Gearing Up

Productive Metalworks is used to smelt and forge alloys into various different parts, which can be used to make tools, armor, and more. Start by crafting some Fire Clay and then smelting that into Fire Bricks. These will be used to build the structure of our Foundry. The Big Book of Metallurgy can show you how to set up a Foundry.

Asks for: Fire Brick, Fire Clay

Your Foundry will need a Controller and a Tank to control the foundry and to store smelting liquids. Of course, you'll also need your Foundry base resistant enough to withstand enough heat to smelt things down. These can be dyed to match your base aesthetics.

Asks for: Black Foundry Controller, Black Foundry Tank, Liquid Heating Coil

Your Foundry can also be used to trap poor helpless souls and melt them to death extract matter from the following living entities: - Players: Molten Meat - Enderman: Molten Ender - Villager/Market Merchant: Molten Emerald - Witch: Molten Amethyst - Bee: Honey - Blaze: Molten Blaze

This chapter is all about teaching you some of the different ways to craft, enhance, and enchant any gear you might need on your adventures!

The Enchanter from EnderIO is an Enchantment Table that allows you to pick which enchantment you want to make. When provided with specific items and Experience, you can enchant Book & Quills with an enchantment of your choice. To see which enchantments you can make, make sure to check out the uses in JEI!

Asks for: Enchanter

Cognition is a mod that expands on the use, storage, and production of experience. To get started in the mod, there will be a few entry-level materials that will be easier to make once a few of the devices are set up. We'll provide some extras.

Asks for: Astute Assembly, Cognitive Flux

Cognitive gear as a whole offers a lot of benefits over the iron gear it's made with. In addition to an increase in reach, the tools offer the same attack values and mining speeds as diamond versions, though not having as much durability nor the harvest level. A set of cognitive armor only offers 3 more total points of armor than an iron set, but each piece comes with a point of toughness and adds a half block of reach per piece.

Asks for: Cognitive Axe, Cognitive Boots, Cognitive Bow, Cognitive Chestplate, Cognitive Helm, Cognitive Hoe

The core device of the mod, the Experience Obelisk allows for lossless storage and fine manipulation of experience (XP) levels by converting it internally to and from a fluid called Cognitium. Other Cognition devices can be linked to this block with the Staff of Attunement, Cognition's "wrench," to enable or enhance their abilities. A Memory Tablet can be linked to remotely access an Obelisk in the general area. This link is per player. It is also able to passively pick up XP orbs around it.

Asks for: Experience Obelisk

Hearts are a key component of Baubley Heart Canisters. Red Hearts can be made from a replicator with a blueprint. Hearts can be eaten and will restore health based on the level. - Red : 10 Hearts per use. - Yellow : 20 Hearts per use. - Blue: 30 Hearts per use. - Green: 40 Hearts per use.

Asks for: Miniature Blue Heart, Miniature Green Heart, Miniature Red Heart, Miniature Yellow Heart

The Heart Patch is like a band-aid it will heal the player based on its level so much health. It has a cooldown so be careful when using it as a life-line. Each Tier Increases the base value healed. Red : 1 Heart per use. Yellow : 3 Hearts per use. Blue: 6 Hearts per use. Green: 10 Hearts per use.

Asks for: Blue Health Patch, Green Health Patch, Red Health Patch, Yellow Health Patch

The Relic Apple is more than just an ordinary apple. It gives you buffs when eaten and heals you instantly upon consumption.

Asks for: Relic Apple

You'll need at least 21 Fire Bricks to set up the outer walls of the smallest sized Foundry. These can be dyed to match your base aesthetics.

Asks for: Black Fire Bricks

The Heart Canister is the most important part of the mod. Canisters are slotted in Amulets and used to increase your max health points. Each Canister adds a single new heart and stacks at 10.

Asks for: Blue Heart Canister, Green Heart Canister, Red Heart Canister, Yellow Heart Canister

The Heart Pulse Belt is a curios when equipped the player gets an increased movement speed, step-assist, and increased jump height. Upgrade values can be seen on the next page. Red Heartpulse Belt : 1.5 Block Height Jump and slight speed increase. Yellow Heartpulse Belt : 2 Block Height Jump and moderate speed increase. Blue Heartpulse Belt: 2.5 Block Height Jump and fast speed increase. Green Heartpulse Belt: 3 Block Height Jump and very fast speed increase.

