Step Crafter guide for FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.0.3 to 1.8.0
Step Crafter guide for FTB Skies 2: Aero
Last verified for FTB Skies 2: Aero v1.8.0 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
A newer release (1.13.0) is out Guide for the current version
Also applies to:All the Mods 10 8.1 to 8.3FTB Skies 2 1.16.0 to 1.24.0FTB StoneBlock 4 1.14.0 to 1.23.0
- Sections
- 6
- Recipes shown
- 8
- Items named
- 17
None of these sections are written for this pack; 6 are shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.8.0's own files.
What is Step Crafter?
3 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide
Step Crafter is an add-on for Refined Storage. It gives you a Step Crafter and a Step Requester, which allow recursive crafting and keeping items in stock, so your network tops itself up instead of you queuing crafts by hand.[1]
This pack includes Step Crafter version 1.21.1-0.1.9 for NeoForge. It was already part of the pack in version 8.1 or earlier.[2]
Step Crafter
You input a pattern into the Step Crafter, then Shift + Click it to set a minimum and a maximum amount. When the amount of that pattern's output stored in your network drops below the minimum, it automatically crafts items until the maximum is restored.[1]
Step Requester
With the Step Requester, you select the resource you want to maintain and click to configure its minimum, maximum and batch size. When the available amount falls below the minimum, the requester asks your autocrafters to produce it in batches until the maximum is reached.[1]
What is still on the way
The project page lists a Step Crafter Manager and Step Requester Manager, starting Step Crafter autocrafting tasks from the Grid, and a redstone pulse to start crafts as planned features. They are described as upcoming, so don't build your setup around them.[1]
How do you get started with Step Crafter?
6 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide
Step Crafter adds a few blocks on top of Refined Storage that keep items in stock for you, so you don't have to queue crafts by hand. The recipes use Refined Storage parts, so get a basic Refined Storage network running first.[1][3]
First, make a Step Crafter
Start with the Step Crafter. It's the core of the mod, and both the Step Crafter Manager and the Step Crafting Monitor are crafted from it. It accepts patterns for recursive autocrafting and lets you set a minimum and a maximum. When the network's amount of a pattern's output drops below the minimum, it crafts until it reaches the maximum.[1][3][4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter
To set it up, put a pattern in, then Shift + Click it to enter the minimum and maximum amounts.[1]
Next, make a Step Requester
The Step Requester works from resources instead of patterns. Select the resource you want to maintain and click it to configure the minimum, maximum and batch size. When the amount falls below the minimum, it requests Autocrafters to produce the item in batches until the maximum is reached.[1][4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester
Add managers once you have several
After you've placed a few of them, the managers save you from walking around to each one. The Step Crafter Manager lets you manage all your Step Crafters from a single interface, and the Step Requester Manager does the same for Step Requesters. Each one is crafted from its matching base block, so make the Step Crafter or Step Requester first.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter_manager
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester_manager
Watch and cancel crafts with the monitor
The Step Crafting Monitor displays the status of step crafting tasks and lets you cancel them in your storage network. It is crafted from a Step Crafter too.[3][4]
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafting_monitor
Speed things up with Slot Upgrades
The Slot Upgrade speeds up the Step Crafter. The speed multiplier applies per slot upgrade, using the formula: upgrade amount times speed multiplier, plus 1.[4]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:slot_upgrade
Optional extras
The managers and the monitor can be recolored. In this pack you combine a dye with any manager or monitor of the matching kind, and the light blue recipe gives you the standard, undyed item. Here's the red Step Crafter Manager as an example.[3]
Crafting Shapeless
- any step crafter manager
- any red dye
Recipe id: stepcrafter:coloring/red_step_crafter_manager
If you use a Refined Storage Grid, the mod adds a tooltip that says ALT + click to stepcraft.[4]
How does Step Crafter work?
