Starbunclemania guide for All the Mods 10 3.0 to 4.10

Starbunclemania is included in this pack at version 1.4.0.1, built for Minecraft 1.21.1. It has been part of the pack since version 3.0 or earlier, so it's a long-standing member of the mod list.^[1]

Beyond that, I can't tell you much with confidence. The sources I have don't describe what the mod does, who it's aimed at, or what its items and mechanics are, so I'm not going to guess and risk sending you down the wrong path.^[1]

What is confirmed about its place in progression: the mod is not on the ATM Star quest path, and no quests in this pack involve it. You won't be prompted toward it by the questbook, so you'll find it through your own exploring.^[1]

Unverified The mod's gameplay features, its recipes, its config options and how it fits into mid- or late-game progression are unverified. No in-jar guidebook or platform description was available to confirm them.

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Starbunclemania is all about giving your Starbuncles new jobs. Most of its items change what a Starbuncle does, such as moving fluids, moving energy, voiding items, placing blocks or mining. In this pack the first thing to get is the Fluid Jar, because the other fluid items build on it.^[2]

Step one: make a Fluid Jar

The Fluid Containment Jar comes first. The pack changed its recipe, so don't rely on what you remember from the mod's defaults.^[3]

Fluid Containment JarChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold ingot	Empty slot
Glass	Water Essence	Glass
Cascading Archwood Log	Cascading Archwood Log	Cascading Archwood Log

Recipe id: starbunclemania:fluid_jar

You can also place a Wixie on a Fluid Jar to make the Wixie Mixer. The jar is used in the recipe for the Glyph Pickup Fluid glyph too, shown below.^[2][3]

Glyph Pickup FluidMod recipe

Glyph (ars_nouveau)

• Hopper
• Fluid Containment Jar

Recipe id: starbunclemania:glyph_pickup_fluid

The glyph picks up fluids from the world and fills a tank in the hotbar or next to the turret.

Step two: make a Source Condenser

The pack uses the Source Condenser to get Source into a form that Fluid Hatches can handle. The Runic Crucible needs Source, and this pack has no Source Hatches to supply it. Place a Source Jar with some Source next to the condenser and it turns the Source into Liquefied Source. The quest a quest in "?" covers this, and in the Forbidden & Arcanus chapter it comes after Tier 5 Forge.^[4]

Source CondenserMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Fluid Containment Jar
• Source Relay

Recipe id: starbunclemania:source_condenser

The pack also has a Create mixing recipe that produces the Source fluid. The pack changed this one too.^[3]

Next: make a Starbucket

The Starbucket changes a Starbuncle's job to carrying fluids around. It's made at an Enchanting Apparatus, and the Fluid Jar you already have goes into it.^[2][3]

StarbucketMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Fluid Containment Jar
• 4× any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_bucket

Step four: pick your other Starbuncle jobs

Once fluids work, add the other job items as you need them. These have recipes the pack changed:^[3]

• StarbAttery makes a Starbuncle transport FE energy.^[2][3]
• StarBin makes a Starbuncle void the items it picks up and the items from linked chests.^[2][3]
• Starbuilder makes a Starbuncle place blocks in specified spots.^[2][3]
• Starminer makes a Starbuncle mine blocks in specified spots. You can give it a tool, and it defaults to an iron pick.^[2][3]

StarbAtteryChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold nugget	Empty slot
any copper ingot	any redstone dust	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	any redstone dust	any copper ingot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_battery

StarBinChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot
any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
any iron nugget	any iron ingot	any iron nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_bin

StarbuilderChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	Dispenser	any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_build

StarminerChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Leather Helmet	any iron ingot
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_miner

Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide

Starbunclemania is built around one idea: you give a familiar a piece of headwear, and that changes what it does. What the sources describe are familiar jobs, Wixie workstations, and some fluid and Source items, not big multiblocks or standalone machines. Here is how each part works in this pack.^[2]

Starbuncle job items

Each of these changes a starbuncle's job. Here is what the tooltips say about them.^[2]

• Starbucket makes the starbuncle transport fluids around.^[2]
• StarbAttery makes it transport FE energy around.^[2]
• Starballoon makes it transport Mekanism chemical around. It can be dyed, and it supports Starbuncle, Drygmy and Wixie familiars.^[2]
• Starbuilder makes it place blocks in specified spots.^[2][3]
• Starminer makes it mine blocks in specified spots. You can give it a tool to use, and it defaults to an iron pick.^[2][3]
• StarBin makes it void the items it picks up, and items from linked chests.^[2][3]
• Square Robin Mask tweaks the starbuncle's item transport to round-robin items between inventories, and it also stops pickup.^[2][3]

