Roots guide for FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 to 1.13.4

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Roots is part of the pack at version 4.0.0.31-alpha, so everything in this guide describes that alpha build. The sources I have don't include a mod description or an in-mod guidebook, so this overview covers where Roots shows up in the pack's quests rather than a full mechanics breakdown.^[1]

You meet Roots very early. In the opening chapter, quest a quest in "?" asks you to make any wooden tool plus Wooden Shears. After that, Roots gets its own quest chapter.^[2]

The Roots quest chain

The main line runs through the Roots chapter. Here is the order the quests unlock in:^[3]

1. Start with a quest in "?", which asks for Wildroot and Grove Spores.^[3]
2. Next comes a quest in "?", where you get a Runestone.^[3]
3. After the runestone, two quests open: a quest in "?" for the Pyre, and a quest in "?" for the Mortar and Pestle.^[3]
4. With the runestone and pyre done, a quest in "?" has you set up the Grove Crafter, Primal Grove Stone, Grove Pedestal and Grove Supplication.^[3]
5. The grove setup unlocks a quest in "?" (Runic Shears, Spiritleaf, Wildewheet), a quest in "?" (any one of the Living tools) and a quest in "?" (Elemental Soil).^[3]

Side quests

• a quest in "?" asks for Antlers and Carapace, and it lists no prerequisite quest.^[3]
• Once you have the pyre, you can also pick up a quest in "?" (Wildroot Growth and Wildwood Log), a quest in "?" (Animal Harvest) and a quest in "?" (Bafflecap).^[3]
• Outside the Roots chapter, a quest in "?" in the wild hunt chapter asks for a Living Sword.^[4]

Unverified The sources don't show how Roots fits the wider pack progression, and there is no information on an ATM Star path for this mod. Check in-game before relying on either.

In this pack, the easiest way into Roots is to follow its quest chapter (roots_4) in the quest book. It starts with a couple of plant items, moves on to stone, and then leads to the Grove Crafter. Here is the order, and why.^[5]

Optional prep: Wooden Shears

Before the Roots chapter, the early-game chapter (the_beginning) has a quest that asks for a wooden tool and Wooden Shears. It is an easy item to pick up while you work through that chapter.^[6]

Wildroot and Grove Spores

The first quest in the Roots chapter, a quest in "?", asks for Wildroot and Grove Spores. The Runestone quest comes right after it, so start here.^[5]

Both can drop from grass in this pack, because grass_drops.drop_wildroot and grass_drops.drop_grove_spores are both set to true. The pack also adds a market recipe for Grove Spores, which gives you a second way to get them.^[7][8]

Grove SporesAdded by the pack

Market (farmingforblockheads)

Recipe id: ftb:farmingforblockheads/market/seeds/roots/grove_spores

Added by the pack.

Runestone

After the spores, the quest book asks for Runestone in a quest in "?". Runestone is the base material for most of what follows: the Pyre, Mortar and Grove Crafter recipes below all use it. This is a Runestone recipe in the pack:^[5][8]

RunestoneMod recipe

Grove (roots)

• any grove stone
• any stonelike

Recipe id: roots:grove/runestone_1

Pyre and Mortar

Both of these quests branch off Runestone. a quest in "?" asks for a Pyre, and a quest in "?" asks for a Mortar and a Pestle.^[5]

PyreMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any log	any coal	any log
any runestone	any runestone	any runestone

Recipe id: roots:pyre

MortarMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

7 × any runestone

Recipe id: roots:mortar

The mortar can grind Runestone into Runic Dust. The pestle cooldown, mortar.pestle_cooldown, is 20 ticks in this pack, which is the mod default.^[7][8]

Runic DustMod recipe

Mortar (roots)

• any runestone

Recipe id: roots:mortar/runic_dust

Grove Crafter

The big milestone is a quest in "?", which comes after both Runestone and Pyre. Its tasks are the Grove Crafter, a Primal Grove Stone, a Grove Pedestal and Grove Supplication.^[5]

Grove CrafterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any runestone	any runestone herb	any runestone
any runestone	any runestone	any runestone

