Universal Compression
Generic compressed blocks, mod-agnostic, tested in ATM10.
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About this Mod
Universal Compression
Compress (nearly) any block in the game into progressively denser stacks, up to nine tiers deep.
- No upfront configuration required. Every block from every installed mod is supported automatically at startup.
- Nine blocks of any type craft into one compressed block. That block is itself compressible. Repeat up to nine times. The math gets silly fast, and that is the point.
- A tier overlay renders on top of the parent block's texture so compressed blocks are always visually identifiable at a glance.
- Loot and recipe tables are generated virtually at runtime, meaning there are no datapack files bloating your instance for every possible block combination.
- Blocks or entire mods can be excluded via the config file if needed.
Requires NeoForge 1.21+. MIT licensed.
Config file located at
- Keybind: Windows+R (this opens a small menu at the bottom of your screen)
- Type %appdata% in the input box, then press Enter key
- Locate /.minecraft/ folder near top
- Navigate to your config folder from there
Blacklist / Exclusion Filter
❌ = excluded | ✅ = refined to a specific rule
Many blanket namespace exclusions exist because only a handful of blocks from that mod had missing or incorrect textures. Auditing each one individually was deferred during development and will be addressed over time.
Excluded Mods (entire namespace)
| ❌ Ae2 | ❌ Aether | ❌ Allthecompressed | ❌ Antibuilt |
| ❌ Ars Nouveau | ❌ Bellsandwhistles | ❌ Biomeswevegone | ❌ Chipped |
| ❌ Compact Machines | ❌ Corail Tombstone | ❌ Create | ❌ Createaddition |
| ❌ Domum Ornamentum | ❌ Enderio | ❌ Eternal Starlight | ❌ Extended Industrialization |
| ❌ Factoryblocks | ❌ Forbidden Arcanus | ❌ Handcrafted | ❌ Herbsandharvest |
| ❌ Immersive Engineering | ❌ Luminax | ❌ Macaw (all variants) | ❌ Mamas Merrymaking |
| ❌ Merrymaking | ❌ Mining Gadgets | ❌ Modern Industrialization | ❌ Mrcrayfish |
| ❌ Mysticalagradditions | ❌ Mysticalagriculture | ❌ Nightfall | ❌ Occultism |
| ❌ Oh The Biomes | ❌ Oritech | ❌ Path | ❌ Productivetrees |
| ❌ Quarryplus | ❌ Rechiseled | ❌ Refurbished Furniture | ❌ Regions Unexplored |
| ❌ Rftoolsbase | ❌ Rftoolsbuilder | ❌ Soundmuffler | ❌ Stevescarts |
| ❌ Structurize | ❌ Supplementaries | ❌ Tombstone (all variants) | ❌ Troolvidr |
| ❌ Twilightforest | ❌ Utilitarian | ❌ Xnet | ❌ Xtones Reworked |
| ❌ Xycraft Override | ❌ Xycraft World |
Excluded Block Path Patterns (substring match, any mod)
| ❌ Advanced Machine Frame | ❌ Air | ❌ Aluminum Storage | ❌ Amorous Bristle |
| ❌ Ancient Debris | ❌ Ancient Podzol | ❌ Arcane Crystal | ❌ Ashen Deepturf |
| ❌ Azalea / Flowering Azalea | ❌ Bamboo Shoot | ❌ Battery | ❌ Bench |
| ❌ Bioshroom | ❌ Block Bio Fuel | ❌ Block Of Plastic | ❌ Bubble / Dense Bubble |
| ❌ Bush | ❌ Cactus | ❌ Candle | ❌ Cartography Table |
| ❌ Cave Hyssop | ❌ Chiseled Quartz | ❌ Cluster | ❌ Cobweb / Half Cobweb |
| ❌ Comb Block | ❌ Crafting Table | ❌ Crate | ❌ Crimson Fungus |
| ❌ Debug | ❌ Deepturf / Frozen Deepturf | ❌ Delightful Dirt | ❌ Dimension Boundary |
