Oritech in FTB Skies 2

Oritech is a tech mod built around animated machines, with plenty of processing options, world-interaction machines, logistics parts, equipment and new mechanics. Most machines are animated multiblocks, and you upgrade them with addon blocks. This pack ships Oritech 1.2.10.^[1][2]

What you can do with it

• Run multiple ore processing chains and variants.^[1]
• Set up automated farming machines and electric tools and armor.^[1]
• Move items, fluids and energy with pipes, or send items over long distances with drones.^[1]
• Mine blocks automatically with lasers, such as the Enderic Laser.^[1][3]
• Augment yourself with cybernetics and build Particle Accelerators.^[1]
• Generate power in different ways, from burning fossil fuels to running sustainable biofuel farms.^[1]

A core design idea is that there are usually several ways to get the same thing, so you rarely hit a roadblock that needs one rare item. For example, plastic can come from farming items or from oil processing. The mod also aims for renewable fuel and items through large automated farms, and each pipe type has only one tier.^[1]

Where it fits in the pack

The pack gives Oritech its own quest chapter. It opens with a Primitive or Basic Machine Core ("Making Multiblocks with Machine Cores" quest) and with a Magnetic Coil plus a Motor ("Core Crafting Components" quest).^[3]

The coil and motor quest leads to your first machines: the Foundry, Basic Generator, Powered Furnace, Pulverizer, Tree Cutter, Centrifuge and Pump.^[3]

The machine core quest leads to the Machine Addon Extender, which unlocks the addon quests such as speed, efficiency, capacitor and yield addons. It also leads to the pipes and the Pipe Wrench.^[3]

Further along, the Foundry leads to the Adamant Ingot, and that leads to the Assembler. The Assembler then leads to the Enderic Lens and the Processing Unit. Carbon fibre, the Cybernetic Augmentation Center and the research stations also have quests.^[3]

Unverified The quest list available for this guide was cut off, so later Oritech quests (and how they connect to the rest of the pack's progression) are not confirmed here.

Oritech is a tech mod built around animated multiblock machines, with upgrades added through addon blocks. This pack gives it its own quest chapter, and the early quests show a clear order to work in. Here is how I'd follow it.^[1][3]

Step 1: Nickel, a machine core, then the coil and motor

1. Get some nickel first. The mod's first advancement asks for raw nickel, and nickel ingots go into both the magnetic coil and the motor recipes.^[4][5]
2. Make a machine core. The quest "Making Multiblocks with Machine Cores" quest accepts either a Primitive Machine Core or a Basic Machine Core. It is the way into the addon and pipe quests.^[3]
3. Make a Magnetic Coil and a Motor. Quest "Core Crafting Components" quest asks for both, and many of the early machine quests come after it.^[3]

6× Magnetic CoilMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• any copper ingot
• 2× any nickel ingot
• any steel ingot

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/magnet

The recipe dump lists the Magnetic Coil as an Assembler recipe.

2× MotorMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• 2× Magnetic Coil
• any nickel ingot
• any steel ingot

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/motor

The Motor is also listed as an Assembler recipe.

Step 2: Pick your first machines

After the coil and motor quest, these machine quests open up. You don't need to do them in a strict order.^[3]

• Basic Generator for power. Its quest leads on to the Lava Generator, Equipment Charger, Portable Energy Storage and Steam Boiler Addon.^[3]
• Powered Furnace and Pulverizer for basic ore processing. The Pulverizer quest leads on to Enderic Compound.^[3]
• Centrifuge, which leads on to Carbon Fibre Strands.^[3]
• Tree Cutter and Pump. The Pump quest leads on to the Portable Tank.^[3]
• Foundry, which is the way on to adamant.^[3]

Step 3: Adamant and the Assembler

After the Foundry, the quest line asks for an Adamant Ingot, and that in turn leads to the Assembler. You can also smelt or blast Adamant Dust into an ingot.^[3][5]

Adamant IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any nickel ingot	any nickel ingot	Empty slot
any diamond gem	any diamond gem	Empty slot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/alloy/adamant

With the Assembler you can work towards the Enderic Lens and the Processing Unit. The Processing Unit quest also needs another quest, 76120A38BC49FB92, which these sources do not describe. Carbon fibre, which the Processing Unit needs, can be made in the Centrifuge from coal dust.^[3][5]

Carbon Fibre StrandsMod recipe

Centrifuge (oritech)

• any coal dust

Recipe id: oritech:centrifuge/carbon

This is the Centrifuge route to Carbon Fibre Strands.