Recipe id: roots:grove_crafter

5× Grove PedestalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

7 × any log

Recipe id: roots:grove_pedestal

Where to go next

• After the Grove Crafter, the book offers a quest in "?" for Runic Shears, the Living tools quest a quest in "?", and a quest in "?" for Elemental Soil.^[5]
• Straight after the Pyre, the book offers a quest in "?", a quest in "?" and a quest in "?" for Bafflecap.^[5]

Elemental SoilMod recipe

Grove (roots)

• any gravel
• 3× any dirt
• any runic dust
• any grove stone

Recipe id: roots:grove/elemental_soil

The sources for Roots in this pack cover its numbers well (config values and recipes), but they don't include a guidebook. So this section sticks to what the configs and recipe dump actually show: area sizes, power, timers and a few pack changes.^[7][8]

Grove Stones and their ranges

The mod has several Grove Stone blocks, including Elemental, Fairy, Fungal, Primal, Sprouting, Twilight and Wild Grove Stones. The config gives two kinds of area for them. First there is a power range, set to 30 on each of the X, Y and Z axes. These are half values, so they describe how far the range reaches from the stone. They match the mod defaults.^[7][9]

Then there are four rank-based area-of-effect boxes. Each has one value for Y and one shared by X and Z. Rank 1 uses 3, Rank 2 uses 8, Rank 3 uses 15 and Rank 4 uses 30. These are also half values, and the pack leaves all of them at the mod defaults.^[7]

• grove_stones.grove_stone_power_range_x, grove_stones.grove_stone_power_range_y and grove_stones.grove_stone_power_range_z: 30 each.^[7]
• grove_stones.rank_1_grove_bounds_zx and grove_stones.rank_1_grove_bounds_y: 3.^[7]
• grove_stones.rank_2_grove_bounds_zx and grove_stones.rank_2_grove_bounds_y: 8.^[7]
• grove_stones.rank_3_grove_bounds_zx and grove_stones.rank_3_grove_bounds_y: 15.^[7]
• grove_stones.rank_4_grove_bounds_zx and grove_stones.rank_4_grove_bounds_y: 30.^[7]

The Fungal Transmuter and power

The Fungal Transmuter is the one machine here with a power budget. It can store up to 5,000 power, which is the mod default (fungal_transmuter.fungal_transmuter_max_stored_power).^[7][9]

Pyre, Growth Amplifier and Runic Shears

Several tools and blocks use a bounding box that is also set as a half value on each axis. The Pyre uses 10 on X, Y and Z (pyre.pyre_bounds_x, pyre.pyre_bounds_y, pyre.pyre_bounds_z). The Growth Amplifier uses 2 on each axis (growth_amplifier.growth_amplifier_bounds_x and its Y and Z siblings). Runic Shears use 3 on each axis (runic_shears.aoe_bounding_box_x and its Y and Z siblings). All of these match the mod defaults.^[7]

Enchanted Turf takes 100 ticks to create a new grass block above it (growth_amplifier.enchanted_turf_ticks), which is the mod default.^[7][9]

Mortar and Grove crafting

The Mortar has a cooldown after you use a pestle on it. It is 20 ticks in this pack (mortar.pestle_cooldown), and -1 would remove the cooldown. Here is how Runic Dust is made in the Mortar:^[7][8]

Runic DustMod recipe

Mortar (roots)

• any runestone

Recipe id: roots:mortar/runic_dust

The mod also has a Grove Crafter block and grove-type recipes. The pack has 19 of them, each making a different result. Good examples are Runestone and the Bafflecap Fairy Hut.^[8][9]

RunestoneMod recipe

Grove (roots)

• any grove stone
• any stonelike

Recipe id: roots:grove/runestone_1

Bafflecap Fairy HutMod recipe

Grove (roots)

• Experience Bottle
• any wooden chest
• any mossy cobblestone
• any fertilizer
• any emerald gem
• any wooden door
• any fairy grove stone
• 4× any bafflecap herb

Recipe id: roots:grove/bafflecap_fairy_hut

Soils, crops and the cloche

Elemental Soil is turned into Aqueous Soil by a crafting recipe:^[8]

