Actually Additions

Overview

Actually Additions is a technology mod built around Redstone Flux (RF) energy. It adds a complete progression path from early-game utility blocks like the Compost and Fishing Net all the way up to late-game marvels like the Vertical Digger (Miner), Laser Relays for wireless energy transfer, and the Atomic Reconstructor that transforms vanilla materials into powerful Crystals. The mod is entirely self-contained and does not require any other mods, though it integrates nicely with other RF-based tech mods.

The mod also introduces four custom crops (Rice, Canola, Flax, and Coffee), a food crafting system with over 15 recipes, custom tool and armor tiers made from Black Quartz and Crystals, and a suite of rings that provide passive potion effects. You can browse every item and recipe this mod adds using the tabs at the top of this page.

The Crystal System

Crystals are the backbone of Actually Additions. The Atomic Reconstructor uses 1,000 RF per operation and fires a beam in front of it when given a Redstone signal. Place items on the ground in front of the beam to convert them. There are six Crystal types, each derived from a different vanilla material:

Restonia (from Redstone, 40 RF per item), Palis (from Lapis Lazuli, 40 RF), Diamatine (from Diamond, 60 RF), Emeradic (from Emerald, 100 RF), Void (from Coal, 60 RF), and Enori (from Iron Ingot, 80 RF). Crystals can also be crafted into Crystal Blocks and back, and they serve as the material for an entire tier of tools and armor.

The Reconstructor also converts Lenses. A basic Lens can be converted into a Color Lens (recolors blocks), which becomes an Explosion Lens (creates explosions), then a Damage Lens (deals damage to entities), and finally cycles back to a regular Lens. Each lens conversion costs 5,000 RF. The Reconstructor can also convert Sand into Soul Sand (20,000 RF), Rotten Flesh into Leather (8,000 RF), and Red Mushroom Blocks into Nether Wart (150,000 RF).

Power Generation

Actually Additions provides five RF generators, each suited to different stages of progression. The simplest is the Solar Panel, which produces 8 RF/t during daytime with a clear sky above it. It requires no fuel but only works during the day. The Coal Generator burns any furnace fuel for a steady 30 RF/t and is the recommended starting generator since Coal is plentiful early on.

Heat Collector

The Heat Collector passively generates 40 RF/t when placed adjacent to at least 4 Lava source blocks. It occasionally consumes a Lava source and replaces it with Cobblestone, so pair it with a Lava Factory for sustained operation. This is an excellent early passive generator that works underground.

Canola Oil Pipeline

The Canola Oil system is a three-machine pipeline. First, grow Canola crops and harvest Canola Seeds. Feed them into a Canola Press (35 RF/t) to produce Canola Oil. Then pipe the Canola Oil into a Fermenting Barrel, which converts it into Refined Oil without any energy cost. Finally, burn the Refined Oil in an Oil Generator for 76 RF/t. This is the mod's most efficient scalable power source.

Leaf Generator

The Leaf Generator is the highest-output generator at 300 RF/t. It destroys Leaf blocks within a 7-block range to produce energy. Plant trees around it and use Greenhouse Glass above the Saplings to accelerate their growth. This is the best mid-to-late game generator for high power demand.

Machines and Automation

Crusher (Grinder)

The Crusher is the ore-doubling machine of Actually Additions. It grinds ores into 2x Dust, which can then be smelted back into Ingots. The single Crusher uses 40 RF/t and processes one item at a time, while the Double Crusher uses 60 RF/t but processes two items simultaneously. Both have a 60,000 RF internal buffer. The Crusher also works on Horse Armor, grinding it back into its base material Ingots.

Double Furnace

The Double Furnace smelts two items simultaneously using only 25 RF/t. It is a straight upgrade over the vanilla Furnace once you have RF power available, and it takes any standard Furnace recipe.

Breaker and Placer

The Breaker mines the block in front of it and stores the drop in its inventory, while the Placer places blocks from its inventory. These work without RF and can be automated with Redstone. The Fluid Placer and Fluid Collector do the same for liquids. The Directional Breaker is an RF-powered variant that mines up to 8 blocks in a line for 5 RF per block.

ESD (Item Distributor)

The ESD (Emitter, Sorter, and Distributor) is a Hopper replacement that lets you configure which items go where. The Advanced ESD adds slot-level filtering. These are essential for building sorting systems and work without RF.

Vertical Digger (Miner)

The Miner automatically excavates a shaft below itself, mining ores within a 2-block radius of the shaft. It costs 500 RF per block mined and places mined items into its inventory. This is a late-game quarry alternative that works best when paired with a Ranged Collector to pick up any items that overflow.

Lava Factory

The Lava Factory Controller generates Lava source blocks when surrounded by the correct multiblock structure (using Lava Factory Casings). It costs a massive 150,000 RF per Lava source produced, making it a late-game luxury. Its primary use is sustaining Heat Collectors for passive power.

Energizer and Enervator

The Energizer charges RF-powered items (Batteries, Drill, Rings) from its internal buffer. The Enervator does the opposite, draining RF from items and outputting it to adjacent machines or cables. These are your primary way to charge and discharge portable RF items.

