FTB Skies Server Hosting

What FTB Skies Is

FTB Skies 2 has 433 mods, 30 of them for players only. It borrows the big names of 1.21.1, among them Mekanism, Create, Applied Energistics 2, Ender IO, Modern Industrialization and Ars Nouveau, and routes them through skyblock recipes: Bonsai Trees for wood, Create Sifter for ores, and Productive Bees for much of the rest. FTB Team Bases gives each team a base of its own.

The original FTB Skies, on Forge 1.19.2, has 325 mods and a different mix, with Botania, Hex Casting and Ad Astra. The two are separate packs with separate worlds.

The 2 FTB Skies Editions, Counted

How Much RAM an FTB Skies Server Needs

Less at the start than any other pack of this size, because a skyblock world is mostly empty sky. There are no oceans or forests to generate, only islands. We start a group of three at 6 GB and a group of nine or more at 11 GB, and the number follows your production rather than your exploring.

Skyblock bases also pack everything into a few chunks, which is easy for the server to load and hard for it to run once they are full. Sieves, hives and machine lines stacked into a small space all tick together, and team bases that stay loaded while nobody plays keep producing and keep costing.

One Base Per Team on a Shared Server

With FTB Team Bases, every team gets its own base, so one server can hold several groups without anyone sharing a start. Players who want to share an island should be in the same team, so settle the teams before anyone starts building.

Feed The Beast's own backup mod is part of Skies 2 as well. It saves inside the server folder, next to the nightly backups every plan gets from us, so check your disk use after a few weeks and trim the pack's copies if they pile up.

Setting Up FTB Skies on Our Panel

1. Back up what is there now

   If the server already holds a world, make a backup on the Backups tab. The installer moves an old mods folder aside under a dated name instead of deleting it. A server on Paper or vanilla goes to NeoForge on the Settings tab first, because the Mods tab only shows on a server with a mod loader.

2. Search for FTB Skies on the Mods tab

   Type the name and pick the FTB Skies 2 entry from CurseForge. FTB Skies is listed next to it as a separate pack, so check the name before you click.

3. Choose version 1.23.0, or the one your group runs

   Take the exact version your players installed. Two releases can differ by a few mods, and a player whose list does not match the server's is turned away at the door.

4. Install it in one go

   The machine fetches the pack itself and switches the server to NeoForge 21.1.250 for Minecraft 1.21.1. The server pack the makers put out carries the configs, so the server starts with the same settings your players have.

5. Start it and wait for Done

   The first start loads 403 mods and builds the spawn area, which takes a few minutes. When the console prints Done, players join with the address from the panel.

Rather not do it yourself? With free setup we install FTB Skies for you after you order.

Packs Close to FTB Skies

SkyFactory is the classic skyblock series, and FTB StoneBlock 4 and FTB OceanBlock 2 are the same team's packs set underground and at sea. Better OneBlock starts from a single block instead of an island.

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