Just Another Grass Seed guide for FTB Skies 2 1.13.3

Just Another Grass Seed adds a single item you'll care about in this pack: Grass Seed. The pack ships version 21.1.5 of the mod, built for NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1. It has been in the pack since 1.0.1 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the modpack.^[1]

Where it fits in progression

You meet the mod very early. In the quest chapter "the_beginning", quest a quest in "?" has you obtain Grass Seed. It unlocks after quest a quest in "?", so it's one of your first steps in the pack.^[2]

Unverified The sources don't say how you get Grass Seed in this pack, what it does when used, or whether the pack changed any recipes or configs for it. Check the quest in-game before relying on any of that.

Just Another Grass Seed is a small mod, and in this pack the starting path is short. It revolves around getting a Grass Seed and then making Fake Grass Block. Here's the order I'd go in.^[2][3]

Step 1: Sift for Grass Seed

The pack adds a sifting recipe for Grass Seed. You sift Dirt using a Mechanical Cloth Mesh. Grass Seed is only one of many possible results of that recipe, alongside crop seeds, saplings and a few other plants. The sources don't list drop chances, so I can't tell you how much dirt to expect to sift.^[3]

Pumpkin Seeds, Wheat Seeds, Melon Seeds, Beetroot Seeds, Cocoa Beans, Bamboo, Sugar Cane, Sweet Berries +6 moreAdded by the pack

Sifting (createsifter)

• Mechanical Cloth Mesh
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:sifting/minecraft_dirt_with_cloth_mesh

This sifting recipe is added by the pack.

Step 2: Check the quest book

Once you have a Grass Seed, open your quest book. The quest a quest in "?" in the chapter "the_beginning" has a single task: obtain a Grass Seed. It comes after another quest in that same chapter.^[2]

Unverified What Grass Seed does when you use it is not covered by the sources I have, so check it in-game before you plan around it.

Step 3: Craft a Fake Grass Block

The pack gives you two ways to craft Fake Grass Block. Both are shapeless recipes added by the pack. The first one starts from a regular grass block.^[3]

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Grass Block

Recipe id: ftb:fake_grass

The second one uses Super Glue instead.^[3]

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Moss Carpet
• Super Glue
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:fake_grass_1

Step 4: Pick a biome look in the stonecutter

The base Fake Grass Block can be cut in a stonecutter into biome-themed variants. Examples are Fake Grass Block (Plains), Fake Grass Block (Snow), Fake Grass Block (Jungle) and Fake Grass Block (Desert). The set also includes badlands, birch, cheery, dark forest, mangrove, meadow, mushroom, ocean, pale garden, sparse jungle and swamp.^[3]

Fake Grass Block (Plains)Added by the pack

Stonecutting

• Fake Grass Block

Recipe id: minecraft:kjs/jags_plains_fake_grass_block

Every variant is cut from the base block the same way.

You can also go back. Each variant can be cut back into the plain Fake Grass Block in a stonecutter, so you're never locked into a look.^[3]

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Stonecutting

• Fake Grass Block (Plains)

Recipe id: minecraft:kjs/jags_fake_grass_block_11

Example: Plains variant back to the base block.

Here's the honest picture: for this mod, the pack data I have only covers recipes. I found nothing on machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or automation, so I'm not going to make any of that up. What the sources do show is how the Fake Grass Block family and the Grass Seed fit into the pack's crafting.^[3]

Making the base Fake Grass Block

The pack adds two shapeless crafting recipes for Fake Grass Block. Both are pack additions, so don't assume they match what the mod does on its own.^[3]

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Grass Block

Recipe id: ftb:fake_grass

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Moss Carpet
• Super Glue
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:fake_grass_1

Switching biome variants with the stonecutter

The biome-flavoured variants are not crafted from scratch. The pack adds stonecutting recipes that turn the base block into a variant. Variants shown in the recipe data include Badlands, Birch, Cheery, Dark Forest, Desert, Jungle, Mangrove, Meadow, Mushroom, Ocean and Pale Garden, for example Fake Grass Block (Desert) and Fake Grass Block (Ocean).^[3]

It works in reverse too. Stonecutting recipes turn the variants back into the plain Fake Grass Block, so you can swap between looks without losing the block. Here's the Desert pair as an example.^[3]

Fake Grass Block (Desert)Added by the pack

Stonecutting

• Fake Grass Block

Recipe id: minecraft:kjs/jags_desert_fake_grass_block

Base block to Desert variant

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Stonecutting

• Fake Grass Block (Desert)

Recipe id: minecraft:kjs/jags_fake_grass_block_14

Desert variant back to the base block

The Plains, Snow, Sparse Jungle and Swamp variants (Fake Grass Block (Plains), Fake Grass Block (Snow), Fake Grass Block (Sparse_jungle), Fake Grass Block (Swamp)) can be turned back into the base block in the same way.^[3]

Unverified The recipe data I was given cuts off after a few entries, so I can't confirm the base-to-variant stonecutting recipes for Plains, Snow, Sparse Jungle and Swamp. They probably exist, but check in-game with a stonecutter.

