Getting Started

There's a lot of basic resources in Minecraft, and mods add way more on top of that! If you're struggling with how to obtain a particular type, you can check the First Materials chapter for a guide on some of the ways you can get your hands on it, rather than wade through a dozen pages of JEI on your own.

FTB Skies 2 uses a system called Events that can occasionally occur. Players can use the command /events toggle ftb:[event name] to disable or re-enable each event to their own liking. Allay: A helpful allay will appear, offering to trade one item for another. Apoth Boss:If the player has the Bad Omen effect, an Apotheosis boss spawns in their vicinity. Creeper: Just a wee prank :) Goat: Players standing near the edge may receive a little nudge to help them experience the void. Fairy: This benevolent invisible sprite provides a little boost before it moves on Frogs: If there's a body of water nearby, a frog or squid spawns in. Llama: A special sort of llama spawns that spits helpful items at players. If placed on a lead, these can be kept around and fed to spit resources instead. Phantom: A malicious phantom swoops down to drop an anvil on someone's head! Free anvil tho... Pyromancer: A novice pyromancer stops by, if you'd like to trade a few magical goods. Wandering Trader: One of the many traders from the Wanderer guild pays a visit, offering various items to help in your adventures.

Ender Pearls are precious loot dropped by Endermen, and can be thrown to teleport you around. These are also needed to find your way to the Ender Dragon and to craft many of the custom Gateways in this pack! You can find endermen in great abundance in the Warped Forest biome in the nether or from a mob farm. Legend says Piglins are also likely to trade for a bit of gold!

Asks for: Ender Pearl

If you're trying to draw lightning to yourself for whatever reasons, there are a few methods available. Note that items will need to be on the ground to transform. If there's a thunderstorm, a Lightning Rod will periodically get struck with lightning, affecting the area around it. The static charge from a FTB Pump can build up into a lightning strike if you're willing to take some damage, possibly a lot. If you can get your hands on a Lightning Scroll, casting that will work for transforming items and charging creepers. After some progression, if needed, this can be done more easily by crafting the scroll mentioned before, or making a Lighting Glyph. Once able to enchant, another option to force strikes is to hit entities or a lightning rod with a Channeling-enchanted Trident during a thunderstorm.

Starting off in this empty world, you'll need to get yourself some resources to expand! So what do you do? Punch that tree. You can also hold ` to activate Ultimine when mining, which is essentially veinminer! This allows you to break the entire tree down in one go, at the cost of some extra hunger. Thankfully Grandma sent you a treat to help you survive!

Using two sticks to make fire is a well-established technique. Simply use the Firestick on the top of a block and they form fire! If any wood-based blocks burn away, they can become Ash that can be dug up with a shovel. This ash can be used for a few things, such as crafting into torches or being compressed into a crude Charcoal. Ash can also be obtained if creatures die while set on fire.

Asks for: Firestick, Ash

Of course you need a place to store your items. You only have so many inventory slots! The problem with chests? Chest walls. Chest rooms. Needing signs to "sort" chests. Not anymore. You'll need a basic chest to get you started, but head over to the General Storage chapter to learn more ways to hold all of your stuff!

Asks for: Chest

Wooden tools don't have much durability or strength, but it's still far more effective than using your bare hands and gives some extra utility. Plus it's not like you have any other options right away. If you hold a Hoe in either hand and spam sneak, you can speed up the growth of nearby plants!

Asks for: Wooden Axe, Wooden Hoe, Wooden Pickaxe, Wooden Shovel, Wooden Sword, Wooden Shears

With a little bit of something to start from, making a Campfire becomes much easier. This can be used to cook various items or make more charcoal with much less hassle. It's still hot though, so watch your step! Note: a Skillet placed over a campfire can hold a stack of items to cook the same way!

Asks for: Campfire

With a campfire set up, it's possible to treat glass and iron to withstand hotter temperatures. By creating a Tempered Jar, cobblestone can be steadily and fully heated until it melts into lava! Without a tank beside it, these jars will clumsily expel the fluids they create into the world as a fluid capsule.

Asks for: Tempered Glass Jar, Lava Bucket

The Tempered Jar has a lot of versatility, but needing to manually start the mixing process every time gets old fast. This is where the Jar Automator helps! By simply placing one above a tempered jar, any valid recipe inside said jar will automatically start! Practically overpowered when it comes to lava generation...

