Starbunclemania in FTB StoneBlock 4

Same as in the All the Mods 10 4.14 guide

Starbunclemania is part of this pack, which ships version 1.5.1 of the mod (file starbunclemania-1.21.1-1.5.1.jar). It has been in the pack since version 3.0 or earlier, so it's a long-standing part of the mod list rather than a recent addition.^[1]

Unverified The sources I have don't describe what Starbunclemania does or who it is aimed at, so I can't tell you about its features or mechanics here. They also don't show any quests in this pack that involve it, and they don't place it on the ATM Star path, so I can't say where it fits in the pack's progression.

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 guide

Starbunclemania is all about giving your Starbuncles new jobs. Each job item changes what a Starbuncle does when you use it on one, so the first things to make are the ones that put your Starbuncles to work. Here is the order I'd go in.^[2]

First: Starminer

Start with the Starminer. It changes a Starbuncle's job to mine blocks in specified spots, and you can give it a tool to use (it defaults to an iron pick). The pack changed this recipe from the mod's version, so go by the one below.^[2][3]

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

Next: Starbuilder

Next comes the Starbuilder, which changes a Starbuncle's job to place blocks in specified spots. Its recipe is also changed by the pack.^[2][3]

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

Then: Fluid Jar and Starbucket

To move fluids, you first need a Fluid Containment Jar. The pack changed this recipe too. The jar is also an ingredient in the Starbucket, which changes a Starbuncle's job to transport fluids around.^[2][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

The Starbucket is made at an enchanting apparatus, not on a crafting table.^[3]

StarbucketMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Fluid Containment Jar
• 4× any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_bucket

Fluid Starbuncles are tuned in the server config. In this pack the transfer rate is set by [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbucket_ratio]] at 1,000, and the check threshold by [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbucket_threshold]] at 250. Lower the threshold if you want them to check and fill more often.^[4]

Then: StarbAttery

The StarbAttery changes a Starbuncle's job to transport FE energy around. The pack changed its recipe as well. Its transfer rate is [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbattery_ratio]], set to 100,000 in this pack.^[2][3][4]

StarbAtteryChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold nugget	Empty slot
any copper ingot	Redstone	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	Redstone	any copper ingot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_battery

Later: Round-robin item transport

Once you have several inventories connected, the Square Robin Mask tweaks a Starbuncle's item transport to round-robin items between inventories. It also stops pickup.^[2]

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

Finally: Starballoon

The Starballoon changes a Starbuncle's job to transport Mekanism chemical around. It can also be dyed. Like the Starbucket, it is made at an enchanting apparatus.^[2][3]

StarballoonMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Air Essence
• 2× Magebloom Fiber
• any wool

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_balloon

Starbunclemania is about giving your familiars new jobs. Most of its items are job items you use on a Starbuncle, and each one swaps what that Starbuncle does. If you sneak while using one of these items, it acts as a simple cosmetic and leaves the current behavior alone.^[5]

Starbuncle job items

• Starbucket changes a Starbuncle's job to transporting fluids around.^[5]
• StarbAttery changes the job to transporting FE energy around.^[5]
• Starballoon changes the job to transporting Mekanism chemical around. It can be dyed, and it supports Starbuncles, Drygmies and Wixies.^[5]
• Starbuilder changes the job to placing blocks in specified spots.^[5]
• Starminer changes the job to mining blocks in specified spots. You can give it a tool to use, and it defaults to an iron pick.^[5]
• StarBin changes the job to voiding the items the Starbuncle picks up, and items from linked chests.^[5]
• Square Robin Mask tweaks the Starbuncle's item transport so it round-robins items between inventories. It also stops pickup.^[5]
• Wyrm Degree is a cosmetic for Starbuncles and Bookwyrm familiars. It also lets item Starbuncles read Direction Scrolls.^[5]

StarbAtteryChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold nugget	Empty slot
any copper ingot	Redstone	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	Redstone	any copper ingot

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_battery

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.

StarbucketMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Fluid Containment Jar
• 4× any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_bucket

Transfer rates and thresholds

The fluid, energy and chemical Starbuncles each have a transfer rate and a threshold in the server config. In this pack the fluid Starbuncle uses a ratio of 1,000 and a threshold of 250 ([[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbucket_ratio]] and [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbucket_threshold]]). The chemical Starbuncle uses the same numbers ([[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starballoon_ratio]] and [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starballoon_threshold]]). The energy Starbuncle moves much more, with a ratio of 100,000 and a threshold of 1,000 ([[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbattery_ratio]] and [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbattery_threshold]]). All of these match the mod defaults, so the pack has not changed them.^[7]

Wixie cauldrons

Wixies can take over the recipes of other crafting blocks. You use a Wixie Charm on the block, and the Wixie then works with that block's recipes.^[5]

• On a Furnace, Wixies use smelt and smoke recipes.^[5]
• On a Stonecutter, Wixies use stonecutter recipes.^[5]
• On a Cutting Board, Wixies use cutting board recipes.^[5]
• On a Cooking Pot, Wixies use cooking pot recipes.^[5]
• On a Crucible, Wixies use Eidolon's crucible recipes.^[5]
• On a Fluid Jar, you get the Wixie Mixer. Wixies use the milk and water in the side tanks for crafting recipes instead of buckets.^[5]

Each of these cauldron blocks drops its original block when broken. The Mixer drops the Fluid Jar. The Cooking Pot and Cutting Board versions only exist when Farmer's Delight is loaded, and the Crucible version only when Eidolon Repraised is loaded.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Fluid Jar, Sourcelink and Source Condenser

The Fluid Containment Jar is the block called Fluid Containment Jar. When you break it, it keeps its name and its stored fluid. It is also the base for the Starbucket, the Source Condenser and the Wixie Mixer.^{[5][6][11][14]}

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.