Asks for: Blue Heartpulse Belt, Green Heartpulse Belt, Red Heartpulse Belt, Yellow Heartpulse Belt

The Heart Amulet holds all your Heart Canisters. You add them into the amulet and equip them in the Curios Slot. You can press Shift when hovering over the item to see how many Total Canisters is stored inside. You can have a total of 40 extra hearts in a base amulet.

Asks for: Heart Amulet

The Soul Amulet holds even more by adding a Soul Canister you gain more max health. They work like a Totem of Undying if the player would die and the soul canister will be consumed and reverted back to a blue heart canister.

Asks for: Soul Amulet

Apotheosis overhauls exploration and combat by creating a more RPG-like experience. Items and mobs you can find in the world can have special Affixes on them, making them much stronger, and sometimes giving them special abilities to make things even more fun! If you feel lost, you can always refer to the Chronicle of Shadows, which is the guide book for the mod.

Apotheosis has a World Tier system that can be accessed by pressing . You start at Haven upon acquiring your first Affix Item, and unlock more tiers as you advance in the mod. Higher tiers increase mob stats and rewards across all dimensions, and reduce your max Eterna cap. These can be viewed in the Tiers menu.

Before we dive into Apotheosis, we need to cover what an Affix is! An Affix is the driving force behind all Apotheosis gear. Each Affix is very similar to an enchantment, providing a bonus to the item it is attached to. Affix items can be found when exploring the world and their effects vary based on the item's rarity. They are more commonly dropped from Apotheosis boss monsters which can be found in underground caves or have a chance to randomly appear during the night. There are a few different types of Affixes, each affecting a specific part of the item such as: Stats, Effects, Durability, and Gem Sockets, which will be covered in the Gems section.

To get started on getting your ultimate Apotheosis gear, you'll need to fight monsters or explore the world for Gems! Gems are crystals that provide powerful bonuses when applied to Affix items. To apply a Gem to an item, you must combine it with the item in a Smithing Table. The item must have an open Gem Socket for this to work. Gems give different bonuses when slotted in different item types, and can be upgraded in the Gem Cutting Table. Unique Gems can only be socketed once per item, while most other gems can be socketed multiple times for stacking bonuses. There are a variety of Apotheosis Gems, which you can get by killing mobs and bosses. Gems can also be crushed by an anvil to create Gem Dust. You can use Gem Dust for a variety of things, but the first thing you'll want to make is a Salvaging Table!

Asks for: Gem Dust

The Gem Case is used to store and upgrade Gems. It's a direct upgrade to the Gem Cutting Table, which is only used to upgrade gems. Upgrading a Gem costs Gem Dust, rarity materials, and a second Gem of the same rarity. The material and dust cost of upgrading a Gem increases with its rarity. The exact upgrade costs will be shown in the interface.

Asks for: Gem Case

Using the Simple Reforging Table, you can now reforge an item with brand new affixes. Reforging is not limited to items that already have Affixes, and can be performed with any valid item, any number of times. The Simple Reforging Table allows you to reforge items up to Rare rarity. You'll need to upgrade this table if you wish to reforge higher rarity items. Reforging Tables have three input slots: The center slot holds the item you wish to reforge, the top-left slot holds the rarity materials for the rarity you would like to reforge with, and the bottom-right slot holds Sigils of Rebirth, which are used as fuel during reforging. There is a base cost of experience, sigils, and materials for reforges of each rarity, which can be doubled or tripled if choosing the other two options.

Asks for: Simple Reforging Table

The Sigil of Unnaming removes the Affix name of an item, reverting it to its normal item name. For example: Endawn the Ogre Slayer's Windswept Burnt Shoes of the Spellwarden will be renamed to Burnt Shoes.

Asks for: Sigil of Unnaming

The Sigil of Withdrawal will remove all socketed Gems on an item without damaging your item.

Asks for: Sigil of Withdrawal

The Reforging Table is an improved version of the Simple Reforging Table, allowing you reforge items of all rarities including Mythic items.

Asks for: Reforging Table, Sigil of Rebirth

A Molecular Metamorpher is a device that uses experience from a bound Obelisk to infuse materials. This can make certain recipes for the mod cheaper, but is also a required method of crafting for some of Cognition's resources. This is further expanded on with a Transforming Focus, converting various vanilla items into niche variants. All xp levels listed in crafting use point values, and will not take any more experience levels than needed. Item slots can also be locked to enable external automation.

