I was recently experimenting with redstone items and discovered something that I though was worth a good discussion. Droppers when placed in a line work extremely fast. Of course all the droppers need power but aside from that it took only a single tick to transport an item 15 blocks. Another observation was no lag spikes, I seem to get major lag when using hoppers to move items. After this I feel that droppers and not hoppers should be used to move items over long distance. Test it out for yourself and let me know what you think.
Not a debate about the different functions of the blocks other than long distance transport of items.
Droppers and hoppers can stop working completely when the chunk they are in is unloaded. I recommend water streams. Hoppers are faster, but, like you said, droppers have less lag. Hoppers take less room (redstone-wise) and have a 100% rate of passing items to the next one along.
My vote is hoppers.
Pro Tip: To decrease lag from masses of hoppers, put a block on top of them to make them stop checking for items above them.
That pro tip works? Seems to good to be true, but I'll try it anyway.
Also aren't droppers extremely cheaper to craft in survival? You can also semi-easily make droppers transport items upwards.
Droppers and hoppers can stop working completely when the chunk they are in is unloaded. I recommend water streams. Hoppers are faster, but, like you said, droppers have less lag. Hoppers take less room (redstone-wise) and have a 100% rate of passing items to the next one along.
My vote is hoppers.
Pro Tip: To decrease lag from masses of hoppers, put a block on top of them to make them stop checking for items above them.
True they do unload and stop working like everything else but I have to disagree with hoppers being faster. With hoppers 1 tick is 1 block but droppers you can string up 15 of them and power them all at once to get 15 blocks per tick. Also if you use the pro tip you gave, nice to know BTW, it takes no more room than the droppers. The ability to go to the next one in the line is kinda pointless to just transport the item over a long distance. Hoppers are the best for short distance where being able to use comparators and such are needed but to just go from A to B not so much.
That pro tip works? Seems to good to be true, but I'll try it anyway.
Also aren't droppers extremely cheaper to craft in survival? You can also semi-easily make droppers transport items upwards.
Yep droppers are super cheap, just 7 cobble and a redstone dust, another advantage to using them. Dropper elevators are a thing but due to the torches making light update they can be laggy. I haven't tried it yet but I was told to put glowstone around it to prevent the light from updating since its brighter the redstone torches.
I ran a test of 64 hoppers versus 64 droppers, several times. Each time I was able to transport ~96 items in the droppers before I as able to move just 1 in the hoppers. Results weren't exactly the same every time due to my PCs lack of power I assume.
I was recently experimenting with redstone items and discovered something that I though was worth a good discussion. Droppers when placed in a line work extremely fast. Of course all the droppers need power but aside from that it took only a single tick to transport an item 15 blocks. Another observation was no lag spikes, I seem to get major lag when using hoppers to move items. After this I feel that droppers and not hoppers should be used to move items over long distance. Test it out for yourself and let me know what you think.
Not a debate about the different functions of the blocks other than long distance transport of items.
That pro tip works? Seems to good to be true, but I'll try it anyway.
Also aren't droppers extremely cheaper to craft in survival? You can also semi-easily make droppers transport items upwards.
True they do unload and stop working like everything else but I have to disagree with hoppers being faster. With hoppers 1 tick is 1 block but droppers you can string up 15 of them and power them all at once to get 15 blocks per tick. Also if you use the pro tip you gave, nice to know BTW, it takes no more room than the droppers. The ability to go to the next one in the line is kinda pointless to just transport the item over a long distance. Hoppers are the best for short distance where being able to use comparators and such are needed but to just go from A to B not so much.
Yep droppers are super cheap, just 7 cobble and a redstone dust, another advantage to using them. Dropper elevators are a thing but due to the torches making light update they can be laggy. I haven't tried it yet but I was told to put glowstone around it to prevent the light from updating since its brighter the redstone torches.
I ran a test of 64 hoppers versus 64 droppers, several times. Each time I was able to transport ~96 items in the droppers before I as able to move just 1 in the hoppers. Results weren't exactly the same every time due to my PCs lack of power I assume.