Asks for: Jar Automater

Dripping fluids slowly and steadily onto different materials is a very useful tactic. By clicking a bowl on a water source, it turns into a bowl of water, which can be placed in the Dripper to break down leaves into more water and convert other materials! Another sneakier way to make more water is to use bone meal underneath flowing water. If there's enough space, seagrass will grow and make the water into full sources!

Asks for: Dripper, Bowl

Dripping water over dirt can work it into a much more malleable form: Clay! This substance has often been prized for its versatility, though it seems much easier to obtain than previously thought...how balanced!

Asks for: Clay Ball

Getting your first Diamond in vanilla is a pretty big deal, and it's none too shabby here! In order to get diamonds you'll need to either channel Lightning into emeralds (as items on the ground), drip Polymorphic Fluid onto an emerald block, or, more sanely, find some while Exploring Void Islands. Once you have a few, you'll be able to generate more. A Wandering Trader might also make this conversion for you... There is also the rare chance to fish up some diamond essence, and other more technical methods exist that could generate diamonds such as Coal Compression, a Lens of the Miner, and more...

Asks for: Mechanical Diamond Mesh, Budding Diamond GeOre, Diamond, Diamond Seeds

A simple walk off your bit of stable ground into the void can get you Grains of Infinity right before you loop back above the void. It's much more forgiving than one would expect, aside from the slight crunch when you land back on solid ground. This is based on how close you are to the depths of the void, and hanging out low enough will allow you to passively collect Grains.

Asks for: Grains of Infinity

You hear a rustle, a jingle, a... voice? "Come find me when those coins start weighing you down." it says. Will you follow the voice?

Not all ghasts are terrifying. Some just need a little love... and a lot of snowballs. Head to the Shop and purchase a Dried Ghast. With a little patience and some snowy treats, you'll soon have your very own Happy Ghast companion! Purchase a Dried Ghast from the Shop. Place it in a safe area and waterlog it to hatch and grow. This will take about 20 minutes to fully hatch. Feed the resulting Ghastling snowballs to help it grow faster. Wait or feed it until it matures into a Happy Ghast and then you can saddle up and ride into the skies! You can grow snowballs from snowbell seeds, obtained from breaking grass.

Asks for: Dried Ghast

Once you've gotten enough grains of infinity and no longer wish to obtain them at a low Y level you can disable this feature with this quest. Once you disable them, you'll no longer be able to obtain them in this manner and will need to produce them by normal crafting. You can always grab one from the emergency items if needed however.

Asks for: Grains of Infinity

Did you mess up? Or accidentally use your last Grain of Infinity? You know you can automate those... right?

Fertile grass is plentiful in many places, but not this one. Most islands in the void have a breed of grass that only spreads more of itself. If you find yourself without grass in your starting location, get some Grains of Infinity and toss them in a puddle of water with some dirt, and the essence-rich fluid will convert the two into a Grass Seed. When you right-click a grass seed onto dirt it will convert to normal grass and spread to nearby dirt. Be careful not to let the fake grass overtake your dirt first! A path or stone barrier can help prevent this.

Asks for: Grass Seed

With basic resources up and running, it's time to see what other bits of land have formed out in the void! In Skies 2, your little island isn't the only place to settle, nor are you the first being to come here. With a few tools to travel the void and a map to track your location, go out and explore! Who knows what friends or foes or treasures await you... Head over to the Traveler's Quest Chapter for more information.

The Eye of Legend is a special item that allows wanderers to find their way to floating villages out in the void. Simply use the item to summon a guide that drifts briefly in the direction of one before dispersing. TIP: Need some Gunpowder to make TNT? You could make a mob farm, sure, but our chosen way is to just craft the Overworldian Nights Gateway any time you need some. Each wave will drop gunpowder which should give you more than enough to progress easily!

Asks for: Eye of Legend

Obsidian is needed to make a portal to the Nether! Using a Diamond Pickaxe you'll be able to break Obsidian generated using lava and water, though you don't need a pickaxe to place it. To create the portal, you'll need to make a portal frame using at least 10 Obsidian, then light the portal with a Flint and Steel.