Asks for: Molecular Metamorpher, Transforming Focus

The Foundry Drain can help you extract the metals you are working with onto a Casting Table. Don't do anything yet though, you'll need some Casts before doing that. The Casting Basin can be used to store and create metal blocks. These can be dyed to match your base aesthetics.

Asks for: Black Foundry Drain, Casting Basin, Casting Table, Foundry Tap

Casts are used to shape your metals for tools, weapons and armor, or ingots and other forms. You can select which fluid gets poured out by selecting it within the Controller, then simply click a drain with the Casting Basin below to get out your material. This process can be automated with redstone.

Asks for: Ingot Cast

Apotheosis overhauls the vanilla enchanting system with three new values, allowing for high-level enchants with upgradable progression. You will want to manage these values as you progress through upgrading your enchanting setup: Eterna: The power of the enchanting table, capped based on the tier of your bookshelves as well as your World Tier. This stat determines the maximum level of enchants. Quanta: The chaos inherent when enchanting at higher power. This determines the randomness of enchants. Arcana: The overall quality and quantity of the enchantments. This determines the rarity of enchants, as well as how many enchants are applied per use.

Asks for: Enchanting Table

The Enchantment Library acts as a storage for enchantments. With enough low level enchants, it can also create books of higher level enchants for you.

Asks for: Enchantment Library

Got a lot of random enchanted gear? Using a Tome of Scrapping, you can break it down and extract some of the enchantments from it. The Tome of Extraction will also remove all enchants, but will keep the item from being destroyed, allowing you to remove and replace any number of enchantments on an item at will. If you're looking for a specific enchantment for a specific tool, you can use Tomes which can be crafted to only support a certain class of enchantments.

Asks for: Tome of Extraction, Tome of Superior Scrapping, Tome of Scrapping

These are unique shelves that provide certain bonuses like adding 100% Quanta, or removing Quanta and Arcana.

Asks for: Beeshelf, Melonshelf, Stoneshelf

Quanta adds randomness to your enchanting rolls, and at max chaos, you will end up with either +100% or -100% power. Stabilization cancels out the negative effects, meaning you get all the upside, and none of the downside.

Asks for: Geode-Encased Bookshelf of Stability

To get to the next upgrade, you want to get your Eterna to 45 by reaching the Frontier World Tier. This can be done with upgraded shelves. The Hellshelf is easier to craft, and focuses on boosting Quanta. Seashelves will require some fishing to get started, but builds up your Arcana values instead.

Asks for: Hellshelf, Seashelf

Infused with magical energy, your bookshelves unlock more possibilities.

Asks for: Infused Hellshelf, Infused Seashelf

The Seashelf of Aquatic Filtration can be loaded with up to six enchanted books, and will block those enchantments from showing up again. Works with Cursed Enchants as well!

Asks for: Seashelf of Aquatic Filtration

The Hellshelf of Masterful Sight gives you 2 Enchanting Clues per shelf instead of 1.

Asks for: Hellshelf of Masterful Sight

The next goal will be to hit 60 Eterna, 40 Quanta, and 40 Arcana. You'll need to reach Ascent World Tier for this. This will require upgrading the Infused Bookshelves.

Asks for: Blazing Hellshelf, Crystalline Seashelf, Glowing Hellshelf, Heart-Forged Seashelf

To push your Eterna even higher, you will need to create and infuse Deepshelves and also reach the Summit World Tier. These shelves can push your Eterna to a max of 75. You can also use a Deepshelf of Arcane Treasures to allow your enchanting table to enchant Treasure Enchantments.

Asks for: Deepshelf, Echoing Deepshelf, Echoing Sculkshelf, Soul-Touched Deepshelf, Soul-Touched Sculkshelf, Deepshelf of Arcane Treasures

The base shelf for the final tier of enchanting. Besides being locked behind Infused Dragon's Breath, Endshelves are relatively cheap.

Asks for: Endshelf

The centerpiece of a fully completed enchanting setup. The Draconic Endshelf provides no additional stats, but will boost your Eterna by 20, allowing you to hit a max of 100. The Pearlescent Endshelf is the best general-purpose bookshelf, providing significant amounts of both Quanta and Arcana.

Asks for: Draconic Endshelf, Pearlescent Endshelf

Once you've maximized your Eterna, you'll want to craft the Enchanting Table of the Raven. This enchantment table allows you to manually configure your Eterna, Quanta, and Arcana values without requiring any nearby bookshelves.

