Pylons in FTB Skies 2: Aero
FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.13.0 ships version 5.4.2 · First seen in 1.0.3
Pylons is a mod in FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.13.0, where it is version 5.4.2. Just another magic block mod (Summary from the mod's Modrinth page.)
Pylons guide for FTB Skies 2: Aero
Last verified for FTB Skies 2: Aero v1.10.0 on Oct 16, 2026 · text last changed Oct 16, 2026
This is the newest guide. It hasn't been checked against 1.13.0 yet.
Also applies to:FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 to 1.24.0
- Sections
- 7
- Recipes shown
- 9
- Items named
- 7
- Quests covered
- 4
6 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 1.10.0, read from the running game on Sep 22, 2026.
What is Pylons?
2 parts
Pylons is a small magic-block mod, and this pack runs version 5.4.2. It has been in the pack since version 1.0.3 or earlier. Each Pylon is a single block that does one job for you: keep players out, stop certain mobs spawning, or harvest a farm.[1][2]
What the Pylons do
- Expulsion Pylon: made for servers, it expels other players from the chunk it sits in. You can whitelist players with a Player Filter, and OPs are always whitelisted.[1]
- Harvester Pylon: harvests crops in a configurable radius around it and outputs to an inventory above. The mod page gives the range as 3x3 to 9x9. You place it in the water block of the farm.[1]
- Interdiction Pylon: blocks the spawns of the mobs you choose in a chunk range. You right-click a mob with a Mob Filter, then add the filter to the pylon.[1]
- Infusion Pylon: lets you apply potion effects to yourself from any distance, using activated Potion Filters. The quest data I have doesn't show a quest for it.[1][3]
Where it sits in the quest book
The pack's quest book covers three Pylons in the "Logistics" chapter. That is chapter 9 of 31, in the group "Resources & Logistics". The chapter opens with the General Logistics quest, which says you'll find most of the ways to move items, energy and fluids here. Most of the chapter is other transport mods such as Pipez, Mekanism, EnderIO, LaserIO and Modular Routers.[3]
The three Pylon quests are "Expulsion Pylon" quest, "Interdiction Pylon" quest and "Harvester Pylon" quest. In the quest data I have, none of them lists a prerequisite quest, unlike the follow-up quests for Pipez, Mekanism or LaserIO. Of the chapter's 57 quests, 30 aren't shown to me, so check the quest book itself for anything else about Pylons.[3]
How do you get started with Pylons?
3 parts
The pack's quest book covers three Pylons in the Logistics chapter (the Resources & Logistics group, chapter 9 of 31): "Harvester Pylon" quest, "Interdiction Pylon" quest and "Expulsion Pylon" quest. Here is the order I'd make them in, and why.[3]
First: Harvester Pylon, to automate your first farm
Start with the Harvester Pylon. The quest book calls it one of the most useful Pylons for managing farms. It harvests plants in a configurable area around it, from 3x3 to 9x9 blocks, and outputs to an inventory above it. It also works without creating item entities in the world, which is great for servers.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:harvester_pylon
- Place the Pylon in the center of your farm and waterlog it.[3]
- Open the interface, put a Hoe inside, and adjust the radius in the top right.[3]
- Place an inventory on top of the Pylon so it has somewhere to put the collected items.[3]
The Hoe loses 1 durability on every harvest, and the Pylon shuts down when the inventory is full or the tool breaks, so check on it. That tool requirement is on in the pack (harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresTool), and the power option harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresPower is off. The delay between harvest attempts, harvester_pylon.harvesterWorkDelay, is 60 ticks.[3][4][5]
Second: Interdiction Pylon, to control what spawns
Next, the Interdiction Pylon stops chosen mobs from spawning in a chunk range around it, from 1x1 to 5x5 chunks. The quest book suggests it for specific natural mob farms, like a Wither Skeleton farm in a Nether Fortress. It needs a Mob Filter.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:mob_filter
The pack changed the Mob Filter recipe, so use this one.
