Changelog

1.0.1

Fixes

• Entity Conveyor: the animated top now has iron end caps, so the arrows slide under the casing instead of cutting off at the block edge (no more green sliver), and it scrolls smoothly at an even speed with no blurring between frames.

Requirements unchanged: Minecraft 1.21.1, Fabric Loader 0.19.5+, Fabric API, Java 21.

1.0.0 - Initial release

First public release of Mob Grindworks: a compact automatic mob-farm toolkit, remastered with all-new 32x pixel art.

Requirements: Minecraft 1.21.1, Fabric Loader 0.19.5+, Fabric API, Java 21. Works on client and server.

Blocks

• Mob Masher - a modular grinder with a 6-slot upgrade GUI. Kills count as player kills, so mob drops, XP, and looting all behave as if you got the kill yourself.
• Mob Fan - pushes mobs in the direction it faces. A 3-slot upgrade GUI extends its width, height, and distance, and its area of effect can be toggled in the GUI.
• Absorption Hopper - vacuums up items and XP orbs in a 7x7x7 area, pushing items into inventories and fluids into tanks. Its push side and position can be configured in the GUI, its area of effect can be toggled, and a Radius Upgrade slot extends its range.
• Entity Conveyor - moves mobs and items along a horizontal line; mobs can spawn directly on it.
• Iron Spikes - impales anything that walks onto them and drops the mob's XP, but kills from spikes do not count as player kills.
• Singularity Tank - stores 32 buckets of fluid and keeps its contents when broken and picked back up.
• XP Drain Singularity Tank - a Singularity Tank variant; stand on it to pour your own XP into the tank as Fluid XP (32 buckets).
• Jumbo Tank - a large tank holding 1024 buckets.
• XP Tap - attaches to the side of a tank and turns stored Fluid XP back into XP orbs.

All blocks have their own loot tables, are mineable with a pickaxe, and are immune to the Wither and the Ender Dragon.

Upgrades

• Mob Masher Upgrade Sharpness, Looting, Fire, Smite, Arthropods, Beheading - one upgrade slot per type in the Mob Masher, stacking up to a configurable limit per slot.
• Mob Masher Upgrade Beheading also unlocks head drops from zombies, husks, drowned, zombified piglins, piglins, piglin brutes, skeletons, wither skeletons, creepers, and the ender dragon.
• Mob Fan Distance Upgrade, Width Upgrade, Height Upgrade - extend the Mob Fan's push distance, width, and height.
• Absorption Radius Upgrade - extends the Absorption Hopper's pickup radius.

Items & Fluids

• Fluid XP Bucket - carries Fluid XP like any other bucketed fluid.
• Fluid XP - a liquid form of experience that flows and pipes like any other fluid, with its own particle effects. Swimming in it drains your hunger, one food point per second, and turns it into XP orbs. Right-clicking a tank of Fluid XP with a glass bottle gives a Bottle o' Enchanting for 200 mB of Fluid XP.

Mechanics & Behaviour

• Mob Masher kills are attributed to a fake player, so drops, XP, and looting count as player kills, same as a manual kill.
• Tank items can be crafted back into an empty, fresh copy of themselves.
• Server-side settings (upgrade stacking limit and fan blade strength) are stored in config/obscuras_mob_grinder-server.json and sync automatically to connected clients.
• A dedicated creative inventory tab, "Mob Grindworks," collects every block and item from the mod.
• Full translations for English, Japanese, and Chinese (Simplified).

Textures

• Every block, item, entity, GUI, and particle has been redrawn from scratch as 32x pixel art, styled to match vanilla Minecraft rather than the original mod's look.
• Custom mod icon.

Compatibility & Notes

This release ports the core grinder chain from Mob Grinding Utils - moving mobs, killing them, collecting drops, and storing XP - and leaves out the rest of that mod's scope, including its Entity Spawner, Ender Inhibitor, Dragon/Wither Mufflers, Tinted Glass, Solid XP Block, XP Solidifier, Delightful/Dreadful Dirt, chicken feed items, Golden/Rotten Egg, Mob Swab, Monocle, Sorting Hopper and XP Mould filters, Solid XP Baby, and the Spawner and XP Solidifier upgrades.

Based on Mob Grinding Utils by vadis365 and flanks255.