Oritech in FTB StoneBlock 4

Oritech is a technology mod built around animated multiblock machines, with upgrades added through addon blocks. This pack ships version 1.2.12. Content covers processing machines, world-interaction machines, logistics, equipment and more.^[1][2]

• Multiple ore processing chains and variants, plus automated farming machines.^[1]
• Electric tools and armor, and item, fluid and energy pipes (one pipe tier per type).^[1]
• Drones that move items over long distances, and lasers that mine blocks automatically.^[1]
• Cybernetic player augmentation and particle accelerators.^[1]
• Energy generation that ranges from burning fossil fuels to sustainable biofuel farms.^[1]

The mod aims to give you several ways to get the same thing, so you rarely get stuck waiting on one rare item. It also aims to make most things renewable, but that takes large bases and processing chains. If you like building big automated setups, this mod is for you.^[1]

Where it fits in this pack

The pack has a dedicated Oritech quest chapter. It starts with a machine core and the Motor in "Machine Basics" quest. From there it branches into the Foundry, Powered Furnace, Pulverizer, Assembler and Centrifuge.^[3]

The Foundry leads to the Machine Addon Extender, which opens the addon quests, such as the Speed Addon and Yield Addon. The Assembler leads to the Enderic Laser, then to Fluxite and the Flux Gate. After that come the Atomic Forge and Fragment Forge. The Atomic Forge in turn leads to the Particle Accelerator and Prometheum.^[3]

Power has its own quest chapter. It starts with the Basic Generator, Fuel Generator, Portable Energy Storage, Large Energy Storage and Nuclear Reactor Controller. The Basic Generator leads to the Lava Generator, Steam Engine and Bio Generator. The reactor quests cover rods, fuel ports, walls, heat handling and energy ports.^[4]

Unverified No in-jar guidebook was found for this mod, and the sources do not show Oritech on the ATM Star quest path.

The Oritech quest chain in this pack starts small: a machine core and a motor. The machine quests branch from that pair, so that's where we begin.^[3]

Machine core and motor

The first Oritech quest, "Machine Basics" quest, asks for any tier of machine core plus a Motor. The cheapest core is the Primitive Machine Core, and here is its recipe.^[3][5]

Primitive Machine CoreMod recipe

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any plank	any plank	any plank
any plank	Crafting Table	any plank
any plank	any plank	any plank

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/core1

The pack changed the recipe for the Basic Machine Core, so use this version rather than what you remember from the base mod.^[5]

Basic Machine CoreChanged by the pack

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any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	any lapi gems	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/core2

This recipe is changed by the pack.

The Motor recipe listed for this pack is an Assembler recipe, so you will meet the Assembler in the next step.^[5]

2× MotorMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• 2× Magnetic Coil
• any nickel ingot
• any steel ingot

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/motor

Oritech's own first advancement is about picking up raw nickel, so it is worth grabbing some early.^[6]

Your first machines

After that first quest, a row of machine quests opens up: the Foundry, the Powered Furnace, the Pulverizer, the Assembler, and the Centrifuge paired with a Fluid Addon.^[3]

The Assembler is the one to prioritise, because the laser and flux branch of the quest chain comes after it. It also has a crafting table recipe, shown here.^[3][5]

AssemblerMod recipe

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any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot
Crafter	Adamant Ingot	Crafter
Motor	any plating	Motor

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/assembleralt

The Centrifuge has a crafting table recipe too.^[5]

CentrifugeMod recipe

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Glass Bottle	Glass Bottle	Glass Bottle
any copper ingot	Motor	any copper ingot
any iron storage block	Motor	any iron storage block

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/centrifugealt

Power

Your machines need energy. The power chapter starts with the Basic Generator, and the Lava Generator, the Steam Engine (with its Steam Boiler Addon) and the Bio Generator quests all come after it.^[4]

Basic GeneratorMod recipe

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any nickel ingot	any nickel ingot	any nickel ingot
any nickel ingot	any copper ingot	any nickel ingot
Magnetic Coil	any furnace player workstations	Magnetic Coil

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/basicgen

Wrench and pipes

Once you have a few machines, you will want to connect them. The automation chapter has a quest for the Pipe Wrench together with an Opaque Item Pipe, Fluid Pipe or Energy Pipe.^[7]

Flux gate, lasers and the forges

After the Assembler, the quest chain moves on to the Enderic Lens, the Enderic Laser and the Target Designator. Next comes Fluxite with a Flux Gate. Those lead to the Atomic Forge and the Fragment Forge.^[3]

Flux GateMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• 2× Fluxite
• Processing Unit
• any platinum ingot

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/fluxgate

The pack changed the Fluxite casting recipe from the Productive Metalworks compat, so check this version before you plan around it.^[5]

FluxiteChanged by the pack

Item Casting (productivemetalworks)

• 90× Molten Fluxite
• Gem Cast

Recipe id: oritech:compat/productivemetalworks/casting/gem/fluxite

This recipe is changed by the pack.

