Mystical Agriculture in FTB Skies 2: Aero

Mystical Agriculture is all about growing your resources like crops. You plant seeds, harvest essences, and turn those essences into materials, mob drops, tools and armor. This pack ships version 8.0.28 of the mod.^[1][2]

Where it sits in the quest book

The pack's quest book covers the mod in the "Generating Resources" chapter. That chapter is in the "Resources & Logistics" group and is chapter 8 of 31. It has 99 quests and also covers other farming mods such as Replication and Mob Grinding Utils. The mod is not on the ATM Star quest path.^[3]

The mod's own line starts with "Mystical Agriculture" quest, a Tier 1 quest that asks for Inferium Essence, Inferium Seeds and Inferium Farmland. The quest says you need at least 8 Inferium Essence to make your first Inferium Seed.^[3]

What comes after

• "Prosperity Shards" quest comes right after the first quest. Everything else in the mod's line branches off it, including growth accelerators, tools, armor, the watering can, machine upgrades and mob growing.^[3]
• "Making Custom Seeds" quest covers the Infusion Altar and its pedestals. After it come the essence tier quests: "Prudentium Essence" quest (Tier 2), "Tertium Essence" quest (Tier 3), "Imperium Essence" quest (Tier 4) and "Supremium Essence" quest (Tier 5).^[3]
• Past Supremium, the quest book offers "Awakening Altar" quest, "Master Infusion Crystal" quest and "Cognizant Dust" quest. Those three lead into "Awakened Essence" quest, the Awakened Tier.^[3]
• The seed quests a quest in "Generating Resources", "Nether Star Seeds" quest and "Dragon Egg Seeds" quest come after an Insanium Essence quest.^[3]

Only part of the chapter's quest text was available for this guide. The rest is in the quest book itself, so look there for the full details.^[3]

Mystical Agriculture lets you grow resources as crops. In this pack the quest book starts it in the "Generating Resources" chapter (group "Resources & Logistics", chapter 8 of 31). The first quest is "Mystical Agriculture" quest, marked Tier 1, and it asks you for Inferium Essence, Inferium Seeds and Inferium Farmland. That is also a good order to follow.^[3]

Step 1: Get Inferium Essence

Inferium Essence is the base of everything else. The quest says it can be fished up, dropped by mobs, or gained by mining the ore. One catch: this pack sets General.inferiumDropChance to 0 (the mod default is 0.2), so the mob drop chance is turned off. Inferium Ore still generates in the world, as World.generateInferiumOre is true, and you can smelt it into essence.^[3][4]

Inferium EssenceMod recipe

Smelting

• any inferium ore

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:inferium_essence_smelted

Smelting Inferium ore into essence.

The pack also adds smelting and blasting recipes that turn Inferium Dust from another mod into Inferium Essence.^[5]

Step 2: Craft your first Inferium Seeds

The quest says that once you have at least 8 essence you can make your first Inferium Seed and start growing it. Those crops give you more essence, so you are no longer relying on mining.^[3]

Inferium SeedsMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Inferium Essence	Inferium Essence	Inferium Essence
Inferium Essence	Wheat Seeds	Inferium Essence
Inferium Essence	Inferium Essence	Inferium Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:inferium_seeds

Step 3: Plant on Essence Farmland

Essence Farmland increases the Inferium Essence you get from a harvest. The quest says you make it by using an essence on normal farmland, and that it can be crafted too. Right-clicking farmland with essence works here because General.essenceFarmlandConversion is true. You do not strictly need it, since General.requiresEffectiveFarmland is false, so crops do not need their matching farmland to grow.^[3][4]

Step 4: Prosperity Shards and the Infusion Crystal

Next comes "Prosperity Shards" quest. Prosperity Shard is mined from Prosperity ore, which generates in the world because World.generateProsperityOre is true. You need a lot of it for the different seeds, and for most tools and armor. Its most important use is the Infusion Crystal, which upgrades 4 essences into the next tier, starting with Inferium. The basic crystal has 1,000 uses, set by General.infusionCrystalUses (the same as the mod default).^[3][4]