Getting Grass Seed

Grass Seed is one of many possible results of a pack-added sifting recipe. That recipe also drops plenty of other seeds and crops, so it's a random outcome, not a guaranteed one. The recipe is below.^[3]

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Sifting (createsifter)

• Mechanical Cloth Mesh
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:sifting/minecraft_dirt_with_cloth_mesh

Unverified What Grass Seed does once you have it, such as how it spreads or what it converts, isn't covered by the sources. I also have no drop chances, and no information on power, fluids, multiblocks or automation for this mod.

Just Another Grass Seed doesn't have tiers in this pack. It's a short, single-step path: get Grass Seed, then make Fake Grass Blocks. Here is how the pack handles each step.^[2][3]

Step 1: Get Grass Seed

The pack's quest book asks you for Grass Seed in the "the_beginning" chapter. That's quest a quest in "?", and it unlocks after another quest in the same chapter. Its task is simply to have the seed.^[2]

The pack adds a sifting recipe that can drop Grass Seed. It shares its drop list with several other seeds and crops, so you may need a few runs.^[3]

Pumpkin Seeds, Wheat Seeds, Melon Seeds, Beetroot Seeds, Cocoa Beans, Bamboo, Sugar Cane, Sweet Berries +6 moreAdded by the pack

Sifting (createsifter)

• Mechanical Cloth Mesh
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:sifting/minecraft_dirt_with_cloth_mesh

Grass Seed is one of several possible drops.

Step 2: Make Fake Grass Blocks

The pack adds two shapeless ways to make a plain Fake Grass Block. Either one works, so use whichever you can set up first.^[3]

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Grass Block

Recipe id: ftb:fake_grass

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Moss Carpet
• Super Glue
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:fake_grass_1

Step 3: Pick a biome look

Once you have a plain Fake Grass Block, the stonecutter turns it into biome-styled variants. The pack adds these recipes, and they include Fake Grass Block (Desert), Fake Grass Block (Snow), Fake Grass Block (Swamp), Fake Grass Block (Mushroom) and Fake Grass Block (Pale_garden).^[3]

Fake Grass Block (Desert)Added by the pack

Stonecutting

• Fake Grass Block

Recipe id: minecraft:kjs/jags_desert_fake_grass_block

Example: plain block to Desert variant.

It also works in reverse. Each variant can go back to the plain block in the stonecutter, so you can switch looks freely.^[3]

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Stonecutting

• Fake Grass Block (Desert)

Recipe id: minecraft:kjs/jags_fake_grass_block_14

Example: Desert variant back to the plain block.

Unverified The sources don't show any further quests, tiers or gated content for this mod beyond the Grass Seed quest. Anything beyond the steps above is unconfirmed.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.15.0 guide

This pack ties Just Another Grass Seed into several other mods through recipes it adds itself. These are the connections the pack's recipes and quests confirm.^[4]

Getting Grass Seed by sifting dirt

The pack adds a Create Sifter recipe that sifts Dirt with a Mechanical Cloth Mesh. Grass Seed is one of the possible results.^[4]

The same sift also gives seeds and crops from other mods, plus some vanilla items. The sources do not show drop chances.^[4]

• Farmer's Delight: Cabbage Seeds, Rice Crops and Tomato Seeds.^[4]
• Immersive Engineering: Industrial Hemp Seeds.^[4]
• Integrated Dynamics: Menril Sapling.^[4]
• Vanilla: Bamboo, Beetroot Seeds, Cocoa Beans, Melon Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Sugar Cane, Sweet Berries and Wheat Seeds.^[4]

Pumpkin Seeds, Wheat Seeds, Melon Seeds, Beetroot Seeds, Cocoa Beans, Bamboo, Sugar Cane, Sweet Berries +6 moreAdded by the pack

Sifting (createsifter)

• Mechanical Cloth Mesh
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:sifting/minecraft_dirt_with_cloth_mesh

Added by the pack: sifting dirt can give you Grass Seed.

Fake Grass Block with Create

The pack adds a shapeless crafting recipe for the Fake Grass Block. It connects the mod to Create, since the recipe uses Super Glue.^[4]

Fake Grass BlockAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Moss Carpet
• Super Glue
• Dirt

Recipe id: ftb:fake_grass_1

Added by the pack.

Grass Seed and Ender IO

The pack also adds a Lychee item-inside recipe, grass_seed_from_dirt_water, that uses Grass Seed together with Grains of Infinity from Ender IO. The recipe dump lists no output for it.^[4]

Quest link

In the "the_beginning" quest chapter, quest a quest in "?" has you hand in Grass Seed. It unlocks after another quest in the same chapter.^[5]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

In this pack, the mod shows up in one quest, and it lives in the "the_beginning" chapter. It's an early-game quest, so you'll run into it near the start of your run.^[6]

The quest is a quest in "?", and it has no title in the pack files. Its task is an item task: you hand in Grass Seed. That's all the quest asks for.^[6]

It comes after the quest with the id 5FCEA8229BB6955C in the same chapter, so you need to finish that one first before this one unlocks.^[6]

Unverified The sources don't say what the previous quest asks for, whether this quest gives a reward, or how you obtain Grass Seed in this pack. Check the in-game quest book for those details.