this is the first sorting system video that really helped me ideate for my own storage room without forcing me to create a gigantic a automatic sorter for every item in the game
i have no idea if impulse watches your videos but i like to imagine him watching this and being really proud of the fact that something he came up with is considered so essential as to be in a survival guide video. i think it would make him happy :)
I appreciate that you take the time to explain how the redstone components work together for the item sorter to function properly. Years ago, before I understood what little I do about redstone, I found a step-by-step guide for the first sorter you showed, but it didn't explain what the individual parts were doing. So, at the time, I could build an item sorter, but I didn't understand why it worked or how to fix problems with it that popped-up. Too many tutorials tell you to "build it like this", but don't explain what's actually going-on so that the viewer is actually learning something that they can then apply to anything else they might want to build.
For sure. In some cases, these folks might actually have invented certain contraptions - but who knows how many players figured it out for themselves around the same time, or even earlier, and just didn't share it on TH-cam? Or their video simply didn't rise to the top, when someone else's did? I try to be precise with my language when questions of ownership come up in such a large community.
@@Pixlriffs That's a good way to give credit to people. IIRC Impulse did invent that type of sorter but it's entirely possible someone else did too, he just won the proverbial race to the Patent Office.
A good rule of thumb for the redstone of item filters is use a man-made block that doesn't spawn in the area. I'm in construction of a storage system and using deepslate bricks for the redstone in the stone layers, it's just a piece of mind so that you don't dig it out on accident and break the system
I try to avoid anything that I might want to build with too so that when I come across it later I know it's holding redstone. Polished diorite is my usual go-to as it also makes the redstone dust easily visible.
Considering a Haste 2 beacon might be a thing later, I like using blocks that are visibly divided but not instantly mineable with Haste 2 and Efficiency 5 on a diamond/netherite pickaxe. My go-to redstone-holding blocks are smooth stone and smooth stone slabs and well as (clear) glass for that reason. Other technically-oriented Minecraft players seem to like concrete blocks for similar reasons (plus, those can be used in multiple colors to designate the various parts of a contraption, similar to wool), but I avoid it for not having visible divisions between blocks.
I use smooth stone for all of my redstone builds. Any essential/necessary block is made out of smooth stone blocks or slabs because it stands out from everything else so well. If you're digging around your build and suddenly find a block of it you know it'd be a really bad idea to break it.
I use smooth stone for the base of anything and polished granite on blocks that are supposed to get powered. I'll also use undyed glass for when I need a transparent block. The exception is actually item filters. I make them in such bull that everything is smooth stone.
THANK YOU for this! I have been so irritated with auto sorters, and you have explained so succinctly and easily why they kept breaking even though I thought I was doing them right.
The detailed power signal explanation of why the small design doesn't work adjacent to other slices as well as why the design we're all accustom to does work was fantastic ! The amount of power and how far it goes through connected circuits. Always super educational !
Tip for Bedrock players: the impulse item sorter doesn't work unless you extend the underside with another repeater so the torch sits underneath the hopper.
@@imperfectimp But look at the bright side - after a few weeks in a survival world, an average player is already sitting on tons of both wheat and redstone. Auto-farming plus Fortune III on your pick and it's hardly an obstacle. Iron is the bigger bottleneck (for the hoppers) if you don't like farming iron golems.
The opening explanation was the clearest I have seen and I have been trying to build a sorter for 3 years. Sometimes it worked sometimes it wouldn't start and sometimes it crashed. I have needed that first 10 minutes since I Began my projects. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
Once we get to the End, we might as well need some explanation on how shulker loaders and unloaders work, and how more advanced item filters work (filters that utilize chests)
I'd love to see Pix do something like CubFan did in HC season 7 with his pyramid sorting system, or (if you remember that far back) Xisuma did in his Season 5 base. A gigantic sorting system for everything, including full and empty shulker boxes, single item stack stuff like potions and armor (and now books with fillable bookshelves?) where no matter what you need to sort, just chuck it all into the same input and walk away. Lots of work to set up but a huge time saver overall.
@@Raskolnikov70 Unfortunately, these multi-item sorters can be quite problematic if you unload the chunks. Don't know if Xisuma's sorter had that issue. I have multi item sorters in my survival world but try not to use them, because items in the filter chests can be replaced if something messes up the system. Sometimes simpler can be better. Not saying these are bad, but you have to be careful with them.
I'm really happy that the survival guide exists. I've recently started playing Java after years of bedrock. The guide has really helped me speed up how things like redstone works, where to find stuff and how to use different commands. This video has me interested in making my own automated storage. This guide is also the reason why I've started playing java too. So thank you for that too.