Atomic ForgeMod recipe

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Flux Gate	Duratium Ingot	Flux Gate
any plastic plate	Enderic Compound	any plastic plate
any plating	any plating	any plating

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/atomicforge

Fragment ForgeMod recipe

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any plastic plate	any plastic plate	any plastic plate
any plastic plate	Flux Gate	any plastic plate
Motor	any plating	Motor

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/crusher

Oritech machines are mostly animated multiblocks, and you upgrade them with addon blocks. The mod is built around having several routes to the same result: plastic, for example, can come from farming items or from oil processing. It also aims for renewable fuel and items through big automated farms, plus bedrock extractors that use naturally spawned resource nodes.^[1]

Machine addons

Addons are how you tune a machine. In this pack machineSettings.additiveAddons is on, so addon bonuses are added together instead of multiplied. The Burst Addon has a processing speed multiplier of 8, set by machineSettings.addonConfig.burstAddonSpeedMultiplier, which is the mod default. If you want to stack a lot of addons, the ultimate machine core is the one to chase, because its advancement describes it as the way to add excessive addons.^[5][6][8]

• Acceptor Addon, Capacitor Addon and Efficiency Addon all have recipes in the pack.^[5]
• Fluid Addon, Hunter Addon, Inventory Proxy Addon and Crop Filter Addon are craftable as well.^[5]
• Power Bank Addon Extender is crafted from a capacitor addon and a Machine Addon Extender.^[5]

Burst AddonMod recipe

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Redstone	any steel ingot	Redstone
any electrum ingot	Industrial Support Girder	any electrum ingot
any plating	any plating	any plating

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/addon/burst

The pack's recipe for the Burst Addon.

Capacitor AddonMod recipe

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any plastic plate	any plastic plate	any plastic plate
any plastic plate	Magnetic Coil	any plastic plate
Energite Ingot	any plating	Energite Ingot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/addon/capacitor

The pack's recipe for the Capacitor Addon.

Generating power

The pack changed a lot of generator numbers from the mod defaults. Here are the energy per tick and the maximum extraction for each generator type.^[8]

• Basic generator: 64 energy per tick (mod default 32) and 512 max extraction (default 256).^[8]
• Bio generator: 512 energy per tick (default 64) and 4,096 max extraction (default 512).^[8]
• Fuel generator: 8,192 energy per tick (default 256) and 32,768 max extraction (default 2,048).^[8]
• Solar generator: the pack sets both values to 0, where the mod default is 32 and 256. Don't plan your base around solar output.^[8]

Steam is changed too. machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.rfToSteamRatio is 4 in the pack (mod default 2), and it applies to generators with the steam addon. Steam capacity of boiler generators and the steam engine, set by machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.steamBoilerCapacityBuckets, is 128 buckets instead of the default 8.^[8]

Moving energy, fluids and items

Oritech has item, fluid and energy pipes, and each type only has one tier. Pipe blocks only get block entities where needed, such as when connecting to machines, and the networks are cached to keep things fast.^[1]

• Energy pipes move 10,000 RF/t (logistics.energyPipeTransferRate).^[8]
• Superconductor cables move 4,194,304 RF/t (logistics.superConductorTransferRate).^[8]
• Fluid Pipe: each cycle extracts 0.5 buckets, one cycle every 3 ticks, with an internal buffer of 2 buckets.^[5][8]
• Opaque Item Pipe: transfers 8 items per cycle, one cycle every 5 ticks.^[5][8]

For long-distance power, use the Energy Transmission Pole. Its capacity and transfer rate are 1,000,000 RF/t, and poles must be at least 50 and at most 1,000 apart. The pack leaves all of these at the mod default.^[5][8]

Energy Transmission PoleMod recipe

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Magnetic Coil	Empty slot	Magnetic Coil
any electrum ingot	Portable Energy Storage	any electrum ingot
Carbon Fibre Strands	Carbon Fibre Strands	Carbon Fibre Strands

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/_pole

The pack's recipe for the Energy Transmission Pole.