5 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide
Step Crafter is an add-on for Refined Storage. It adds a Step Crafter and a Step Requester, which handle recursive crafting and keep items in stock on your storage network. Everything here works on the network, so you set a target amount and the mod keeps your storage topped up.[1]
The Step Crafter
The Step Crafter accepts patterns for recursive autocrafting and lets you set a minimum and a maximum for each one. When the amount of that pattern's output on the network falls below the minimum, it crafts automatically until it reaches the maximum.[1][4]
- Put a pattern into the Step Crafter.[1]
- Shift + Click the pattern slot to configure the amounts. The slot itself tells you to do this.[1][4]
- Leave it running. Once the stored amount drops below your minimum, it crafts up to your maximum.[1]
Each filter slot reports what it is doing: Crafting, Finished, or Not Enough Ingredients. It can also warn you that the network is full and the crafting result can't be inserted. If the Step Crafter is pointed at a container, you get the message that the external container is full or doesn't accept any items.[4]
There is an option called Insert into pointed container. When it is enabled, the Step Crafter tries to import the crafted components into the container it is pointed at.[4]
The Grid also has a shortcut. Its tooltip says to ALT + click to stepcraft.[4]
The Step Requester
The Step Requester works from resources instead of patterns. You select the resource you want to maintain, then click it to configure a minimum, a maximum and a batch size. When the available amount drops below the minimum, the requester asks your autocrafters to produce it in batches until the maximum is reached.[1][4]
So the Step Crafter follows a pattern recursively, while the Step Requester hands the job to autocrafters you already have.[4]
Managers and the monitor
The Step Crafter Manager lets you manage all your step crafters from one interface. A Step Crafter only shows up there if its option Visible to the Step Crafter Manager is enabled. You can search the manager by step crafter names.[4]
The Step Requester Manager does the same job for your step requesters. It has the matching visibility option on each requester and a search by step requester names.[4]
The Step Crafting Monitor displays the status of step crafting tasks and lets you cancel them. A task can be Ready, Running, Completed, Not Enough Ingredients or Network Full, and the monitor flags any Missing Resource. Its Required and Used figures may not reflect the actual amount.[4]
Power and upgrades
Every block in the mod has its own energy usage setting: the Step Crafter, Step Requester, both managers and the monitor. The Slot Upgrade has one too. The Step Crafter's speed scales with Slot Upgrades, using the formula: upgrade amount times the speed multiplier, plus 1. The mod also has default minimum, maximum and batch size values for newly configured resources.[4]
Unverified The exact energy usage, speed multiplier and default amounts this pack uses are set in the mod's config, and the sources here do not show that config, so no values are listed.
Colors and drops
The managers and the monitor come in dye colors. You color one by combining a dye with any block of the same kind in a shapeless crafting recipe. For example, this is the black Step Crafter Manager, such as Black Step Crafter Manager:[5]
Crafting Shapeless
- any step crafter manager
- any black dye
Recipe id: stepcrafter:coloring/black_step_crafter_manager
The black Step Crafting Monitor and black Step Requester Manager have matching coloring recipes.
If you break a black Black Step Crafter Manager, Black Step Crafting Monitor or Black Step Requester Manager, it drops itself and keeps its custom name.[6][7][8]
How do you progress through Step Crafter?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide
Step Crafter progression in this pack is driven by its crafting recipes. The base blocks are built from Refined Storage parts, including Advanced Processor, so you need Refined Storage up and running before you start.[5]
The base blocks
Everything starts with the Step Crafter and the Step Requester. Make these first, because the managers and the monitor are built on top of them.[5]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester
Managers and the monitor
The next step uses your base blocks as ingredients. The Step Crafter Manager and the Step Crafting Monitor both need a Step Crafter, and the Step Requester Manager needs a Step Requester. All of them also use a glass block, and the pack accepts any block in the glass blocks tag. The monitor additionally needs a Refined Storage Pattern.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter_manager
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafting_monitor
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester_manager
Slot Upgrade
The Slot Upgrade has its own recipe. It uses a chest, Quartz Enriched Iron and a Refined Storage Upgrade, so it does not depend on any other Step Crafter block.[5]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:slot_upgrade
Coloring
The managers and the monitor can be recolored. Each color has a shapeless recipe: a dye of that color plus any block of the matching kind (crafter manager, crafting monitor or requester manager). Here is the red Step Crafter Manager as an example.[5]
Crafting Shapeless
