Refined Storage in FTB Skies 2: Aero

Refined Storage 2 is a mass storage mod built around a network: you connect devices together and store items, fluids and gas on that one expandable network. This pack ships Refined Storage 2.0.9, and it has been in the pack since version 1.0.3 or earlier.^[1][2]

Where it sits in the quest book

Refined Storage lives in the General Storage chapter. That is chapter 7 of 31 in the book, in the Resources & Logistics group, and it holds 146 quests. The chapter opens with a quest saying it covers most of the basic ways to store your items. Besides Refined Storage, it also has Sophisticated Backpacks, Pocket Storage and the first Applied Energistics quests.^[2]

The Refined Storage line starts with "Welcome to Refined Storage 2" quest. It comes right after "But where's the Sky Stone?" quest, and that makes sense: you need Sky Steel Ingots before you can craft your first Machine Core, which is used for many network components. The quest asks you to hand in Quartz Enriched Iron, a Sky Steel Ingot and a Machine Casing.^[2]

What comes after the intro quest

Four quests unlock straight after the intro: the Upgrade base, the Wrench, a Useful Blocks quest and the Configuration Card. The Useful Blocks quest covers the Relay, Storage Monitor and Detector.^[2]

The Upgrade Base quest then branches into the individual upgrade quests: Regulator, Speed & Stack, Fortune & Silk Touch, Autocrafting and Range. The core network quests (Cables, Disk Drive and so on) follow a Controller quest. From there the book goes on to Grids, Auto Crafting, Wireless Networks and System Security. The text of the other 114 quests in the chapter is in the quest book itself.^[2]

Refined Storage is a network-based storage mod: you build a network of devices that can handle items, fluids and gas. In the pack's quest book it sits in the "General Storage" chapter (group "Resources & Logistics"), right after the sky stone quest "But where's the Sky Stone?" quest. The intro quest is "Welcome to Refined Storage 2" quest. Here is what to make first, and why.^[2]

Step 1: Quartz Enriched Iron

Quartz Enriched Iron is the base material of this mod, and it is one of the three items the intro quest asks for. The pack changed its basic crafting recipe, and one craft gives you 4. The pack also adds alloy recipes for it in the Create mixer, the Ender IO alloy smelter, the Extended Industrialization alloy smelter and the Modern Industrialization mixer.^[2][3]

4× Quartz Enriched IronChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Ingot	Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot	Quartz

Recipe id: refinedstorage:quartz_enriched_iron

The pack changed this recipe, and one craft makes 4.

Step 2: Sky Steel and the Machine Casing

The intro quest also asks for the Machine Casing, and it says you need Sky Steel Ingots before you can build the core network components. The pack changed the Machine Casing recipe, and it uses a Sky Steel Ingot. The previous quest explains where sky stone comes from: the Fluix Researcher villager, a Wandering Trader, smelting sky stone dust, or mining floating structures.^[2][3]

Machine CasingChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron
Sky Steel Ingot	Iron Casing	Sky Steel Ingot
Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: refinedstorage:machine_casing

The pack changed this recipe.

Step 3: Processors

The Controller needs an Advanced Processor, so processors come next. The three recipes below run in order: Processor Binding, then Raw Advanced Processor (the pack changed this one), then the Advanced Processor itself.^[3]

8× Processor BindingMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
any string	any slime ball	any string
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: refinedstorage:processor_binding

One craft makes 8 bindings.

Raw Advanced ProcessorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Processor Binding
• Diamond
• Silicon
• Redstone

Recipe id: refinedstorage:raw_advanced_processor

The pack changed this recipe.

Advanced ProcessorMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Advanced Processor

Recipe id: refinedstorage:advanced_processor

This is a smelting recipe from the mod, not changed by the pack.

Step 4: The Controller

The Controller provides your network with energy, so every network starts with one. The pack changed its recipe too.^[3][4]

ControllerChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Advanced Processor	Quartz Enriched Iron
Silicon	Machine Casing	Silicon
Quartz Enriched Iron	Silicon	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: refinedstorage:controller

The pack changed this recipe.

