Items & recipes

Every item in the mod at a glance. Hover over (or tap) an item for its name.

Machines

Chisels

Fossils

DNA & genomes

Eggs & creatures

By-products

Hover or tap an item to see its name.

Machines

The six lab machines, in the order you'll use them. All of them are mined with a pickaxe and keep their contents safe: breaking one drops everything inside.

Shaped ➜ Fossil Cleaning Table

Shaped ➜ Fossil Identification Chamber

Shaped ➜ DNA Extractor

Shaped ➜ Genome Sequencer

Shaped ➜ Embryogenesis Chamber

Shaped ➜ Incubator

Tools

Shaped ➜ Stone Chisel

Shaped ➜ Copper Chisel

Shaped ➜ Iron Chisel

Shaped ➜ Golden Chisel

Shaped ➜ Diamond Chisel

Smithing ➜ Netherite Chisel

See Chisels for how much each one damages fossils.

Finding fossils

Shaped ➜ Sifter

Load the Sifter with gravel, sand, red sand, mud or dirt and work it to shake out fragments. Two to four identified fossils of the same species can also be pieced together on a crafting table into one more complete fossil. See Finding fossils.

Dig site chests also hold two vanilla items with mod content: Field Notes, a written book listing the species recorded in that region, and a Dig Site Map that leads to another, unexplored dig site. Cartographers sell the maps too.

Upgrade modules

Shaped ➜ Speed Upgrade Module

Shaped ➜ Precision Upgrade Module

Shaped ➜ Efficiency Upgrade Module

Every lab machine has an upgrade panel to the right of its screen with two module slots. Two modules of the same kind stack their effect. Modules drop with the machine when it's broken, and shift-clicking one from your inventory puts it straight into the panel.

Module	Machine	Effect per module
Speed	All	Cuts processing time by a third (two modules: 44% of the time)
Efficiency	Fossil Cleaning Table	25% chance to keep the brush use
	DNA Extractor	25% chance to keep the Extraction Fluid use, and separately the Sample Vial
	Embryogenesis Chamber	25% chance to keep the Nutrient Solution
Precision	Fossil Identification Chamber	Halves the chance that identification fails
	DNA Extractor	+5% DNA integrity
	Genome Sequencer	+15% genome and +5% fidelity from every sample
	Embryogenesis Chamber	+8% effective fidelity, for better traits
	Incubator	35% chance to steady a frail embryo

Containment

Shaped ➜ 6Electric Fence

Shaped ➜ 6Reinforced Fence

Shaped ➜ Reinforced Fence Gate

Distressed large creatures smash wooden fences, walls and glass, but not these. The electric fence shocks anything that touches it while it carries a redstone charge. See Enclosures.

Creature gear

Shaped ➜ Creature Saddle

Shaped ➜ Horn Whistle

Shaped ➜ Horn Whistle

Shaped ➜ Iron Creature Armor

Shaped ➜ Golden Creature Armor

Shaped ➜ Diamond Creature Armor

Smithing ➜ Netherite Creature Armor

The saddle and armor go on your adult creatures; see Riding creatures. The Horn Whistle gives them orders; see Giving orders.

Creature materials

Creatures drop these when killed. Looting increases the drops.

Item	Dropped by	Used for
Raw Prehistoric Meat	Almost every creature	Food (4 hunger). Cooks into Cooked Prehistoric Meat (9 hunger). Both count as meat, so predators eat them
Thick Hide	Large herbivores and predators	Creature Saddle, creature armor, or 2 Leather
Osteoderm	Ankylosaurus, Stegosaurus, Stegoceratops, Dunkleosteus	Creature armor, or 4 Bone Meal
Prehistoric Horn	Triceratops, Carnotaurus, Woolly Rhinoceros, Stegoceratops	Horn Whistle, or 4 Bone Meal
Predator Tooth	Predators	3 Bone Meal
Sickle Claw	Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Tyrannoraptor	3 Bone Meal
Mammoth Tusk	Woolly Mammoth	9 Bone Meal
Prehistoric Feather	Velociraptor, Deinonychus	2 Feathers
Woolly Fur	Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhinoceros	White Wool (2 fur make 1)
Megalodon Tooth	Megalodon	A trophy
Arthropleura Chitin	Arthropleura	A trophy

Lab supplies

Shaped ➜ Extraction Fluid

Shaped ➜ Sample Vial

Shaped ➜ Genome Cartridge (Blank)

Shaped ➜ 4Nutrient Solution

Shapeless ➜ Artificial Egg

Items with data

Some items carry information in their tooltip, and the same item can look different depending on it.

Item	Tooltip shows
Rib Fossil Fragment	Species (??? until identified), completeness. Dirty fossils are named Dirty …
DNA Sample (Partial)	Species and integrity level. Its colour shows the integrity
Genome Cartridge (Filled)	Species and completeness
Genome Cartridge (Completed)	Species
Fertilized Ancient Egg	Species
Baby Creature Capsule	Species
Stone Chisel	How much completeness it removes from fossils

By-products

Rock Fragment drops from rock piles, dig sites and the Sifter, and Dirt Fragment from the Fossil Cleaning Table. They have no use yet.