Step Crafter guide for FTB StoneBlock 4 1.14.0 to 1.21.0
Step Crafter guide for FTB StoneBlock 4
Last verified for FTB StoneBlock 4 v1.21.0 on Oct 14, 2026 · text last changed Oct 14, 2026
A newer release (1.23.0) is out Guide for the current version
Also applies to:All the Mods 10 8.1 to 8.3All the Mods 11 0.1.0 to 0.12.0-betaFTB Evolution 2 1.2.0 to 1.4.0FTB Skies 2 1.16.0 to 1.24.0FTB Skies 2: Aero 1.0.3 to 1.10.0
- Sections
- 7
- Recipes shown
- 8
- Items named
- 15
1 section is written for this pack; 6 are shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0's own files.
What is Step Crafter?
2 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide
Step Crafter is an add-on for Refined Storage. It adds a Step Crafter and a Step Requester, which give you recursive crafting and a way to keep items in stock in your network.[1]
What it does
With the Step Crafter, you put in a pattern and 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 crafts automatically until the maximum is restored.[1]
The Step Requester works from a resource instead of a pattern. You select the resource you want to maintain, then click to set its minimum, maximum and batch size. When the available amount falls below the minimum, it asks your autocrafters to produce that resource in batches until the maximum is reached.[1]
In this pack
The pack includes Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.8, the NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1.[2]
The mod's project page lists a Step Crafter Manager, a Step Requester Manager, starting Step Crafter autocrafting tasks from the Grid, and a Redstone Pulse to start crafts as planned features. These are only plans, so don't count on them in this version.[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 8.1 guide
Step Crafter plugs into Refined Storage and adds a Step Crafter and a Step Requester that keep your network stocked. Both watch how much of an item your network holds and start crafting when it runs low. The Step Crafter is built around recursive crafting, so it can follow a pattern through its intermediate steps.[1][4]
Step Crafter
You put a pattern into the Step Crafter, then Shift + Click it to set a minimum and a maximum. When the amount of that pattern's output stored in your network drops below the minimum, the Step Crafter crafts until the maximum is restored.[1][4]
- An import toggle: when enabled, the Step Crafter tries to import the crafted components into the container it points at.[4]
- A visibility toggle: when enabled, you can manage this Step Crafter in the Step Crafter Manager.[4]
Step Requester
The Step Requester works from resources instead of patterns. You select the resource you want to maintain, then click it to set a minimum, a maximum and a batch size. When the available amount falls below the minimum, the requester asks your autocrafters to produce it in batches of that size until the maximum is reached.[1][4]
Because it asks autocrafters to do the work, the resource needs to be something your network can already autocraft. Like the Step Crafter, it has a toggle for whether the Step Requester Manager can manage it.[4]
Managers and the monitor
- The Step Crafter Manager lets you manage all your step crafters from a single interface. It has a search mode that searches by step crafter name.[4]
- The Step Requester Manager does the same for your step requesters, with a search mode that searches by step requester name.[4]
- The Step Crafting Monitor shows the status of step crafting tasks in your storage network and lets you cancel them.[4]
A Step Crafter or Step Requester only shows up in its manager if you leave its visibility toggle enabled.[4]
Colored variants
Both managers and the monitor come in dyed variants. Each is a shapeless recipe: one matching dye plus any item from the matching manager or monitor tag. For example, you can recolor a Step Crafter Manager like this:[3]
Crafting Shapeless
- any step crafter manager
- any black dye
Recipe id: stepcrafter:coloring/black_step_crafter_manager
Black dye plus any Step Crafter Manager gives the black variant.
The light blue dye recipes are different. In this pack's recipe dump they output the default Step Crafter Manager, Step Crafting Monitor and Step Requester Manager, so light blue is the base look rather than a separate item.[3]
Grid and power
The mod adds a Grid tooltip that reads "ALT + click to stepcraft", which is how step crafts are started from the Grid.[4]
The mod has separate energy usage settings for the Step Crafter, Step Requester, both managers, the Step Crafting Monitor and the Slot Upgrade. The Step Crafter also has a speed multiplier per slot upgrade, calculated as the number of speed upgrades times the multiplier, plus 1.[4]
There are also defaults for the minimum, maximum and batch size applied to newly configured resources.[4]
Unverified The pack's actual values for energy usage, the speed multiplier and the default minimum, maximum and batch size are set in this mod's config, and the sources here do not show them because no config files for this mod were available.
How do you progress through Step Crafter?