Reactor

The pack makes the reactor far more powerful, and it runs hotter too. Maximum heat before meltdown is 4,000 (default 2,000). An overheated reactor explodes after 400 ticks (default 600). RF per pulse is 9,600 (default 64). Maximum output is 50,000,000 RF/t per energy port (default 25,000), and it can store 500,000,000 RF (default 50,000,000).^[8]

The reactor is made of parts such as the Reactor Wall, and the Reactor Coolant Absorber Port has its own recipe.^[5]

Reactor Coolant Absorber PortMod recipe

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Empty slot	Hopper	Empty slot
Opaque Item Pipe	Opaque Item Pipe	Opaque Item Pipe
Ice	Reactor Wall	Ice

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/absorberport

The pack's recipe for the Reactor Coolant Absorber Port.

Particle accelerator

The accelerator is built with Particle Accelerator Guide Ring guide rings. Opening a nether portal needs a minimum collision energy of 2,000,000,000 in this pack, and so does an end portal. The mod defaults are 5,000 and 10,000, so this is a big jump.^[5][8]

Particle Accelerator Guide RingMod recipe

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Empty slot	any steel ingot	Empty slot
any steel ingot	Redstone Torch	any steel ingot
Superconductor	Industrial Glass	Industrial Glass

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/acceleratorring

The pack's recipe for the Particle Accelerator Guide Ring.

Tainted refinery and arcane machines

A tainted refinery is created by exploding a refinery near a soul-charged catalyst. After that, nearby arcane blocks increase its energy efficiency and sculk blocks increase its output multiplier. The catalyst's base soul capacity is 50, set by arcane.catalystBaseSouls, which is the mod default.^[6][8]

Machine paint and augments

Machines are colorable, and the mod has a range of machine paint items, such as White Machine Paint, Redstone Machine Paint, Sculk Machine Paint and Netherite Machine Paint. The pack changed the netherite paint recipe, so don't trust a recipe viewer from another pack. The pack's version is shown below.^[1][5]

4× Netherite Machine PaintChanged by the pack

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Empty slot	any netherite ingot	Empty slot
any plastic plate	Carbon Fibre Strands	any plastic plate
Empty slot	any netherite ingot	Empty slot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/_netheritepaint

Netherite Machine Paint, a recipe the pack changed from the mod's own.

The cybernetic augmenter station stores up to 500,000,000 energy, set by augments.augmenterMaxEnergy. Several augments can be toggled in its interface. Examples are night vision and the magnet augment, which pulls nearby items towards you.^[6][8]

Oritech in this pack is gated by quests, and the chain is easy to follow. You start with a machine core and a motor, move through basic processing machines and addons, then climb through the assembler, flux gate and atomic forge to the particle accelerator. Power and reactors, gear and the late-game world engine chapters branch off from there.^[3][4]

Stage 1: Cores, motor and basic machines

The first Oritech quest, "Machine Basics" quest, asks for any one of the machine cores, from Primitive Machine Core up to Ultimate Machine Core, plus a Motor. Everything else in the chapter hangs off it.^[3]

The pack changed several core recipes. The Basic, Improved, Elite and Ultra cores (cores 2, 3, 5 and 6) are pack-modified, while the Primitive and Advanced cores keep the mod's recipes. Here are the pack's versions of the two cheapest changed ones.^[5]

Basic Machine CoreChanged by the pack

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any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	any lapi gems	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/core2

Improved Machine CoreChanged by the pack

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any carbon fibre	any carbon fibre	any carbon fibre
any carbon fibre	any redstone dust	any carbon fibre
any carbon fibre	any carbon fibre	any carbon fibre

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/core3

Once that quest is done, five quests open up in parallel: Foundry ("The Foundry" quest), Powered Furnace ("The Powered Furnace" quest), Pulverizer ("It's Crushing Time" quest), Assembler ("The Assembler" quest), and Centrifuge with a Fluid Addon ("Spin To Win" quest).^[3]

FoundryMod recipe

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any copper ingot	any copper ingot	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	Motor	any copper ingot
any electrum ingot	Cauldron	any electrum ingot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/foundry

For moving things around, a separate automation quest asks for the Pipe Wrench and any of the Opaque Item Pipe, Fluid Pipe or Energy Pipe.^[7]

