You've created a slime farm/creeper farm (or any type of farm) Waaay down low in the world under your base , but you don't want to travel (ie. fall/drop) down there to check for drops - so you install an item elevator.
The 'easiest' is a bubble elevator.. fire items into the column down the bottom & they shoot up fast to the top
The problem is 'up top'. How do you get the items into storage ??
Usually you need a water flow to feed items into a hopper then attach a chest to the hopper,
or if you don't want ugly water streams showing above ground & having the chest buried in the floor, you could stick a small dispensor item elevator just below the surface to fire the items into the chest from underneath -this does meant you'll need a clock or comparitor circuit to 'push' any item in dispensor up into the chest
For a more compact collection system - I like to suggest the 'Copper Hopper'.
It is basically an upside down Hopper that can fit underneath blocks that can store stuff - such as chests, barrels, shulker boxes - even hoppers, so that when items appear underneath it, it will suck in & funnel the items into the block above in a similar way how hoppers suck in items from above it
It uses a similar recipe to the normal Hopper recipe but instead we use Copper instead of the Iron for a normal hopper
While the functionality is very necessary, I don't think a second block would be necessary, Instead, hoppers could be placed so they suck from the top instead of the bottom, like how slabs are placed.
While the functionality is very necessary, I don't think a second block would be necessary, Instead, hoppers could be placed so they suck from the top instead of the bottom, like how slabs are placed.
Isn't a hopper supposed to be something like a chute? It wouldn't make sense if they could pump items up, and the copper hopper seems cheap enough to be workable as a separate item
Isn't a hopper supposed to be something like a chute? It wouldn't make sense if they could pump items up, and the copper hopper seems cheap enough to be workable as a separate item
True, but a copper hopper sucking items up makes just as much sense as an iron hopper doing that, so that's no real reason to disunify the two. Minecraft has floating trees and even islands, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch for there to be hoppers that suck items up.
I would rather see ANY hopper placeable in upside down manner when you aim it at underside of a block. A hopper facing up would not attempt to pull items from anywhere, and it would push items into container above it. Essentially like a dropper pointed up but not needing redstone pulses to do it.
Oh, and I would love if hoppers could be crafted using copper ingots instead of iron.
Late to the party, but a good idea for an addition that both extends what can be done with item moving and provides additional utility for an underutilized resource.
RE: whether the inverted hopper should be of iron or copper:
I lean strongly toward copper as this would
avoid changing the long existing iron hopper
add utility to copper
make the new item (somewhat) more expensive [My experience is that copper farming is requires more player time and is thus somewhat more expensive than iron farming, but this is based on farming copper by player kills of converted zombies.]
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I would rather see ANY hopper placeable in upside down manner when you aim it at underside of a block. A hopper facing up would not attempt to pull items from anywhere, and it would push items into container above it. Essentially like a dropper pointed up but not needing redstone pulses to do it.
Oh, and I would love if hoppers could be crafted using copper ingots instead of iron.
And because of Drowned farms and the abundance of copper ore in caves, copper hoppers would be practical in large amounts too. It means less Iron spent on those and more could be focused on making iron doors and pistons, or iron bars etc. I'd support the introduction of the copper hopper.
I'd have a use for these especially if they could suck items out from chests inside minecarts, now that would be nice in my opinion.
Here's the senerio.
You've created a slime farm/creeper farm (or any type of farm) Waaay down low in the world under your base , but you don't want to travel (ie. fall/drop) down there to check for drops - so you install an item elevator.
The 'easiest' is a bubble elevator.. fire items into the column down the bottom & they shoot up fast to the top
The problem is 'up top'. How do you get the items into storage ??
Usually you need a water flow to feed items into a hopper then attach a chest to the hopper,
or if you don't want ugly water streams showing above ground & having the chest buried in the floor, you could stick a small dispensor item elevator just below the surface to fire the items into the chest from underneath -this does meant you'll need a clock or comparitor circuit to 'push' any item in dispensor up into the chest
For a more compact collection system - I like to suggest the 'Copper Hopper'.
It is basically an upside down Hopper that can fit underneath blocks that can store stuff - such as chests, barrels, shulker boxes - even hoppers, so that when items appear underneath it, it will suck in & funnel the items into the block above in a similar way how hoppers suck in items from above it
It uses a similar recipe to the normal Hopper recipe but instead we use Copper instead of the Iron for a normal hopper
While the functionality is very necessary, I don't think a second block would be necessary, Instead, hoppers could be placed so they suck from the top instead of the bottom, like how slabs are placed.
My suggestions: Enhancements - Throwable Fire Charges - On Phantoms and Elytra. Also check out The Minecraftian Language. This signature is not here to waste your space.
Isn't a hopper supposed to be something like a chute? It wouldn't make sense if they could pump items up, and the copper hopper seems cheap enough to be workable as a separate item
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True, but a copper hopper sucking items up makes just as much sense as an iron hopper doing that, so that's no real reason to disunify the two. Minecraft has floating trees and even islands, so it wouldn't be much of a stretch for there to be hoppers that suck items up.
My suggestions: Enhancements - Throwable Fire Charges - On Phantoms and Elytra. Also check out The Minecraftian Language. This signature is not here to waste your space.
I would rather see ANY hopper placeable in upside down manner when you aim it at underside of a block. A hopper facing up would not attempt to pull items from anywhere, and it would push items into container above it. Essentially like a dropper pointed up but not needing redstone pulses to do it.
Oh, and I would love if hoppers could be crafted using copper ingots instead of iron.
Late to the party, but a good idea for an addition that both extends what can be done with item moving and provides additional utility for an underutilized resource.
RE: whether the inverted hopper should be of iron or copper:
I lean strongly toward copper as this would
avoid changing the long existing iron hopper
add utility to copper
make the new item (somewhat) more expensive [My experience is that copper farming is requires more player time and is thus somewhat more expensive than iron farming, but this is based on farming copper by player kills of converted zombies.]
And because of Drowned farms and the abundance of copper ore in caves, copper hoppers would be practical in large amounts too. It means less Iron spent on those and more could be focused on making iron doors and pistons, or iron bars etc. I'd support the introduction of the copper hopper.
I'd have a use for these especially if they could suck items out from chests inside minecarts, now that would be nice in my opinion.