Step 5: Cables

Cable connects your devices to each other. The pack changed the recipe, and one craft gives 12. It uses Quartz Enriched Copper, which the pack makes in the Create mixer, the Ender IO alloy smelter and the Extended Industrialization alloy smelter. Full device blocks connect to any adjacent block whatever its color, but cables only connect to cables of the same color.^[2][3]

12× CableChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Copper	Quartz Enriched Copper	Quartz Enriched Copper
any glass blocks	Redstone	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Copper	Quartz Enriched Copper	Quartz Enriched Copper

Recipe id: refinedstorage:cable

The pack changed this recipe, and one craft makes 12 cables.

4× Quartz Enriched CopperAdded by the pack

Mixing (create)

• 3× Copper Ingot
• Quartz

Recipe id: ftb:unification/create/alloy/mixer/quartz_enriched_copper

One of the alloy routes the pack adds for Quartz Enriched Copper.

Step 6: Storage

The Disk Drive holds your Storage Disks, and its quest also asks for a Storage Housing. The pack changed the recipe for the 1k Storage Part. Storage Disks can be upgraded directly into the next tier while keeping all of your items, and your old disk is returned.^[2][3]

1k Storage PartChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Silicon	Quartz Enriched Iron	Silicon
any glass blocks	Redstone	any glass blocks
Silicon	any glass blocks	Silicon

Recipe id: refinedstorage:1k_storage_part

The pack changed this recipe.

Step 7: A Grid

The Grid lets you view, insert and remove what is in your network. The Crafting Grid does the same and adds a crafting table.^[2]

Crafting GridMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Grid
• Advanced Processor
• any crafting table player workstations

Recipe id: refinedstorage:crafting_grid

This is the mod's recipe, not changed by the pack.

What to do next

• The Wrench rotates network devices, and dismantles them while you crouch. A dismantled device keeps its settings and upgrades. See "Wrench" quest.^[2]
• The Upgrade item is what you craft other upgrades from. See "Upgrade Base" quest.^[2]
• For autocrafting, the Pattern Grid and Pattern come first. See "Auto Crafting" quest.^[2]

The "General Storage" chapter has 146 quests, and only some of them are covered here. Check the quest book for the rest.^[2]

In this version of the mod, Refined Storage is built around one idea: a network of devices that can share one pool of items and fluids. One or more Controllers can power the network, Cable can link devices (or you can place devices directly against each other), and you then add devices for storing, moving, viewing and crafting.^[4]

Storage and access modes

According to the mod's own descriptions, your network's capacity can come from storage disks sitting in a Disk Drive. Fluids work the same way: you craft a Fluid Storage Disk and put it in the Disk Drive. If you would rather use an existing chest or similar block, an External Storage can provide the network with storage from that block.^[4]

Storage can be set to one of these access modes. Insert and extract lets the network do both. Insert only lets the network put things in, and what is inside still shows up in a Grid. Extract only means the network can only take things out.^[3][4]

The mod describes a Disk Interface as a device that can transfer resources between the network and storage disks.^[4]

Getting things in and out

• Importer: can get resources into the storage network.^[4]
• Exporter: can get resources out of the storage network.^[4]
• Interface: can export and import items at the same time.^[4]
• Constructor: can get blocks from the network into the world.^[4]
• Destructor: can get blocks in the world into the network.^[4]
• Detector: can use redstone to check resources stored in the network.^[4]
• Storage Monitor: can let you view, insert or extract resources in the network.^[4]

Viewing your network

Per the mod's descriptions, a Grid is how you interact with your storage. You can upgrade it to a Crafting Grid for crafting abilities, or use a Wireless Grid to reach your resources wirelessly. A Portable Grid can give access to the content of disks without requiring a storage network.^[4]

Autocrafting

You can create patterns in a Pattern Grid, and an Autocrafter can use those patterns to automate crafting. The Autocrafter recipe in this pack is the mod's own recipe, not one the pack changed.^[3][4]

AutocrafterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Construction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron
Advanced Processor	Machine Casing	Advanced Processor
Quartz Enriched Iron	Destruction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: refinedstorage:autocrafter

The mod's help text says that if another Autocrafter is facing one, they form a chain, which allows more patterns going into a single machine. The Autocrafter screen shows whether it is chained, and whether it is the head of the chain.^[4]

Each Autocrafter also has a lock mode setting. These are the options the screen offers:^[4]