Stage 2: Addons

The foundry leads to the Machine Addon Extender ("Machine Customization!" quest), and that quest unlocks the whole addon line: Control Unit, Acceptor, Capacitor, Speed, Efficiency, Yield, Quarry and Hunter. The Acceptor, Capacitor, Speed and Efficiency quests also accept higher-tier variants of those addons from the oritechthings namespace.^[3]

Machine Addon ExtenderMod recipe

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Basic Machine Core	any plating	Basic Machine Core
any plating	Duratium Ingot	any plating
Basic Machine Core	any plating	Basic Machine Core

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/extender

Stage 3: Assembler, flux gate and the atomic forge

The assembler quest leads to "The Power Of The End" quest, which asks for the Enderic Lens, the Enderic Laser and the Target Designator. Next comes "Fluxite" quest for Fluxite and the Flux Gate.^[3]

Enderic LensMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• Adamant Ingot
• 2× Enderic Compound
• any carbon fibre

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/enderlens

Flux GateMod recipe

Assembler (oritech)

• 2× Fluxite
• Processing Unit
• any platinum ingot

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/fluxgate

Fluxite casting is pack-modified: the recipe turns Molten Fluxite and a gem cast into fluxite.^[5]

FluxiteChanged by the pack

Item Casting (productivemetalworks)

• 90× Molten Fluxite
• Gem Cast

Recipe id: oritech:compat/productivemetalworks/casting/gem/fluxite

The flux gate opens two quests: the Atomic Forge (a quest in "Oritech") and the Fragment Forge (a quest in "Oritech"). The atomic forge then leads to Prometheum (a quest in "Oritech") and the Particle Accelerator ("Particle Accelerator" quest). The accelerator quest asks for an extra item from the oritechthings namespace, and it unlocks the guide ring, sensor and linear motor quests.^[3]

Atomic ForgeMod recipe

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Flux Gate	Duratium Ingot	Flux Gate
any plastic plate	Enderic Compound	any plastic plate
any plating	any plating	any plating

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/atomicforge

PrometheumMod recipe

Atomic Forge (oritech)

• Heisenberg Compensator
• 2× Overcharged Crystal

Recipe id: oritech:atomicforge/prometheum

Particle AcceleratorMod recipe

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Duratium Ingot	Duratium Ingot	Duratium Ingot
Duratium Ingot	Dropper	Duratium Ingot
Flux Gate	Particle Accelerator Linear Motor	Flux Gate

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/particlecontroller

Particle Accelerator Linear MotorMod recipe

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Empty slot	Superconductor	Empty slot
any electrum ingot	any electrum ingot	any electrum ingot
Ion Thruster	Duratium Ingot	Ion Thruster

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/particlemotor

Particle Accelerator Guide RingMod recipe

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Empty slot	any steel ingot	Empty slot
any steel ingot	Redstone Torch	any steel ingot
Superconductor	Industrial Glass	Industrial Glass

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/acceleratorring

Power and reactors

The power chapter starts with the Basic Generator, which leads to the Lava Generator, the Bio Generator, and the Steam Engine with its Steam Boiler Addon. Separate starting quests cover the Fuel Generator, the Portable Energy Storage and the Large Energy Storage, which in turn leads to the Schrödinger's Safe.^[4]

The reactor starts at the Nuclear Reactor Controller. From there the quests ask for the vent and heat pipe, the fuel rods with a fuel port, reflector and fuel pellet, the heat absorber and coolant absorber port, the reactor wall, and the energy and redstone ports.^[4]

The reactor fuel port has a recipe added by the pack, so use this one.^[5]

Reactor Fuel PortAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Empty slot	Transparent Item Pipe	Empty slot
any electrum ingot	any electrum ingot	any electrum ingot
Steel Mechanical Component	Reactor Wall	Steel Mechanical Component

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/crafting/reactor_fuel_port

The pack also changed all three plutonium pellet assembler recipes, which now use plutonium dust. The uranium pellet recipes are unchanged mod recipes.^[5]

2× Plutonium PelletChanged by the pack

Assembler (oritech)

• 2× Plutonium Dust
• Empty
• any nickel ingot
• any plastic plate

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/plutoniumpelletbasic

Gear

The gearing up chapter covers the Cybernetic Augmentation Center with one of the research stations, the full exo armor set, the Prometheum Pickaxe and Prometheum Battleaxe, and the Enderic Railgun. The exo armor recipes are all pack-modified and are built around the Carbon Plating Block.^[5][9]

