Occultism in FTB Skies 2

Occultism is a ritual magic mod built around summoning spirits, which the mod calls demons, from "The Other Place". It's inspired by Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus books. This pack ships Occultism 1.224.4 for NeoForge 1.21.1.^[1][2]

If you like automation, storage and a bit of spooky flavor, this is your mod. The mod's own description lists what the spirits can do for you:^[1]

• Automate various tasks.^[1]
• Store vast amounts of items.^[1]
• Mine in void dimensions.^[1]
• Help you craft powerful enchanted tools and jewelry.^[1]
• Support you with familiars.^[1]

Getting started

Per the mod's description, you start by breaking grass until it drops Demon's Dream Seeds, much like vanilla wheat seeds. You craft those seeds with a book to get the Dictionary of Spirits, the mod's in-game guide. From there you work towards the "Third Eye", which reveals the otherworld groves, and then summon your first spirit.^[1]

The pack's Occultism quest chapter opens the same way. The first quest, "Welcome to Occultism!" quest, asks for the seeds, and "Demon's Dream Fruit" quest follows with the Demon's Dream fruit.^[3]

Where it fits in the quest chapter

After the early steps the chapter branches into the basics of ritual setup. These include Spirit Attuned Gem, the otherworld wood from Unstable Otherworld Sapling, Otherstone, and an empty Book of Binding: Empty. Those lead into chalks in "Basic Chalks" quest, then ritual bowls in "Preparing For A Ritual" quest.^[3]

Next comes the bound foliot book in "Your First Ritual" quest. Then "More About Rituals & Pentacles" quest (crushed end stone), "Purple Chalk" quest (purple chalk) and "The Quest For More Chalk" quest (research fragment dust) unlock the rest. That includes Otherworld Goggles, the Surprisingly Substantial Satchel, and the storage line starting at "Storage Actuator Base" quest and reaching Dimensional Storage Actuator in "Dimensional Storage" quest.^[3]

Later quests cover summoning foliot helpers such as a transporter, a lumberjack and a smelter, as well as familiar rituals and possession rituals.^[3]

Unverified I couldn't confirm which other mods or progression stages gate Occultism in this pack, or whether the pack changes any of the mod's default drop rates or recipes. Check the individual recipe pages and quests before relying on default behavior.

Occultism is a ritual magic mod, and in this pack the quest chapter gives you a clear order to follow. Here is what to make first, and why.^[1][3]

Start with Demon's Dream Seeds

Everything starts with Demon's Dream Seeds. The first quest in the chapter, "Welcome to Occultism!" quest, asks for the seeds, and the next one, "Demon's Dream Fruit" quest, asks for the grown Demon's Dream. The mod's own page says you can get the seeds by breaking grass, much like vanilla wheat seeds. This pack also adds a Market entry for them, and it adds Cloche recipes that turn the seeds into fruit on dirt or on better soils.^[1][3][4]

Make the four basics

Four quests share the same parent and all lead into the chalk quest "Basic Chalks" quest. They are "Spirit Attuned Gem" quest (a spirit attuned gem and crystal), "Otherworld Log" quest (an otherworld sapling and log), "Otherstone" quest (otherstone and burnt otherstone) and "Spirits" quest (an empty book of binding).^[3]

The gem is made at an Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus, then crafted into a crystal.^[4]

Spirit Attuned GemMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Conjuration Essence
• Manipulation Essence
• Source Gem
• Demon's Dream Essence

Recipe id: ars_ocultas:spirit_attuned_gem

Spirit Attuned CrystalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Spirit Attuned Gem

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/spirit_attuned_crystal

Otherstone can be crystallized from otherstone dust, or made by combining Gray Paste with the dust. You need it for your first bowls.^[4]

OtherstoneMod recipe

Crystallize (occultism)

• any otherstone dust

Recipe id: occultism:crystallize/otherstone

OtherstoneMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Gray Paste
• any otherstone dust

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/gray_paste/otherstone

The Book of Binding: Empty is your first step toward binding a spirit. The quest chain places it before the bound foliot book that a later quest asks for.^[3][4]

Book of Binding: EmptyMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Awakened Feather
• Purified Ink
• Taboo Book

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/book_of_binding_empty

Chalk and bowls

Once the four basics are done, the chalk quest asks for Impure White Chalk, White Chalk and Yellow Chalk. Impure white chalk is the base for the other impure chalks.^[3][4]