This pack also adds a sifting recipe that can give you a Prosperity Shard.^[5]

Copper Chunk, Iron Chunk, Aluminum Chunk, Gold Chunk, Silver Chunk, Nickel Chunk, Osmium Chunk, Lead Chunk +4 moreAdded by the pack

Sifting (createsifter)

• Mechanical Blazing Mesh
• any sand

Recipe id: ftb:create/sifting/minecraft/sands_with_blazing_mesh

Added by the pack. One of the possible results is a Prosperity Shard.

Step 5: Build the Infusion Altar

"Making Custom Seeds" quest covers making resource seeds. You need an Infusion Altar, 8 Infusion Pedestal blocks and Prosperity Seed Base. Most resource seeds use the seed base, except mob seeds. The altar recipe is changed by the pack, so use the one below.^[3][5]

Infusion AltarChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Gold Ingot	Red Wool	Gold Ingot
Empty slot	Stone	Empty slot
Stone	Stone	Stone

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:infusion_altar

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Place the altar and it shows where the 8 pedestals go. Put the recipe items on the pedestals in any order, then give the altar a redstone signal. A Block of Redstone under the altar starts any valid recipe instantly.^[3]

What comes after

Once you have done "Prosperity Shards" quest, the quest book opens several branches at once:^[3]

• "Speeding Up Farms with Blocks!" quest: Growth Accelerators speed up the plant on top of them. Higher tiers add range, not speed.^[3]
• "Inferium Watering Can" quest: fill it by sneak-using it on water, then hold right-click over an area.^[3]
• a quest in "Generating Resources" and "Inferium Armor" quest: Inferium tools and armor, including Scythes and Sickles that harvest an area.^[3]
• "Growing Mobs" quest: the route to mob seeds, using Soul Jars, a Soul Extractor and the Soulium Dagger.^[3]

Most of Mystical Agriculture runs on a few crafting stations that each do one job: the Infusion Altar makes seeds, the Seed Reprocessor turns seeds back into essence, and the Awakening Altar handles the elemental endgame. Here is how those pieces work in this pack.^[1][5]

Infusion: how seeds are made

Seeds are crafted with an Infusion Altar surrounded by Infusion Pedestals. When you place the altar in the world it shows you where the pedestals go. The pack has 81 recipes of the infusion type, and each one makes a different result. Air seeds are a simple example.^[1][5]

Air SeedsMod recipe

Infusion (mysticalagriculture)

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:seed/infusion/air

Augments use the same infusion system. For example, the Absorption I augment is an infusion recipe, and it grants 2 absorption hearts every 8 minutes.^[5][6]

Absorption I AugmentMod recipe

Infusion (mysticalagriculture)

• 4× Golden Apple
• 4× Inferium Essence
• Unattuned Augment

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:augment/absorption_i

Upgrading essence to a higher tier needs an Infusion Crystal. In this pack the basic crystal has General.infusionCrystalUses set to 1000 uses, which matches the mod default.^[1][4]

Normal resource seeds need some of their resource plus the tier essence of the seed. Mob seeds need Soul Jars of the matching mob, and you fill the jars by killing mobs with a Soulium Dagger while the jars are in your inventory.^[1]

Reprocessing seeds

The Seed Reprocessor turns extra seeds back into essence. The pack has 84 reprocessor recipes, one per seed. Air seeds give you 2 Air Essence each, for example.^[1][5]

2× Air EssenceMod recipe

Reprocessor (mysticalagriculture)

• Air Seeds

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:seed/reprocessor/air

Growing and harvesting

Right-clicking vanilla farmland with an essence turns it into Essence Farmland, because General.essenceFarmlandConversion is true. Imperium Farmland can also be crafted directly.^[1][4][5]

Imperium FarmlandMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Imperium Essence
• Farmland