The Source Condenser turns Source into liquid source. Making a bucket of liquid source costs 1,000 Source in this pack, which is the mod default ([[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.source_condense_cost]]).^[7][15]

Source CondenserMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Fluid Containment Jar
• Source Relay

Recipe id: starbunclemania:source_condenser

The Fluid Sourcelink converts fluid into Source. [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.fluid_to_source]] sets how much Source each milli-bucket of a fluid is worth, using entries like "minecraft:lava=1.6". The pack leaves that list empty.^[7][16]

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 also changed the Mekanism rotary recipe that links the source gas and the source fluid.^[6]

Mob jars render their fluid in the world, controlled by [[config:config/starbunclemania-common.toml#General Configs.mob_jar_render]], which is on in this pack.^[17]

Fluid glyphs

The mod adds two spell glyphs for fluids. 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 the hotbar or next to the turret. With the Sensitive augment, Place Fluid puts the fluid inside the block you hit instead of relative to it.^{[5][6][18][19]}

Both glyphs are enabled and neither is a starter glyph. Both sit at tier 2 (general.glyph_tier and general.glyph_tier).^[18][19]

Pickup Fluid costs 80 (general.cost) and Place Fluid costs 20 (general.cost). Both are mod defaults. The pack sets no augment limits, cost overrides or invalid combos for either glyph.^[18][19]

This mod has no tier ladder that I can show you, so the clearest way to follow progression is by how each item is made. Starbunclemania items come from plain crafting table recipes, Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus recipes and glyph recipes, plus one Mekanism rotary recipe for Source fluid and gas.^[6]

Early crafting table gear the pack changed

Several of the early utility items have recipes the pack has changed from the mod's own, so trust the recipes shown here over other guides. The changed ones are Fluid Containment Jar, StarbAttery, StarBin, Starbuilder and Starminer.^[6]

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

The pack changed this recipe, and the Fluid Jar is used in several later recipes.

StarbAtteryChanged by the pack

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold nugget	Empty slot
any copper ingot	Redstone	any copper ingot
any copper ingot	Redstone	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

Scrolls and the Fluid Jar chain

Once you have a Fluid Containment Jar, it feeds into other recipes: the Starbucket, the Source Condenser and the pickup fluid glyph (Glyph Pickup Fluid). A mixer wixie cauldron also drops a Fluid Jar when broken.^[6][11]

The mod's scrolls are Direction Scroll, Fluid Scroll: Allow and Fluid Scroll: Deny. Each fluid scroll also has a clear recipe that takes the scroll and gives you the same scroll back. The scroll recipes are shown below.^[6]

Direction ScrollMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Blank Parchment
• Compass

Recipe id: starbunclemania:direction_scroll

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

Enchanting apparatus and glyphs

Some items come from the Ars Nouveau enchanting apparatus rather than the crafting table: the Starballoon, the Starbucket and the Starddle [WIP] (marked WIP in its name). The Starballoon can then be dyed with a separate dye recipe.^[6]

StarballoonMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Air Essence
• 2× Magebloom Fiber
• any wool

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_balloon

Starddle [WIP]Mod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

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

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_saddle

StarballoonMod recipe

Dye (ars_nouveau)

• Starballoon
• any dye

Recipe id: starbunclemania:dye_balloon

StarbucketMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Fluid Containment Jar
• 4× any gold nugget

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_bucket

The Starbucket is an enchanting apparatus recipe built on the Fluid Jar.

The mod also adds the glyphs Glyph Pickup Fluid and Glyph Place Fluid, both made with Ars Nouveau's glyph recipe type.^[6]

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

Source and fluid handling

The Fluid Sourcelink and the Source Condenser are both normal crafting recipes. The pack also changed the Mekanism rotary recipe that deals with Source gas and Source fluid.^[6]

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

Source CondenserMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Fluid Containment Jar
• Source Relay

Recipe id: starbunclemania:source_condenser

Cosmetics

The mod adds these wearable cosmetics: Alakakrinos Hat, Drygmy Horns, Square Robin Mask, Sea Bunny, Blues Hat, Starby Ears, Whirli Propeller and Wyrm Degree. The Chef Hat is the odd one out, because it builds on another cosmetic, the Blues Hat.^[6]

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

The Chef Hat takes a Blues Hat as an ingredient.

