Blue Skies: The Everbright and Everdawn Dimensions
Blue Skies is a survival mod built around two contrasting dimensions — a light world and a dark one — full of dungeons to raid. This guide covers what it adds.
Two dimensions
Blue Skies centers on a light-and-dark scenario: two dimensions to explore, each with its own biomes, blocks, creatures and progression. Reaching them opens a survival adventure separate from the Overworld, and the mod's Population update added a large amount of new blocks and items to both.
Dungeons and progression
Both dimensions feature dungeons, which hold the mod's tougher challenges and best rewards. Progression runs through the new materials and gear you gather in each world, building toward the equipment needed to clear the dungeons.
Getting started
Build the portal to enter a dimension, gather its starting resources, and work through its biomes toward the dungeons. Because Blue Skies is a full survival mod with its own material tiers and structures, treat each dimension as its own adventure with distinct light and dark themes. The mod's FAQ page answers many common questions if you get stuck.
This line is 1.20.1 only
Blue Skies here is build 1.3.31 on Minecraft 1.20.1. There is no 1.21.1 version in this line, so a pack on the newer release cannot include it.
The size of it
732 pages across 496 blocks and 236 items, with 383 crafting recipes, 150 stonecutting recipes, 45 smelting, 29 blasting, seven each of smoking and campfire cooking, and four smithing trims. Fourteen structures generate across its dimensions.
That block-heavy balance — 496 against 236 — means a great deal of what you bring home is building material rather than gear.
Stonecutting does the heavy lifting
At 150 recipes, stonecutting is the second-largest category and the fastest route from a new stone to a full set of shapes. Carrying a stonecutter into the dimension saves hauling every variant back.
Cooking is small and ordinary
Smoking and campfire cooking carry seven recipes each and smelting 45, so food processing uses vanilla appliances with no special machine to build.
Where to start
Reach the dimension, gather one of each stone family you meet, and cut them at home rather than trying to identify blocks in the field — with 496 blocks the catalogue is far easier to explore from a stonecutter than from a wiki page.