XyCraft World guide for FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.7.2 to 1.8.0

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.23.0 guide

XyCraft World is part of this pack's mod list. The pack ships version 0.7.53 (xycraft_world-0.7.53.jar), and the mod has been in the pack since 1.0.1 or earlier.^[1]

Unverified The sources I have don't describe what XyCraft World adds or how its features work, so this guide makes no claims about its blocks, items or mechanics. The sources also don't place the mod in the pack's quest book.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.10.0 guide

XyCraft World adds aluminum building blocks, torches, lamps, glass viewers and the five Xychorium gems. This guide takes them in the order that makes sense for a fresh start: aluminum first, then light, then building blocks, then Kivi and gems.^[2][3]

Get aluminum

Raw aluminum turns into an Aluminum Ingot in a furnace or a blast furnace. The pack also has an Actually Additions Mining Lens recipe that produces Aluminum Ore.^[2]

Aluminum IngotMod recipe

Smelting

• any aluminum raw material

Recipe id: xycraft:smelting/aluminum

Aluminum IngotMod recipe

Blasting

• any aluminum raw material

Recipe id: xycraft:blasting/aluminum

Keep an eye on the ingredient names in the recipes below. The recipes the pack changed list their aluminum ingot under the ftbmaterials namespace.^[2]

Make some light

The pack changed both torch recipes, so use these instead of the mod defaults: the Copper Torch and the Aluminum Torch.^[2]

2× Copper TorchChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Copper Ingot

any wooden rod

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/copper_torch

2× Aluminum TorchChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Aluminum Ingot

any wooden rod

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_torch

Aluminum bricks and tiles

Aluminum Bricks are the base of the aluminum building set, and the pack changed their recipe. Aluminum Tiles are crafted from the bricks.^[2]

4× Aluminum BricksChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

4 × Aluminum Ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks

4× Aluminum TilesMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_tiles

To switch between block variants, use a stonecutter. The mod has 76 stonecutting recipes for its own blocks, and the bricks have one of them.^[2]

Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Stonecutting

• Aluminum Bricks
• any aluminum crafting group

Recipe id: xycraft:stonecutting/aluminum_bricks

Kivi and Xychorium gems

Kivi is the starting point for the gems. Two routes to it are in the pack. The XyCraft extractor machine turns water into Kivi, and a dripper recipe added by the pack makes Kivi from 1,000 of lava.^[2]

KiviMod recipe

Extractor (xycraft_machines)

• any water

Recipe id: xycraft:extractor/kivi

KiviAdded by the pack

Dripper (ftbstuff)

• 1000× Lava

Recipe id: ftb:ftbstuff/dripper/kivi

The XyCraft crusher takes Kivi and gives you the gems: Blue Xychorium Gem, Dark Xychorium Gem, Green Xychorium Gem, Light Xychorium Gem and Red Xychorium Gem.^[2]

Blue Xychorium Gem, Dark Xychorium Gem, Green Xychorium Gem, Light Xychorium Gem, Red Xychorium GemMod recipe

Crusher (xycraft_machines)

• any kivi

Recipe id: xycraft:crusher/xychorium

If you only need blue gems, there are other routes too:^[2]

• Smelting or blasting neovitae:xychorium_blue_dust, both recipes added by the pack.^[2]
• An AE2 transform recipe added by the pack, which makes 4 blue gems.^[2]
• A Mekanism enriching recipe that turns Xychorium ore into 10 blue gems.^[2]
• A Create sifting recipe added by the pack, which gives all five gems from crushed Kivi and a blazing mesh.^[2]

Coloured bricks and lamps

With gems in hand you can make the coloured aluminum bricks. The pack changed the blue and dark versions.^[2]

2× Blue Aluminum BricksChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Aluminum Ingot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Aluminum Ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue

2× Dark Aluminum BricksChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Aluminum Ingot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Aluminum Ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_dark

For lighting, the recipe for the RGB Lamp was changed by the pack. A shapeless recipe flips it into the Inverted RGB Lamp and another flips it back.^[2]

RGB LampChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any cheap glass blocks	Aluminum Ingot	any cheap glass blocks
Redstone	Glowstone	Redstone
any cheap glass blocks	Aluminum Ingot	any cheap glass blocks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/lamp_rgb

Inverted RGB LampMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• RGB Lamp

Recipe id: xycraft:shapeless/lamp_rgb_inverted

World generation settings

This pack has both geyser toggles set to true: harvestable_node_set.surface_geyser and harvestable_node_set.underground_geyser. Placement for the same structure set uses a spacing of 15 in harvestable_node_set.spacing and a separation of 7 in harvestable_node_set.separation.^[4][5]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.23.0 guide

The XyCraft World config files this pack sets cover two things: whether the geyser variants of the harvestable node set generate, and how that structure set is placed in the world. Both files live in config/xycraft_world.^[6][7]

Structure toggles

The pack leaves both geyser toggles on, so geysers can generate on the surface and underground.^[6]

• harvestable_node_set.surface_geyser is set to true.^[6]
• harvestable_node_set.underground_geyser is set to true.^[6]

Structure placement

The placement file controls how the harvestable node set is spaced out. These are the exact values this pack uses.^[7]

• harvestable_node_set.spacing is 15.^[7]
• harvestable_node_set.separation is 7.^[7]
• harvestable_node_set.salt is 918,273,645.^[7]