Clumps in All the Mods 10

Clumps is a small performance mod that cuts down lag from XP orbs. When lots of orbs pile up in one small area, it groups them into a single entity so your game and server don't lag.^[1]

It also changes how pickup feels. Once an orb touches you, you collect it immediately, so you don't get stuck with a swarm of orbs floating in your face.^[1]

Who it is for

It helps whenever there are many XP orbs in a small area. If you play on a server, you get the benefit without any extra setup on your end.^[1]

For Minecraft 1.17 and newer, the mod is only required on the server side. Older Minecraft versions need it on both sides, but that doesn't apply to this pack.^[1]

In this pack

The pack ships Clumps 19.0.0.1, built for NeoForge on Minecraft 1.21.1.^[2]

Unverified The sources give no information on where Clumps fits into the pack's progression, and they show no quests or ATM Star path involving it. It works in the background, so there is nothing to unlock or craft.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Good news: Clumps doesn't ask you to craft anything or set anything up. It works in the background from the moment you load in, so there's no first item to make and no recipe to follow.^[1]

What it does is group XP orbs together into a single entity. That cuts lag when lots of orbs pile up in a small area, for example around a big mob farm.^[1]

It also changes how XP feels to pick up. The player collects orbs immediately once they touch you, so you aren't stuck with a bunch of orbs in your face.^[1]

Server or client?

If you run your own server, the mod's project page says that for Minecraft 1.17 or newer it is only required on the server side. Older Minecraft versions need it on both sides.^[1]

Unverified Whether this pack changes any Clumps behaviour is not confirmed by the available sources.

Clumps is a much simpler mod than the machine and multiblock mods you'll find elsewhere in the pack. It has no machines, no power, no fluids and nothing to automate. It works quietly in the background on one thing: XP orbs.^[1]

Orb clumping

When lots of XP orbs end up in a small area, Clumps groups them into a single entity. Fewer entities means less lag, which helps a lot around XP farms and big mob fights.^[1]

Instant pickup

Clumps also makes you collect an orb as soon as it touches you. You don't get stuck with a swarm of orbs floating in your face.^[1]

Server or client

For Minecraft 1.17 or newer, the project page says Clumps is only required on the server side. For older Minecraft versions it has to be installed on both sides.^[1]

Unverified No config options, items, recipes or in-game descriptions for Clumps could be confirmed from the available sources, so this guide doesn't list any tuning values or crafting steps for it. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.

I have to be upfront here: the pack sources I was given don't describe any tiers or progression for the Clumps mod itself. There are no quests or recipes for it in them, so I won't invent a tier ladder.^[3]

Unverified Any tier breakdown or progression path for the Clumps mod (namespace clumps) in this pack is unconfirmed.

Not to be confused with: Mekanism ore clumps

The quest book does talk about "Clumps" a lot, but in the Mekanism chapter. Those are ore processing items made by Mekanism machines, and the book calls the steps Tier 1 to Tier 4 Ore Processing. If you came here for that, here is the path the quests lay out.^[3]

1. Tier 1: "Enrich then Smelt" quest uses an Enrichment Chamber and an Energized Smelter. Throw ore into the enricher for Dust, then smelt the Dust into Ingots. The book says 3 Raw Ore gives 4 Dust.^[3]
2. Tier 2: "Making Oxygen for Purifier" quest brings in the Purification Chamber, which needs Oxygen from an Electrolytic Separator fed with Water. It gives 3 Ore Clumps from an Ore Block or 2 from Raw Ore. Then "Crush and Enrich our Clumps" quest has you crush each Clump into 2 Dirty Ore Dust, enrich it to clean it, and smelt it.^[3]
3. Tier 3: "Making Chlorine" quest has you make Chlorine from Brine using a Thermal Evaporation Plant. "Injecting Hydrogen Chloride" quest combines it with Hydrogen to inject ores into Shards: 4 Shards from an Ore Block, or 8 from 3 Raw Ores. "Shard, to Clump, to Dust, to Ingot" quest then purifies Shards into Clumps and repeats the crush, enrich and smelt steps.^[3]
4. Tier 4: "Creating Sulfuric Acid" quest is the Sulfuric Acid shopping list. "Melting Ores with Acid and Crystallizing them" quest dissolves, washes and crystallizes ores, where 200mb of Ore Slurry equals 1 Crystal. "Crystal, Shard, Clump, ETC" quest follows a quest called "Making more Hydrogen Chloride" and turns the Shards back into Ingots.^[3]

The quests below use the word clump for ore clumps, a step in ore processing, and they sit in the Oritech chapter of the quest book. None of the quests shown in the sources ask for an item from this mod itself. The Oritech chapter has 56 quests, and 15 of them don't have their text included here, so check the book itself for those.^[3][4]

The clump quests, in order

1. Everything in the chapter hangs off "Oritech Beginnings" quest, which asks for 4 nickel ingots. The Pulverizer and Centrifuge quests come from there.^[4]
2. "Clumps" quest has the subtitle "Fragment raw ores". It comes after a Refinery quest in the same chapter.^[4]
3. "Spinning into gems" quest comes right after the Clumps quest. It asks for any one of these gems: Copper Gem, Platinum Gem, Gold Gem, Nickel Gem, Uranium Gem or Iron Gem.^[4]

What Spinning into gems tells you

Once you have clumps, put a fluid addon on a centrifuge so you can feed it Sulphuric Acid. Clumps processed with that acid give you gems. Water works too, but with a lower yield.^[4]

If you still need the addon, a quest in "Oritech" covers it. It follows the Centrifuge quest and is described as allowing fluids to be added to the centrifuge.^[4]

Clumps has a short history in this pack. The pack changelogs only record when it was added and removed, and they don't describe any gameplay changes.^[2][5][6]

• All the Mods 10 2.25 or earlier: Clumps was already in the pack by this point. That is the earliest release the mod list confirms.^[2]
• All the Mods 10 3.2: Clumps was removed from the pack.^[6]
• All the Mods 10 4.0: Clumps came back, added at version 19.0.0.1.^[5]
• All the Mods 10 8.1: the pack ships Clumps 19.0.0.1, using the file Clumps-neoforge-1.21.1-19.0.0.1.jar.^[2]

So the version you get in 8.1 is the same one that was re-added in 4.0.^[2][5]

Unverified There are no stored mod changelogs for the shipped jar, so I can't say what changed inside Clumps between versions, or why it was removed in 3.2 and re-added in 4.0.