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:interdiction_pylon
Right-click the mob you want to stop with the filter, then add the filter to the Pylon.[1][3]
The Lifeless Filter works differently. It blocks all mobs but only natural spawns, with a range of 25x25 chunks, and it disables other mob filters.[4]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any nether star | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:lifeless_filter
Third: Expulsion Pylon, for servers and shared worlds
The Expulsion Pylon pushes back players and stops them entering a set radius around it. It is intended for servers. You choose who is allowed in with a Player Filter.[1][3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:expulsion_pylon
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:player_filter
The pack changed the Player Filter recipe too.
OPs are automatically whitelisted. This pack has general.teamSupportEnabled set to true, so team members are whitelisted automatically if a compatible team mod is installed.[4][5]
expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonMaxRadius is 2, which is a 5x5 chunk diameter. expulsion_pylon.expulsionAllowedDimensions only lists the Overworld, and expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonCanExplode is false, so explosions can't destroy it.[5]
How does Pylons work?
5 parts
Pylons are placed blocks that each do one job over an area around them. The Expulsion, Interdiction and Protection Pylons work over a chunk range from 1x1 to 5x5, while the Harvester Pylon works over a block range from 3x3 to 9x9. Every pylon can be toggled automatically with redstone.[4]
Expulsion Pylon
The Expulsion Pylon expels other players from the chunk range you select, from 1x1 to 5x5 chunks. You whitelist players by adding a Player Filter, which you right-click on a player to select them. OPs are whitelisted automatically, and so are team members when team support is enabled.[4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:expulsion_pylon
In this pack team support is on (general.teamSupportEnabled). It only does anything if a compatible team mod such as FTB Teams or Argonauts is installed.[5]
The pack limits how far it reaches. The max radius is 2 (expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonMaxRadius), which doesn't count the centre chunk, so the biggest area is 5x5 chunks. It is only allowed in the overworld (expulsion_pylon.expulsionAllowedDimensions), and explosions can't destroy it (expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonCanExplode is false). It also refuses to work near world spawn, controlled by expulsion_pylon.expulsionWorldSpawnRadius, which is 1 here. That option only takes effect if it is larger than the world spawn radius.[5]
The screen warns you if you are too close to world spawn or in a disabled dimension. The Player Filter recipe was changed by the pack, so use this one:[4][6]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:player_filter
This recipe was changed by the pack.
Interdiction Pylon
The Interdiction Pylon stops natural and forced spawns of the mobs you pick, within a chunk range from 1x1 to 5x5. You right-click a mob with a Mob Filter to select it, then add the filter to the pylon to block that mob.[1][4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:interdiction_pylon
The Lifeless Filter works differently. It blocks all mobs, but only natural spawns, and it raises the range to 25x25 chunks. It also disables any other mob filters in the pylon.[4]
The pack changed the Mob Filter recipe. The Lifeless Filter is as the mod made it.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:mob_filter
This recipe was changed by the pack.
