Automating Mob Drops with Presses, Mixers, and Haunting

You can synthesize common mob supplies like slimeballs, gunpowder, and glow ink using processing machinery rather than building standard mob farms.

Compacting Slimeballs and Mixing Gunpowder

Mechanical presses and mixers allow you to manufacture biological drops from farmable items:

• Slimeballs: Place a Basin beneath a Mechanical Press. Supply water into the Basin, then feed in sugar cane and bone meal. Power the press with rotational force to cycle the head down, compacting the ingredients directly into slimeballs.
• Gunpowder: Place a Basin beneath a Mechanical Mixer. Pipe or drop sugar and magma cream into the Basin. Power the mixer with adequate rotational speed to stir the ingredients together, yielding gunpowder without needing creepers.

Bulk Haunting for Glow Ink

If you have a surplus of standard ink sacs, you can convert them into glow ink through bulk haunting.

1. Place an Encased Fan blowing air across a soul campfire or soul fire block to produce a haunting airflow stream.

2. Drop regular ink sacs onto a belt, depot, or directly into the haunting stream.

3. Allow the stream to wash over the items until they transform into glow ink sacs.

4. Collect the finished glow ink sacs at the end of the processing line.