Just replace the top chest with a Barrel if you dont want it to be a pass through Chest. You could also use more Iron and make them into hoppers but its up to you what you want to do k!
I can disagree, where are the 4 items to let others in? How about the tip to name some items to prevent similar items that aren't named to come in the sorter?
@@teejaybradford4517 ok so, listen to me, hoppers takes items from the first slot to last slot, first slot contains the items u want and the other slots are filler slots (usually u fill them with named items so they don't stack with any other items ever unless you name them the same and are the same type ie. Dirt named trash can't be stacked with anything else but with dirt named trash) using a comparator (which detects how many items are there in a container (chest hopper etc)) it deactivates a Redstone torch( which when it's ON it stops the hopper from letting the items in) and let's the items from the 1st slot to flow in the chest/hopper That little contraption in the back with a comparator 3 Redstone dust a repeater and torch does all that
@@Marquis777yt If it's built correctly, it should be locked by default. Did you place the redstone torch at the bottom? That's what locks the second hopper. The 4 filter items just prevent other items from getting into the hopper.
Make sure the 4 filler items you use is something that will never enter the sorting system. It's best to use the anvil to change the name on the filler blocks so it is unique .
You're a hero! Another player paid me to build them a bunker on the server I play on, and I'm trying to make it as efficient as possible! I wanted to build a sorter for them, but didn't know how to "stack" the sorting mechanisms. Thank you so much for this clear tutorial!
this is by far the best tutorial I've seen, and so far building it it does work in bedrock edition too! Id say the only things missing are mentioning you should rename your "filler" items, and that you can use chests and cakes in place of the honey blocks !
You do not have rename the filler items, that only needs to happen if there aren't any items you could put as the filler items that aren't being sorted.
@@smurphas6119 if you're using trash items then it's better to rename them, cause you may end up throwing one by mistake. That's what the final chest is for, to have all the trash you don't want sorted
@@BrendaLopez-wu9dq I believe the resting total with the filler items must be 45, so the hopper releases an item into the chests at 46. You might be able to get away with two types of collection items, (say 20+20+2+2+1 instead of 41+1+1+1+1) but on the odd chance you passed both items over the hopper at almost the same time, the stronger signal might activate a neighboring hopper or two causing a dump, which then must be reset. It's safer to reserve one hopper for one collection item, and take your time collecting more materials to expand the system later.
The reason for the 41 blocks in the hopper and 4 other items is because that arrangement gives the correct redstone signal strength when one more thing is added to your first item slot, which unlocks the hopper by unpowering it. Your hopper then locks again when that number drops to 41. That's also why you don't want your sorter to go tooo fast - if the signal gets too strong from too many items in that first slot you'll add a little too much redstone signal which will then spill over to the next segment of the build. I'm not great with redstone math, but iIfigured something out while building this purely through trial and error. I wanted to use eggs as my placeholder block because I have an infinite supply of way too many eggs. it seems like the signal strength is higher for 16-stack items, though, so the math changed - my hopper stops dropping at 29 instead of 41, which saves a bit on filling that first slot and might give a bit more leeway on speed. We'll have to see if there are any unintended side effects, but so far so good and i finally found a use for all those eggs.
i actually encountered the same issue, but with enderpearls since we have an endermen xp farm on our server xD i'm glad i checked the comments real quick, thanks a lot sir !
The reason for using items that stack to 64 in the filler slots is for overflow protection. Between 42 and 64 fullness of the first slot, the comparator output is the same, so it's impossible for the system to break and spill out, as you put it. Using eggs or other items that stack to 16 might allow you to use fewer items in the first slot, but it also might not give you that overflow protection, so if the stack ever gets to 64, your build could break. It's also worth noting that you don't actually have to fill the slot to 41 manually. Just put a single item in and it will automatically cap at 41 when enough of that item goes through the machine.
@@Marquis777yt are you sure you have a redstone torch under the block the comparator sits on? Without the torch there isn't enough to lock the hopper and items pass thru .
I really appreciate your video. I've seen a couple others with massive builds, yes, they show you how to copy their design block for block, but they're not really putting a lot of focus on the technique as you do. I'm not looking to copy someone block for block on their storage room, I want to be able to understand the mechanics of the sorting system so I can make my own build to suit my needs. Your video very helpful in showing me the concept so I can apply it to my own application.
you should check out jc playz. he primarily plays bedrock, but almost all of the Redstone he does works in java too and he really explains why you do things
Hi! i built the item sorter but had a question, my items go up into the water but don’t pass the sign. I’ve double checked the honey and ice blocks. can you give me some tips on how to fix it?
@@ellasmith6789 is the hopper going into the comparator have a honeyblock ontop of it? or is there a hopper ontop of that hopper that goes into the comparator. because i expect thats your issue. or are you saying the items are getting stuck behind the sign?
brilliant video, i have watched a few different automatic storage / sorter tutorials today, but your explanations and demonstrations were the clearest and also straight forward. thank you so much!
WOW!!!! I started playing MC again so have this bookmark saved and its so nice to see you blowing up bro, well deserved!!! Come a long way since the videos with no voices!!
@@ChapmanMainhey I’m late or whatever but it doesn’t work for me now in 1.21.1, any clue why? It takes a few items but a big majority goes past, if I put in 12 of a block, about 4 of them doesn’t get sorted and goes through to somewhere else
BY FAR...the best tutorial I have watched. I have been trying to build one of these for a while now and all the videos make it so confusing!! Thank you - keep up the great work!
Love the tutorial mate. but few points which need to be said. poacked ice stops from being able to open chest underneath. (replace packed ice with slabs to be able to open chest underneath) Also now this could be just server lag but even so, if you throw to many items at once into the water the hoppers will not pick them up. so for your dump chest make sure to have the tick rate's set to a decent speed as to not overload the hoppers at once. otherwise the hopper will not pick the item up. ive tested this on single player and multiplayer. it seems to be just a server side issue atm as single player doesnt do it but be warned. lastly make sure to have the signs on the glass not the honey blocks. items tend to be getting stuck on the honeyblocks where the signs are placed so make sure to place the signs on the glass side not the honey block side. again could just be a certain issue but i had this issue on both my SPW and MPW. Oh also, space out the signs abit more. i had signs placed every 3-4 block which also made some of the blocks get stuck. i moved the signs 6 blocks apart and had no issues with the items getting stuck.
The ice is just to get the objexts faster to destination The top chests don need to be opened When u take item from the lowest it will refill from the ones above
@@kuudere8136it doesn't do this. Unless you change the design of the hoppers. But your current design has all items going into the top chest which is impossible to open with the packed ice. Unless you change the design to have the top chest as a double chest then the bottom ones using single chests the packed ice serves no purpose.
@Chapman, I figured a way to lessen the required items for hoppers to work (without adding *blocking blocks*). Item Conversion of hoppers needed from dust ~ plank: 64 Stack Items > 41 ~ 18 16 Stack Items > 10 ~ 4 I just simply change the redstone dust in front of the comparator with a plank instead, since it gives a better signal, and it's cost-efficient too, I rarely comment but thank you for the build, especially the Droppervater! incase tl;dr Hopper (Facing the comparator) > Comparator (Facing the plank) > Plank > Dust > Dust I hope it's understandable, have a great day! Edit: Wording
You probably math it out such that you need even fewer items in the slot, but the point of doing the 41 setup is overflow protection. If there are 4 single items that each stack to 64, the last slot will produce the same output from a comparator between 42 and 64 items. Thus even if you put too much of an item into your sorter for it to handle, it will never break. If you use other combinations of items, like things that stack to 16, the signal strength could get too high and it will forcibly break the surrounding sorters by outputting too much signal.
Built it, build was easy to follow. I moved each row of chests back by one block to allow for trickle down, bottom chest is always the fullest. Issue with water way, honey seems to stop items from sliding on packed ice through water gaps, signs on glass side, only allowing water to go 5 blocks
Remember.. its simple ice only.. cause otherwise chest wont open ! this ice water technique is great, gonna go faster , will look aesthetic, and would be cheaper than using tons of iron and redstone.. besides everyone puts their input chest way too high .. i reccomend watching "minecraft tutorial - compact automatic sorter". Dude has made that chest is at same alignment as other chests !
Nice video! 2 changes can make this more resource efficient when building. instead of having a 3 block redstone tail, you can build it with 2 AND for your hopper blocks, use signs. This will allow you to set your filtering item stack to only be 6 items instead of 41. This way saves you Redstone and items won't just sit in the sorting hopper as a filter
@@laurelb.9504 he means the filter items in the hoppers, in the video he used netherite ingots, you can use signs instead which will let you use 6 blocks for the sorted items.
I fixed the problem where the hoppers arent fast enough to pick the items up. Just put a top slab above the dropper which shoots the items out and then waterlog it. so it only has half a block space above it which slows it down
Tip I learnt from other sorter videos: For the item you want to sort, you dont need to put 41 of it inside the hopper, its a waste of materials. Instead, add 44 of the filter item (there are 5 slots in a hopper, put 1 filter item into the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th slot while leaving 41 remaining of the filter item into the last slot). Lastly, add 1 of the item you want to filter in the 1st slot of the hopper and everything should work. I tired it and it worked wonderfully!
