Create: No Silverfish XP Farm — Disable Silverfish XP Farming

Create: No Silverfish XP Farm – Restoring Balance to Your Modded World

If you have ever played with the Create mod, you know it transforms Minecraft into a mechanical playground of gears, belts, and moving contraptions. One of its most fascinating features is Bulk Haunting, a process that converts certain blocks into their nether or spooky variants when they pass through a soul fire-powered fan. However, this clever mechanic also opened the door to an unintended exploit: an effortless silverfish XP farm that could generate infinite experience with minimal setup. The Create: No Silverfish XP Farm datapack steps in to close that loophole cleanly and permanently.

How Bulk Haunting Created the Silverfish Problem

Bulk Haunting in Create allows you to transform stone blocks into infested stone, infested cobblestone, or infested stone bricks simply by blowing soul fire across them. When an infested block breaks, a silverfish spawns. Clever players quickly realized they could automate the haunting process, funnel the infested blocks into a crusher or drill, and kill the silverfish for a constant stream of experience orbs. Combined with a vacuumulator or a simple water stream, this setup turned into a fully automatic, lag-free XP generator that required almost no player interaction.

While creative engineering is part of Create’s charm, this particular farm bypasses many of the challenges normally associated with XP gathering. Server administrators and pack makers often find it disrupts progression, devalues mob grinders, and can even cause entity lag if not carefully managed. The datapack addresses this by removing the root cause—the haunting recipes themselves.

What the Datapack Actually Changes

The No Silverfish XP Farm datapack is a lightweight, server-friendly solution. It does not alter any core Create files or break existing machinery. Instead, it simply removes all stone bulk haunting recipes that produce infested blocks. After installation, blowing soul fire across stone, cobblestone, or stone bricks will no longer yield their infested counterparts. This means you can still use Bulk Haunting for its intended purposes—creating netherrack, blackstone, or crying obsidian—without worrying about accidental silverfish spawns.

The datapack targets exactly these recipe categories:

• Stone to Infested Stone
• Cobblestone to Infested Cobblestone
• Stone Bricks to Infested Stone Bricks

By eliminating only the infested block outputs, it preserves every other haunting interaction. Your farms for quartz, glowstone, or magma blocks remain completely untouched.

Installing the Datapack Manually

Getting the datapack into your world is straightforward. First, download the pack from the official source—you can find it on popular modding platforms without any external links needed. The file will be a simple ZIP archive. Follow these steps to apply it to a singleplayer world:

1. Locate your Minecraft world folder. It is usually inside .minecraft/saves/YourWorldName.
2. Open the datapacks folder inside that world directory. If it does not exist, create it.
3. Place the downloaded ZIP file directly into the datapacks folder. Do not unzip it.
4. Launch the world. If the world was already running, use the /reload command to activate the datapack.

For multiplayer servers, upload the ZIP to the server’s world/datapacks folder and restart the server. Many modded setups also use global datapack loaders like Paxi or Global Packs, which automatically inject datapacks into every world without manual copying. Simply drop the file into the designated global datapack folder, and it will apply to all new worlds.

If you prefer a more integrated experience, the foxygame.net launcher makes the whole process even smoother. Its built-in mod and datapack manager lets you search for the “No Silverfish XP Farm” pack right from the menu, install it with one click, and have it automatically applied to your selected modpack profile—no folder diving required.

Why You Might Want This Datapack

Beyond simply blocking an exploit, this datapack encourages more thoughtful factory design. Without the easy silverfish XP, players are pushed to explore other Create-compatible experience sources, such as bulk smelting arrays that produce experience from cooking, or more traditional mob farms that can be integrated with Create’s logistics. It keeps the early-to-mid game progression intact and makes the decision to automate XP a meaningful engineering challenge.

Server owners especially appreciate the reduced entity count. Silverfish farms can spawn hundreds of mobs per minute, and while Create handles them efficiently, they still contribute to tick lag. Removing the source eliminates that background load entirely.

Compatibility and Final Thoughts

The datapack works with any version of Create that includes the Bulk Haunting mechanic, and it does not conflict with other recipe-altering mods or datapacks. Since it only removes recipes, it is safe to add or remove at any time without corrupting your world. If you later decide you want the infested block recipes back, simply delete the datapack file and reload.

For players who love the creative freedom of Create but want to avoid game-breaking shortcuts, the No Silverfish XP Farm datapack is a tiny addition with a huge impact. It keeps your contraptions honest and your server performance smooth, all while letting the rest of Create’s enchanting mechanics shine.