Exo ChestplateChanged by the pack

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Carbon Plating Block	Empty slot	Carbon Plating Block
Carbon Plating Block	Carbon Plating Block	Carbon Plating Block
Carbon Plating Block	Advanced Battery	Carbon Plating Block

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/exochest

Late game

Oritech items also show up in the pack's world engine chapters. Tier 3 asks for the assembler, laser arm, target designator and flux gate. Tier 4 asks for the atomic forge and prometheum. Tier 5 asks for the accelerator controller alongside plutonium dust and a small plutonium pellet, then the Arcane Catalyst, the Soul Flowers and the Black Hole. Two more tier 5 quests pair the reactor reflector with an Avaritia infinity block.^[10][11][12]

The black hole has its own pack-added particle collision recipe, and a bounty board quest asks for it too ("Black Hole Trade" quest). The Arcane Catalyst recipe is pack-modified as well.^[5][13]

Black HoleAdded by the pack

Particle Collision (oritech)

• Small Chaos Fragment
• Antimatter Pellet
• Empty

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/particle_collision/black_hole

Arcane CatalystChanged by the pack

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Fluxite	Fluxite	Fluxite
any normal obsidian	Unholy Intelligence or Super AI Chip	any normal obsidian
Adamant Ingot	Enchanting Table	Adamant Ingot

Recipe id: oritech:crafting/catalyst

Oritech doesn't live in its own bubble in this pack. The pack added or changed a lot of recipes so that Oritech machines, fluids and ingots plug into Mekanism, Immersive Engineering, Industrial Foregoing, Powah, Avaritia, ProjectE and more. Here's where those links show up.^[5]

The Oritech mod itself also ships compatibility with Applied Energistics 2, Ender IO, Immersive Engineering, Industrial Foregoing, Mekanism, Powah and Productive Metalworks, among others. The recipes below are what this pack actually does with them.^[1]

Metal processing

Metals from the pack's materials mod run through Oritech machines. First, the Sheol Fire refinery recipes turn raw materials into clumps. Then the Atomic Forge uses Fluxite to turn clumps into dirty dust. Or you can send clumps through the Centrifuge with Liquid Sulfuric Acid to get dust plus Mineral Slurry. The pack added all of these recipes, and they exist for the same dozen metals, from aluminum to zinc. Iron is shown as the example.^[3][5]

3× Iron ClumpAdded by the pack

Refinery (oritech)

• 250× Sheol Fire
• any iron raw material

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/refinery/iron

Refinery step: raw material to clump.

2× Iron Dirty DustAdded by the pack

Atomic Forge (oritech)

• Iron Clump
• Empty
• 2× Fluxite

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/atomicforge/clump/iron

Atomic Forge step: clump to dirty dust.

4× Iron DustAdded by the pack

Centrifuge Fluid (oritech)

• 1000× Liquid Sulfuric Acid
• any iron clump

Recipe id: oritech:centrifuge/fluid/clumpacid/mekanism/iron_meka

Centrifuge route using Mekanism's acid.

Plastic, carbon and oil

• The pack changed the centrifuge recipes that make Plastic from Polymer Resin, so Oritech feeds Industrial Foregoing's plastic.^[5]
• The centrifuge turns HOP Graphite Dust into Carbon Fibre Strands. The SlowMelter 9000 (SlowMelter 9000) and Productive Metalworks can both melt those strands into Molten Carbon.^[5]
• Molten Carbon is also the base of the pack's Oritech refinery recipe for Oil.^[5]
• Adamant Ingot is cast with Productive Metalworks from molten adamant and an Ingot Cast.^[5]
• The Atomic Forge makes Silicon Wafer from Printed Silicon, and Advanced Computing Engine uses Quantum Processor. The pack changed both recipes.^[5]
• Both centrifuge compat recipes turn Ender Dust into Enderic Compound.^[5]

Fuel, power and the reactor

• Turbofuel (Turbofuel) comes from Biofuel and Fluxite in the centrifuge.^[5]
• Immersive Engineering's refinery turns Heavy Oil into High-Cetane Biodiesel.^[5]
• The pack changed the centrifuge recipes for Basic Battery and Advanced Battery so they use Mekanism's sulfuric acid.^[5]
• Block of Energite is made with a Powah energizing recipe. It combines a nickel block from the pack's materials with Block of Fluxite.^[5]
• Steam from Mekanism and Oritech's Steam are both used in the pack's Steam Pressurizer machine recipe.^[5]