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:imperium_farmland

Crops do not have to sit on their matching farmland to grow, because General.requiresEffectiveFarmland is false. Essence Farmland is still the way to get more Inferium Essence per harvest from Inferium Seeds.^[1][4]

Growth Accelerators speed up crops by giving them a growth tick every 10 seconds. That is the value of General.growthAcceleratorCooldown, and it matches the mod default. Watering cans can be used by fake players too, since General.fakePlayerWatering is true, which helps automation. Scythes and Sickles speed up harvesting, and the Harvester can harvest fields automatically.^[1][4]

3× Awakened Supremium Growth AcceleratorMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Awakened Supremium Essence	any stone	Awakened Supremium Essence
any stone	Awakened Supremium Gemstone	any stone
Awakened Supremium Essence	any stone	Awakened Supremium Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:awakened_supremium_growth_accelerator

Makes three accelerators per craft.

Drops and essence sources

The pack changed General.inferiumDropChance to 0, down from the mod default of 0.2. Mobs will not drop Inferium Essence in this pack, so your Inferium comes from other sources. Harvesting a resource crop has a 0.1 chance to drop Fertilized Essence (General.fertilizedEssenceChance), the same as the mod default.^[4]

Second seed drops are off (General.secondarySeedDrops is false). The pack's loot script also gives dirt a 0.15 chance to drop Dirt Essence when you break it with a shovel.^[4][7]

The Ender Dragon and the Wither drop essence when killed with an essence weapon. They also drop Cognizant Dust when the weapon has the Mystical Enlightenment enchantment. All of these options (General.dragonDropsEssence, General.dragonDropsCognizant, General.witherDropsEssence, General.witherDropsCognizant) are true.^[4]

Awakening: elemental endgame

Awakened Supremium comes from the Awakening Altar. The Awakened Supremium Block recipe takes a Supremium Block, 10 each of air, earth, fire and water essence, and 4 Cognizant Dust. You can also turn the block back into 9 Awakened Supremium Essence.^[5]

Awakened Supremium BlockMod recipe

Awakening (mysticalagriculture)

• 10× Air Essence
• 4× Cognizant Dust
• 10× Earth Essence
• 10× Fire Essence
• Supremium Block
• 10× Water Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:awakened_supremium_block_awakening

9× Awakened Supremium EssenceMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Awakened Supremium Block

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:awakened_supremium_block_uncraft

Wearing a full set of Awakened Supremium armor gives the Plant Growth AOE set bonus in this pack, because General.awakenedSupremiumSetBonus is true.^[4]

Unverified Power use, item and fluid handling and exact upgrade effects for the Harvester, Furnace, Seed Reprocessor and Soulium Spawner could not be confirmed from the available sources, and neither could the exact pedestal layouts around the altars.

The Mystical Agriculture questline lives in the Generating Resources chapter of the quest book (group Resources & Logistics, chapter 8 of 31). It starts with "Mystical Agriculture" quest and branches out from there, one tier of essence at a time.^[3]

Getting your first essence

You meet the mod early, in the Getting Started chapter. "Cobble and Stone!" quest and the dirt quest a quest in "Getting Started" both come after the Aero Scoop quest, and "Essential Waters" quest says fishing for essence is very useful. It also says to combine fished essence with inferium essence and prosperity seeds to grow essences passively. The rest of that chapter's quests are in the quest book.^[8]

One Aero Scoop recipe the pack changed gives you Dirt Essence, Grains Of Infinity Essence and Stone Essence, among other outputs. The pack also gives dirt broken with a shovel a 0.15 chance (15%) to drop dirt essence.^[5][7]

Tier 1: Inferium

The Mystical Agriculture quest asks for Inferium Essence, Inferium Seeds and Inferium Farmland. The quest says essence can be fished up, dropped by mobs or mined from the ore, and that you need at least 8 before you can make your first Inferium Seed.^[3]

Inferium SeedsMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Inferium Essence	Inferium Essence	Inferium Essence
Inferium Essence	Wheat Seeds	Inferium Essence
Inferium Essence	Inferium Essence	Inferium Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:inferium_seeds

