Simply Light in FTB Skies 2
FTB Skies 2 1.24.0 ships version 1.5.3 · First seen in 1.0.1
Simply Light is a mod in FTB Skies 2 1.24.0, where it is version 1.5.3. Simple light for a complicated world. (Summary from the mod's Modrinth page.)
Simply Light guide for FTB Skies 2
Last verified for FTB Skies 2 v1.24.0 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
Also applies to:All the Mods 10 0.32 to 2.16All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.0 to 2.1.0All the Mons 0.3.0-beta to 1.3.0FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.0.3 to 1.10.0FTB StoneBlock 4 1.1.1 to 1.23.0
- Sections
- 4
- Recipes shown
- 17
- Items named
- 14
1 section is written for this pack; 3 are shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against FTB Skies 2 1.24.0, read from the running game on Oct 13, 2026.
What is Simply Light?
Same as in the All the Mods 10 2.16 guide
Simply Light is in the pack at version 1.4.6+1.21-b53 (file simplylight-1.4.6+1.21-b53.jar). It has been part of the pack since version 0.32 or earlier, so it isn't a recent addition.[1]
Unverified The sources I have don't describe what Simply Light adds, who it is aimed at, or how it fits into the pack's progression. I also have no confirmed recipes, config options or quests for it, and no guidebook, so I'm not guessing at any of that. I'll fill this in once there is something to back it up.
How do you get started with Simply Light?
5 parts
Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide
This mod adds lighting blocks, and the recipes shown here are all crafting recipes. Here is the order I'd go in, starting with the light bulb.[2]
First: Simple Light Bulb
Start with the Simple Light Bulb. One craft gives you 8 of them.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any stone | any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:bulb
Next: Illuminant Block
Next, make the Illuminant Block. This craft gives you 4 blocks, and the mod describes it as a simple light block.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone | |
| any redstone dust | ||
| any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_block
If you want the inverted version, Illuminant Block(Inverted), you can craft it directly for 4 blocks, or turn an Illuminant Block into it with a single-item shapeless recipe.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone | |
| any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_block_on
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_block_on_toggle
The reverse swap, back to the normal block, is also a one-item recipe.[2]
Then: Dynamic Edge Light
The Dynamic Edge Light (bottom) is great for hallways. One craft makes 6. When you place it, it morphs to follow the blocks around it, and that shape stays afterward. That means you can shape it using temporary blocks.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | Empty slot | any stone |
| any stone | Empty slot | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:edge_light
There is also a top version, Dynamic Edge Light (top), and you can swap between the two with shapeless recipes.[2]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: simplylight:edge_light_bottom_from_top
Colors
Once you have edge lights, you can recolor them with a dye recipe that makes 8 per craft, for example Dynamic Blue Edge Light (bottom).[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any any edge light | any any edge light | any any edge light |
| any any edge light | any any edge light | |
| any any edge light | any any edge light | any any edge light |
Recipe id: simplylight:edge_light_blue_dyed
Panels are made from slabs, for example Illuminant Black Panel from Illuminant Black Slab. The plain Illuminant Slab has its own recipe too.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_slab
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_panel_black_split
Finally: fixtures, rods and columns
When you want more decorative options, the mod also has the Illuminant Fixture, which makes 6 per craft, and the Illuminant Rod, which makes 8.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone |
| any stone | |
| any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:walllamp
Crafting Shaped
| any glowstone dust | any stone | any glowstone dust |
| any glowstone dust | any stone | any glowstone dust |
| any glowstone dust | any stone | any glowstone dust |
Recipe id: simplylight:rodlamp
The Illuminant Column makes 2 per craft and needs one of the mod's switched-on lamps as an ingredient, so make one of those first.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any any lamp on | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | any wall | Empty slot |
| any stone | any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:lamp_post
How does Simply Light work?
3 parts
Simply Light is a lighting mod, so the interesting part is how the blocks behave when you place and swap them. The sources for this mod cover placement behaviour and the in-pack crafting conversions, so that is what this section covers.[3][4]
Dynamic edge lights
The Dynamic Edge Light (bottom) follows the walls around it, which makes it great for hallways. It morphs to the blocks present around it at the moment you place it, and that shape then persists. That means you can build a shape with temporary blocks, place the light, and remove the blocks afterwards.[3]
There is a bottom and a top version. In this pack you can swap between them in the crafting grid with a single item each way.[3][4]
Bottom to top: one bottom light becomes one top light.
