Macaw's Lights and Lamps in FTB Skies 2

Same as in the All the Mods 10 0.38 guide

Macaw's Lights and Lamps is a decoration mod that gives you vanilla-styled light sources beyond the ones in the base game. Think of it as a lighting upgrade for your builds: it is all about making your world brighter and better looking.^[1]

What it adds

• Tiki torches, street lamp posts, ceiling lights, lamps and paper lamps.^[1]
• Wall lanterns, new torches, light slabs and lanterns.^[1]
• Ceiling fan lights, candle holders and chandeliers.^[1]

Lamps, street lights, tiki torches and ceiling lights can be made as tall as you want, from a 1 block tall lamp up to a 54 block tall one. You can also turn any of these lights on and off with a right click.^[1]

Who it is for

If you like to build, this mod is for you. It is a simple decoration mod, so it suits anyone who wants lighting that looks better than torches and lanterns alone, whether that is a lit street, a tiki-style patio or a chandelier over your dining room.^[1]

In this pack

The pack ships Macaw's Lights and Lamps 1.1.1, built for NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1. The mod has been in the pack since version 0.32 or earlier, so it is a long-standing part of the mod list.^[2]

Unverified No quests in this pack involve the mod, it is not on the ATM Star quest path, and no in-jar guidebook was found. Treat it as an optional building and decoration mod rather than a progression step. The sources do not confirm how its items are crafted in this pack, so check the recipe viewer in-game. This site does hold FTB Skies 2's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Macaw's Lights and Lamps is a light-source mod: tiki torches, street lamp posts, ceiling lights, lamps, paper lamps, wall lanterns, light slabs, lanterns, ceiling fan lights, candle holders and chandeliers. You don't need a big setup to start, so here is a sensible order for your first crafts.^[1]

Step one: make a lantern

Start with the Bell Lantern. The pack changes how it is crafted, and the Chain Lantern, Covered Lantern and Cross Lantern are changed too. The blocks below show the in-pack versions.^[3]

Bell LanternChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot
any iron nugget	Torch	any iron nugget
any iron nugget	Empty slot	any iron nugget

Recipe id: mcwlights:bell_lantern

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Chain LanternChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	Empty slot	any iron nugget
any iron nugget	Torch	any iron nugget
Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:chain_lantern

Once you have a lantern, you can turn it into a wall version. The Bell Wall Lantern is a shapeless recipe built from the lantern you just made.^[3]

Bell Wall LanternMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any wooden fence
• Bell Lantern

Recipe id: mcwlights:bell_wall_lantern

Step two: add a tiki torch

Tiki torches come in several wood variants. The Bamboo Tiki Torch uses the mod's own recipe, unchanged by the pack.^[3]

Bamboo Tiki TorchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Torch

Bamboo

Recipe id: mcwlights:bamboo_tiki_torch

Lamps, street lights, tiki torches and ceiling lights can be made as tall as you want. The mod's own example is a 54 block tall lamp.^[1]

Step three: lamps and ceiling lights

For indoor lighting, start with the Black Lamp and its matching Black Ceiling Light. Blue, brown and cyan versions exist too, such as Blue Lamp and Cyan Ceiling Light.^[3]

6× Black LampMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Black Wool	Black Wool	Black Wool
Black Wool	Redstone Lamp	Black Wool
Empty slot	any wooden fence	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:black_lamp

6× Black Ceiling LightMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any wooden fence	Empty slot
Black Wool	Redstone Lamp	Black Wool
Black Wool	Black Wool	Black Wool

Recipe id: mcwlights:black_ceiling_light

Then colour with paper lamps

Coloured paper lamps are made from the White Paper Lamp with a shapeless recipe and a dye, for example the Blue Paper Lamp.^[3]

Blue Paper LampMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• White Paper Lamp
• Blue Dye

Recipe id: mcwlights:blue_paper_lamp

Step five: street lamp posts

When you want to light paths, the Street Lamp Post (shown in game as Street Lamp Post) makes 3 posts per craft.^[3][4]

3× Street Lamp PostMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Lantern

any wooden fence

Stone Brick Wall

Recipe id: mcwlights:classic_street_lamp

Step six: copper and gold decorations

The pack also changes the copper decoration recipes. That covers the Copper Chain and the Golden Chain, as well as the copper candle holders and chandeliers, such as the Copper Chandelier. The blocks below show the two chains.^[3]

3× Copper ChainChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	any copper ingot
Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:copper_chain

This recipe is changed by the pack.

