XyCraft World in FTB Skies 2

XyCraft World is part of this pack's mod list. The pack ships version 0.7.53 (xycraft_world-0.7.53.jar), and the mod has been in the pack since 1.0.1 or earlier.^[1]

Unverified The sources I have don't describe what XyCraft World adds or how its features work, so this guide makes no claims about its blocks, items or mechanics. The sources also don't place the mod in the pack's quest book.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

XyCraft World adds a lot of decorative and utility blocks to this pack. The order below is my suggestion, based on how the in-pack recipes feed into each other. The recipe blocks show the exact ingredients.^[2]

Suggested first crafts

1. Make a few Copper Torch or Aluminum Torch. Each torch has a second recipe that accepts the raw material instead of the ingot, so you can light things up before you smelt anything.^[2]
2. Craft a Reinforced Glass Viewer. It is the base for the Immortal Glass Viewer, so it is worth having early if you want that upgrade later.^[2][3]
3. Make Aluminum Bricks. They are the starting point for Aluminum Tiles, and for the colored brick variants such as Blue Aluminum Bricks once you have Xychorium gems.^[2]
4. When your aluminum stockpile grows, pack raw aluminum into a Block of Raw Aluminum to keep your inventory tidy.^[2]

2× Copper TorchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any copper ingot

any wooden rod

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/copper_torch

The Copper Torch recipe in this pack.

2× Aluminum TorchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot

any wooden rod

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_torch

The Aluminum Torch recipe in this pack.

2× Reinforced Glass ViewerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any cheap glass blocks
any cheap glass blocks	any iron ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/glass_viewer_reinforced

The Reinforced Glass Viewer recipe in this pack.

Immortal Glass ViewerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot
any obsidian	Reinforced Glass Viewer	any obsidian
any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/glass_viewer_immortal

The Immortal Glass Viewer builds on the reinforced one.

4× Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks

The Aluminum Bricks recipe in this pack.

4× Aluminum TilesMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_tiles

Aluminum Tiles are made from Aluminum Bricks.

Block of Raw AluminumMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material
any aluminum raw material	Raw Aluminum	any aluminum raw material
any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/raw_aluminum_block_forced

The packing recipe for the Block of Raw Aluminum.

The sources for this section cover how XyCraft World's geysers and ores generate, how the pack lets you get Kivi and Blue Xychorium gems, and one packing recipe. They do not describe machines, multiblocks, power or fluid handling for the mod's own blocks, so this section sticks to what is confirmed.^[4][5]

Geysers

Ore Geysers come from a structure set called harvestable_node_set. It uses random spread placement with a triangular spread type, and each placement picks either a surface geyser or an underground geyser. The surface one has a weight of 3 and the underground one a weight of 1, so surface geysers are the more common pick.^[4]

The pack leaves both geyser types switched on in harvestable_node_set.surface_geyser and harvestable_node_set.underground_geyser.^[6]

Spacing is 15 and separation is 7, set in harvestable_node_set.spacing and harvestable_node_set.separation. The salt in harvestable_node_set.salt is 918273645. These match the numbers in the mod's own structure set data, so the pack has not changed them.^[4][7]

• Surface geysers only generate in Overworld biomes that are dry, mountain, plains, hill, jungle, forest, taiga, savanna or badlands, plus any biome tagged as a valid geyser spawn.^[8]
• Underground geysers can generate in any Overworld biome. Both types are placed in the local modifications generation step.^[8][9]

Ore generation

All five Xychorium colours (blue, dark, green, light and red) are added to Overworld biomes in the underground ores step. Each colour has a stone, a deepslate and a Kivi variant, and a vein uses the variant that matches the rock it replaces.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

Xychorium veins are size 8 for every colour.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

Placement is the same for every colour as well: a count of 2, and a trapezoid height distribution between 40 and 120 above the world bottom.^{[20][21][22][23][24]}

