Getting Started

Welcome to the Archive of Guidance. Speak with the Echo to begin your journey... Note: If you're playing with friends, complete this quest first and reach your home base before inviting others to your team.

The Echo of Guidance has directed you to create your first home. Head out of the Archive and enter through the giant portal to make your place in this world!

This pack comes with random events that are disabled by default. To enable them, complete this quest! Note: Some events might contain jump scares. You can toggle each event using the command /events toggle <event>. For example, if you want to disable the jump scare event, you can use the command /events toggle ftb:creeper.

No dirt... no trees... no tools... But you've still got your fists. Break some Stone to get Pebbles that you can work with. Note: This must be done with an empty hand!

Asks for: Stone Pebble, Crafting Table

Cobblestone will only get you so far. Make a Stone Hammer so that you can break Cobblestone down into a finer material. There has to be some minerals in it somewhere!

Asks for: Stone Hammer, Dirt, Gravel

While the pack contains FTB Ultimine, it does not work on Stone! Ultimine can be toggled with the keybind . It also requires a tool in your hand to work.

Smashing Gravel down further turns it into Dirt! Dirt is always filled with some kind of seed or sapling. Try breaking Dirt with a Stone Crook.

Asks for: Stone Crook

The Dirt seems to have plenty of Saplings that you can use! You can get these saplings by mining Dirt with the Crook. While you can wait for a tree to grow, you can force it to grow by using Squat Grow. This can be toggled with the keybind .

Asks for: Acacia Sapling, Birch Sapling, Cherry Sapling, Dark Oak Sapling, Jungle Sapling, Oak Sapling

Wood is important, especially in a world made of Stone. You need to make use of everything you can get! With your first pieces of Wood, make some Wooden Shears to properly harvest those leaves as well!

Asks for: Wooden Shears

If Leaves are dried out, they can be used to make stronger fibers. Make a Campfire and place the Leaves in it to dry them out. Once dry, you should be able to turn them into straw by breaking them with Crook.

Asks for: Straw, Campfire

If you didn't know, you can burn logs into Charcoal in a furnace! This can be a good early source of fuel.

Asks for: Charcoal, Furnace

So far you have made good use of your fists, but now it's time to step it up a notch. Those Leaves have some life in them. You just need to crush them to find it. Place down the Basin, then place some Leaves on top of it. Jump on them until you've squeezed out every last drop from them. This will create Water, but you'll need a way to scoop it out...

Asks for: Wooden Basin

Digging with a pickaxe will take forever since it only mines one block at a time. Upgrade to a Hammer from the JustHammers mod! The basic Stone Hammer can dig in a 3x3x1 area per swing, with the better Hammers digging out even bigger areas.

With the Straw that you've made, you are finally able to make a basic version of the most important tool on your journey: The Crude Brush. With a gentle hand and a stroke of the Brush, you'll be able to find the minerals hidden inside the broken stones. You should return to the Echo of Guidance to show him your progress. Note: You can use /spawn to return to the lobby.

Asks for: Crude Brush

Instead of picking through Dirt with a Crook, the Crude Brush can help you find smaller objects like Seeds to start a farm! Grass or Delightful Dirt can also be used to make a Passive Mob Farm that can be a good source of food and resources, especially Leather. The Echo of Guidance also sells a Gateway containing passive mobs.

Asks for: Grass Seed

Using a Hammer, you can also break down Dirt into Sand, and then into Dust. These will provide different resources needed for progression. The Hammer can also smash down Compressed Blocks to speed things up!

Asks for: Dust, Sand

Bonsai Pots make tree farming a breeze! Place in a piece of dirt, a sapling, and an axe to create a mini tree farm in a single block. You can get some clay by brushing sand.

Asks for: Bonsai Pot, Clay Ball

Passively spawned chickens can drop eggs randomly, but you can also get the eggs before the chickens. They may randomly drop from the Loot Bee event, or, if you're very lucky, the Chicken Jockey event may also lay an egg. With access to eggs and feathers, you can get started on the Roost Ultimate mod, allowing your chickens to produce other resources than just plain old eggs.

Asks for: Egg, Feather

To show the Echo that you've learned how to Unearth resources from this world, you should make an Iron Hammer from the materials you can brush from Gravel. This will speed up gathering cobblestone greatly. Note: Completing this quest will upgrade your Unearther Level, which increases the types of items that you receive when Brushing.

Asks for: Iron Hammer

This compass will lead you to the nearest Healing Spring.

With your new Unearthing skill, you should easily be able to find better materials in the different blocks that you can brush. Try brushing Dust to see what you can Unearth.

Asks for: Gold Ingot, Redstone

Increasing your Unearther Level will also increase the types of drops you get from brushing blocks.

Most quests in the main chapters that are shaped like a Gear are Echo related quests! This means that you will most likely need to return to an Echo to complete their task, or see if they have something new for you.

