Mob Grinding Utils guide for All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
Mob Grinding Utils guide for All the Mods 10: To the Sky
Last verified for All the Mods 10: To the Sky v1.1.2 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 17, 2026
A newer release (2.1.0) is out Guide for the current version
Also applies to:All the Mods 10 0.66 to 5.5All the Mons 0.3.0-beta to 0.6.0-beta
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- Recipes shown
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1 section is written for this pack; 3 are shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.1.2's own files.
What is Mob Grinding Utils?
Same as in the All the Mods 10 4.14 guide
Mob Grinding Utils is part of the pack's mod list. This pack ships version 1.1.10+mc1.21.1, and the mod has been in the pack since version 2.2 or earlier, so it's a long-standing inclusion rather than a recent addition.[1]
Unverified The sources I have don't describe what the mod's items and machines do, what its recipes or configs look like in this pack, or where it fits in the progression. I couldn't confirm any ATM Star path involvement or any quests that use the mod, so I'm not making claims about them here.
How do you get started with Mob Grinding Utils?
5 parts
Mob Grinding Utils is all about building mob farms and handling what they drop, including XP. Here is the order I'd make things in, starting with the basic kill tool and working up to the advanced grinder.[2]
Iron Spikes: your first killer
Iron Spikes are the basic way to kill mobs in a farm, and they also drop the mob's XP. Mobs killed by spikes do not count as player kills, so keep that in mind when you plan your farm.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any iron storage block |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_spikes
Tinted Glass: see in, keep light out
Tinted Glass lets you see inside the mob farm without letting light in. It is also tough enough to withstand Withers, so it is a good choice for your farm walls.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| any coal | any glass blocks | any coal |
| any glass blocks | any coal | any glass blocks |
| any coal | any glass blocks | any coal |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_tintedglass
Moving mobs around
The Mob Fan pushes mobs in the direction it faces, and you can modify it with Mob Fan Upgrades. The Mob Fan Distance Upgrade adds +1 distance up to a max of 10. The Mob Fan Height Upgrade and Mob Fan Width Upgrade each add +1, up to a max of 3.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | ||
| any iron ingot | any redstone storage block | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_fan
The Entity Conveyor moves mobs and items along a horizontal vector. Mobs can also spawn on this block.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any slime ball | Empty slot |
| any iron ingot | any redstone dust | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot | any slime ball | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_entity_conveyor
Mob Masher: the real grinder
The Mob Masher is the advanced modular mob grinder, and you can enhance it with Mob Masher Upgrades. Unlike spikes, mobs mashed by it do count as player kills.[2]
Crafting Shaped
| any diamond gem | ||
| any redstone storage block | ||
| any diamond gem | any iron storage block | any diamond gem |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_saw
Collecting the loot and XP
The Absorption Hopper vacuums up items and XP orbs in a 7x7x7 area. Fluids go into tanks and items go into inventories. You can increase its range with the Absorption Radius Upgrade.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | any obsidian | Empty slot |
| any obsidian | any obsidian |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_absorption_hopper
For storing fluid XP you will want a Singularity Tank. The XP Tap attaches to the side of a tank and turns fluid XP back into orbs.[2][3]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any glass blocks | any iron ingot |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
| any iron ingot | any glass blocks | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_tank
Crafting Shaped
| any obsidian | Empty slot |
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_xp_tap
How does Mob Grinding Utils work?
6 parts
Same as in the All the Mons 0.6.0-beta guide
Mob Grinding Utils is a toolkit for building mob farms: you spawn mobs, herd them, kill them, then collect the drops and the XP. The details below come from the mod's own in-game tooltips and descriptions, plus the pack's recipe list.[4][5]
Unverified No config file for this mod is available in the pack sources, so any value the pack might have changed through config is unconfirmed. The numbers below are what the mod's tooltips state.