Processing UnitMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• any carbon fibre
• any redstone dust
• any electrum ingot
• any plastic plate

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/processingunit

The Processing Unit is an Assembler recipe.

Step 4: Addons and pipes

From the machine core, the Machine Addon Extender quest "Machine Customization!" quest opens the addon quests: speed, efficiency, yield, capacitor, acceptor, quarry and more. The core also leads to the pipe quest, which asks for an item, fluid or energy pipe plus the Pipe Wrench.^[3]

Oritech machines are mostly animated multiblocks, and you upgrade them with addon blocks. The mod also keeps logistics simple: pipe blocks only get block entities where they are needed (for example, where they connect to machines), and the networks are cached. Below is what the pack's files confirm about power, fluids, items and addons.^[1]

Generators in this pack

The pack makes several generators much stronger than the mod's defaults. These are the changed values from the pack's config.^[6]

• Basic generator: machineSettings.generators.basicGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 128 (mod default 32) and machineSettings.generators.basicGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 512 (mod default 256).^[6]
• Bio generator: machineSettings.generators.bioGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 256 (mod default 64) and machineSettings.generators.bioGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 1,024 (mod default 512).^[6]
• Lava generator: machineSettings.generators.lavaGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 256 (mod default 64) and machineSettings.generators.lavaGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 1,024 (mod default 512).^[6]
• Solar generator: machineSettings.generators.solarGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 1,024 (mod default 32) and machineSettings.generators.solarGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 4,096 (mod default 256).^[6]

The steam engine settings are the mod defaults in this pack. Its steam capacity is 8 buckets (machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.steamBoilerCapacityBuckets), and it makes 1 energy per steam unit (machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.steamToRfRatio). With machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.stopOnEnergyFull on, it stops when its energy storage is full. For generators with the steam addon, machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.rfToSteamRatio is 2 droplets of steam per the usual RF.^[6]

Moving energy

There is only one tier of each pipe type. The energy pipe moves 10,000 RF/t (logistics.energyPipeTransferRate), which is the mod default, so the pack has not changed it. Superconductor cables are far faster, at 4,194,304 RF/t (logistics.superConductorTransferRate).^[1][6]

For long distances, use the Energy Transmission Pole. The config sets the separation between poles to a minimum of 50 (logistics.poleConfig.minRange) and a maximum of 1,000 (logistics.poleConfig.maxRange). The pole's transmission rate and capacity is 1,000,000 RF/t (logistics.poleConfig.energyCapacity).^[5][6]

Energy Transmission PoleMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Magnetic Coil	Empty slot	Magnetic Coil
any electrum ingot	Portable Energy Storage	any electrum ingot
Carbon Fibre Strands	Carbon Fibre Strands	Carbon Fibre Strands

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/_pole

How to craft the Energy Transmission Pole.

Fluids and items

A Fluid Pipe extracts 0.5 buckets per cycle (logistics.fluidPipeExtractAmountBuckets), with one cycle every 3 ticks (logistics.fluidPipeExtractIntervalDuration). Each pipe has an internal buffer of 2 buckets (logistics.fluidPipeInternalStorageBuckets). All of these are the mod defaults.^[5][6]

The pack changes how you craft the fluid pipe and the Pump, through their Ender IO compat recipes. The recipes below are the in-pack ones.^[5]

6× Fluid PipeChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot
Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder	Conduit Binder
any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot

Recipe id: oritech:compat/enderio/crafting/fluidpipe

Fluid Pipe, changed by the pack.

PumpChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	Motor	any copper ingot
Conduit Binder	any plating	Conduit Binder

Recipe id: oritech:compat/enderio/crafting/pump

Pump, changed by the pack.

The Opaque Item Pipe moves 8 items per cycle (logistics.itemPipeTransferAmount), with one cycle every 5 ticks (logistics.itemPipeIntervalDuration). Those are also the mod defaults.^[5][6]

Addons

Addon bonuses are added together rather than multiplied in this pack, because machineSettings.additiveAddons is true. The Burst Addon has a processing speed multiplier of 8 (machineSettings.addonConfig.burstAddonSpeedMultiplier) and a throttle energy multiplier of 1.2 (machineSettings.addonConfig.burstAddonThrottleMultiplier).^[5][6]

Burst AddonMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Redstone	any steel ingot	Redstone
any electrum ingot	Industrial Support Girder	any electrum ingot
any plating	any plating	any plating

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/addon/burst

Burst Addon.