@@pangur6772 change the name of the filler block, or nether bricks u are using, you can rename them in a anvil. just rename a stack of whatever item you are using in your case (Nether Bricks) so just rename them to like a letter or anything, just make sure it's a different name
It isn't a waste of materials as it creates overflow protection, I.e. you have 44 filler blocks but only o1 of the time you are sorting, if it overfills now you have 64+44, that will cause the signal to be too strong and drain other adjacent sorters. Trust me, it sucks when that happens.
In Bedrock 1.19, the items get stuck at the level of the signs (ie they don't get enough momentum to pass the block without water. Fix : replace the honey block in front of each panel with an iron fence, and it works Thanks a million for this design, it works really well :)
@@EllaForsyth it does : the “droppervater” works, as well as the hopper filters. The only change I made to the design is wherever there is a sign, I replaced the honey block in front of that sign by an iron fence. Our full chain is 50 chests long in. square shape, and it works well Tested on 1.19 Bedrock, last Sunday 😂
@@benluther2826 It's an issue with this design, you cannot open the top row chest. A workaround could be to replace it with a barrel. I choose to ignore it, 3 to 4 chests per item is more than enough for our needs (we don't build mega building)
If you dont know what you want in each chest beforehand, you can just leave the 1st hopper slot empty, and then when you put new items into your system, it will automatically make the filter for you.
Cheaper filtration methods might also be 1 of the item you want sorted in the first slot, 41 filter blocks in the second slot, and 1 filter block in the other slots. Makes it cheaper to set up if you only have a couple of diamonds for example.
If you do these on something you gather a lot of (say cobblestone), if the first slot eventually fills up because the chests are all full, it WILL break the system. I only recommend doing this on something like a diamonds chest or some of the more rare items.
Not gonna lie I think this is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen and the fact that u even show how to make it faster and easy is just really nice. Really good tutorial and by watching the video I already got some ideas how to implement this into my survival world. Great tutorial!
I spent 20 hours building this in a realms server to only discover its about 85% effective, Items will race over your hoppers even in a creative flat world.
Although that is a common issue, you can somewhat mitigate that by limiting how fast the items are spit out. Just be aware the system will take a bit longer to sort through
I've read other comments saying you can remove some of the ice so that the ice is only placed at the end of each water flow but still need to test if that helps.
Dude i have been struuuuuggling to find a good sorter for the area i want to put it in, thank you this. My version of it wont be crazy big or anything less than 100 blocks probably, but this is fantastic and expandable and takes up much less space than the one ive been trying to build. I'll give this a shot later today or tomorrow.
Hi! i built the item sorter but had a question, my items go up into the water but don’t pass the sign. I’ve double checked the honey and ice blocks. can you give me some tips on how to fix it?
Don't know if it's stil relevant, but placing 11 of each 'dummy' item in the hopper allows you to only have 1 of the item that you are actually sorting. Saves you 40pieces of everything.
if your item delivery is slow enough that works yes, but if you use the water stream and too many of the item end up in the first slot of the hopper, the signal will be strong enough to release the hoppers next to it, ruining your filter system. :) speaking from experience
@@ploxl1441 yep, just use a slower system! Unless you have as many items as on Hermitcraft or Scicraft... but most people can afford to wait a few extra minutes.
You CAN, but it defeats the purpose of using this design. It negates the "overflow protection" feature of using this design. This design will break filters if more than 68 items enter any single hopper. With the 41-1-1-1-1 setup, it is not possible for the hopper to have any more than 68 items. When a 69th item enters, the comparator's signal will be strong enough to activate the filter on either side - emptying them out and breaking them. If you only put 1 item in the left slot and then 11 in each of the other slots, it is entirely possible for 108 items to enter the hopper (64-11-11-11-11). This would be really bad. When the 69th item enters, each filter on either side will empty out - breaking them. When the 92nd item enters (also possible with your setup), TWO filters on either side would be powered and empty out breaking them.
@@willoughbykrenzteinburg yep. I just built this then found a different video doing 1 41 1 1 1 (1 item to sort, 41 + 1 + 1 + 1 of the blocking item ... same as 11 + 11 + 11 + 11) ... it broke down in exactly this way by depleting items in adjacent hoppers while the main hopper is active. Going back to 41 (item to sort) + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 (blocking item) worked perfectly again.
@@Hyde-Jahf yep. You can get around this by just putting a gap between each filter so that none of the Redstone touches in thr back and then set it up however you want. In fact, there is another design where you only need 22 items instead of 45. BUT, you'd have an ugly gap between each filter and you'd need twice as many hoppers if thats how items get down the line. Some use water and ice
This build still works besides the fact that the stuff isn't being sucked into the honeyblocks/hoppers, there just going to the junk chest at the end of it, love this build and great instructions!
@@thedorkydesigner i know im 3 years late... the problem is because the clock (which is the observer clock) they used is too fast, this is a problem because hoppers only collect 2.5 items per second.
Thank you so much I was looking for a sorter that is something just like this! Great tutorial and it doesn’t take that long and many materials to make!
Hi! i built the item sorter but had a question, my items go up into the water but don’t pass the sign. I’ve double checked the honey and ice blocks. can you give me some tips on how to fix it?
IMPORTANT: Instead of using honeyblocks, some people are saying you can just use chests - That is wrong! You can use chests on the corners (where there are no hoppers beneath), on the hoppers themselves you can use ender chests, cakes and anvils instead of honey. Ill keep you updated if i find a cheaper solution. I went through almost all blocks with lower hitboxes in creative, and most items (like fences, glass panes, iron bars) leave the items being stuck in the hopper below, so id recommend anvils if youve got the iron, cakes if have the neccessary farms or honey if u have bees.... Edit: If you use anvils: On the waterway, where the water has run out, and you place ice, the items will get stuck on the anvil. To prevent this, make it so that the items only get pushed in as far as a chest; as in you add a chest on the corner (with no hopper underneath) so the items get pushed only into the chest's hitbox, and then run over the anvils to be picked up by the hoppers.
because the other billion players are on console where this build needs to be tweek'd , items dont glide across ice in console , so you have to build the dropper system higher up and cascade the water like a long set of stairs
Because this sorter, exactly the same thing with the exception of honey blocks is the same one that ImpulseSV first came out with in like 2012. The redstone is exactly the same. Only real difference is you use glass pains instead of honey blocks to align theitems being sorted or use a hopper chain on top of the the other hoppers instead of water. The water makes it a tad more lag friendly. This isn't new.
Hi! i built the item sorter but had a question, my items go up into the water but don’t pass the sign. I’ve double checked the honey and ice blocks. can you give me some tips on how to fix it?
@@ellasmith6789 well.... You see I actually ended up building a different sorter..... I found one by Shulkercraft in which he does a 2 million item sorter that I exactly needed, so I don't exactly know how to fix your problem(not that this is bad or anything just preferred his) But if you will build Shulkercrafts instead, then make sure you have an op iron farm :D
The way it is set up in the video causes the item to become misaligned thus it moves past and into the overflow chest. Many items were not being picked by the hopper because of this. To solve this I set the repeater to the slowest setting and added one more dropper pointing into the water stream toward the corner. I also covered the top with the honeyblocks. Don't know if adding the honeblocks matters but it is working now.
Im on bedrock 1.21 I was having an issue where the items were getting stuck at the sections where the signs were. (sign was not on the honey block) I built a version were it was a continuous circle. I solved the issue by just removing the honey block where the signs were and the items continued on and it works great! (built 2 dropper elevators that connect to a shulker drop off area. Works great!
Some additions to the explanation would be nice... Sorting 16 stack items and sorting non-stackable items? Also, would love to see a system that utilized a chest or barrel for the filtering.
You can't do non stackable items. Either the first slot is always full with the non stackable items, or the item drains and anything can go in the filter hopper. 16 stack items work the same. 1 item in every slot 2-4, put a full 16 stack in the first slot and it will drain to the required amount on its own.
Just built this in bedrock 1.20 . I made 265 slices in a T shape. For the water system I used glass panes on the straights and cakes on the corners to re align the items. If you do an outside corner, you will have to do a weird u shape bend in the water system to get the items back to the correct side for sorting. I will now add a shulker unloader at the start and an allay sorter at the end.
For those wondering about the mechanics of how it works, the comparator will output a stronger signal for the more items in the hopper (chest/dispenser/whatever). 45 items -> strength of 2 46 items -> strength of 3 68 items -> strength of 3 (full stack of 64 in first slot + 1 item in each of the other 4 slots -- this is the maximum possible if you put single filler items in the other 4 slots) 69 items -> strength of 4 (this should not be possible unless you put more than 1 filler item in each slot) So, why is this important? The 3rd redstone dust away from the comparator turns the repeater on/off. When it's a strength of 2, the repeater is off, turning the torch on, which locks the hopper below the top one, making it so nothing else can drop through. When an item comes through that's one of the 41 items (or filler items, but this should never happen), the signal increases to 3, turning the repeater on, turning the redstone torch off, unlocking the hopper and letting items down. As soon as it hits 41, the strength is 2 so everything is locked again. Because 3 is the highest, it cannot "bleed" over into the next item. If you have extra filler items, you may have a strength of 4 (if a lot of items are coming through, or the chests for that item fill up) and the repeater to either side will also be activated, breaking the system. There have been other methods of sorting in the past, but these usually break if the hopper fills with sorted items. This version just stops filtering that one item if it fills up. Having 2 or more filters for a single item can be useful if you can't increase the number of chests below. Going back to the filter item, it's very important that nothing coming in is the same as a filter item, if it is, then it will break the system. The easiest way to guarantee this is to take a stack of something useless (I've used cookies before), put them in an anvil and name them something ("Sorter Filler"). This will make them different and won't stack with anything else (including other cookies).