For the reactor, the pack added its own crafting recipe for the Reactor Fuel Port that includes an Immersive Engineering part. The pack also changed three assembler recipes for Plutonium Pellet, and each one uses plutonium dust from the pack's materials. The reactor quest asks for a fuel port and a uranium or plutonium pellet, so you'll meet these recipes there.^[4][5]

Reactor Fuel PortAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Empty slot	Transparent Item Pipe	Empty slot
any electrum ingot	any electrum ingot	any electrum ingot
Steel Mechanical Component	Reactor Wall	Steel Mechanical Component

Recipe id: ftb:oritech/crafting/reactor_fuel_port

2× Plutonium PelletChanged by the pack

Assembler (oritech)

• 2× Plutonium Dust
• Empty
• any nickel ingot
• any plastic plate

Recipe id: oritech:assembler/plutoniumpelletbasic

One of three pack-changed pellet recipes.

Singularities and black holes

• Avaritia's compressor has pack-added recipes that compress Duratium Ingot and Energite Ingot into singularities.^[5]
• The particle collision recipe for the Black Hole uses a Draconic Evolution chaos fragment and a Mekanism antimatter pellet. There's a quest for the Black Hole in the pack's tier 5 World Engine chapter.^[5][10]
• The Black Hole is also an ingredient in the pack's recipe for the XyCraft Void Container.^[5]
• Enderic Compound is part of the pack's recipe for ProjectE's Black Hole Band.^[5]

World Engine and quests

Many of the pack's World Engine machine recipes take Oritech items together with parts from other mods. Examples are Ultimate Machine Core, Flux Gate, Processing Unit and Magnetic Coil. The World Engine quest chapters do the same. In tier 5, one quest wants Carbon Plating Block and Reactor Heat Vent together with items from Actually Additions and Cognition. Another pairs Arcane Catalyst with an Occultism item. Two more pair Reactor Neutron Reflector with an Avaritia infinity block.^[5][10]

The main Oritech quest chapter also lists items from the oritechthings namespace as tasks next to several Oritech addon quests and the accelerator controller quest.^[3]

Oritech shows up in quite a few chapters of the quest book. The main one is the oritech chapter. There are also Oritech quests in the power chapter, the gearing up chapter, the processing automation chapter, the bounty board chapter and the world engine chapters for tiers 3, 4 and 5. The quests have no titles in the pack files, so I'll point to them by quest ID.^{[3][4][7][9][10][11][12][13]}

The oritech chapter

The chapter starts with "Machine Basics" quest. It asks for any one of the seven machine cores, from the Primitive Machine Core up to the Ultimate Machine Core, plus a Motor. It unlocks after a quest from outside this chapter.^[3]

Once that's done, five quests open up in parallel, so you can take them in any order:^[3]

• "The Foundry" quest: the Foundry.^[3]
• "The Powered Furnace" quest: the Powered Furnace.^[3]
• "It's Crushing Time" quest: the Pulverizer.^[3]
• "The Assembler" quest: the Assembler.^[3]
• "Spin To Win" quest: the Centrifuge and the Fluid Addon.^[3]

Addon branch

The Foundry leads to "Machine Customization!" quest, which wants the Machine Addon Extender. That opens a whole fan of addon quests: the Control Unit Addon (a quest in "Oritech"), Yield Addon (a quest in "Oritech"), Quarry Addon (a quest in "Oritech") and Hunter Addon ("Machine Hunter Addon" quest).^[3]

Four more addon quests ask for the base addon plus one higher-tier addon block, tier 2 through 9, from the oritechthings namespace. They cover the Acceptor Addon (a quest in "Oritech"), Capacitor Addon ("Machine Capacitor Addon" quest), Speed Addon (a quest in "Oritech") and Efficiency Addon (a quest in "Oritech").^[3]

Laser, forge and accelerator branch

The Assembler leads to "The Power Of The End" quest, which asks for the Enderic Lens, the Enderic Laser and the Target Designator. Next comes "Fluxite" quest with Fluxite and a Flux Gate. That splits into the Atomic Forge (a quest in "Oritech") and the Fragment Forge (a quest in "Oritech").^[3]

After the Atomic Forge you can get Prometheum (a quest in "Oritech") and the Particle Accelerator ("Particle Accelerator" quest), which also wants a magnetic field item from the oritechthings namespace. The controller then unlocks three quests for the Particle Accelerator Guide Ring ("Accelerator Designs" quest), the Particle Accelerator Sensor (a quest in "Oritech") and the Particle Accelerator Linear Motor ("Accelerator Setup" quest).^[3]

