Beneath Teleporter

Now that your Necronomicon is charged (see Energy Pedestal if you haven't charged it yet), your next step in Age 1 progression is the Beneath Teleporter. This will require items from several different mods, as well as at least 1000 PE of charge in your Necronomicon. There are a few steps to this:

1. The Abyssalcraft ritual to create the Beneath teleporter is a fairly simple and straightforward process, despite how it may seem. The materials involved will be covered below, but for the construction and activation of the ritual, all that you need is nine (9) cobblestone and your (charged) Necronomicon. Make sure that you pick a spot that isn't directly next to your base, and then place the cobblestone down in the pattern that the Necronomicon indicates. - This information is found by right-clicking to open the Necronomicon, then clicking on "Rituals", then "Information", then "Getting Started", then going to page 3 (as marked on the bottom). This information is current as of SevTech 3.0.8. Once you have set up the ritual space, shift-right-click on the center cobblestone to form the pedestals. You can then place all of the materials for the desired ritual (again, discussed below, but there are multiple rituals) on the pedestals. The outer pedestals can have items placed in any order - it does not need to match exactly. However, make sure that you have the indicated item on the center pedestal, since that is the item that is being "infused".

Materials required for the Beneath Teleporter ritual.
You will need several mod-specific materials for the ritual, covered below.

A. The Blank Teleporter - a multi-step process. You will need two (2) black dye powder, one (1) coralium pearl, one (1) block of copper, one (1) block of bronze, one (1) block of tin, two (2) blocks of coal, and an Apprentice Blood Orb from the Blood Magic mod. - The two black dye powder can be obtained either by grinding two black flowers (it's generally easy to find the Black Lotus flower in the overworld), or by grinding two ink sacs, which can be obtained from squid. There are other options, but these are the easiest. They can be ground in either the mill stone or the grindstone. - The coralium pearl can be obtained in the same way that you obtained one for the Energy Pedestal, if you don't already have one previously prepared. - Simply melt copper and tin ore in the Melter and then pour them out (using a drain) into a casting basin to make copper and tin blocks, respectively. - For the bronze block, you will have to create at least 12 bronze ingots in the alloy kiln (since the kiln creates them in groups of 4), and then insert 9 of the bronze ingots into the Melter, from where you can pour the molten bronze into a casting basin to create a bronze block. - The two blocks of coal are created by compressing 18 coal into blocks using the Horse Power press. - The apprentice blood orb is a bit more involved. It will require you to build a minimum of a Tier 2 Blood Altar from the Blood Magic mod. This will require a Blood Altar block (found in JEI), a Sacrificial Dagger, and at least eight (8) Blank Runes. More on this later (see the section titled "Blood Magic how-to" below).

B. Four (4) monolith stone. Remember how you went to a shoggoth lair previously, and it was made of that green monolith stone, and you used some in the Energy Pedestal recipe? Well, hopefully you kept a little bit more, because you will need four more of it for the ritual. If not, get hiking and get yourself a few more monolith stone.

C. Gunpowder. Hopefully you know how to get this. If not, then...it's questionable why you're playing an expert-style modpack. Just kill some creepers for it. Protip: you can build an ocelot totem from the Totemic mod to prevent creepers from exploding within its 6-block radius. It's great.

D. Coal dust. Make it the same way that you made it for the Flame Grilled Wopper, using either coal or charcoal.

E. A Dark Oak Fence Gate. The ritual will ONLY accept a Dark Oak fence gate.

F. Demonic will. You will need at least two of these for the Beneath Teleporter, since one is used in the creation of the apprentice blood orb. A brief explanation of blood magic will follow.