If you make the 41 items your filler item and not what you sorting by putting 1 of your sorting item in the first slot and 1 of you filler item in the next 3 slots then 41 in the last slot you only need one of what ever you are sorting. Good for item filters with expensive items like diamonds.
That number is used because of how a comparator reads the signal from the hopper. The 4 'filler' blocks as well as the 41 of the intended block make a signal strength that is just below the point where the comparator would output an extra redstone signal strength. If you build a single chest setup like he shows, you'll notice when the hopper gets 42 of the sorted item, the comparator on that hopper outputs an extra 'redstone strength' out of it which is enough to activate the repeater, which in turn disables the redstone torch, which that in turn allows the hoppers that the torch was disabling to start 'sucking' the items out of the hopper above it. Once the sorted item hits 41 again in the top hopper, the 'redstone strength' is reduced back again by one block length, which stops feeding the repeater, allowing the redstone torch to re-enable and stop the below hoppers from sucking from the top one. Hopefully I explained that properly.
@@xDarkxTriviumx Wouldn't that work with 41 'filler' item? For example 1 diamond, 41 dirt, 3x1dirt. Its easier to get 41 dirt for each chest. Second thing is: Can you sort more than one item per chest? For example I want gold ingots, gold nuggets and gold blocks in same chest. Trying to uderstand this sorting logic
@@sebastian5742 For this type of sorting system you can really only do one item per column of chests. The way the hoppers suck items out is from left to right. So it wouldn't suck out any other slots from the inventory above it until the first slot is empty. As for the filler blocks, you can use any item you want, but using an item that is common makes it easy to break the sorting system. If you use something like dirt, the best method would be to put a stack of whatever sorting item you want into an anvil, and give it a random senseless name. (Such as renaming dirt to 'dochskcbdbjshxbfbdks'). That method would ensure that you can still have a sorting chest for dirt, without the dirt accidentally filling up any other sorting 'filler' slots.
Replace the droppervator with a simple water tank, that way you'll give time to items for stacking and skip any lag issues in servers where dropper elevators fail
this is fully working on bedrock with some slight adjustments. I got this to work by using chests since i didn't want to make a honey farm. however, i was having issues since the hoppers wouldn't collect the stuff. a cheaper solution than enderchests for me is grindstones placed sideways. i am still using the chest to align the stuff tho
I've had trouble putting the hopper for the second chest directly under the other hopper because the redstone torch will lock the hopper, so I move it and the chests it feeds into one block forward so it is under the first chest.
@@n8churrr That's pretty normal for these sorting system designs. I put a stack of hopper under it going into a stack of double chests so you don't need to open it since it will empty into the other chests.
@@TOTONARUTO I did not but you can put the items through the input chest. Try checking if you missed a redstone torch or one of the hoppers is facing the wrong way.
I’d been avoiding item sorters since I started playing about a year ago cuz I thought there were too complex. This tutorial breaks the whole system down wonderfully and is really easy to follow. I built this 3 tier small scale but built the droppervater already and it works great. Only thing is that I built the droppers 5 high and I get a few items hung up in the tower. I have 1 item in the lowest slot, 3 in slot 3, and 1 item in slot 5. Is that normal? Other than that it works great.
I find having a mix of old school manual chests and sorters best. Going through the hassle of sorters is only really beneficial for items you are collecting/collect on mass scale like dirt, stone, ores ect. For little things or every hard to get things having it's own sorter is just a waste especially given you need 41 of that item to just get the thing going. I kind of wish mojang added some sort of sorting hopper it would make these systems smaller and less resource intensive.
Thanks. I made this with cake as the alignment block and my items weren't turning corners. Also the water stream in mine went over the hoppers, which made having a constant stream kinda hard. I'll definitely be upgrading based on this when I get back on
You need to change up how long the first water goes. Like the one on top of the hopper. It needs to go 4 blocks in total, including the source block. Also make sure none of your waters go 6 or more blocks
@King Louis You need to change up how long the first water goes. Like the one on top of the hopper. It needs to go 4 blocks in total, including the source block. Also make sure none of your waters go 6 or more blocks
Mine is doing the same thing. I think it's because with 41x items already in the hopper, if I throw more than 23x items in (64-41), the hopper only grabs the first 23x and the rest move past it. I can't figure out a way around it
@@petermiller9456 Rename some cobblestone to cobble or something by using the Anvil, use 11 cobble in the filler slots to add up to 44, then the 45th item (item to be sorted) can collect more!
1:30 can someone explain why you need 41 in the first slot and then 1 in the next 4 slots? Is it because the hopper needs 45 items in it for the redstone signal? Also, instead of honey blocks, would slime blocks work?? Or no..?
Instead of honey use slime or chests. It's all about signal strength, yes, if you try to put any more then 1 in the other slots, when the slot with 41 fills, the signal strength will be to high and bleed over to the other chain of redstone. Unloading all of your hard work. Stick with the 1 in each + 41.
The item sorter works amazing! Thank you so much~ One thing I have a question about though. The items seem to be going way too fast and sometimes rushes over the hopper missing it’s box. Do you think replacing the packed ice with regular ice would make a difference or would it be the same? Again awesome tutorial! The buds and I finished building a 500 double chest sorter in a couple hours using your video~ Keep up the great work! Earned my sub 100%
The type of ice will not matter. How are you dispensing items into your sorting machine? I did not use this videos method but instead i crafted a chest with dispenser with a redstone clock that spits one item out steadily, I only have 1 hopper per item so sometimes they do skip over but i just grab from the overflow and put em back in lol. I think if I put 2 columns for each item it would be good but I have a sorter with about 200 items... So doubling it would prolly drive me insane (I'm prolly gonna do it) ..
@@timmercer7526It's quite noticeable on my local server. Probably related to some sort of tick delay. Going to try some things out, because even doubling the columns didn't fully fix the "leak".
Just a heads up, you can use 41 other blocks as long as they have a unique name from an anvil which saves on some of the important items like diamonds/netherite so that you don’t have to put 41 of those items in the system
Can you filter more than one item per chest system? Like can I have stone block and stone block derivatives (stairs, slabs, etc) in the sorting hopper and have all those be sorted into the same chest?
"not really" is the short answer. You could have separate sorters for each item all emptying their hoppers into the same chest, or there's another technique you can use that involves having all spots in your chests with something in them (tho not maxed out) and if there's room in the chest for the item it will be unloaded into it, otherwise it will move into the next hopper - there's tutorials for that type somewhere, but for me I decided the risk of leaving spots empty in those chests during general usage is too great and I'd forever be fixing auto-sorter failures. So, it's a yes and no depending on your level of commitment to it. :)
not with this sorter, you would need one that uses dropper-elevators and hopper chains like mistycat video titled "Minecraft MULTI Item Sorting System: Silent, Lagless, Easy, Expandable!"
Now it's been a year or two since I built one of these hence why I'm watching this. But I always used cobble slabs as the filler item. But I have 4 10 stacks in the hopper and than the sortable item to be 2. Not sure if the redstone has changed I just know all it does is lock and unlock the hopper for a tick to drop the item into the chest. This will help with the more expensive items you want to sort. I will have to mess around and see if you can have the hopper set up in that way. I always liked sorting diamonds and iron and other expensive items cause it's just so much easier. Great video tho
Tips to save you resources: You can also put 44 random items in the hopper and just 1 of what your sorting. You can also use chests instead of honey blocks.
But this can break your system if a full stack of your item backs up in the hopper (i.e., if the column fills and you have 'overflow'). In this case, if the four slots to the right are filled with your sorting token, the redstone signal coming off the hopper will be strong enough to short out the adjacent sorter, firing it until it is empty, and then allowing other items through. Not good.
I know I'm 2 years late for this. But there is a way to make it so that the Sorting hopper only needs 15 of the item. It does take a bit more resources to make, but you get to keep a lot more. 3 Repeaters are needed, all set to 4 tick delay. Comparator still the same, with 2 Redstone coming out into a Repeater. Redstone dust on the lower block. Then two Repeaters going into the Redstone torch block. With this configuration though, you will need to make sure you have at least 1 block space between the setups, or the Redstone on the lower block will cause the rest to go as well
You can also replace honey blocks with a chest and upper slabs. Chests have a smaller hitbox too and slabs let items go through~ But it's great to have a use for honey blocks
@@austinyoungs1290 Also one year too late, but the answer is: Where the honey blocks are, instead, put chests. The idea is having something that stops the water from leaking, but lets the items drift just a tiny bit above the hopper so it can be sucked in. The chests, having a smaller hit-box, fit the requisites.