Also watching this brought me back to season 1 of Survival Guide; your storage room then is so nostalgic for me and it’s crazy to think how far the game has come since then
Hey Pixl, thanks for the item filter tutorial and red stone lesson. And can't wait to see what you come up with this time for the storage building... till next eps Cheers
This is exactly what i needed right now. While I'm in bedrock and using an item categorizer instead of filters, getting an idea about layout and organization is really helpful right now
seriously impressive!! thanks for not only making a tutorial, but breaking down WHY it works. its what i was looking for and was nearly about to give up because the big 'tube wasn't helping much
any idea how i could build indicator lights for when a chest is full? my only thought is separating the backhand redstone so when the hopper fills up it can pass a signal to a lamp but it would effectively double the size of the set. maybe..
This is absoluty an episode I will be referring back to...so...so many times. Automatic storage filter rooms always felt like magic. Like how does that even work...magic! But hearing you explain it...reminds me of high school calculus (I kind of understand but some of it gets fuzzy but I can definitely do it with a little bit of effort). Thank you so much for sharing! You explain it really well!
It's the episode I have been waiting for! I've just started to set up my auto-storage room in my single-player world. This episode gave me an idea for the layout thanks.
A key advantage to locating storage underground, is that you can expand it later without messing up the surface. And no matter how big you build your storage area, sooner or later you *will* need to expand it. Repeatedly.
Bruh. I built my original mining sorter back in 1.10 or so, had slots for 20 items plus an overflow chest and that was plenty. I'm currently up to 120+ slots and it'll probably go up more when the End update finally drops. Just have to keep digging down and building new rows and silos for all the new minerals and soils they keep adding. I feel like Forrest Gump when I'm doing it too - "Well, there's gold ore, raw gold, raw gold block, nether gold ore, gold nuggets....."
@@Raskolnikov70 Yep, yep, yep. "I need a whole chest just for the random junk that lands in my inventory when mining (cobble, dirt, granite, ...)" quickly becomes "I need a set of six or eight chests for _each_ of those things," and it doesn't end there.
Same, been playing survival minecraft since Java 1.8 but still enjoy the reminder and occasionally learning something new that I'd overlooked in the past!
When you said "smallest item filter" at the beginning of the video, I assumed you were talking about the chest and hopper setup all by itself. Because that's technically an item filter too - just put at least one item in every storage slot in the chest. Then when you put items in the hopper, if there's a similar item in the chest (but not a full stack of that item) the hopper will push it into the chest. If that item isn't in anywhere in the chest, it stays in the hopper. Don't know if there's any kind of official name for this setup, I call them mini-sorters and use them everywhere in my survival world where a quick and easy organizer comes in handy. Fishing loot, animal breeding or farming, even some smaller caving or mining trips. Just makes life a bit easier without all the effort of building a large sorting system.
Those are good for a lot of things, colored wool, glass, concrete, powder... You just arrange the output cheats with one of each thing. Then it collects stacks...
If you stack the hoppers and chests, and add a redstone system, you get what is called a multisorter. ImpulseSV has a tutorial on this. It’s a bit more complicated to set up than the regular sorter but not much. The advantage is you need a tiny fraction of the redstone and storage space, and it’s easily a better option for players who never fill double chests with a single item.
@@abj136 Yep, those types of multisorters are great for sorting stuff like building materials and leftovers, where you've got a huge variety of items to sort but only a few of each. Pix simplifies it by just putting the barrel next to the sorter slice of that item, did the same thing last season IIRC. Impulse-type are better for stuff like mining and mega-farms - few types of blocks but tons of them.
it's worth noting that adding composters on top of a hopper chain will reduce lag as the hoppers won't check to see if they can suck anything from above them
I actually cut some lines about this from the video. While I agree it's important, it takes a pretty large amount of exposed hoppers in order to do this, and a single-player world at this stage won't really feel it unless you're committing to an enormous storage system. It's more of a concern on servers with several technical players and a limited hosting package.
Thank you for your tutorials, I really love the way you explain complicated stuff in such a simple way. I have been following you for years and have always used your tips. Thank you again for all the hard work you do!
I'm making an automatic item storage for about 800 items, so including slabs, fences, etc... Something about dumping any stackable item I have in an input chest and sorting itself is just so satisfying and convenient.
For the longest time some creators have been touting the less than 41 filter items in the filter hopper and more filler items but it will invariably break, maybe not immediately, but it will. Thank you for explaining why. I like the basic filter system earlier game but I eventually move onto Gnembom's item categorizer for it's versatility.
Thank you Pix! You explained Redstone to me like talking to a 5 year old, but that's a good thing lol. I'm slowly learning how Redstone actually works, so I genuinely appreciate you breaking it down like you did. Thank you!
