][4]
resource_generation
This chapter moves on from budding blocks to the shards they grow. All three quests come after the same earlier quest, 34C57701B6B07948, which the sources don't describe. Each one lists several GeOre items, and you can pick from the list.[3]
- a quest in "?" is the basic-ore quest. It asks for a shard from this list: Iron GeOre Shard, Gold GeOre Shard, Copper GeOre Shard, Coal GeOre Shard, Redstone GeOre Shard, Lapis GeOre Shard, Nickel GeOre Shard, Tin GeOre Shard or Lead GeOre Shard.[3]
- a quest in "?" covers the rarer trio. It has two tasks: a shard (Black Quartz GeOre Shard, Tungsten GeOre Shard or Monazite GeOre Shard) and a matching budding block (Budding Black Quartz GeOre, Budding Tungsten GeOre or Budding Monazite GeOre).[3]
- a quest in "?" covers the advanced ores and needs two earlier quests, 34C57701B6B07948 and 1B8BB733ADF897FE. One task takes a shard: Diamond GeOre Shard, Emerald GeOre Shard, Quartz GeOre Shard, Ancient Debris GeOre Shard, Uranium GeOre Shard, Silver GeOre Shard, Aluminum GeOre Shard, Osmium GeOre Shard, Zinc GeOre Shard or Platinum GeOre Shard. The other task takes the matching budding block, such as Budding Diamond GeOre or Budding Platinum GeOre.[3]
Which GeOre config options matter?
3 parts
Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide
GeOre has two config files in this pack, and the most important thing to know is that the pack switched off a lot of the mod's default ore generation. If you're wondering why you aren't stumbling across GeOres, start here.[10][12]
Values the pack changed from the mod default
In config/geore-common.toml, every option in the General section that controls generation is set to false, even though the mod default for each one is true. Here are the ones the pack turned off:[10]
- General.generateCoalGeore, General.generateCopperGeore, General.generateIronGeore and General.generateGoldGeore are all false in this pack (default true).[10]
- General.generateDiamondGeore, General.generateEmeraldGeore, General.generateLapisGeore and General.generateRedstoneGeore are all false in this pack (default true).[10]
- General.generateQuartzGeore and General.generateQuartzInNetherGeore are both false, so Quartz GeOre is off in both cases (default true for each).[10]
- General.generateBuddingAncientDebris is false in this pack (default true).[10]
Modded ore GeOres
The ModdedGeneration section covers GeOres for ores added by other mods, and every option there is false by default. The pack keeps them all at false, so this is not a pack change. It covers ModdedGeneration.generateAllthemodiumGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateVibraniumGeore, ModdedGeneration.generateUnobtainiumGeore, and also options for tin, lead, silver, nickel, zinc, aluminum, osmium, uranium and more, such as ModdedGeneration.generateTinGeore and ModdedGeneration.generateOsmiumGeore.[10]
Left at the mod default
- General.disablePistonPushForBuddingGeOre is false, the same as the mod default. When enabled, it overrides the vanilla behavior of breaking the block when it's pushed by a piston, so in this pack that override is not active.[10]
- Client.spyglassIntensity is 0.5, which is the mod default. It sets the intensity of the spyglass color overlay (0.5 means 50%), and the allowed range is 0.01 to 1.0. It's a client setting, so you can tweak it to taste.[12]
Sources
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 mod list · pack file
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 quests: "resources_and_you" · pack file
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 quests: "resource_generation" · pack file
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 quests: "the_beginning" · pack file
- FTB Skies 2 1.12.0 recipe dump: recipes making GeOre items · pack recipe dump
- FTB Skies 2 1.12.0 quests: "resource_generation" · pack file
- geore tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- FTB Skies 2 1.12.0 quests: "resources_and_you" · pack file
- FTB Skies 2 1.12.0 quests: "the_beginning" · pack file
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 config: config/geore-common.toml · pack file
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 recipe dump: recipes making GeOre items · pack recipe dump
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 config: config/geore-client.toml · pack file
Where this guide comes from
Written from what FTB Skies 2 itself ships: its files and recipes, the in-game guidebooks and the mods' own pages. Every statement links to the source it came from, and the numbers are checked against the pack before publishing.
Guide last verified Oct 15, 2026.
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