Tip: Dont use pack ice in the water way as it doesnt allow you to open the chests at the top and just use normal ice instead. I had to learn this the hard way.
You can reduce the number of sort item from 41 to 1. For 4 filters cell rename 44 "Stick" to "Filter stick" (or any other name). Place one item what you need detect in the first cell and 11 filter sticks in each remaining cell
If you build it that way and your input in the system is faster than the hopper you can end up with more than one stack of items in the filter-hopper and the comperator will output a signal strong enough to power adjacent hoppers as well. As explained in the video.
I ran into the same problem, I have an Iron golem farm so iron is plentiful enough to just make another row of hoppers that go straight down to make room for the top chests. I really wish I could share the video in here on my house
you can also just have the water stream over the hoppers. Ice only makes the items move down the line faster which is nice for really big sorters or for moving lets say. Items from a farm to the sorter input. Really if you have a server with Lag clear (deletes items not in storage or inventory) or if it will take more than 5 min for your items to get to the final location.
He left out a step, in this video (see his Mycraft episode #34). He adds additional hoppers underneath the non-opening single chests, that goes into forward facing chests for the actual storage system. Some double chests are turned to the side for extra storage.
Excellent design, but I have one concern. When the bottom chests are completely full, won't the hopper leading into them have to fill up completely before the next chest can be filled up? If so, is there a way to avoid this? Needing a hopper to be clogged with valuable items before you can fill up the next chest doesn't seem ideal.
if sometimes some of your stuff is not sorted you can make a looped version but you have to cover a trash with block first and after your stuff get sorted you can uncover block and not needed stuff gets contained to trash at the end
I wouldn’t do that. It could cause the signals to overlap and break the sorter. There’s a reason it requires 41 items. If you don’t have 41 items to fill the sorter then you don’t need a sorter for that item. Or build a multi item sorter.
Why not use the 44 filter items in the ones you are not likely to have alot of (like netherite and diamond ores) and the 4 filter items in the hoppers for the ones you'll have alot of like stone and diorite
@@gregois You are right but in farms like mob farm you should use the 41 filter one(the normal one) cuz when to much items comes then well it breaks...
I just made the sorting also 2 days age, with honey/ice. But if i drop more then 4 of a item in the sorting, the hopper cant catch them all. do you have same problem?
If I put in too many items in the dropper at once, I seem to lose about 8-10 blocks per stack. Is building a hopper line that feeds those back to the original chest worth it, or is there a better solution?
When using this design in bedrock, use cakes instead of honey blocks. The honey-blocks will get the items stuck inbetween water streams, which will result in you losing your items. Other non-sticky items with a smaller hitbox than a regular block will likely also work.
instead of the 4 filler blocks and 41 sorted items, you could use 1 sorted item and 11 filler blocks per slot. Also you can use any block in the game as filler blocks, just rename them in an anvil and they won't stack.
isnt adding honey over every single hopper excessive? you could use another nonfull water stopping block like buttons or scaffolding instead, only using honey for alignment
I have just built a double module version put a tower of five double chests connected to both modules and then made droppervater connected to looping waterway using slabs to let hoppers get blocks. Also I connected the input chest to my basalt generator output. Did it all in Bedrock 1.17 on console. :)
If they are still moving too fast put some honey blocks under the water path as well (not on the entire stream, maybe every 3 blocks). It will slow the items but with the water flowing is still faster than a hopper transport
Just replace the top chest with a Barrel if you dont want it to be a pass through Chest. You could also use more Iron and make them into hoppers but its up to you what you want to do k!
Does this works for Minecraft bedrock 1.19?
@@sammykinggames7667 yes
I can’t open the top chest at all when the ice is on it
@@Savy31yeah same
@@sammykinggames7667 I just built it in bedrock 1.20 and so far everything seems to be working great
This is a great tutorial, but it took me so long to get all that netherite in survival.
hahaha
😂
Bro he literally said you can use any block. Ur not smart😅
@@brysonedgell your ignorance is amusing.
@@brysonedgell ever heard of a joke?
this guy not only explains how to do it, he even explains how to do it "fast and easy"
I can disagree, where are the 4 items to let others in? How about the tip to name some items to prevent similar items that aren't named to come in the sorter?
@@NitroKitKat i still don't get how it knows which items to keep???
@@teejaybradford4517 ok so, listen to me, hoppers takes items from the first slot to last slot, first slot contains the items u want and the other slots are filler slots (usually u fill them with named items so they don't stack with any other items ever unless you name them the same and are the same type ie. Dirt named trash can't be stacked with anything else but with dirt named trash) using a comparator (which detects how many items are there in a container (chest hopper etc)) it deactivates a Redstone torch( which when it's ON it stops the hopper from letting the items in) and let's the items from the 1st slot to flow in the chest/hopper
That little contraption in the back with a comparator 3 Redstone dust a repeater and torch does all that
When ever I add 4 of an item into a top hopper to lock it, it goes through into the chest instead of locking it. What am I doing wrong?
@@Marquis777yt If it's built correctly, it should be locked by default. Did you place the redstone torch at the bottom? That's what locks the second hopper. The 4 filter items just prevent other items from getting into the hopper.
Make sure the 4 filler items you use is something that will never enter the sorting system. It's best to use the anvil to change the name on the filler blocks so it is unique .
İt happened to me couple of times really painful
Or you could name it
Waxed Lightly Weathered Cut Copper Stairs named udhfuhsdoaifjoj3u45908fgk
The first spot on my auto-sorter is my filler-item collecter :) It's totally fail-safe!
Spider eyes named "filter"
You're a hero! Another player paid me to build them a bunker on the server I play on, and I'm trying to make it as efficient as possible! I wanted to build a sorter for them, but didn't know how to "stack" the sorting mechanisms. Thank you so much for this clear tutorial!
Just a note: Placing a Sea Pickle on a corner block will straighten items going around a waterflow corner.
This dramatically reduced the amount of items I had going into my output chest, thanks!
this is by far the best tutorial I've seen, and so far building it it does work in bedrock edition too! Id say the only things missing are mentioning you should rename your "filler" items, and that you can use chests and cakes in place of the honey blocks !
do you know how the hopper can collect two types of objects rather than just one?
You do not have rename the filler items, that only needs to happen if there aren't any items you could put as the filler items that aren't being sorted.
@@smurphas6119 if you're using trash items then it's better to rename them, cause you may end up throwing one by mistake. That's what the final chest is for, to have all the trash you don't want sorted
@@BrendaLopez-wu9dq I believe the resting total with the filler items must be 45, so the hopper releases an item into the chests at 46. You might be able to get away with two types of collection items, (say 20+20+2+2+1 instead of 41+1+1+1+1) but on the odd chance you passed both items over the hopper at almost the same time, the stronger signal might activate a neighboring hopper or two causing a dump, which then must be reset.
It's safer to reserve one hopper for one collection item, and take your time collecting more materials to expand the system later.
@@VoltisArt Moreover, the redstone will make only drop the first item in the hopper, and it can lead to create an empty slot
if anyone will ever see this comment: instead of honey blocks you can use chests/ender chests/cakes at every corner, they do the same job
i spend 6 hours making a fucking big honey farm whyle seing the video an now i see this
How about slime blocks?
@@user-mj8rd8gq6k slime blocks have a regular hitbox so no
Thank you x
Thank you so much!
The reason for the 41 blocks in the hopper and 4 other items is because that arrangement gives the correct redstone signal strength when one more thing is added to your first item slot, which unlocks the hopper by unpowering it. Your hopper then locks again when that number drops to 41. That's also why you don't want your sorter to go tooo fast - if the signal gets too strong from too many items in that first slot you'll add a little too much redstone signal which will then spill over to the next segment of the build.
I'm not great with redstone math, but iIfigured something out while building this purely through trial and error. I wanted to use eggs as my placeholder block because I have an infinite supply of way too many eggs. it seems like the signal strength is higher for 16-stack items, though, so the math changed - my hopper stops dropping at 29 instead of 41, which saves a bit on filling that first slot and might give a bit more leeway on speed. We'll have to see if there are any unintended side effects, but so far so good and i finally found a use for all those eggs.
i actually encountered the same issue, but with enderpearls since we have an endermen xp farm on our server xD
i'm glad i checked the comments real quick, thanks a lot sir !
I think you're definitely right - I use wooden shovels, and I only need one of each item.
The reason for using items that stack to 64 in the filler slots is for overflow protection. Between 42 and 64 fullness of the first slot, the comparator output is the same, so it's impossible for the system to break and spill out, as you put it. Using eggs or other items that stack to 16 might allow you to use fewer items in the first slot, but it also might not give you that overflow protection, so if the stack ever gets to 64, your build could break.
It's also worth noting that you don't actually have to fill the slot to 41 manually. Just put a single item in and it will automatically cap at 41 when enough of that item goes through the machine.
When ever I add 4 of an item into a top hopper to lock it, it goes through into the chest instead of locking it. What am I doing wrong?