Next is "Prosperity Shards" quest. Prosperity Shards come from Prosperity ore, and you need a lot of them for seeds, tools and armor. The most important use is the Infusion Crystal, which upgrades 4 essences into the next tier, starting with Inferium. The pack adds a way to make Prosperity Ore without mining, plus a Mekanism enriching recipe that turns prosperity ores into 12 Prosperity Shard.^[3][5]

Prosperity OreAdded by the pack

Dripper (ftbstuff)

• 250× Lava

Recipe id: ftb:ftbstuff/dripper/prosperity_ore

Added by the pack.

Unlocking custom seeds

"Making Custom Seeds" quest comes after Prosperity Shards. You build an Infusion Altar with 8 Infusion Pedestal around it, and you need Prosperity Seed Base for most resource seeds. Items go on the pedestals in any order, then the altar needs a redstone signal. A Block of Redstone under the altar starts valid recipes instantly. The pack changed the altar recipe from the mod default.^[3][5]

Infusion AltarChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Gold Ingot	Red Wool	Gold Ingot
Empty slot	Stone	Empty slot
Stone	Stone	Stone

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:infusion_altar

Prosperity Shards also unlock a batch of quests, all listed as coming after it:^[3]

• "Speeding Up Farms with Blocks!" quest (Growth Accelerators)^[3]
• a quest in "Generating Resources" (Inferium tools, with the Scythes and Sickles that harvest an area)^[3]
• "Inferium Watering Can" quest and "Machine Upgrades" quest^[3]
• "Inferium Armor" quest and "Growing Mobs" quest^[3]

Making Custom Seeds in turn leads to "Tier 1 Seeds" quest, "Understanding Essence Farmland" quest, "Elemental Seeds" quest and "Prudentium Essence" quest.^[3]

The essence tiers

Each tier of essence is worth a fixed amount of Inferium Essence, according to the quest book:^[3]

• Tier 2, Prudentium Essence: 4 Inferium Essence. Tier 2 Seeds follow this quest.^[3]
• Tier 3, Tertium Essence: 16 Inferium Essence. This quest comes after Prudentium.^[3]
• Tier 4, Imperium Essence: 64 Inferium Essence. This quest comes after Tertium.^[3]
• Tier 5, Supremium Essence: 256 Inferium Essence. This quest comes after Imperium.^[3]
• Tier 6, "Insanium Essence" quest: 1,024 Inferium Essence. It is the max tier essence for seed crafting.^[3]

Tiers 2 to 5 also have seed quests (Tier 3 Seeds, Tier 4 Seeds and Tier 5 Seeds). Tier 2 Mob Seeds come after Prudentium Essence and Growing Mobs, and they need a Soulium Seed Base plus filled Soul Jars of the mob essence you want. The Tier 3, 4 and 5 Mob Seed quests also follow Growing Mobs, which has you make a Soulium Dagger, a Soul Extractor and a Soul Jar.^[3]

The pack adds its own infusion recipe for Antimony Seeds:^[5]

Antimony SeedsAdded by the pack

Infusion (mysticalagriculture)

• 4× Block of Antimony
• Prosperity Seed Base
• 4× Tertium Essence

Recipe id: ftb:mysticalagriculture/infusion/antimony_seeds

Added by the pack.

Past Supremium: the Awakened tier

"Supremium Essence" quest opens several quests at once: "Awakening Altar" quest, "Master Infusion Crystal" quest, "Cognizant Dust" quest and "Insanium Essence" quest. The Master Infusion Crystal needs at least 6 Supremium Essence and never breaks.^[3]

Cognizant Dust only drops from the Ender Dragon or the Wither. They must be slain with a Mystical Agriculture weapon enchanted with Mystical Enlightenment, which the quest says you buy from the FTB Shop.^[3]

The Awakening Altar uses Awakening Pedestal blocks and Essence Vessel blocks. The vessels hold one of each elemental essence, and the altar needs a redstone signal. The pack changed both the altar and vessel recipes.^[3][5]