• Lock mode option: Never^[4]
• Lock mode option: Lock until all outputs are received^[4]
• Lock mode option: Lock until connected machine is empty^[4]
• Lock mode option: Lock until high redstone signal^[4]
• Lock mode option: Lock until low redstone signal^[4]
• Lock mode option: Lock until redstone pulse is received^[4]

Once you have many Autocrafters, an Autocrafter Manager lets you manage your patterns in one centralized interface. An Autocrafter only shows up there if its "Visible to the Autocrafter Manager" option is enabled. The manager can search pattern inputs, pattern outputs and Autocrafter names, and can filter its view to all, not-full or visible Autocrafters.^[4]

To autocraft on demand, put an Autocrafting Upgrade in an Interface, Exporter or Constructor. To check on running tasks, use an Autocrafting Monitor, or a Wireless Autocrafting Monitor if you want to do it wirelessly. The monitor can report problems such as "No machine found", "Machine doesn't accept resource" and "Autocrafter is locked", and it can cancel tasks.^[4]

Expanding and protecting the network

• Relay: can turn entire sections of a network on or off, and create new branches.^[4]
• Network Transmitter, Network Receiver and Network Card: can add components without cables.^[4]
• Security Manager: its help text says that when active, it protects the network by default and blocks all operations. You then add Security Cards to permit or deny specific operations for a player.^[4]

What this pack changes

The pack edits some of the recipes that feed into storage and autocrafting. The 1024B Fluid Storage Block and 1024B Fluid Storage Disk recipes are marked as changed by the pack, so follow the recipes shown here rather than the mod's defaults.^[3]

1024B Fluid Storage BlockChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	1024B Fluid Storage Part	Quartz Enriched Iron
Quartz Enriched Iron	Machine Casing	Quartz Enriched Iron
Quartz Enriched Iron	Redstone	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: refinedstorage:1024b_fluid_storage_block

1024B Fluid Storage DiskChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any glass blocks	Redstone	any glass blocks
Redstone	1024B Fluid Storage Part	Redstone
Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: refinedstorage:1024b_fluid_storage_disk

The processor chain is also touched. The Raw Advanced Processor and Destruction Core recipes are pack-changed. The Advanced Processor itself is made by smelting the raw version, and that step is the mod's own recipe.^[3]

Raw Advanced ProcessorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Processor Binding
• Diamond
• Silicon
• Redstone

Recipe id: refinedstorage:raw_advanced_processor

Advanced ProcessorMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Advanced Processor

Recipe id: refinedstorage:advanced_processor

Smelting recipe, unchanged from the mod.

Destruction CoreChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Basic Processor
• Quartz

Recipe id: refinedstorage:destruction_core

Quartz Enriched Copper has a changed crafting recipe, and the pack adds machine alternatives for it. A Create mixer and an Ender IO alloy smelter each turn 3 copper ingots and a quartz into 4 Quartz Enriched Copper. An Extended Industrialization alloy smelter recipe also exists, taking 3 copper ingots and a quartz.^[3]

4× Quartz Enriched CopperChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Copper Ingot	Copper Ingot
Copper Ingot	Quartz

Recipe id: refinedstorage:quartz_enriched_copper

4× Quartz Enriched CopperAdded by the pack

Mixing (create)

• 3× Copper Ingot
• Quartz

Recipe id: ftb:unification/create/alloy/mixer/quartz_enriched_copper

Creative Controller

The pack's creative item script adds a shapeless recipe for the Creative Controller, made from a regular Controller and a creative ascension item. The same script notes that several other Refined Storage creative items, such as the Creative Storage Block and Creative Portable Grid, have no recipe there.^[5]

The quest book calls the Refined Storage in this pack Refined Storage 2. Its quests sit in the "General Storage" chapter (group "Resources & Logistics", chapter 7 of 31). The line starts at "Welcome to Refined Storage 2" quest, which comes right after "But where's the Sky Stone?" quest, the Sky Stone quest. Some quests in that chapter are not covered here, so check the quest book for the rest.^[2]

Step 1: Base materials

The welcome quest asks for Quartz Enriched Iron, Sky Steel Ingots and a Machine Casing. Its text says you need Sky Steel Ingots before you craft your first Machine Core, which is used for many network components. The pack changed the casing recipe, and Sky Steel is part of the pack's version.^[2][3]

Machine CasingChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron
Sky Steel Ingot	Iron Casing	Sky Steel Ingot
Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: refinedstorage:machine_casing

The pack changed this recipe.

