XyCraft World guide for FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 to 1.6.1
XyCraft World guide for FTB Skies 2
Last verified for FTB Skies 2 v1.6.1 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
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Every recipe and number here was checked against FTB Skies 2 1.6.1's own files.
What is XyCraft World?
XyCraft World is included in this pack at version 0.7.45. It has been in the pack since 1.0.1 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the modlist.[1]
Unverified The sources I have don't describe what XyCraft World adds, who it's best suited for, or where it fits in the pack's progression. I haven't confirmed any items, recipes, configs or quests for it, so I'm not guessing. There is also no confirmed ATM Star path involvement for this mod.
How do you get started with XyCraft World?
4 parts
XyCraft World adds a lot of craftable blocks, and the pack's recipes for it start with a few simple ones. Follow the order below and you will have torches, aluminum building blocks and glass viewers in your base. The recipe blocks show the exact in-pack ingredients.[2]
Step one: torches
Start with the Copper Torch and the Aluminum Torch. Each torch has a recipe for the ingot and a separate one for the raw material, so you can make them before you smelt anything.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any copper ingot |
| any wooden rod |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/copper_torch
Crafting Shaped
| any aluminum ingot |
| any wooden rod |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_torch
Next: aluminum bricks and tiles
Aluminum Bricks are the base of the aluminum building blocks, and they are made from aluminum ingots. Craft Aluminum Tiles from the bricks.[2]
Crafting Shaped
4 × any aluminum ingot
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_bricks
Crafting Shaped
4 × Aluminum Bricks
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_tiles
Then: glass viewers
The Reinforced Glass Viewer is the entry point for the glass viewers. The Immortal Glass Viewer is crafted from the reinforced one later on.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any cheap glass blocks |
| any cheap glass blocks | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/glass_viewer_reinforced
Crafting Shaped
| any aluminum ingot | any obsidian | any aluminum ingot |
| any obsidian | any obsidian | |
| any aluminum ingot | any obsidian | any aluminum ingot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/glass_viewer_immortal
Finally: colors
Once you have Xychorium gems, you can turn plain Aluminum Bricks into a colored version such as Blue Aluminum Bricks. Red, green, light and dark variants exist as well, and each colored brick can be crafted into its own tile.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | |
| Empty slot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue_a
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_tiles_cloud_blue
How does XyCraft World work?
3 parts
In this pack, XyCraft World is about crafting, stonecutting and ore processing. The sources here show recipes and nothing else: no machine screens, power, fluid or item-handling rules for the mod. So this section follows the recipes, starting with the one ore the pack hooks into other mods' machines.[2]
Getting Blue Xychorium Gems
Deepslate Blue Xychorium Ore is not only found in the world. The pack adds two ways to produce it: an Occultism miner recipe and an Actually Additions mining lens recipe. Both are pack-added, not mod defaults.[2]
Miner (occultism)
- any deep miners
Recipe id: ftb:occultism/miner/deepslate/xychorium_blue
Occultism miner recipe, added by the pack.
Mining Lens (actuallyadditions)
Recipe id: ftb:actuallyadditions/mining_lens/deepslate/xychorium_blue
Actually Additions mining lens recipe, added by the pack.
Once you have the ore, the pack gives you a crushing recipe in many tech mods that turns it into Blue Xychorium Gem. All of these are added by the pack, and they take any ore in the blue xychorium ore tag. The yield depends on the machine:[2]
- Create crusher: 3 gems per ore.[2]
- Oritech pulverizer: 3 gems per ore.[2]
- Immersive Engineering crusher: 2 gems per ore.[2]
- Mekanism crusher: 2 gems per ore.[2]
- Occultism crusher: 2 gems per ore.[2]
- Actually Additions crushing: 1 gem per ore.[2]
- Ender IO sag mill: 1 gem per ore.[2]
- Modern Industrialization macerator: 1 gem per ore.[2]
You can also skip the ore entirely. The pack adds an Applied Energistics 2 transform recipe that makes 4 gems at a time.[2]
Transform (ae2)
Quartz Dust
- any blue dye
- any molten kivi
Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/xychorium_gem_blue
AE2 transform recipe, added by the pack. It makes 4 gems.