Item Repairer

The Item Repairer consumes 1,500 RF/t to repair any damaged item placed in its input slot. It works on any item with durability, including tools, armor, and items from other mods.

Wireless Transport: Phantomfaces

Phantomfaces are one of the most powerful features in Actually Additions. They allow you to remotely access a block's inventory, fluid tank, or energy storage from up to 16 blocks away, without any physical connection. There are three types: the Phantomface for items, the Phantom Liquiface for fluids, and the Phantom Energyface for RF energy.

To use a Phantomface, craft a Phantom Connector and right-click the target block (such as a Chest), then right-click the Phantomface. Any machine or pipe connected to the Phantomface will see it as if it were the target block's inventory. This is incredibly useful for accessing remote storage, piping items across rooms without cables, or connecting an Energizer to a distant power network.

The Phantom Placer and Phantom Breaker extend this concept to block placement and breaking, working within a 3-block range of their linked position. The Phantom Booster extends the maximum range of all Phantomfaces when placed adjacent to them.

Laser Relays

Laser Relays are wireless energy transfer blocks. Place two or more Laser Relays within 15 blocks of each other and connect them with the Laser Wrench. Energy flows between connected relays as visible laser beams. By default, Laser Relays have a 5% energy loss per transfer (configurable from 0% to 80%). They replace the need for energy cables entirely and look fantastic in builds.

The Drill

The Drill is the mod's signature mining tool. It stores 500,000 RF, charges at 5,000 RF/t, has a harvest level of 4 (enough to mine anything), and a base mining efficiency of 8.0. It uses 100 RF per block mined by default. The Drill can be dyed into any of 16 colors and upgraded with a variety of augments:

Speed Upgrades increase mining speed. Speed I brings efficiency to 16.0, Speed II to 33.0, and Speed III to 45.0, but they also increase RF consumption (150, 225, and 400 RF/block respectively). Fortune Upgrades add Fortune I (+40 RF/block) or Fortune II (+120 RF/block). Silk Touch adds the Silk Touch enchantment (+100 RF/block). The 3x3 Mining Upgrade mines a 3x3 area (+10 RF/block), and the 5x5 Mining Upgrade expands it to 5x5 (+40 RF/block total for both upgrades). The Block Placing Upgrade lets the Drill place blocks from your inventory.

A fully upgraded Drill with Speed III, Fortune II, and 5x5 mining costs 560 RF per block, but mines an enormous area at incredible speed. It is one of the most powerful mining tools in modded Minecraft.

Tools and Armor

Actually Additions adds three vanilla-style tool and armor tiers (Black Quartz, Emerald, and Obsidian) plus six Crystal tiers. Each tier provides a full set of tools (Pickaxe, Axe, Shovel, Sword, Hoe) and armor (Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings, Boots). The mod also introduces Paxels (AIOTs), which combine all five tool types into a single item. Paxels are available for every vanilla material plus all mod materials.

Black Quartz tools are an early upgrade over Stone, with 280 durability and 6.5 mining speed. Emerald tools are top-tier with 2,000 durability and 9.0 speed, rivaling Diamond. Obsidian tools sacrifice speed (4.0) for extreme durability at 8,000 uses, making them ideal for long mining trips where you do not want to worry about tool breakage.

Crystal tools follow the Crystal progression. The lower-tier Crystals (Restonia, Palis, Void, Enori) offer stats slightly better than Iron, while Diamatine Crystal tools match Emerald tier with 1,600 durability and 9.0 speed. Emeradic Crystal tools are the absolute best in the mod with 2,200 durability, 9.5 speed, 5.5 attack damage, and harvest level 4.

RF-Powered Items

Batteries

Batteries are portable RF storage items. There are five tiers: Single (1,000,000 RF, 5,000 RF/t transfer), Double (2,000,000 RF, 10,000 RF/t), Triple (3,000,000 RF, 15,000 RF/t), Quadruple (4,000,000 RF, 20,000 RF/t), and Quintuple (5,000,000 RF, 25,000 RF/t). They charge RF items in your inventory and can be charged using the Energizer.

Rings

The mod adds several RF-powered rings that grant passive effects while held. The Magnet Ring (10 RF/use) pulls nearby items toward you. The Growth Ring (300 RF/use) accelerates crop growth in a radius around you, applying up to 45 random growth ticks per cycle. The Water Removal Ring (350 RF/use) removes Water source blocks in a radius, and uses 700 RF/use for Lava. These are enormously useful utility items.

Potion Rings

Potion Rings grant passive potion effects when held in your inventory. There are 10 types: Speed, Haste, Strength, Jump Boost, Regeneration, Resistance, Fire Resistance, Water Breathing, Invisibility, and Night Vision. Each ring can be upgraded to an Advanced version with amplifier level 1 (stronger effect). Regeneration Rings have a cooldown between activations, activating once every 50 ticks.

