Compact Crafting guide for FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.0.3 to 1.8.0
Compact Crafting guide for FTB Skies 2: Aero
Last verified for FTB Skies 2: Aero v1.8.0 on Oct 16, 2026 · text last changed Oct 16, 2026
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None of these sections are written for this pack; 1 is shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.8.0's own files.
How do you get started with Compact Crafting?
4 parts
Same as in the FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 guide
Compact Crafting is about miniaturization crafting: you set up a field, and items thrown into it start a craft. Everything starts with a few small parts, and the Base and the dish are crafted from vanilla materials. Here is the order I'd make them in.[1][2]
First, the Base
The Base is the building block for the rest of the mod's machines. One craft gives you four of them, so you won't need to repeat it often.[1]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
Recipe id: compactcrafting:base
Next, the Miniaturization Projector Dish
Next comes the Miniaturization Projector Dish. The pack has changed this recipe, so go by the recipe shown below and not by what you may remember from other packs. One craft gives you four dishes.[1]
Crafting Shaped
| any glass panes | Empty slot | |
| any glass panes | ||
| any glass panes | Empty slot |
Recipe id: compactcrafting:projector_dish
Then, the Field Projector
Combine one Base and one dish and you get the Field Projector. This is the block that creates the miniaturization field.[1][2]
To craft with the field, throw the catalyst item into it. That is what starts the craft, as the Miniaturization Crafting recipe screen explains.[2]
Finally, proxies for automation
Once the projector works, you can add proxies. They are made from a Base plus one extra item, and they are meant for field automation with redstone.[1][2]
- Shift-use a proxy on a projector to bind it to a field.[2]
- Shift-use in the air to unbind it again.[2]
- Right-click a placed proxy to highlight the projectors it is linked to.[2]
Sources
- FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 recipe dump: recipes making Compact Crafting items · pack recipe dump
- compactcrafting names, screen text and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 config: config/compactcrafting-server.toml · pack file
Where this guide comes from
Written from what FTB Skies 2: Aero 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 16, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 1.9.0 to 1.10.0