If you want more energy storage on a machine, the Power Bank Addon Extender builds on the Capacitor Addon and the Machine Addon Extender.^[5]

Power Bank Addon ExtenderMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Machine Addon Extender

Capacitor Addon

Empty slot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/addon/capextender

Power Bank Addon Extender.

Work machines

• Deep drill: each work step costs 1,024 RF (machineSettings.deepDrillConfig.energyPerStep), and it needs 20 work steps per ore output (machineSettings.deepDrillConfig.stepsPerOre).^[6]
• Destroyer block and enderic laser: block hardness affects speed through machineSettings.blockBreakHardnessExponentialFactor, set to 0.5. A lower value means hardness has less effect on speed.^[6]
• Fertilizer: uses 0.25 buckets of liquid per fertilized block (machineSettings.fertilizerConfig.liquidPerBlockUsage).^[6]

Colorable machines

Machines can be colored with machine paints, such as White Machine Paint, Redstone Machine Paint and Netherite Machine Paint. The recipes for these are shown below, and the pack changes the Netherite one.^[1][5]

4× White Machine PaintMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	White Dye	Empty slot
any plastic plate	any quartz dust	any plastic plate
Empty slot	White Dye	Empty slot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/_whitepaint

White Machine Paint.

4× Redstone Machine PaintMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Red Dye	Empty slot
any plastic plate	Redstone	any plastic plate
Empty slot	Red Dye	Empty slot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/_redstonepaint

Redstone Machine Paint.

4× Netherite Machine PaintChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any netherite ingot	Empty slot
any plastic plate	Carbon Fibre Strands	any plastic plate
Empty slot	any netherite ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/_netheritepaint

Netherite Machine Paint, changed by the pack.

Arcane and late-game systems

The Tainted Refinery gets bonuses from the blocks around it. Arcane blocks increase energy efficiency, and sculk blocks increase the output multiplier. To create a Tainted Refinery, you explode a Refinery near a soul-charged Catalyst.^[4]

The Catalyst's base soul capacity is 50 (arcane.catalystBaseSouls), and each catalyst soul capacity level increase costs 20 RF/t (arcane.catalystRFPerSoul). The enchanter soul cost multiplier is 5 (arcane.enchanterCostMultiplier). All of these are mod defaults.^[6]

A black hole has a pull range of 16 blocks (blackHole.pullRange), and the unstable container has a base capacity of 20,000,000 RF (blackHole.unstableContainerBaseCapacity). The cybernetic station has a maximum energy storage of 500,000,000 (augments.augmenterMaxEnergy).^[6]

Player augments

Oritech also adds cybernetic augments for the player. Several of them can be switched on and off from the augment interface, including the magnet, night vision and ore finder. Others are always on, such as the +4 armor points from the armor augment and the 25% movement speed increase from the speed boost augment.^[1][4]

Oritech has its own quest chapter in this pack, and the quest order is a handy way to see how the mod fits together. Each step below follows the quest dependencies, so you can see what comes after what. The quests have no titles, so each one is linked by its task item.^[3]

Stage 1: Cores, coils and motors

The chapter opens with two parallel quests. One asks for a Primitive Machine Core or Basic Machine Core ("Making Multiblocks with Machine Cores" quest). The other asks for a Magnetic Coil and a Motor ("Core Crafting Components" quest).^[3]

6× Magnetic CoilMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• any copper ingot
• 2× any nickel ingot
• any steel ingot

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/magnet

Magnetic Coil, made in the Assembler.

2× MotorMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• 2× Magnetic Coil
• any nickel ingot
• any steel ingot

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/motor

Motor, also made in the Assembler.