The power chapter

Here the generators, storage and the reactor each have their own starting quests. Those are the Basic Generator ("Oritech Starter Generator" quest), the Fuel Generator (a quest in "Power"), the Portable Energy Storage (a quest in "Power") and the Large Energy Storage (a quest in "Power"). The Nuclear Reactor Controller (a quest in "Power") starts the reactor line.^[4]

• After the Basic Generator: the Lava Generator (a quest in "Power"), the Bio Generator (a quest in "Power"), and the Steam Boiler Addon with the Steam Engine (a quest in "Power").^[4]
• After the Large Energy Storage: the Schrödinger's Safe (a quest in "Power").^[4]
• After the Reactor Controller: "Reactor Rods" quest (a reactor rod, Reactor Fuel Port, Reactor Neutron Reflector and a uranium or plutonium pellet), "Heat Vents & Heat Pipes" quest (Reactor Heat Vent and Reactor Heat Pipe), "Reactor Heat Absorbers" quest (Reactor Heat Absorber and Reactor Coolant Absorber Port), "Designing The Reactor" quest (Reactor Wall) and "Energy & Redstone Ports" quest (Reactor Energy Port and Reactor Redstone Port).^[4]

Gear and logistics

The gearing up chapter has four Oritech quests with no prerequisites listed. "Cybernetic Augments" quest wants the Cybernetic Augmentation Center plus one of the three research stations. "Exo Suit" quest asks for the full exo armor set: Exo Helmet, Exo Chestplate, Exo Leggings and Exo Boots. "Prometheum Tools" quest wants the Prometheum Pickaxe and Prometheum Battleaxe, and a quest in "Gearing Up" asks for the Enderic Railgun.^[9]

In the processing automation chapter, "Oritech Pipes" quest asks for the Pipe Wrench and one of the item, fluid or energy pipes.^[7]

World engine tiers and bounty board

The world engine chapters reuse Oritech items in their later quests. In tier 3, "A More Advanced Crafting Table" quest asks for the Assembler again, then "The Power of Flux" quest asks for the Enderic Laser, Target Designator and Flux Gate. Tier 4's "Making Prometheum" quest wants the Atomic Forge and Prometheum.^[11][12]

Tier 5 is the heavy one. "Particle Acceleration" quest asks for the Particle Accelerator, plutonium dust and a Small Plutonium Pellet. "Neutron Activator" quest mixes Oritech's Carbon Plating Block, Reactor Neutron Reflector and Reactor Heat Vent with items from other mods. "Mek Haters Unite" quest wants the Arcane Catalyst and leads to "Soul Production" quest, the Soul Flowers. "Black Holes" quest asks for the Black Hole, and a quest in "Tier 5: Hyperion" and "Auto-Build The Infinity Upgrade" quest each pair an Infinity Block with a Reactor Neutron Reflector.^[10]

The bounty board chapter has one more Black Hole quest, "Black Hole Trade" quest, which comes after "Black Holes" quest and one other quest.^[13]

Oritech splits its settings across three files: a common file for machines and world behavior, a client file for your own HUD and zipline feel, and a startup file for equipment and addon stats. Most values in this pack are the mod defaults. The changes cluster around generators, steam, the reactor and the particle accelerator, so that's where to look first.^[8][14][15]

Generators

The pack changed the output of several generators. The lava generator is untouched at 64 energy per tick and 512 max extraction, which makes it a handy yardstick for the others.^[8]

• Basic generator: machineSettings.generators.basicGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 64 (mod default 32) and machineSettings.generators.basicGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 512 (mod default 256).^[8]
• Bio generator: machineSettings.generators.bioGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 512 (mod default 64) and machineSettings.generators.bioGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 4,096 (mod default 512).^[8]
• Fuel generator: machineSettings.generators.fuelGeneratorData.energyPerTick is 8,192 (mod default 256) and machineSettings.generators.fuelGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction is 32,768 (mod default 2,048).^[8]
• Solar generator: both machineSettings.generators.solarGeneratorData.energyPerTick and machineSettings.generators.solarGeneratorData.maxEnergyExtraction are set to 0 here (mod defaults 32 and 256). That's a big departure from the mod, so don't plan your power around solar without testing it first.^[8]

Steam

machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.rfToSteamRatio is 4 in this pack (mod default 2), and machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.steamBoilerCapacityBuckets is 128 buckets (mod default 8). Steam conversion in the engine itself stays at the default: machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.steamToRfRatio is 1. Both stop-when-full options, machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.stopOnEnergyFull and machineSettings.generators.steamEngineData.stopOnWaterFull, are false.^[8]