Spawning mobs
The Entity Spawner spawns mobs in a 3x3x1 area. You put a mob egg in its top slot, and it is fuelled by XP Jelly Baby items. It is enhanced with XP Speed Upgrades and the Entity Spawner Height Upgrade and Entity Spawner Width Upgrade. In its GUI you can toggle the area of effect and offset the position.[4]
For passive spawning, the mod has two special dirt blocks. Delightful Dirt spawns more creature mobs, and a light level below 10 stops those spawns. It does not work in ocean biomes. Dreadful Dirt spawns more hostile mobs, and a light level of 5 and above stops those spawns.[4]
You lay these blocks down with eggs. A Golden Egg creates a 5x5 area of Delightful Dirt, and a Rotten Egg creates a 5x5 area of Dreadful Dirt. Both are used on grass, dirt, mycelium or farmland. The chicken feed tooltips mention these eggs: the feed is single use for the chicken and creates either a Rotten Egg or a Golden Egg.[4]
Chicken Feed (mob_grinding_utils)
Mob Swab Used
- any seed
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:gm_chicken_feed
GM Chicken Feed uses a used Mob Swab, which you collect from mobs.
Moving mobs
The Mob Fan pushes mobs in the direction it faces, and you can toggle its area of effect in its GUI. Its upgrades each add +1: Distance up to a max of 10, Height up to a max of 3, and Width up to a max of 3.[4]
The Entity Conveyor moves mobs and items along a horizontal vector. Mobs can also spawn on it.[4]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any slime ball | Empty slot |
| any iron ingot | any redstone dust | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot | any slime ball | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_entity_conveyor
Crafting Shaped
| any feather | any iron ingot | any feather |
| any iron ingot | any redstone dust | any iron ingot |
| any feather | any iron ingot | any feather |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_fan_upgrade_speed
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any feather | any iron ingot |
| Empty slot | any feather | Empty slot |
| any iron ingot | any feather | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_fan_upgrade_height
Killing mobs
Iron Spikes are the basic option. They also drop the mob's XP, but mobs killed by spikes do not count as player kills.[4]
The Mob Masher is the advanced, modular grinder. Mobs it mashes do count as player kills. It takes Mob Masher upgrades for Arthropods, Beheading, Fire, Looting, Sharpness and Smite. Each upgrade adds +1 of its enchantment-style effect, up to a maximum.[4]
Crafting Shaped
| any diamond gem | ||
| any redstone storage block | ||
| any diamond gem | any iron storage block | any diamond gem |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_saw
Collecting drops and XP
The Absorption Hopper vacuums up items and XP orbs in a 7x7x7 area. You can configure it to push out on any side, so fluids go into tanks and items go into inventories. The Absorption Radius Upgrade increases its range by +1 each, up to a max of 6. In its GUI you can toggle the area of effect and offset the position on each axis.[4]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | any obsidian | Empty slot |
| any obsidian | any obsidian |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_absorption_hopper
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any ender pearl | Empty slot |
| any ender pearl | any redstone dust | any ender pearl |
| any obsidian | any obsidian |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_absorbtion_upgrade
Storing and using XP
The Jumbo Tank is a larger version of the Singularity Tank (Singularity Tank) and holds 1024 buckets of any liquid. The XP Tap attaches to the side of a tank and turns fluid XP back into orbs. The XP Drain Singularity Tank is a separate tank variant with its own recipe.[4][5]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| Empty slot | ||
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_jumbotank
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_tank_sink
The XP Solidifier turns fluid XP into edible XP jellies. It needs an XP mould and fluid XP in its tank. You can configure it to export horizontally, and XP Speed Upgrades make it faster.[4]
In this pack, the solidifier makes an XP Jelly Baby from an XP Mould Jelly Baby. You can craft a blank mould into the jelly baby mould, and turn it back again.[5]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_solidifier
Solidify (mob_grinding_utils)
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:solidify/jelly_baby
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_mould_baby_upgrade
Solid XP is a block of solidified experience that is very bouncy.[4]
Farm utilities
- Tinted Glass lets you see inside the farm without letting light in, and it is tough enough to withstand Withers.[4]
- The Ender Inhibitor stops teleportation for entities up to 8 blocks away. It attaches to any side of solid blocks, and you right click it to activate or deactivate it.[4]
- The Ender Dragon Death Muffler stops Ender Dragon death sounds within a 32 block radius. Right click it to hide the boss bar.[4]
- The Wither Boss Death Muffler works the same way for Wither death sounds, within an 8 block radius.[4]
How do you progress through Mob Grinding Utils?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 4.14 guide
The sources here show no quest guidance for this mod, so the order below follows the in-pack recipe chains. Several machines are built from other machines in the mod, and the later ones pull in vanilla ender and nether materials, which makes the order pretty clear.[6]
Early builds
Start with the basics. The Singularity Tank, the Entity Conveyor, the XP Tap, the Tinted Glass and the Mob Swab are the parts the rest of the chain builds on.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any glass blocks | any iron ingot |
| any glass blocks | any glass blocks | any glass blocks |
| any iron ingot | any glass blocks | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_tank
The Singularity Tank is the base for several later machines in this pack.