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any nether star | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:lifeless_filter
Protection Pylon
The Protection Pylon stops its owner from breaking blocks or killing mobs inside the chunk range you select, from 1x1 to 5x5. You choose what to protect with Mob Filters and Block Filter items. A Block Filter is set by right-clicking a block.[4]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:block_filter
Harvester Pylon
The Harvester Pylon harvests crops around it and outputs them to an inventory placed directly above it. Put the pylon inside the water block of the farm, or level with the crops. If there is no inventory above, the screen says "Place inventory above pylon", and it also tells you when the inventory is full.[4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:harvester_pylon
In this pack the harvester needs a hoe in the pylon (harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresTool is true). Each harvest uses 1 durability, unless the hoe is unbreakable. Unbreaking and other durability enchants are supported. It tries to harvest every 60 ticks (harvester_pylon.harvesterWorkDelay).[4][5]
You can switch to power instead of durability with harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresPower, which is false in this pack. If it is enabled, the tool requirement is dropped and each block harvested costs RF. The pack's values are a cost of 5 RF per block (harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerCost) and a buffer of 1,000 (harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerBuffer). The buffer should stay larger than the cost per block times 80.[5]
Infusion Pylon
The Infusion Pylon applies effects to you from any distance, using activated Potion Filters. To activate a filter, get a potion effect on yourself, then right-click with the filter in hand to extract it. By default this takes all the remaining duration from you. Right-clicking again with the same effect active adds to the filter's progress.[1][4]
The pack keeps the defaults. A filter can only extract effects of at least 60 seconds (infusion_pylon.infusionMinimumDuration), and it needs 3,600 seconds, which is 1 hour, before it works (infusion_pylon.infusionRequiredDuration). That equals 7.5 vanilla extended potions.[5]
If you have two filters with the same effect, you can combine them: hold one in each hand and right-click. The duration from the off hand filter will be added to the filter in your main hand.[1][4]
Once active, the pylon applies the effect for up to 20 seconds at a time, refreshed every 60 ticks (infusion_pylon.infusionAppliedDuration). The maximum potency is 3 (infusion_pylon.infusionMaximumPotency). It is 0-indexed, so Resistance V would be potency 4.[5]
The pylon chunkloads itself while its owner is online (infusion_pylon.infusionChunkloads is true), limited to one pylon per player. The allowed effects list (infusion_pylon.infusionAllowedEffects) and the denied list (infusion_pylon.infusionDeniedEffects) are both empty here, so all effects are allowed except those banned by the pylons:infusion_banned tag.[5]
How do you progress through Pylons?
4 parts
Pylons doesn't have a long tier ladder in this pack. Instead you get three pylons, each with its own quest and its own recipe, plus filters that two of them use. The pack's quest book puts all of them in the Logistics chapter.[3][6]
Where the quests sit
Logistics is chapter 9 of 31 in the book, in the group "Resources & Logistics". The pylon quests share that chapter with the pipe, cable and router mods.[3]
- "Expulsion Pylon" quest asks for the Expulsion Pylon and a Player Filter. It pushes players back and keeps them out of a set radius, and Player Filters choose who is allowed in.[3]
- "Interdiction Pylon" quest asks for the Interdiction Pylon and a Mob Filter. It controls which mobs can spawn within its radius, and the quest suggests a Wither Skeleton farm in a Nether Fortress as one use.[3]
- "Harvester Pylon" quest asks for the Harvester Pylon. It harvests and collects plants in a configurable radius.[3]
Setting up the Harvester Pylon
Place the Harvester Pylon in the middle of your farm and waterlog it. Open its interface, put a Hoe inside and set the radius in the top right. Then put an inventory on top of the pylon for the collected items.[3]
The Hoe loses durability every time the pylon collects, so keep an eye on it. The pylon shuts down when its inventory is full or the tool breaks. It also works without creating item entities in the world, which the quest says makes it great for servers.[3]
Crafting each step
The pylons use the mod's own recipes. The pack changed two filter recipes, the Mob Filter and the Player Filter, so check the recipe blocks below instead of relying on what you remember from the mod.[6]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:expulsion_pylon
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:player_filter
This recipe was changed by the pack.
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:interdiction_pylon
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:mob_filter
This recipe was changed by the pack.
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: pylons:harvester_pylon
Other filters
The pack also has recipes for the Block Filter and the Lifeless Filter. Both are the mod's own recipes, and none of the quests listed above ask for them.[3][6]
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:block_filter
Crafting Shaped
| any green dye | ||
| any glass blocks | any nether star | any glass blocks |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
Recipe id: pylons:lifeless_filter
There are also two shapeless recipes that take a Mob Filter or a Player Filter and give back a filter of the same kind.[6]
Which FTB Skies 2: Aero quests use Pylons?