Asks for: God-Fused Pearl, Enchanting Table of the Raven

This upgraded version of the Enchantment Library can store enchantments values up to level 31. Please note that the actual enchanted books are still capped at normal pack limits.

Asks for: Library of Alexandria

The vanilla Grindstone strips every enchantment off an item and turns them into XP, though it does not remove curses. Both of these downsides are negated by the Precision Dispeller, which allows the selective stripping of unwanted enchantments and can remove curses at the cost of 30 levels. Binding this device to an Obelisk allows the XP gains and costs to use the Obelisk's storage instead of the player's when able to.

Asks for: Precision Dispeller

Sigils of Socketing are used to increase the amount of Gem Sockets of an Affix item.

Asks for: Sigil of Socketing

Once bound to an Experience Obelisk, an Experience Fountain can be activated with redstone to spill XP from the Obelisk into the world at certain rates. This also happens whenever a player stands on top. Right-clicking a bound Fountain with certain items can infuse them with XP.

Asks for: Experience Fountain

BEER (Bookshelf Extended Enchanting Reach) allows you to modify the range that enchanting tables scan for bookshelves: Normally, enchanting tables only look for bookshelves in a 5x5x3 area around them. With BEER, you can: • Expand the X and Z width (horizontal range) • Increase the Y height (vertical range) • Use special items to modify these dimensions • Create custom enchanting setups beyond vanilla limits How to Use BEER To modify an enchanting table's range: 1. Hold the modifier item in your main hand 2. Optionally hold a specific item in your offhand (to decrease range) 3. Sneak (Shift) + Right-click on an enchanting table

Asks for: Glowstone, Lapis Block, Redstone Block

Silent Gear is a mod centered around creating custom tools and armor for every step of your playthrough. To get started, you'll need to create the framework for making your own tools and armor. In FTB Skies 2, you can only craft tool parts via the Productive Metalworks Foundry, but some tools can still only be assembled using Templates or Blueprints. Templates are one time use and Blueprints are infinite. To craft a Template Board, you'll need to make a Stone Anvil first. Once you have one, craft yourself a Crude Knife and place some Logs on the anvil. Right-clicking the logs on the table with the Knife will cut them into boards!

Asks for: Blueprint Paper, Template Board

Creating Tool Parts can be confusing at first, so let's break it down! To create a part, you'll first need the metal cast for that part. Using the Tool Rod Blueprint, you can combine it in a crafting table with 2 pieces of a Tool Rod Material to create the part. You can also see all of the recipes by hitting U on the blueprint. To see if a material can be used for a specific part, you can search in JEI for $Material to list out everything in the pack that has a Silent Gear stat attached to it. When hovering over an item that says SGear Material, you can hold Ctrl to see all of the stats for that material, including the part type it can create. Main Materials can create the main part of a tool, like a Pickaxe Head, Sword Blade, etc. There are other special part types like Tip Upgrades or Coatings, but for now, let's create an Iron Tool Rod with our blueprint. In a crafting table, you can place in a Silent Gear tool with the new tool rod to replace the part. Iron Tool Rods act like magnets!

You can increase any material's stats by grading them in the Material Grader. To do this, place in a material you would like to upgrade as well as a Grading Catalyst. The better the Catalyst used, the higher the chance for a better material Grade. Don't like the grade you get? Run it back through! Ranks of Grades: E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS, and MAX.

Asks for: Blazing Dust, Glittery Dust, Glowing Dust, Material Grader

Armors can be upgraded by adding a Lining to them. Using Leather as a lining can be a decent upgrade to add Flexible V to your armor!

Asks for: Lining Blueprint

The Starlight Charger uses the power of the Night to enchant materials with the Star Charged enchantment. This enchant grants a huge buff to the stats of the material. To use this, you'll need to build out 4 Pillars around the Starlight Charger to get it to work, as well as using a Charger Catalyst for each material you want to enchant. The Pillars of the Charger are built in the corners of a 7x7 square area centered around the Starlight Charger. They are 3 blocks tall, with the top block requiring a specific Pillar Cap. The other 2 blocks can be anything you'd like! The Pillar Cap blocks determine the tier of the Charger, which determines which Catalyst you can use. - Crimson Steel Block | Tier 1 - Azure Electrum Block | Tier 2 - Tyrian Steel Block | Tier 3

Asks for: Azure Silver Dust, Blaze Gold Dust, Starlight Charger, Starmetal Dust

Katanas are slightly slower than regular swords but do more damage!

