Mining Gadgets in FTB StoneBlock 4

FTB StoneBlock 4 1.23.0 ships version 1.18.8 · First seen in 1.0.0

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Mining Gadgets is a mod in FTB StoneBlock 4 1.23.0, where it is version 1.18.8. Because mining with lasers is cool (Summary from the mod's Modrinth page.)

What is Mining Gadgets?

1 part

The pack includes Mining Gadgets at version 1.18.7. The mod adds the Mining Gadget in its Mining Gadget MK1, Mining Gadget MK2 and Mining Gadget MK3 versions, plus the Modification Table.[1][2]

Where it fits in the quest book

The pack's quest book places Mining Gadgets in the gearing_up chapter. The quest there is "Mining Gadgets" quest, and it has no title in the quest data.[2]

That quest has a task for the gadget and a task for the Modification Table. The gadget task accepts any of the Mining Gadget versions, so whichever one you get first will count. The other task asks you to have the Modification Table.[2]

The sources I have don't show which quests come before or after it in that chapter, so I can't tell you what it unlocks or what leads into it.[2]

How do you get started with Mining Gadgets?

5 parts

The Mining Gadget comes in three versions in this pack: Mining Gadget MK1, Mining Gadget MK2 and Mining Gadget MK3. You build on them with upgrade modules, so here's the route I'd follow.[3]

Step 1: the Blank Upgrade Module

Start with the Blank Upgrade Module. The gadget recipes, the Modification Table recipe and many of the upgrade recipes all use it as an ingredient, so it comes first.[3]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_empty

Step 2: the Mining Gadget

Next, make a gadget. The MK1, MK2 and MK3 recipes each use a Blank Upgrade Module, and all three recipes are shown below.[3]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:mininggadget_simple

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:mininggadget_fancy

The MK2 gadget.

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:mininggadget

The MK3 gadget.

Any of the three gadgets counts for the quest "Mining Gadgets" quest in the gearing_up chapter. That quest also asks for the Modification Table.[2][3]

Step 3: the Modification Table

The Modification Table is where you manage upgrades. In its screen you can shift-click an upgrade from your inventory slots to insert it, or drop an upgrade onto the screen. Click an upgrade to remove it.[3][4]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:modificationtable

Step 4: your first upgrades

With the table ready, start with the simple upgrades. Upgrade: Efficiency, Tier 1 and Upgrade: Battery, Tier 1 each use a Blank Upgrade Module as their base. Both are also the first step of a tiered line: Efficiency goes up to Tier 5 and Battery up to Tier 3.[3]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_efficiency_1

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_battery_1

Tip: Hold shift while looking at the gadget's tooltip to show its upgrades. The tooltip also lists a Per Block Cost.[4]

Check the recipes before you plan bigger upgrades

The pack has changed several upgrade recipes: the Fortune tiers, the Range tiers and the 3x3, 5x5 and 7x7 size upgrades. Use the recipe shown on the site rather than what you remember from the mod's defaults.[3]

Upgrade: 3x3Changed by the pack

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_size_1

This recipe is changed by the pack.

How does Mining Gadgets work?

6 parts

Same as in the All the Mods 10 0.60 guide

Mining Gadgets has no machines, multiblocks or fluid and item pipes to worry about. The system is a handheld mining tool that you customise with upgrade modules at a workbench. The sources for this pack explain the basics, so that is what I cover here.[5][6]

The gadget and its tiers

There are three versions of the tool: Mining Gadget MK1 (MK1), Mining Gadget MK2 (MK2) and Mining Gadget MK3 (MK3). In this pack all three are made from the same set of ingredients, so each has its own recipe but none needs a different material from the others. I can't confirm from the sources whether they behave differently once you have one in hand.[5][6]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:mininggadget

The MK3 recipe. MK1 and MK2 use their own recipes with the same ingredients.