Impure White ChalkMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any chalk base dust	any otherworld wood dust
any chalk base dust	any otherworld wood dust
any chalk base dust	any otherworld wood dust

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/chalk_white_impure

After that, "Preparing For A Ritual" quest asks for a sacrificial bowl and a golden ritual bowl. The dark versions count too. The golden bowl builds on the plain one.^[3][4]

Sacrificial BowlMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

5 × Otherstone

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/sacrificial_bowl

Golden Ritual BowlMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any gold ingot	any gold ingot	any gold ingot
any gold ingot	Sacrificial Bowl	any gold ingot
any gold ingot	any gold ingot	any gold ingot

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/golden_sacrificial_bowl

Your first bound spirit

The next quest, "Your First Ritual" quest, has an observation task, asks for copper, iron, gold and silver ingots, and wants a Book of Binding: Foliot (Bound). A bound foliot book can also be crafted from a foliot Book of Calling.^[3][4]

Book of Binding: Foliot (Bound)Mod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• any book of calling foliot book

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/book_of_binding_bound_foliot_from_calling

From there the chapter moves on to Crushed End Stone and Purple Chalk. After that comes Research Fragment Dust, which opens up Otherworld Goggles, satchels and storage.^[3]

Occultism's machines are mostly spirits and rituals instead of power cables and pipes. This section covers what the pack's configs, recipes and mod text confirm: the Dimensional Mineshaft, ritual speed, storage stabilizers, spirit helpers and a few other tuning values.^[5][6][7]

Rituals in this pack

The pack speeds rituals up. rituals.ritualDurationMultiplier is set to 0.25 here, where the mod default is 1. Values below 1.0 make rituals faster, so you'll wait far less at the pentacle than on a default install.^[7]

The sacrificial bowls and chalices that sit in the middle of a pentacle (the golden, iesnium and dark variants, plus the eldritch and celestial chalices) all say the same thing in their tooltips: use exactly one central bowl per pentacle.^[5]

Dimensional Mineshaft

The Dimensional Mineshaft is how you get demons to mine for you. It discards any item it can't store, so empty it regularly. You can do that by hand, with hoppers, or with a transporter spirit.^[5]

Item handling depends on which side you use. The top goes to the lamp slot, the bottom goes to the ores slots, and every other side reaches all slots. That matters when you set up hoppers: the bottom is the side to pull ores from.^[5]

The pack changed how fast the miner spirits work. The startup config halves the mining time of the Foliot, Djinni, Afrit and Marid miners, and leaves the ancient miner at the mod default. The values below are the amount of time a spirit takes to perform one mining operation.^[6]

• Foliot (unspecialized): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_foliot_unspecialized.maxMiningTime is 200 (mod default 400).^[6]
• Djinni (ores): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_djinni_ores.maxMiningTime is 150 (mod default 300).^[6]
• Afrit (deeps): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_afrit_deeps.maxMiningTime is 100 (mod default 200).^[6]
• Marid (master): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_marid_master.maxMiningTime is 50 (mod default 100).^[6]
• Ancient (eldritch): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_ancient_eldritch.maxMiningTime is 15, the mod default.^[6]

Durability is the number of mining operations a spirit can perform before it breaks. The pack leaves all of these at the mod defaults.^[6]

• Foliot (unspecialized): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_foliot_unspecialized.durability is 1,000.^[6]
• Djinni (ores): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_djinni_ores.durability is 400.^[6]
• Afrit (deeps): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_afrit_deeps.durability is 800.^[6]
• Marid (master): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_marid_master.durability is 1,600.^[6]
• Ancient (eldritch): dimensional_mineshaft.miner_ancient_eldritch.durability is 3,200.^[6]

Enchantments on the miners are allowed in this pack. items.minerEfficiency, items.minerFortune and items.minerSilk are all true, so Efficiency makes miners faster, Fortune can give extra results per operation, and Silk Touch can multiply results.^[7]

items.minerOutputBeforeBreak is false, which means miners do not head to the output in the Dimensional Mineshaft before it breaks.^[7]

Dimensional Battlefield and Entity Wormhole

The Dimensional Battlefield works out processing time from the target's life, using items.butcherLifeMultiplier, which is 20 here (the mod default). Tougher mobs therefore take longer. Weapons used there can also get damaged as it advances, controlled by items.butcherHurtChance.^[7]

