Mob grinding utils

## **Synopsis**

mob\_grinding\_utils adds a bunch of machines which make it easier to build efficient mob farms including fans which can push entities, grinders which drop experience and player drops, and a way to get mob spawn eggs in survival

## **Utility Blocks**

**The Mob Fan:** pushes entities in the direction that it is facing. Requires a redstone signal to be activated. Supports three upgrade types; Width Modifier increases width of push area by 1 block; Height Modifier increases height of push area by 1 block; Distance Modifier increases the distances mobs are pushed by 1 block

**Iron Spikes:** damages players and mobs which touch it. Mobs killed by the Iron Spikes drop experience, but they do not count as player kills

**Mob Masher:** an upgradeable mob grinding machine. Requires a redstone signal to be activated. Any living thing that touches it while it is active will continuously take damage. Anything killed by the Mob Masher counts as a player kill and drops experience. There are 6 upgrade types; Sharpness increases damage done per hit; Looting increases the quality of drops; Fire Aspect increases the fire damage and duration; Smite increases the damage done to undead mobs; Bane of Arthropods increases the damage done to arthropods; Beheading increases the chance of a slain mob dropping its head by 10% per upgrade

**Absorption Hopper:** automatically picks up experience and items from a target area. You can see the area by pressing “Show Area” in the Absorption Hopper GUI. You can also move this area around using the offset buttons. All six of the sides of the Absorption Hopper can be configured to give various types of output by clicking on the Down, Up, North, South, West, and East buttons. The Absorption Hopper can also be given up to 6 Radius Upgrades which increases the size of the area in which the Absorption Hopper picks up items and experience.

**Entity Conveyor:** pushes any entity which is on top of it in a direction. The player can avoid being pushed by sneaking (holding shift)

**Ender Inhibitor:** prevents entities from teleporting within 8 blocks of the Ender Inhibitor

**Wither Boss Death Muffler:** stops wither boss death sounds within an 8 blocks radius. Right clicking on the muffler also hides the Boss Bar

**Ender Dragon Death Muffler:** stops the Ender Dragon Death sounds within a 32 block radius. Right clicking on the muffler also hides the Boss Bar

**Singularity Tank:** a fluid tank that holds 32 buckets of any fluid

**XP Drain Singularity Tank:** a fluid tank that holds 32 buckets of any fluid and drains XP from players who stand on top of the tank

**XP Tap:** when attached to the side of a Singularity Tank which has liquid experience in it, can be right clicked to release the liquid experience as experience orbs

## **Genetically Modifying Chickens**

Craft a **Mob Swab** and use it to right click on a mob. This will save the DNA of that type of Mob. Then, place the Mob Swab in a crafting grid with a single seed and a bucket of liquid experience to craft GM Chicken Feed. Feed this GM Chicken Feed to a chicken and it will explode and drop a spawn egg for the mob which you used in the Chicken Feed crafting recipe. You can place this spawn egg in an Apotheosis mob spawner for easy mob farms.