17:15, late game it's sooo much easier to setup one or several exposed hoppers as your input, and you can simply place the 3 or 4 shulker boxes from a massive trip on those hoppers and walk away.
I built this for my first storage system on bedrock. It's great! Planning for 1400 items though in case of new items coming out in the future. Future proofing this thing. Going to be 5 levels deep underground. Also, found that if you leave the first slot in the hoppers with filter material empty, the system will automatically assign a new unused item to the slot. The system just wouldn't be in the order you want. But it works even for unset items.
I may not be the only one to do this but I added another hopper , sticking out, under the front of some of the chests so that I could plop down a shulker box and fill it up with what ever the resource was. And thanks for the video I think now I know whats wrong with my auto-sorter after I converted my world from Bedrock to Java. The Bedrock version has the Redstone set up a bit differently. Everything I put in to sort was just flowing through to the catch all box at the end.
I built my underground storage system with 4 rows of 52 slices, 2 rows per hall. 4 double chests high, hopper chain to feed The Beast. 1 slice for each of the most common types of blocks i use, and then after the bulk storage, i have a long row of multi item sorted chests. Bedrock edition of course. And my gods it took forever to get as far as ive gotten
I keep thinking about building a sorting system each time I come back with boxes full of loot from exploring, but have been intimidated by the amount of effort to build that versus manually sorting the items myself. This will be a good reference for when I finally give in and start the project. ❤
Some time during a redstone-related episode, I'd like it if you could explain target blocks and why they are sometimes used as components in redstone builds. What do they actually do that can't be done without them, or could be done but is better/simpler with target blocks.
For those 7x7 areas, you could have one set up for showcasing various armors and gear throughout the series, like an Iron-Man suit display. So one set that's fully defensive netherite, one that is a soft reference to Zedaph which is a fully enchanted set of leather armor with netherite trims, a set of flying gear, a turtle helmet set for diving, and so on! It could be fun to see that in one area or expanded out to the different 7x7 spaces, possibly dabbling in armor equiper redstone builds too.
Hi there Pixlrf! been watching your tutorial videos in minecraft and I must say tis awesome you explain the concepts behind the systems and you give me directions in the how tos of complicated stuff in MC. You have my thanks and my subscription.
I hope you keep this series alive till I have kids , so if my kids are into minecraft I can ask them to watch uncle Pix and then play with them. I'm just 20 still btw. So long live the survival guide
Hey Pixlriffs, I know your a busy guy, but I'm wondering if you or somebody from your community could help me out. Being a totally blind MineCraft player, I have struggled to find a video that explains exactly how to arange the blocks for the filter circuit going by just what the builder says while they are building it. I am wondering if you would have some time to put together maybe a small text guide on how this circuit is built. Maybe using coords with the output chest at 0 0 0, and the first hopper pointing into it 1 0 0 or something similar. I understand the redstone logic here, just can't quite grasp the layout of the redstone components. By the way, thanks for the amazing content and most of the knowledge I have for building redstone and farms comes from your videos.
I love the series, works like intended, a safe place to come when you need. As for the storage system maybe you should include and items before you finish the layout, and leave at least 10-15 empty spots for future versions.
I was going to say how aspirational it was to include ancient debris as it's own slot, but then I remembered the previous season and how much debris mining Pixlriffs did.
I really appreciate how laid out (pun intended 🤓) you made the categories for your sorting system. I'm currently playing a modded world with many different types of wood and other natural blocks and crafted materials, planning on eventually making a giant warehouse-style auto sorting system similar to your design, only much, much larger to accomodate the incredible amount of modded blocks 😅 I'm hoping to make it somewhat modular so I can continue to expand it as I collect more resources 🧠
For some reason, after watching all your episodes of survival guide, this one is inspiring me to actually make an auto sorting machine. Idk what clicked, but thank you for making this video nonetheless. The build will have to wait until after I finish a farm I'm currently working on though 😅
I just finished binge watching your last guide and empires...🥰.. The amount of time it must take to make all this content is unreal.😱 Keep up the amazing work 🤩.. wish you did bedrock too 🫣
When I first learned about item filters and automated sorting years ago, I was thrilled and built them wherever more than one item type could be expected to appear. And of course large systems to automatically sort as many different items as possible, including all the derivate stuff like slabs or stairs. For a while now, I learned that these automated sorting systems don´t provide advantages worth the effort to build them. Also the "can do factor", the principle of the sorting unit is fine, but just stacking an endless row of these isn´t any redstone-ish challenge or archievement. Nowadays my focus is more on compact designs and I do the sorting manually. Pillar of 3 or 4 different blocks (5 would work, too), e.g. logs, a barrel besides each of them, the same with other blocks back to back. Derivates like planks or cut blocks go into the same chest. That´s 6-8 dedicated barrels on a 2x2 area, easy access, type of content displayed, pillars a good option to group related items. Other arrangements such as long storage walls or a more playful integration into the room design are a good idea, no need for a sterile looking row of chests. Just think of placing shelves in a real room, many options. As the barrels fill up, I put the content in a shulker box and restore this on in the barrel. That provides space for 27x27=729 stacks or 13,5 double chests. If not sufficient, just place another barrel beside. The only places I still use these item sorters are fully automated farms with different drops occuring, such as an all color wool farm or some of the monster farms.