The coil and motor quest opens the basic machine branch: Foundry, Basic Generator, Powered Furnace, Pulverizer, Tree Cutter, Centrifuge and Pump.^[3]

The core quest leads to the Machine Addon Extender ("Machine Customization!" quest) and to pipes with the Pipe Wrench. The Pipe Booster comes after the pipes.^[3]

Stage 2: Addons and power

The Machine Addon Extender unlocks the addon quests: Control Unit, Quarry, Inventory Proxy, Acceptor, Capacitor, Speed, Efficiency, Yield and Hunter. The Acceptor, Capacitor, Speed and Efficiency quests also accept tier 2 to tier 9 versions of the addon from the oritechthings namespace.^[3]

Power goes through the Basic Generator. After it come the Lava Generator, the Equipment Charger, the Portable Energy Storage and the Steam Boiler Addon. The Steam Boiler Addon in turn leads to the Steam Engine.^[3]

Stage 3: Adamant, carbon fibre and the Assembler

The Foundry leads to the Adamant Ingot quest ("Adamant Ingot" quest), which leads to the Assembler ("The Assembler" quest). This pack changes the alloying recipes for Adamant in several compat machines, so check the recipe viewer for what you have installed. The plain crafting recipe is here:^[3][5]

Adamant IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any nickel ingot	any nickel ingot	Empty slot
any diamond gem	any diamond gem	Empty slot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/alloy/adamant

AssemblerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot
Crafter	Adamant Ingot	Crafter
Motor	any plating	Motor

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/assembleralt

An in-pack way to craft the Assembler.

The Pulverizer leads to Enderic Compound ("Enderic Compound" quest), and then to Advanced Machine Core. The pack changes the Enderic Compound recipes that use Ender Dust.^[3][5]

The Centrifuge leads to Carbon Fibre Strands ("Carbon Fiber" quest). That unlocks Improved Machine Core, the Fluid Addon and the Cybernetic Augmentation Center. After the augment block, the quest chapter asks for the research stations: Cybernetic Research Station, Quantum Research Station and Arcane Research Station.^[3]

After the Fluid Addon, you're asked for Raw Biopolymer, then Biosteel Ingot. The pack adds its own Centrifuge recipe for Raw Biopolymer:^[3][5]

Raw BiopolymerAdded by the pack

Centrifuge Fluid (oritech)

• Kelp Resin
• 250× Water

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/centrifuge/fluid/raw_biopolymer_with_kelp_goo

Stage 4: Processing units, lasers and Fluxite

The Assembler leads to the Enderic Lens and the Processing Unit ("Processing Units" quest). The Processing Unit unlocks the Placer Block, Item Filter, Fertilizer Block, Crop Filter Addon and Nuclear Reactor Controller. The Placer and the Fertilizer Block then lead to the Machine Frame.^[3]

The Enderic Lens and Processing Unit together lead to the Enderic Laser and Target Designator ("The Power Of The End" quest). From there you get Fluxite ("Fluxite" quest) and the Enderic Railgun. The pack changes the Fluxite recipes in the Powah and Productive Metalworks compat.^[3][5]

Fluxite leads to the Flux Gate ("Flux Gate" quest), the Exo armor set and a Turbofuel Bucket. The Exo armor and the fuel bucket together lead to the jetpack quest. The fuel bucket also leads to the Fuel Generator.^[3]

Flux GateMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• 2× Fluxite
• Processing Unit
• any platinum ingot

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/fluxgate

The Flux Gate opens the Large Energy Storage (which leads to Schrödinger's Safe), the Big Solar Panel, the Fragment Forge and the Bio Generator.^[3]

Stage 5: Atomic Forge and endgame

The Atomic Forge ("Atomic Forge" quest) needs both the laser quest and the Flux Gate quest done first.^[3]

Atomic ForgeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Flux Gate	Duratium Ingot	Flux Gate
any plastic plate	Enderic Compound	any plastic plate
any plating	any plating	any plating

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/atomicforge

It opens the endgame quests: Arcane Catalyst with Stabilized Enchanter, the Drone Port, the Destroyer Block, the Particle Accelerator and Prometheum. It also unlocks Elite Machine Core or Ultra Machine Core. Prometheum comes from the Atomic Forge.^[3][5]

PrometheumMod recipe

Atomic Forge (oritech)

• Heisenberg Compensator
• 2× Overcharged Crystal

Recipe id: oritech:atomicforge/prometheum

Prometheum leads to Ultimate Machine Core, the Prometheum Battleaxe and the Prometheum Pickaxe. The Particle Accelerator controller leads to the Particle Accelerator Guide Ring, Particle Accelerator Sensor, Particle Accelerator Linear Motor and Tachyon Absorber.^[3]

