FTB Stuff & Things in FTB StoneBlock 4

FTB Stuff & Things adds early-game tools and simple machines to the pack: hammers, a crook, a wooden basin, cobblestone generators, auto-hammers and the SlowMelter 9000. This pack ships version 21.1.19. You will meet its items in the quest book very early, starting in the Getting Started chapter.^[1][2][3]

Where the quest book places it

The mod has no chapter of its own. Its items are spread across three chapters: Getting Started, Resource Generation and Technology.^[2][3][4]

• Getting Started: "From Punching To Smashing" quest asks for a Stone Hammer plus gravel and dirt, and "A Fine-Tooth Pick" quest asks for a Stone Crook. Both unlock after the same earlier quest.^[2]
• Getting Started: "Don't Forget To Stomp" quest asks for a Wooden Basin. It unlocks after a different earlier quest from the hammer and crook.^[2]
• Getting Started: "More Smashing" quest asks for sand and Dust, and "Proving Yourself" quest asks for an Iron Hammer. The iron hammer quest needs two earlier quests to be done first.^[2]
• Getting Started: "Cobble Generators" quest asks for a lava bucket, any one of the Stone, Iron, Gold or Diamond cobble generators, and any one of the Iron, Gold, Diamond or Netherite auto-hammers, such as the Iron Auto-Hammer.^[2]
• Resource Generation: "The Archaeologist" quest asks for a decorated pot and one of dirt, sand, mud or Dust. It follows the same earlier quest as the cobble generator and auto-hammer quest above.^[2][4]
• Technology: "The SlowMelter 9000" quest asks for the SlowMelter 9000 together with a Foundry Tap. The sources list no earlier quest for it.^[3]

In short, the quest book has you start with hand tools, move on to automated cobblestone and hammering, and reach the SlowMelter 9000 in the Technology chapter.^[2][3][4]

Unverified Whether the ATM Star quest path uses this mod is not shown by the sources here, so this overview does not place it on that path.

The early game in this pack runs through FTB Stuff & Things. The quest book's getting_started chapter walks you through the first tools, so here is the order those quests point you in, and why each step matters.^[2]

Stone Hammer

Your first target is the Stone Hammer. Its quest, "From Punching To Smashing" quest, also asks you to have gravel and dirt. Hammers crush materials down to their core components, and the pack has its own recipe for this one.^[2][5]

Stone HammerAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

any cobblestone	Stone Rod or Stick	any cobblestone
Empty slot	Stone Rod or Stick	Empty slot
Empty slot	Stone Rod or Stick	Empty slot

Recipe id: ftb:ftbstuff/crafting/stone_hammer

This is the pack's own Stone Hammer recipe, and it uses a Stone Rod.

Stone Crook and Wooden Basin

Two more early quests ask for the Stone Crook ("A Fine-Tooth Pick" quest) and the Wooden Basin ("Don't Forget To Stomp" quest).^[2]

Stone CrookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Stone Rod

Recipe id: ftbstuff:stone_crook

The Stone Crook is made from a Stone Rod.

Wooden BasinAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

7 × any log

Recipe id: ftb:crafting/wooden_basin

The pack added this Wooden Basin recipe.

The basin's JEI info says to place a block on top of the basin and fall or jump on it.^[5]

Turn sand into Dust

Next, "More Smashing" quest asks for sand and Dust. Hammering sand gives you Dust. The pack also adds sand to Dust recipes for crushing machines from other mods, so you won't be hammering by hand forever.^[2][6]

DustAdded by the pack

Hammer (ftbstuff)

• Sand

Recipe id: ftb:stuff/hammer/sand_1

Sand to Dust with a hammer, added by the pack.

Red sand can be hammered into Dust too.^[6]

DustAdded by the pack

Hammer (ftbstuff)

• Red Sand

Recipe id: ftb:stuff/hammer/red_sand_1

Red sand to Dust with a hammer, also added by the pack.

Iron Hammer

The Iron Hammer is the next upgrade, and "Proving Yourself" quest asks for it. That quest only unlocks after two earlier quests are done.^[2]

Iron HammerAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

any iron ingot	Stone Rod or Stick	any iron ingot
Empty slot	Stone Rod or Stick	Empty slot
Empty slot	Stone Rod or Stick	Empty slot

Recipe id: ftb:ftbstuff/crafting/iron_hammer

The pack's own Iron Hammer recipe.

