Ftb Materials FAQ

Find and mine an ore block such as Aluminum Ore or Bauxite Ore, then process the raw drops into ingots, dusts, or nuggets using your tech mod's machines. Start with Aluminum since it feeds into wires, plates, and alloys like brass and bronze.

These are the intermediate forms produced by different ore-processing chains (macerating, washing, crystallizing, etc.) before they smelt or craft into ingots. Dirty Dust is the unwashed early stage, Clump and Crystal come from chemical/dissolution lines, and Shard/Chunk are alternate byproducts.

Run the chunk or clump through your tech mod's smelting or processing machine the same way you'd handle any ore intermediate. The exact machine depends on which tech mod you've paired with FTB Materials.

Brass is typically an alloy of Copper and Zinc, and Bronze is Copper plus Tin, mixed in an alloying furnace or crafting grid depending on your tech mod. Check the in-game recipe viewer (JEI/REI) for the exact ratio your pack uses.

Each is made from the matching ingot using a metal press, rolling machine, wire mill, or similar tool from your tech mod. If you don't have those machines yet, some recipes also work in a crafting table with a hammer.

Dusts generally smelt fine, but some intermediates like Dirty Dust or Clump must be washed or processed first. Check the recipe viewer for the correct next step in the chain.

Apatite is a phosphate mineral used in fertilizer and chemical processing chains, and it also appears as a gem, dust, ore, and wire form in this mod. Use it wherever your tech mod calls for phosphate or fertilizer inputs.

Cinnabar is a mercury-bearing ore used in chemical and ore-processing recipes, often for extracting metals or making mercury. Process it in your tech mod's chemical machines rather than smelting it directly.

Chromium is a metal used in advanced alloys and stainless-steel-style recipes in tech packs. It usually comes from processing Chromite ore through a multi-step chain rather than mining it directly.

It's primarily an item and material library — ores, ingots, dusts, gears, plates, wires, and blocks — designed to be used with a tech mod that provides the machines. You'll need something like Thermal, Mekanism, or Create to actually process them.

Use a storage system like AE2, Refined Storage, or a drawer/barrel setup, and set up ore-dictionary or tag-based unification so duplicate ingots and dusts merge. Sorting by material type (ingots, dusts, gears, wires) also helps.

Yes — it's built to slot into tech packs and uses common ore dictionary/tag conventions so its ingots, dusts, and plates substitute for equivalents from other mods. Check your pack's recipe viewer to confirm which recipes accept them.

It provides a unified set of resources and recipes for modpacks, covering a wide range of materials from vanilla to modded resources. It is designed to be flexible so modpack creators can customize or remove unneeded resources.

It registers 160 items and blocks, including ores, ingots, nuggets, dusts, plates, gears, rods, gems, crystals, wires, shards, clumps, dirty dust, and blades for many materials. It also adds blocks of those materials, such as block of aluminum, block of bronze, and block of platinum.

It supports materials including Aluminum, Apatite, Bronze, Copper, Diamond, Gold, Iron, Netherite, Quartz, Osmium, Signalum, and Dimensional Shard. Each material can appear in multiple forms like ores, ingots, nuggets, dusts, plates, gears, rods, gems, crystals, wires, shards, clumps, dirty dust, and blades.

It is un-opinionated on ore generation, leaving modpack creators to unify world gen with their preferred systems. This can be done using mods like KubeJS or Almost Unified.

It provides standardized recipes for smelting, converting ingots to nuggets, nuggets to ingots, blocks to materials, and more. The wiki lists crafting, blasting, and smelting recipes.

Yes, it is designed to work with unification mods like Almost Unified. It also supports resource pruning via KubeJS.

Yes, modpack creators can use tools like KubeJS or Almost Unified to customize or remove unneeded resources. This allows for streamlined resource management in complex modpacks.

No, it aims to include a comprehensive range of materials without requiring addons. This is unlike similar mods such as Emendatus Enigmatica or All the Ores.

It is categorized under Ores and Resources. The mod is a home-grown resources mod that attempts to provide a wide range of resources.

The wiki page has sections for Processes, Items, Blocks, and Related mods. It also has a guide page for Environmental Materials.