Asks for: Flint And Steel, Obsidian

The Nether is a pretty dangerous place, but you'll need to find a Blaze if you want to hunt down the Ender Dragon! Blaze spawners can be found in a Nether Fortress, but they may spawn anywhere else in the Nether. When killed, they drop Blaze Rods, which is exactly what we need next. These break down into Blaze Powder, which are needed for Eyes of Ender and brewing potions.

Asks for: Blaze Rod

Once you have Ender Pearls and some Blaze Powder, you can craft Eyes of Ender. These are used to lead you to the End by activating a portal you'll need to make yourself, though there are plenty of other crafting uses for them as well.

Asks for: Ender Eye

The End Portal Frames are no joke! You'll need to go deep into tech or magic to get all 12. The End Portal structure is made by placing a cornerless 5x5 square of End Portal Frames just like vanilla. It will not work by just building it from one angle. The best way to do this is to stand in the center of the portal and place the blocks around you. You'll then need to make sure each End Portal Frame has an Eye of Ender inside. This will complete the portal, allowing you to jump through to reach The End, the home of the Ender Dragon. If you want to move your portal, Left-clicking an End Portal with a frame will delete the portal.

Asks for: End Portal Frame

Is waiting for farm animals to spawn on patches of non-fake grass just too slow for you? Once you've gotten an eye of ender and a handful of flowers, you can make the Gateway of the Emerald Grove! Simply use this item on a block with enough walkable space around you to challenge the gateway. You'll need to fight a few waves of zombies and spiders, but plenty of basic farm animals will spawn in the area to join your little base afterwards! Certain crop materials will also be rewarded for beating each wave.

Asks for: Gate Pearl

Gear up and get ready for the ultimate fight (in vanilla Minecraft). If you've been leveling your Skills, you should be ready to take on the Ender Dragon!

Asks for: Dragon Egg

Organic matter compacted tightly and left to sit for a while breaks down into fertilizer. One of the best ways to do this is with a Composter, using spare leaves or saplings for now. Make sure to hold onto at least one!

Asks for: Bone Meal, Composter

Using Bone Meal on fertile grass blocks causes a rush of grassy growth. This can be harvested to yield seeds for Wheat and Hemp. The latter is more important right now, as grown hemp is very composter efficient and can be turned into String!

Asks for: Industrial Hemp Fiber, String

Strainers, when placed in water, will passively collect the essence drifting through void waters, letting them form familiar resources both material and organic. The nature essence that strainers collect is useful for a vast variety of plant based goods!

Asks for: Stone Pebble, Acacia Water Strainer, Bamboo Water Strainer, Birch Water Strainer, Cherry Water Strainer, Crimson Water Strainer

Wood is a fine enough resource to work with, but stone is where tool use becomes feasible. With enough pebbles collected from a strainer, they can be cobbled together into...well, cobblestone. There's got to be a better way than straining water though...

Asks for: Cobblestone

Strainers and sifters have worked just fine in the past, and nothing's wrong with them now! This path uses Create sifters to potentially automate the production of resources from this essence-rich void. To start, drip a bucket's worth of water over Andesite obtained from the Strainer. This will form deposits of Andesite Amalgam that can be mined for early Andesite Alloy.

By connecting sifters to rotational power with cogs they can process loose materials such as gravel, sand, and dust to pick out useful resources. Sifters can accept items inserted by hand or through more automated means, and can be likewise extracted. Next page has details on mesh tiers. Sifter meshes will typically find more resources the better tier they are, from cloth to diamond, requiring the sifters to run at a higher base speed. The blazing mechanical mesh works a little differently however, it directly generates smelted ingots of metals in exchange for destroying some alternate resources.

Asks for: Sifter, Mechanical Cloth Mesh

A one-time starter bonus for devoting yourself to Prospecting! Warning! Completing this quest by checking the checkmark will set your team on the Path of Prospecting and lockout the other 2 path rewards.

By combining Grains of Infinity with some Cobblestone, a Void Crystal Catalyst is made. This block can then be dyed in-world to form a Budding Crystal for generating basic resources, depending on the dye. For iron, white dye from bone meal is used.