Cobble Generator and Auto-Hammer

The last quest in the chapter, "Cobble Generators" quest, asks for a lava bucket, a cobblestone generator of any tier and an auto-hammer of any tier. The pack added the recipe for the Stone Cobble Generator.^[2][6]

Stone Cobble GeneratorAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Compressed Stone	Compressed Stone	Compressed Stone
Water Bucket	Glass	Lava Bucket
Compressed Stone	Compressed Stone	Compressed Stone

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/ftbstuff_stone_cobblestone_generator

The first generator tier, from a pack-added recipe.

The Iron Auto-Hammer is built from an Iron Hammer. The Gold, Diamond and Netherite Auto-Hammers each build on the tier before them.^[6]

Iron Auto-HammerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any gold ingot	any iron ingot
any glass blocks	Iron Hammer	any glass blocks
any redstone dust	any gold ingot	any redstone dust

Recipe id: ftbstuff:iron_auto_hammer

The Iron Auto-Hammer recipe from the mod.

The sources for this mod only cover a few of its systems. I can tell you what the machines are described as doing and how the compressed block chain works. Power use, fluid handling and automation details are not in what I have, so I leave them out.^[5][6]

Machines

• The Fusing Machine is described as being used to fuse items together to produce new results.^[5]
• The Super Cooler is described as being used to "super"-cool items to produce new results.^[5]
• The recipe viewer info for the Wooden Basin says to place a block on top of the basin and then fall or jump on it.^[5]
• Hammers have a tooltip saying they crush materials down to their core components.^[5]

There is also an advancement about over-winding a Pump and suffering the consequences. That tells you the mod has a Pump you can push too far, but the sources don't explain how winding works or what the consequences are.^[5]

Compressed blocks

The pack has a family of compressed blocks. Each material comes in a compressed, a double compressed and a triple compressed form. The materials are basalt, clay, cobblestone, dirt, dust and end stone. For example, you start with Compressed Cobblestone, step up to Double Compressed Cobblestone, and finish at Triple Compressed Cobblestone.^[6]

The first step turns the plain material into the first compressed form with a shaped crafting recipe. The vanilla basalt, clay, cobblestone, dirt and end stone blocks work this way, and the dust version starts from Dust. Another shaped recipe takes the compressed form to the double form, and one more takes the double form to the triple form.^[6]

Compressed CobblestoneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Cobblestone

Recipe id: ftbstuff:compressed/compressed_cobblestone_3x3

Plain cobblestone into the first compressed form.

Double Compressed CobblestoneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Compressed Cobblestone

Recipe id: ftbstuff:compressed/compressed_cobblestone_2_3x3

Compressed into double compressed.

Triple Compressed CobblestoneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Double Compressed Cobblestone

Recipe id: ftbstuff:compressed/compressed_cobblestone_3_3x3

Double compressed into triple compressed.

Stepping back down

Each form also has a shapeless recipe that goes the other way. Triple compressed turns into double compressed, and double compressed turns into the first compressed form. The dump shows these for every material. Here is the cobblestone example.^[6]

9× Double Compressed CobblestoneMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Triple Compressed Cobblestone

Recipe id: ftbstuff:compressed/compressed_cobblestone_2_shapeless

Triple compressed back down to double.

9× Compressed CobblestoneMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Double Compressed Cobblestone

Recipe id: ftbstuff:compressed/compressed_cobblestone_shapeless

Double compressed back down to the first compressed form.

The same pattern covers Compressed Basalt, Compressed Clay, Compressed Dirt, Compressed Dust and Compressed End Stone with their double and triple forms.^[6]

Progression with this mod in the pack is a ladder of tools and machines. You start with a hammer, work up through metal tiers, and end with automation. The quests give you the milestones, and the pack's recipes tell you how to reach each one.^[2][6]

Tier 1: Stone tools and your first Dust

The first quests in the getting started chapter ask for a Stone Hammer along with some gravel and dirt ("From Punching To Smashing" quest), and a Stone Crook ("A Fine-Tooth Pick" quest). Both recipes use a Stone Rod. The pack's hammer recipe is below, followed by the crook.^[2][6]

Stone HammerAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

any cobblestone	Stone Rod or Stick	any cobblestone
Empty slot	Stone Rod or Stick	Empty slot
Empty slot	Stone Rod or Stick	Empty slot

Recipe id: ftb:ftbstuff/crafting/stone_hammer

Stone CrookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Stone Rod

Recipe id: ftbstuff:stone_crook

Next comes the Wooden Basin ("Don't Forget To Stomp" quest). The pack added its crafting recipe, and it takes any log.^[2][6]

