Plonk in FTB Skies 2

Same as in the All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 guide

Plonk is a small quality-of-life mod that lets you place items down in the world without needing a block for them. You look at the side of a block, press the Place Item key, and the item you're holding sits there as a display. It's great for showing off gear, tools and rare finds in your base. This pack includes Plonk 10.0.6 for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge.^[1][2]

What you can do with it

• Place up to 4 stacks of items on the side of any block with the Place Item key, which defaults to P. The maximum size of each stack is configurable.^[1]
• Rotate a single item to one of 16 directions by sneaking and right-clicking with an empty hand. The mod page says this needs two empty hands.^[1]
• Rotate the whole tile of items to one of 4 directions by sneaking and pressing the Place Item key with an empty hand.^[1]
• Pull items out with automation. Automation can extract from placed items but can't insert into them.^[1]
• Placed items are no longer washed away by fluids, and they can be waterlogged.^[1]

Who it's for

The mod page says the look of the placed items and the mechanics are currently subject to change, so treat the details here as how Plonk behaves in this version.^[1]

Plonk's server config lives in a file called plonk-server.toml inside your save's serverconfig folder, according to the mod page. I haven't checked its individual options against this pack, so look at the file itself before relying on any value.^[1]

Unverified The sources I have don't say where Plonk fits into this pack's progression. They don't show any quests that involve it, and they don't place it on the ATM Star path.

Same as in the All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 guide

Good news: Plonk doesn't have a crafting chain to work through. There's nothing to build first. It lets you place items down in the world, so your first steps are learning the controls.^[1]

Your first steps

1. Look at the side of a block and press the Place Item key, which defaults to P. This places the item you're holding on that block.^[1]
2. Place more items on the same spot. You can put up to 4 stacks of items on the side of any block.^[1]
3. Rotate a single item by sneaking and right-clicking it with an empty hand. Each item can face 16 different directions. The mod page says this needs two empty hands.^[1]
4. Rotate the whole tile of items at once by sneaking and pressing the Place Item key with an empty hand. The whole tile turns to 4 different directions.^[1]

Good to know

• Placed items can be extracted by automation, but automation can't insert items into them.^[1]
• Placed items are no longer washed away by fluids, and they can be waterlogged on Minecraft 1.16.3 and newer.^[1]
• The maximum size of each stack is configurable. The mod page says the setting lives in plonk-server.toml, inside the serverconfig folder of your save, on Minecraft 1.13 and newer.^[1]
• The mod's author says the look of placed items and the mechanics are currently subject to change.^[1]

Unverified Nothing available to me shows any in-pack recipes, quests or changed config values for Plonk, so I can't say whether this pack alters the defaults above, including the stack size limit. Check the config in your own world to see the actual value.

Same as in the All the Mods 10: To the Sky 2.0.4 guide

Plonk isn't a machine mod, so there's no power, no multiblock and no fluid handling to learn here. It does one job: it lets you set items down on the side of a block in the world. The mechanics are small, but they're worth knowing.^[1]

Placing items

Look at a block and press the Place Item key, which defaults to P. You can put up to 4 stacks of items on the side of any block. The maximum size of each stack is configurable, and the mod supports StackUp.^[1]

Rotating what you placed

• To rotate a single item, sneak and right-click it with an empty hand. Each item can face 16 different directions. The page also says this needs two empty hands.^[1]
• To rotate the whole tile of items at once, sneak and press the Place Item key with an empty hand. The tile turns to one of 4 directions.^[1]

Automation and fluids

Automation can extract items from a Plonk tile, but it can't insert them. That means you can't use Plonk as an automated drop-off point.^[1]

Fluids no longer wash placed items away. Plonk blocks can also be waterlogged, as of Minecraft 1.16.3 and newer.^[1]

Configuration

For Minecraft 1.13 and later, the mod's page puts the config at serverconfig/plonk-server.toml inside the save folder. The page also says the look of the placed items and the mechanics are currently subject to change.^[1]

Unverified I couldn't confirm whether the pack changes any Plonk setting, including the maximum stack size per placed item. The available sources show no pack config for this mod, so check the actual value in your own world before relying on it.

Plonk has very little to configure, and this pack doesn't change any of it. Both options below are at their out-of-the-box behavior, so you don't need to edit anything to place items in the world.^[3]

Max stack size

maxStackSize controls how many items fit in each slot of a placed stack. The pack sets it to -1, which is also the mod default. A value of -1 or 0 means the default size is used. The mod page says you can place up to 4 stacks on the side of a block, and that the size of each stack is configurable.^[1][3]

Unplaceable items

unplaceableItems is a blacklist of items that can't be placed down. The pack leaves it as an empty list, so nothing is blocked by this option.^[3]

If you want to block something yourself, the file's comment says to use the format "mod_id:item_id", for example "minecraft:carrot". You can also use the plonk:unplaceable item tag instead.^[3]

FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 ships Plonk 10.0.6, using the file plonk-1.21.1-10.0.6-neo.jar. Plonk has been in the pack since FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the modpack.^[4]

Plonk 10.0.6

The 10.0.6 release, dated 2025-03-25, ported the mod to Minecraft 1.21.1 for NeoForge. That's the build you're running in this pack.^[4][5]

Unverified Whether any FTB Skies 2 pack release changed how Plonk behaves is not confirmed, because there are no pack changelog entries for this mod. Older Plonk versions are also not covered here.