I like that. I have something I'm going to try on the roof. Not going to say now - until I try it! :-) Just kind of make it still go along with the style of build. Thanks loads Pixl! I still have loads of videos to catch up with, but I'll make it. See ya next time!
I was way to late to build a 3 story autosorter for all my items and goin filter by filter would drive my small brain insane. So I just spammed the input chest with items by material so the sorter sorted items by itself, as a new type came in it filled the next filter and so on. For the non- OCD this saves time
I do the first design almost a decade now. It breaks because the Redstone dust must be a block longer and it's perfect. I use it in the nether with high intensity filters. Never breaks. Edit: And you just built what I was talking about. 😂 Good job mate. ❤
FYI this is great for Java item sorters. Bedrock's best is SilentWhisper's smallest one with target blocks for early then his big one for later. Great vid though Pix :D
A trick I like to use is to make the first filter chest a filter item filter chest, so I can throw filter items in, and they get sorted out before they can cause trouble
Every sorting system needs a Filter Material sorter at the beginning cus some day you will shift-click a stack of them into your sorter input without realizing it. Trust this will not happen enough to cause overflow, or be even safer and use 4 uniquely named items in the filter. Also if you put the repeater in impulseSV's filter on 2 ticks it will prevent a (rare) issue where exactly the wrong rate of item input will cause the torch to burn out, while working just as well. This was the scourge of a tree farm sorting system from a long time ago so I always do this even if nobody else has ever seen this problem. XD
I find auto sorters either need to be (A) huge or (B) specialized to a task. Thus, I no longer make generalized ones. They simply are not worth the time, effort, and space. Where they are useful is when you have farms producing a wide variety of products. So, if I have a froglight farm, I don't bother. I'm getting 4 products (magma cream and three froglights) and if I want them sorted I can just pre-fill the blocks in the collection chests with 1 of each for the part devoted to each product. For a general mob farm, however, where I'm getting 14 stacking plus non-stacking items - they make sense. Also, if you like to go exploring/mining/end raiding - then having them as good unloading stations for that makes sense. Whenever I'm doing those things, I tend to work on a 2-shulker system. I have one shulker for stackable things and one for non-stackable things (including full stacks). So, when my inventory is full, I drop the shulkers dump in the stackables, then remove any full stacks that have accumulated. Then I fill the non-stackable shulker with those items and the full stacks. When the non-stackable is full, it gets switched out with an empty shulker from the ender chest. I normally only have a few dedicated shulkers in my ender chest for gear and supplies - so there are 20 or so slots for these absolutely full shulkers before I have to go home. If you have been end raiding - then those shulkers are very well set up for a sorting system. Purpar block, bricks, stairs and pillar, end stone and bricks, purple glass, shulker shells, chests, diamonds, beetroot seeds, dragon heads, brewing stands, item frames, iron ingots, diamonds, eyes of ender, end rods, banners, chorus fruit and flowers - all the normal stuff that if you do much end raiding you get stacks and stacks of. You still have to sort the non-stackables (diamond gear, wings, healing 2 potions, etc). I do much the same when running around caves for ores - and there a similar dedicated system (stone, andesite, granite, diorite, and deepslate plus the stone and deepslate ores for everything) can make "unloading and sorting" from such a trip faster. In the nether, if I'm not just destroying the netherrack in lava, I keep a third shulker in my inventory specifically for it and run the two shulker system for everything else. It is also faster to run several separate systems that are smaller than one mega system if you are still using hopper lines for feeding the system.
As someone that loves to play around redstone and storage, I have a lot to say. First, there is a huge misconception about which auto-sorter to use. The small version (2 redstone dust) is perfectly capable of handling any input that comes from a hopper like in the video. You only need the 3 redstone dust version when the items travel above the filtering hopper by water. Second, I think is important to talk about how useful the auto-sorter is. Since every row will have only 1 item, is very impractical for any all purpose storage (like what we usually have in our base/house). There are exceptions but it generally needs a far more complex auto-sorter, like the ones Cubfan or Impulse have done in Hermicraft in previous seasons. Auto-sorters are great for any farms on contraption since they give a few different outputs. Third, there are 2 variations of an auto sorter worth talking: The shulker loader and the hopper-minecart filter. The first one uses the same sorter but the output is not a chest, but a shulkerbox. The second uses a hopper-minecart as an auto-filter, useful only for the most efficient farms but more complex. Hope this comment hepls!