Reactor

• reactor.rfPerPulse is 9,600 RF per pulse (mod default 64).^[8]
• reactor.reactorMaxEnergyOutput is 50,000,000 RF/t per energy port (mod default 25,000), and reactor.reactorMaxEnergyStored is 500,000,000 RF (mod default 50,000,000).^[8]
• reactor.maxHeat is 4,000 (mod default 2,000), giving you more headroom before meltdown.^[8]
• reactor.maxUnstableTicks is 400 (mod default 600), so an overheated reactor explodes sooner once it goes unstable.^[8]

Particle accelerator

Portals are far harder to trigger here. particleAccelerator.netherPortalRequiredSpeed and particleAccelerator.endPortalRequiredSpeed are both 2,000,000,000 minimum collision energy, up from mod defaults of 5,000 and 10,000. The black hole threshold, particleAccelerator.blackHoleRequiredSpeed, stays at the default 15,000.^[8]

Quality-of-life options

• showMachinePreview and enableHelpButton are both true, so you get the multiblock placement preview and the help button in machine screens.^[14]
• Ziplines use the default feel: maxZiplineSpeed is 8 blocks per second and ziplineAcceleration is 0.1. Auto jump at the end (ziplineAutoJump) and the third-person camera (ziplineCameraSwitch) are on.^[14]
• worldGeneration.easyFindFeatures is true, so oil wells show a small fountain and bedrock ore nodes show a boulder on the surface.^[8]
• equipment.chainsawTreeCutting is true, so the chainsaw can cut whole trees.^[8]
• Hitboxes: tightCableHitboxes and tightMachineAddonHitboxes are true, while tightMachineFrameHitboxes is false.^[15]

FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 ships Oritech 1.2.12. Below are notable changes from the mod's own changelogs, oldest first. The changelogs available here run up to 1.2.10, so anything newer is not covered.^[2][16]

Early releases, 0.19.2 to 0.19.7

• 0.19.2 fixed the arcane catalyst collecting souls from non-living entities.^[17]
• 0.19.4 added a config option for the steam boiler tank size.^[18]
• 0.19.5 gave sheol fire fluid particles and entity damage, and fixed a crash when placing ducted pipe variants.^[19]
• 0.19.7 fixed reactor screens showing a hugely inflated produced energy amount, and added a slight glow to the uranium block.^[20]

1.0.0-rc3 to 1.0.1

• 1.0.0-rc3 made ziplining sounds and animations show for other players on multiplayer servers. It also changed the default beam size on particle accelerators and the bedrock extractor sounds.^[21]
• 1.0.0 improved compatibility with most chunk protection mods for the enderic laser, railgun and nuke, and fixed addons attaching to the wrong machine when placed too close together.^[22]
• 1.0.1 moved the augment hotkey to its own separate hotkey, improved the crop filter addon's compatibility with modded crops, and fixed reactor ports (fuel and coolant) not dropping their contents when broken.^[23]

1.1.0

This was the biggest content update in the list. It added the Hangar Door block and let the industrial door be colored. It also added block api lookup caches, which improve the performance of pipes and generators.^[24]

There were balance tweaks too: ore amounts in boulders were slightly reduced, and the pulverizer recipe got cheaper by using iron instead of steel. Fixes included the mob spawner producing armed or equipped mobs, the pump not always draining complex fluid bodies, and jetpacks not loading with turbofuel.^[24]

1.2.5 to 1.2.10

• 1.2.5 fixed a promethium pickaxe crash with recursive permission checks on NeoForge.^[25]
• 1.2.6 improved large particle accelerator performance and fixed augments not refreshing right after respawns.^[26]
• 1.2.7 fixed enderic laser block destruction in adventure mode and an edge case crash with the enchantment catalyst.^[27]
• 1.2.8 fixed the FluidHandler drain implementation on NeoForge, which should sort out some fluid interaction issues, and improved how fluid pipes handle empty targets.^[28]
• 1.2.9 added a warning slider to the reactor UI and improved the auto-feeder augment, which now ignores bad food and picks bad food in a better order. It also fixed machine cores not handling explosions correctly.^[29]
• 1.2.10 fixed world generation breaking with the latest architectury version.^[16]

Unverified The sources here show no pack changelog entries for Oritech, so what the pack itself changed about this mod across its releases is unverified.