Aluminum ore has larger veins, size 28, with a rarity filter of 2 and a uniform height between 30 and 120 above the world bottom. It is added to Overworld biomes in the underground ores step and also has stone, deepslate and Kivi variants.^[25][26][27]

Kivi itself generates as a size 64 vein with a rarity filter of 2, at heights between 0 and 60. It replaces the Overworld base stone and is added in the raw generation step.^[28][29][30]

Getting Kivi in a skyblock

The pack adds a dripper recipe that makes Kivi without any worldgen. You use lava on a Void Crystal Catalyst with the dripper, which takes 1,000 of the fluid per attempt and has a 0.05 chance of working.^[31]

The pack also has a dripper recipe that turns Kivi into a Replication deepslate replica ore. It uses a polymorphic fluid source, 250 of the fluid per attempt, with a 0.12 chance.^[31]

Processing Blue Xychorium ore

The pack adds Blue Xychorium ore to Blue Xychorium Gem recipes for many machines, so you can use whichever tech you already have. The gem yield depends on the machine:^[5]

• The Create crusher gives 3 gems per ore.^[5]
• The Immersive Engineering crusher, the Mekanism crusher and the Occultism crusher each give 2 gems per ore.^[5]
• The Actually Additions crusher, the Ender IO SAG Mill and the Modern Industrialization macerator each give 1 gem per ore.^[5]
• Mekanism enriching gives 10 gems per ore. This recipe is marked as changed by the pack.^[5]

10× Blue Xychorium GemChanged by the pack

Enriching (mekanism)

• any xychorium ore
• any blue color

Recipe id: xycraft_machines:compat/mek/processing/xychorium/blue_ore

Mekanism enriching, changed by the pack

You can also make gems without any ore. The pack adds an Applied Energistics 2 transform recipe that produces 4 gems.^[5]

4× Blue Xychorium GemAdded by the pack

Transform (ae2)

• Quartz Dust
• any blue dye
• any molten kivi

Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/xychorium_gem_blue

For mining, the pack adds recipes that produce Deepslate Blue Xychorium Ore from an Occultism miner (a deeps miner) and from an Actually Additions mining lens used on deepslate.^[5]

Once you have gems, the mod's own packing recipe turns them into a storage block, Blue Xychorium Gem Storage.^[5]

Blue Xychorium Gem StorageMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Blue Xychorium Gem	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/xychorium_storage_blue_forced

The recipes don't label tiers, but they do form a clear chain: Kivi, then Xychorium gems, then aluminum, then the building and glass blocks. Here's how that chain looks in this pack.^[5]

Stage 1: Kivi

Everything starts with Kivi. The XyCraft extractor makes it from water, and there are extractor catalyst recipes that make it with no item inputs at all.^[5]

KiviMod recipe

Extractor (xycraft_machines)

• any water

Recipe id: xycraft:extractor/kivi

The pack also adds a dripper recipe that makes Kivi from 1,000 lava, so you have a second route if you'd rather not use the extractor.^[5]

KiviAdded by the pack

Dripper (ftbstuff)

• 1000× Lava

Recipe id: ftb:stuff/dripper/kivi

Stage 2: Xychorium gems

Kivi is your source of the Xychorium gems: Blue Xychorium Gem, Dark Xychorium Gem, Green Xychorium Gem, Light Xychorium Gem and Red Xychorium Gem. The XyCraft crusher turns Kivi into every one of them.^[5]

Blue Xychorium Gem, Dark Xychorium Gem, Green Xychorium Gem, Light Xychorium Gem, Red Xychorium GemMod recipe

Crusher (xycraft_machines)