To store the gems compactly, use the packing recipe for Blue Xychorium Gem Storage.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:packing/xychorium_storage_blue_forced
Building blocks and stonecutting
The aluminum building blocks start with Aluminum Bricks, which the mod's own recipe makes 4 at a time. From there, Aluminum Tiles come 4 per brick.[2]
Crafting Shaped
4 × any aluminum ingot
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_bricks
Crafting Shaped
4 × Aluminum Bricks
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_tiles
Colored variants have their own recipes. Blue Aluminum Bricks is made 2 at a time, and it uses a xychorium gem.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any aluminum ingot | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | any aluminum ingot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue
The stonecutter does a lot of the work for this mod. The recipe dump counts 76 stonecutting recipes that make XyCraft World blocks, so check the stonecutter when you want a different style of a block you already have. Two examples are below.[2]
Stonecutting
Aluminum Bricks
- any aluminum crafting group
Recipe id: xycraft_world:stonecutting/aluminum_bricks
Stonecutting
Glass Viewer
- any cheap glass blocks
Recipe id: xycraft_world:stonecutting/glass_viewer
Stonecutting recipe for the Glass Viewer.
Glass viewers and lamps
Phantom Glass Viewer can be duplicated: the chorus recipe makes 8 Phantom Glass Viewers per craft, and it uses a Phantom Glass Viewer itself.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/glass_viewer_phantom_chorus
The mod also has a shapeless recipe that turns an Inverted RGB Lamp into an RGB Lamp.[2]
How do you progress through XyCraft World?
4 parts
XyCraft World is a building-block mod, and the recipes here show a clear order to work through. You start with torches and glass, move to aluminum blocks, then colored Xychorium blocks, and finish with the Immortal blocks. This is the order the in-pack recipes stack up in, so use it as a build plan.[2]
Unverified Whether any quest chapter in this pack touches XyCraft World is not shown in the sources here, so this page follows the recipes only. Check the pack's quest book for anything on the mod.
Torches and glass
You can make the Copper Torch and the Aluminum Torch from an ingot or from the raw material, together with a wooden rod. The raw-material recipes are shown below.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any copper raw material |
| any wooden rod |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/copper_torch_raw
Copper Torch from raw copper and a wooden rod.
Crafting Shaped
| any aluminum raw material |
| any wooden rod |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_torch_raw
Aluminum Torch from raw aluminum and a wooden rod.
For glass, the Reinforced Glass Viewer is made from cheap glass and an iron ingot. The Immortal Glass Viewer is then crafted from the Reinforced Glass Viewer, an aluminum ingot and an obsidian.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any cheap glass blocks |
| any cheap glass blocks | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/glass_viewer_reinforced
Reinforced Glass Viewer: cheap glass plus an iron ingot.
Crafting Shaped
| any aluminum ingot | any obsidian | any aluminum ingot |
| any obsidian | any obsidian | |
| any aluminum ingot | any obsidian | any aluminum ingot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/glass_viewer_immortal
Immortal Glass Viewer: built on the Reinforced Glass Viewer.
Aluminum building blocks
Aluminum Bricks are crafted from aluminum ingots. Aluminum Tiles are then crafted from those bricks.[2]
Crafting Shaped
4 × any aluminum ingot
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_bricks
Aluminum Bricks from aluminum ingots.
Crafting Shaped
4 × Aluminum Bricks
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_tiles
Aluminum Tiles from Aluminum Bricks.
Xychorium colors
The recipes use the Xychorium colors red, green, blue, light and dark. Each color has its own gem, such as Blue Xychorium Gem, and a matching storage block, such as Blue Xychorium Gem Storage. The storage recipe takes the colored gem together with any Xychorium gem and a color item of that shade.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | Empty slot |
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:packing/xychorium_storage_blue_forced
Blue storage block. The other colors use the same pattern with their own gems.
Colored aluminum bricks such as Blue Aluminum Bricks can be made from plain aluminum ingots, or by upgrading Aluminum Bricks you already crafted. Both routes need a Xychorium gem and a color item. Colored tiles are crafted from the matching colored bricks.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | |
| Empty slot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue_a
Upgrading existing Aluminum Bricks to Blue.
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/aluminum_tiles_cloud_blue
Blue Aluminum Tiles from Blue Aluminum Bricks.