The pack also changed the hand-crafting recipe for Quartz Enriched Iron, and it gives 4 per craft. The pack added extra routes for the same item in the Create mixer, the EnderIO alloy smelter, the Extended Industrialization alloy smelter and the Modern Industrialization mixer. Quartz Enriched Copper has the same set of routes, and the pack's Cable recipe uses it and makes 12 Cables per craft.^[3]

4× Quartz Enriched IronChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Iron Ingot	Iron Ingot
Iron Ingot	Quartz

Recipe id: refinedstorage:quartz_enriched_iron

12× CableChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Copper	Quartz Enriched Copper	Quartz Enriched Copper
any glass blocks	Redstone	any glass blocks
Quartz Enriched Copper	Quartz Enriched Copper	Quartz Enriched Copper

Recipe id: refinedstorage:cable

Processors

There are three processor tiers: Basic Processor, Improved Processor and Advanced Processor. Each has a raw version, and the pack changed all three raw recipes, shown below. The finished processors come from the mod's own smelting recipes.^[3]

Raw Basic ProcessorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Processor Binding
• Iron Ingot
• Silicon
• Redstone

Recipe id: refinedstorage:raw_basic_processor

The pack changed this recipe.

Raw Improved ProcessorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Processor Binding
• Gold Ingot
• Silicon
• Redstone

Recipe id: refinedstorage:raw_improved_processor

The pack changed this recipe.

Raw Advanced ProcessorChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Processor Binding
• Diamond
• Silicon
• Redstone

Recipe id: refinedstorage:raw_advanced_processor

The pack changed this recipe.

The pack's Controller recipe uses an Advanced Processor along with a Machine Casing, so you need the top processor tier early.^[3]

ControllerChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Advanced Processor	Quartz Enriched Iron
Silicon	Machine Casing	Silicon
Quartz Enriched Iron	Silicon	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: refinedstorage:controller

The pack changed this recipe.

How the quests unlock things

• After the welcome quest: "Upgrade Base" quest (the Upgrade Base), "Wrench" quest, "Useful Blocks" quest, "Configuration Card" quest and "Controller" quest.^[2]
• The Controller powers your network, and you can place Controllers anywhere on it, unlike AE2 Controllers.^[2]
• After the Controller: "Disk Drive" quest and "Cables" quest.^[2]
• After Cables: "System Input & Output" quest, "Constructor" quest, "Destructor" quest and "External Storage" quest.^[2]
• After the Disk Drive: "Grids" quest, "Disk Interface" quest and the first storage part quests.^[2]

Storage tiers

Item storage starts at "1k Storage Part" quest, then "64k Storage Part" quest, then "256k Storage Part" quest. The 256k part comes from the ExtraStorage add-on rather than from Refined Storage itself. The pack changed both the 1k Storage Part recipe and the 64k Storage Part recipe, and both are shown below.^[2][3]

1k Storage PartChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Silicon	Quartz Enriched Iron	Silicon
any glass blocks	Redstone	any glass blocks
Silicon	any glass blocks	Silicon

Recipe id: refinedstorage:1k_storage_part

The pack changed this recipe.

64k Storage PartChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Advanced Processor	Quartz Enriched Iron	Advanced Processor
16k Storage Part	Redstone	16k Storage Part
Advanced Processor	16k Storage Part	Advanced Processor

Recipe id: refinedstorage:64k_storage_part

The pack changed this recipe.

Fluids follow their own ladder in the quest book: "64B Fluid Storage Part" quest, "4096B Fluid Storage Part" quest, "16384b Fluid Storage Part" quest and then "1048576b Fluid Storage Part" quest. Chemical storage goes from "64B Chemical Storage Part" quest to "256B Chemical Storage Part" quest to "1024B Chemical Storage Part" quest. The 64B fluid part recipe is pack-changed, and the 4096B fluid part is the mod's own recipe and builds on the 1024B Fluid Storage Part.^[2][3]

16k Storage DiskMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Storage Housing
• 16k Storage Part

Recipe id: refinedstorage:16k_storage_disk_from_storage_housing

Turns a 16k Storage Part into a disk, shown here for the 16k tier.