Awakening AltarChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Gold Ingot	Orange Wool	Gold Ingot
Empty slot	Soulstone	Empty slot
Soulstone	Soulstone	Soulstone

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:awakening_altar

Essence VesselChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Gold Ingot	any colorless glass blocks	Gold Ingot
Empty slot	Soulstone	Empty slot
Empty slot	Soulstone	Empty slot

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:essence_vessel

"Awakened Essence" quest comes after Cognizant Dust, Supremium Essence and the Awakening Altar. It makes the Awakened Tier, and Awakened gear has more augment slots. The Elemental Seeds quest says they are also used to make Awakened Supremium Essence. This is the recipe for the Awakened Supremium Block:^[3][5]

Awakened Supremium BlockMod recipe

Awakening (mysticalagriculture)

• 10× Air Essence
• 4× Cognizant Dust
• 10× Earth Essence
• 10× Fire Essence
• Supremium Block
• 10× Water Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:awakened_supremium_block_awakening

After that comes a quest in "Generating Resources", which processes Infusion and Awakening recipes in one block when placed next to an AE2 Pattern Provider holding those patterns.^[3]

Insanium and the Cruxes

Seeds crafted with Insanium need a Crux to grow, placed directly below the farmland. a quest in "Generating Resources", "Nether Star Seeds" quest and "Dragon Egg Seeds" quest all come after the Insanium Essence quest. Insanium Essence can also be uncrafted into 4 Supremium Essence.^[3][5]

Mystical Agriculture is all about essences, and this pack uses them as an input for lots of other mods. Here are the in-pack recipes that mix this mod's items with items from other mods.^[5]

Essences into other mods' materials

Essences are the bridge to a lot of other mods' materials. The in-pack essence recipes cover Certus Quartz Crystal and Certus Quartz Dust, Grains of Infinity, Draconium Ingot, Compressed Iron Ingot, Quartz Enriched Iron, Menril Berries, Menril Log, and Create's Crimsite and Asurine. Two examples are shown below.^[5]

6× Certus Quartz CrystalMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

8 × Certus Quartz Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:essence/appliedenergistics2/certus_quartz

6× Compressed Iron IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

8 × Compressed Iron Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:essence/pneumaticcraft/compressed_iron_ingot

Where the pack changed things

The pack changed some essence recipes and added others for its own materials mod. The recipe dump counts two groups of 10 shaped crafting recipes each that link Mystical Agriculture essences to that mod. A few are shown below.^[5]

4× Raw AluminumChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

8 × Aluminum Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:essence/common/aluminum_ingot

Changed by the pack, as is the lead one for ftbmaterials:lead_raw_ore. This one covers Raw Aluminum.

8× Raw AntimonyAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

8 × Antimony Essence

Recipe id: ftb:shaped/ftbmaterials/antimony_raw_ore

Added by the pack, as is the bauxite one for Bauxite Dust. This one covers Raw Antimony.

8× Bauxite DustAdded by the pack

Crafting Shaped

8 × Bauxite Essence

Recipe id: ftb:shaped/ftbmaterials/bauxite_dust

Inscriber Silicon PressChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Certus Quartz Essence	Certus Quartz Essence	Certus Quartz Essence
Certus Quartz Essence	Silicon	Certus Quartz Essence
Certus Quartz Essence	Certus Quartz Essence	Certus Quartz Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:essence/appliedenergistics2/silicon_press

The Inscriber Silicon Press recipe is changed by the pack, as is the ae2:engineering_processor_press one. The ae2:calculation_processor_press one is the mod's own.