Asks for: Katana Cast, Katana Blueprint

Create your own custom Arrows! The Arrow Blueprint creates an Arrow Head Part. Combine this with a Tool Rod and a Fletching Part to create your own arrows. This will give you an item similar to a bundle of arrows. Note: Do not use these with a vanilla crossbow!

Asks for: Arrow Cast, Arrow Blueprint, Fletching Blueprint

Spears are slightly weaker than a regular sword, but have a much longer attack reach!

Asks for: Spear Cast, Spear Blueprint

SGear materials come with specific Properties that determine the stats of an item, like durability, attack damage, and more. One of the unique properties of a material is the Enchantment value. This determines what enchants and level of enchants the tool can get when using an Enchanting Table.

Azure Silver can be obtained through advanced general-use "Ore Generators" and is further renewed via bees. This ore requires a harvest tier of Netherite to mine. The metal is mostly used to craft Azure Electrum Ingots.

Asks for: Azure Silver Ingot

The Recrystallizer allows you to combine Gems together to make custom gems!

Asks for: Recrystallizer

Crimson Iron Ore can be obtained from advanced general-use "Ore Generators" and is further renewed via bees. While it has decent stats, a Crimson Iron Tip Upgrade can grant a tool Auto-Smelt! This is also used to craft a much stronger alloy called Crimson Steel.

Asks for: Crimson Iron Ingot

Uru Metal is a powerful late-game metal alloyed from 6 other metals in a Foundry. To cast a part out of it, forge the part using Tyrian Steel first, then pour Molten Uru Metal over that part on a Casting Table. The old part is consumed and turns into Uru Metal. It costs 90mB per material the part is built from, so a shovel head runs 90mB and a pickaxe head costs 270mB. A part with anything but Tyrian Steel in it won't take the upgrade.

Asks for: Uru Metal Ingot

Once you've made some Crimson Steel, you can start combining metals together in an Alloy Forge. This machine can combine any combination of main materials together to create stronger Alloys. While you can create your own custom alloys, this is also how you make Tyrian Steel Ingots. Custom alloys are the one thing the Foundry can't take. There's no molten form of a mix, so they never get a casting recipe. Craft them by hand instead. An Alloy Ingot goes straight into a crafting table with the blueprint for the part you want, and the usual metal restriction doesn't apply to it. Each part wants an exact count: 1 for a shovel or knife, 2 for a hoe or sword, 3 for a pickaxe or axe, up to 8 for a chestplate. If a part won't craft, you're short on ingots.

Asks for: Alloy Forge

You might have noticed that specific materials come with certain Traits attached to it, like how the Iron Tool Rod acts as a magnet! When crafting tool parts, materials will add these Traits that act as either small boosts or passive abilities. Most Traits will describe what they do in the tooltip as well. A great way to add special traits to your pickaxe is by making a Tip Upgrade. This adds an extra part to the tool to give it more stats or traits, while allowing the tool to still be repaired using the same material type it is made out of. For example, if you install a Diamond Tip Upgrade to an Iron pickaxe, it will increase its mining level and allow it to mine Obsidian while only needing Iron to repair it.

Asks for: Tip Cast, Tip Blueprint

Bindings can be added to most tools and weapons, but is a required part for Elytras. These only add minor stat bonuses.

Asks for: Binding Blueprint

With a set of Jeweler Tools, you can make custom items that go into your Curios slots! Using the tool, you can combine Bort with a Gem to create a Jewelry Setting. These can be used to add gems to Necklaces, Rings, or Bracelets.

Asks for: Bort, Jeweler Tools

The Slingshot is a decent starter ranged weapon that fires Pebbles for ammo. It has a fast draw speed and low damage. Pebbles can be created using a Stone Anvil and a Hammer!

Asks for: Slingshot Cast, Slingshot Blueprint

Custom necklaces can be made using the Necklace Blueprint. These take 3 main materials to create a Necklace Chain. To be able to equip it, you'll need to craft the part together with Jeweler Tools, as well as any Jewelry Settings you want to add!

Asks for: Necklace Cast, Necklace Blueprint

Daggers have very low damage, but can attack really fast. They also reduce the invincibility time of the target!