Blood Magic How-To - A Brief Description of Blood Magic Basics.
First off, there is already plenty of information about Blood Magic online, as well as an in-game book that gives limited information (the "Sanguine Scientiem"). However, a brief description of how to get started will be included here. There are a few steps:

1. The most important part of getting started with Blood Magic is the crafting of a Blood Altar. The blood altar, in turn, requires an item known as Demonic Will. Demonic will is acquired from killing hostile mobs when they have been inflicted with a Blood Magic-specific effect. In order to inflict this effect, you will have to craft an item known as the Rudimentary Snare. These snares are crafted in batches of four (4), and require four (4) string, four (4) tin ingots, and one (1) ash. You can get string from cotton or spiders, you should already have tin ingots, and ash is obtained from placing a log (not a plank, a log) on a stone grill (not in the clay kiln). - Now that you have some rudimentary snares (make at least 16 for safety), you're ready to get demonic will. Get a weapon and put your snares on your hotbar. When you find a hostile enemy (zombies work well for this), right-click to fire the snare at them until you see them emitting white, potion-like particles. This indicates that they are under the Blood Magic-specific effect and can drop demonic will upon death. Once they are emitting the particles, kill them, and they should drop demonic will. Do this until you have at least two demonic will, with more being helpful in the future.

2. Now that you have demonic will, you can craft the blood altar. See the recipe in JEI for crafting help.

3. Once the blood altar has been crafted, get some stone (not cobblestone - you want normal stone) and a sacrificial dagger, then place the blood altar somewhere. You will now have to use the sacrificial dagger to bleed into the blood altar in order to make Blank Slates and Blood Orbs. Right-click to put blood into the blood altar while standing very close (each heart of damage is valued at 200 blood in the blood altar, and make sure not to kill yourself. Aside from the obvious, dying will inflict the "Soul Fray" effect, which dramatically reduces the amount of blood you get from 200 blood per heart to something like 10 blood per heart. This is to prevent people from death-abusing. - Each blank slate requires 1000 blood in the blood altar at the time when you insert the stone. It is important that you have all of the required blood in the blood altar before placing the stone, as the stone will regress if it runs out of blood to absorb partway through transmutation. If you want to have a clearer idea of how much blood is in the altar, and what tier your altar is, you can make a "Divination Sigil". For the blank runes, however, you only need 16 blank slates. - You will also need a Weak Blood Orb in order to make the blank slates. This is created by placing a ball of Coagulated Blood in the blood altar while the altar has at least 2000 life points worth of blood in it (10 hearts worth). You can obtain a ball of coagulated blood by melting four (4) rotten flesh in the Melter, then pouring it out onto a bare Casting Table (no cast, just the table).

Once you have all of the blank slates and the weak blood orb, you can craft the eight (8) required blank runes that you need for the tier 2 blood altar. After the runes have been crafted, simply dig out the eight blocks around the base of the blood altar and replace it with the blank runes. See other online guides with pictures for more detailed info on the required layout.

Now that you have a tier 2 blood altar, all that you need to do is make an Apprentice blood orb. This is the next tier of blood orb, one step up from the weak blood orb. For this, simply place (yet another) coralium pearl in the tier 2 altar while the altar has at least 5000 (25 hearts) worth of life points in blood in it. As soon as it has absorbed enough blood, you will have the apprentice blood orb!

You now have all of the required ingredients to craft a blank teleporter, so go ahead and do that to obtain the last item you need for the Beneath teleporter!

Final Steps.
Now that you have all of the materials you need for the Beneath teleporter, simply place them on the pedestals for the ritual. Again, the items on the outer circle can be placed in any order, but the center item has to be the one indicated by JEI. Once they are all placed, just shift-right-click on the center pedestal with your charged (at least 1000 PE) Necronomicon, then keep the Necronomicon in your hand and wait. The ritual should begin, draining the charge from your Necronomicon, and - voila! Congratulations, you can now travel to the Beneath dimension!

P.S. Get to the Beneath by placing the teleporter anywhere and right-clicking on it. The teleporter can be moved in the overworld without consequence, and the coordinates in the Beneath will correspond directly with the overworld coordinates.