The gadget's tooltip shows a line called "Per Block Cost", which is how much each block you break costs you. You can also hold shift on the tooltip to see which upgrades are installed.[5]

The Modification Table

Upgrades are installed at the Modification Table. Its screen tells you to shift click to insert an upgrade from your inventory slots, or to drop an upgrade onto the screen. To take one back out, click it. If nothing fits the gadget, the screen says "No Upgrades available".[5]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:modificationtable

Upgrade modules

Every crafted upgrade starts from a Blank Upgrade Module, the Blank Upgrade Module.[6]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_empty

The mod's language file lists these upgrade families: Battery (Tier 1 to 3, plus a Creative Battery), Efficiency (Tier 1 to 5), Fortune (Tier 1 to 3), Range (Tier 1 to 3), size upgrades (3x3, 5x5 and 7x7), Freezing, Light Placer, Magnet, Silk touch and Void Junk.[5]

The recipe sources I have cover only part of that list, so I can't say how the others are obtained in this pack. Their exact effects are also not described in the sources.[5][6]

Tiered upgrades build on each other

The battery and efficiency upgrades are crafted by upgrading the previous tier, so you can't skip ahead. Upgrade: Battery, Tier 2 needs Upgrade: Battery, Tier 1, and Upgrade: Battery, Tier 3 needs Tier 2. Efficiency works the same way from Upgrade: Efficiency, Tier 1 up to Upgrade: Efficiency, Tier 5.[6]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_battery_1

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_efficiency_1

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_efficiency_2

Tiers 3 to 5 follow the same pattern, each using the tier before it.

Pack-changed upgrades

The pack changed the recipes for Upgrade: Range, Tier 1, Upgrade: Range, Tier 2 and Upgrade: Fortune, Tier 1. The recipes below are what you craft in this pack, not the mod's defaults. Range Tier 2 is built from Range Tier 1.[6]

Upgrade: Range, Tier 1Changed by the pack

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_range_1

Upgrade: Range, Tier 2Changed by the pack

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_range_2

Upgrade: Fortune, Tier 1Changed by the pack

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_fortune_1

Freezing and Light Placer

Upgrade: Freezing has a particle delay setting on its screen. By default the gadget spawns one freeze particle every tick, and adding more delay reduces the number of particles. This setting controls only the visuals.[5]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_freezing

Upgrade: Light Placer goes with the mod's Miner's Light block. I can't confirm from the sources how the two interact, only that both exist.[5][6]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_light_placer

The gadget's screen also shows a "Precision Mode" value. What it does isn't explained in the sources.[5]

Unverified Energy use and capacity, the effects of each upgrade tier, how Mining Gadgets handles items it mines, and compatibility with automation or other mods' power systems are not described in the sources for this pack. No config files for this mod exist in the pack.

How do you progress through Mining Gadgets?

3 parts

Progression with Mining Gadgets in this pack centres on one quest, "Mining Gadgets" quest, in the Gearing Up chapter. It asks you to get any one of Mining Gadget MK1, Mining Gadget MK2 or Mining Gadget MK3, plus a Modification Table.[2]

Step 1: the gadget and the table

Everything starts with the Blank Upgrade Module. It is an ingredient in the gadget recipes, in the Modification Table and in the first step of each upgrade line.[3]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_empty

The three gadgets are MK1, MK2 and MK3, and the quest accepts any of them. The recipe dump lists the same ingredients for all three, so check the recipe blocks below for the exact layouts. The Modification Table is also crafted from the Blank Upgrade Module.[2][3]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:mininggadget_simple

This is the MK1 gadget.

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:mininggadget_fancy

This is the MK2 gadget.

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:mininggadget

This is the MK3 gadget.

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:modificationtable

Step 2: tiered upgrades

Several upgrades come in tiers. Each higher tier is crafted from the previous tier's item, so you have to climb them in order.[3]

Watch out: The Fortune, Range and Size recipes are changed by the pack, so they differ from the mod's defaults. Use the recipes shown on this page.[3]
Upgrade: Fortune, Tier 1Changed by the pack

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_fortune_1

The pack changed this Fortune recipe.