@@Marquis777yt are you sure you have a redstone torch under the block the comparator sits on? Without the torch there isn't enough to lock the hopper and items pass thru .
I really appreciate your video. I've seen a couple others with massive builds, yes, they show you how to copy their design block for block, but they're not really putting a lot of focus on the technique as you do. I'm not looking to copy someone block for block on their storage room, I want to be able to understand the mechanics of the sorting system so I can make my own build to suit my needs. Your video very helpful in showing me the concept so I can apply it to my own application.
you should check out jc playz. he primarily plays bedrock, but almost all of the Redstone he does works in java too and he really explains why you do things
I watched Shulks design. and i was about to cry. Thank you for making this an achievable task.
Yeah his tutorials are a bit hard to follow
Hi! i built the item sorter but had a question, my items go up into the water but don’t pass the sign. I’ve double checked the honey and ice blocks. can you give me some tips on how to fix it?
@@ellasmith6789 is the hopper going into the comparator have a honeyblock ontop of it? or is there a hopper ontop of that hopper that goes into the comparator. because i expect thats your issue. or are you saying the items are getting stuck behind the sign?
Same
brilliant video, i have watched a few different automatic storage / sorter tutorials today, but your explanations and demonstrations were the clearest and also straight forward. thank you so much!
WOW!!!! I started playing MC again so have this bookmark saved and its so nice to see you blowing up bro, well deserved!!! Come a long way since the videos with no voices!!
I've built this as a mega structure and didn't learn as much about the build as I did here, great job! Kept it simple and straightforward.
Appreciate it!
hey, how did you open the chests in the top? It doesn’t open for me. Is it cause I’m on Java and not bedrock?
@@srarynxxxxx I honestly didn't use the exact build here, but unless it's a build error it looks like your answer is probably right.
@@ChapmanMainhey I’m late or whatever but it doesn’t work for me now in 1.21.1, any clue why? It takes a few items but a big majority goes past, if I put in 12 of a block, about 4 of them doesn’t get sorted and goes through to somewhere else
BY FAR...the best tutorial I have watched. I have been trying to build one of these for a while now and all the videos make it so confusing!! Thank you - keep up the great work!
I had no idea autosorters were so simple
Definitely going to build this on my SMP
Casually walking around with 350 levels
Me at 420. Its the xp farm.
Me at 566:
I mean, it’s creative, why not
ImpulseSV on hermitcraft 8 be like:
@@Vivi_sf 545 levels*
Love the tutorial mate. but few points which need to be said.
poacked ice stops from being able to open chest underneath.
(replace packed ice with slabs to be able to open chest underneath)
Also now this could be just server lag but even so, if you throw to many items at once into the water the hoppers will not pick them up.
so for your dump chest make sure to have the tick rate's set to a decent speed as to not overload the hoppers at once. otherwise the hopper will not pick the item up.
ive tested this on single player and multiplayer. it seems to be just a server side issue atm as single player doesnt do it but be warned.
lastly make sure to have the signs on the glass not the honey blocks.
items tend to be getting stuck on the honeyblocks where the signs are placed so make sure to place the signs on the glass side not the honey block side.
again could just be a certain issue but i had this issue on both my SPW and MPW. Oh also, space out the signs abit more. i had signs placed every 3-4 block which also made some of the blocks get stuck. i moved the signs 6 blocks apart and had no issues with the items getting stuck.
The ice is just to get the objexts faster to destination
The top chests don need to be opened
When u take item from the lowest it will refill from the ones above
fix for items passing hoppers ? ty for help
@Kuudere my guy all the items go to the chests you can't open
@@kuudere8136it doesn't do this. Unless you change the design of the hoppers. But your current design has all items going into the top chest which is impossible to open with the packed ice.
Unless you change the design to have the top chest as a double chest then the bottom ones using single chests the packed ice serves no purpose.
@@Humanrightsdenier as my comment states, replace packed ice with slabs.
@Chapman, I figured a way to lessen the required items for hoppers to work (without adding *blocking blocks*).
Item Conversion of hoppers needed from dust ~ plank:
64 Stack Items > 41 ~ 18
16 Stack Items > 10 ~ 4
I just simply change the redstone dust in front of the comparator with a plank instead, since it gives a better signal, and it's cost-efficient too, I rarely comment but thank you for the build, especially the Droppervater!
incase tl;dr
Hopper (Facing the comparator) > Comparator (Facing the plank) > Plank > Dust > Dust
I hope it's understandable, have a great day!
Edit:
Wording
You probably math it out such that you need even fewer items in the slot, but the point of doing the 41 setup is overflow protection. If there are 4 single items that each stack to 64, the last slot will produce the same output from a comparator between 42 and 64 items. Thus even if you put too much of an item into your sorter for it to handle, it will never break. If you use other combinations of items, like things that stack to 16, the signal strength could get too high and it will forcibly break the surrounding sorters by outputting too much signal.
Built it, build was easy to follow.
I moved each row of chests back by one block to allow for trickle down, bottom chest is always the fullest.
Issue with water way, honey seems to stop items from sliding on packed ice through water gaps, signs on glass side, only allowing water to go 5 blocks
My filtration hoppers are overloading so items are skipping even with the built in protection. Is it still working for you?
Remember.. its simple ice only.. cause otherwise chest wont open ! this ice water technique is great, gonna go faster , will look aesthetic, and would be cheaper than using tons of iron and redstone.. besides everyone puts their input chest way too high .. i reccomend watching "minecraft tutorial - compact automatic sorter". Dude has made that chest is at same alignment as other chests !
Ohhh I was so confused, ty
3yrs late but yeah, found out the hard way, travelled 4000 plus blocks to get packed ice…. Then 4000 back 🥲
LEGEND
@@ihalloway i knew i’d find my solution in the comments
Nice video!
2 changes can make this more resource efficient when building. instead of having a 3 block redstone tail, you can build it with 2 AND for your hopper blocks, use signs. This will allow you to set your filtering item stack to only be 6 items instead of 41. This way saves you Redstone and items won't just sit in the sorting hopper as a filter
I know this comment was made 2 months ago but could u explain more?
What do you mean by replacing the hopper blocks with signs? I‘d like to use six items so that I can sort ender pearls and eggs.
@@laurelb.9504 he means the filter items in the hoppers, in the video he used netherite ingots, you can use signs instead which will let you use 6 blocks for the sorted items.
@@restimo12 its 29 not six
I fixed the problem where the hoppers arent fast enough to pick the items up. Just put a top slab above the dropper which shoots the items out and then waterlog it. so it only has half a block space above it which slows it down
useful tip, thanks! commenting to bookmark it
nicee this made me fix the overflow problems too, good tip 👌
wait how? do I just put the slab and then right click it with water? the blocks just get stuck on the slab
Thanks I will try this
Ok
It's been 3 years since I started building this and I finally got enough netherite for the first section
Tip I learnt from other sorter videos: For the item you want to sort, you dont need to put 41 of it inside the hopper, its a waste of materials. Instead, add 44 of the filter item (there are 5 slots in a hopper, put 1 filter item into the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th slot while leaving 41 remaining of the filter item into the last slot). Lastly, add 1 of the item you want to filter in the 1st slot of the hopper and everything should work. I tired it and it worked wonderfully!
It works! Thx so much!
So useful for my item sorter in my world. Thanks :)
ps. works flawlessly no issues with this
whats a filler item? i've tried nether bricks but then both the hoppers next to them get consumed
@@pangur6772 change the name of the filler block, or nether bricks u are using, you can rename them in a anvil. just rename a stack of whatever item you are using in your case (Nether Bricks) so just rename them to like a letter or anything, just make sure it's a different name
It isn't a waste of materials as it creates overflow protection, I.e. you have 44 filler blocks but only o1 of the time you are sorting, if it overfills now you have 64+44, that will cause the signal to be too strong and drain other adjacent sorters. Trust me, it sucks when that happens.
In Bedrock 1.19, the items get stuck at the level of the signs (ie they don't get enough momentum to pass the block without water.
Fix : replace the honey block in front of each panel with an iron fence, and it works
Thanks a million for this design, it works really well :)
does the rest of it work for you? i’m planning in building this in my bedrock world but i’m not sure if the tutorial is for bedrock or java
@@EllaForsyth it does : the “droppervater” works, as well as the hopper filters. The only change I made to the design is wherever there is a sign, I replaced the honey block in front of that sign by an iron fence.
Our full chain is 50 chests long in. square shape, and it works well
Tested on 1.19 Bedrock, last Sunday 😂
@@Jubijub perfect thank you so much!!
I’m still having issues with the ice block. It is making it so I can’t open the chest. Do u know how I could fix it? Thanks so much
@@benluther2826 It's an issue with this design, you cannot open the top row chest. A workaround could be to replace it with a barrel. I choose to ignore it, 3 to 4 chests per item is more than enough for our needs (we don't build mega building)
If you dont know what you want in each chest beforehand, you can just leave the 1st hopper slot empty, and then when you put new items into your system, it will automatically make the filter for you.