The pack changed the crafting recipes for the StarbAttery, the StarBin, the Starbuilder and the Starminer, so don't trust the mod's default recipes for those. The recipes below are the in-pack ones.^[3]

StarbAtteryChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold nugget	Empty slot
any copper ingot	any redstone dust	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	any redstone dust	any copper ingot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_battery

StarBinChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot
any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
any iron nugget	any iron ingot	any iron nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_bin

StarbuilderChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	Dispenser	any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_build

StarminerChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Leather Helmet	any iron ingot
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_miner

The Starbucket, the Starballoon and the Square Robin Mask use their standard mod recipes. The Starbucket and the Starballoon are made at an Enchanting Apparatus.^[3]

StarbucketMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Fluid Containment Jar
• 4× any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_bucket

StarballoonMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Air Essence
• 2× Magebloom Fiber
• any wool

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_balloon

Square Robin MaskMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Green Wool	Empty slot
Green Wool	Starbuncle Shades	Green Wool
Empty slot	Green Wool	Empty slot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:robin_mask

To change a Starballoon's color, combine it with a dye.^[3]

StarballoonMod recipe

Dye (ars_nouveau)

• Starballoon
• any dye

Recipe id: starbunclemania:dye_balloon

Direction scrolls and fluid scrolls

The Wyrm Degree is a cosmetic for Starbuncles and Bookwyrm familiars. It also allows item starbuncles to read Direction Scrolls.^[2]

Direction ScrollMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Blank Parchment
• Compass

Recipe id: starbunclemania:direction_scroll

There are also Fluid Scroll: Allow and Fluid Scroll: Deny. Each has a recipe that clears the scroll back to blank, and the pack does not change those recipes. The sources don't explain how the scrolls are applied, so I'm leaving out the details.^[3]

Fluid Scroll: AllowMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Blank Parchment
• Water Essence

Recipe id: starbunclemania:fluid_scroll_allow

Fluid Scroll: DenyMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Blank Parchment
• Water Essence
• any cobblestone

Recipe id: starbunclemania:fluid_scroll_deny

Wixie workstations

Using a Wixie Charm on certain blocks changes which recipes your Wixie works with. These are the options the tooltips describe.^[2]

• Furnace: the Wixie uses smelting and smoking recipes.^[2]
• Stonecutter: the Wixie uses stonecutter recipes.^[2]
• Cutting Board: the Wixie uses cutting board recipes.^[2]
• Cooking Pot: the Wixie uses cooking pot recipes.^[2]
• Crucible: the Wixie uses Eidolon's crucible recipes.^[2]
• Fluid Containment Jar: the Wixie uses the milk and water in the side tanks for crafting recipes instead of buckets. The advancement text calls this the Wixie Mixer.^[2]

The Fluid Jar recipe was changed by the pack, so check the in-pack version here.^[3]

Fluid Containment JarChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold ingot	Empty slot
Glass	Water Essence	Glass
Cascading Archwood Log	Cascading Archwood Log	Cascading Archwood Log

Recipe id: starbunclemania:fluid_jar

Source and fluid handling

The Source Condenser and the Fluid Sourcelink each have their own recipe. The Source Condenser is made from a Source Relay and a Fluid Jar. The sources don't describe exactly how either one behaves, so I'm not going to guess.^[3]

Source CondenserMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Fluid Containment Jar
• Source Relay

Recipe id: starbunclemania:source_condenser

Fluid SourcelinkMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Source Gem	Empty slot
any gold ingot	Source Fluid Bucket	any gold ingot
Empty slot	Source Gem	Empty slot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:fluid_sourcelink

The pack changed how Source fluid is made. A Create mixing recipe turns an amethyst shard and an experience consumable into Source fluid. The pack also changed the Mekanism rotary recipe that links Source gas and Source fluid.^[3]

Fluid spell glyphs

The mod adds fluid glyphs for your spells. Glyph Pickup Fluid picks up fluids from the world and fills a tank in your hotbar or next to the turret. Glyph Place Fluid places fluid in the world, draining from a tank in your hotbar or next to the turret.^[2][3]

Both glyphs accept several augments. AOE increases the radius of targeted blocks, Pierce increases the depth, and Randomize adds a chance to not target a block. Sensitive on the pickup glyph targets the block hit directly instead of the relative position. On the place glyph, it places the fluid inside the block hit instead of relative to it.^[2]

Glyph Pickup FluidMod recipe

Glyph (ars_nouveau)

• Hopper
• Fluid Containment Jar

Recipe id: starbunclemania:glyph_pickup_fluid

Glyph Place FluidMod recipe

Glyph (ars_nouveau)

• Water Essence
• Dispenser

Recipe id: starbunclemania:glyph_place_fluid

Unverified No config files for this mod were provided in the sources here, so any config options it has are not shown. Treat anything configurable about the jobs and fluid items as unconfirmed.