Wooden BasinAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

7 × any log

Recipe id: ftb:crafting/wooden_basin

After that you collect sand and Dust ("More Smashing" quest). The pack adds a hammer recipe that turns sand into Dust, and another for red sand.^[2][6]

DustAdded by the pack

Hammer (ftbstuff)

• Sand

Recipe id: ftb:stuff/hammer/sand_1

Tier 2: The Iron Hammer

The Iron Hammer has its own quest ("Proving Yourself" quest). The pack's recipe uses a Stone Rod, a stick and an iron ingot.^[2][6]

Iron HammerAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

any iron ingot	Stone Rod or Stick	any iron ingot
Empty slot	Stone Rod or Stick	Empty slot
Empty slot	Stone Rod or Stick	Empty slot

Recipe id: ftb:ftbstuff/crafting/iron_hammer

Once you have Dust, you can get more of it from machines. The pack adds sand-to-Dust recipes for Create (crushing and milling), Ender IO, Immersive Engineering, Mekanism and Oritech. It also adds a roost recipe that produces Dust.^[6]

Cobble generators

The big goal of the getting started chapter is "Cobble Generators" quest. It asks for a lava bucket, a cobblestone generator of any tier from stone up to diamond, and an auto-hammer of any tier from iron up to netherite. The stone generator uses a pack-added recipe, and it takes a Compressed Stone as one of its ingredients.^[2][6]

Stone Cobble GeneratorAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Compressed Stone	Compressed Stone	Compressed Stone
Water Bucket	Glass	Lava Bucket
Compressed Stone	Compressed Stone	Compressed Stone

Recipe id: kubejs:kjs/ftbstuff_stone_cobblestone_generator

The pack has you upgrade the generators with molten metal. Molten iron turns the Stone Cobble Generator into the Iron Cobble Generator. Molten gold takes that one to the Gold Cobble Generator, and molten diamond finishes the line with the Diamond Cobble Generator. Each step has a pack-added casting recipe, plus a supercooler recipe that does the same job.^[6]

Iron Cobble GeneratorAdded by the pack

Block Casting (productivemetalworks)

• Stone Cobble Generator
• 810× any molten iron

Recipe id: ftb:stuff/generators/cobble/tier_2

Auto-hammers

Each auto-hammer is built from the matching hand hammer. The Iron Auto-Hammer starts from the Iron Hammer. The Gold Auto-Hammer needs the Gold Hammer and the Iron Auto-Hammer. The Diamond Auto-Hammer needs the Diamond Hammer and the Gold Auto-Hammer. The Netherite Auto-Hammer needs the Netherite Hammer and the Diamond Auto-Hammer. All four also use redstone dust, glass, gold and iron.^[6]

Iron Auto-HammerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any gold ingot	any iron ingot
any glass blocks	Iron Hammer	any glass blocks
any redstone dust	any gold ingot	any redstone dust

Recipe id: ftbstuff:iron_auto_hammer

Compressed blocks

The mod has compressed versions of cobblestone, dirt, gravel, sand, red sand, clay, basalt, netherrack, end stone and dust. Each comes in three levels: Compressed, Double Compressed and Triple Compressed. You craft each level from the one below it in a crafting grid, and a shapeless recipe turns it back down. Hammers also break compressed sand and red sand down into Dust.^[6]

Beyond the hammer line

The resource generation chapter has a quest asking for a decorated pot and one of dirt, sand, mud or Dust ("The Archaeologist" quest). The technology chapter asks for the SlowMelter 9000 and a foundry tap ("The SlowMelter 9000" quest).^[3][4]

FTB Stuff & Things mostly stands on its own, but this pack ties it into other mods through its own recipes and quests. These are the connections the sources confirm.^[3][6]

Cobble generator upgrades with molten metals

The pack adds a chain of supercooler-type recipes that upgrade your cobble generators one tier at a time. Each step combines the previous generator with a molten metal from Productive Metalworks. The chain runs from the Stone Cobble Generator up to the Netherite Cobble Generator. Here is each step.^[6]

Iron Cobble GeneratorAdded by the pack

Supercooler (ftbstuff)

• Stone Cobble Generator
• 810× Molten Iron

Recipe id: ftbstuff:kjs/aj99e51ov25rapvysygfrplsm

Stone tier to Iron tier.