| ❌ Dragon Ice Spikes | ❌ Dried Kelp Block | ❌ Duckweed | ❌ Enhanced Galgadorian / Galgadorian |
| ❌ Fern | ❌ Fire | ❌ Fletching Table | ❌ Fluid Placeholder |
| ❌ Forbidden Arcanus Upwind / Whirlwind | ❌ Frogspawn | ❌ Fur | ❌ Garden |
| ❌ Ghost | ❌ Glistering / Glistering Ivy / Glistering Wart | ❌ Gloomgourd | ❌ Grass |
| ❌ Herb | ❌ Honey | ❌ Icicle | ❌ Infested |
| ❌ Ink Mushroom Stem | ❌ Invisible | ❌ Kelp Plant | ❌ Lamp |
| ❌ Lava Factory Casing | ❌ Leaves | ❌ Lily | ❌ Lodestone |
| ❌ Luminis | ❌ Machine Casing | ❌ Machine Frame | ❌ Machine Void Air |
| ❌ Magma Block | ❌ Matrix Frame | ❌ Medium / Thin / Wide Pot | ❌ Melon |
| ❌ Milky Comb | ❌ Miners Light | ❌ Miserabell | ❌ Mistletoe |
| ❌ Mortar | ❌ Mushroom | ❌ Nether Sprout / Sprouts | ❌ Phantom Booster |
| ❌ Pity Machine Frame | ❌ Placeholder | ❌ Prismoss | ❌ Pumpkin |
| ❌ Redstone Bud | ❌ Regalium | ❌ Reinforced Deepslate | ❌ Reinforced Metal Block |
| ❌ Rice Bag | ❌ Root | ❌ Royal Jelly | ❌ Runic |
| ❌ Scintling | ❌ Sculk Tendrils Plant | ❌ Seeping Ink | ❌ Shelf |
| ❌ Shimmerweed | ❌ Simple Machine Frame | ❌ Smooth Kivi | ❌ Smooth Quartz |
| ❌ Smooth Red / Smooth Sandstone | ❌ Snow Block | ❌ Solid Compact Machine Wall | ❌ Soldering Table |
| ❌ Soul Herb | ❌ Soulless Sandstone | ❌ Spore Blossom | ❌ Station |
| ❌ Structure Void | ❌ Supreme Machine Frame | ❌ Torch | ❌ Trophy |
| ❌ Tropical Garden | ❌ Twisting Vine | ❌ Undergarden Goo / Goo Block | ❌ Unexplored Log / Plank |
| ❌ Veiled / Veiled Mushroom | ❌ Warped Fungus | ❌ Wax / Wax Block / Wax Brick / Wax Tile | ❌ Waypoint Placeholder |
| ❌ Weeping Vines Plant | ❌ Whirlwind | ❌ Wild Flax / Wild Fluffy |
Compound Rules (mod + path condition)
❌ Ae2 — path contains certus |
❌ Ars Nouveau — path contains sourceberry |
❌ Compact Machines — path equals wall |
❌ Create — path contains quartz |
❌ Farmers Delight — path contains crate |
❌ Ice And Fire — path contains scale |
❌ Minecraft — path contains bamboo |
❌ Minecolonies — path contains waypoint |
❌ Mysticalagriculture / Mysticalagradditions — path contains ore |
❌ Naturesaura — path contains light |
❌ Securitycraft — path contains quartz |
❌ Undergarden — path equals goo or goo_block |
Available Versions
How to Install Universal Compression on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set forge Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the forge loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.11).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Universal Compression". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21.11, 1.21.10, 1.21.9 (+10 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Universal Compression server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong forge version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.11). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Universal Compression compatible with forge and neoforge?
Universal Compression officially supports forge, neoforge for Minecraft 1.21.11, 1.21.10, 1.21.9. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Universal Compression – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Universal Compression consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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