I immediately became frustrated with hoppers' buffer inventories once I updated and tried them out. There are many cases where you want it to stop flowing once the container below it is full, but you can't do that without some big redstone logic board.
Hopper jamming: When you right-click a hopper and go into its inventory screen, clicking an empty inventory slot in the hopper jams that slot so that items cannot fill up in it. Clicking a jammed slot opens it up. Jammed slots are greyed or "X"d out.
And if you jam every slot, the hopper only transports the items if the destination container has room; otherwise, it does nothing and doesn't store the items at all (no buffer zone). However, there is still a delay as the item passes through even though it never enters the hopper inventory.
Without this, the only way to do this is to either use complicated redstone logic or stick other blocks in the hopper slots. The latter doesn't really work since the hopper eventually drops them down into your... whatever it's connected to... and in some cases jams the machine. In my case, I was trying to make a 4-way automatic furnace machine.
Hopper jamming: When you right-click a hopper and go into its inventory screen, clicking an empty inventory slot in the hopper jams that slot so that items cannot fill up in it. Clicking a jammed slot opens it up. Jammed slots are greyed or "X"d out.
And if you jam every slot, the hopper only transports the items if the destination container has room; otherwise, it does nothing and doesn't store the items at all (no buffer zone). However, there is still a delay as the item passes through even though it never enters the hopper inventory.
Without this, the only way to do this is to either use complicated redstone logic or stick other blocks in the hopper slots. The latter doesn't really work since the hopper eventually drops them down into your... whatever it's connected to... and in some cases jams the machine. In my case, I was trying to make a 4-way automatic furnace machine.
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