The Entity Wormhole has a random teleport feature. It reaches up to 4,096 via items.maxDistanceRTP and makes up to 99 attempts to find a safe spot via items.maxTryRTP. Both are mod defaults.^[7]

Storage

Stable wormholes link to a storage actuator, and their tooltip shows the linked position or tells you they aren't linked yet. The stabilized storage actuator uses tier 5 stabilizers, and the pack lowers that count to 7 from the mod default of 8 in storage.stabilizedControllerStabilizers. The config notes that the recipe isn't changed automatically, so check the actuator's recipe in game.^[5][7]

Spirit helpers: Books of Calling

Automation spirits come from Books of Calling. Each one is made from a bound Book of Binding plus one extra item, and the recipe blocks below show the exact ingredients. The books available here are Book of Calling: Foliot Transporter, Book of Calling: Foliot Lumberjack, Book of Calling: Foliot Farmer, Book of Calling: Foliot Janitor and Book of Calling: Djinni Machine Operator.^[4]

Book of Calling: Foliot TransporterMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Book of Binding: Foliot (Bound)
• any chest

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/book_of_calling_foliot_transport_items

The transporter is the kind of spirit the mineshaft text suggests for emptying it.

Book of Calling: Djinni Machine OperatorMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Book of Binding: Djinni (Bound)
• Furnace

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/book_of_calling_djinni_manage_machine

The bound books come from the matching calling books. The Book of Binding line also covers the Djinni, Afrit and Marid variants: you make an empty binding book first, then add dye to choose the type.^[4]

Book of Binding: EmptyMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Awakened Feather
• Purified Ink
• Taboo Book

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/book_of_binding_empty

Book of Binding: FoliotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any blue dye	Empty slot
any blue dye	Book of Binding: Empty	any blue dye
Empty slot	any blue dye	Empty slot

Recipe id: occultism:crafting/book_of_binding_foliot_from_empty

Familiar tuning

The blacksmith familiar upgrades other familiars when you right-click it with iron ingots or blocks. An upgrade costs 18 iron with a cooldown of 400, set by familiar.blacksmithFamiliarUpgradeCost and familiar.blacksmithFamiliarUpgradeCooldown. Both are mod defaults.^[5][7]

The blacksmith familiar also repairs your gear whenever you pick up stone. familiar.blacksmithFamiliarRepairChance is 0.33, the mod default, and each repair restores 2 durability.^[7]

An upgraded greedy familiar searches for blocks within 32 blocks horizontally and 16 vertically, per familiar.greedySearchRange and familiar.greedyVerticalSearchRange. The config warns that large distances can delay finding them.^[7]

The pack's Occultism quest chapter has untitled quests, so I'll walk you through it by what each quest asks for. The chapter broadly moves through the spirits you work with: Foliot first, then Djinni, Afrit and Marid. Chalk colours and essences act as gates between the steps.^[3]

Opening steps: seeds, gems and stone

The chapter opens with Demon's Dream Seeds, followed by growing Demon's Dream ("Welcome to Occultism!" quest and "Demon's Dream Fruit" quest). The pack added its own ways to get it. A Farming for Blockheads market recipe gives the seeds. Immersive Engineering cloche recipes grow the fruit on plain dirt, Rich Soil, Mystical Agriculture farmlands or Just Dire Things soils.^[3][4]

Demon's DreamAdded by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Dirt
• Demon's Dream Seeds

Recipe id: ftb:cloche/datura_from_dirt

The simplest of the cloche options the pack adds.

Four more quests open up in parallel. They ask for a Spirit Attuned Gem and Spirit Attuned Crystal, an Unstable Otherworld Sapling and Otherworld Log, Otherstone and Burnt Otherstone, and an empty Book of Binding: Empty. Once you have them all, the chalk quest opens ("Basic Chalks" quest), asking for impure white, white and yellow chalk. After that come the bowl quest ("Preparing For A Ritual" quest) and then the bound Foliot book ("Your First Ritual" quest).^[3]

Spirit Attuned GemMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Conjuration Essence
• Manipulation Essence
• Source Gem
• Demon's Dream Essence

Recipe id: ars_ocultas:spirit_attuned_gem

This recipe makes the gem with an Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus.

