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FTB Pyramid Map

The FTB Pyramid Map is a custom map by the FTB team, using Minecraft 1.2.5 and the Feed The Beast Retro SSP Pack.

The player spawns on a floating island and after reading the instructions, is sent onto a block of gravel on top of a chest, at 1/2 heart health level. They are to make their way to the Monument, a large basalt structure containing complex internal circuitry, a Transposer as a receptacle for items, and signs describing challenges.

Completing a challenge (usually by throwing an item into the receptacle) unlocks one of the chests on the outside of the Monument, which is covered in interdiction torches to ward off monsters.

The main floor of the Monument has a pyramid of lamps, corresponding to the locations of the chests on the front face of the Monument.

Normal Challenges

These are the challenges for the Normal version of the map:

Collector Mk3
Splash Potion of Harming (Instant Damage II) MV Solar Array Chassis Mk 5
Ender Chest Centrifuge Extractor Biofuel Cans x64 Blutricity Connected Using Jacketed And Normal Wire Frame Motor
Companion Cube Iron Chest Builder Bedrock Geothermal Generator Squeezer 10,000,000 EU

The layout above corresponds to the position of the rewards on the pyramid. The challenges are detailed below.

Companion Cube

Lamp: Light Gray

Chest location: Left-most chest on the bottom layer

Rewards:

Requires no other challenges

Iron Chest

Lamp: Cyan

Chest location: First from the left on the bottom layer

Rewards:

Requires no other challenges

Builder

Lamp: Purple

Chest location: Left from the middle on the bottom layer

Rewards:

Requires:

Ender Chest

Lamp: Red

Chest Location: Left-most chest on the bottom-middle layer

Rewards:

Requires:

Centrifuge Extractor

Lamp: Lime

Chest Location: Left from the middle on the bottom-middle layer

Rewards:

  • 2 Desert Hives
  • 2 Meadows Hives
  • 2 Jungle Hives
  • 1 Forest Hive
  • 1 Snow Hive
  • 1 Cactus

Requires:

Ethanol Cans x64

Lamp: Pink

Chest Location: Middle chest on the bottom-middle layer

Rewards:

Requires:

Bedrock

Lamp: White

Chest Location: None (Light location corresponds to the main hallway)

Reward: The reward for bedrock is a major spoiler for the map. Spoiler: (rot13 to read) Gur orqebpx punyyratr bcraf gur onpx jnyy, erirnyvat purfgf pbagnvavat znal orruvirf, naq na vgrz pbyyrpgvba cbvag erdhrfgvat na raqre qentba rtt, naq na bzrtn orr.

Requires: The strategy to obtain bedrock is a major spoiler for the map. Spoiler: (rot13 to read) Jura nyy bgure punyyratrf ner pbzcyrgr, n qvfcrafre qebcf n orqebpx vgrz bagb gur guebar.

10,000,000 EU

Lamp: Black

Chest Location: Right-most chest on the bottom layer

Rewards:

Requires:

Blutricity Connected Using Jacketed And Normal Wire

(The name is misleading; the wire itself is a jacketed bluewire and will only accept jacketed bluewire connections.)

Lamp: Gray

Chest Location: Right from the middle on the bottom-middle layer

Reward: 100 Scrap

Requires:

Collector Mk3

Lamp: Yellow

Chest Location: Top of the pyramid

Rewards:

  • 16 Meadows Hives
  • 16 Forest Hives
  • 16 Jungle Hives
  • 16 Desert Hives
  • 16 Snow Hives

Requires: Glowstone (Spoiler: Iron Chest challenge: Redstone dust)

MV Solar Array

Lamp: Magenta

Chest Location: Middle chest on the top-middle layer

Reward: 8 Bottles o' Enchanting

Requires:

Splash Potion of Harming (Instant Damage II)

Lamp: Orange

Chest Location: Left chest on the top-middle layer

Reward:

  • 1 Forest Hive
  • 1 Meadows Hive
  • 1 Desert Hive
  • 1 Jungle Hive
  • 1 Snow Hive

Requires:

Chassis Mk 5

(The item is actually called a "Chassi" Mk5)

Lamp: Light Blue

Chest Location: Right chest on the top-middle layer

Rewards:

  • 1 Forest Hive
  • 1 Desert Hive
  • 1 Snow Hive
  • 1 Jungle Hive
  • 1 Meadows Hive

Requires no other challenges

Frame Motor

Lamp: Green

Chest Location: Right-most chest on the bottom-middle layer

Rewards:

Requires:

Geothermal Generator

Lamp: Blue

Chest Location: Right from the middle on the bottom layer

Rewards:

Requires:

Squeezer

(The IC2 recipe for Bronze must be used)

Lamp: Brown

Chest Location: First from the right on the bottom layer

Rewards:

Requires:


Insanity Challenges

These are the challenges for the Insanity version of the map. On the Insanity map, there is no starting gravel.