Aqueous SoilMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Elemental Soil
• any dewgonia herb

Recipe id: roots:aqueous_soil_from_elemental_soil_and_dewgonia

Elemental crops can drop extra items when harvested. This is enabled, with a 0.1 chance (elemental_soil.elemental_crop_extra_drops_chance). That chance only applies when no specific chance is already given in the data map.^[7]

The pack adds its own cloche recipes for growing Aubergine from Aubergine Seeds on several soils. It has 20 cloche recipes involving Roots items in total, and the Aubergine ones come from the pack, not the mod. Here is the plain dirt version:^[8]

AubergineAdded by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Dirt
• Aubergine Seeds

Recipe id: ftb:cloche/aubergine_from_dirt

Aubergine seeds, grove spores and wildroot can all drop from grass, and all three drops are enabled (grass_drops.drop_aubergine_seeds, grass_drops.drop_grove_spores, grass_drops.drop_wildroot).^[7]

Smaller settings worth knowing

• The Charm of Alertness effect lasts 200 ticks, with its sound and visual effect on (alertness.duration).^[7]
• When a heavy storm ritual and a protection ritual conflict, the pack uses AGE_PRIORITY, so the ritual started earliest wins (ritual_conflict.ritual_resolution_type). The other options are STORM_PRIORITY and PROTECTION_PRIORITY.^[7]
• Sprout breeding rewards use a default chance of 10 when an item has no entry of its own in the data map (sprouts.default_chance).^[7]
• Experience orbs are teleported when you use magnetism (magnetism.move_experience_orbs).^[7]

Unverified How the Grove Crafter and its pedestals are laid out, how the Pyre and Incense Burner are used, and what the Fungal Transmuter converts could not be confirmed from the sources available for this pack.

Roots has its own chapter in the pack's quest book (it's called roots_4), and it gives you a clear order to work in. Most of it branches off the Grove Spores quest, so follow it and you won't miss a tier.^[5]

The main path

1. Start with a quest in "?". It asks for Wildroot and Grove Spores (plus another item the book doesn't name).^[5]
2. Next comes a quest in "?", which unlocks after the spores. You can also turn Chiseled Runestone or Runestone Brick back into Runestone with a stonecutter.^[5][8]
3. After Runestone, the book opens a quest in "?" for the Pyre, and a quest in "?", which wants the Mortar and the Pestle.^[5]
4. a quest in "?" needs both Runestone and Pyre done first. It asks for the Grove Crafter, the Primal Grove Stone, the Grove Pedestal and Grove Supplication.^[5]
5. After the Grove Crafter, the book unlocks a quest in "?", a quest in "?" and a quest in "?".^[5]

Grove SporesAdded by the pack

Market (farmingforblockheads)

Recipe id: ftb:farmingforblockheads/market/seeds/roots/grove_spores

The pack adds this Farming for Blockheads market recipe for the Grove Spores.

Here are the in-pack recipes for the first tiers. The Pyre and Mortar come first, then the Grove Crafter and its pedestals.^[8]

PyreMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any log	any coal	any log
any runestone	any runestone	any runestone

Recipe id: roots:pyre

MortarMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

7 × any runestone

Recipe id: roots:mortar

Grove CrafterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any runestone	any runestone herb	any runestone
any runestone	any runestone	any runestone

Recipe id: roots:grove_crafter

5× Grove PedestalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

7 × any log

Recipe id: roots:grove_pedestal

After the Grove Crafter

The Living Axe quest accepts any of the living tools: Living Sword, Living Axe, Living Pickaxe, Living Shovel or Living Hoe. The Runic Shears quest asks for Runic Shears, Spiritleaf and Wildewheet. The Elemental Soil quest asks for Elemental Soil. The recipes below for the shears, the axe and the soil are all Grove Crafter recipes.^[5][8]

Runic ShearsMod recipe

Grove (roots)

• Shears
• Wooden Shears
• any small flower
• any grove stone
• any grove moss herbs
• 2× any runestone

Recipe id: roots:grove/runic_shears

Living AxeMod recipe

Grove (roots)