The reactor branch

The Nuclear Reactor Controller has its own side branch. It asks for the vent and heat pipe, the rods with a fuel port, a reflector and a pellet, the heat absorber with the coolant absorber port, the Reactor Wall, and the energy and redstone ports. The pack changes the Plutonium Pellet recipes, so don't rely on mod defaults for those.^[3][5]

Oritech is tied into a lot of other mods in this pack. The pack added or changed recipes so that Oritech machines handle materials from other mods, and several pack-made items need Oritech parts. Here are the connections that show up in the recipes.^[5]

For background, the mod's own project page lists built-in compatibility on NeoForge with Applied Energistics 2, Create, Ender IO, Immersive Engineering, Industrial Foregoing, Mekanism and Mekanism Generators, PneumaticCraft: Repressurized and Powah, among others. The recipes below are what this pack actually does.^[1]

Ore processing with FTB Materials

The pack adds an Oritech ore chain for the metals from the pack's materials mod. The Refinery turns raw materials into clumps using Sheol Fire. The Atomic Forge then turns a clump into a dirty dust using Fluxite. This is set up for aluminum, antimony, copper, gold, iridium, iron, lead, nickel, osmium, platinum, silver, tin, uranium and zinc. Iron is shown as the example.^[5]

3× Iron ClumpAdded by the pack

Refinery (oritech)

• 250× Sheol Fire
• any iron raw material

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/refinery/iron

Raw iron to Iron Clump in the Refinery, added by the pack.

2× Iron Dirty DustAdded by the pack

Atomic Forge (oritech)

• Iron Clump
• Empty
• 2× Fluxite

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/atomicforge/clump/iron

Iron Clump to Iron Dirty Dust in the Atomic Forge, added by the pack.

The Centrifuge also has a pack-changed route that takes Sulfuric Acid from Modern Industrialization plus a copper or gold clump. It gives you Copper Dust or Gold Dust along with Mineral Slurry. The same acid shows up in the pack-changed recipes for the Basic Battery and Advanced Battery.^[5]

Applied Energistics 2 and Advanced AE

Ender Dust is how you make Enderic Compound in the Centrifuge. The pack changed both the AE2 and Ender IO compat recipes, and both use AE2's Ender Dust. In the Atomic Forge, Silicon Wafer uses Printed Silicon, and Advanced Computing Engine uses Quantum Processor.^[5]

Advanced Computing EngineChanged by the pack

Atomic Forge (oritech)

• Quantum Processor
• Empty
• Processing Unit
• Silicon Wafer

Recipe id: oritech:atomicforge/advcomputer

Pack-changed Advanced Computing Engine recipe in the Atomic Forge.

Other mods feeding Oritech

• Immersive Engineering: the Centrifuge turns HOP Graphite Dust into Carbon Fibre Strands.^[5]
• FTB Materials and plastic: the Assembler recipes for Plutonium Pellet all use Plutonium Dust and a plastic plate. They differ by the metal used: a nickel ingot, an Adamant Ingot or a Duratium Ingot.^[5]
• GeOre: each budding GeOre block, such as Budding Diamond GeOre, is made in the Assembler from its matching shard, Enderic Compound and an Overcharged Crystal. The pack changed these recipes.^[5]
• Mekanism: a stonecutting recipe converts Block of Biomass into Block of Bio Fuel, and another converts it back.^[5]
• Kelp Resin: the Centrifuge combines Kelp Resin with water to produce Raw Biopolymer.^[5]

Budding Diamond GeOreChanged by the pack

Assembler (oritech)

• 2× Diamond GeOre Shard
• Enderic Compound
• Overcharged Crystal

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/compat/geore/buddingdiamond

Example of the budding GeOre pattern, a recipe changed by the pack.