3× Golden ChainChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold ingot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	any gold ingot
Empty slot	any gold ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:golden_chain

This is a very simple mod that adds light sources, so its mechanics come down to a few block behaviours: toggling, recoloring and stacking.^[1]

Toggling lights on and off

The mod page says everything can be turned off and on with a right click. That is handy for builds where you want some lights dark.^[1]

Recoloring with dye

Some blocks carry an in-game tooltip that says "Right-click with any dye to recolor". The language file doesn't say which blocks have it, so check the tooltip on the block you're holding.^[4]

Paper lamps work differently: each colored version has its own shapeless crafting recipe that uses the White Paper Lamp. Here is the black one as an example.^[3]

Black Paper LampMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• White Paper Lamp
• Black Dye

Recipe id: mcwlights:black_paper_lamp

Building tall

Lamps, street lamp posts, tiki torches and ceiling lights can be made as tall as you want. The mod page gives a 1 block tall lamp or a 54 block tall lamp as examples.^[1]

To extend one, place another on top of it. The mod has a tooltip saying exactly this for stackable lights and another for tiki torches, such as the Bamboo Tiki Torch.^[4]

Wall variants

Lanterns have wall-mounted versions, like the Wall Lantern and Chain Wall Lantern. These are shapeless crafting recipes made from the matching regular lantern, as shown below.^[3]

Chain Wall LanternMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any wooden fence
• Chain Lantern

Recipe id: mcwlights:chain_wall_lantern

A shapeless recipe that turns the regular chain lantern into its wall version.

Recipes the pack changed

Several recipes differ from the mod's defaults in this pack. The recipe dump marks these as changed by the pack: the ceiling fan lights (Acacia, Birch and Cherry are listed), Bell Lantern, Chain Lantern, Copper Chain, Golden Chain and Copper Candle Holder. If your memory of the base mod disagrees with a recipe shown on this page, go with this page.^[3]

3× Copper ChainChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	any copper ingot
Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:copper_chain

Pack-changed recipe: it makes 3 chains per craft.

Bell LanternChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot
any iron nugget	Torch	any iron nugget
any iron nugget	Empty slot	any iron nugget

Recipe id: mcwlights:bell_lantern

Pack-changed recipe for the bell lantern.

Acacia Ceiling Fan LightChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot
any iron ingot	Acacia Slab	any iron ingot
Empty slot	Glowstone Dust	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:acacia_ceiling_fan_light

Pack-changed recipe: the other ceiling fan lights listed above are also marked as changed.

A trade that uses a tiki torch

The pack's wandering trader script gives every wandering trader an offer that takes one Bamboo Tiki Torch and gives Iron Stick. That offer can be used once.^[5]

This mod has no machines or gated steps. Every item in the recipe data is a crafting table recipe, so progression here just means which materials you need for each group of lights. The groups below are sorted by whether the pack left the recipe alone or changed it.^[3]

Tier 1: plain mod recipes

The simplest lights are the tiki torches, such as the Acacia Tiki Torch and Bamboo Tiki Torch. They use the mod's own recipes, unchanged by the pack.^[3]

Acacia Tiki TorchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Torch

Acacia Fence

Recipe id: mcwlights:acacia_tiki_torch

This is the mod's own recipe, not changed by the pack.

The coloured wool lamps and ceiling lights, like the Blue Lamp and Blue Ceiling Light, are also untouched mod recipes. One craft makes 6 of them.^[3]

6× Blue LampMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Blue Wool	Blue Wool	Blue Wool
Blue Wool	Redstone Lamp	Blue Wool
Empty slot	any wooden fence	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:blue_lamp

Mod recipe, and one craft gives you 6 lamps.

The Street Lamp Post and Double Street Lamp Post are mod recipes too, and so is the Glowstone Slab.^[3]

3× Street Lamp PostMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Lantern

any wooden fence

Stone Brick Wall

Recipe id: mcwlights:classic_street_lamp

Mod recipe, and one craft gives you 3 posts.

