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Universal Compression

Compress (nearly) any block in the game into progressively denser stacks, up to nine tiers deep.

No upfront configuration required. Every block from every installed mod is supported automatically at startup.
Nine blocks of any type craft into one compressed block. That block is itself compressible. Repeat up to nine times. The math gets silly fast, and that is the point.
A tier overlay renders on top of the parent block's texture so compressed blocks are always visually identifiable at a glance.
Loot and recipe tables are generated virtually at runtime, meaning there are no datapack files bloating your instance for every possible block combination.
Blocks or entire mods can be excluded via the config file if needed.

Requires NeoForge 1.21+. MIT licensed.

Config file located at <instance>/config/universalcompression-common.toml for most modded instances, or follow the below for a standard install of the Minecraft Launcher:

Keybind: Windows+R (this opens a small menu at the bottom of your screen)
Type %appdata% in the input box, then press Enter key
Locate /.minecraft/ folder near top
Navigate to your config folder from there

❌ = excluded | ✅ = refined to a specific rule

Many blanket namespace exclusions exist because only a handful of blocks from that mod had missing or incorrect textures. Auditing each one individually was deferred during development and will be addressed over time.

Excluded Mods (entire namespace)


❌ Ae2	❌ Aether	❌ Allthecompressed	❌ Antibuilt
❌ Ars Nouveau	❌ Bellsandwhistles	❌ Biomeswevegone	❌ Chipped
❌ Compact Machines	❌ Corail Tombstone	❌ Create	❌ Createaddition
❌ Domum Ornamentum	❌ Enderio	❌ Eternal Starlight	❌ Extended Industrialization
❌ Factoryblocks	❌ Forbidden Arcanus	❌ Handcrafted	❌ Herbsandharvest
❌ Immersive Engineering	❌ Luminax	❌ Macaw (all variants)	❌ Mamas Merrymaking
❌ Merrymaking	❌ Mining Gadgets	❌ Modern Industrialization	❌ Mrcrayfish
❌ Mysticalagradditions	❌ Mysticalagriculture	❌ Nightfall	❌ Occultism
❌ Oh The Biomes	❌ Oritech	❌ Path	❌ Productivetrees
❌ Quarryplus	❌ Rechiseled	❌ Refurbished Furniture	❌ Regions Unexplored
❌ Rftoolsbase	❌ Rftoolsbuilder	❌ Soundmuffler	❌ Stevescarts
❌ Structurize	❌ Supplementaries	❌ Tombstone (all variants)	❌ Troolvidr
❌ Twilightforest	❌ Utilitarian	❌ Xnet	❌ Xtones Reworked
❌ Xycraft Override	❌ Xycraft World

Excluded Block Path Patterns (substring match, any mod)


❌ Advanced Machine Frame	❌ Air	❌ Aluminum Storage	❌ Amorous Bristle
❌ Ancient Debris	❌ Ancient Podzol	❌ Arcane Crystal	❌ Ashen Deepturf
❌ Azalea / Flowering Azalea	❌ Bamboo Shoot	❌ Battery	❌ Bench
❌ Bioshroom	❌ Block Bio Fuel	❌ Block Of Plastic	❌ Bubble / Dense Bubble
❌ Bush	❌ Cactus	❌ Candle	❌ Cartography Table
❌ Cave Hyssop	❌ Chiseled Quartz	❌ Cluster	❌ Cobweb / Half Cobweb
❌ Comb Block	❌ Crafting Table	❌ Crate	❌ Crimson Fungus
❌ Debug	❌ Deepturf / Frozen Deepturf	❌ Delightful Dirt	❌ Dimension Boundary
❌ Dragon Ice Spikes	❌ Dried Kelp Block	❌ Duckweed	❌ Enhanced Galgadorian / Galgadorian
❌ Fern	❌ Fire	❌ Fletching Table	❌ Fluid Placeholder
❌ Forbidden Arcanus Upwind / Whirlwind	❌ Frogspawn	❌ Fur	❌ Garden
❌ Ghost	❌ Glistering / Glistering Ivy / Glistering Wart	❌ Gloomgourd	❌ Grass
❌ Herb	❌ Honey	❌ Icicle	❌ Infested
❌ Ink Mushroom Stem	❌ Invisible	❌ Kelp Plant	❌ Lamp
❌ Lava Factory Casing	❌ Leaves	❌ Lily	❌ Lodestone
❌ Luminis	❌ Machine Casing	❌ Machine Frame	❌ Machine Void Air
❌ Magma Block	❌ Matrix Frame	❌ Medium / Thin / Wide Pot	❌ Melon
❌ Milky Comb	❌ Miners Light	❌ Miserabell	❌ Mistletoe
❌ Mortar	❌ Mushroom	❌ Nether Sprout / Sprouts	❌ Phantom Booster
❌ Pity Machine Frame	❌ Placeholder	❌ Prismoss	❌ Pumpkin
❌ Redstone Bud	❌ Regalium	❌ Reinforced Deepslate	❌ Reinforced Metal Block
❌ Rice Bag	❌ Root	❌ Royal Jelly	❌ Runic
❌ Scintling	❌ Sculk Tendrils Plant	❌ Seeping Ink	❌ Shelf
❌ Shimmerweed	❌ Simple Machine Frame	❌ Smooth Kivi	❌ Smooth Quartz
❌ Smooth Red / Smooth Sandstone	❌ Snow Block	❌ Solid Compact Machine Wall	❌ Soldering Table
❌ Soul Herb	❌ Soulless Sandstone	❌ Spore Blossom	❌ Station
❌ Structure Void	❌ Supreme Machine Frame	❌ Torch	❌ Trophy
❌ Tropical Garden	❌ Twisting Vine	❌ Undergarden Goo / Goo Block	❌ Unexplored Log / Plank
❌ Veiled / Veiled Mushroom	❌ Warped Fungus	❌ Wax / Wax Block / Wax Brick / Wax Tile	❌ Waypoint Placeholder
❌ Weeping Vines Plant	❌ Whirlwind	❌ Wild Flax / Wild Fluffy

Compound Rules (mod + path condition)


❌ Ae2 — path contains `certus`	❌ Ars Nouveau — path contains `sourceberry`	❌ Compact Machines — path equals `wall`
❌ Create — path contains `quartz`	❌ Farmers Delight — path contains `crate`	❌ Ice And Fire — path contains `scale`
❌ Minecraft — path contains `bamboo`	❌ Minecolonies — path contains `waypoint`	❌ Mysticalagriculture / Mysticalagradditions — path contains `ore`
❌ Naturesaura — path contains `light`	❌ Securitycraft — path contains `quartz`	❌ Undergarden — path equals `goo` or `goo_block`