XyCraft World guide for FTB StoneBlock 4 1.5.0 to 1.21.0

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.13.3 guide

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

I can't confirm from the available sources what the mod adds in this pack, so I'm not describing its features here. Nothing I have shows where the quest book places it, so I'm leaving out its chapter, group and neighbouring quests rather than guessing. I also have no pack-specific recipes or config values for it.^[1]

A lot of XyCraft World's recipes in this pack run on aluminum, so that is the material to get to know first. The steps below follow the recipes the pack actually has, in a sensible order for a fresh world.^[2]

Start with torches

The mod adds an Aluminum Torch and a Copper Torch. Each one has a second recipe that works from the raw material, so you can make them before you have smelted anything.^[2]

4× Aluminum TorchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum raw material

any wooden rod

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_torch_raw

The Aluminum Torch recipe that uses the raw material.

4× Copper TorchMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any copper raw material

any wooden rod

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/copper_torch_raw

The Copper Torch recipe that uses the raw material.

Make a Reinforced Glass Viewer

The Reinforced Glass Viewer is the base for the tougher glass in this mod. The Immortal Glass Viewer is crafted from it, so it is worth having one on hand.^[2][3]

2× Reinforced Glass ViewerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any cheap glass blocks
any cheap glass blocks	any iron ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/glass_viewer_reinforced

The Reinforced Glass Viewer recipe.

Build with aluminum

Once you have aluminum ingots, you can make Aluminum Bricks. Those can then be crafted into Aluminum Tiles, a second building block.^[2]

4× Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks

Aluminum Bricks from aluminum ingots.

4× Aluminum TilesMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_tiles

Aluminum Tiles from Aluminum Bricks.

Compact your materials

The mod has packing recipes to keep your inventory tidy. Nuggets pack into an Aluminum Ingot, ingots pack into Aluminum Storage, and raw aluminum packs into a Block of Raw Aluminum. Xychorium gems also have matching storage blocks in blue, dark, green, light and red.^[2]

Aluminum StorageMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot	any aluminum ingot	any aluminum ingot
any aluminum ingot	Aluminum Ingot	any aluminum ingot
any aluminum ingot	any aluminum ingot	any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/aluminum_storage_forced

Packing ingots into Aluminum Storage.

Block of Raw AluminumMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material
any aluminum raw material	Raw Aluminum	any aluminum raw material
any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/raw_aluminum_block_forced

Packing raw aluminum into a block.

Colored upgrades for later

When you find Xychorium gems, you can make colored cloud variants of the bricks, such as Blue Aluminum Bricks. The colors are blue, dark, green, light and red. The Blue Immortal Aluminum family comes in those same colors.^[2]

2× Blue Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Aluminum Bricks	Empty slot
Empty slot	Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue_a

Turning plain Aluminum Bricks into the blue cloud variant.

Here's the honest picture for this pack: the sources I have don't explain XyCraft World's machines, multiblocks, power use or automation. What they do show is a few pieces of its aluminum material chain and its crafting-grid compacting recipes, so that's what this section covers.^[2][3]

Aluminum slurries

The mod's text entries list Clean Aluminum Slurry and Dirty Aluminum Slurry as chemicals, and there is also a block called the Reinforced Glass Viewer. The slurry names suggest aluminum goes through a processing stage, but the sources here don't show how the slurries are made, which machine handles them, or how they move around.^[3]

Compacting by hand

Several of the mod's storage items are made in a normal crafting grid with what the mod calls packing recipes. Nuggets pack into an Aluminum Ingot, and ingots pack into Aluminum Storage.^[2]

Aluminum IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum nugget	any aluminum nugget	any aluminum nugget
any aluminum nugget	Aluminum Nugget	any aluminum nugget
any aluminum nugget	any aluminum nugget	any aluminum nugget

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/aluminum_ingot_forced

Aluminum StorageMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot	any aluminum ingot	any aluminum ingot
any aluminum ingot	Aluminum Ingot	any aluminum ingot
any aluminum ingot	any aluminum ingot	any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/aluminum_storage_forced

Raw ore works the same way: Raw Aluminum packs into a Block of Raw Aluminum.^[2]

Block of Raw AluminumMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material
any aluminum raw material	Raw Aluminum	any aluminum raw material
any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material	any aluminum raw material

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/raw_aluminum_block_forced

The Xychorium gems come in blue, dark, green, light and red, and each has a matching storage block packed from a gem of that color. The blue one is Blue Xychorium Gem Storage.^[2]

Blue Xychorium Gem StorageMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot
Empty slot	Blue Xychorium Gem	Empty slot
Empty slot	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: xycraft:packing/xychorium_storage_blue_forced

The other colors have their own packing recipes with the same pattern, using their own gem and color.

Bricks, tiles and colors

Aluminum Bricks and Aluminum Tiles are both crafting-table recipes, and the tiles are made from the bricks.^[2]

4× Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks

4× Aluminum TilesMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_tiles

The colored variants come in blue, dark, green, light and red. A colored brick can be crafted either from scratch or by upgrading plain Aluminum Bricks, and both routes also use a Xychorium gem and a color. Colored tiles are then crafted from the matching colored bricks. Blue is shown here as the example.^[2]

2× Blue Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot	Empty slot
Empty slot	any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue

2× Blue Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Aluminum Bricks	Empty slot
Empty slot	Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue_a

Alternative route that starts from plain Aluminum Bricks.

