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A skyblock mod for Minecraft 26.3 · Fabric

Ex Nihilo Reborn

One block of dirt. One tree. Sift, crush, compost and melt your way from nothing to every resource in the game.

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  • Version 1.0.1
  • Needs Fabric API
  • Free and MIT licensed
A single oak tree on a floating block of dirt

How it plays

Everything comes out of a tree and a block of dirt#

Six tools turn leaves into string, dirt into stone and stone into iron, lava and a way to the Nether. Each one unlocks the next.

  1. CrookShake leaves for saplings and silkworms.
  2. BarrelCompost plants into dirt and catch the rain.
  3. SieveSift dirt and gravel for pebbles, seeds and ore.
  4. HammerCrush cobblestone to gravel, sand and dust.
  5. CrucibleSqueeze out water and melt stone into lava.
  6. Witch waterBend mobs and blocks into something else.

In the game

From one tree to a working island#

Nine sieves working as one: fill them, sift, and the drops pop out.
Nine sieves working as one: fill them, sift, and the drops pop out.
Grab and go: a Rustler takes a diamond and leaps off the island.
Grab and go: a Rustler takes a diamond and leaps off the island.
A working island: barrels, a bank of nine sieves and storage, all from one tree.
A working island: barrels, a bank of nine sieves and storage, all from one tree.
A silkworm at work. Infested leaves turn white and break into string.
A silkworm at work. Infested leaves turn white and break into string.
Barrels of witch water, water, lava and brine.
Barrels of witch water, water, lava and brine.
Leaves composting in a barrel, and a porcelain crucible melting cobblestone over a torch.
Leaves composting in a barrel, and a porcelain crucible melting cobblestone over a torch.
Cobblestone generator, auto hammer and auto sieve.
Cobblestone generator, auto hammer and auto sieve.
Strainers fishing in a brine pool.
Strainers fishing in a brine pool.

Sieves and meshes

Know what you will find before you sift#

Six meshes, from string to netherite, each pull different things out of the same block. Hold Shift over anything in your inventory and the game tells you what it sifts into. No recipe viewer needed.

  • 174 sieve drops across 18 blocks
  • Ore pieces for iron, copper, gold and twelve modded metals
  • Hoppers load sieves and chests underneath catch the drops
See every drop table
Gravel
Sifts into:
 Raw Iron Piece, Tuff Pebble, Flint,
 Raw Copper Piece, Raw Tin Piece,
 Coal, Raw Zinc Piece, Raw Gold Piece,
 Lapis Lazuli, Diamond, Emerald,
 Angler Pottery Sherd,
 Archer Pottery Sherd,
 Arms Up Pottery Sherd,

Machines

Then let the island run itself#

An auto sieve, an auto hammer and a cobblestone generator, each in five tiers. Feed them with hoppers, pause them with redstone and read them with comparators.

  • Every tier is crafted around the one before it and works faster
  • The auto hammer runs at the speed of the hammer you put in, times its tier
  • The generator hands over its first cobblestone three seconds after you place it
Machine speeds and recipes

Auto Sieve: one block every

I8 s
II4 s
III2.6 s
IV1.6 s
V1 s

A living island

Fruit trees, a thief in the leaves and a trader worth waiting for#

Eight fruit trees grow in the shape of the real thing. A Rustler jumps out of the leaves, steals a stack and runs for the edge. The wandering trader sells what the sky cannot give, and a bell calls him back.

  • Fruit trees: pick by hand or shake the trunk with a crook
  • Rustlers: one hit stops them, scarecrows keep them away
  • Wandering trader: sky goods, a daily wish and two animals every visit
27
Wooden CrookIron HammerOak SieveOak BarrelPorcelain CrucibleSilkworm12Stone Pebble37Banana5Trader's Bell

The wiki

Every block, drop and recipe#

The tables on this site are generated from the mod's own data files, so the numbers always match the game.

Start here#

Core blocks#

Going further#

Living world#

Reference#

Addons

Ex Nihilo Fauna Coming soon#

Fourteen creatures for sky worlds. Seven pests that raid your farm, sieves and strainers, and seven friends that plant saplings, ripen fruit and dig up finds.

Meet the creatures
CrowEmber NewtVoid WispSilk MothSieve MitePebble ImpBrine CrabFireflyPollen BeetleHermit CrabSapling SpriteLeaf SnailRoot MoleSongbird

For pack makers

Built to have packs made on top of it#

Every sieve, hammer, crook, crucible and barrel recipe is a data pack file. Inputs go by tags so modded blocks can join in, the big features switch off per world, and there is a Java API for new woods, meshes and ore pieces.

Read the modding guide
{
  "type": "exnihiloreborn:sieve",
  "input": "#exnihiloreborn:siftable/gravel",
  "result": {
    "count": 1,
    "id": "minecraft:angler_pottery_sherd"
  },
  "rolls": {
    "exnihiloreborn:diamond_mesh": [
      0.0008
    ],
    "exnihiloreborn:netherite_mesh": [
      0.0015
    ]
  }
}

Start with nothing#

  • Minecraft 26.3 with Fabric Loader and Fabric API (Forge version coming soon)
  • Works with Roughly Enough Items, JEI, Jade and Mod Menu
  • Free to use in any modpack
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