No, you absolutely need the 3 redstone dust version if you plan to store large quantities of blocks. For example, let's say I collect 5 shulker boxes of stone from a beacon strip mine, and dump it all into this storage system along with all the granite and diorite and stuff. The two double-chests would fill up, the hoppers would fill up, and the filter hopper would end up with 64 items in it. The filter with 2 redstone dust would then stay powered permanently, activating the redstone to either side and breaking the filters either side. Of course you can avoid this by adding more chests, or just being aware of how much you're storing, but building the 3 dust filters makes it idiot proof. You never have to worry about it breaking, because it simply cannot break.
@@Pixlriffs Sure, If that's your concern then yes. But if you have enough chests is not needed. And sometimes that difference is important in tight spaces.
I dream of a day where I wake up and open youtube and click the first video in the feed and hear "Hello, my name is Pixlriffs and eelcome to the create survival guide"
Pix, please do a video on auto storing bulk storage in shulkers and then in chests. I keep my storage room small by sorting and then placing all the filtered items in shulkers first before placing them in final storage. Takes 1/27th of the space, and it's something not often presented. Shulkers are easy to obtain with a (not so easy to make) shulker farm, but it's really worth it.
Hey pix, I want you to use the colour palette of mangrove woods and deepslate(variants) in some of the future builds. They mesh up really well. TH-camr named "WaxFraud " does it really well. Also want to let you know that I have outpaced you and even completed end mission😂😂 but still loving your series.
I'd really like to see a Pixel guide on the other sorters. Multiple items in a single chest, non stackable items, potions, armor, books, the other ones that are just voodoo magic to me.
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Pix I want you to know, one of my storage rooms has been broken for over a year.. This video helped me realize what was wrong with it, thank you!
He's the hero we need *and* the one we deserve all at once.
Good to hear it got fixed.
That is great 👍 pix is an amazing teacher
Hey fWhip love ur vids ik u hear it a lot be u r very inspiring ⛏️
Pix to the rescue
this is the first sorting system video that really helped me ideate for my own storage room without forcing me to create a gigantic a automatic sorter for every item in the game
i have no idea if impulse watches your videos but i like to imagine him watching this and being really proud of the fact that something he came up with is considered so essential as to be in a survival guide video. i think it would make him happy :)
I appreciate that you take the time to explain how the redstone components work together for the item sorter to function properly. Years ago, before I understood what little I do about redstone, I found a step-by-step guide for the first sorter you showed, but it didn't explain what the individual parts were doing. So, at the time, I could build an item sorter, but I didn't understand why it worked or how to fix problems with it that popped-up. Too many tutorials tell you to "build it like this", but don't explain what's actually going-on so that the viewer is actually learning something that they can then apply to anything else they might want to build.
Exactly my thoughts!
I third that 😂
I appreciate the use of the phrase "popularised by" for items like the tileable item filter or the Skumpass.
For sure. In some cases, these folks might actually have invented certain contraptions - but who knows how many players figured it out for themselves around the same time, or even earlier, and just didn't share it on TH-cam? Or their video simply didn't rise to the top, when someone else's did? I try to be precise with my language when questions of ownership come up in such a large community.
@@Pixlriffs That's a good way to give credit to people. IIRC Impulse did invent that type of sorter but it's entirely possible someone else did too, he just won the proverbial race to the Patent Office.
A good rule of thumb for the redstone of item filters is use a man-made block that doesn't spawn in the area. I'm in construction of a storage system and using deepslate bricks for the redstone in the stone layers, it's just a piece of mind so that you don't dig it out on accident and break the system
My personal choice is wool (thanks Mumbo), then stone bricks or polished stones. Late game colored concrete is a good choice also
I try to avoid anything that I might want to build with too so that when I come across it later I know it's holding redstone. Polished diorite is my usual go-to as it also makes the redstone dust easily visible.
Considering a Haste 2 beacon might be a thing later, I like using blocks that are visibly divided but not instantly mineable with Haste 2 and Efficiency 5 on a diamond/netherite pickaxe. My go-to redstone-holding blocks are smooth stone and smooth stone slabs and well as (clear) glass for that reason. Other technically-oriented Minecraft players seem to like concrete blocks for similar reasons (plus, those can be used in multiple colors to designate the various parts of a contraption, similar to wool), but I avoid it for not having visible divisions between blocks.