Fires of Hell
Power Rangers Where their story begins Blood and Water
Small but Mighty Gated Logic A Redstone Paradise Advanced Machines Things that make you go BOOM
Items of Power Burn Rubber Blood, Sweat and Tears Shit Ton of Energy The Rings The Bronze Age Solar Power

The layout above corresponds to the position of the rewards on the pyramid. The challenges are detailed below.

Where their story begins

Lamp: Magenta

Chest Location: Middle chest on the top-middle layer

Requires:

  • 1 Screwdriver
  • 1 Transmutation Table
  • 1 Auto-crafting Table
  • 1 Iron Chest
  • 1 Stone Bowl
  • 1 Project Table
  • 1 Scoop
  • 4 Torch
  • 1 Jungle Wood Block

Reward:

  • 1 Redstone Dust

A Redstone Paradise

Lamp: Pink

Chest Location: Middle chest on the bottom-middle layer

Requires:

  • 1 Clock
  • 1 Block Breaker
  • 1 Energy Crystal
  • 1 Deployer
  • 1 Piston
  • 1 Dispenser
  • 1 Transposer
  • 1 Timer
  • 1 Quarry

Rewards:

  • 1 Rubber Tree Sapling
  • 1 Copper Ingot

Burn Rubber

Lamp: Cyan

Chest location: Second from the left on the bottom layer

Requires:

  • 1 EU Detection Cable
  • 1 Miner
  • 1 MFE
  • 1 Macerator
  • 1 HV Transformer
  • 1 Electric Furnace
  • 1 Compressor
  • 1 Tesla Coil
  • 1 Crop-matron

Rewards:

  • 1 Tin Ingot
  • 1 Pumpkin Seed

The Bronze Age

(The IC2 recipe for Bronze must be used)

Lamp: Brown

Chest Location: First from the right on the bottom layer

Requires:

  • 1 Carpenter
  • 1 Forester
  • 1 Mushroom Picker
  • 1 Biogas Engine
  • 1 Rainmaker
  • 1 Electric Engine
  • 1 Pumpkin Farm
  • 1 Bio Power Generator
  • 1 Still

Rewards:

  • 1 Lapis Lazuli

Gated Logic

Lamp: Lime

Chest Location: Left from the middle on the bottom-middle layer

Requires:

  • 64 Request Logistics Pipes
  • 64 Gold AND Gate
  • 64 Quick Sort Module
  • 64 Diamond AND Gate
  • 64 Apiarist's Pipes
  • 64 Diamond OR Gate
  • 64 Liquid Supplier Logistics Pipes
  • 64 Gold OR Gate
  • 64 Logistics Chassi Mk 5

Rewards:

  • All Music Discs

Advanced Machines

(The name is misleading; the wire itself is a jacketed bluewire and will only accept jacketed bluewire connections.)

Lamp: Gray

Chest Location: Right from the middle on the bottom-middle layer

Requires:

  • 1 MFSU
  • 1 Terraformer
  • 1 Rotary Macerator
  • 1 Induction Furnace
  • 1 Recycler
  • 1 Singularity Compressor
  • 1 Mass Fabricator
  • 1 Geothermal Generator
  • 1 Centrifuge Extractor

Reward:

  • 1 Silver Ingot
  • 1 Clay Ball

The Rings

Lamp: Blue

Chest Location: Right from the middle on the bottom layer

Requires:

  • 1 Black Hole Band
  • 1 Swiftwolf's Rending Gale
  • 1 Ring of Arcana
  • 1 Harvest Goddess Band
  • 1 Void Ring
  • 1 Iron Band
  • 1 Ring of Ignition
  • 1 Zero Ring
  • 1 Archangel's Smite

Rewards:

  • 1 Oil Bucket

Items of Power

Lamp: Light Gray

Chest location: Left-most chest on the bottom layer

Requires:

  • 1 Body Stone
  • 1 Soul Stone
  • 1 Volcanite Amulet
  • 1 Life Stone
  • 1 Catalytic Lens
  • 1 Watch of Flowing Time
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Evertide Amulet
  • 1 Mercurial Eye

Rewards:

  • 1 Nikolite

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Lamp: Purple

Chest location: Left from the middle on the bottom layer

Requires:

