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Location:
Tauranga
Join Date:
10/10/2012
Posts:
49
Minecraft:
1handedminer
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I think that the hopper should have an extra item slot and if an item is in that slot the hopper will only be able to pick up and drop off that type of item. so that way if u have a mob farm and you only want gunpowder from it you would put gunpowder in the extra slot in the hoppers collecting stuff and it would only pick up the gunpowder and leave the other items alone, it would make sorting items waaayyy easier as well
The thing that's great about redstone is that it uses basic functions to perform complex operations. You can use comparators with hoppers and fill all the other slots (I'm not going to get super into it) to do this. With redstone, I take the stance that if we can already do something, there is no need to make it easier to do.
Filtering items can already be done with a little redstone skill. Not that hard, really. Fill it with 21 (i think) gunpowder (17,1,1,1,1), have a comparator using the hopper as an input, and a NOR gate 2 blocks from the comparator, powering the hopper.
Idea for Hoppers :D