Autocrafting

"Auto Crafting" quest comes after Grids and introduces the Pattern Grid and Pattern. Behind it sit "Autocrafting Monitor" quest, "Autocrafter" quest and "Autocrafter Manager" quest. An Autocrafter takes up to 9 Patterns and 4 Speed Upgrades. Its recipe is shown below, followed by the Construction Core and Destruction Core recipes. The pack changed the Destruction Core one.^[2][3]

AutocrafterMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Construction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron
Advanced Processor	Machine Casing	Advanced Processor
Quartz Enriched Iron	Destruction Core	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: refinedstorage:autocrafter

Construction CoreMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Basic Processor
• any glowstone dust

Recipe id: refinedstorage:construction_core

Destruction CoreChanged by the pack

Crafting Shapeless

• Basic Processor
• Quartz

Recipe id: refinedstorage:destruction_core

The pack changed this recipe.

Wireless and range

"Wireless Transmitter" quest and "Wireless Networks" quest both follow Grids. A Wireless Transmitter has a default range of 16 blocks, and up to 4 Range Upgrades extend it to 48. "Wireless Grids" quest comes after the transmitter. For remote or cross-dimension access, a Network Card is bound to a Network Receiver, then placed in a Network Transmitter on your main network, which should be chunkloaded. "System Security" quest follows from Wireless Networks.^[2]

The pack changed the recipes for the Network Transmitter and Network Receiver, so check the in-pack recipe before you plan this step. Past that, "Infinity Range Booster" quest follows the Range Upgrade quest and covers network access anywhere in the same dimension. "Dimension Card" quest then covers access across dimensions at a hefty energy cost.^[2][3]

Network TransmitterChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any ender pearl	any ender pearl	any ender pearl
Construction Core	Machine Casing	Destruction Core
Advanced Processor	Netherite Ingot	Advanced Processor

Recipe id: refinedstorage:network_transmitter

The pack changed this recipe.

Upgrades

Once you have the Upgrade Base, the upgrade quests open up: "Regulator Upgrade" quest, "Speed & Stack Upgrades" quest, "Fortune & Silk Touch Upgrades" quest, "Autocrafting Upgrade" quest and "Range Upgrade" quest.^[2]

The end of the line

The pack adds a recipe for the Creative Controller, made by combining a normal Controller with a Creative Ascension item. The pack's script lists several other creative Refined Storage items, such as the creative storage block and the creative wireless grid, as having no recipe.^[3][5]

Creative ControllerAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Controller
• Creative Ascension

Recipe id: ftb:creative_controller

The pack added this recipe.

Refined Storage 2 shows up in a lot of recipes from other mods in this pack, and the pack has also changed several of its own Refined Storage recipes so they depend on other mods. Here is what the recipe data and the quest book show.^[2][3]

Getting started: Sky Steel and Machine Casing

The pack changed the recipe for Machine Casing, and it now involves Sky Steel Ingot (shown below). The opening quest "Welcome to Refined Storage 2" quest asks you to obtain Quartz Enriched Iron, the Sky Steel Ingot and the Machine Casing, and it points you to an attached quest that explains how to get Sky Steel. It sits in the "General Storage" chapter, in the "Resources & Logistics" group (chapter 7 of 31 in the book).^[2][3]

Machine CasingChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron
Sky Steel Ingot	Iron Casing	Sky Steel Ingot
Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron	Quartz Enriched Iron

Recipe id: refinedstorage:machine_casing

The pack changed this recipe.