Asks for: Void Crystal Catalyst

The waters of the void collect plenty of its essence, perhaps you could simply pull some out with the right tool? When something tugs on the line, pulling at the right time should let you reel in what you've snagged! If there's enough water around the line, it's possible to catch something extra rare... If there's an open patch of water five blocks wide all around the bobber, and the patch is at least two blocks deep with open air above, there's a chance of catching a 'treasured' essence.

Asks for: Fishing Rod

Fishing for essence is far more useful than expected, yielding essence that can be turned into the right resources for further progression! Combine those with some inferium essence and prosperity seeds, and a crop can be made that will grow these essences passively. Another option would be to find some hardworking and productive creatures who could make resources. Maybe after just a few more casts of the rod though...

Asks for: Inferium Essence, Iron Essence

A one-time starter bonus for devoting yourself to Cultivation! Warning! Completing this quest by checking the checkmark will set your team on the Path of Cultivation and lockout the other 2 path rewards.

Asks for: Fishing Rod

Zinc is a crucial part of Create progression. So how do you get it? You can hammer tuff on a cutting board, sure, but after that you can use Create's crushing wheels to crush tuff automatically, GeOres, make Zinc seeds, breed Zinc Bees, or go into Malum. You may even use other ways such as ore generators and the Lens of the Miner!

Asks for: Zinc Ingot

Now that the catalyst has been transformed, small crystal buds of iron will grow from the block. Once fully grown into proper clusters, these can be broken or Right-clicked to yield shards for processing. Right-clicking with your hand gives 2 shards. Right-clicking with a pickaxe gives 4, but consumes durability.

A one-time starter bonus for devoting yourself to Crystalmancy! Warning! Completing this quest by checking the checkmark will set your team on the Path of Crystalmancy and lockout the other 2 path rewards.

The practice of breaking big chunks into smaller chunks has always proven more useful in practice than said out loud. As proper smashing tools, Hammers can break down Cobblestone into Gravel, Gravel into Dirt, and other similar processes. Try it with compressed versions of these blocks!

Asks for: Dust, Cobblestone, Dirt, Gravel, Sand

Grab some raw Iron, and get ready to make some metal. The Furnace is how we're going to smelt down any raw ores into Ingots! You can also smelt down Logs into Charcoal to use if you don't have enough Coal.

Asks for: Furnace

Iron Furnaces adds upgraded furnaces that are much better than the regular furnace! You can upgrade your first furnace by either crafting an Iron Furnace, or by making a Stone To Iron Upgrade and use it on your basic furnaces in the world to upgrade!

Asks for: Iron Furnace, Stone to Iron Furnace Upgrade

Furnace Augments are essentially upgrades to your Iron Furnace. They can also change the function entirely! Here are some of the more notable ones: Factory: Converts the furnace to accept power instead of fuel, as well smelting more items at once. Generator: Converts the generator to burn items into power. By default, items like Coal or Wood can be burned, but combining this with a Blasting augment allows you to convert Iron or Diamonds into power.

Asks for: Augment: Blasting, Augment: Factory, Augment: Fuel Efficiency, Augment: Generator, Augment: Smoking, Augment: Speed

After progressing through whichever path you pick, iron should come easily enough, allowing for further progression through vanilla and, more notably, all manner of mods.

Asks for: Iron Ingot

Once you make yourself an Iron Pickaxe, you unlock the ability to mine a lot more tougher blocks, like ones composed of Diamonds, Redstone, and more!

Asks for: Iron Pickaxe

You know what you need to survive? Food. One of the best ways to get some food going is by starting a Farm. Punching grass will get you different types of seeds. Using a Hoe, you can till up the ground near water to create some Farmland for you to plant your seeds on. This pack also comes with the ability to Squat Grow your crops! While holding a hoe in your hand, you can spam crouch to grow nearby crops.

Asks for: Wheat Seeds

You'll need something to defend yourself, and an Iron Sword is a great starter weapon. Making a basic Bow can help you kill Creepers from afar, so it doesn't hurt to make one as well. While weak to start with, you'll gain more perks and skills as you fight your way through mobs. You can check these skills in the Melee and Ranged tabs by pressing K to open the skill interface.