• Wooden Axe
• any gold ingot
• any grove stone
• any grove moss herbs
• 2× any wildroot herb

Recipe id: roots:grove/living_axe

Elemental SoilMod recipe

Grove (roots)

• any gravel
• 3× any dirt
• any runic dust
• any grove stone

Recipe id: roots:grove/elemental_soil

Side branches off the Pyre

Several quests open straight after the Pyre: a quest in "?" (wildroot growth and a Wildwood Log), a quest in "?" and a quest in "?". a quest in "?" has no prerequisite in this chapter. It asks for Antlers and Carapace.^[5]

The pyre recipes cover Bafflecap, Dewgonia and Cloud Berry. The recipe for Aqueous Soil is shown after the Bafflecap one.^[8]

BafflecapMod recipe

Pyre (roots)

• Allium
• Brown Mushroom
• Red Mushroom
• any fertilizer
• any wildroot herb

Recipe id: roots:pyre/bafflecap

Aqueous SoilMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Elemental Soil
• any dewgonia herb

Recipe id: roots:aqueous_soil_from_elemental_soil_and_dewgonia

This is how you get Aqueous Soil.

The pack adds Create cutting recipes for wildwood. A Wildwood Log cuts into a stripped log (and tree bark), and a Stripped Wildwood Log cuts into 6 Wildwood Planks.^[8]

Quests elsewhere in the book

Roots turns up early in the opening chapter. a quest in "?" asks for a wooden tool and Wooden Shears. The Living Sword also has its own quest in the Wild Hunt chapter, a quest in "?", with no prerequisite listed.^[6][10]

Knives and pouches

The knife line goes from the Copper Knife up through the Diamond Knife to the Netherite Knife. The pack changed the Netherite Knife smithing recipe, so check this one rather than relying on the mod's default.^[8]

Copper KnifeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any copper ingot
Empty slot	any wildroot herb	Empty slot
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: roots:copper_knife

Netherite KnifeChanged by the pack

Smithing Transform

• Netherite Upgrade Smithing Template
• Diamond Knife
• any netherite ingot

Recipe id: minecraft:netherite_knife_smithing

The pack also adds its own recipe for the Creative Pouch through KubeJS.^[8]

Creative PouchAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Sylvan Pouch
• Creative Ascension

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/roots_creative_pouch

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Roots is mostly self-contained, but this pack ties it into several other mods through recipes the pack adds itself. The links fall into four groups: growing Roots crops in a cloche, stripping Wildwood, turning Wildwood Leaves into fuel, and crafting the Creative Pouch.^[11]

Growing Roots crops in the Cloche

The pack adds Immersive Engineering Cloche recipes for four Roots crops: Aubergine, Moonglow, Spiritleaf and Wildewheet. Each one pairs the crop's seeds (Aubergine Seeds, Moonglow Seeds, Spiritleaf Seeds, Wildewheet Seeds) with a soil from another mod.^[11]

The soils come from several other mods, and all four crops accept the same set:^[11]

• Just Dire Things: Primogel Soil, Blazebloom Soil, VoidShimmer Soil and Shadowpulse Soil.^[11]
• Mystical Agriculture: Inferium Farmland, Prudentium Farmland, Tertium Farmland, Imperium Farmland and Supremium Farmland.^[11]
• Mystical Agradditions: Insanium Farmland.^[11]
• Farmer's Delight: Rich Soil.^[11]

Here is one of the Aubergine recipes as an example. The other crops follow the same pattern with their own seeds.^[11]

AubergineAdded by the pack

Cloche (immersiveengineering)

• Rich Soil
• Aubergine Seeds

Recipe id: ftb:cloche/aubergine_from_rich_soil

The pack adds this Cloche recipe, and the other soils and crops use the same pattern.