Cheaper filtration methods might also be 1 of the item you want sorted in the first slot, 41 filter blocks in the second slot, and 1 filter block in the other slots. Makes it cheaper to set up if you only have a couple of diamonds for example.
ahh thanks
this might break the overflow protection and messing up all your item filters
If you do these on something you gather a lot of (say cobblestone), if the first slot eventually fills up because the chests are all full, it WILL break the system. I only recommend doing this on something like a diamonds chest or some of the more rare items.
@@69toffer Just checked and it's true, thank you for explaining.
Not gonna lie I think this is one of the best tutorials I've ever seen and the fact that u even show how to make it faster and easy is just really nice. Really good tutorial and by watching the video I already got some ideas how to implement this into my survival world. Great tutorial!
I spent 20 hours building this in a realms server to only discover its about 85% effective, Items will race over your hoppers even in a creative flat world.
Although that is a common issue, you can somewhat mitigate that by limiting how fast the items are spit out. Just be aware the system will take a bit longer to sort through
I've read other comments saying you can remove some of the ice so that the ice is only placed at the end of each water flow but still need to test if that helps.
I just got rid of the ice completely and used hopers
Dude i have been struuuuuggling to find a good sorter for the area i want to put it in, thank you this. My version of it wont be crazy big or anything less than 100 blocks probably, but this is fantastic and expandable and takes up much less space than the one ive been trying to build. I'll give this a shot later today or tomorrow.
this is surprisingly straight to the point and easy to do, im going to usse this in my survival world, great video!
Hi! i built the item sorter but had a question, my items go up into the water but don’t pass the sign. I’ve double checked the honey and ice blocks. can you give me some tips on how to fix it?
Don't know if it's stil relevant, but placing 11 of each 'dummy' item in the hopper allows you to only have 1 of the item that you are actually sorting. Saves you 40pieces of everything.
Thank god now i dont have to get 41 netherite scrap
if your item delivery is slow enough that works yes, but if you use the water stream and too many of the item end up in the first slot of the hopper, the signal will be strong enough to release the hoppers next to it, ruining your filter system. :) speaking from experience
@@ploxl1441 yep, just use a slower system! Unless you have as many items as on Hermitcraft or Scicraft... but most people can afford to wait a few extra minutes.
I will build this for commodity items. I can live with sorting my diamonds and netherite by hand 😁
You can also use 11 filler blocks in each spot of the hoppers then only put in 1 of what you want to sort.
You CAN, but it defeats the purpose of using this design. It negates the "overflow protection" feature of using this design. This design will break filters if more than 68 items enter any single hopper. With the 41-1-1-1-1 setup, it is not possible for the hopper to have any more than 68 items. When a 69th item enters, the comparator's signal will be strong enough to activate the filter on either side - emptying them out and breaking them. If you only put 1 item in the left slot and then 11 in each of the other slots, it is entirely possible for 108 items to enter the hopper (64-11-11-11-11). This would be really bad. When the 69th item enters, each filter on either side will empty out - breaking them. When the 92nd item enters (also possible with your setup), TWO filters on either side would be powered and empty out breaking them.
@@willoughbykrenzteinburg yep. I just built this then found a different video doing 1 41 1 1 1 (1 item to sort, 41 + 1 + 1 + 1 of the blocking item ... same as 11 + 11 + 11 + 11) ... it broke down in exactly this way by depleting items in adjacent hoppers while the main hopper is active. Going back to 41 (item to sort) + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 (blocking item) worked perfectly again.
@@Hyde-Jahf yep. You can get around this by just putting a gap between each filter so that none of the Redstone touches in thr back and then set it up however you want. In fact, there is another design where you only need 22 items instead of 45. BUT, you'd have an ugly gap between each filter and you'd need twice as many hoppers if thats how items get down the line. Some use water and ice
This build still works besides the fact that the stuff isn't being sucked into the honeyblocks/hoppers, there just going to the junk chest at the end of it, love this build and great instructions!
do you know how to fix that? i just made this and noticed that the honeyblocks arent picking up the items
@@thedorkydesigner i know im 3 years late... the problem is because the clock (which is the observer clock) they used is too fast, this is a problem because hoppers only collect 2.5 items per second.
Thank you so much I was looking for a sorter that is something just like this! Great tutorial and it doesn’t take that long and many materials to make!
Hi! i built the item sorter but had a question, my items go up into the water but don’t pass the sign. I’ve double checked the honey and ice blocks. can you give me some tips on how to fix it?
IMPORTANT:
Instead of using honeyblocks, some people are saying you can just use chests - That is wrong! You can use chests on the corners (where there are no hoppers beneath), on the hoppers themselves you can use ender chests, cakes and anvils instead of honey. Ill keep you updated if i find a cheaper solution.
I went through almost all blocks with lower hitboxes in creative, and most items (like fences, glass panes, iron bars) leave the items being stuck in the hopper below, so id recommend anvils if youve got the iron, cakes if have the neccessary farms or honey if u have bees....
Edit: If you use anvils: On the waterway, where the water has run out, and you place ice, the items will get stuck on the anvil. To prevent this, make it so that the items only get pushed in as far as a chest; as in you add a chest on the corner (with no hopper underneath) so the items get pushed only into the chest's hitbox, and then run over the anvils to be picked up by the hoppers.
thx mate :)
can we use slime block?
Don't have the iron for this now but I'm definitely saving this video for once I'm up and running in my world! Thanks!
Now it's time to go mining for a bunch of iron and redstone 😅
That’s why u make a iron farm
@@svzqv8402 an*
Amazing video, thank you so much for taking the time to explain everything as well as how to build it in mass (going to build your creeper farm too)!
“These are the materials you’ll need”
*oh oka- DIAMONDS AND NETHERITE?*
“and these are the items that will be sorted”
*phew..*
how is this man have only 67k subs? These farms are so helpful and easy!
because the other billion players are on console where this build needs to be tweek'd , items dont glide across ice in console , so you have to build the dropper system higher up and cascade the water like a long set of stairs
100k*
@@gdtexrik5510 mate this was 3 months ago........ 0_0
Because this sorter, exactly the same thing with the exception of honey blocks is the same one that ImpulseSV first came out with in like 2012. The redstone is exactly the same. Only real difference is you use glass pains instead of honey blocks to align theitems being sorted or use a hopper chain on top of the the other hoppers instead of water. The water makes it a tad more lag friendly. This isn't new.
Dude thank you so much! I was looking for a video that explains it like this! Thanks Again! :D
Hi! i built the item sorter but had a question, my items go up into the water but don’t pass the sign. I’ve double checked the honey and ice blocks. can you give me some tips on how to fix it?
@@ellasmith6789 well.... You see I actually ended up building a different sorter..... I found one by Shulkercraft in which he does a 2 million item sorter that I exactly needed, so I don't exactly know how to fix your problem(not that this is bad or anything just preferred his) But if you will build Shulkercrafts instead, then make sure you have an op iron farm :D
@@ellasmith6789 try maybe adding 1 more water source in a way it flows towards the sign
@@ellasmith6789 make sure the sign is opposite side from honey block. It can't be on the honey block.
The way it is set up in the video causes the item to become misaligned thus it moves past and into the overflow chest. Many items were not being picked by the hopper because of this. To solve this I set the repeater to the slowest setting and added one more dropper pointing into the water stream toward the corner. I also covered the top with the honeyblocks. Don't know if adding the honeblocks matters but it is working now.
thank you
Im on bedrock 1.21 I was having an issue where the items were getting stuck at the sections where the signs were. (sign was not on the honey block) I built a version were it was a continuous circle. I solved the issue by just removing the honey block where the signs were and the items continued on and it works great! (built 2 dropper elevators that connect to a shulker drop off area. Works great!
This is a LIFE SAVER
I have a horrid habit of keeping my chests messy
Thank u for the tutorial man!
Some additions to the explanation would be nice... Sorting 16 stack items and sorting non-stackable items?
Also, would love to see a system that utilized a chest or barrel for the filtering.
You can't do non stackable items. Either the first slot is always full with the non stackable items, or the item drains and anything can go in the filter hopper.
16 stack items work the same. 1 item in every slot 2-4, put a full 16 stack in the first slot and it will drain to the required amount on its own.
what a great video i mean i have watched atleast 20 of these and now i finally understand how it works thanks to you
This guy deserves waayyyyyyy more subs ngl
Just built this in bedrock 1.20 . I made 265 slices in a T shape. For the water system I used glass panes on the straights and cakes on the corners to re align the items. If you do an outside corner, you will have to do a weird u shape bend in the water system to get the items back to the correct side for sorting. I will now add a shulker unloader at the start and an allay sorter at the end.
For those wondering about the mechanics of how it works, the comparator will output a stronger signal for the more items in the hopper (chest/dispenser/whatever).
45 items -> strength of 2
46 items -> strength of 3
68 items -> strength of 3 (full stack of 64 in first slot + 1 item in each of the other 4 slots -- this is the maximum possible if you put single filler items in the other 4 slots)
69 items -> strength of 4 (this should not be possible unless you put more than 1 filler item in each slot)
So, why is this important? The 3rd redstone dust away from the comparator turns the repeater on/off. When it's a strength of 2, the repeater is off, turning the torch on, which locks the hopper below the top one, making it so nothing else can drop through. When an item comes through that's one of the 41 items (or filler items, but this should never happen), the signal increases to 3, turning the repeater on, turning the redstone torch off, unlocking the hopper and letting items down. As soon as it hits 41, the strength is 2 so everything is locked again.