4× Blue Aluminum TilesMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Blue Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_tiles_cloud_blue

This pack's recipes are the best map for this mod, so here is how the crafting chains stack up. Everything builds on aluminum, the colored Xychorium gems and the glass viewer upgrades.^[2]

The aluminum line

Aluminum is the backbone of the mod. You can pack Raw Aluminum into Block of Raw Aluminum, and nuggets and ingots pack up into Aluminum Ingot and Aluminum Storage. Ingots then turn into Aluminum Bricks, and those bricks become Aluminum Tiles.^[2]

4× Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks

4× Aluminum TilesMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_tiles

Torches follow the same metal idea. Copper Torch and Aluminum Torch can each be crafted from either the ingot or the raw version of their metal.^[2]

Colored Xychorium

Xychorium gems come in these colors: Blue Xychorium Gem, Dark Xychorium Gem, Green Xychorium Gem, Light Xychorium Gem and Red Xychorium Gem. Each color packs into its own storage block, for example Blue Xychorium Gem Storage.^[2]

Gems also give you colored building blocks. A gem of one color crafts into that color's inverted bricks, such as Blue Inverted Bricks, and the bricks craft into inverted tiles, such as Blue Inverted Tiles.^[2]

4× Blue Inverted BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × Blue Xychorium Gem

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/inverted_bricks_cloud_blue

Aluminum and Xychorium meet in the colored aluminum bricks, like Blue Aluminum Bricks. Each color has a recipe that starts from an aluminum ingot and another that starts from plain Aluminum Bricks. The colored bricks then craft into colored tiles, like Blue Aluminum Tiles.^[2]

2× Blue Aluminum BricksMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Aluminum Bricks	Empty slot
Empty slot	Aluminum Bricks

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/aluminum_bricks_cloud_blue_a

Immortal blocks

The Immortal blocks come in stone and aluminum versions, each in the same colors as the gems, for example Blue Immortal Stone and Blue Immortal Aluminum. Their recipes use aluminum ingots, so the aluminum line comes first.^[2]

Blue Immortal StoneMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot
any obsidian	Empty slot	any obsidian
any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/immortal_stone_blue

Blue Immortal AluminumMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot
any obsidian	Empty slot	any obsidian
any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/immortal_aluminum_blue

The glass viewer ladder

Glass viewers have their own upgrade path. Reinforced Glass Viewer is the first step, and Immortal Glass Viewer is crafted from it, so the Reinforced version is a required stepping stone.^[2]

2× Reinforced Glass ViewerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any cheap glass blocks
any cheap glass blocks	any iron ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/glass_viewer_reinforced

Immortal Glass ViewerMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot
any obsidian	Reinforced Glass Viewer	any obsidian
any aluminum ingot	any obsidian	any aluminum ingot

Recipe id: xycraft:shaped/glass_viewer_immortal

The side branches are optional. Glowing Glass Viewer, RGB Viewer and the phantom variants, such as Phantom Glass Viewer and Dark Phantom Glass Viewer, all have their own recipes.^[2]

In this pack, XyCraft World connects to other mods through recipes the pack added itself. Every link below comes from the pack's own recipes, so don't expect the same links in a different modpack.^[2]

Crushing Xychorium ore

The pack adds Create crushing recipes for every Xychorium ore colour: blue, dark, green, light and red. Each ore crushes into its matching gem, such as Blue Xychorium Gem, and also gives you a Nugget of Experience. So a crusher setup gets you gems and a little XP together.^[2]

2× Blue Xychorium Gem, Blue Xychorium Gem, Nugget of ExperienceAdded by the pack

Crushing (create)

• any xychorium blue ore

Recipe id: ftb:create/crusher/ores/xychorium_blue

The other colours follow the same pattern, each with its own ore and gem.

Hammering Kivi

The pack adds a hammer recipe that turns Kivi into Crushed Kivi.^[2]

Crushed KiviAdded by the pack

Hammer (ftbstuff)

• Kivi

Recipe id: ftb:stuff/hammer/kivi_1

Crafts that use XyCraft World items

The pack-added recipe for the CAD Assembler needs Dark Immortal Stone alongside items from other mods.^[2]

CAD AssemblerAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

any obsidian plate	Energy Processor	any obsidian plate
any fortron infused ingot	Dark Immortal Stone	any fortron infused ingot
any obsidian plate	any obsidian plate	any obsidian plate

Recipe id: ftb:crafting/psi/cad_assembler

The pack also has its own recipe for the Void Container. It needs Dark Xychorium Gem together with Awakened Draconium Nugget, Black Hole and Dark Matter Block.^[2]

Void ContainerAdded by the pack

Shaped (kubejs)

Shaped (kubejs)

Awakened Draconium Nugget	Dark Xychorium Gem	Awakened Draconium Nugget
Awakened Draconium Nugget	Black Hole	Awakened Draconium Nugget
Dark Matter Block	Dark Matter Block	Dark Matter Block

Recipe id: ftb:void_container

World Engine recipes

The pack has custom machine recipes in its World Engine category that take XyCraft World items. One takes Reinforced Glass Viewer together with Chroniton Glass, Chroniton Star, Depleted Chroniton Star and Aluminum Ingot. Another takes Dark Xychorium Gem together with Anti-Matter Relay MK3, Shadow Steel, Replica Ingot and Charged Redstone Crystal.^[2]