The pack also adds its own recipe that makes a Sky Steel Ingot from lava.^[3]

Sky Steel IngotAdded by the pack

Transform (ae2)

• Sky Stone
• Quartz Enriched Iron
• any lava

Recipe id: ftb:megacells/sky_steel_ingot_from_lava

Where Quartz Enriched Iron comes from

Quartz Enriched Iron is used in many of these cross-mod recipes. Two other mods can supply it: a Mystical Agriculture essence recipe gives 8 of it, and a Productive Bees centrifuge recipe gives it together with Wax.^[3]

8× Quartz Enriched IronMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

8 × Quartz Enriched Iron Essence

Recipe id: mysticalagriculture:essence/refinedstorage/quartz_enriched_iron_ingot

Wax, Quartz Enriched IronMod recipe

Centrifuge (productivebees)

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge/refinedstorage/honeycomb_quartz_enriched_iron

Recipes the pack changed

• The recipes for Raw Basic Processor and Raw Advanced Processor were changed by the pack and use Silicon.^[3]
• The pack also changed Controller, 1k Storage Part and 64B Fluid Storage Part, and all three use Silicon too.^[3]

Creative ControllerAdded by the pack

Shapeless (kubejs)

• Controller
• Creative Ascension

Recipe id: ftb:creative_controller

Added by the pack: the route to the Creative Controller via Creative Ascension.

Extra storage types

Several add-ons give your network new kinds of storage. In the Mekanism integration, the pack changed the 256B and 1024B chemical storage part and block recipes, for example 256B Chemical Storage Part and 1024B Chemical Storage Block. Turning a part into a disk is a plain mod recipe.^[3]

1024B Chemical Storage PartChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Improved Processor	Osmium Ingot	Improved Processor
256B Chemical Storage Part	Reinforced Alloy	256B Chemical Storage Part
Improved Processor	256B Chemical Storage Part	Improved Processor

Recipe id: refinedstorage_mekanism_integration:1024b_chemical_storage_part

Changed by the pack, and it calls for Osmium Ingot.

1024B Chemical Storage DiskMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Storage Housing
• 1024B Chemical Storage Part

Recipe id: refinedstorage_mekanism_integration:1024b_chemical_storage_disk_from_storage_housing

A plain mod recipe that turns the part into a disk with a Storage Housing.

Refined Types adds Source and Energy storage, for example 1024B Source Storage Block and 1024K Energy Storage Block. The pack changed those block recipes. The disks are shapeless recipes that combine a part with a Storage Housing. The recipe data counts 34 shaped recipes that make Refined Types items and 18 shapeless ones.^[3]

Network EnergizerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Copper Block	Copper Block	Copper Block
Copper Block	Interface	Copper Block
Copper Block	Copper Block	Copper Block

Recipe id: refinedtypes:network_energizer

The Network Energizer is a plain mod recipe built on an Interface.

Extra Storage pushes item and fluid storage past Refined Storage's own tiers, including 1024k Storage Block and 1048576b Fluid Storage Block. Its upgrade recipes take Refined Storage blocks of the earlier tiers. Advanced Importer and Advanced Exporter are built from the matching Refined Storage Importer and Exporter.^[3]

1024k Storage BlockMod recipe

Upgrade Recipe (extrastorage)

• 256k Storage Block
• 1024k Storage Part
• 16k Storage Block
• 1k Storage Block
• 4k Storage Block
• 64k Storage Block

Recipe id: extrastorage:storage_upgrade/block_1024k_upgrade

Automation and network add-ons

• Cable Tiers builds on Refined Storage devices: Elite Autocrafter is an upgrade step towards Ultra Autocrafter, and the Constructor and Destructor have the same Elite and Ultra tiers. The Disk Interface quest also mentions Cable Tiers disk interfaces, which transfer faster and have more filter slots (check the tooltip for exact speeds).^[2][3]
• Step Crafter adds Step Crafter, Step Crafter Manager, Step Crafting Monitor, Step Requester and Slot Upgrade, and every one of their recipes uses Refined Storage items.^[3]
• RS Bridge and Replication RS2 Bridge are bridge items from other mods whose recipes use Refined Storage items.^[3]
• Interdimensional Wireless Transmitter is built on a Wireless Transmitter, and Infinity Range Booster is built on a Range Upgrade. A plain Range Upgrade raises the Wireless Transmitter range from 16 up to 48 blocks.^[2][3]
• Wireless Crafting Grid is built on an Advanced Processor and a crafting grid from Refined Storage.^[3]

Most of the "General Storage" quests are not shown in the sources here, so check the quest book for the rest of the chapter.^[2]

All the Refined Storage quests live in the "General Storage" chapter, which sits in the "Resources & Logistics" group (chapter 7 of 31 in the quest book). The chapter has 146 quests and covers many storage mods, so the Refined Storage ones are a branch inside it. The text of 13 of the chapter's quests isn't included here, so check the quest book for those.^[2]