Stripping Wildwood with Create

The pack adds Create cutting recipes for Wildwood. Cutting Wildwood Log gives you Stripped Wildwood Log plus Tree Bark from Farmer's Delight. Cutting Wildwood Wood gives Stripped Wildwood Wood, also with bark.^[11]

Stripped Wildwood Log, Tree BarkAdded by the pack

Cutting (create)

• Wildwood Log

Recipe id: create:cutting/runtime_generated/compat/roots/wildwood_log_to_stripped_wildwood_log

Stripped Wildwood Wood, Tree BarkAdded by the pack

Cutting (create)

• Wildwood Wood

Recipe id: create:cutting/runtime_generated/compat/roots/wildwood_wood_to_stripped_wildwood_wood

Wildwood Leaves into Bio Fuel

If you have spare Wildwood Leaves, the pack adds a Mekanism crushing recipe that turns them into Bio Fuel.^[11]

2× Bio FuelAdded by the pack

Crushing (mekanism)

• Wildwood Leaves

Recipe id: ftb:biocrushing_roots_wildwood_leaves

The Creative Pouch

The pack adds a shapeless KubeJS recipe for the Creative Pouch. It combines a Sylvan Pouch with Creative Ascension.^[11]

Creative PouchAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Sylvan Pouch
• Creative Ascension

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/roots_creative_pouch

Quests

The tasks I can read in the Roots quest chapter (roots_4) name only Roots items, so that chapter does not ask you to bring items from other mods.^[3]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Roots appears in the quest book in the "roots_4" chapter, plus a quest each in "the_beginning" and "the_wild_hunt". The quests have no titles in the pack files, so I refer to them by their IDs.^[2][3][4]

The roots_4 chapter

This chapter walks you through the mod. a quest in "?" and a quest in "?" have no prerequisite, so you can start with either. The main line then runs from the first of them through the Runestone quest.^[3]

1. a quest in "?" is a starting quest. It asks for Wildroot, Grove Spores and an additional item task that the source doesn't name.^[3]
2. a quest in "?" is the other starting quest, and nothing has to come before it. It asks for Antlers and Carapace.^[3]
3. a quest in "?" unlocks after a quest in "?" and asks for a Runestone.^[3]
4. a quest in "?" comes after the Runestone quest and asks for a Pyre.^[3]
5. a quest in "?" also comes after the Runestone quest. It asks for a Mortar and a Pestle.^[3]
6. a quest in "?" needs both the Runestone and Pyre quests. It asks for Grove Crafter, Primal Grove Stone, Grove Pedestal and Grove Supplication.^[3]

Branches after the Pyre

Once the Pyre quest is done, these quests open up, and you can take them in any order.^[3]

• a quest in "?" asks for Wildroot Growth and a Wildwood Log.^[3]
• a quest in "?" asks for Animal Harvest and has a checkmark task.^[3]
• a quest in "?" asks for any of Wildroot, Wildewheet or Spiritleaf, plus a Bafflecap.^[3]

Branches after the Grove Crafter quest

These quests unlock once you finish a quest in "?".^[3]

• a quest in "?" asks for Runic Shears, Spiritleaf and Wildewheet.^[3]
• a quest in "?" accepts any of the Living tools: Living Sword, Living Axe, Living Pickaxe, Living Shovel or Living Hoe.^[3]
• a quest in "?" asks for Elemental Soil and an additional item task that the source doesn't name.^[3]

Quests in other chapters

• In "the_beginning", a quest in "?" asks for any wooden tool (shovel, pickaxe, axe, hoe or sword) together with Wooden Shears. It unlocks after an earlier quest in that chapter.^[2]
• In "the_wild_hunt", a quest in "?" asks for a Living Sword. The source lists no prerequisite for it.^[4]

Roots has a lot of options, but this pack leaves almost all of them alone. In the common config, the only value the file marks as changed from the mod default is the Fungal Transmuter's power use. Everything below is how the pack sets it.^[7]

The one change: Fungal Transmuter

fungal_transmuter.fungal_transmuter_power_per_tick is set to 50 in this pack. The mod default is 1. So the Fungal Transmuter consumes far more power per tick here than in a stock install, and that is worth planning around if you build one.^[7]

The storage cap is untouched: fungal_transmuter.fungal_transmuter_max_stored_power is 5,000, which is the mod default.^[7]