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any slime ball | Empty slot |
| any iron ingot | any redstone dust | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot | any slime ball | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_entity_conveyor
The Entity Conveyor is also an ingredient in the XP Solidifier.
The Mob Fan is also an early build. Its upgrades are Mob Fan Width Upgrade, Mob Fan Height Upgrade and Mob Fan Distance Upgrade.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | ||
| any iron ingot | any redstone storage block | any iron ingot |
| any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_fan
Killing and XP handling
The Mob Masher is the first real step up. Its recipe needs Iron Spikes, so craft those first. It also needs a diamond, an iron block and a redstone block.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any iron storage block |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_spikes
Crafting Shaped
| any diamond gem | ||
| any redstone storage block | ||
| any diamond gem | any iron storage block | any diamond gem |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_saw
Once you have a Mob Masher, you can add its upgrades: Mob Masher Upgrade Sharpness, Mob Masher Upgrade Smite, Mob Masher Upgrade Arthropods, Mob Masher Upgrade Fire, Mob Masher Upgrade Looting and Mob Masher Upgrade Beheading. Each one uses redstone dust and gold nuggets alongside an item that fits its effect.[6]
For storing XP, the Jumbo Tank is built directly from a Singularity Tank plus iron.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot | |
| Empty slot | ||
| any iron ingot | any iron ingot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_jumbotank
The XP Solidifier combines an Entity Conveyor and a Singularity Tank with a hopper and a piston. You can speed it up with the XP Speed Upgrade.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_solidifier
Solid XP comes from a short chain. An XP Mould Blank is converted into an XP Mould Jelly Baby. That mould is used in a special solidify recipe to produce an XP Jelly Baby, and the jelly baby turns into a Solid XP. The block can be turned back into a jelly baby, and the moulds can be reset.[6]
Crafting Shaped
8 × any gold nugget
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_mould_blank
Ender and boss-level parts
The last stage leans on ender eyes and rarer vanilla items. The Entity Spawner needs Solid XP, an ender eye, a piston, an iron block and a redstone block, so you have to get through the XP chain first. Its Entity Spawner Width Upgrade and Entity Spawner Height Upgrade use blaze powder and an egg.[6]
- Absorption Hopper uses an ender eye, a hopper and obsidian, and its Absorption Radius Upgrade uses an ender pearl.[6]
- XP Drain Singularity Tank is built from a Singularity Tank with an ender eye, a hopper and iron bars.[6]
- Ender Inhibitor Active uses an ender eye, glowstone dust, redstone dust and iron.[6]
- Ender Dragon Death Muffler needs a dragon egg and wool, and Wither Boss Death Muffler needs a wither skeleton skull and wool.[6]
Chicken feeds
The feeds are a side branch you can do whenever you like: Nutritious Chicken Feed, GM Chicken Feed Cursed and GM Chicken Feed. The GM feed is the one that uses a Mob Swab Used in its recipe.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | |
| any seed | any bone | |
| Empty slot | any gunpowder | Empty slot |
Recipe id: mob_grinding_utils:recipe_cursed_feed
Sources
- All the Mods 10 4.14 mod list · pack file
- mob_grinding_utils tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10: To the Sky 1.1.2 recipe dump: recipes making Mob Grinding Utils items · pack recipe dump
- mob_grinding_utils names, screen text and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mons 0.6.0-beta recipe dump: recipes making Mob Grinding Utils items · pack recipe dump
- All the Mods 10 4.14 recipe dump: recipes making Mob Grinding Utils items · pack recipe dump
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mods 10: To the Sky itself ships: its files and recipes, the in-game guidebooks and the mods' own pages. Every statement links to the source it came from, and the numbers are checked against the pack before publishing.
Guide last verified Oct 17, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 1.6 to 2.1.0 · 1.2 to 1.2.1 · 1.0 to 1.0.2