Where the branch starts

The branch opens with "Welcome to Refined Storage 2" quest, which comes after the Applied Energistics quest "But where's the Sky Stone?" quest. It asks you to hand in Quartz Enriched Iron, a Sky Steel Ingot and a Machine Casing. The quest explains that you need Sky Steel Ingots before you can craft your first Machine Core, and it points you to the attached quest to see how.^[2]

What unlocks right after it

• "Upgrade Base" quest asks for the Upgrade, which is used to craft other upgrades. It opens the upgrade quests below.^[2]
• "Wrench" quest asks for the Wrench, which rotates network devices or dismantles them when you crouch. A dismantled device keeps its settings and upgrades.^[2]
• "Useful Blocks" quest asks for the Relay, Storage Monitor and Detector.^[2]
• "Configuration Card" quest asks for the Configuration Card, which copies and pastes a device's settings and upgrades.^[2]
• "Controller" quest covers the Controller, the main device that powers your network. It leads to the storage and cable quests.^[2]

Upgrades

After the upgrade quest you get "Regulator Upgrade" quest (Regulator Upgrade), "Speed & Stack Upgrades" quest (Speed Upgrade and Stack Upgrade), "Fortune & Silk Touch Upgrades" quest (the Fortune upgrades and Silk Touch Upgrade, used in Destructors), "Autocrafting Upgrade" quest (Autocrafting Upgrade) and "Range Upgrade" quest (Range Upgrade).^[2]

The Range Upgrade quest says it increases the Wireless Transmitter's range from 16 up to 48 blocks. It leads to "Infinity Range Booster" quest, which gives access to your network anywhere in the same dimension, and then to "Dimension Card" quest, which works across dimensions at a hefty energy cost.^[2]

Storage and cables

After the Controller quest come "Disk Drive" quest (the Disk Drive and Storage Housing) and "Cables" quest (the Cable).^[2]

Several quests hang off the Disk Drive: "Disk Interface" quest (the Disk Interface plus one Cable Tiers disk interface), "Grids" quest, and the storage part chains. The item chain runs "1k Storage Part" quest, then "64k Storage Part" quest, then "256k Storage Part" quest, then "16384k Storage Part" quest. The fluid chain runs "64B Fluid Storage Part" quest, then "4096B Fluid Storage Part" quest, then "16384b Fluid Storage Part" quest, then "1048576b Fluid Storage Part" quest. The chemical chain runs "64B Chemical Storage Part" quest, then "256B Chemical Storage Part" quest, then "1024B Chemical Storage Part" quest, then "8192B Chemical Storage Part" quest. The 256k and larger item parts, the 16384b and larger fluid parts, and the chemical parts all come from other mods.^[2]

Off the Cable quest you get "System Input & Output" quest (importers, exporters and interfaces), "Constructor" quest (Constructors), "Destructor" quest (Destructors) and "External Storage" quest (External Storage, which reaches chests, drawers and tanks).^[2]

Grids, wireless and autocrafting

The Grids quest, "Grids" quest, asks for the Grid and Crafting Grid. Three branches follow it.^[2]

• "Auto Crafting" quest asks for the Pattern Grid and Pattern. It leads to "Autocrafting Monitor" quest (Autocrafting Monitor), "Autocrafter" quest and "Autocrafter Manager" quest (Autocrafter Manager).^[2]
• The Autocrafter quest takes up to 9 patterns and 4 Speed Upgrades. It continues into the upgraded crafters from another mod: "Iron Autocrafter" quest (27 pattern slots), "Gold Autocrafter" quest (45), "Diamond Autocrafter" quest (63) and "Netherite Autocrafter" quest (81).^[2]
• "Wireless Networks" quest asks for the Network Card, Network Transmitter and Network Receiver, and it leads to "System Security" quest (Security Manager, Security Card and Fallback Security Card).^[2]
• "Wireless Transmitter" quest asks for the Wireless Transmitter, whose default range is 16 blocks and which takes up to 4 Range Upgrades. It leads to "Wireless Grids" quest, which asks for the Wireless Grid, Wireless Autocrafting Monitor and a wireless crafting grid from another mod.^[2]