Foliot tier

Any Book of Calling for a Foliot can be turned into Book of Binding: Foliot (Bound), so one Foliot book leads to the next. The quest for it also wants copper, iron, gold and silver ingots. Crushed end stone ("More About Rituals & Pentacles" quest) and purple chalk ("Purple Chalk" quest) follow.^[3][4]

Research Fragment Dust ("The Quest For More Chalk" quest) is the next big gate. Quests that come after it include the Surprisingly Substantial Satchel, the Otherworld Goggles, green chalk, the lime and light gray chalk quest, the Apprentice Ritual Satchel and the Storage Actuator Base. The Foliot jobs, such as transporter, janitor, smelter, otherstone trader, sapling trader and lumberjack, sit on their own branch of the chapter.^[3]

Research Fragment DustMod recipe

Ritual (occultism)

• 2× Experience Bottle
• Book of Binding: Foliot (Bound)
• Ritual: Craft Research Fragment Dust
• any emerald dust

Recipe id: occultism:ritual/craft_research_fragment_dust

Djinni tier

Djinni quests cover the Soul Gem and Familiar Ring, the Infused Pickaxe, the Djinni smelter and crusher rituals, and weather and time-of-day summonings. They also include the Dimensional Crystal Matrix with the Dimensional Storage Actuator, and the machine operator book (Book of Calling: Djinni Machine Operator).^[3]

The Iesnium Ingot quest ("Iesnium" quest) comes after the infused pickaxe. The pack added its own recipe that turns a block of silver into an ingot using a Malum void favor. Some ritual recipes, such as the dimensional mineshaft, also take iesnium blocks.^[3][4]

Iesnium IngotAdded by the pack

Void Favor (malum)

• Block of Silver

Recipe id: ftb:malum/void_favor/iesnium_ingot

This recipe is added by the pack.

Miners

The miner line runs from Miner Foliot to Ore Miner Djinni, then Deep Ore Miner Afrit, then Master Miner Marid, and finally Eldritch Ancient Miner. The Djinni, Afrit and Marid rituals each take the previous miner as an ingredient, and the first one uses a bound Foliot book. The Iesnium Pickaxe quest ("Iesnium Pickaxe" quest) comes first. The Dimensional Mineshaft is also asked for by the pack's resource chapters. The recipe for the final Ancient Eldritch Miner isn't in the sources I have, so I can't walk you through it.^[3][4][8][9]

Miner FoliotMod recipe

Ritual (occultism)

• Book of Binding: Foliot (Bound)
• Iesnium Pickaxe
• Empty Magic Lamp
• Ritual: Infuse Foliot Miner
• any gravel
• any iron ingot

Recipe id: occultism:ritual/craft_miner_foliot_unspecialized

Ore Miner DjinniMod recipe

Ritual (occultism)

• Book of Binding: Djinni (Bound)
• Iesnium Pickaxe
• Miner Foliot
• Ritual: Infuse Djinni Ore Miner
• Spirit Attuned Crystal
• any lapi gems
• any gold ingot

Recipe id: occultism:ritual/craft_miner_djinni_ores

Deep Ore Miner AfritMod recipe

Ritual (occultism)

• Crying Obsidian
• Echo Shard
• Afrit Essence
• Book of Binding: Afrit (Bound)
• Iesnium Pickaxe
• Ore Miner Djinni
• Ritual: Infuse Afrit Deep Ore Miner
• Spirit Attuned Crystal

Recipe id: occultism:ritual/craft_miner_afrit_deeps

Master Miner MaridMod recipe

Ritual (occultism)

• Dragon Breath
• Nether Star
• Netherite Pickaxe
• Totem Of Undying
• Book of Binding: Marid (Bound)
• Iesnium Pickaxe
• Marid Essence
• Deep Ore Miner Afrit
• Ritual: Infuse Marid Master Miner
• Spirit Attuned Crystal

Recipe id: occultism:ritual/craft_miner_marid_master

Dimensional MineshaftMod recipe

Ritual (occultism)

• Book of Binding: Djinni (Bound)
• 4× Otherrock
• 4× Otherstone
• Ritual: Craft Dimensional Mineshaft
• Spirit Attuned Crystal
• any gold ingot
• any iesnium storage block

Recipe id: occultism:ritual/craft_dimensional_mineshaft

Afrit and Marid tiers

Afrit Essence ("Kandar's Opened Conjure" quest) opens the Afrit stage and leads to red chalk. Afrit essence also goes into the Iesnium Ritual Bowl and the Artisanal Ritual Satchel. Afrit rituals in the chapter include smelting, crushing, rain and thunderstorm.^[3][4]

