Elements: Utilities

Elements: Utilities

A server-side mod for NeoForge 1.21.1 that covers the things server management mods usually leave out: spawner and mob stacking, item cleanup, mob caps, a lag report and a set of small tweaks. Every feature has its own on/off switch in config/elements_utilities/features.toml. Only those switches need a restart. Every other setting is reloaded with /utilities reload. It runs on its own; no other mod is needed.

Spawners

• Silk Touch keeps the mob. Spawner items only carry their mob, so spawners of the same mob stack in your inventory.
• Stacking: right-click a placed spawner with a spawner item of the same mob to add it to the stack (up to 12). Sneak + right-click places it as a new block.
• Output: a stack of N spawners cycles N times as often, and each cycle releases 1 to N mobs. One spawner stack never releases more than 6 mobs per 5 seconds.
• Stacked mobs: spawner mobs merge into stacked mobs of up to 100. Heavy mobs (see Mob stacking) stack to 4, and Wardens always stop at 4. A spawner keeps at most 6 stacked mobs alive. When all 6 are full the spawner stops, and starts again once every one of them is dead.
• No AI: spawner mobs don't walk, attack or target anyone. Gravity, water, fans and knockback still move them, so they can be carried to a kill spot.
• No effects: spawner mobs can't give players effects, so a Warden or Elder Guardian farm doesn't hand out Darkness or Mining Fatigue.
• No loot bags from spawner mobs.
• Breaking: with Silk Touch, a normal break drops the whole stack and sneak + break drops one. Without Silk Touch one spawner of the stack is destroyed and nothing drops.
• Explosions and Create drills and saws can't break a stack.

Create farming

Only active when Create is installed.

• Every Create machine that damages mobs (saws, drills, crushing wheels, fans, rollers, deployers) counts as a player kill, so mobs drop XP and player-only loot.
• The XP drops as Experience Nuggets (3 XP each).

Mob stacking

• Identical idle mobs standing together merge into one mob with the count in its name, up to 12.
• Only the front mob takes damage. Its death is a normal kill (drops, XP), and the next mob takes its place.
• A lead or name tag pulls one mob out. With Carry On, sneak + right-click with an empty hand picks up one mob.
• Breeding food pulls two mobs out to breed. Shearing a stack shears every sheep in it.
• Bred, tamed, named and leashed mobs never stack.
• /kill removes a whole stack at once.

Heavy mobs and player farms

• A mob is heavy when its base health is 100 or more, it has a boss bar, it's in the #c:bosses tag, or it's on the heavy_mobs list. Modded mobs are covered without naming the mod.
• Heavy mobs only stack inside player-claimed land (player farms), up to 8 by default. Wardens stop at 4.
• Mobs with a boss bar never stack. Player-built Iron Golems and Withers never stack.
• Iron Golems only stack when villagers summon them. Elder Guardians only stack in a monument a player has claimed.
• Stacks that aren't allowed where they stand split back up: when their chunk loads, at each merge check, or right away with /utilities stacks check.
• light_mobs takes any mob out of the heavy group.
• Every mob from other mods is listed by mod, with its health and group, in detected_mobs.toml at start and on reload. Copy ids from there into settings.toml.

Items

• XP orbs merge into one orb when they land near each other.
• Dropped items of the same kind merge into one stack.
• Cleanup: staff clear dropped items with /utilities cleanup, after a chat countdown, or on a timer. Items on claimed land, named items, loot bags and items a player just dropped are left alone.
• Loot bags: LootBoxesPlus, Mob Loot Bags, Dungeon Loot Bags, Treasure Bags, Loot Bags Renewal, LootBags+ and Mark's LootBags are detected at start. Other loot bag items or mods go in [loot_bags] in settings.toml.
• Chunk cap (off by default): most dropped items per chunk.
• Valuable items (off by default) stay on the ground longer.

Performance

• Hostile mob cap: natural hostile spawns per loaded chunks (vanilla 70, default 40).
• Smart hoppers: idle hoppers stop checking every tick and wake up when something changes next to them.
• Villager slowdown: villagers boxed into trading halls think every 4 ticks. Trading, restocking and breeding work the same.
• Redstone clock limiter (off by default): very fast redstone clocks are slowed or broken.

Small tweaks

• Faster leaf decay
• Sapling self-planting (off by default)
• Bone meal on sugar cane, cactus, nether wart and vines
• Double doors open together
• Keep a percentage of XP on death (50% by default)
• Right-click harvest
• Mob griefing per mob

Install

Drop the jar in the server's mods folder and start the server. The config files are made on first start. Updating from 1.0.0: an unedited never_stack list is updated on its own, with a backup of the old settings.toml.

Commands

Command	Permission	Default
/utilities lag [page]	utilities.lag	OP 2
Lag alerts (off by default)	utilities.lag.alert	OP 2
/utilities cleanup	utilities.cleanup	OP 2
/utilities stacks check	utilities.stacks	OP 2
/utilities reload	utilities.reload	OP 3

Nodes work with any permission mod or plain OP levels.

Config

Files are in config/elements_utilities/.

• features.toml: the Master Control File, one switch per feature, plus the overlap guard
• settings.toml: numbers and lists for each feature (stack sizes, farm limits, timers, item and mob lists)
• messages.toml: every message, & colors
• detected_mobs.toml: the list of modded mobs, rewritten at start and on reload

When another installed mod already does the same job (Clumps, In Control!, Mob Stacker, Leaves Be Gone, Double Doors, Quark, Right Click Harvest), that feature turns itself off. overlap_guard.force_on keeps it on.

License

Free to use in any modpack. Credit Telmarine. No resale.