Oritech parts in the pack's own items

Several pack-made items need Oritech components. Bio-Neural Circuit needs a Super AI Chip in both of its recipes. One is the Modern Industrialization assembler version, which also uses Molten Energite. The Advanced AE reaction version takes an energite ingot instead.^[5]

Supercritical Mass needs the Low-Yield Nuclear Explosion Device alongside parts from Immersive Engineering, Mekanism and Powah. Mekanized Super Computer needs Prometheum alongside Mekanism parts. Infinitely Compressed Circuit Board needs the Advanced Computing Engine and the Flux Gate in a Create sequenced assembly. Ethereal Essence needs a Plutonium Pellet, and Dissolved Potential needs Strange Matter.^[5]

4× End Portal FrameAdded by the pack

Assembler (oritech)

• Teleportation Core
• Empty
• Sculk
• Flux Gate
• any nether star

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/assembler/end_portal_frame

The pack adds an Oritech Assembler recipe for the End Portal Frame.

Addons and quests

The Oritech quest chapter also accepts tiered addon blocks from the oritechthings namespace. For example, the speed addon quest has one task for Speed Addon and another that accepts a tier 2 to tier 9 speed addon such as Speed Addon Tier 2. The acceptor, capacitor and efficiency addon quests work the same way.^[3]

Oritech has one quest chapter in this pack, called "oritech". Its quests have no titles, so each one is identified by its ID and by the item it asks for. Every task I can see is an item task, so the chapter works as a tech tree: you progress by getting each machine or material in turn.^[3]

Where the chapter starts

There are two entry points. "Making Multiblocks with Machine Cores" quest asks for a Primitive Machine Core or a Basic Machine Core. "Core Crafting Components" quest asks for a Magnetic Coil and a Motor. Both unlock after a quest that isn't part of the quest list I was given, so I can't tell you what that one is.^[3]

Early machines and addons

• After the motor quest, these open up: "The Foundry" quest (Foundry), "Oritech Power!" quest (Basic Generator), "The Powered Furnace" quest (Powered Furnace), "It's Crushing Time" quest (Pulverizer), "Tree Automation" quest (Tree Cutter), "Spin To Win" quest (Centrifuge) and "Pump It Up" quest (Pump).^[3]
• After the machine core quest, "Basic Logistics" quest asks for any one of the item, fluid or energy pipes plus the Pipe Wrench. "Pipe Booster" quest then asks for the Pipe Booster.^[3]
• "Machine Customization!" quest asks for the Machine Addon Extender. It leads to the addon quests: "Redstone Control Unit Addon" quest (Control Unit Addon), "Quarry Addon" quest (Quarry Addon), "Machine Inventory Proxy Addon" quest (Inventory Proxy Addon), "Machine Yield Addon" quest (Yield Addon) and "Machine Hunter Addon" quest (Hunter Addon).^[3]
• Four more addon quests ask for the base addon plus a higher-tier version of it: "Machine Acceptor Addon" quest (acceptor), "Machine Capacitor Addon" quest (capacitor), "Machine Speed Addon" quest (speed) and "Machine Efficiency Addon" quest (efficiency).^[3]
• The generator branch has "Lava Power" quest (Lava Generator), "The Charger" quest (Equipment Charger), "Portable Energy Storage" quest (Portable Energy Storage) and "Converting To Steam!" quest (Steam Boiler Addon). The boiler addon leads to "The Steam Engine" quest (Steam Engine). The pump leads to "Portable Tank" quest (Portable Tank).^[3]

Materials, augments and the assembler

• The foundry leads to "Adamant Ingot" quest (Adamant Ingot), then "The Assembler" quest (Assembler).^[3]
• The pulverizer leads to "Enderic Compound" quest (Enderic Compound), then "Tier 4 Machine Cores" quest (Advanced Machine Core). "Rechargeable Tools" quest asks for a Chainsaw or a Hand Drill, and needs both the adamant and the enderic compound quests done first.^[3]
• The centrifuge leads to "Carbon Fiber" quest (Carbon Fibre Strands). From there you can do "Tier 3 Machine Cores" quest (Improved Machine Core), "Processing Fluids" quest (Fluid Addon) and "Cybernetic Augmentation Center" quest (Cybernetic Augmentation Center).^[3]
• The fluid addon leads to "Biopolymer" quest (Raw Biopolymer) and then "Biosteel" quest (Biosteel Ingot). The augmentation center leads to "Research Stations" quest, which asks for the Cybernetic Research Station, the Quantum Research Station and the Arcane Research Station.^[3]

Processing unit, lasers and the reactor

"Enderic Lens" quest (Enderic Lens) follows the assembler. "Processing Units" quest (Processing Unit) needs the assembler quest plus one quest that isn't in the quest list I was given.^[3]