I use smooth stone for all of my redstone builds. Any essential/necessary block is made out of smooth stone blocks or slabs because it stands out from everything else so well. If you're digging around your build and suddenly find a block of it you know it'd be a really bad idea to break it.
I use smooth stone for the base of anything and polished granite on blocks that are supposed to get powered. I'll also use undyed glass for when I need a transparent block.
The exception is actually item filters. I make them in such bull that everything is smooth stone.
THANK YOU for this! I have been so irritated with auto sorters, and you have explained so succinctly and easily why they kept breaking even though I thought I was doing them right.
The detailed power signal explanation of why the small design doesn't work adjacent to other slices as well as why the design we're all accustom to does work was fantastic ! The amount of power and how far it goes through connected circuits. Always super educational !
Tip for Bedrock players: the impulse item sorter doesn't work unless you extend the underside with another repeater so the torch sits underneath the hopper.
There is a better way to do it with a target block. No repeater needed then
@@judsongreenwood2636I always forget that those exist 😅.
Gotta try that out. At least it's cheaper on Redstone.
@@imperfectimp Not really cheaper, as a target block costs 4 redstone dust already.
@@TheRealWormbogoes to show how often I make them. I thought they were 8 pieces of wheat with 1 piece of Redstone.
@@imperfectimp But look at the bright side - after a few weeks in a survival world, an average player is already sitting on tons of both wheat and redstone. Auto-farming plus Fortune III on your pick and it's hardly an obstacle. Iron is the bigger bottleneck (for the hoppers) if you don't like farming iron golems.
I almost want to take lecture notes during this video LOL
Redstone episodes always has that effect on me, too, and I understand it pretty well already!
26:07 Block Categories for bookmarking. Massive thanks for this vid, it was so informative and made it easy to understand
A morning is never complete without the survival guide
Oh man did this episode take me down a beautiful rabbit hole last season! May many more follow me this time 😊
The opening explanation was the clearest I have seen and I have been trying to build a sorter for 3 years. Sometimes it worked sometimes it wouldn't start and sometimes it crashed. I have needed that first 10 minutes since I Began my projects. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
Once we get to the End, we might as well need some explanation on how shulker loaders and unloaders work, and how more advanced item filters work (filters that utilize chests)
There's gonna be an episode all about how shulkerboxes work and the other things about them
or explain the over-stacked item filters, which utilizes the use of grindstoned curse books, and only need one filter item to work
I'd love to see Pix do something like CubFan did in HC season 7 with his pyramid sorting system, or (if you remember that far back) Xisuma did in his Season 5 base. A gigantic sorting system for everything, including full and empty shulker boxes, single item stack stuff like potions and armor (and now books with fillable bookshelves?) where no matter what you need to sort, just chuck it all into the same input and walk away. Lots of work to set up but a huge time saver overall.
@@Raskolnikov70 Unfortunately, these multi-item sorters can be quite problematic if you unload the chunks. Don't know if Xisuma's sorter had that issue. I have multi item sorters in my survival world but try not to use them, because items in the filter chests can be replaced if something messes up the system. Sometimes simpler can be better. Not saying these are bad, but you have to be careful with them.
@@legendracer4861not Shuler boxes Shuler box unloaders.
I'm really happy that the survival guide exists. I've recently started playing Java after years of bedrock. The guide has really helped me speed up how things like redstone works, where to find stuff and how to use different commands. This video has me interested in making my own automated storage.
This guide is also the reason why I've started playing java too. So thank you for that too.
No matter how long I've been playing Minecraft, these remain SO useful. 👍I always need a reminder. 😅
Also watching this brought me back to season 1 of Survival Guide; your storage room then is so nostalgic for me and it’s crazy to think how far the game has come since then
Hey Pixl, thanks for the item filter tutorial and red stone lesson. And can't wait to see what you come up with this time for the storage building... till next eps Cheers
This is exactly what i needed right now. While I'm in bedrock and using an item categorizer instead of filters, getting an idea about layout and organization is really helpful right now
Wake up babe, new survival guide episode just dropped.
The legend never die...
@@JMTHEVORTEX it should
Go back to sleep babe, you can't comprehend the redstone going on in the video you're an NPC.
Pathetic.
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seriously impressive!! thanks for not only making a tutorial, but breaking down WHY it works. its what i was looking for and was nearly about to give up because the big 'tube wasn't helping much
any idea how i could build indicator lights for when a chest is full?
my only thought is separating the backhand redstone so when the hopper fills up it can pass a signal to a lamp but it would effectively double the size of the set. maybe..
This is absoluty an episode I will be referring back to...so...so many times. Automatic storage filter rooms always felt like magic. Like how does that even work...magic! But hearing you explain it...reminds me of high school calculus (I kind of understand but some of it gets fuzzy but I can definitely do it with a little bit of effort). Thank you so much for sharing! You explain it really well!