Because 3 is the highest, it cannot "bleed" over into the next item. If you have extra filler items, you may have a strength of 4 (if a lot of items are coming through, or the chests for that item fill up) and the repeater to either side will also be activated, breaking the system.
There have been other methods of sorting in the past, but these usually break if the hopper fills with sorted items. This version just stops filtering that one item if it fills up. Having 2 or more filters for a single item can be useful if you can't increase the number of chests below.
Going back to the filter item, it's very important that nothing coming in is the same as a filter item, if it is, then it will break the system. The easiest way to guarantee this is to take a stack of something useless (I've used cookies before), put them in an anvil and name them something ("Sorter Filler"). This will make them different and won't stack with anything else (including other cookies).
If you make the 41 items your filler item and not what you sorting by putting 1 of your sorting item in the first slot and 1 of you filler item in the next 3 slots then 41 in the last slot you only need one of what ever you are sorting. Good for item filters with expensive items like diamonds.
Hey doer awesome sorting system. Cant wait to see final product in mycraft series. #droppervater!
This was the best tutorial ever! I ended up making this on my brothers smp and it was I think 56 by 70. This tutorial really helped!
Why do you need 41 of the item to be sorted to go into the one hopper?
That number is used because of how a comparator reads the signal from the hopper. The 4 'filler' blocks as well as the 41 of the intended block make a signal strength that is just below the point where the comparator would output an extra redstone signal strength. If you build a single chest setup like he shows, you'll notice when the hopper gets 42 of the sorted item, the comparator on that hopper outputs an extra 'redstone strength' out of it which is enough to activate the repeater, which in turn disables the redstone torch, which that in turn allows the hoppers that the torch was disabling to start 'sucking' the items out of the hopper above it. Once the sorted item hits 41 again in the top hopper, the 'redstone strength' is reduced back again by one block length, which stops feeding the repeater, allowing the redstone torch to re-enable and stop the below hoppers from sucking from the top one. Hopefully I explained that properly.
@@xDarkxTriviumx that's an amazing explanation mate! good job.
@@xDarkxTriviumx Wouldn't that work with 41 'filler' item? For example 1 diamond, 41 dirt, 3x1dirt. Its easier to get 41 dirt for each chest. Second thing is: Can you sort more than one item per chest? For example I want gold ingots, gold nuggets and gold blocks in same chest. Trying to uderstand this sorting logic
@@sebastian5742 For this type of sorting system you can really only do one item per column of chests. The way the hoppers suck items out is from left to right. So it wouldn't suck out any other slots from the inventory above it until the first slot is empty.
As for the filler blocks, you can use any item you want, but using an item that is common makes it easy to break the sorting system.
If you use something like dirt, the best method would be to put a stack of whatever sorting item you want into an anvil, and give it a random senseless name. (Such as renaming dirt to 'dochskcbdbjshxbfbdks'). That method would ensure that you can still have a sorting chest for dirt, without the dirt accidentally filling up any other sorting 'filler' slots.
Replace the droppervator with a simple water tank, that way you'll give time to items for stacking and skip any lag issues in servers where dropper elevators fail
I'm guessing this is a tutorial of *sorts*
ha nice
this is fully working on bedrock with some slight adjustments. I got this to work by using chests since i didn't want to make a honey farm. however, i was having issues since the hoppers wouldn't collect the stuff. a cheaper solution than enderchests for me is grindstones placed sideways. i am still using the chest to align the stuff tho
Did you figure out a solution to get the hoppers to collect the stuff?
I've had trouble putting the hopper for the second chest directly under the other hopper because the redstone torch will lock the hopper, so I move it and the chests it feeds into one block forward so it is under the first chest.
or you can extend the hopper count and extend it out so it goes one block outer on the redstone torches
That top row of chests under the ice block row wont open either.
@@n8churrrthat is why you extend it out one block so it's not under the ice
@@sandwich996 exactly.
@@n8churrr That's pretty normal for these sorting system designs. I put a stack of hopper under it going into a stack of double chests so you don't need to open it since it will empty into the other chests.
This video is so clear to use. I couldn't get any other tutorials to work and it still works today in 1.18.1! Great work keep up the effort!
Hi, some hopper doesn't pick up items. Did you get any issues about this ?
@@TOTONARUTO I did not but you can put the items through the input chest. Try checking if you missed a redstone torch or one of the hoppers is facing the wrong way.
@@GeneralDoom321 thanks. So you did exactly the same as the video. I'm gonna try again
I’d been avoiding item sorters since I started playing about a year ago cuz I thought there were too complex. This tutorial breaks the whole system down wonderfully and is really easy to follow. I built this 3 tier small scale but built the droppervater already and it works great.
Only thing is that I built the droppers 5 high and I get a few items hung up in the tower. I have 1 item in the lowest slot, 3 in slot 3, and 1 item in slot 5. Is that normal? Other than that it works great.
or only use one dropper that shoots into a bubblevater... there are much simpler ways to do that Redstone as well
Try 2 ricks
This design is honestly the best you'll find, it's also incredibly one of the oldest. Surprised it hasn't been broken yet.
@@fireboarder12 Clever idea thanks for helping
I find having a mix of old school manual chests and sorters best. Going through the hassle of sorters is only really beneficial for items you are collecting/collect on mass scale like dirt, stone, ores ect. For little things or every hard to get things having it's own sorter is just a waste especially given you need 41 of that item to just get the thing going.
I kind of wish mojang added some sort of sorting hopper it would make these systems smaller and less resource intensive.
Thanks. I made this with cake as the alignment block and my items weren't turning corners. Also the water stream in mine went over the hoppers, which made having a constant stream kinda hard. I'll definitely be upgrading based on this when I get back on
not all my items get collect, some just go straight past where they are meant to go. Does anyone know why this could be?
You need to change up how long the first water goes. Like the one on top of the hopper. It needs to go 4 blocks in total, including the source block. Also make sure none of your waters go 6 or more blocks
@King Louis You need to change up how long the first water goes. Like the one on top of the hopper. It needs to go 4 blocks in total, including the source block. Also make sure none of your waters go 6 or more blocks
Mine is doing the same thing. I think it's because with 41x items already in the hopper, if I throw more than 23x items in (64-41), the hopper only grabs the first 23x and the rest move past it. I can't figure out a way around it
@@petermiller9456 Rename some cobblestone to cobble or something by using the Anvil, use 11 cobble in the filler slots to add up to 44, then the 45th item (item to be sorted) can collect more!
1:30 can someone explain why you need 41 in the first slot and then 1 in the next 4 slots?
Is it because the hopper needs 45 items in it for the redstone signal?
Also, instead of honey blocks, would slime blocks work?? Or no..?
Instead of honey use slime or chests.
It's all about signal strength, yes, if you try to put any more then 1 in the other slots, when the slot with 41 fills, the signal strength will be to high and bleed over to the other chain of redstone. Unloading all of your hard work.
Stick with the 1 in each + 41.
The item sorter works amazing! Thank you so much~ One thing I have a question about though. The items seem to be going way too fast and sometimes rushes over the hopper missing it’s box. Do you think replacing the packed ice with regular ice would make a difference or would it be the same?
Again awesome tutorial! The buds and I finished building a 500 double chest sorter in a couple hours using your video~ Keep up the great work! Earned my sub 100%
The type of ice will not matter. How are you dispensing items into your sorting machine? I did not use this videos method but instead i crafted a chest with dispenser with a redstone clock that spits one item out steadily, I only have 1 hopper per item so sometimes they do skip over but i just grab from the overflow and put em back in lol. I think if I put 2 columns for each item it would be good but I have a sorter with about 200 items... So doubling it would prolly drive me insane (I'm prolly gonna do it) ..
@@timmercer7526It's quite noticeable on my local server. Probably related to some sort of tick delay. Going to try some things out, because even doubling the columns didn't fully fix the "leak".
Just a heads up, you can use 41 other blocks as long as they have a unique name from an anvil which saves on some of the important items like diamonds/netherite so that you don’t have to put 41 of those items in the system
Can you filter more than one item per chest system? Like can I have stone block and stone block derivatives (stairs, slabs, etc) in the sorting hopper and have all those be sorted into the same chest?
"not really" is the short answer. You could have separate sorters for each item all emptying their hoppers into the same chest, or there's another technique you can use that involves having all spots in your chests with something in them (tho not maxed out) and if there's room in the chest for the item it will be unloaded into it, otherwise it will move into the next hopper - there's tutorials for that type somewhere, but for me I decided the risk of leaving spots empty in those chests during general usage is too great and I'd forever be fixing auto-sorter failures. So, it's a yes and no depending on your level of commitment to it. :)
not with this sorter, you would need one that uses dropper-elevators and hopper chains like mistycat video titled "Minecraft MULTI Item Sorting System: Silent, Lagless, Easy, Expandable!"