The processing unit opens several branches: "Placer Block" quest (Placer Block), "Filtering Items" quest (Item Filter), "Crop Filter Addon" quest (Crop Filter Addon), "Automating Crop Farms!" quest (Fertilizer Block) and "Nuclear Reactor Control Panel" quest (Nuclear Reactor Controller). "Machine Frame" quest (Machine Frame) needs both the fertilizer and placer quests.^[3]

The reactor controller unlocks the reactor build quests: "Heat Vents & Heat Pipes" quest (heat vent and heat pipe), "Reactor Rods" quest (a rod, a fuel port, a reflector and a uranium or plutonium pellet), "Reactor Heat Absorbers" quest (heat absorber and coolant absorber port), "Designing Your Reactor" quest (reactor wall) and "Energy & Redstone Ports" quest (energy port and redstone port).^[3]

"The Power Of The End" quest asks for the Enderic Laser and the Target Designator, and needs both the lens and processing unit quests. It leads to a quest in "Oritech" (Enderic Railgun) and "Fluxite" quest (Fluxite).^[3]

Late game

• Fluxite leads to "Flux Gate" quest (Flux Gate). From the flux gate: "Large Energy Storage" quest (Large Energy Storage), "Big Solar Panel" quest (Big Solar Panel), "The Fragment Forge" quest (Fragment Forge) and "Bio Generator" quest (Bio Generator). Large storage leads to "Schrödinger's Safe" quest (Schrödinger's Safe).^[3]
• Fluxite also leads to "Exo Armor" quest (the full Exo armor set) and "Turbofuel" quest (Turbofuel Bucket). The fuel bucket leads to "The Fuel Generator" quest (Fuel Generator). Once you have both the armor and the fuel bucket, "Jetpacks" quest asks for any one of the four jetpack variants.^[3]
• "Atomic Forge" quest (Atomic Forge) needs the laser quest and the flux gate quest.^[3]
• After the atomic forge: "Oritech Enchanting" quest (Arcane Catalyst and Stabilized Enchanter), "Drone Port" quest (Drone Port), "Destroyer Block" quest (Destroyer Block), "Particle Accelerator" quest (Particle Accelerator), "Prometheum" quest (Prometheum) and "Machine Core Upgrades!" quest (Elite Machine Core or Ultra Machine Core).^[3]
• The accelerator controller leads to "Accelerator Designs" quest (guide ring), "Particle Accelerator Sensor" quest (sensor), "Accelerator Setup" quest (linear motor) and "Tachyons" quest (Tachyon Absorber).^[3]
• Prometheum leads to "The Ultimate Machine Core!" quest (Ultimate Machine Core), "Prometheum Battleaxe" quest (Prometheum Battleaxe) and "Prometheum Pickaxe" quest (Prometheum Pickaxe).^[3]
• "Spawning Mobs" quest asks for the Spawner Controller and the Spawner Cage. It unlocks after a quest that isn't in the quest list I was given, so its place in the order is unclear.^[3]

Oritech has a huge number of options, but this pack only changes a handful of them, and all of those are on the generators. Everything else you will care about sits at the mod default.^[6]

What the pack changed: generators

Four generator types have higher output and higher extraction limits than the mod default. Here is each one, with the pack value first and the mod default in brackets.^[6]

• Basic generator: machineSettings.generators.basicGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 128 (default 32), and machineSettings.generators.basicGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 512 (default 256).^[6]
• Bio generator: machineSettings.generators.bioGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 256 (default 64), and machineSettings.generators.bioGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 1,024 (default 512).^[6]
• Lava generator: machineSettings.generators.lavaGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 256 (default 64), and machineSettings.generators.lavaGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 1,024 (default 512).^[6]
• Solar generator: machineSettings.generators.solarGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 1,024 (default 32), and machineSettings.generators.solarGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 4,096 (default 256). This is the biggest jump of the lot.^[6]

The fuel generator was left alone: machineSettings.generators.fuelGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 256 and machineSettings.generators.fuelGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 2,048, both the mod default.^[6]

Logistics at their defaults

Pipes and poles are not changed, so you can plan around the stock numbers.^[6]