Wixie cauldron variants

The mod's wixie cauldron variants give back a block when broken. The smelting one drops a furnace and the stonecutting one drops a stonecutter. The cooking pot and cutting board variants only drop their blocks when Farmer's Delight is loaded, and the crucible variant only drops its block when Eidolon Repraised is loaded.^{[8][9][10][12][13]}

Starbunclemania connects to the rest of the pack mostly through Ars Nouveau. Nearly every in-pack recipe for the mod uses an Ars Nouveau item, and a few others reach into vanilla items, the Source fluid and one of the pack's own machine recipes.^[6]

Ars Nouveau

The cosmetic headwear is plain crafting. Each piece pairs Magebloom Fiber with one vanilla block: Alakakrinos Hat uses Sandstone, Drygmy Horns uses Brown Wool, Sea Bunny uses White Wool, Blues Hat uses Black Wool, Starby Ears uses Light Blue Wool and Whirli Propeller uses Green Wool.^[6]

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

The Square Robin Mask builds on Ars Nouveau's Starbuncle Shades plus Green Wool.^[6]

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

The Starballoon is made at Ars Nouveau's enchanting apparatus instead of a crafting table. It takes Air Essence, Magebloom Fiber and any wool.^[6]

StarballoonMod recipe

Enchanting Apparatus (ars_nouveau)

• Air Essence
• 2× Magebloom Fiber
• any wool

Recipe id: starbunclemania:star_balloon

The mod also adds a spell glyph, Glyph Place Fluid, which uses Ars Nouveau's glyph recipe type. It needs Water Essence and a Dispenser.^[6]

Glyph Place FluidMod recipe

Glyph (ars_nouveau)

• Water Essence
• Dispenser

Recipe id: starbunclemania:glyph_place_fluid

The scrolls start from Ars Nouveau's Blank Parchment. Direction Scroll adds a Compass, while Fluid Scroll: Allow and Fluid Scroll: Deny both use Water Essence.^[6]

Direction ScrollMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Blank Parchment
• Compass

Recipe id: starbunclemania:direction_scroll

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

Fluids and Source

The pack changed the Fluid Containment Jar recipe, so go by the recipe below rather than other guides. It uses an Ars Nouveau Cascading Archwood Log and Water Essence, plus glass and a gold ingot.^[6]

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

The jar feeds the Source Condenser, which is crafted from a Fluid Jar and an Ars Nouveau Source Relay.^[6]

Source CondenserMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Fluid Containment Jar
• Source Relay

Recipe id: starbunclemania:source_condenser

The Fluid Sourcelink combines an Ars Nouveau Source Gem with a bucket of liquid Source, Source Fluid Bucket, plus a gold ingot.^[6]

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

Pack machine recipe

The pack adds its own Custom Machinery recipe, a steam pressurizer that takes 100 of Source Fluid together with starbunclemania:source_gas. The recipe dump lists no output for it.^[6]

Wixie cauldron blocks

The mod's block loot tables show some links to vanilla blocks. The mixer variant of the wixie cauldron drops a Fluid Containment Jar, the smelting variant drops a Furnace, and the stonecutting variant drops a Stonecutter.^[11][12][13]

Same as in the FTB Skies 2 1.23.0 guide

Here's the quick version: for every option in the files below that lists a mod default, the pack's value is the same as that default. Nothing has been tweaked, so you can follow the mod's normal behaviour and only change things if you want to.^[20][21][22]

Starbuncle transfer settings

These live in config/starbunclemania-server.toml. Each kind of transfer starbuncle has a ratio (its transfer rate) and a threshold. Here's what the pack uses:^[22]

• Fluid starbuncles: [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbucket_ratio]] is 1000 and [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbucket_threshold]] is 250.^[22]
• Gas starbuncles: [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starballoon_ratio]] is 1000 and [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starballoon_threshold]] is 250.^[22]
• Energy starbuncles: [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbattery_ratio]] is 100,000 and [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.starbattery_threshold]] is 1000.^[22]

Source and fluids

[[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.source_condense_cost]] is the source cost to make a bucket of liquid source, and the pack keeps it at 1000. [[config:config/starbunclemania-server.toml#General Configs.fluid_to_source]] sets the value of a milli-bucket of fluid converted into source by the sourcelink, with an example entry of minecraft:lava=1.6. The pack leaves it as an empty list, so it adds no custom entries.^[22]

Fluid glyphs

Each fluid glyph has its own file in config/starbunclemania. general.enabled and general.enabled are both true, so both glyphs are on.^[20][21]

general.glyph_tier and general.glyph_tier are both set to 2. general.starter and general.starter are both false, so neither is a starter glyph.^[20][21]

• Place fluid: general.cost is 20.^[20]
• Pickup fluid: general.cost is 80.^[21]

general.per_spell_limit and general.per_spell_limit are both 2,147,483,647, which is effectively no limit on how many times each glyph can appear in one spell.^[20][21]

The augment cost overrides, augment limits and invalid combos options (for example general.augment_cost_overrides, general.augment_limits and general.invalid_combos) are all empty lists for both glyphs, so the pack adds no extra restrictions or cost changes to them.^[20][21]

Rendering

[[config:config/starbunclemania-common.toml#General Configs.mob_jar_render]] enables rendering of the mob jar fluid, and the pack sets it to true.^[23]