Now it's been a year or two since I built one of these hence why I'm watching this. But I always used cobble slabs as the filler item. But I have 4 10 stacks in the hopper and than the sortable item to be 2. Not sure if the redstone has changed I just know all it does is lock and unlock the hopper for a tick to drop the item into the chest. This will help with the more expensive items you want to sort. I will have to mess around and see if you can have the hopper set up in that way. I always liked sorting diamonds and iron and other expensive items cause it's just so much easier. Great video tho
Tips to save you resources:
You can also put 44 random items in the hopper and just 1 of what your sorting.
You can also use chests instead of honey blocks.
put 40 of the filter item to sort items that stack to 16! (like ender pearls!)
But this can break your system if a full stack of your item backs up in the hopper (i.e., if the column fills and you have 'overflow'). In this case, if the four slots to the right are filled with your sorting token, the redstone signal coming off the hopper will be strong enough to short out the adjacent sorter, firing it until it is empty, and then allowing other items through. Not good.
Ok thank you for letting me know about that flaw
I know I'm 2 years late for this. But there is a way to make it so that the Sorting hopper only needs 15 of the item. It does take a bit more resources to make, but you get to keep a lot more. 3 Repeaters are needed, all set to 4 tick delay. Comparator still the same, with 2 Redstone coming out into a Repeater. Redstone dust on the lower block. Then two Repeaters going into the Redstone torch block.
With this configuration though, you will need to make sure you have at least 1 block space between the setups, or the Redstone on the lower block will cause the rest to go as well
It a flex when ur extra block is netherite
Creative lol
@@kylechmn28 he knows
You can also replace honey blocks with a chest and upper slabs.
Chests have a smaller hitbox too and slabs let items go through~
But it's great to have a use for honey blocks
i know this is a year later, but can you explain this? you put a chest with a slab on the upper half over hanging the ice?
@@austinyoungs1290 Like it is shown in this video th-cam.com/video/_VdrV3qfdH4/w-d-xo.html
@@austinyoungs1290 Also one year too late, but the answer is: Where the honey blocks are, instead, put chests. The idea is having something that stops the water from leaking, but lets the items drift just a tiny bit above the hopper so it can be sucked in. The chests, having a smaller hit-box, fit the requisites.
how would you do stacks of 16? like enderpearls and eggs?
You could maybe make in it one block shorter, and have to find out what amount will push it through on the comparator treshold, thats the only diff
Should work the same way. or if you are talking about needing more space, just add another slot for them
Tip: Dont use pack ice in the water way as it doesnt allow you to open the chests at the top and just use normal ice instead. I had to learn this the hard way.
won't the ice melt though?
@@Impimperator just dont put a light source or anything that can melt ice near it
You can reduce the number of sort item from 41 to 1. For 4 filters cell rename 44 "Stick" to "Filter stick" (or any other name). Place one item what you need detect in the first cell and 11 filter sticks in each remaining cell
honestly idk why people use this version of sorting. there are better systems that just take i think 2 more comparators and 1 more hopper per slice.
Mind linking one i've been building this style for years would like something new.@@lordginger636
Do you mean filler or filter I'm confused
Also what do u mean for filters cell rename 44 "stick" to "filter stick
If you build it that way and your input in the system is faster than the hopper you can end up with more than one stack of items in the filter-hopper and the comperator will output a signal strong enough to power adjacent hoppers as well. As explained in the video.
banger tutorial super easy to understand thanks man
cant open top chests with the ice blocking it
I ran into the same problem, I have an Iron golem farm so iron is plentiful enough to just make another row of hoppers that go straight down to make room for the top chests. I really wish I could share the video in here on my house
what I did is use the ice on the corners and just used upside down stairs where the chests are, works perfectly
you can also just have the water stream over the hoppers. Ice only makes the items move down the line faster which is nice for really big sorters or for moving lets say. Items from a farm to the sorter input. Really if you have a server with Lag clear (deletes items not in storage or inventory) or if it will take more than 5 min for your items to get to the final location.
He left out a step, in this video (see his Mycraft episode #34). He adds additional hoppers underneath the non-opening single chests, that goes into forward facing chests for the actual storage system. Some double chests are turned to the side for extra storage.
You can use normal ice, instead of packed ice.. This will allow the chest to be opened
Excellent design, but I have one concern. When the bottom chests are completely full, won't the hopper leading into them have to fill up completely before the next chest can be filled up? If so, is there a way to avoid this? Needing a hopper to be clogged with valuable items before you can fill up the next chest doesn't seem ideal.
So what could cause the items to stop between your water flow, at the backflow stoppers? I'm using a sign on the glass
I'm having the same problem.
@@MrWuddles same problem
Replace the honey in front of the sign with iron bars
if sometimes some of your stuff is not sorted you can make a looped version but you have to cover a trash with block first and after your stuff get sorted you can uncover block and not needed stuff gets contained to trash at the end
There is a better way u can put 44 named items eleven in every item place thing and then 1 sorting item
ayo i f**kin love u right now, thank u for telling me this
Btw if u use it then use this somewhere where its not gonna get overload :)
I wouldn’t do that. It could cause the signals to overlap and break the sorter. There’s a reason it requires 41 items. If you don’t have 41 items to fill the sorter then you don’t need a sorter for that item. Or build a multi item sorter.
Why not use the 44 filter items in the ones you are not likely to have alot of (like netherite and diamond ores) and the 4 filter items in the hoppers for the ones you'll have alot of like stone and diorite
@@gregois You are right but in farms like mob farm you should use the 41 filter one(the normal one) cuz when to much items comes then well it breaks...
This is the best tutorial I've seen, and I've seen a lot! So quick and easy, even a newbie like me (I started in Nov 2021 lol) understood it easily ^^
I just made the sorting also 2 days age, with honey/ice.
But if i drop more then 4 of a item in the sorting, the hopper cant catch them all. do you have same problem?
@@spirit085 make it cycle back so it can hit the hopper again
If I put in too many items in the dropper at once, I seem to lose about 8-10 blocks per stack. Is building a hopper line that feeds those back to the original chest worth it, or is there a better solution?
I would build a separate water stream
Great tutorial, been looking to build something like this in my Minecraft world.
When using this design in bedrock, use cakes instead of honey blocks. The honey-blocks will get the items stuck inbetween water streams, which will result in you losing your items. Other non-sticky items with a smaller hitbox than a regular block will likely also work.
How about the ice blocks on top of the first row of chests not being able to open?
@@TheMormu19 Probably best to build the transportation line a block higher or to only use a single chest on top.
@@MrJob-jv4dc I tested it on a creative world it didn’t work. I tried using cake same thing. I’ll stick with my slower system for now
@@TheMormu19Make sure you place your cakes over the entire length of the row. Else the items will be misaligned and the hoppers will not pick them up.
Also for my setup I placed blue ice over the entire row. Maybe that also makes a difference
Impulse is great, great tutorial for his idea, thanks Chappy
First step when building this in survival is to build iron golem farm first :D
Very few wasted words. Outstanding focus on your topic. You have a beautiful mind my friend.😍
with your "melon problem" you should just do a stream of crafting melons
Legendary
instead of the 4 filler blocks and 41 sorted items, you could use 1 sorted item and 11 filler blocks per slot. Also you can use any block in the game as filler blocks, just rename them in an anvil and they won't stack.
all my items stop at each sign for some reason any help im using packed ice too
Just remove the honey block directly across from the sign and it works fine, I had the same issue.
Same
isnt adding honey over every single hopper excessive? you could use another nonfull water stopping block like buttons or scaffolding instead, only using honey for alignment
when i try this it just dumps th whole stack when it goes in the hopper???
I have just built a double module version put a tower of five double chests connected to both modules and then made droppervater connected to looping waterway using slabs to let hoppers get blocks. Also I connected the input chest to my basalt generator output. Did it all in Bedrock 1.17 on console. :)
There seems to be a common problem with having items race too fast and miss the chests in the process, any way to prevent this?
Regarding this, it happens because of the ungodly amount of ice used, ice is only needed in key spots, like when the water current ends.
If they are still moving too fast put some honey blocks under the water path as well (not on the entire stream, maybe every 3 blocks). It will slow the items but with the water flowing is still faster than a hopper transport
@@gredystar8333 even with the entire stream honey blocks (other than i’ve beneath signs) it’s to fast for the hoppers to pick up
@@gredystar8333 Thanks for your suggestion. I was looking for a way to slow item speed because the items move too quick in some parts of my sorter.
Thz bro .1st I understood this sorting staff 😁
This still works but you have to remove the honey blocks where the signs/slabs are.
ah... I was wondering why my items were getting stuck. but how will the items get collected if I remove the honey block on that spot?
next time im gonna play minecraft so will i build the farm.... NICE FARMM COOOL, FINALLY I CAN MAKE A ITEM SORTER THANKS
Design still works but I found item’s getting stuck where signs were places so replaced honey with a slap on top and items pass through great now
Thank you, been trying to figure this one out. Working now.
could you put a vid/picture up of what this looks like?
U deserve more views and subs!thanks for the tutorial!!❤️