The Marid stage starts with witherite dust, black chalk and a wither skeleton skull ("Black Chalk" quest), which leads to Marid Essence and then blue chalk. Cruelty Essence leads on to brown chalk. The chapter also has Marid crusher and smelter rituals and the Iesnium Anvil. Magenta and cyan chalk sit on a branch next to the anvil.^[3]

The endgame quests are rainbow and void chalk, a celestial or eldritch chalice, the Trinity Gem, and the Ancient Miner.^[3]

Dimensional storage track

Storage runs alongside the spirits. It starts with the actuator base, then the Stable Wormhole and Storage Accessor. A chain of stabilizers runs from Tier 1 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer up to Tier 4 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer, ending in the Stabilized Dimensional Storage Actuator.^[3]

Familiar, possession and wild-ritual quests make up the rest of the chapter.^[3]

Occultism connects to a lot of other mods in this pack. The in-pack recipes tie it into Ars Nouveau, Immersive Engineering, Create, Mekanism, Malum, Modern Industrialization, PneumaticCraft and Oritech. Here are the links that show up in the recipes and quests.^[4]

Ars Nouveau and silver

The Sacrificial Altar is crafted in the Ars Nouveau Enchanting Apparatus, and the pack changed this recipe. It mixes Ars Nouveau parts, an Occultism Golden Ritual Bowl and any silver ingot.^[4]

Sacrificial AltarChanged by the pack

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Drygmy Token
• Containment Jar
• 2× Sourcestone
• Golden Ritual Bowl
• 4× any silver ingot

Recipe id: ars_ocultas:altar

The Spirit Attuned Gem can also be made in the Enchanting Apparatus. This one is the mod's own recipe, not a pack change. It needs Ars Nouveau essences, a Source Gem and an Occultism essence. A quest in the Occultism chapter, "Spirit Attuned Gem" quest, asks you to get the gem and the Spirit Attuned Crystal.^[3][4]

Spirit Attuned GemMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Conjuration Essence
• Manipulation Essence
• Source Gem
• Demon's Dream Essence

Recipe id: ars_ocultas:spirit_attuned_gem

Two Ars Nouveau imbuement recipes, both changed by the pack, let you convert between metals. One turns a gold ingot into a Silver Ingot. The other turns a silver ingot into Gold Ingot. Both use a Spirit Attuned Gem and a Manipulation Essence.^[4]

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

Gold IngotChanged by the pack

Imbuement (ars_nouveau)

• Magebloom
• Manipulation Essence
• Spirit Attuned Gem
• any silver ingot

Recipe id: ars_ocultas:gold_transmute

Silver also shows up in the questline. "Your First Ritual" quest asks for a silver ingot alongside the Book of Binding: Foliot (Bound).^[3]

Farming Demon's Dream

The pack added Immersive Engineering Cloche recipes that grow Demon's Dream Seeds into Demon's Dream. There is a recipe for each of several soils and farmlands from Farmer's Delight, Just Dire Things, Mystical Agriculture and Mystical Agradditions, so you can use whichever you already have.^[4]

Demon's DreamAdded by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Rich Soil
• Demon's Dream Seeds

Recipe id: ftb:cloche/datura_from_rich_soil

One of the pack's Cloche soil options, using Rich Soil.

Otherworld wood and leaves

Create cutting recipes added by the pack strip Otherworld wood. Both the log and the wood version give you the stripped block plus Tree Bark.^[4]

Mekanism crushing recipes, also added by the pack, turn Otherworld Leaves and Otherworld Leaves Natural into Bio Fuel.^[4]

Machines and late-game crafts

• A Malum void favor recipe added by the pack turns a Block of Silver into an Iesnium Ingot.^[4]
• A Modern Industrialization quarry recipe called "magical" uses the Infused Pickaxe. Its outputs include Iesnium Ore as well as Malum, Silent Gear and XyCraft ores.^[4]
• The Dimensional Memory Fragment is made in a PneumaticCraft pressure chamber and needs the Dimensional Crystal Matrix.^[4]
• The Evolutionary Arcanum is made in an Oritech particle collision and needs the Trinity Gem.^[4]

Dimensional Memory FragmentAdded by the pack

Pressure Chamber (pneumaticcraft)

• Library of Alexandria
• 4× Grains of Prescience
• Dimensional Crystal Matrix
• 16× Component Enhanced Galgadorian Metal
• 32× any shard

Recipe id: ftb:dimensional_memory_fragment

The pack's pressure chamber recipe for the Dimensional Memory Fragment.