Gold Cobble GeneratorAdded by the pack

Supercooler (ftbstuff)

• Iron Cobble Generator
• 810× Molten Gold

Recipe id: ftbstuff:kjs/crgjjwqsz0k9dyj8ijs661ujq

Iron tier to Gold tier.

Diamond Cobble GeneratorAdded by the pack

Supercooler (ftbstuff)

• Gold Cobble Generator
• 900× Molten Diamond

Recipe id: ftbstuff:kjs/atmu6t5u8f4rxmltsfxsiuqji

Gold tier to Diamond tier.

Netherite Cobble GeneratorAdded by the pack

Supercooler (ftbstuff)

• Diamond Cobble Generator
• 810× Molten Netherite

Recipe id: ftbstuff:kjs/85cli9ysozu3t94mmghs83nx7

Diamond tier to Netherite tier.

Magmalith

Magmalith is made from Double Compressed Basalt and lava, and the pack gives you two ways to do it. One is a Productive Metalworks block-casting recipe. The other is a supercooler-type recipe.^[6]

MagmalithAdded by the pack

Block Casting (productivemetalworks)

• Double Compressed Basalt
• 1000× any lava

Recipe id: ftb:productivemetalworks/casting/magmalith

Casting route, added by the pack.

MagmalithAdded by the pack

Supercooler (ftbstuff)

• Double Compressed Basalt
• 1000× Lava

Recipe id: ftbstuff:kjs/9z8442v4lojo69n9wzedm6mh8

Supercooler route, added by the pack.

Fusing machine and Super Cooler

The SlowMelter 9000 and the "Super" Cooler each have a pack-added custom machine recipe that uses items from other mods. The sources list no output for either recipe, so I can't tell you what they produce. The recipe blocks below show them exactly.^[6]

The fusing machine also appears in the technology quest chapter. Quest "The SlowMelter 9000" quest asks for it together with the Productive Metalworks Foundry Tap.^[3]

Dust from a chicken

If you'd rather not work for Dust by hand, the pack has a Chicken Roost recipe where the Dust Chicken produces it. The input is any seed in the tier 2 or up tag.^[6]

DustAdded by the pack

Roost Output (chicken_roost)

• Dust Chicken
• any tier2orup seed

Recipe id: ftb:roosts/roost/c_dust

Roost recipe added by the pack.

Dark Matter Hammer

The pack lets you upgrade the Netherite Hammer into the Dark Matter Hammer with a smithing transform recipe.^[6]

Dark Matter HammerAdded by the pack

Smithing Transform

• Dark Matter Smithing Template
• Netherite Hammer
• Dark Matter

Recipe id: ftb:smithing_transform/projecte/netherite_hammer/dm_hammer

Smithing recipe added by the pack.

The mod's items show up in three quest chapters: getting_started, resource_generation and technology. The quests are untitled in the pack files, so they're listed below by their quest refs.^[2][3][4]

Getting Started

This is where most of the mod's quests are. Two of them unlock after the same earlier quest. "From Punching To Smashing" quest asks for a Stone Hammer, gravel and dirt. "A Fine-Tooth Pick" quest asks for a Stone Crook.^[2]

"Don't Forget To Stomp" quest asks for a Wooden Basin and comes after a different earlier quest.^[2]

"More Smashing" quest and "Proving Yourself" quest both come after the same earlier quest. The first asks for sand and Dust. The second asks for an Iron Hammer and has one more prerequisite quest on top of the shared one.^[2]

"Cobble Generators" quest has three tasks: a lava bucket, a cobblestone generator and an auto-hammer. For the generator, any one of these counts: Stone Cobble Generator, Iron Cobble Generator, Gold Cobble Generator or Diamond Cobble Generator. For the auto-hammer, any one of Iron Auto-Hammer, Gold Auto-Hammer, Diamond Auto-Hammer or Netherite Auto-Hammer works.^[2]

Resource Generation

"The Archaeologist" quest asks for a decorated pot plus one of dirt, sand, mud or Dust. It unlocks after the same earlier quest as the cobble generator and auto-hammer quest above.^[2][4]

Technology

"The SlowMelter 9000" quest asks for the SlowMelter 9000 and a foundry tap. The pack file lists no prerequisite quest for it.^[3]

Order

The earlier quests these depend on don't use this mod's items, so the full order isn't visible from these files. What is visible is the sharing: "From Punching To Smashing" quest and "A Fine-Tooth Pick" quest share a prerequisite, "More Smashing" quest and "Proving Yourself" quest share another, and "Cobble Generators" quest and "The Archaeologist" quest share a third.^[2][4]