Grove Stone ranges

The Grove Stone power range is 30 on each axis, set by grove_stones.grove_stone_power_range_x, grove_stones.grove_stone_power_range_y and grove_stones.grove_stone_power_range_z. These are half values, and they match the mod default.^[7]

The area of effect for each Grove Stone rank is also at the mod default. These are half values for the X and Z size (zx) and the Y size:^[7]

• Rank 1: 3 for grove_stones.rank_1_grove_bounds_zx and 3 for grove_stones.rank_1_grove_bounds_y.^[7]
• Rank 2: 8 for grove_stones.rank_2_grove_bounds_zx and 8 for grove_stones.rank_2_grove_bounds_y.^[7]
• Rank 3: 15 for grove_stones.rank_3_grove_bounds_zx and 15 for grove_stones.rank_3_grove_bounds_y.^[7]
• Rank 4: 30 for grove_stones.rank_4_grove_bounds_zx and 30 for grove_stones.rank_4_grove_bounds_y.^[7]

Other areas, timings and drops

• Pyre area: 10 on each axis (pyre.pyre_bounds_x, pyre.pyre_bounds_y, pyre.pyre_bounds_z), the mod default.^[7]
• Runic Shears area: 3 on each axis (runic_shears.aoe_bounding_box_x, runic_shears.aoe_bounding_box_y, runic_shears.aoe_bounding_box_z), the mod default.^[7]
• Growth Amplifier area: 2 on each axis (growth_amplifier.growth_amplifier_bounds_x, growth_amplifier.growth_amplifier_bounds_y, growth_amplifier.growth_amplifier_bounds_z). Enchanted Turf takes 100 ticks to make a new grass block above it (growth_amplifier.enchanted_turf_ticks). Both are the mod default.^[7]
• Pestle cooldown on a mortar is 20 ticks (mortar.pestle_cooldown), the mod default. Setting it to -1 removes the cooldown.^[7]
• Grass drops are all on: grass_drops.drop_aubergine_seeds, grass_drops.drop_grove_spores and grass_drops.drop_wildroot are true.^[7]
• Elemental crops can drop extra items (elemental_soil.elemental_crop_extra_drops is true) with a 0.1 chance (elemental_soil.elemental_crop_extra_drops_chance), the mod default. That chance only applies when no specific chance is already in the data map.^[7]
• Sprout breeding rewards use a default chance of 10 (sprouts.default_chance), the mod default, when a reward isn't listed in the data map.^[7]

Alertness charm and rituals

The Alertness charm lasts 200 ticks (alertness.duration), the mod default. It plays a sound (alertness.sound is true) and shows a visual effect (alertness.visual is true). alertness.tag is false, so entities are not filtered to the roots:alertness entity tag.^[7]

When a heavy storm ritual and a protection ritual clash, ritual_conflict.ritual_resolution_type is set to AGE_PRIORITY, so the ritual started earliest wins. The other allowed values are STORM_PRIORITY and PROTECTION_PRIORITY.^[7]

World structures

All the Roots structures are switched on: barrow.barrow, hut.hut, hut.ruined_hut and standing_stones.standing_stones are all true.^[12]

Placement is set in the structure placement file. Barrows use spacing 90 and separation 45. Huts use spacing 50 and separation 35. Standing stones use spacing 60 and separation 35. The salt values are 314159223 for barrows, 8266497 for huts and 14987612 for standing stones. See barrow.spacing, hut.spacing and standing_stones.spacing for the spacing keys.^[13]

Client options

debug.suppress_reputation_changes is true, so reputation changes are not displayed on your client. The warning overlay (overlays.warning_overlay) is on and shows whenever a mob targets you while you hold the Alertness charm or have it in a suitable Curios slot. The Aqua Bubble overlay (overlays.aqua_bubble_overlay) is on too.^[14]

If Roots particles cause you trouble, particle.disable_particles turns all of them off, and it is false in this pack. particle.disable_custom_particle_shader is false as well. With Iris running it may have no effect, because Iris disables custom shaders by default. particle.force_custom_particle_shader overrides it and is also false. particles.delayed_particles is true, which sorts translucent particles so they don't disappear when they overlap.^[14]