Evolutionary ArcanumAdded by the pack

Particle Collision (oritech)

• Primordial Assembly
• Empty
• Trinity Gem

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/particle_collision/evolutionary_arcanum

The pack's Oritech particle collision recipe for the Evolutionary Arcanum.

Most of the Occultism questing happens in the pack's occultism chapter. Two other chapters, resource_generation and resources_and_you, each have one quest that touches the mod. The quests have no titles in the pack files, so I point to them by ID below. Everything here follows the prerequisite chains between quests, so you can read it top to bottom as a rough route.^[3][8][9]

Getting started: seeds, materials and chalk

The chapter opens with a short chain. "Welcome to Occultism!" quest wants Demon's Dream Seeds, and "Demon's Dream Fruit" quest follows it and asks for Demon's Dream.^[3]

The main path begins with four parallel quests that all unlock from a quest outside the ones I could see. They ask for the following:^[3]

• "Spirit Attuned Gem" quest: Spirit Attuned Gem and Spirit Attuned Crystal.^[3]
• "Otherworld Log" quest: Unstable Otherworld Sapling and Otherworld Log.^[3]
• "Otherstone" quest: Otherstone and Burnt Otherstone.^[3]
• "Spirits" quest: Book of Binding: Empty.^[3]

Finishing all four opens "Basic Chalks" quest, which asks for Impure White Chalk, White Chalk and Yellow Chalk. Next is "Preparing For A Ritual" quest, which covers the ritual bowls: a Sacrificial Bowl (or its dark version) and a Golden Ritual Bowl (or its dark version). The source list for that quest is cut off after those two, so I can't confirm any further requirements.^[3]

"Your First Ritual" quest has an observation task, asks for copper, iron, gold and silver ingots, and wants a Book of Binding: Foliot (Bound). After it come "More About Rituals & Pentacles" quest (Crushed End Stone), "Purple Chalk" quest (Purple Chalk) and then "The Quest For More Chalk" quest, which wants Research Fragment Dust plus its ritual.^[3]

The research hub

Once the research fragment dust quest is done, several quests open up from it:^[3]

• "Green Chalk" quest: Green Chalk.^[3]
• "Lime & Light Gray Chalks" quest: Lime Chalk, Light Gray Chalk and a skeleton skull.^[3]
• "Feeling Lazy?" quest: Apprentice Ritual Satchel. "How Lazy Can You Get?" quest then asks for Artisanal Ritual Satchel.^[3]
• "Otherworld Goggles" quest: Otherworld Goggles. "Surprisingly Substantial Satchel" quest: Surprisingly Substantial Satchel. Both also need another quest I couldn't see.^[3]

Foliot, djinni, afrit and marid rituals

The Foliot quests mostly pair an advancement with a ritual item. They cover the transporter ("Foliot Transporter" quest), the smelter ("Foliot Smelter" quest), the otherstone trader ("Foliot Otherstone Trader" quest), the janitor ("Foliot Janitor" quest) and the sapling trader ("Foliot Otherworld Sapling Trader" quest). The sapling trader quest leads to "Foliot Lumberjack" quest, the Foliot Lumberjack.^[3]

The Foliot smelter quest feeds into the Djinni smelter quest, "Djinni Smelter" quest. The other Djinni quests cover clear weather ("Djinni Weather Mage" quest), dawn and dusk ("Djinni Time Mage" quest), the crusher ("Djinni Crusher" quest) and Light Blue Chalk ("Light Blue Chalk" quest). The Machine Operator quest, "Djinni Machine Operator" quest, also needs the Dimensional Crystal Matrix quest described below.^[3]

The Afrit tier starts with "Kandar's Opened Conjure" quest (Afrit Essence) and "Red Chalk" quest (Red Chalk). The Afrit rituals are the smelter ("Afrit Smelter" quest), the crusher ("Afrit Crusher" quest) and the rain and thunderstorm summonings ("Afrit Weather Mage" quest). Marid quests come after those: the crusher ("Marid Crusher" quest) and the smelter ("Marid Smelter" quest).^[3]

"Black Chalk" quest asks for Witherite Dust, Black Chalk and a wither skeleton skull. It leads to "Tibira's Attraction" quest (Marid Essence) and then "Blue Chalk" quest (Blue Chalk).^[3]

