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Quote from The_Fool76

Dinnerbone suggests putting a chest in front of the dropper on twitter.

Quote from Random_Guy_32

It can put items directly into any containers placed in front of it, so I guess its ability to dispense projectiles without shooting them is just a positive side effect.

So..... I'm still confused why this thing is why this thing is called a dropper then, and why the dispenser did not just gain this ability instead?

Quote from Annlaw_Clayshaper

The next block I would like to see is a pipe that can be used to connect hoppers, it would basically act like a hopper without the storage space and would only be able to transfer items to and from hoppers (and other pipes).
The crafting recipe would contain only iron and no chest.

Sorry, we'll probably never see this, and Mojang wants to force people to use minecart variants and rails to do this instead. Because of this, they don't plan on adding any sort of pipe. Which means short-distance block travel (imagine up 2-3 blocks) will not be worth using carts for.

Quote from Pizarro

"skeletons shoot players from one block away"? So that means they're now super short ranged combatants or was their range increased by 1 block?

Either way, I'm not too affected by stronger mobs. Bring them on, my nano armor and vajra will crush them all.

I think they mean a shot from a skeleton will have a knockback effect of at least 1 block.

Quote from The_Fool76

Because we still needed a way to just simply drop items like water buckets, arrows, and throwing potions.

Yes, I was saying you could give the dispenser the same ability and make it do the same thing when it had a very weak signal. Add a repeater that has a specific signal output and now the analog system is much easier to use and becomes more useful.

Quote from Annlaw_Clayshaper

Correct me if I'm wrong here (don't have the snapshot installed) but can't you already make a pipe of sorts by connecting a lot of hoppers to each other?
The only limitation to this would be the crafting cost (which is not even that much of a point if you use jungle wood for the chests and a golem farm for the iron)

Yes, however hoppers cannot send items upwards, only down and sideways. Plus, chaining a bunch of hoppers together looks ugly.

Quote from The_Fool76

Yea but that breaks compatibility with existing dispenser setups. It's better to just have the extra block than to change how dispensers behave.

A variable output repeater would be nice to have though. (Perhaps a variable resister block that can lower the signal level by more than one step?)

Only rarely. I'm saying an incredibly weak signal (1-3) which most dispensers now are probably powered with a stronger signal. Even if it was broken, just put a repeater or comparator up at the end of the line to boost the signal to 15. Boom, fixed.

The second part, I think comparators can already work like that, subtracting the signal on the sides from the main input. So I'm saying something that if powered outputs a specific analog signal.

Quote from Azurewhitewolf

How ever the name is very misleading. 'dropper block' sounds like it should just drop items, but instead it throws them.

Exactly my point. A block that did as the name "dropper" would be useful for dropping items with no need for redstone. However, I feel like the functions in the "dropper" we actually got should instead be functions of dispensers activated with a weak signal. If they added piping (which, probably not), it would be cool if items fell out of the last pipe in a line of pipes if it was not connected to anything.