Teleportation Staff

The Teleportation Staff instantly teleports you to wherever you are looking, consuming RF per use. It is one of the most satisfying items in the mod and extremely useful for exploration and quick traversal.

Wings of the Bats

The Wings of the Bats grant creative-mode flight when equipped in your inventory. They are crafted from Bat Wings, a rare drop from Bats, combined with Diamatine Crystals. This is one of the most coveted items in the mod and does not consume RF.

Farming and Food

Custom Crops

Actually Additions adds four crops: Rice, Canola, Flax, and Coffee. Seeds can be found by breaking Grass (like vanilla Seeds) or in Wild Plants that spawn naturally. Rice is used for Rice Bread and Rice Dough. Canola is the fuel source for the Oil Generator pipeline. Flax drops String when harvested. Coffee Beans are used in the Coffee Machine. All four crops can be grown with the Greenhouse Glass for accelerated growth.

Food Items

The mod adds over 15 food items, many of which are excellent mid-game food sources. Pizza is the best food in the mod, restoring 20 hunger and 10.0 saturation. Fish N Chips restores 20 hunger with 5.0 saturation. Spaghetti provides 18 hunger and 3.0 saturation. Most food recipes use the mod's Knife as a crafting ingredient, and some foods return their container (Bowls, Paper Cones, Bottles) when consumed.

Compost

The Compost converts Mashed Food (crafted from various food items) into Fertilizer. Place 10 Mashed Food items into the Compost and wait for it to convert. Fertilizer works like Bone Meal and can be used to grow crops instantly. The Compost works without RF and is a great early-game tool for bootstrapping your farm.

The Coffee Machine

The Coffee Machine is one of the mod's most distinctive features. It uses 150 RF per brew and requires Water (500 mB per Cup of Coffee) plus Coffee Beans in its filter slot. Place a Cup in the output slot and add ingredient items to customize the Coffee's effects. Each ingredient adds a specific potion effect:

Sugar grants Speed (max amplifier 4), Blaze Powder grants Strength (max amplifier 4), Pufferfish grants Water Breathing (max amplifier 2), Ghast Tear grants Regeneration (max amplifier 3), Golden Carrot grants Night Vision (max amplifier 2), Magma Cream grants Fire Resistance (max amplifier 2), and Fermented Spider Eye grants Invisibility (max amplifier 2). Adding Milk removes negative effects. You can stack multiple ingredients of the same type to increase the amplifier level, up to each ingredient's maximum.

Utility Blocks

Actually Additions includes a variety of utility blocks that do not require RF. The Fishing Net passively catches fish when placed over Water. The Feeder automatically breeds nearby animals when stocked with their preferred food. The Greenhouse Glass accelerates crop growth when placed above a crop with sunlight. The Giant Chest (Crate) provides massive storage. The Crate Keeper preserves a Crate's contents when broken, and a Chest-to-Crate Upgrade converts a vanilla Chest into a Crate in-place.

The XP Solidifier converts your experience points into Solidified Experience items that can be stored and consumed later. The Ranged Collector picks up items within a 6-block range. The Leaf Blower (and its Advanced variant) rapidly clears Leaf blocks and plant matter, which is great for quickly harvesting trees or clearing terrain. The Firework Box launches random Fireworks for 300 RF each, perfect for celebrating your builds.

Miscellaneous Content

Colored Lamps

The mod adds 16 Colored Lamps (one for each dye color) and a Lamp Powerer that toggles them with Redstone. These are decorative light sources that respond to Redstone signals, making them useful for indicator lights and decorative builds.

Treasure Chest

Treasure Chests generate randomly in the world and contain loot. They are a fun discovery mechanic while exploring.

Hairy Ball

Hairy Balls are occasionally dropped by Cats and can be used (right-click) for random item drops, similar to throwing an egg. It is a quirky novelty item.

Decorative Blocks

The mod adds Testifi-Bucks Green and White decorative walls, stairs, slabs, and fences (created via the Atomic Reconstructor from Hardened Clay). It also adds Black Quartz walls, stairs, and slabs, plus Chiseled and Pillar variants of Black Quartz. The Smiley Cloud is a special decorative block that displays a smiley face.

Cross-Mod Paxels

If you have Thermal Foundation, Mekanism Tools, or Simple Ores installed alongside Actually Additions, the mod automatically generates Paxels for those mods' materials. This includes 9 Thermal Foundation Paxels (Copper, Tin, Silver, Lead, Nickel, Electrum, Bronze, Platinum, Invar), 6 Mekanism Paxels (Obsidian, Lapis, Osmium, Bronze, Glowstone, Steel), and 5 Simple Ores Paxels.

Configuration

Actually Additions has extensive configuration options. Every single crafting recipe can be individually disabled in the config file under the crafting categories. Machine energy values like the Laser Relay loss percentage (default 5%, range 0-80%) are configurable under Machine Values. You can also disable the Jam Villager house from generating in villages, prevent world generation of custom crop fields, and toggle whether the mod's fluid registrations override other mods' Canola Oil or Oil fluids. The config file is located at config/ActuallyAdditions.cfg.