Asks for: Dagger Cast, Dagger Blueprint

Custom rings can be made using the Ring Blueprint. These take 2 main materials to create a Ring Shank. To finish creating the ring, you'll need to craft the part together with Jeweler Tools, as well as any Jewelry Settings you want to add!

Asks for: Ring Cast, Ring Blueprint

The Salvager allows you to recycle unused parts and items to get the materials used to craft them back. This is also a great machine to use for mob farms, as it can break down the excess tools, armors, and weapons into mats!

Asks for: Salvager

Grips can be added to most tools and weapons to provide a small stat bonus.

Asks for: Grip Blueprint

Custom bracelets can be made using the Bracelet Blueprint. These take 3 main materials to create a Bracelet Band. To be able to equip it, you'll need to craft the part together with Jeweler Tools, as well as any Jewelry Settings you want to add!

Asks for: Bracelet Cast, Bracelet Blueprint

A Coating can be applied to most items, excluding the Elytra. These can provide a large stat bonus and add some unique traits to tools. Note: Items that can be used as a Coating can be applied without making a blueprint, just combine them with the tool in a crafting table to apply them.

Asks for: Coating Blueprint

The Vitality Blade works similar to a Heart Amulet. It has its own slots for canisters. Each canister adds 1 additional damage to the sword.

Asks for: Vitality Blade

The Vigor Bow works similar to a Heart Amulet. It has its own slots for canisters. Each canister adds 1 additional damage and Draw Speed to the Bow.

Asks for: Vigor Bow

Vanilla tools can be converted into their Silent Gear counterparts by placing the tool back into a crafting table. This converts them into customizable tools, allowing you to change specific parts or even repair it using Repair Kits!

Knives have very low damage, but can attack much faster than a regular sword. They are similar to daggers, but do less damage and swing slower.

Asks for: Knife Cast, Knife Blueprint

Machetes are slightly faster than regular swords but do less damage. It can also chop wood like an axe at a slower rate and acts like a Sickle when clearing grass and plants.

Asks for: Machete Cast, Machete Blueprint

The Salvaging Table is used to break down affix items into their corresponding rarity materials: Common - Mysterious Scrap Metal Uncommon - Timeworn Fabric Rare - Luminous Crystal Shard Epic - Arcane Sands Mythic - Godforged Pearls The Salvaging Table can be automated by sending items in from the top or sides, and extracting them from the bottom of the table. Don't lose any items!

Asks for: apotheosis:common_material, apotheosis:epic_material, apotheosis:mythic_material, apotheosis:rare_material, Salvaging Table, apotheosis:uncommon_material

The Augmenting Table is an end-game crafting station used to augment the individual Affixes of an item. It has two different uses: Firstly, it can upgrade an existing Affix, costing two Sigils of Enhancement to upgrade the Affix by 25%. How much of a boost this provides varies per Affix. Secondly, it can reroll an Affix, costing one Sigil of Enhancement to swap out a selected Affix for another of the same type. The alternative options will be shown on the left. The Augmenting Table has two input slots. The upper slot holds the item you wish to Augment, which must be an Affix item. The lower slot holds the Sigils of Enhancement used for Augmenting.

Asks for: Augmenting Table, Sigil of Enhancement

Just like tools, you can make custom armor as well with Silent Gear. Don't have enough Iron in the early game? Make Copper Armor instead! Keep an eye out for special traits for armor pieces from certain materials. It's easy to add self repair to your gear with the right materials.

Cognition has a unique method of XP generation by way of Bibliophages: tiny constructs that steadily break down bookshelves into XP orbs until only Forgotten Dust is left behind. Infected Bookshelves can spread the phages onto other bookshelves, allowing for a single use of a Bibliophage to affect as many connected bookshelves as available. This process can be halted by using a Staff of Attunement on the infected shelf. Special bookshelves made using written books and enchanted books can also be infected, producing more XP value over their decay than regular shelves. A 'nest' for phages can be made if bookshelves are not in ready supply. Fluorescent Agar is made using the dust left behind by decayed bookshelves, and then placed among infected bookshelves to allow phages to convert it into proper Nutrient Agar, which can passively spread phage infection onto the 26 blocks surrounding it if able. This Agar can be broken and picked back up to further enhance it: Insightful Agar will increase the rate of infection and decay. Extravagant Agar will increase the rate of infection and the XP value gained from decay.

Asks for: Bibliophage, Fluorescent Agar