Sophisticated Core in FTB Skies 2

Same as in the All the Mods 10 2.12 guide

Sophisticated Core is included in this pack at version 1.0.5, shipped as the Minecraft 1.21.1 build sophisticatedcore-1.21.1-1.0.5.813.jar. It has been in the pack since version 0.32 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the mod list rather than a recent addition.^[1]

Unverified The sources I have don't describe what Sophisticated Core does in gameplay, who it is aimed at, or where it fits in the pack's progression. They also don't show it on the ATM Star path or tied to any quests, so I'm not making claims about those. Check back once more detail is available.

There is no crafting order to follow for Sophisticated Core itself. The sources for this pack show no recipe for it and no quest that involves it. What it does show is the shared screen features you will use in the other Sophisticated mods, and which of their items the pack has switched on or off.^[2][3]

What you get in the screens

The mod's language file shows the controls that backpack and storage screens share. Once you have a Sophisticated Backpacks or Sophisticated Storage container open, look for these.^[2]

• Sort Inventory, with the sort modes By Count, By Mod, By Name and By Tags.^[2]
• Transfer to Inventory and Transfer to Storage buttons, plus filtered versions called Transfer Matching to Inventory and Transfer Matching to Storage. The tooltip says Shift To Transfer All.^[2]
• Settings toggles. Keep Search Phrase keeps your search text when you reopen the screen, and Keep Tab Open reopens the upgrade tab you last used.^[2]
• Settings templates. You can save settings to a slot, load them from a slot, and export them to a data pack as an snbt file. A Player context applies settings to all backpacks and storages unless overridden.^[2]

What the pack turns off

This mod's config holds the list of enabled items for the Sophisticated mods, and the file's own comment says disabling an item disables its recipe. The pack leaves almost everything on, including Backpack and its upgrades. It does set a few entries to false, and those items are not available in this pack.^[3]

• Ender Linker^[3]
• Mob Catcher Upgrade and Advanced Mob Catcher Upgrade^[3]
• Experience Pump Upgrade and Experience Pump Upgrade^[3]

If you wonder why one of these items never shows up, check common.enabledItems first.^[3]

Unverified Which Sophisticated item to craft first, and in what order, is not shown in the sources here. No recipe for this mod's items and no quest involving it appear in them, so check the recipe viewer in game for the real in-pack recipes. This site does hold FTB Skies 2's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Sophisticated Core is the shared layer behind the inventory screens of Sophisticated Backpacks and Sophisticated Storage. The sources for this mod only cover its screen text and the pack's config, so this section is about how those screens and upgrade slots behave. It says nothing about machines or multiblocks.^[2][3]

Searching, sorting and moving items

Every backpack or storage screen has a search box. Start your search with @ to search by mod name instead of item name. If nothing matches, the screen tells you no items match the search.^[2]

The sort button can order the inventory by count, by mod, by name or by tags.^[2]

There are also transfer buttons that move everything to the storage or to your inventory. The "Matching" versions only move stacks that match what is already on the other side, and the tooltip says to hold Shift to transfer all.^[2]

Settings tabs

Settings come in a player-level context, which applies to all backpacks and storages unless a container overrides it. You flip between contexts with the context toggle button.^[2]

• Keep Search Phrase: when ON, the screen keeps your search and filters by it the next time you open it. When OFF, it clears the phrase on close and shows everything again.^[2]
• Keep Tab Open: when ON, the container remembers which upgrade tab was open last and reopens it. When OFF, all tabs are closed the next time you open the screen.^[2]
• Shift click behaviour: you can choose "Shift Click Into Inventory First" or "Shift Click Into Open Tab First". The first tries the inventory or storage and only then an open upgrade tab. The second does it the other way round.^[2]
• Memory: pick slots that remember their contents and only accept matching stacks. Left click or drag selects a slot, right click or drag unselects it, and there are Select All and Unselect All buttons.^[2]
• No Sort: pick slots that sorting ignores. The controls work the same way as Memory.^[2]
• Item Display: pick a slot whose item is shown on top of the storage. The settings also let you show it on the front, left or right side, rotate it with left or right click, and change its depth.^[2]

Saving and sharing settings

You can save your settings to a numbered slot and load them back later, scrolling to change the slot. A saved slot can have a custom name. If the saved settings need more slots than a storage has, you get a message that they don't fit.^[2]

You can also export settings under a file name you choose. The export creates a data pack with an snbt file. The file name can't be empty or contain invalid characters.^[2]

Upgrade slot rules

The mod enforces several rules when you add or remove upgrades. These show up as error messages, so you will see them in game.^[2]

• Only one Battery Upgrade can be in a backpack at a time, and at most two Tank Upgrades.^[2]
• A battery or tank upgrade can be refused if the backpack's capacity is too low. The message tells you to upgrade the backpack or add a stack multiplier to get a higher max energy or capacity.^[2]
• Some upgrades need certain inventory slots to be empty. Others need all upgrade slots empty. Some are limited to a single copy or a set number of copies per container.^[2]
• Removal can be blocked too. An upgrade that needs a higher stack limit than what is left can't be removed, and some upgrades make you remove a specific banned item first.^[2]
• Only admins can remove the Infinity Upgrade.^[2]

Ender linking

The mod has status messages for linking storages: a storage can already be linked, can have contents, can be incompatible with the linked group, or can be unlinkable. The item that does the linking is Ender Linker. In this pack it is set to false in the item toggle list, so it is switched off.^[2][3]

Sophisticated Core has very few settings of its own. It is the shared library behind Sophisticated Backpacks and Sophisticated Storage, so the options below are the ones you are most likely to touch. One is in the common config and three are in the client config.^[3][4]

Which items are enabled

common.enabledItems is a list of items, each written as an item id followed by |true or |false. According to the file's own comment, you use it to disable or enable items, and disabling an item also disables its recipe. The list covers items from Sophisticated Core, Sophisticated Backpacks and Sophisticated Storage.^[3]

In this pack almost every entry is set to true. The entries set to false are these:^[3]

• Ender Linker^[3]
• Mob Catcher Upgrade^[3]
• Advanced Mob Catcher Upgrade^[3]
• Experience Pump Upgrade^[3]
• Experience Pump Upgrade^[3]

Client settings

These only affect your own game, and they matter mostly for comfort and for avoiding clashes with other mods' controls.^[4]

• client.sortButtonsPosition is set to "TITLE_LINE_RIGHT" in this pack. The allowed values are TITLE_LINE_RIGHT, BELOW_UPGRADES, BELOW_UPGRADE_TABS and HIDDEN. The option exists to help with conflicts with controls from other mods, so try another position if the sort buttons overlap something.^[4]
• client.mouseTweaksScrollEnabled is true. It controls whether scrolling in the inventory is handled by the Mouse Tweaks mod, if that mod is in the pack.^[4]
• client.playButtonSound is true, so a click sound plays when you press the custom buttons in the GUI. Set it to false if you want them silent.^[4]