3 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide
Step Crafter doesn't have tiers in the usual sense. In this pack it is a short chain of crafts, where the managers and the monitor are built from a base block. Every base recipe also uses Refined Storage components, so get your Refined Storage setup going before you start here.[3]
The crafting chain
The crafter side starts with the Step Crafter. It is the base block, and the crafter-side blocks need it as an ingredient.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter
Once you have a Step Crafter, you can build the Step Crafter Manager and the Step Crafting Monitor from it.[3]
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 requester side is its own branch. You craft the Step Requester first, and then use it to make the Step Requester Manager.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester
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 and doesn't use the Step Crafter or the Step Requester as an ingredient.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:slot_upgrade
Dyeing your managers and monitors
The managers and the monitor can be dyed. Each coloring recipe is shapeless: you combine one dye with a block from the matching group, so a manager goes with the manager group, the monitor with the monitor group, and so on. A Step Crafter Manager, for example, can become a Red Step Crafter Manager.[3]
Crafting Shapeless
- any step crafter manager
- any red dye
Recipe id: stepcrafter:coloring/red_step_crafter_manager
The same shapeless pattern is used for the other dye colors.
How does Step Crafter work with other mods?
2 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide
Step Crafter is built entirely around Refined Storage. The mod adds a Step Crafter and a Step Requester that give Refined Storage recursive crafting and the ability to keep items in stock. Every recipe the mod adds in this pack uses Refined Storage parts, so you'll need a working Refined Storage setup before you can build any of it.[1][3]
How it plugs into Refined Storage
- The Step Crafter takes a pattern. Shift + Click the pattern to set a minimum and a maximum. When the network's stored amount of the pattern's output drops below the minimum, it crafts until the maximum is restored.[1]
- The Step Requester lets you pick a resource and configure its minimum, maximum and batch size. When the available amount falls below the minimum, it asks autocrafters to produce it in batches until the maximum is reached.[1]
Recipes that use Refined Storage items
The Step Crafter is crafted from several Refined Storage components, including the Autocrafter. That makes sense, since it extends Refined Storage's autocrafting.[1][3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafter
The Step Requester follows the same idea, but it uses a Detector in its recipe instead of an Autocrafter.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_requester
The pack also has recipes for the Step Crafter Manager and the Step Requester Manager. Each one is built from the matching base block, a Machine Casing and any glass block.[3]
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
The Step Crafting Monitor is made from a Step Crafter, a Machine Casing, any glass block and a Refined Storage Pattern.[3]
Crafting Shaped
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks | ||
| any glass blocks |
Recipe id: stepcrafter:step_crafting_monitor
The Slot Upgrade combines a Refined Storage Upgrade with Chest and Quartz Enriched Iron.[3]
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: stepcrafter:slot_upgrade
Unverified No quests in this pack involve Step Crafter, and no other mod's items appear in its recipes besides Refined Storage and the vanilla chest and glass. Any further integrations are unconfirmed.
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.[5]
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.[5]
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:[5]
- stepCrafter.energyUsage: 6[5]
- stepRequester.energyUsage: 6[5]
- stepCrafterManager.energyUsage: 16[5]
- stepRequesterManager.energyUsage: 16[5]
- stepCraftingMonitor.energyUsage: 16[5]
- slotUpgrade.energyUsage: 4[5]
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.[5]
- stepCrafterManager.searchMode and stepRequesterManager.searchMode are both ALL. The other allowed values are PATTERN_INPUTS, PATTERN_OUTPUTS and STEP_NAMES.[5]
- stepCrafterManager.viewType and stepRequesterManager.viewType are both VISIBLE. The other allowed values are NOT_FULL and ALL.[5]
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.
What changed in Step Crafter between versions?
FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 ships Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.9, so every change listed below is already in your pack. The mod was first included in pack version 1.14.0 or earlier.[6]
I don't have pack changelog entries for this mod, so these notes come from the mod's own changelogs, newest first.[7][8][9][10][11][12]
- 0.1.9: Fixed Alt + Click not working inside Grid.[7]
- 0.1.8: The default resource values for the Step Crafter and Step Requester can now be changed in the client-side configuration screen.[8]
- 0.1.7: Improved Step Requester performance by adding a timeout on failed requested crafts.[9]
- 0.1.6: Fixed a crash that sometimes happened when using inventory sorter mods.[10]
- 0.1.5: Fixed a bug where saving a fluid filter in the Step Crafter or Step Requester incorrectly changed its min amount, max amount and batch size.[11]
- 0.1.4: Added a new side button to the Step Crafter that controls whether crafted items are inserted into the pointed container. Also fixed various crashes.[12]
Sources
- Step Crafter project page (modrinth) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 8.1 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
- FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 config: config/stepcrafter-common.toml · pack file
- FTB StoneBlock 4 1.21.0 mod list · pack file
- Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.9 changelog · changelog
- Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.8 changelog · changelog
- Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.7 changelog · changelog
- Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.6 changelog · changelog
- Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.5 changelog · changelog
- Step Crafter 1.21.1-0.1.4 changelog · changelog
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 14, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 1.22.0 to 1.23.0