This is a tutorial for an automatic item sorting system for Minecraft. This is very fast, light on resources, compact, silent and expandable for as many items as you want to sort.
Just put your items in the sorting chest and the system takes care of the rest automatically.
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Two question, what would the best way to extend this while stacking the chests be? Like with having two or three layers instead of a long chain? Also, is it possible to have hoppers grab sets of items, like have a hopper grab all stairs?
Not sure exactly what you're asking. Are you wanting to have chests stacked of the same item or two different items on top of each other? And the system works by grabbing specific items like stairs already, so I assume you should be able to do whatever you want for grabbing.
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Yeah bad wording on my end, sorry about that. I dont understand redstone really at all. In the video, So I wont even try to word the sorting question better. For the multiple items question, lets say I wanted a chest to grab any blocks that were stairs, if I used the five slots to hold five different kinds of stairs, would those five stairs all be sorted into that chest?
Well I'm always up for helping you out if you think of a way to word it.
The different stairs thing unfortunately won't work with just one hopper. Hoppers always pull the first item first, so it would pull the wrong type out.
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I decided to try and show you the ways I want to make the system, but I have no clue how. The first image shows the basic sorter as you show t, the second, a design which goes around corners, and a third, the ideal, which has rows of chests on top of each other, somehow connected and all the same sorting line.
Also on an unrelated note, I am trying to combine this device with all of your farms (As well as adapting your melon farm for cocoa), by having al of the farms lead to the input chest on this sorter. I'll keep you updated on how that works out
Send me a message when you get all of those hooked up. Can't wait to see all of that!
As far as the designs, the corner is pretty easy, we just extend the previous design around the wall with hoppers and change our junk chest to the end.
The vertical design isn't really possible without making it very large due to all of the redstone needed and having hoppers near each other.
corners are really easy, my MOB grinder uses 2 on the back wall, I have them wired to the same units as the main walls for easier maintenance and hiding,
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do you want the flow of the bottom chests the same as the top? super fricken easy dude, if not, still easy, but way more space and work yo o.O & for melons pumpkin farms how can you get cocoa? I have a automatic 16x farm for both by bud switch, can't be redone for cocoa, what's cocoa good for? cant do automatic can you?
thinking out loud you could potentially
make a 7x7 stairwell 1block thick, piston on the bottom with a solid block below (power the block not the piston), water or hoppers around the piston, stack 12 jungle wood up on the piston, make your stairwell to the top, place a powered piston 1 block above the stack, then you could coat the sides in cocoa & set a hopper clock to toggle the pistons, kicking off the beans, just grab some from the chest go up the staircase & plant, done o.O
or do the same horizontal, easier wiring, then just add a water source @ each end to meet in the middle, & a hopper there to a chest
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Sadly there isnt a way to do automatic cocoa farming. As far as I can tell, no villager AI will replant cocoa without a mod. I have auto farms for every other crop so it annoys me. I did get the farms all leading to the same item sorter through a hopper pipe system leading to a dropper elevator
I tried building this from the video but everything gets stuck in the second layer of chests (up to 64) then they get filtered to the junk chest. I followed every step to the letter. So not sure what is going on
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This is a tutorial for an automatic item sorting system for Minecraft. This is very fast, light on resources, compact, silent and expandable for as many items as you want to sort.
Just put your items in the sorting chest and the system takes care of the rest automatically.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/RabidSmore
Wow! Been looking for a really compact sorter, this is amazing!
Two question, what would the best way to extend this while stacking the chests be? Like with having two or three layers instead of a long chain? Also, is it possible to have hoppers grab sets of items, like have a hopper grab all stairs?
Not sure exactly what you're asking. Are you wanting to have chests stacked of the same item or two different items on top of each other? And the system works by grabbing specific items like stairs already, so I assume you should be able to do whatever you want for grabbing.
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/RabidSmore
Yeah bad wording on my end, sorry about that. I dont understand redstone really at all. In the video, So I wont even try to word the sorting question better. For the multiple items question, lets say I wanted a chest to grab any blocks that were stairs, if I used the five slots to hold five different kinds of stairs, would those five stairs all be sorted into that chest?
Well I'm always up for helping you out if you think of a way to word it.
The different stairs thing unfortunately won't work with just one hopper. Hoppers always pull the first item first, so it would pull the wrong type out.
Great questions though!
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/RabidSmore
I decided to try and show you the ways I want to make the system, but I have no clue how. The first image shows the basic sorter as you show t, the second, a design which goes around corners, and a third, the ideal, which has rows of chests on top of each other, somehow connected and all the same sorting line.
Also on an unrelated note, I am trying to combine this device with all of your farms (As well as adapting your melon farm for cocoa), by having al of the farms lead to the input chest on this sorter. I'll keep you updated on how that works out
Send me a message when you get all of those hooked up. Can't wait to see all of that!
As far as the designs, the corner is pretty easy, we just extend the previous design around the wall with hoppers and change our junk chest to the end.
The vertical design isn't really possible without making it very large due to all of the redstone needed and having hoppers near each other.
Here are pictures of what I mean:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/RabidSmore
corners are really easy, my MOB grinder uses 2 on the back wall, I have them wired to the same units as the main walls for easier maintenance and hiding,
@readerrw07
do you want the flow of the bottom chests the same as the top? super fricken easy dude, if not, still easy, but way more space and work yo o.O & for melons pumpkin farms how can you get cocoa? I have a automatic 16x farm for both by bud switch, can't be redone for cocoa, what's cocoa good for? cant do automatic can you?
thinking out loud you could potentially
make a 7x7 stairwell 1block thick, piston on the bottom with a solid block below (power the block not the piston), water or hoppers around the piston, stack 12 jungle wood up on the piston, make your stairwell to the top, place a powered piston 1 block above the stack, then you could coat the sides in cocoa & set a hopper clock to toggle the pistons, kicking off the beans, just grab some from the chest go up the staircase & plant, done o.O
or do the same horizontal, easier wiring, then just add a water source @ each end to meet in the middle, & a hopper there to a chest
Sadly there isnt a way to do automatic cocoa farming. As far as I can tell, no villager AI will replant cocoa without a mod. I have auto farms for every other crop so it annoys me. I did get the farms all leading to the same item sorter through a hopper pipe system leading to a dropper elevator
Or, you could name the buffer item I believe. I would go with something like "*BUFFER*"
I tried building this from the video but everything gets stuck in the second layer of chests (up to 64) then they get filtered to the junk chest. I followed every step to the letter. So not sure what is going on