• any kivi

Recipe id: xycraft:crusher/xychorium

• The pack adds a Create Sifter recipe: Crushed Kivi with a Mechanical Blazing Mesh gives all of those gems.^[5]
• The pack adds an AE2 transform recipe that makes 4 Blue Xychorium Gems, and another that makes 4 Dark Xychorium Gems. Both use molten Kivi.^[5]
• The pack's Modern Industrialization quarry recipe, run with an Infused Pickaxe, can output Kivi and Xychorium ores in several colors, alongside ores from other mods.^[5]
• The pack adds Occultism miner recipes and Actually Additions mining lens recipes that produce deepslate Xychorium ore. The recipe named for dark Xychorium actually outputs Deepslate Red Xychorium Ore.^[5]

Ore processing

If you mine blue or dark Xychorium ore, the pack adds crushing recipes for each of them in many machine mods. Create and Oritech give 3 gems per ore, while Immersive Engineering, Mekanism and Occultism give 2. Actually Additions, Ender IO and Modern Industrialization give 1.^[5]

The Mekanism enriching recipe for blue and dark ore is marked as changed by the pack, and it gives 10 gems per ore. That is far more than the other machine recipes listed here.^[5]

Stage 3: Aluminum

Aluminum ore comes in stone, deepslate and Kivi variants. Each one drops Raw Aluminum, and Fortune increases the drop. With Silk Touch you get the ore block itself instead.^[32][33][34]

Raw aluminum can be packed into a Block of Raw Aluminum. Once you have ingots, you can craft Aluminum Torch. The recipe makes 2 torches.^[5]

2× Aluminum TorchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot

any wooden rod

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_torch

Stage 4: Building blocks and glass

Aluminum ingots craft into 4 Aluminum Bricks per craft, and the bricks craft into 4 Aluminum Tiles. The bricks also have a stonecutting recipe.^[5]

4× Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks

The colored cloud bricks are where the gems and aluminum meet. Blue Aluminum Bricks and Dark Aluminum Bricks each make 2 bricks per craft.^[5]

2× Blue Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot	Empty slot
Empty slot	any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue

Gems can also be packed into storage blocks such as Blue Xychorium Gem Storage and Dark Xychorium Gem Storage.^[5]

For glass, the stonecutter turns cheap glass into a Glass Viewer, and tinted glass into a Dark Glass Viewer. Glow ink sacs make 8 Glowing Glass Viewer per craft. Chorus fruit multiplies the phantom variants, giving 8 per craft.^[5]

The toughest option is the Immortal Glass Viewer, which is made from a Reinforced Glass Viewer.^[5]

Immortal Glass ViewerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot
any obsidian	Reinforced Glass Viewer	any obsidian
any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/glass_viewer_immortal

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

The links between XyCraft World and other mods in this pack come entirely from recipes. Almost all of them revolve around Kivi and the colored Xychorium gems. Here is where each one plugs into other mods.^[2]

Finding Kivi and Xychorium ore

The pack adds a Modern Industrialization quarry recipe called "magical" that takes an Infused Pickaxe. It can output Kivi and every color of Xychorium ore: Blue Xychorium Ore, Dark Xychorium Ore, Green Xychorium Ore, Light Xychorium Ore and Red Xychorium Ore. The same recipe also covers ores from Malum, Occultism and Silent Gear, such as Soulstone Ore, Iesnium Ore and Bort Ore.^[2]

Blazing Quartz Ore, Brilliant Stone, Cthonic Gold Ore, Soulstone Ore, Iesnium Ore, Bort Ore, Crimson Iron Ore, Kivi +5 moreAdded by the pack

Quarry (modern_industrialization)

• Infused Pickaxe

Recipe id: ftb:modern_industrialization/quarry/magical

Turning Kivi into gems

The pack lets you crush Kivi into Crushed Kivi with a Create crushing recipe or with an FTB Stuff hammer recipe. Both start from Kivi.^[2]

Crushed KiviAdded by the pack

Crushing (create)

• Kivi

Recipe id: ftb:create/crushing/crushed_blocks/kivi

Create crushing, added by the pack.