It's the episode I have been waiting for! I've just started to set up my auto-storage room in my single-player world. This episode gave me an idea for the layout thanks.
A key advantage to locating storage underground, is that you can expand it later without messing up the surface. And no matter how big you build your storage area, sooner or later you *will* need to expand it. Repeatedly.
Bruh. I built my original mining sorter back in 1.10 or so, had slots for 20 items plus an overflow chest and that was plenty. I'm currently up to 120+ slots and it'll probably go up more when the End update finally drops. Just have to keep digging down and building new rows and silos for all the new minerals and soils they keep adding. I feel like Forrest Gump when I'm doing it too - "Well, there's gold ore, raw gold, raw gold block, nether gold ore, gold nuggets....."
@@Raskolnikov70 Yep, yep, yep.
"I need a whole chest just for the random junk that lands in my inventory when mining (cobble, dirt, granite, ...)" quickly becomes "I need a set of six or eight chests for _each_ of those things," and it doesn't end there.
I know how to do almost everything he does in these videos, I simply enjoy watching them.
Same, been playing survival minecraft since Java 1.8 but still enjoy the reminder and occasionally learning something new that I'd overlooked in the past!
ive been intimidated to make an auto storage system, but im gonna give it a try! i really appreciate your chill, instructional vids! Awesome series!
This is perfect timing since I'm just getting my storage area sorted! Thank you for all the explanations and including the smaller versions! :3
When you said "smallest item filter" at the beginning of the video, I assumed you were talking about the chest and hopper setup all by itself. Because that's technically an item filter too - just put at least one item in every storage slot in the chest. Then when you put items in the hopper, if there's a similar item in the chest (but not a full stack of that item) the hopper will push it into the chest. If that item isn't in anywhere in the chest, it stays in the hopper.
Don't know if there's any kind of official name for this setup, I call them mini-sorters and use them everywhere in my survival world where a quick and easy organizer comes in handy. Fishing loot, animal breeding or farming, even some smaller caving or mining trips. Just makes life a bit easier without all the effort of building a large sorting system.
Those are good for a lot of things, colored wool, glass, concrete, powder... You just arrange the output cheats with one of each thing. Then it collects stacks...
If you stack the hoppers and chests, and add a redstone system, you get what is called a multisorter. ImpulseSV has a tutorial on this. It’s a bit more complicated to set up than the regular sorter but not much. The advantage is you need a tiny fraction of the redstone and storage space, and it’s easily a better option for players who never fill double chests with a single item.
@@abj136 Yep, those types of multisorters are great for sorting stuff like building materials and leftovers, where you've got a huge variety of items to sort but only a few of each. Pix simplifies it by just putting the barrel next to the sorter slice of that item, did the same thing last season IIRC. Impulse-type are better for stuff like mining and mega-farms - few types of blocks but tons of them.
Thanks for making this! So many tutorials just show you how to build the system, I'm glad you explained how it works
it's worth noting that adding composters on top of a hopper chain will reduce lag as the hoppers won't check to see if they can suck anything from above them
I actually cut some lines about this from the video. While I agree it's important, it takes a pretty large amount of exposed hoppers in order to do this, and a single-player world at this stage won't really feel it unless you're committing to an enormous storage system. It's more of a concern on servers with several technical players and a limited hosting package.
Hey Pixlriffs, what do you consider “an enormous storage system”?
Thank you for your tutorials, I really love the way you explain complicated stuff in such a simple way. I have been following you for years and have always used your tips. Thank you again for all the hard work you do!
I'm making an automatic item storage for about 800 items, so including slabs, fences, etc... Something about dumping any stackable item I have in an input chest and sorting itself is just so satisfying and convenient.
For the longest time some creators have been touting the less than 41 filter items in the filter hopper and more filler items but it will invariably break, maybe not immediately, but it will. Thank you for explaining why. I like the basic filter system earlier game but I eventually move onto Gnembom's item categorizer for it's versatility.
I love this lets play series! It has helped me so much in my world!
Keep it up bro🔥
Thank you Pix! You explained Redstone to me like talking to a 5 year old, but that's a good thing lol. I'm slowly learning how Redstone actually works, so I genuinely appreciate you breaking it down like you did. Thank you!
17:15, late game it's sooo much easier to setup one or several exposed hoppers as your input, and you can simply place the 3 or 4 shulker boxes from a massive trip on those hoppers and walk away.
I built this for my first storage system on bedrock. It's great! Planning for 1400 items though in case of new items coming out in the future. Future proofing this thing. Going to be 5 levels deep underground.
Also, found that if you leave the first slot in the hoppers with filter material empty, the system will automatically assign a new unused item to the slot. The system just wouldn't be in the order you want. But it works even for unset items.