The Echo mentioned a Healing Spring somewhere north of your base that can provide you with resources to make the Chronon Cell. It's time to dig, dig, dig

Asks for: Amethyst Shard

With the materials you've gathered, you should be able to craft the Chronon Generator like the Echo wanted! It's time to submit the Chronon Generator and return to the Echo of Guidance. Doing this will award all players on your team a Cell and a Generator. Note: You must submit the Chronon Generator to complete this quest and update the Echo of Guidance.

Asks for: Chronon Generator

The Chronon Cell allows you to store the power of time, called Chronon. The Chronon Generator will slowly generate Chronon for the Cell, which enables teleportation to your base using /home. You can also use the Cell to teleport to the World Engine by Sneak + Right-clicking with it in your hand.

Within the dark, empty spaces, it sounds like creatures have begun to crawl up from the depths of the stone. With some luck, you might be able to find a deceased Villager stirring up. Create an empty dark room to allow for a Zombie Villager to spawn, and use the Healing Springs to bring them back to life. Note: Make sure not to build the room too close to the Healing Spring as mobs won't spawn there! Look for the Biome Name under your minimap or using 'F3' to check.

Not everyone likes slaughtering innocent cows animal farms. You may slay the undead instead to acquire Rotten Flesh, which can be cured into Leather in a Campfire. It's probably a good idea to consider making a Backpack with some of this leather!

Asks for: Rotten Flesh

The Action Pad is a marvel of the ages. It can route many of your commonly used commands, such has home, spawn and world engine teleportation through this device. You can open the menu by using the item or with the keybind . Many other teleportation options will appear as you meet the various Echoes and progress through the pack. If you ever lose your device, you can claim a replacement in the questbook emergency items tab.

Once you've cured a Villager, the Echo of Guidance knows of a tool you can craft that can harness their skills for future use. To make this tool, you must use the World Engine. The World Engine can harness the power of ancient crafts to create advanced items beyond your current knowledge. To reach the World Engine, a portal must be activated by Sneak + Right-clicking a Chronon Cell once it contains some Chronon. Your goal will be to craft an Echo Encoder using the latent magical powers stored within amethyst. There are 2 main ways to get Leather early on: Killing a Cow, or by using Rotten Flesh.

Asks for: Echo Encoder, Amethyst Resonance Charm

Using the Echo Encoder, you can Sneak + Right-click to convert the Villager into a Token. This Token encodes the Villager in time, allowing you to place it down when needed. The Echo Encoder only has so many charges, and will need to be recharged by placing it back into the World Engine. The Echo of Guidance should now guide your next steps.

Asks for: Worker Token

The Clavis mod adds special interaction with locked chests. Chests are now locked behind a lockpicking minigame! Line up the needle with the locks and left click to unlock them. The less you miss and the faster you complete the challenge, the better the loot! Note: The chest will still unlock with reduced rewards if you fail. You can also use Lock Picks to completely skip the minigame.

As you unlock more World Engine recipes, you will notice that some of them will require fluids. Make sure the fluid inside the World Engine is placed in the correct tank shown in JEI, otherwise the recipe will not function properly.

The Worker Token that the villager converted into was just an example of what the Echo Encoder can do. If you encode villagers with specific jobs, you can put them to work for you in an Unearther. This is a 3x3x3 block that allows you to automate block brushing. All it requires is a little Villager labor! The Unearther supports automatic item input and output via hoppers and pipes.

Asks for: Unearther

To be able to use the Worker Token in an Unearther, you'll need a villager that has one of these 3 jobs: - Archeologist: Can brush Dirt, Dust, Mud, and Sand. Uses a Decorative Pot for the workstation. - Geologist: Can brush Gravel, Soul Sand, and Crushed Kivi. Uses a Salvaging Table for the workstation. - Dimensionalist: Can brush Netherrack, End Stone, and Otherrock. Uses the Resonanz Engineering Block for the workstation.

Asks for: Salvaging Table, Decorated Pot

According to the Echoes, recently cured Villagers are unskilled. You must train them to increase their Unearthing Levels! Once they are placed into an Unearther, they will slowly gain levels over time. You can place them back into the world using the Token, but will need to pick them back up with the Echo Encoder. Warning: Placing the Villager back into the world as a Token will cause the Villager to lose their job and levels! While they can work without food, feeding them is probably a good idea. The food you feed them will give them special bonuses depending on what you feed them! - More Shanks = Faster work speed. - More Saturation = Longer-lasting food.

With the power of the World Engine and an Echo Encoder, you can manufacture more villagers using food once you have at least 1 Worker Token. Gone are the days of manually making more villagers.

You may be surrounded by stone, but that doesn't help you for automation. The Cobble Generators will generate cobblestone over time, with higher tiers generating more per tick. You can also create an Auto Hammer to break the cobble down into the different blocks needed for the Unearther! Note: Lava can easily be acquired by using the gift you get from meeting the Echo of the Machinist. You can also get it from the Nether ring.

Asks for: Diamond Auto-Hammer, Diamond Cobble Generator, Gold Auto-Hammer, Gold Cobble Generator, Iron Auto-Hammer, Iron Cobble Generator