Seeds for pack metals

The pack adds Antimony Seeds and Bauxite Seeds so you can farm antimony and bauxite too. The Infusion Altar and its pedestals are covered in the quest "Making Custom Seeds" quest. Reliquary's Lilypad of Fertility uses the same altar, with a recipe the pack changed.^[3][5]

Antimony SeedsAdded by the pack

Infusion (mysticalagriculture)

• 4× Block of Antimony
• Prosperity Seed Base
• 4× Tertium Essence

Recipe id: ftb:mysticalagriculture/infusion/antimony_seeds

Bauxite SeedsAdded by the pack

Infusion (mysticalagriculture)

• 4× Block of Bauxite
• Prosperity Seed Base
• 4× Tertium Essence

Recipe id: ftb:mysticalagriculture/infusion/bauxite_seeds

Lilypad of FertilityChanged by the pack

Infusion (mysticalagriculture)

• Lily Pad
• 4× Tertium Essence
• 4× Fertile Essence

Recipe id: reliquary:fertile_lily_pad

Machines, Create and magic mods

Modern Industrialization, Cognition and Neo Vitae all have recipes involving Mystical Agriculture items that the pack either added or changed. They give Industrial Aluminum Ingot from aluminum essence, osmium essence through molecular metamorphosis, Inferium Essence from Neo Vitae's inferium dust, and Inscription Tool: Air from Air Agglomeratio. Two are shown below.^[5]

Industrial Aluminum IngotAdded by the pack

Blast Furnace (modern_industrialization)

• 8× Aluminum Essence
• 8× any sand

Recipe id: ftb:modern_industrialization/blast_furnace/industrial_aluminum_from_essence

8× Osmium EssenceAdded by the pack

Molecular Metamorphosis (cognition)

• Black Quartz
• Grains of Infinity
• Osmium Essence
• Silver Essence

Recipe id: ftb:cognition/molecular_metamorphosis/osmium_essence

Soulium Dust shows up in several pack-added recipes, and Create's haunting also links this mod to Malum. The recipes are shown below.^[5]

8× Soulium DustAdded by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Blood Vial
• Compressed Dust

Recipe id: ftb:shapeless/soulium_dust_from_blood_vial

Added by the pack. Involves Compressed Dust and Blood Vial.

Soulium Dust, Glowstone Dust, Quartz, Black Quartz, Blaze PowderAdded by the pack

Sifting (createsifter)

• Mechanical Blazing Mesh
• Crushed Netherrack

Recipe id: ftb:create/sifting/ftbstuff/crushed_netherrack_with_blazing_mesh

Added by the pack: sifting of Crushed Netherrack. Sifting sand with the same mesh can also give a Prosperity Shard.

Block of Raw SoulstoneAdded by the pack

Haunting (create)

• Soulstone

Recipe id: ftb:create/haunting/soulstone_to_raw_soulstone

Added by the pack. Links Soulstone to Block of Raw Soulstone.

The pack's Aeroscoop recipes for the Mechanical Blazing Mesh and Mechanical Cloth Mesh give essences as output, including dirt, stone and grains of infinity essence. Both recipes are marked as changed by the pack.^[5]

Bees and metalworks

Productive Bees centrifuge recipes give essence plus wax, for example Imperium Essence and Awakened Supremium Essence. Productive Metalworks can melt Imperium Essence into 90 Molten Imperium and melt a whole Imperium Block into 810. Casting reverses both of those steps.^[5]

Imperium EssenceMod recipe

Item Casting (productivemetalworks)

• 90× Molten Imperium

Recipe id: productivemetalworks:casting/ma/imperium_essence

Automation and tools

The recipes for the Farmer, Crafter and Awakening Altarnator are all marked as changed by the pack, and so is the one for the Inferium Watering Can. Related items are this mod's Machine Frame and Soulium Ingot, and Excessive Utilities' Watering Can. The quest for the watering can is "Inferium Watering Can" quest. The Farmer and Inferium Watering Can recipes are shown below.^[3][5]

FarmerChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Ingot	Soulium Ingot	Iron Ingot
any diamond sickle	Machine Frame	any diamond sickle
Iron Ingot	Soulium Ingot	Iron Ingot

Recipe id: mysticalautomation:farmer

Inferium Watering CanChanged by the pack

Shaped Transfer Components (cucumber)

