XTones Reworked in FTB Skies 2

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide

The pack ships XTones Reworked in version 1.1.1-1.21.1 (file xtonesreworked-1.1.1-1.21.1.jar). It has been part of the pack since version 0.62 or earlier, so it isn't a recent addition.^[1]

Unverified What XTones Reworked adds in detail is not confirmed by the sources available for this guide, so this section doesn't describe its features, items or recipes.

Same as in the All the Mons 1.3.0 guide

XTones Reworked is a decorative block mod, so there is nothing to grind through here. Everything starts from one crafting item, and the order below gets you from that to a full palette of blocks.^[2]

Step 1: make Xtone Tile

Xtone Tile is the base of nearly everything in the mod. One craft gives you 8 of them, so you will not run short.^[2]

8× Xtone TileMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Stone Slab	Stone Slab	Empty slot
Stone Slab	Stone	Stone Slab
Empty slot	Stone Slab	Stone Slab

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:xtone_tile

Step 2: craft your first base blocks

Each base block pairs Xtone Tile with one other material and gives you 8 blocks per craft. Agon is a good first one, because it is the starting point for a whole colour family.^[2]

8× AgonMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Stone Slab	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:agon_block_0

The same pattern gives you other families, such as Bitt, Cray, Fort, Glaxx and ISZM. The recipe viewer shows each one, so pick whichever material you have to hand.^[2]

8× BittMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Coal	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:bitt_block_0

Step 3: dye your blocks into variants

Once you have a base block, you do not need more Xtone Tile to get colours. Combine a dye with any block from the same family and you get 8 of the matching variant. For Agon, that gives variants 1 to 15, one per dye colour, such as Agon Variant 1.^[2]

8× Agon Variant 1Mod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any agon	any agon	any agon
any agon	any yellow dye	any agon
any agon	any agon	any agon

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:agon_block_1

Azur works a little differently. Azur is crafted from Xtone Tile and a dye.^[2]

8× AzurMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	any blue dye	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:azur_block_0

Step 4: use the stonecutter for Azur and Jelt

The Azur and Jelt families can also be switched between variants in a stonecutter. Put in any block of the family and pick the variant you want, for example Azur Variant 1 or Jelt Variant 1. In total the pack has 256 stonecutting recipes for this mod, so it is the quickest way to reshuffle a build.^[2]

Azur Variant 1Mod recipe

Stonecutting

• any azur

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:azur_block_1_from_stonecutting

Step 5: add lighting

Flat Lamp is the mod's light source, and it gives you 2 per craft. This is one of the few recipes the pack has changed from the mod's own version, so trust the recipe below rather than anything you remember from the mod elsewhere.^[2]

2× Flat LampChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
any iron ingot	Glowstone Dust	any iron ingot
Stone Slab	Stone Slab	Stone Slab

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:flat_lamp

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide

The sources for XTones Reworked in this pack show decorative blocks and how you craft them. They describe no machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item handling, so the mechanics that matter here are getting a base block and recoloring it into variants. The language file lists families such as Agon, Azur, Bitt, Cray, Fort, Glaxx, Jelt, Korp, Kryp, Lair and Lave, plus a Flat Lamp.^[3][4]

Getting a base block

Everything starts from the Xtone Tile. In the recipe dump, the base blocks of Agon, Bitt and Azur are each crafted with a tile plus one other ingredient. The recipe blocks below show exactly what each one needs.^[4]

8× AgonMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Stone Slab	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:agon_block_0

Agon, the base block of the Agon family, is crafted from the Xtone Tile.

8× BittMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Coal	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:bitt_block_0

Bitt, the base block of the Bitt family, is crafted from the Xtone Tile.

8× AzurMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	any blue dye	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:azur_block_0

Azur is crafted from the Xtone Tile in this pack's recipe dump.

Recoloring into variants

Once you have a block from a family, you switch to another variant by crafting it with a dye. The variant recipes accept any block from the family's tag, so you don't need one specific variant to start from. Agon and Bitt also have an alternate recipe built the same way, with a dye and any block of their family.^[4]

8× AgonMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any agon	any agon	any agon
any agon	any white dye	any agon
any agon	any agon	any agon

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:agon_block_0_alternate

Alternate Agon recipe: a dye plus any Agon block gives the base Agon block.

8× Agon Variant 5Mod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any agon	any agon	any agon
any agon	any light blue dye	any agon
any agon	any agon	any agon

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:agon_block_5

Example of a variant recipe: Agon Variant 5 uses a dye plus any Agon block.

Agon and Bitt each have variants 1 to 15 besides the base block, and every one of them has its own recipe in the dump. The language file also names Azur Variants 1 to 15.^[3][4]

Breaking and collecting

The loot tables shown for Agon, Azur and Bitt blocks are simple: each block drops itself, with one roll and nothing else in the pool. So you get the exact variant back when you break it.^{[5][6][7][8][9][10]}

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide

XTones Reworked has no machine ladder or tier chain in this pack's recipes. What the sources show is a set of block families, and each one starts from Xtone Tile and a crafting table recipe of its own.^[4]

The starter blocks

Each family has a base block: Agon, Bitt, Cray, Fort, Glaxx and ISZM all use the Xtone Tile in their starter recipe. Azur is the odd one out, because its starter recipe is built differently.^[4]

8× AgonMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Stone Slab	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:agon_block_0

Agon's starter recipe, a good example of how a family begins.

8× AzurMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	any blue dye	Xtone Tile
Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile	Xtone Tile

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:azur_block_0

Azur's starter recipe, which differs from the other families.

Colour variants

Once you have a family's base block, the variants come from dye recipes that accept any block from that family. Agon, for example, has variants 1 to 15, and each one uses a different dye colour. Other families follow the same idea, though some reuse a dye for more than one variant: Bitt Variants 10 and 11 both use pink dye.^[4]

8× Agon Variant 1Mod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any agon	any agon	any agon
any agon	any yellow dye	any agon
any agon	any agon	any agon

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:agon_block_1

Yellow dye on any Agon block gives Agon Variant 1.

Families also have an alternate recipe that turns a dye plus any block of the family back into the base block. Agon uses white dye for this and Fort uses gray dye.^[4]

Flat Lamp: the pack-changed recipe

The recipe for the Flat Lamp is marked as changed by the pack. Use the recipe below, not one you remember from the mod on its own.^[4]

2× Flat LampChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
any iron ingot	Glowstone Dust	any iron ingot
Stone Slab	Stone Slab	Stone Slab

Recipe id: xtonesreworked:flat_lamp

This is the pack's version of the Flat Lamp recipe.

Drops

In the loot tables available here, such as Agon and Azur, each block simply drops itself.^[5][7]