Asks for: Bow, Iron Sword

While you were chopping trees and running around your area, you might have seen in chat that you've gained a skill point! This pack has custom skills using Puffish Skills, which the Skill Interface can be opened by pressing K by default. There are several Skill Trees to go through, each one being leveled depending on what you do! Mining is leveled by mining ores, which can upgrade your mining speed, give Fortune levels, and upgrade your Ultimine Range!

Almost everything that generates power requires some Redstone to craft. Power is the start of your journey into Technology!

Asks for: Redstone

It can seem daunting to get started generating power for your base, especially in the early game! Make sure to check out the Power Generation chapter to learn all about the different ways you can generate power.

Need to teleport to different parts of your base? Maybe to completely different bases? Craft a Waystone! Need to teleport to a waystone while out in the wild? Make a Warp Stone to access all of your waystones!

Asks for: Warp Stone

While sleeping in a bed is the default way of setting your respawn point, you can also use the /sethome command to set a point to teleport back to with /home. Here are several other useful teleport commands you can use! /sethome (name) | Sets a home that you can teleport back to using /home (name) /back | Allows you to return to a previous point, either from a death or from where you teleported from last /rtp | Teleports the player to a random (and hopefully safe) location.

Breaking Blocks down into blocks of smaller bits is useful, but a chore to do by hand. Auto-hammers pull from an inventory on one side (the blue side), crush the block, then push it to an inventory on the opposite side (the red side), all without additional effort!

Asks for: Diamond Auto-Hammer, Gold Auto-Hammer, Iron Auto-Hammer, Netherite Auto-Hammer

Like fighting mobs? Check out the Wild Hunt quest chapter for all of the mob bounties you can claim! If you want a challenge, that's the chapter you'll find it in.

Asks for: Rotten Flesh

Your inventory is going to get full pretty quick. It is modded MC after all. The solution is to make a Sophisticated Backpack. These Backpacks provide a simple solution to your inventory problems! They can also be upgraded to hold even more items, and have tons of cool upgrades to help you in your adventures, like the Crafting Upgrade for a portable crafting table. You can place these in a curio slot as well for easy access using a keybind. These can also be placed down in the world by sneak-right-clicking while it's in your main hand. To learn more, check out the General Storage chapter.

Asks for: Backpack

With access to Iron, you can jump into the magical world of Ars Nouveau by making your first spellbook! To learn more about what you can do in the mod, check out the Ars Nouveau quest chapter.

Asks for: Novice Spell Book

You can place lava and water near each other in-world to generate cobblestone, but the placement is tricky to remember at times and it can be a hassle to sit there and break each piece you need. This is why the Stone Cobble Generator exists! Simply place the block down and it will output cobblestone steadily to an adjacent inventory. A similar block exists for generating basalt, and lava has special interactions with flowing Honey and Chocolate...

Asks for: Stone Cobble Generator

While wooden bowls serve a fine enough purpose, carrying fluids is not its strong suit. A proper bucket is much more suited to the task, and fired clay performs the task well. It can even hold hot fluids! ...once...

Asks for: Ceramic Bucket, Unfired Clay Bucket

Eager to explore the great void? There is one item that can help a lot: A few stacks of Burning Dash Scrolls! Throw a single piece of paper into a fire to make a Burning Dash Scroll. Everything you need to make these can be automated right now: - Dispensers can light fires with flint and steel, break sugarcane with water, or toss items. - Hoppers under mud can still pick up items. - Snad, when directly pulsed with redstone, causes sugarcane to grow quite fast. Warning: Throw only one piece of paper! Using more will waste the rest of the stack!

Asks for: Scroll

The Silent Gear mod offers a customized experience when making tools and weapons! It also adds several new tool and weapon types, as well as the ability to mix and match different material types to make your tools even better. Instead of just breaking, you can even repair them using Repair Kits!

As you complete quests, you'll be rewarded Silver, Gold, or Crystal coins worth 1, 10, and 50 currency respectively. Most shop items are gated behind quests, so keep that in mind when saving up. Right-Clicking these coins in your inventory will add them to your player balance, which is visible at the above and to the left of your of your inventory interface, next to a brown dollar-sign bag. In your inventory interface, you'll also notice three coin icons next to your player model. These can be clicked to withdraw currency from your total balance. You can also exchange currency in the shop. Coins may be submitted to The Shopkeeper in exchange for items, item bundles, or events, which improve as you progress through the game.