- any step crafter manager
- any red dye
Recipe id: stepcrafter:coloring/red_step_crafter_manager
How does Step Crafter work with other mods?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.2 guide
Step Crafter is built entirely around Refined Storage. The mod adds the Step Crafter and the Step Requester to give a Refined Storage network recursive crafting and the ability to keep items in stock. Every recipe for the mod in this pack is made from Refined Storage parts.[1][5]
How it plugs into your network
On the Step Crafter side, you put in a pattern and Shift + Click it to set a minimum and a maximum amount. When the network's stored amount of that pattern's output drops below the minimum, it crafts automatically until the maximum is restored.[1]
The Step Requester works from the resource instead. You select what you want to maintain, then configure its minimum, maximum and batch size. When the available amount falls below the minimum, it asks autocrafters to produce that resource in batches until the maximum is reached.[1]
Recipes that use Refined Storage items
Quartz Enriched Iron shows up in every Step Crafter recipe in this pack, so you will need to be set up with Refined Storage materials before you can craft any of them. All of these are shaped crafting recipes.[5]
The Step Crafter is the base of the crafting side. It is made from Refined Storage components, including an Autocrafter.[5]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter
The Step Requester is the base of the stock-keeping side, and it is also built from Refined Storage parts, including a Detector.[5]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester
Managers and the monitor
The Step Crafter Manager and the Step Crafting Monitor both need a Step Crafter first. Keep an eye out for the Machine Casing in both recipes below, and for the Pattern in the monitor's.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter_manager
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafting_monitor
The Step Requester Manager follows the same idea, but it is built from a Step Requester instead.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester_manager
The manager and monitor blocks also come in colour variants, such as black and blue. The mod groups them with one item tag for each type: crafter managers, crafting monitors and requester managers.[9][10][11]
Slot Upgrade
The Slot Upgrade is a Refined Storage flavoured craft. See the recipe below for where the regular Upgrade and a Chest fit in.[5]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:slot_upgrade
Which Step Crafter config options matter?
3 parts
Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide
Good news: this pack leaves every Step Crafter value at its mod default, so nothing here is a pack tweak. All the options live in stepCrafter.speedMultiplier's file, config/stepcrafter-common.toml, and the numbers below are exactly what you get in this pack.[12]
Crafting speed
stepCrafter.speedMultiplier is set to 14, the same as the mod default. It accepts any value above 0, so this is the option to raise or lower if you want your Step Crafters to work faster or slower.[12]
Energy usage
Each block and the slot upgrade has its own energy usage option. They all accept values from 0 up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807, and in this pack every one sits at its mod default:[12]
- stepCrafter.energyUsage: 6[12]
- stepRequester.energyUsage: 6[12]
- stepCrafterManager.energyUsage: 16[12]
- stepRequesterManager.energyUsage: 16[12]
- stepCraftingMonitor.energyUsage: 16[12]
- slotUpgrade.energyUsage: 4[12]
Manager search and view
The two manager blocks each have a search mode and a view type. In this pack both managers use the search mode ALL and the view type VISIBLE.[12]
- stepCrafterManager.searchMode and stepRequesterManager.searchMode are both ALL. The other allowed values are PATTERN_INPUTS, PATTERN_OUTPUTS and STEP_NAMES.[12]
- stepCrafterManager.viewType and stepRequesterManager.viewType are both VISIBLE. The other allowed values are NOT_FULL and ALL.[12]
Unverified The sources do not say what unit the energy usage values use or what the search mode and view type values do in the manager screens, so check in game before relying on them.
Sources
- Step Crafter project page (modrinth) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 8.2 mod list · pack file
- All the Mods 10 8.1 recipe dump: recipes making Step Crafter items · pack recipe dump
- stepcrafter tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 8.2 recipe dump: recipes making Step Crafter items · pack recipe dump
- data/stepcrafter/loot_table/blocks/black_step_crafter_manager.json (stepcrafter's jar) · official mod data
- data/stepcrafter/loot_table/blocks/black_step_crafting_monitor.json (stepcrafter's jar) · official mod data
- data/stepcrafter/loot_table/blocks/black_step_requester_manager.json (stepcrafter's jar) · official mod data
- data/stepcrafter/tags/item/step_crafter_managers.json (stepcrafter's jar) · official mod data
- data/stepcrafter/tags/item/step_crafting_monitors.json (stepcrafter's jar) · official mod data
- data/stepcrafter/tags/item/step_requester_managers.json (stepcrafter's jar) · official mod data
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 config: config/stepcrafter-common.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 17, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 1.9.0 to 1.10.0