Upgrade: Range, Tier 1Changed by the pack

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_range_1

The pack changed this Range recipe.

Upgrade: 3x3Changed by the pack

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Redstone Blockany diamond storage blockRedstone Block
any ender pearlBlank Upgrade Moduleany ender pearl
Redstone BlockDiamond PickaxeRedstone Block

Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_size_1

First step of the size line.

Upgrade: 7x7Changed by the pack

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_size_3

Final size upgrade; it needs the 5x5 upgrade first.

Step 3: single-step utility upgrades

These upgrades have no tiers and are each crafted in one step from a Blank Upgrade Module: Upgrade: Freezing, Upgrade: Light Placer, Upgrade: Magnet, Upgrade: Silk touch and Upgrade: Void Junk. Each one uses the mod's own recipe. The Freezing and Light Placer recipes are shown below.[3]

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_freezing

This is the Freezing upgrade.

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Recipe id: mininggadgets:upgrade_light_placer

This is the Light Placer upgrade.

Which FTB StoneBlock 4 quests use Mining Gadgets?

1 part

Mining Gadgets appears in one quest chapter in this pack: "gearing_up".[2]

Gearing Up

The quest "Mining Gadgets" quest has no title in the pack files. It has two item tasks.[2]

Which Mining Gadgets config options matter?

3 parts

Same as in the All the Mods - Gravitas 4.0 guide

Every Mining Gadgets option you'll care about lives in power.mining_gadget.baseCost's file, config/mininggadgets-common.toml, and they all deal with power. Each value is a cost per block or a capacity, and every one must be greater than 0. Here is exactly how this pack sets them.[7]

The gadget itself

Battery upgrades

The three battery upgrades add to the gadget's capacity. Battery 1 adds 2,000,000 (power.upgrades.battery1), Battery 2 adds 5,000,000 (power.upgrades.battery2), and Battery 3 adds 10,000,000 (power.upgrades.battery3).[7]

Upgrade costs per block

Most other upgrades charge extra power for every block you mine. These are the values this pack uses.[7]

Unverified The pack's config file doesn't show the mod's default values, so I can't tell you which of these numbers the pack changed from the default. Treat the values above as what this pack uses, and don't assume they match a standalone install of the mod.

Sources

  1. FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 mod list · pack file
  2. FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 quests: "gearing_up" · pack file
  3. FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 recipe dump: recipes making Mining Gadgets items · pack recipe dump
  4. mininggadgets tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
  5. mininggadgets names, screen text and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
  6. All the Mods 10 0.60 recipe dump: recipes making Mining Gadgets items · pack recipe dump
  7. All the Mods - Gravitas 4.0 config: config/mininggadgets-common.toml · pack file
Where this guide comes from

Written from what FTB StoneBlock 4 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.

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Items and blocks

29 items from the 1.23.0 recipe dump.

FTB StoneBlock 4 quests (1)

Quests from the pack's FTB Quests book that ask for this mod's items.

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Gearing Up (1)

Config options (how FTB StoneBlock 4 sets them)

18 settings shipped in the pack's config files; 0 differ from the mod's documented default.

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SettingFTB StoneBlock 4 valueMod default
power.mining_gadget.baseCost
Base cost per block broken
config/mininggadgets-common.toml
200200
power.mining_gadget.maxPower
Maximum power for the Mining Gadget
config/mininggadgets-common.toml
10000001000000
power.upgrades.battery1
Capacity Boost from Battery 1 Upgrade
config/mininggadgets-common.toml
20000002000000
power.upgrades.battery2
Capacity Boost from Battery 2 Upgrade
config/mininggadgets-common.toml
50000005000000
power.upgrades.battery3
Capacity Boost from Battery 3 Upgrade
config/mininggadgets-common.toml
1000000010000000
power.upgrades.upgradeEfficiency1
Cost per block for Efficiency 1 upgrade
config/mininggadgets-common.toml
1010

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