2 parts
Pylons only show up in one place in the quest book: the Logistics chapter. It sits in the Resources & Logistics group, as chapter 9 of 31, and has 57 quests. The chapter's intro quest "General Logistics" quest describes it as covering most of the ways to handle transferring items, energy, fluids, and more. The Pylons are three quests among all the pipes and routers.[3]
None of the three Pylon quests lists another quest that must come before it, so you can do them in any order. Here they are in the order the chapter lists them.[3]
The three Pylon quests
- "Expulsion Pylon" quest asks you to make an Expulsion Pylon and a Player Filter. The quest says this Pylon pushes back players and stops them from entering a set radius around it, and the Player Filters decide which players are allowed in. It's a good one if you want other players kept away from your stuff.[3]
- "Interdiction Pylon" quest asks for an Interdiction Pylon and a Mob Filter. The Pylon uses Mob Filters to control which mobs can spawn inside its radius. You craft a Mob Filter and use it on the mob you want to stop spawning. The quest suggests it for specific natural mob farms, like a Wither Skeleton farm in a Nether Fortress.[3]
- "Harvester Pylon" quest asks for a Harvester Pylon. It automatically collects and harvests plants within a configurable radius around it.[3]
Setting up the Harvester Pylon
The quest says the Harvester Pylon works without creating item entities in the world when it harvests, and that it shuts down when its inventory is full or its tool breaks. It describes this as a good fit for servers.[3]
- Place the Pylon in the center of your farm and waterlog it.[3]
- Open the interface and put a Hoe inside for it to work with.[3]
- Adjust the radius you want it to cover in the top right of the interface.[3]
- Place an inventory on top of the Pylon for it to output the collected items into.[3]
Which Pylons config options matter?
4 parts
Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide
Everything for Pylons lives in one file, general.teamSupportEnabled and its siblings in config/pylons-server.toml. Below are the options you're most likely to touch, with the exact values this pack uses. Every numeric option in the file that is labelled with a mod default is set to that default here, so the pack hasn't changed those numbers.[7]
Harvester Pylon
The Harvester Pylon is where most of the interesting options are. By default it needs a hoe in its inventory, and that's how this pack runs it.[1][7]
- harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresTool is true. The pylon needs a hoe and uses 1 durability per harvest action.[7]
- harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresPower is false. If you turned it on, the hoe requirement would be dropped and each harvested block would cost RF instead.[7]
- harvester_pylon.harvesterCanBeAutomated is false, so you can't pipe tools in to automate it. Unbreakable tools are what the option's description says full automation normally calls for.[7]
- harvester_pylon.harvesterWorkDelay is 60 ticks between harvest attempts (mod default 60, allowed range 10 to 120).[7]
- harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerCost is 5 RF per block and harvester_pylon.harvesterPowerBuffer is 1000, both matching the mod defaults. They only matter if you enable power. The buffer should be greater than the cost per block times 80.[7]
Infusion Pylon
- infusion_pylon.infusionRequiredDuration is 3,600 seconds, so a Potion Filter needs 1 hour of total duration (7.5 vanilla extended potions) before it can be used.[1][7]
- infusion_pylon.infusionMinimumDuration is 60 seconds, the shortest effect duration a Potion Filter can use. It exists to avoid odd interactions with other mods that add persistent low-duration effects.[7]
- infusion_pylon.infusionMaximumPotency is 3. The value is 0-indexed, so a Resistance V potion would be potency 4 and this cap stops one level short of that.[7]
- infusion_pylon.infusionAppliedDuration is 20 seconds, the maximum duration applied to you. It is refreshed up to that amount every 60 ticks.[7]
- infusion_pylon.infusionChunkloads is true, so the pylon chunkloads itself. This is limited to one pylon per player, and only while that player is online.[7]
- infusion_pylon.infusionAllowedEffects and infusion_pylon.infusionDeniedEffects are both empty lists, so every effect is allowed. Anything in the denied list or the pylons:infusion_banned tag would override that.[7]
Expulsion Pylon
- expulsion_pylon.expulsionAllowedDimensions contains only minecraft:overworld.[7]
- expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonMaxRadius is 2 (the mod default and the top of its 0 to 2 range). The centre chunk isn't counted, so that means a 5x5 chunk area.[7]
- expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonCanExplode is false, so explosions can't destroy it.[7]
- expulsion_pylon.expulsionWorldSpawnRadius is 1 (mod default 1). It only takes effect if it is larger than the world's spawn radius.[7]
Teams
general.teamSupportEnabled is true, so team support is active whenever a compatible mod such as FTB Teams or Argonauts is installed.[7]
What changed in Pylons between versions?