Storage

The storage line is a straight chain. It starts at "Storage Actuator Base" quest (Storage Actuator Base). From there you go through the stabilizers: "Tier 1 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer" quest for tier 1, "Tier 2 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer" quest for tier 2, "Tier 3 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer" quest for tier 3 and "Tier 4 Dimensional Storage Stabilizer" quest for tier 4. The end of the line is "Stabilized Dimensional Storage Actuator" quest, the Stabilized Dimensional Storage Actuator.^[3]

Side quests branch off the base. "Remote Network Access" quest asks for the Stable Wormhole, and "Storage Access On-The-Go" quest asks for the Storage Accessor. "Dimensional Storage" quest wants the Dimensional Crystal Matrix and the Dimensional Storage Actuator.^[3]

Mining and Iesnium

1. "Infused Pickaxe" quest: Infused Pickaxe.^[3]
2. "Iesnium" quest: Iesnium Ingot.^[3]
3. "Iesnium Pickaxe" quest: Iesnium Pickaxe.^[3]
4. "Dimensional Mineshaft" quest: Dimensional Mineshaft.^[3]
5. The miner quests run in order: "Foliot Miner" quest for the Miner Foliot, "Ore Miner Djinni" quest for the Ore Miner Djinni, "Deep Ore Afrit Miner" quest for the Deep Ore Miner Afrit and "Master Marid Miner" quest for the Master Miner Marid. "Eldritch Ancient Miner" quest then asks for the Eldritch Ancient Miner.^[3]

Related quests are "Iesnium Sacrificial Bowl" quest (an Iesnium Ritual Bowl or its dark version), "Iesnium Anvil" quest (Iesnium Anvil) and "Repairing a Miner" quest (the miner repair ritual).^[3]

Other chapters also ask for this gear. In resource_generation, "Farming from the Demon Realm" quest wants any one of the four miners plus the Dimensional Mineshaft. In resources_and_you, "Dimensional Mineshaft" quest asks for the Dimensional Mineshaft.^[8][9]

Familiars, possession, wild rituals and late chalks

A large group of quests is built around rituals and advancements. The familiar quests include "Hedyrin's Familiars" quest (beaver, deer, greedy or parrot), "Blacksmith Familiar" quest (blacksmith), "Guardian Familiar" quest (guardian), "Ihagan's Enthrallment Familiars" quest (bat, beholder, cthulhu, devil, dragon, drikwing, fairy, headless ratman or mummy) and "Chimera and Niggurath Familiar" quest (chimera). Possession quests include "Hedyrin's Possessions" quest, "Hedyrin's Animals" quest, "Ihagan's Enthrallment Animals" quest, "Ihagan's Enthrallment Possessions" quest and "Abras' Possessions" quest. "Osorin's Unbound Calling" quest asks for a ritual from each of several wild-invocation groups.^[3]

Other quests in this group are:^[3]

• "Cursed Honey" quest: Cursed Honey and the possessed bee ritual.^[3]
• "Odus' Open Convocation" quest: Demonic Meat. "Pink Chalk" quest follows with Pink Chalk.^[3]
• "Cruelty Essence" quest: Cruelty Essence. "Brown Chalk" quest follows with the brown chalks.^[3]
• "Soul Gems" quest: Soul Gem and Familiar Ring. "Trinity Gem" quest then asks for the Trinity Gem.^[3]
• The late chalk quests cover magenta ("Magenta Chalk" quest), cyan ("Cyan Chalk" quest) and rainbow plus void ("Rainbow Chalk" quest). The Celestial Chalice or Eldritch Chalice is asked for in "Eldritch Chalice" quest.^[3]

Unverified Several quests depend on prerequisite quests that aren't in the Occultism sources I was given, so I can't say exactly how the chapter is first unlocked.

