Colorful Allays guide for FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.0.3 to 1.8.0

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.23.0 guide

Colorful Allays is part of the pack's mod list. This pack ships version 1.21.1-1.0.0 of it (file colorfulallays-1.21.1-1.0.0.jar), and it has been there since pack version 1.7.0 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the pack.^[1]

Unverified The pack's sources don't describe what Colorful Allays adds or changes in the game, so this guide doesn't list its features. Check the mod in-game before relying on any particular behavior.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.23.0 guide

Colorful Allays doesn't give you a crafting order to follow. I can't confirm any recipes or items for it in this pack, so there's nothing to craft first. What the pack does confirm is how Allays are meant to appear, and that's all in the config.^[2]

Natural spawning is off

This pack sets spawning.enableNaturalSpawning to false, so Allays don't spawn naturally in the world. Waiting for a colored Allay to wander past won't get you anywhere unless that option is switched on.^[2]

Also, spawning.enableInteractionPersistence is false in the pack. That option would make naturally spawned Allays persistent once you interact with them, but it's switched off.^[2]

If you turn spawning on

The rest of the spawn settings are already filled in, so flipping the switch gives you a working setup. The pack uses a spawn weight of 5 in spawning.naturalSpawnWeight, where higher is more common and 0 disables it. Groups range from 1 in spawning.naturalSpawnMinGroup to 2 in spawning.naturalSpawnMaxGroup.^[2]

Colors are picked at random, because colors.enableRandomColorSpawning is true. Each color has its own weight, and these are the pack's values:^[2]

• Light blue is the most common at 15 (colors.weights.lightBlue), then white at 10 (colors.weights.white).^[2]
• Blue, orange, pink and yellow all sit at 8 each.^[2]
• Black is the rarest at 3 (colors.weights.black), followed by brown at 4 (colors.weights.brown).^[2]

Unverified Recipes, quests and in-game descriptions for Colorful Allays could not be confirmed from the pack data, so there is no confirmed first item to make. This site does hold FTB Skies 2: Aero's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.23.0 guide

Colorful Allays doesn't add machines, multiblocks or anything that handles power, fluids or items, at least nothing the available sources describe. What the sources do cover is how Allays spawn naturally and how they get a color, so that's what this section is about.^[2][3]

Natural spawning

The mod's own data adds Allay spawns to every biome in the #colorfulallays:allay_spawn_biome tag. As shipped in the jar, that entry uses a weight of 10 and a group size of 1 to 3.^[3]

The pack has its own settings in the common config. Natural spawning is switched off here: spawning.enableNaturalSpawning is false. You shouldn't expect Allays to turn up in the world on their own.^[2]

The rest of the spawn settings are also set in the pack's config, and some differ from the jar's data file. They only matter if you turn natural spawning on.^[2][3]

• spawning.naturalSpawnWeight is 5 in the pack (the jar's data file uses 10). The config describes it as higher meaning more common, and 0 meaning disabled.^[2][3]
• spawning.naturalSpawnMinGroup is 1, the same minimum as the jar's data file.^[2][3]
• spawning.naturalSpawnMaxGroup is 2 in the pack (the jar's data file uses 3).^[2][3]

Interaction persistence

spawning.enableInteractionPersistence makes naturally spawned Allays persistent once a player interacts with them. The pack sets it to false, so interacting with one doesn't make it persistent.^[2]

Random colors

colors.enableRandomColorSpawning is true in the pack. That means a random color is assigned when Allays spawn naturally. Each color has its own weight in the config.^[2]

• Light blue has the highest weight at 15 (colors.weights.lightBlue).^[2]
• White is at 10 (colors.weights.white).^[2]
• Blue (colors.weights.blue), orange (colors.weights.orange), pink (colors.weights.pink) and yellow (colors.weights.yellow) are all at 8.^[2]
• Light gray (colors.weights.lightGray), lime (colors.weights.lime) and red (colors.weights.red) are all at 7.^[2]
• Cyan (colors.weights.cyan), green (colors.weights.green) and magenta (colors.weights.magenta) are all at 6.^[2]
• Gray (colors.weights.gray) and purple (colors.weights.purple) are both at 5.^[2]
• Brown is at 4 (colors.weights.brown).^[2]
• Black has the lowest weight at 3 (colors.weights.black).^[2]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.23.0 guide

There is no crafted progression ladder to climb for this mod. What the pack data confirms is how you get allays in the first place: they spawn naturally in the world.^[3]

The mod adds regular allays to the spawn list of every biome in its allay spawn biome tag. Each spawn entry has a weight of 10 and comes in groups of 1 to 3.^[3]

Unverified No tiers, quests or crafting recipes for this mod are confirmed in the sources, so there is no step-by-step tier breakdown to show here.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Everything for Colorful Allays lives in one file, config/colorfulallays-common.toml. There are only a few options, and the most important one is already decided for you: in this pack, Allays don't spawn naturally.^[4]

Natural spawning

spawning.enableNaturalSpawning is set to false in this pack. So you won't stumble across wild Allays unless you switch it on yourself.^[4]

• spawning.naturalSpawnMinGroup is 1 and spawning.naturalSpawnMaxGroup is 2, so natural groups would be one or two Allays.^[4]
• spawning.naturalSpawnWeight is 5. The file describes it as higher meaning more common, and 0 meaning disabled.^[4]
• spawning.enableInteractionPersistence is false. If you enabled it, naturally spawned Allays would become persistent when a player interacts with them. As things stand, that doesn't happen.^[4]

Colors

colors.enableRandomColorSpawning is true. The file says this gives Allays a random color when they spawn naturally. Each color has its own weight value in this pack:^[4]

• Light blue is the highest at 15 (colors.weights.lightBlue), followed by white at 10 (colors.weights.white).^[4]
• Blue, orange, pink and yellow are all 8: colors.weights.blue, colors.weights.orange, colors.weights.pink and colors.weights.yellow.^[4]
• Light gray, lime and red are all 7: colors.weights.lightGray, colors.weights.lime and colors.weights.red.^[4]
• Cyan, green and magenta are all 6: colors.weights.cyan, colors.weights.green and colors.weights.magenta.^[4]
• Gray and purple are 5: colors.weights.gray and colors.weights.purple.^[4]
• Brown is 4 (colors.weights.brown) and black is the lowest at 3 (colors.weights.black).^[4]

Unverified The file doesn't say how the color weights are applied, and it doesn't list the mod's default values. So it's unconfirmed which of these settings the pack changed from the mod defaults.