Paper lamps in other colours, like the Red Paper Lamp, are made by combining a White Paper Lamp with a dye. That is a shapeless mod recipe.^[3]

Tier 2: lanterns and garden lights (changed by the pack)

This is where the pack steps in. The Bell Lantern, Chain Lantern, Covered Lantern, Cross Lantern and Festive Lantern all use pack-changed recipes, not the mod defaults.^[3]

Chain LanternChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	Empty slot	any iron nugget
any iron nugget	Torch	any iron nugget
Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:chain_lantern

The pack changed this recipe from the mod's default.

The wall versions, like the Chain Wall Lantern and Bell Wall Lantern, are shapeless mod recipes built from the matching lantern plus a wooden fence. The plain Wall Lantern is built from a vanilla lantern instead.^[3]

The Garden Light and Covered Garden Light also have pack-changed recipes. So do the ceiling fan lights shown in the recipe data, like the Birch Ceiling Fan Light, and the Framed Torch.^[3]

Garden LightChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot
any iron nugget	Glowstone Dust	any iron nugget
Empty slot	any iron ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:garden_light

The pack changed this recipe from the mod's default.

4× Framed TorchChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron nugget	Coal or Charcoal	any iron nugget
Empty slot	Stick	Empty slot
Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:framed_torch

The pack changed this recipe, and one craft gives you 4 torches.

Tier 3: copper and gold fittings (changed by the pack)

The fanciest pieces are the chains, candle holders and chandeliers in copper and gold. The recipes in the data for these are all pack-changed, including the Copper Chain, Golden Chain, Copper Candle Holder and Golden Candle Holder.^[3]

3× Copper ChainChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	any copper ingot
Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:copper_chain

The pack changed this recipe, and one craft gives you 3 chains.

2× Copper Candle HolderChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	String	Empty slot
any copper ingot	Honeycomb	any copper ingot
Empty slot	any copper ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: mcwlights:copper_candle_holder

The pack changed this recipe, and one craft gives you 2 holders.

The chandeliers and the other candle holders follow the same pack-changed pattern: the Copper Chandelier, Copper Small Chandelier, Golden Chandelier, Golden Double Candle Holder and Copper Double Candle Holder among them.^[3]

Copper ChandelierChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

String	any copper ingot	String
Honeycomb	any copper ingot	Honeycomb
any copper ingot	Empty slot	any copper ingot

Recipe id: mcwlights:copper_chandelier

The pack changed this recipe from the mod's default.

A bonus use for the Bamboo Tiki Torch

The pack's Wandering Trader script adds one offer that costs a single Bamboo Tiki Torch. It gives you an Iron Stick, and the offer can only be used once.^[5]

Macaw's Lights and Lamps is a decoration mod, and the sources for this pack show it linking to other mods in two places: one crafting recipe and one Wandering Trader offer.^[1][3][5]

Dripping Upgrade recipe

The Dripping Upgrade needs a Lava Lamp from this mod. It is a shaped recipe added by the pack's own scripts, so it is the pack's version of the recipe. Check the block below for the full ingredient list, which also includes items from other mods.^[3]

Dripping UpgradeAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

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

This shaped recipe is added by the pack and uses the Lava Lamp from this mod.

Wandering Trader offer

A pack script clears the Wandering Trader's offers when it spawns and replaces them with its own list. The first offer in that list takes a Bamboo Tiki Torch and gives you a Iron Stick. The script limits this offer to 1 use per trader.^[5]

FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 ships Macaw's Lights and Lamps 1.1.5. 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.^[6]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for this mod were available, so any pack-specific changes to it are unconfirmed.

1.1.2

• Added 5 new Garden Lights: Thin, Tower, Striped, Covered and Round.^[7]
• Added 18 custom tags by type, and updated the Garden Light model and texture.^[7]
• Charcoal support was added to a torch-related recipe that previously only accepted coal.^[7]
• Lantern recipes and torch recipes were each grouped.^[7]
• Added descriptions for stackable lights and for dyeable lights.^[7]
• Fixed Garden Lights and Lava Lamps using wooden break sounds.^[7]
• Translations: added ja_jp and updated es_cl.^[7]

1.1.5

• Wall Lanterns (and possibly other lights) are no longer pathfindable.^[8]
• Fixed a minor texture bug on the Framed Torch.^[8]
• Translations: added ko_kr, fr_fr, zh_cn and pt_br, and updated ru_ru.^[8]

Version 1.1.5 is the one you get in this pack, so the fixes above apply to your game.^[6][8]