1 part
FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 ships Pylons 5.4.2. The mod has been in the pack since FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.0.3 or earlier, so it's a long-time resident.[2]
Pylons 5.4.2
The one change I can confirm from the mod's changelog is a refactor of the Cobblemon compatibility. It fixes a bug where a berry bush would instantly reset to fully grown after you harvested it, caused by the growth timer. Since the pack uses this exact version, that fix is part of what you get.[2][8]
There are no pack changelog entries for Pylons, so I can't tell you how the mod changed between individual pack releases.[2]
Sources
- Pylons project page (modrinth) · official mod data
- FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 mod list · pack file
- FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 quests: "Logistics" · pack file
- pylons names, screen text and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 config: config/pylons-server.toml · pack file
- FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 recipe dump: recipes making Pylons items · pack recipe dump
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 config: config/pylons-server.toml · pack file
- Pylons 5.4.2 changelog · changelog
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.
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Version in each release
21 releases, first in 1.0.3
| FTB Skies 2: Aero | Version | Jar | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13.0 Sep 28, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.12.1 Sep 22, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.12.0 Sep 21, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.10.0 Sep 8, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.9.1 Sep 2, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.9.0 Sep 1, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.8.0 Aug 25, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.7.3 Aug 19, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.7.2 Aug 18, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.7.1 Aug 18, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.6.1 Aug 13, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.6.0 Aug 11, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.5.1 Aug 8, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.4.1 Aug 4, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.4.0 Aug 3, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.3.0 Jul 30, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.2.1 Jul 28, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.2.0 Jul 28, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.1.1 Jul 25, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.1.0 Jul 24, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
| 1.0.3 Jul 17, 2026 | 5.4.2 | pylons-1.21.1-5.4.2.jar | From the published release |
"From pack files" means the list came from the pack's own files; "from the published release" means ForgeBase read the jars of the release itself.
Items and blocks
10 items from the 1.10.0 recipe dump.
FTB Skies 2: Aero quests (3)
Quests from the pack's FTB Quests book that ask for this mod's items.
Logistics (3)
- Expulsion Pylon
- Harvester Pylon
- Interdiction Pylon
Config options (how FTB Skies 2: Aero sets them)
18 settings shipped in the pack's config files; 0 differ from the mod's documented default.
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| Setting | FTB Skies 2: Aero value | Mod default |
|---|---|---|
expulsion_pylon.expulsionAllowedDimensions Which dimensions the Expulsion Pylon is allowed to operate in. config/pylons-server.toml | ["minecraft:overworld"] | not documented |
expulsion_pylon.expulsionPylonCanExplode Whether the Expulsion Pylon can be destroyed with explosions. config/pylons-server.toml | false | not documented |
general.teamSupportEnabled Whether team support is enabled if a compatible mod (FTB Teams, Argonauts) is installed config/pylons-server.toml | true | not documented |
harvester_pylon.harvesterCanBeAutomated Whether the harvester can have tools piped in to automate it. By default, unbreakable tools are required for full automation. config/pylons-server.toml | false | not documented |
harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresPower Whether the harvester requires power to work. If enabled, it will disable the tool requirement and instead have an RF cost per block. config/pylons-server.toml | false | not documented |
harvester_pylon.harvesterRequiresTool Whether the harvester requires a hoe to work. If enabled, it will use 1 durability per harvest action config/pylons-server.toml | true | not documented |
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