Shaped Transfer Components (cucumber)

Mystical Fertilizer	Inferium Ingot	Mystical Fertilizer
Inferium Ingot	Watering Can	Inferium Ingot
Mystical Fertilizer	Inferium Ingot	Mystical Fertilizer

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:gear/inferium_watering_can

Endgame links

The pack added the awakening recipe for Creative Essence and a recipe for the Creative Soulium Dagger. It also changed the awakening recipe for the Infused Awakening Matrix. Related items are Creative Ascension, the Soulium Dagger and the Extended Molecular Assembler. The first two recipes are shown below.^[5]

Creative EssenceAdded by the pack

Awakening (mysticalagriculture)

• 40× Dragon Egg Chunk
• 40× Insanium Ingot
• 40× Nether Star Shard
• Awakened Supremium Ingot Block
• 4× Cognizant Dust
• 40× Mystical Fertilizer

Recipe id: ftb:creative_essence

Creative Soulium DaggerAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Soulium Dagger
• Creative Ascension

Recipe id: ftb:creative_soulium_dagger

In the quest book, Mystical Agriculture sits in the Generating Resources chapter, in the Resources & Logistics group. Many of that chapter's quests aren't shown in my sources, so the rest of the cross-mod advice is in the quest book itself.^[3]

Mystical Agriculture shows up in two quest chapters I can walk you through here: "Getting Started" in the Main Questline group, and "Generating Resources" in the Resources & Logistics group. Getting Started introduces essence early, and Generating Resources is where the full Mystical Agriculture line lives.^[3][8]

Getting Started

Essence turns up right from your starter island. These are the quests in this chapter that ask for Mystical Agriculture items.^[8]

• "Cobble and Stone!" quest comes after The Aero Scoop. It asks for Stone Essence and Cobblestone, and says the essence from the Aero Scoop is enough to make Cobblestone.^[8]
• a quest in "Getting Started" also comes after The Aero Scoop. It asks for Dirt Essence and Dirt, which you craft from the essence your Scoop gathers.^[8]
• "Path of Crystalmancy" quest asks for Grains Of Infinity Essence, a Void Crystal Catalyst and Bone Meal.^[8]
• "Path of Cultivation" quest is the fishing path. "Essential Waters" quest comes after it and asks for Iron Essence and Inferium Essence. It points you to the Mystical Agriculture GuideMe and the Mod Questline for more.^[8]
• "Your First Diamonds" quest comes after Proper Materials. Diamond Essence is one of its tasks, alongside a Diamond, a Blazing Mesh and a Budding Diamond. It mentions you can fish up diamond essence once you have found diamonds first.^[8]

22 more Getting Started quests weren't available to me, so check the quest book for those.^[8]

Generating Resources

This chapter runs the mod as a tier ladder. Here is the order the quests unlock in.^[3]

1. "Mystical Agriculture" quest (Tier 1) asks for Inferium Essence, Inferium Seeds and Inferium Farmland. You need at least 8 essence to make your first seed.^[3]
2. "Prosperity Shards" quest comes next and asks for a Prosperity Shard and an Infusion Crystal. The crystal upgrades 4 essences into the next tier.^[3]
3. Prosperity Shards opens several quests: "Speeding Up Farms with Blocks!" quest (growth accelerators), a quest in "Generating Resources", "Inferium Watering Can" quest, "Machine Upgrades" quest, "Inferium Armor" quest, "Growing Mobs" quest (Soulium Dagger, Soul Extractor and Soul Jar) and "Making Custom Seeds" quest.^[3]
4. "Making Custom Seeds" quest asks for an Infusion Altar, an Infusion Pedestal and Prosperity Seed Base. The quest says you need an Infusion Altar and 8 Infusion Pedestals.^[3]
5. Making Custom Seeds leads to "Tier 1 Seeds" quest, "Understanding Essence Farmland" quest, "Elemental Seeds" quest and "Prudentium Essence" quest.^[3]
6. The essence tiers then follow in a chain: "Prudentium Essence" quest (4 Inferium Essence), "Tertium Essence" quest (16), "Imperium Essence" quest (64), "Supremium Essence" quest (256) and "Insanium Essence" quest (1,024). Each tier also has its own seeds quest, and the mob seeds quests (starting at "Tier 2 Mob Seeds" quest) also require Growing Mobs.^[3]
7. Supremium Essence opens "Awakening Altar" quest, "Master Infusion Crystal" quest and "Cognizant Dust" quest. "Awakened Essence" quest needs all three of Cognizant Dust, Supremium Essence and the Awakening Altar, and asks for an Awakened Supremium Block and Awakened Supremium Essence.^[3]
8. a quest in "Generating Resources" comes after Awakened Essence, so it is the last step of that branch.^[3]
9. Insanium Essence leads to three final quests: a quest in "Generating Resources", "Nether Star Seeds" quest and "Dragon Egg Seeds" quest.^[3]

