StoneBlock 2 Server Hosting

FTB's own recommendation is 6 GB, which carries a small group through the early and middle of the quest book. Once you are running a large Applied Energistics 2 network, chicken breeding pens and several chunkloaded machine rooms, move up to 8 GB. On this pack the mod count fills the heap long before the number of people online does.

Around six is the comfortable range on the recommended memory. StoneBlock 2 is cooperative rather than competitive, so groups usually build one shared cavern and split the tech and magic trees between them. Each person added brings loaded chunks and running machines rather than just movement, so raise memory before you raise the headcount.

In normal cases yes. Take a backup, stop the server, install the newer build from the Modpacks tab, then boot once with nobody connected so mods can rewrite their configs against the new version. StoneBlock 2 has been settled on 1.12.2 for years, so builds mostly adjust recipes and quests instead of removing mods outright.

Adding a Forge 1.12.2 mod over SFTP works if it targets the same Forge build and does not clash with something already registered. Removing one is the risky direction, because any block or item it placed in the world becomes missing content the next time the server loads. Test either change against a copy of the world first.

The premise is the same solid stone world, but the sequel is much larger. It carries more mods, more dimensions to open up once your starting cavern has been hollowed out, and a reworked quest line with new bosses at the end of it. If you finished the original and wanted more to automate, this is that pack.

Ore exists, but not in the quantities a normal world hands you. StoneBlock 2 is built around producing materials instead of finding them, which is why resource chickens and Mystical Agriculture crops show up so early in the quest book. Digging is mostly for space and the occasional vein, not for supply.