XyCraft World guide for FTB Skies 2 1.7.0 to 1.9.2

XyCraft World is included in this pack as version 0.7.53. It has been part of the pack since version 1.0.1 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the mod list and not a recent addition.^[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. There is also no confirmation that it appears on the ATM Star path or in any of the pack's quests, so I'm not making claims about those. Check the mod in-game before relying on any specifics.

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.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.11.0 guide

Geysers in the world

The pack's structure toggle config enables both surface geysers and underground geysers for the harvestable node set. harvestable_node_set.surface_geyser and harvestable_node_set.underground_geyser are both set to true in this pack.^[4]

The pack also sets how these nodes are placed. harvestable_node_set.spacing is 15, harvestable_node_set.separation is 7, and harvestable_node_set.salt is 918273645.^[5]

Aluminum and Xychorium materials

The mod adds an aluminum line: Raw Aluminum, Aluminum Nugget and Aluminum Ingot, plus the storage blocks Block of Raw Aluminum and Aluminum Storage. Packing recipes turn the smaller items into these blocks, and nuggets into ingots.^[6]

Aluminum IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum nugget	any aluminum nugget	any aluminum nugget
any aluminum nugget	Aluminum Nugget	any aluminum nugget
any aluminum nugget	any aluminum nugget	any aluminum nugget

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/aluminum_ingot_forced

This packing recipe turns aluminum nuggets into an ingot.

Xychorium gems come in blue, dark, green, light and red, for example Blue Xychorium Gem. Each colour has its own storage block, such as Red Xychorium Gem Storage.^[6]

Building blocks

Aluminum Bricks can be turned into Aluminum Tiles. Both also have coloured variants in blue, dark, green, light and red, like Blue Aluminum Bricks and Blue Aluminum Tiles. The coloured bricks can be made either from plain aluminum bricks or straight from aluminum ingots.^[6]

2× Blue Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Aluminum Bricks	Empty slot
Empty slot	Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue_a

Coloured bricks made from plain aluminum bricks.

4× Blue Aluminum TilesMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Blue Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_tiles_cloud_blue

Coloured bricks become coloured tiles.

Slurries and the viewer

The mod's language file lists the chemicals Clean Aluminum Slurry and Dirty Aluminum Slurry, and a block called Reinforced Glass Viewer.^[3]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Unverified The sources here show no quests in this pack that involve XyCraft World, and no in-jar guidebook was found for it, so there is no official progression to follow. The stages below are just the order the in-pack recipes build on each other.

Torches and basic glass viewers

The simplest crafts are the metal torches. The Copper Torch can be made from a copper ingot or raw copper plus a wooden rod, and the Aluminum Torch works the same way with aluminum.^[2]

4× Copper TorchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any copper raw material

any wooden rod

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/copper_torch_raw

Copper Torch made from raw copper instead of an ingot.

The glass viewers start simple too. The Reinforced Glass Viewer uses cheap glass and an iron ingot. The Glowing Glass Viewer uses a glow ink sac with cheap glass, and the RGB Viewer uses a dye with cheap glass.^[2]

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

Reinforced Glass Viewer, the base for the immortal viewer later on.

Aluminum building blocks

Next you move into aluminum. Raw Aluminum can be stored as a Block of Raw Aluminum, and the metal itself leads to Aluminum Bricks and then Aluminum Tiles. The recipes are shown below.^[2]

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

Storage block for Raw Aluminum.

4× Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks

4× Aluminum TilesMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_tiles

The Matte Aurey Block is also made from a dye and aluminum ingots.^[2]

Xychorium gems and colors

Xychorium gems come in blue, dark, green, light and red, for example Blue Xychorium Gem and Red Xychorium Gem. Each color has a matching storage block, such as Green Xychorium Gem Storage.^[2]

Green Xychorium Gem StorageMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Green Xychorium Gem	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/xychorium_storage_green_forced

Green Xychorium Gem Storage, one of the color storage blocks.

The gems unlock the colored variants. Inverted bricks like Blue Inverted Bricks craft directly from a gem and lead to inverted tiles such as Blue Inverted Tiles. Colored aluminum bricks like Blue Aluminum Bricks can be made either from the metal or from plain aluminum bricks. Colored aluminum tiles such as Blue Aluminum Tiles then come from the colored bricks.^[2]

4× Blue Inverted BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Blue Xychorium Gem

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/inverted_bricks_cloud_blue

2× Blue Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Aluminum Bricks	Empty slot
Empty slot	Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue_a

Colored bricks made from plain Aluminum Bricks.

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

Colored bricks made from the metal directly.

Immortal blocks and advanced viewers

The immortal set comes in every one of the gem colors, for example Dark Immortal Stone and Dark Immortal Aluminum. Their recipes use aluminum ingots, obsidian, a color item and a block from a matching crafting group.^[2]

Dark Immortal AluminumMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

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:shaped/immortal_aluminum_dark

The Immortal Glass Viewer builds on the Reinforced Glass Viewer. The phantom viewers, like Phantom Glass Viewer and Dark Phantom Glass Viewer, have their own recipes.^[2]

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

Immortal Glass Viewer, built from the Reinforced Glass Viewer.

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]