Starbunclemania doesn't give you a clean tier ladder in this pack. What the recipes do show is a natural order, so this section groups the mod by what each item needs: crafting-table gear first, then the fluid chain, then Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus crafts, with cosmetics as an optional extra.^[5]

Unverified The sources here show no quests for this mod and no place for it on the ATM Star path, so I can't give you an official quest order. The order below comes only from the recipes.

Starbuncle gear from the crafting table

Start with the utility items. The pack changed the recipes for all of these, so don't rely on older guides or the mod's own defaults: StarBin, Starminer, Starbuilder and StarbAttery.^[5]

StarBinChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot
any iron ingot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
any iron nugget	any iron ingot	any iron nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_bin

This recipe is changed by the pack.

StarminerChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any iron ingot	any iron ingot	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	Leather Helmet	any iron ingot
any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_miner

This recipe is changed by the pack.

StarbuilderChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any gold nugget	any gold nugget	any gold nugget
any gold nugget	Dispenser	any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_build

This recipe is changed by the pack.

StarbAtteryChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold nugget	Empty slot
any copper ingot	any redstone dust	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	any redstone dust	any copper ingot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_battery

This recipe is changed by the pack.

The fluid chain

The Fluid Containment Jar sits at the start of the fluid items, and the pack changed its recipe.^[5]

Fluid Containment JarChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold ingot	Empty slot
Glass	Water Essence	Glass
Cascading Archwood Log	Cascading Archwood Log	Cascading Archwood Log

Recipe id: starbunclemania:fluid_jar

This recipe is changed by the pack.

starbunclemania:source_fluid is the other half of this chain. In this pack you make it with a Create mixing recipe, and the pack changed that recipe. The Mekanism rotary recipe linking Liquefied Source and Source gas is pack-changed too.^[5]

Once you have a starbunclemania:source_fluid_bucket, the Fluid Sourcelink and the Source Condenser are next. Their recipes are below.^[5]

Fluid SourcelinkMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Source Gem	Empty slot
any gold ingot	Source Fluid Bucket	any gold ingot
Empty slot	Source Gem	Empty slot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:fluid_sourcelink

A shaped crafting recipe, not changed by the pack.

Source CondenserMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Fluid Containment Jar
• Source Relay

Recipe id: starbunclemania:source_condenser

A shapeless crafting recipe, not changed by the pack.

Glyph Pickup FluidMod recipe

Glyph (ars_nouveau)

• Hopper
• Fluid Containment Jar

Recipe id: starbunclemania:glyph_pickup_fluid

Ars Nouveau glyph recipe, not changed by the pack.

• Fluid Scroll: Allow and Fluid Scroll: Deny are shapeless crafts, and each has its own clearing recipe.^[5]
• Direction Scroll is a shapeless craft too.^[5]
• Glyph Pickup Fluid and Glyph Place Fluid use the Ars Nouveau glyph recipe type.^[5]

Enchanting apparatus crafts

Some items are crafted at the Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus: Starbucket, Starballoon and Starddle [WIP]. The saddle is marked [WIP] in its name, so treat it as unfinished.^[5]

StarbucketMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Fluid Containment Jar
• 4× any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_bucket

Enchanting apparatus recipe, not changed by the pack.

StarballoonMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Air Essence
• 2× Magebloom Fiber
• any wool

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_balloon

Enchanting apparatus recipe, not changed by the pack.

Starddle [WIP]Mod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Saddle
• 2× any source gem
• 2× any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_saddle

Enchanting apparatus recipe, not changed by the pack.

The Starballoon can then be dyed with the Ars Nouveau dye recipe.^[5]

StarballoonMod recipe

Dye (ars_nouveau)

• Starballoon
• any dye

Recipe id: starbunclemania:dye_balloon

Dye recipe, not changed by the pack.

Optional: Cosmetics

None of the cosmetic wearables are marked as changed by the pack. They include Blues Hat, Alakakrinos Hat, Drygmy Horns, Sea Bunny, Starby Ears, Whirli Propeller, Square Robin Mask and Wyrm Degree.^[5]

One of them chains from another: the Chef Hat uses the Blues Hat, so craft that one first.^[5]

Blues HatMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Magebloom Fiber	Empty slot
Magebloom Fiber	Black Wool	Magebloom Fiber
Empty slot	Magebloom Fiber	Empty slot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_hat

Shaped crafting recipe, not changed by the pack.

