Useful Items & Tips
24 quests, with the items each asks for and where they come from in FTB StoneBlock 4.
- Wireless Redstone
If you're looking for wireless redstone, Create has a simple Redstone Link that can connect up to any other link for wireless redstone. Using a Create Wrench, you can toggle which link will transmit the redstone signal. RFTools has something similar, but in two separate blocks.
Asks for:Redstone Link,
Redstone Receiver,
Redstone Transmitter
- Cable Facades
Tired of ugly cables dangling around your base? Cable Facades (the mod) provides a one-size-fits-all solution to hiding all of your cables. To set up an empty Facade, place it in a crafting grid with the block you wish to change it to. This will "consume" the block, but this process can be reverted by placing the Facade back in a crafting grid and extracting the block. Once set up, simply place the Facade over your ugly cables and voilà, your cables are gone! The Facade Wrench can be used to toggle facade transparency by Sneak + Right-clicking it.
Asks for:Facade,
Facade Wrench
- Time In A Bag
Every second matters, and that's why you should shove them in the Temporal Pouch. This pouch stores time, as long as it is in your inventory. This time can be used to increase the ticks of pretty much anything by sneak-using the pouch on it. If something is too slow, use some of your stored time to make it faster! Who says you can't buy time?
Asks for:Temporal Pouch
- Framed Blocks
Framed Blocks allow you to create custom blocks and shapes that uses the texture of almost any other block in the pack! To do this, place down a framed block, and then use the block with the desired texture on the framed block to copy the texture over. There are also some cool features for these blocks, like using Glowstone Dust on a framed block to make it glow!
Asks for:Framed Cube,
Framed Hammer,
Framed Wrench
- SNAD
SNAD blocks allow you to create farms of Cactus or Sugarcane easily. These can also be given a redstone signal to increase the growth rate of the crop.
Asks for:Red Snad,
Snad,
Soul Snad
- Entangling Blocks
Entangled allows you to bind two blocks together, allowing you to interact with them as if they were the same block! This allows you to transfer items, energy, fluids, and more instantly. Important: It will be worth using this on the World Engine to give you more sides to interface with!
Asks for:Block,
Item
- Faster Building
Construction Sticks is a mod all about making the building process much faster. While holding a Construction Stick in your hand, you can extend blocks in any direction with just one click! There are also some cool upgrades that you can add to the Sticks, like making it use power instead of durability.
- Coffee Machine
The Coffee Maker is used to make a potion-like drink that provides several buffs when consumed. This machine requires power to work, and mixes water and Coffee Beans into an Empty Cup to make a Coffee Cup. You can add up to 8 items within the GUI to provide special buffs. Note: The small numbers on the GUI represent the order in which the items will be consumed, so make sure you have the correct order of buffs. You can brew the following buffs: Pufferfish: Provides Water Breathing (up to 2). Magma Cream: Provides Fire Resistance (up to 2). Golden Carrot: Provides Night Vision (up to 2). Fermented Spider Eye: Provides Invisibility (up to 2). Ghast Tear: Provides Regeneration (up to 3). Blaze Powder: Provides Strength (up to 4). Sugar: Provides Speed (up to 4). Milk Bottle/Bucket: Adds 1min to a buff, but reduce its level by 1.
Asks for:Coffee Maker
- Building Gadgets
Probably one of the best mods out there for builders, the Building Gadgets mod adds several new gadgets that are a must have to make building better!
Asks for:Building Gadget,
Copy Paste Gadget,
Cut Paste Gadget,
Destruction Gadget,
Exchanging Gadget
- Cardboard Box
The Cardboard Box is a super useful item that can be used to move block entities like chests, spawners, and more! Using a box on a block will cover it, allowing you to break and pick it up as an item. Placing this item down and then sneak-right clicking on it will remove the box.
Asks for:Cardboard Box
- Experience Obelisk
Need a place to store all of your experience so you don't lose it when you die? The Experience Holder from Just Dire Things is easy to use, and can also be used to collect experience around it in a configurable range. The Experience Obelisk from Cognition works the same way! Even if you think you aren't going to die when going to the Arcane Grove, you probably should be safe and store your experience anyway.
Asks for:Experience Obelisk,
Experience Holder
- Time Wands
Using Time Crystals, you can make the Time Wand. This uses Time Fluid to speed up any block it's used on, similar to the Time in a Bottle or Temporal Pouch.
Asks for:Time Wand,
Advanced Time Wand
- Crafting Stations
Crafting Stations can pick up items stored in adjacent inventories and will also hold items in their crafting grids. They function like their Tinker's Construct version, for those who remember that.
Asks for:Crafting Station,
Crafting Station Slab
- Inventory Trashcan!
The Trash Slot mod allows you to open a slot in any inventory to delete unwanted items. The slot in the inventory can be toggled with the keybind . You can also quickly delete items once the slot is open by using the keybind . There is also the Trash Bin icon in the top left of your inventory that you can use as well. This can also be accessed by using the /trashcan command.
- Elevators
Want an easy way to travel to different levels of your base? Make an Elevator! These can also copy the texture of another block by using that block directly on the Elevator.
- Phase Box
A solid block that you can choose whether you want to walk through it or not! Right-click it to toggle its current state While mobs don't know how to walk through this in its non-solid state, they can still be pushed or fall through.
Asks for:Phase Box
- Wand Of Symmetry
The Wand of Symmetry can set up layouts that will automatically place blocks mirroring the blocks you place.
Asks for:Wand Of Symmetry
- Mob Imprisonment Tool
The Mob Imprisonment Tool is a simple reusable device that snatches up mobs so you can place them down anywhere you want. The Creature Catcher works the same way, but requires you to throw the item at the mob... like a certain other game that shall not be named.
Asks for:Mob Imprisonment Tool,
Creature Catcher
- On A STICK!
Want a portable crafting table? Make a Crafting Table on a Stick! You can put this in a Curio Slot that you can even set a keybind for quick access.
Asks for:Crafting Table On A Stick
- Easy Disenchanting
Have some enchants you want, but they are stuck to items you don't want to use? You can easily separate enchants using the Anvil method. First, place down a block of Draconium, then throw down an item with enchants on it. For every enchant you want to remove, you'll need to throw down an empty book as well. To separate them, drop an Anvil onto the pile of items!
Asks for:Draconium Block,
Anvil
- New Machine
Compact Machines allow you to create your own room in a pocket dimension! This can be great for building farms that might cause FPS drops. Note: These are Shop Only items!
Asks for:New Machine
- Simple Magnets
Other mods may add their own types, but Simple Magnets keeps it...simple. Just craft a Magnet, activate it with right click, and while it's on your person any items in range will be swiftly pulled to your person to get picked up! The Advanced Magnet has a larger range and a filter menu opened by sneak + right clicking. Don't want your magnet to pull items in a particular area? Check out the Demagnetization Coils! Any items in their range will ignore Simple Magnets pulling on them.
Asks for:Advanced Demagnetization Coil,
Advancedmagnet,
Basic Demagnetization Coil,
Basicmagnet
- Bigger & Better
Build a 3x3x3 of Furnaces to create the Jumbo Furnace. The Jumbo Furnace allows multiple recipes to be processed at the same time, and it can be upgraded with more Jumbo Furnaces in the bottom-right slot (up to 64), each one representing the number of items it can smelt at once.
- Item Collectors
There are several ways to keep items from piling up on the ground from your farms! Each of these are configurable, allowing you to set the range for item collection.
Asks for:Advanced Collector,
Basic Collector,
Item Collector