MSS - Moog's Soaring Structures guide for FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 to 1.9.2

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide

MSS - Moog's Soaring Structures fills your world with vanilla style floating islands. Each one is packed with loot, mobs and dungeons, and some have villagers too, so there's always something to go and explore up in the sky.^[1]

The structures are built from vanilla blocks and entities. That means the mod adds new places to find without bringing a pile of new materials with it.^[1]

In this pack

The pack ships version 2.2.0 of the mod. It has been in the pack since 1.7 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the world generation.^[2]

Customising it

Every aspect of the mod can be customised with datapacks. The mod author offers a config pack template with full instructions. I haven't checked whether this pack changes any of the mod's defaults, so check before you rely on a specific structure setting.^[1]

The mod can also be installed on a server only, which is handy if you run a multiplayer world.^[1]

Good news: there's nothing you need to craft to get started with Moog's Soaring Structures. It's a structure mod. It adds lots of vanilla-style floating islands full of loot, mobs and dungeons for you to explore.^[1]

The buildings are made with vanilla blocks and entities. Along the way you can find loot, enemies and villagers, so you don't need to learn a new crafting chain before you head out.^[1]

What to do first

1. Explore your world as normal and keep an eye on the sky. The mod's whole point is floating islands with buildings and dungeons on them.^[1]
2. Go in prepared for fights. The islands can hold mobs and dungeons as well as loot.^[1]
3. Look out for villagers on the islands too, since the mod can place them as part of its structures.^[1]

What I can't confirm for this pack

Unverified No recipes, items or quests for this mod could be confirmed in this pack, so there is no recommended crafting order. How the pack has configured the structures (how common they are, or what loot they hold) is also unverified. The mod itself says every aspect can be customized through datapacks.

MSS doesn't add machines or a tech tree. It's a world-generation mod that adds lots of vanilla-style floating islands for you to find and explore. They're full of loot, mobs and dungeons.^[1]

What the mod actually does

The structures are built from vanilla blocks and entities. On your way through them you can run into loot, enemies and villagers. The mod itself is about exploration, so there's no crafting or processing chain to learn.^[1]

The mod can be installed on the server only, which fits its role as a worldgen add-on. It doesn't need any new client-side content.^[1]

Customization through datapacks

According to the mod's project page, every aspect of the mod can be customized with datapacks. A separate config pack template with full instructions is available for that. The mod's behavior is driven by datapack data, not by a normal config file.^[1]

Unverified Whether this pack ships any datapack overrides for MSS, and how the islands' loot, mobs or spawn rates are tuned here, can't be confirmed from the available sources. Treat the mod's default behavior as unconfirmed for this pack.

Unverified Machines, multiblocks, power, fluid and item automation are not described anywhere in the available sources for this mod. Nothing in this section should be read as confirming or ruling out such systems.

FTB Skies 2 1.9.2 ships MSS - Moog's Soaring Structures at version 1.3.5-1.21 (file mss-1.3.5-1.21.jar). It has been in the pack since FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 or earlier.^[3]

Version 1.3.5-1.21

This is the version you get in 1.9.2. The mod's own changelog for it lists these changes:^[3][4]

• Added: c biome tags.^[4]
• Changed: spacing values were adjusted to increase the rarity of all structures.^[4]
• Fixed: broken NBTs.^[4]

Unverified Whether the pack's own changelogs mention this mod is not shown by the sources here, and neither are changelogs for earlier versions of the mod. Check the FTB Skies 2 release notes for anything pack-specific.