Chef HatMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	White Wool	Empty slot
White Wool	Blues Hat	White Wool
Empty slot	White Wool	Empty slot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:chef_hat

Shaped crafting recipe, not changed by the pack.

In this pack, Starbunclemania connects to other mods through one item: starbunclemania:source_fluid (Liquefied Source). The pack adds a lot of recipes that use it as an ingredient, and they all run in the runic enchanter and runic crucible machine types under the Modern Industrialization recipe namespace.^[5]

Enchanted books

Most of the connecting recipes are runic enchanter recipes that make a Enchanted Book. Each one takes an enchanting base (Inferium Enchanting Base, Prudentium Enchanting Base, Tertium Enchanting Base, Imperium Enchanting Base or Supremium Enchanting Base), plus Lapis Lazuli, one extra item, Liquefied Source and anything in the experience tag.^[5]

The extra item picks the result. The recipes show vanilla items like Feather, Blaze Rod, Piston and Nautilus Shell. A few use other mods' items instead: Dark Steel Ingot appears in imperium and tertium recipes, and Experience Rod appears in a supremium one.^[5]

Mystical Agriculture

The inferium enchanting base is itself made in the runic enchanter. It uses Writable Book, Inferium Essence, Prosperity Shard, Liquefied Source and experience.^[5]

Inferium Enchanting BaseAdded by the pack

Runic Enchanter (modern_industrialization)

• Writable Book
• 16× Inferium Essence
• 16× Prosperity Shard
• 2000× Source Fluid
• 560× any experience

Recipe id: modern_industrialization:kjs/4lz0etrkslg7roc0ikcmjk5rc

Apothic Enchanting

• Tome of Scrapping upgrades to Tome of Superior Scrapping with Liquefied Source and experience.^[5]
• Tome of Superior Scrapping upgrades to Tome of Extraction the same way.^[5]
• Dragon Breath becomes Infused Dragon's Breath.^[5]
• Hellshelf becomes Infused Hellshelf.^[5]

All four of these are runic enchanter recipes that also consume Liquefied Source and experience.^[5]

Forbidden Arcanus and the runic crucible

The runic crucible chains several recipes together, all using Liquefied Source. Together they lead to Enchanted Soul and Obsidiansteel Ingot:^[5]

Liquid AurealAdded by the pack

Runic Crucible (modern_industrialization)

• 2× Arcane Crystal Dust
• 250× Water
• 1000× Source Fluid

Recipe id: modern_industrialization:kjs/2cs2hcjafk9zyy8y11yj5j1ex

Step 1: Arcane Crystal Dust and Water lead to Liquid Aureal.

Liquid SoulsAdded by the pack

Runic Crucible (modern_industrialization)

• Soul
• 500× Unrefined Liquid Souls
• 2000× Source Fluid

Recipe id: modern_industrialization:kjs/15y0i8dq1ue9dj86t69y7xpb2

Step 2: Soul and Unrefined Liquid Souls lead to Liquid Souls.

Enchanted SoulAdded by the pack

Runic Crucible (modern_industrialization)

• Soul
• 1000× Liquid Aureal
• Holy Hand Grenade
• 2500× Source Fluid

Recipe id: modern_industrialization:kjs/29n8dz46fn7ey2ayynqbks82b

Step 3: Holy Hand Grenade is the unusual input that leads to Enchanted Soul.

Obsidiansteel IngotAdded by the pack

Runic Crucible (modern_industrialization)

• Steel Ingot
• 500× Liquid Souls
• 2500× Source Fluid
• 2× any obsidian dust

Recipe id: modern_industrialization:kjs/83ryko64km7hzvqx6fud3pb1f

Step 4: Steel Ingot is turned into Obsidiansteel Ingot.

Ender IO soul vials

Unverified The sources here only cover recipes that consume Liquefied Source. How you obtain it, and whether any quests or other mods interact with Starbunclemania beyond these recipes, is not confirmed.

Starbunclemania has a short history in All the Mods 10. It arrived in version 3.0 of the pack, and it has had one update since.^[6][7]

• All the Mods 10 3.0: Starbunclemania was added at version 1.4.0.0.^[6]
• All the Mods 10 4.0: Starbunclemania was updated from 1.4.0.0 to 1.4.0.1.^[7]

All the Mods 10 4.10 still ships Starbunclemania 1.4.0.1, using the file starbunclemania-1.21.1-1.4.0.1.jar. So if you're on 4.10, you have the same version the pack moved to in 4.0.^[1]

Unverified What actually changed between Starbunclemania 1.4.0.0 and 1.4.0.1 is unverified. The pack changelogs only record the version bump, and there are no stored changelogs for the shipped jars. Whether the pack changed any recipes or values for this mod is also unconfirmed.