Unverified The Gearing Up chapter is not covered here. Its quest text wasn't available to me, so check the quest book to see what it asks for.

The config for this mod is simple. In this pack's config file, only one value is marked as changed from the mod default, and it is the one most likely to affect how you play.^[4]

Farming and growth

• General.requiresEffectiveFarmland is false, so resource crops do not need to be planted on their effective Farmland to grow.^[4]
• General.essenceFarmlandConversion is true, so right-clicking Farmland with an Essence creates Essence Farmland.^[4]
• General.growthAcceleratorCooldown is 10 seconds between each Growth Accelerator growth tick, the same as the mod default of 10.^[4]
• General.fertilizedEssenceChance is 0.1, the same as the mod default, for harvesting a Resource Crop to drop a Fertilized Essence.^[4]
• General.secondarySeedDrops is false, so crops do not get a chance to drop a second seed when harvested.^[4]
• General.seedCraftingRecipes is false, so vanilla crafting recipes for seeds are not generated.^[4]
• General.fakePlayerWatering is true, so fake players can use watering cans.^[4]

Gear and infusion

• General.enchantableSupremiumArmor and General.enchantableSupremiumTools are both true, so Supremium and Awakened Supremium armor and tools can be enchanted in an Enchanting Table.^[4]
• General.unbreakableSupremiumArmor is false, so Supremium and Awakened Supremium armor can still break.^[4]
• General.awakenedSupremiumSetBonus is true, so a full set of Awakened Supremium armor grants the Plant Growth AOE set bonus.^[4]
• General.infusionCrystalUses is 1,000 uses for the basic Infusion Crystal, the same as the mod default of 1,000.^[4]

Bosses and world generation

• General.dragonDropsEssence and General.witherDropsEssence are true, so the Ender Dragon and the Wither drop essence when killed with an essence weapon.^[4]
• General.dragonDropsCognizant and General.witherDropsCognizant are true, so both bosses drop Cognizant Dust when killed with a Mystical Enlightenment enchanted essence weapon.^[4]
• World.generateInferiumOre, World.generateProsperityOre and World.generateSoulstone are all true, so Inferium Ore, Prosperity Ore and Soulstone generate in the world.^[4]
• World.souliumOreChance is 0.05, the same as the mod default, for a Soulium Ore to spawn in a Soulstone cluster.^[4]

FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 ships Mystical Agriculture 8.0.28 for Minecraft 1.21.1. The mod has been in the pack since Aero 1.0.3 or earlier, so it's a long-time resident.^[2]

I don't have any pack changelog entries for this mod, so the notes below come from the mod's own changelogs for the last two releases.^[2]

8.0.28 (the version in 1.10.0)

• Added a new config option, enchantableSupremiumArmor.^[9]
• Fixed the enchantableSupremiumTools config option.^[9]
• Fixed the Infusion Altar and Awakening Altar potentially loading neighboring chunks.^[9]

8.0.27

• Fixed the enchantment level always being 1 when the input ingredients were flipped in the Enchanter.^[10]