  • 1 Splash Potion of Slowness (3:00)
  • 1 Splash Potion of Strength (1:07)
  • 1 Splash Potion of Weakness (1:07)
  • 1 Splash Potion of Poison (0:16)
  • 1 Splash Potion of Fire Resistance (2:15)
  • 1 Splash Potion of Swiftness (1:07)
  • 1 Splash Potion of Regeneration (0:16)
  • 1 Splash Potion of Harming II
  • 1 Splash Potion of Healing II

Rewards:

  • 1 Soul Sand

Solar Power

Lamp: Black

Chest Location: Right-most chest on the bottom layer

Requires:

  • 1 LV Solar Array
  • 1 MV Solar Array
  • 1 Light Sensor
  • 1 Solar Panel (RedPower)
  • 1 Hv Solar Array
  • 1 Apiary
  • 1 Solar Panel (IndustrialCraft)
  • 1 Solar Helmet
  • 1 Collector Mk3

Rewards:

  • 1 Uranium Ore

Fires of Hell

Lamp: Yellow

Chest Location: Top of the pyramid

Requires:

  • 1 Abyss Helmet
  • 1 Infernal Armor
  • 1 Gravity Greaves
  • 1 Hurricane Boots
  • 1 Red Katar
  • 1 Red Morning Star
  • 1 Pedestal
  • 1 Alchemical Tome
  • 1 Red Matter Furnace

Rewards:

  • 1 Bedrock
  • 2 Sticks

Blood and Water

(The item is actually called a "Chassi" Mk5)

Lamp: Light Blue

Chest Location: Right chest on the top-middle layer

Requires:

  • 64 Lave Refractory Capsule
  • 64 Biofuel Refractory Capsule
  • 64 Seed Oil Refractory Capsule
  • 64 Water Refractory Capsule
  • 64 Oil Refractory Capsule
  • 64 Honey Refractory Capsule
  • 64 Biomass Refractory Capsule
  • 64 Fuel Refractory Capsule
  • 64 Juice Refractory Capsule

Rewards:

  • 4 Refinery

Power Rangers

Lamp: Orange

Chest Location: Left chest on the top-middle layer

Requires:

  • 1 Nano Helmet (Uncharged)
  • 1 Near Depleted Uranium Cell
  • 1 Quantum Bodyarmor (Uncharged)
  • 1 Nano Bodyarmor (Uncharged)
  • 1 Nano Boots (Uncharged)
  • 1 Quantum Leggings (Uncharged)
  • 1 Nano Leggings (Uncharged)
  • 1 Quantum Helmet (Uncharged)
  • 1 Quantum Boots (Uncharged)

Reward:

  • 33 Single-use Batteries

Things that make you go BOOM

Lamp: Green

Chest Location: Right-most chest on the bottom-middle layer

Requires:

  • 1 Nova Catalyst
  • 1 TNT
  • 1 Combustion Engine
  • 1 Reactor Chamber
  • 1 Hyperkinetic Lens
  • 1 Nuke
  • 1 Nuclear Reactor
  • 1 Nova Cataclysm
  • 1 Defective Turret

Rewards:

  • 104 Scrap

Small but Mighty

Lamp: Red

Chest Location: Left-most chest on the bottom-middle layer

Requires:

  • 1 CPU
  • 8 Backplane
  • 1 Frame Motor
  • 1 Disk Driver
  • 8 8K RAM Module
  • 1 Pump (RedPower)
  • 1 Monitor
  • 8 IO Expander
  • 1 Accelerator

Rewards:

  • 1 Nether Wart

Shit Ton of Energy

Lamp: White

Chest Location: None (Light location corresponds to the main hallway)

Requires:

  • 100,000,000 (One Hundred Million) EU

Input is behind the throne

Reward:

  • None

Notes

  • The Equivalent Exchange Transmutation Tablet is the most important item in the map. Without it, you cannot create the large amount of Copper required to finish IC2 Machine challenges, among many, many other things.
  • Bedrock cannot be crafted, broken, transmuted (either with the Philosopher's Stone or with the Transmutation Tablet), obtained by smelting, obtained by compression (in an IC2 Compressor), or otherwise created without hacking tools in any way.
  • Glowstone is necessary but only for very few items such as the Collector Mk 3. The method may be a spoiler but will likely just save frustration: Spoiler: Craft together four Gold Dust in a plus shape, and five Redstone Dust in an X shape (like the TNT recipe) to obtain one Glowstone dust.
  • The Respawn Room contains a stone pressure plate and a 5-minute timer. After five minutes of standing on the plate, a chest in the room fills with the philosopher's stone and other items necessary to begin again. The room has enough stock for about ten such refills. The chest containing the refill items can be accessed through one the windows into the room behind the chest, but this is considered cheating.
  • In the SMP version of Insanity, the mechanism to give out a reward for the Bonus challenge has not been implemented.