Most Occultism values in this pack match the mod defaults. A few were changed on purpose, and they shape how the mod feels, so start with those.^[6][7][10]

Values the pack changed

• rituals.ritualDurationMultiplier is 0.25 here, where the mod default is 1. Values below 1.0 speed rituals up, so rituals run much faster in this pack than in plain Occultism.^[7]
• storage.stabilizedControllerStabilizers is 7 here, down from the mod default of 8. It sets the amount of tier 5 stabilizers in the stabilized storage actuator.^[7]
• Dimensional Mineshaft mining times are cut in half. dimensional_mineshaft.miner_foliot_unspecialized.maxMiningTime is 200 (default 400), dimensional_mineshaft.miner_djinni_ores.maxMiningTime is 150 (default 300), dimensional_mineshaft.miner_afrit_deeps.maxMiningTime is 100 (default 200), and dimensional_mineshaft.miner_marid_master.maxMiningTime is 50 (default 100).^[6]

The ancient eldritch miner keeps its defaults: dimensional_mineshaft.miner_ancient_eldritch.maxMiningTime is 15, dimensional_mineshaft.miner_ancient_eldritch.durability is 3200, and dimensional_mineshaft.miner_ancient_eldritch.rollsPerOperation is 1. Durability is the number of mining operations a spirit can perform before breaking.^[6]

Storage actuator capacity

Storage is otherwise at mod defaults. Here are the base numbers and what each stabilizer tier adds on top.^[7]

• storage.controllerMaxItemTypes is 128, the number of slots the storage actuator provides.^[7]
• storage.controllerMaxTotalItemCount is 256,000, the stack size the storage actuator uses.^[7]
• Tier 1 stabilizers add 64 slots through storage.stabilizerTier1AdditionalMaxItemTypes.^[7]
• Tier 1 stabilizers add 512,000 to the total item count through storage.stabilizerTier1AdditionalMaxTotalItemCount.^[7]
• Tier 5 stabilizers add 1,024 slots through storage.stabilizerTier5AdditionalMaxItemTypes.^[7]
• Tier 5 stabilizers add 8,192,000 to the total item count through storage.stabilizerTier5AdditionalMaxTotalItemCount.^[7]

storage.unlinkWormholeOnBreak is false. Turning it on unlinks the wormhole when it breaks, so it can't act as a cheaper Storage Accessor.^[7]

Toggles worth knowing

• items.anyOreDivinationRod is true, so the Divining Rod can attune to any ore.^[7]
• items.minerEfficiency, items.minerFortune and items.minerSilk are all true, so enchanted miners get their enchantment benefits. items.minerOutputBeforeBreak is false.^[7]
• items.unbreakableChalks is false, so chalks are damaged on use.^[7]
• The time and weather rituals are all enabled, including rituals.enableThunderWeatherRitual.^[7]

Client options

misc.divinationRodScanRange is 129 blocks, the mod default, and the config warns that a range that's too high might cause lag. misc.storageRows is 4, the number of rows shown at one time on the storage controller.^[10]

If you're colorblind, the chalk glyph colors can be changed, for example visual.redChalkGlyphColor. For most types of color blindness the config recommends changing red to a green color, and it suggests 33289.^[10]

FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 ships Occultism 1.224.4, and the mod has been in the pack since 1.0.1 or earlier. Below are the notable changes from the mod's own changelogs, newest first. They describe the mod in general, so they don't tell you whether the pack changed any values.^[2]

Unverified No pack changelog entries for Occultism were available, so any pack-specific changes to its recipes or values are unverified here.

Recent releases

• 1.224.4 fixed ritual names in HUDs. This is the version your pack has.^[2][11]
• 1.224.0 added a French (fr_fr) translation.^[12]
• 1.223.0 reverted an earlier Japanese localization update for 1.21.1.^[13]
• 1.220.4 fixed a bug where the current recipe was not saved.^[14]
• 1.215.0 made some blocks implement the Clearable interface so they work with Sable.^[15]
• 1.214.0 made the EMI ritual recipe category work properly with AE2 autocrafting.^[16]

Earlier changes worth knowing

• 1.205.0 brought optimisation patches, plus a Crowdin translation update.^[17]
• 1.201.0 added Brazilian Portuguese translations.^[18]
• 1.197.0 was an omnibus update that added the Farmer Spirit, along with fixes.^[19]
• 1.192.2 fixed an issue in the nature paste item code.^[20]
• 1.190.0 moved more items to the new style and added ways to get prismarine and corals. It also updated the Chinese localization.^[21]
• 1.189.0 added new item and block textures by Aldahel, switched the build from NeoGradle to ModDevGradle, and fixed the 3D divination rod model's search animation.^[22]
• 1.181.0 added a Crystallizer and extra drops, among other feedback-driven changes and a fix.^[23]

Several other releases, such as 1.191.0, only brought Crowdin translation updates.^[24]