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: simplylight:edge_light_bottom_from_top
Top back to bottom: one top light becomes one bottom light.
Colored versions exist too. The pack has dye recipes for the colors, for example Dynamic Blue Edge Light (bottom), and each one makes 8 lights at a time and accepts any edge light as the base.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
| any any edge light | any any edge light | any any edge light |
| any any edge light | any any edge light | |
| any any edge light | any any edge light | any any edge light |
Recipe id: simplylight:edge_light_blue_dyed
Illuminant blocks and the Inverted variant
The Illuminant Block is described as a simple light block that activates, while the Illuminant Block(Inverted) (Inverted) is described as one that deactivates instead.[3]
You do not need to craft the Inverted version from scratch if you already have the normal one. In this pack, a shapeless recipe converts one into the other, and the colored blocks such as the black one have the same toggle in both directions.[4]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_block_on_toggle
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_black_block_toggle
Placement rules for the smaller lights
- The Illuminant Panel is a simple LED panel light that you can place in any direction, for example Illuminant Black Panel.[3]
- Illuminant Slabs are half-slab lights that you can also place in any direction, for example Illuminant Black Slab.[3]
- The Simple Light Bulb is a plain light bulb that you can place in any direction.[3]
- The Illuminant Column (Illuminant Column) is a 3 block tall lamp post, and only its top block emits light.[3]
Slabs can be turned into panels in this pack. One colored slab gives 6 panels of the same color.[4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_panel_black_split
How do you progress through Simply Light?
4 parts
Same as in the FTB StoneBlock 4 1.22.0 guide
Every recipe in the sources for this mod is a shaped or shapeless crafting recipe from the mod itself. So "progression" here means which pieces you build first and which ones build on them. In total there are 160 shaped and 50 shapeless recipes.[5]
The basic lights
These are the starting pieces: the Simple Light Bulb, the Illuminant Rod, the Dynamic Edge Light (bottom), the Illuminant Slab and the Illuminant Fixture. The recipes for the bulb, the edge light and the rod are shown below.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any stone | any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:bulb
Makes 8 bulbs per craft.
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | Empty slot | any stone |
| any stone | Empty slot | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:edge_light
Makes 6 bottom edge lights per craft.
Crafting Shaped
| any glowstone dust | any stone | any glowstone dust |
| any glowstone dust | any stone | any glowstone dust |
| any glowstone dust | any stone | any glowstone dust |
Recipe id: simplylight:rodlamp
Makes 8 rods per craft.
Illuminant Blocks
The Illuminant Block makes 4 per craft, and so does the inverted Illuminant Block(Inverted). A one-item shapeless recipe swaps a block and its inverted version in either direction, so you can flip one without crafting it from scratch.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| any stone | any stone | |
| any redstone dust | ||
| any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_block
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_block_on_toggle
Columns, panels and swaps
The Illuminant Column makes 2 per craft and uses one of the mod's own lamps as an ingredient. Panels come from slabs: one slab gives 6 Illuminant Panel pieces, and the colored slabs have matching split recipes.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any any lamp on | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | any wall | Empty slot |
| any stone | any stone | any stone |
Recipe id: simplylight:lamp_post
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: simplylight:illuminant_panel_split
Edge lights also have a top version. A shapeless recipe turns the bottom Dynamic Edge Light (bottom) into the Dynamic Edge Light (top), and another turns it back.[5]
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: simplylight:edge_light_bottom_from_top
Color
Dyeing is the last stage. Each dye recipe takes an existing edge light and gives 8 colored ones per craft. The recipes exist for both the bottom and top edge lights, for example Dynamic Blue Edge Light (bottom) and Dynamic Black Edge Light (top). The loot tables for the colored edge lights, such as black and blue, drop the matching item when the block is broken.[5][6][7]
Crafting Shaped
| any any edge light | any any edge light | any any edge light |
| any any edge light | any any edge light | |
| any any edge light | any any edge light | any any edge light |
Recipe id: simplylight:edge_light_blue_dyed
Makes 8 blue bottom edge lights per craft.