• logistics.energyPipeTransferRate is 10,000 RF/t.^[6]
• logistics.superConductorTransferRate is 4,194,304 RF/t.^[6]
• Item pipes move 8 items per cycle (logistics.itemPipeTransferAmount), with 5 ticks between transfers (logistics.itemPipeIntervalDuration).^[6]
• Fluid pipes extract 0.5 buckets every 3 ticks (logistics.fluidPipeExtractAmountBuckets and logistics.fluidPipeExtractIntervalDuration) and hold 2 buckets internally (logistics.fluidPipeInternalStorageBuckets).^[6]
• Energy poles must be at least 50 blocks apart (logistics.poleConfig.minRange) and at most 1,000 blocks apart (logistics.poleConfig.maxRange).^[6]

Reactor and particle accelerator

The reactor is at mod defaults too: reactor.maxHeat is 2,000 and reactor.maxSize is 64. Each energy port outputs up to 25,000 RF/t (reactor.reactorMaxEnergyOutput).^[6]

For the particle accelerator, the minimum collision energy is 5,000 for a nether portal (particleAccelerator.netherPortalRequiredSpeed), 10,000 for an end portal (particleAccelerator.endPortalRequiredSpeed) and 15,000 for a black hole (particleAccelerator.blackHoleRequiredSpeed). None of these were changed.^[6]

Handy toggles

• equipment.chainsawTreeCutting is true, so the chainsaw can cut whole trees.^[6]
• worldGeneration.easyFindFeatures is true. Oil wells show a small fountain and bedrock ore nodes show a boulder on the surface.^[6]
• machineSettings.additiveAddons is true, so addon bonuses are added together rather than multiplied.^[6]
• showMachinePreview is true, which renders the multiblock placement preview. maxZiplineSpeed is 8 blocks per second.^[7]
• tightMachineFrameHitboxes is false, while tightCableHitboxes and tightMachineAddonHitboxes are true.^[8]

FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 ships Oritech 1.2.10, and Oritech has been in the pack since 1.0.1 or earlier. There are no pack changelog entries for this mod, so everything below comes from Oritech's own changelogs. These are the mod's releases, and I can't tell you which of them each pack version picked up.^[2]

Latest releases (1.2.6 to 1.2.10)

• 1.2.10 (the version in the pack): fixes world generation breaking with the latest architectury version, and updates translations.^[2][9]
• 1.2.9: adds a warning slider to the reactor UI. The auto-feeder augment now ignores bad food and picks food in a better order. It also fixes fluid extraction issues on NeoForge and machine cores not handling explosions correctly.^[10]
• 1.2.8: fixes the FluidHandler.Drain implementation on NeoForge, which should sort out some fluid interaction issues. Fluid pipes also handle empty targets better, and a crash with the latest oracle index version is fixed.^[11]
• 1.2.7: fixes enderic laser block destruction in adventure mode, an edge case crash with the enchantment catalyst, and adds missing recipe input count sorting to the tainted refinery.^[12]
• 1.2.6: improves large particle accelerator performance and fixes augments not refreshing directly after respawns.^[13]

Earlier highlights

• 1.1.0: adds the Hangar Door block and lets the industrial door be colored. Block API lookup caches improve the performance of pipes and generators. Ore amounts in boulders are slightly reduced, and the pulverizer recipe is cheaper because it uses iron instead of steel. Jetpacks also load with turbofuel now.^[14]
• 1.0.1: the augment hotkey becomes its own separate hotkey, and reactor ports (fuel and coolant) now drop their contents when broken. The crop filter addon is also more compatible with modded crops.^[15]
• 0.19.7: the uranium block gets a slight glowing effect. Machine gantry rendering performance improves, and reactor screens no longer show a hugely inflated produced energy amount.^[16]
• 0.18.1: pumps now only extract the first fluid type they find. Fluid type registration on NeoForge was redone for better compatibility with some mods, and a crash with particle accelerators is fixed.^[17]
• 0.17.3: mining mode for enderic railguns also disables explosive shots. Yield addons are now limited to 3 on enderic lasers and block destroyers.^[18]
• 0.17.2: efficiency calculations now allow changes beyond -100%, so -100% doubles energy usage. Default assembler, foundry and grinder recipes are faster, and fluid pipes can extract from cauldrons on NeoForge with default settings.^[19]
• 0.16.2: you can extract input fluids from machines by interacting with fluid container items. Nickel ore not generating on NeoForge is fixed, along with an unstable container that deleted blocks.^[20]