Crushed KiviAdded by the pack

Hammer (ftbstuff)

• Kivi

Recipe id: ftb:stuff/hammer/kivi_1

The hammer option, also added by the pack.

From there, Create Sifter sifting recipes added by the pack turn Crushed Kivi into the gems. You can use either an Mechanical Blazing Mesh or an Mechanical Diamond Mesh, and each recipe lists every gem color as a possible output.^[2]

Light Xychorium Gem, Dark Xychorium Gem, Blue Xychorium Gem, Green Xychorium Gem, Red Xychorium GemAdded by the pack

Sifting (createsifter)

• Mechanical Blazing Mesh
• Crushed Kivi

Recipe id: ftb:sifting/ftb_crushed_kivi_with_blazing_mesh

Light Xychorium Gem, Dark Xychorium Gem, Blue Xychorium Gem, Green Xychorium Gem, Red Xychorium GemAdded by the pack

Sifting (createsifter)

• Crushed Kivi
• Mechanical Diamond Mesh

Recipe id: ftb:sifting/ftb_crushed_kivi_with_diamond_mesh

Making gems with Applied Energistics 2

The pack also adds an AE2 transform recipe for each gem color. Each one combines Quartz Dust, a dye and molten Kivi. The dye decides the color you get:^[2]

• Blue dye makes Blue Xychorium Gem.^[2]
• Black dye makes Dark Xychorium Gem.^[2]
• Green dye makes Green Xychorium Gem.^[2]
• White dye makes Light Xychorium Gem.^[2]
• Red dye makes Red Xychorium Gem.^[2]

4× Blue Xychorium GemAdded by the pack

Transform (ae2)

• Quartz Dust
• any blue dye
• any molten kivi

Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/xychorium_gem_blue

The other colors follow the same pattern with their own dye.

Prismatic Xychorium

The pack adds an Industrial Foregoing dissolution chamber recipe that needs a gem of every color. On top of those it needs an Empowered Diamatine Crystal, Polymorphic Fluid Source and a Nether Star. The result is Prismatic Xychorium.^[2]

Prismatic XychoriumAdded by the pack

Dissolution Chamber (industrialforegoing)

• 2× Empowered Diamatine Crystal
• 1000× Polymorphic Fluid Source
• Nether Star
• Blue Xychorium Gem
• Dark Xychorium Gem
• Green Xychorium Gem
• Light Xychorium Gem
• Red Xychorium Gem

Recipe id: ftb:prismatic_xychorium

Colored building blocks with vanilla blocks

The mod's own override recipes combine a gem with a vanilla block to make a color-tinted version. For example, Bricks plus a gem gives Blue Bricks or any of the other colors. Crying Obsidian, Chiseled Deepslate and Chiseled Stone Bricks work the same way. These are marked as mod recipes, not pack changes.^[2]

2× Blue BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Blue Xychorium Gem	Bricks
Bricks	Blue Xychorium Gem

Recipe id: xycraft_override:shaped/bricks_blue

Polished Deepslate gives the colored deepslate bricks, such as Red Deepslate Bricks. The chiseled wood pillars, such as Green Chiseled Wood Pillar, take any planks instead of one specific block. Each pillar color also has an alternate recipe whose id ends in _r.^[2]

The XyCraft World config files this pack sets cover two things: whether the geyser variants of the harvestable node set generate, and how that structure set is placed in the world. Both files live in config/xycraft_world.^[6][7]

Structure toggles

The pack leaves both geyser toggles on, so geysers can generate on the surface and underground.^[6]

• harvestable_node_set.surface_geyser is set to true.^[6]
• harvestable_node_set.underground_geyser is set to true.^[6]

Structure placement

The placement file controls how the harvestable node set is spaced out. These are the exact values this pack uses.^[7]

• harvestable_node_set.spacing is 15.^[7]
• harvestable_node_set.separation is 7.^[7]
• harvestable_node_set.salt is 918,273,645.^[7]