Crafting Shaped
| any any edge light | any any edge light | any any edge light |
| any any edge light | any any edge light | |
| any any edge light | any any edge light | any any edge light |
Recipe id: simplylight:edge_light_dyed
The white dye version makes 8 plain bottom edge lights per craft.
Sources
- All the Mods 10 2.16 mod list · pack file
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 recipe dump: recipes making Simply Light items · pack recipe dump
- simplylight names, screen text and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- FTB Skies 2 1.23.0 recipe dump: recipes making Simply Light items · pack recipe dump
- FTB StoneBlock 4 1.22.0 recipe dump: recipes making Simply Light items · pack recipe dump
- data/simplylight/loot_table/blocks/edge_light_black.json (simplylight's jar) · official mod data
- data/simplylight/loot_table/blocks/edge_light_blue.json (simplylight's jar) · official mod data
Where this guide comes from
Written from what FTB Skies 2 itself ships: its files and recipes, the in-game guidebooks and the mods' own pages. Every statement links to the source it came from, and the numbers are checked against the pack before publishing.
Guide last verified Oct 17, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 1.0.1 to 1.22.0
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Version in each release
44 releases, first in 1.0.1
| FTB Skies 2 | Version | Jar | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.24.0 Oct 12, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.23.0 Sep 24, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.22.0 Sep 3, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.21.1 Jul 29, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.20.1 Jul 29, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.20.0 Jul 27, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.19.0 Jul 24, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.18.2 Jun 21, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.18.1 Jun 16, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.18.0 May 31, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.17.0 May 27, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.16.0 May 13, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.15.0 May 1, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.14.3 Apr 1, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.14.2 Apr 1, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.14.1 Mar 27, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.14.0 Mar 21, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.13.4 Feb 27, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.13.3 Feb 19, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.13.2 Feb 17, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.13.1 Feb 13, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.13.0 Feb 12, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.12.0 Jan 6, 2026 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.11.0 Dec 10, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.10.2 Nov 24, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.10.1 Nov 20, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.9.2 Oct 7, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.9.1 Sep 29, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.9.0 Sep 22, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.8.0 Aug 27, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.7.0 Aug 23, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.6.1 Aug 8, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.6.0 Aug 6, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.5.2 Jul 24, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.5.1 Jul 23, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.5.0 Jul 22, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.4.1 Jul 15, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.4.0 Jul 15, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.3.1 Jul 9, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.3.0 Jul 8, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.2.0 Jul 6, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.1.1 Jul 2, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.1.0 Jul 1, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
| 1.0.1 Jul 1, 2025 | 1.5.3 | simplylight-1.5.3+1.21.1-b4.jar | From the published release |
"From pack files" means the list came from the pack's own files; "from the published release" means ForgeBase read the jars of the release itself.
Items and blocks
160 items from the 1.24.0 recipe dump.
Dynamic Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Black Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Blue Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Brown Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Cyan Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Gray Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Green Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Light Blue Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Light Gray Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Lime Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Magenta Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Orange Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Pink Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Purple Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Red Edge Light (bottom)
Dynamic Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Black Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Blue Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Brown Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Cyan Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Gray Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Green Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Light Blue Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Light Gray Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Lime Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Magenta Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Orange Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Pink Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Purple Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Red Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Yellow Edge Light (top)
Dynamic Yellow Edge Light (bottom)
Illuminant Black Block
Illuminant Black Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Block
Illuminant Block(Inverted)
Illuminant Blue Block
Illuminant Blue Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Brown Block
Illuminant Brown Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Cyan Block
Illuminant Cyan Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Gray Block
Illuminant Gray Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Green Block
Illuminant Green Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Light Blue Block
Illuminant Light Blue Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Light Gray Block
Illuminant Light Gray Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Lime Block
Illuminant Lime Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Magenta Block
Illuminant Magenta Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Orange Block
Illuminant Orange Block (Inverted)
Illuminant Panel
Illuminant Black Panel
Illuminant Blue Panel
Illuminant Brown Panel
...and 100 more.
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