The inverted blocks, such as Blue Inverted Bricks and Blue Inverted Tiles, start from a Xychorium gem of the matching color. The tiles are crafted from the inverted bricks.[2]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/inverted_bricks_cloud_blue
Blue Inverted Bricks straight from Blue Xychorium Gems.
Immortal blocks
The Immortal blocks, such as Blue Immortal Aluminum and Blue Immortal Stone, exist in red, green, blue, light and dark. Each recipe uses an aluminum ingot, an obsidian, a color item and a block from the matching crafting group.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any aluminum ingot | any obsidian | any aluminum ingot |
| any obsidian | Empty slot | any obsidian |
| any aluminum ingot | any obsidian | any aluminum ingot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/immortal_aluminum_blue
Blue Immortal Aluminum.
Crafting Shaped
| any aluminum ingot | any obsidian | any aluminum ingot |
| any obsidian | Empty slot | any obsidian |
| any aluminum ingot | any obsidian | any aluminum ingot |
Recipe id: xycraft_world:shaped/immortal_stone_blue
Blue Immortal Stone.
How does XyCraft World work with other mods?
5 parts
XyCraft World's Xychorium gems and Kivi connect to several other mods in this pack. Most of the routes below were added by the pack itself, and they all come from the pack's recipe data.[2]
Making gems with Applied Energistics 2
The pack adds an AE2 transform recipe for every gem colour: Blue, Dark, Green, Light and Red. Each one turns Quartz Dust into a gem such as Blue Xychorium Gem, using a matching dye and molten kivi. The recipe below shows the blue gem. The other colours follow the same pattern with their own dye.[2]
Transform (ae2)
- any blue dye
- any molten kivi
Recipe id: ftb:ae2/transform/xychorium_gem_blue
Every other gem colour has its own matching transform recipe added by the pack.
Kivi, crushing and sifting
Kivi can be turned into Crushed Kivi with a Create crushing recipe or with an FTB Stuff hammer recipe. Both were added by the pack.[2]
The Create crushing route for Kivi.
The hammer route for Kivi.
From there, Create Sifter takes over. Sifting Crushed Kivi with a Mechanical Diamond Mesh or a Mechanical Blazing Mesh can give you gems in every colour. Both sifting recipes were added by the pack.[2]
Sifting (createsifter)
Recipe id: ftb:sifting/ftb_crushed_kivi_with_diamond_mesh
Sifting Crushed Kivi with the diamond mesh.
Sifting (createsifter)
Recipe id: ftb:sifting/ftb_crushed_kivi_with_blazing_mesh
Sifting Crushed Kivi with the blazing mesh.
Quarrying with Modern Industrialization
The pack adds a Modern Industrialization quarry recipe called magical, shown below. It is set up around the Infused Pickaxe and covers XyCraft World's Kivi and Xychorium ores in every colour, such as Blue Xychorium Ore and Red Xychorium Ore. Ores from other mods share it, including Soulstone Ore, Iesnium Ore and Bort Ore.[2]
Quarry (modern_industrialization)
Recipe id: ftb:modern_industrialization/quarry/magical
The magical quarry recipe added by the pack.
Prismatic Xychorium
The pack also adds an Industrial Foregoing dissolution chamber recipe for Prismatic Xychorium, shown below. Other mods feed into it, for example Empowered Diamatine Crystal and Polymorphic Fluid Source, and so does vanilla's Nether Star.[2]
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
The dissolution chamber recipe for Prismatic Xychorium.
Coloured building blocks from vanilla blocks
The gems also connect to vanilla Minecraft, with coloured versions of Bricks, Crying Obsidian and chiseled blocks such as Chiseled Deepslate and Chiseled Tuff, in every gem colour. Deepslate bricks build on Polished Deepslate and only exist in blue, dark, green and light. Chiseled wood pillars accept any planks. These are listed as mod recipes, not pack additions.[2]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: xycraft_override:shaped/bricks_blue
One example. Each colour and block type has its own recipe.
Sources
- FTB Skies 2 1.6.1 mod list · pack file
- FTB Skies 2 1.6.1 recipe dump: recipes making XyCraft World items · pack recipe dump
- xycraft_world tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · 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: 1.23.0 to 1.24.0 · 1.22.0 · 1.13.4 to 1.21.1 · 1.12.0 to 1.13.3 · 1.11.0 · 1.10.1 to 1.10.2 · 1.7.0 to 1.9.2