I may not be the only one to do this but I added another hopper , sticking out, under the front of some of the chests so that I could plop down a shulker box and fill it up with what ever the resource was.
And thanks for the video I think now I know whats wrong with my auto-sorter after I converted my world from Bedrock to Java. The Bedrock version has the Redstone set up a bit differently. Everything I put in to sort was just flowing through to the catch all box at the end.
Can’t wait to see the enormous building you come up with
I built my underground storage system with 4 rows of 52 slices, 2 rows per hall. 4 double chests high, hopper chain to feed The Beast. 1 slice for each of the most common types of blocks i use, and then after the bulk storage, i have a long row of multi item sorted chests.
Bedrock edition of course. And my gods it took forever to get as far as ive gotten
Excellent video. You make it so easy to understand and I appreciate that!! ❤
I keep thinking about building a sorting system each time I come back with boxes full of loot from exploring, but have been intimidated by the amount of effort to build that versus manually sorting the items myself. This will be a good reference for when I finally give in and start the project. ❤
Some time during a redstone-related episode, I'd like it if you could explain target blocks and why they are sometimes used as components in redstone builds. What do they actually do that can't be done without them, or could be done but is better/simpler with target blocks.
U teach me more than shorts TH-camrs of minecraft I've watched this game since 2018 but u taught me some things i never ever knew before
For those 7x7 areas, you could have one set up for showcasing various armors and gear throughout the series, like an Iron-Man suit display. So one set that's fully defensive netherite, one that is a soft reference to Zedaph which is a fully enchanted set of leather armor with netherite trims, a set of flying gear, a turtle helmet set for diving, and so on! It could be fun to see that in one area or expanded out to the different 7x7 spaces, possibly dabbling in armor equiper redstone builds too.
Great work pix!
Hi there Pixlrf! been watching your tutorial videos in minecraft and I must say tis awesome you explain the concepts behind the systems and you give me directions in the how tos of complicated stuff in MC. You have my thanks and my subscription.
I hope you keep this series alive till I have kids , so if my kids are into minecraft I can ask them to watch uncle Pix and then play with them. I'm just 20 still btw. So long live the survival guide
Hey Pixlriffs, I know your a busy guy, but I'm wondering if you or somebody from your community could help me out. Being a totally blind MineCraft player, I have struggled to find a video that explains exactly how to arange the blocks for the filter circuit going by just what the builder says while they are building it. I am wondering if you would have some time to put together maybe a small text guide on how this circuit is built. Maybe using coords with the output chest at 0 0 0, and the first hopper pointing into it 1 0 0 or something similar. I understand the redstone logic here, just can't quite grasp the layout of the redstone components. By the way, thanks for the amazing content and most of the knowledge I have for building redstone and farms comes from your videos.
Hi, i'll try and explain it by coords for one slice of the storage system using your method: output chest 0 0 0. chest 1 0 0. hopper 2 0 0 facing 1 0 0. chest 1 1 0. chest 2 1 0. hopper 3 1 0 facing 2 1 0 chest. Wood Plank or any block 5 0 0. Redstone Torch 4 0 0. Wood Plank 4 1 0. Wood 6 -1 0. Redstone Repeater 6 0 0 facing 5 0 0. Wood 7 0 0. Wood 5 1 0. Wood 6 1 0. Comparitor 4 2 0 facing 3 2 0. Redstone Dust 5 2 0. Redstone Dust 6 2 0. Redstone Dust 7 1 0. Hopper 3 2 0 facing 4 2 0. Hopper 3 3 0 facing along each row of the storage. Hope it helps.
you know.. its been 3 times you bring me back to Minecraft from boredom, thank you
I love the series, works like intended, a safe place to come when you need. As for the storage system maybe you should include and items before you finish the layout, and leave at least 10-15 empty spots for future versions.
This episode was so incredibly useful. I love this series!
That's impressive, Keep up the pace
I was going to say how aspirational it was to include ancient debris as it's own slot, but then I remembered the previous season and how much debris mining Pixlriffs did.
Back at it again with the TNT crafting
Thank you for explaining all of this in a way I can understand!
I really appreciate how laid out (pun intended 🤓) you made the categories for your sorting system. I'm currently playing a modded world with many different types of wood and other natural blocks and crafted materials, planning on eventually making a giant warehouse-style auto sorting system similar to your design, only much, much larger to accomodate the incredible amount of modded blocks 😅 I'm hoping to make it somewhat modular so I can continue to expand it as I collect more resources 🧠
You mentioned lines of hoppers and water streams. Don't forget about mine carts with chest/hopper
For some reason, after watching all your episodes of survival guide, this one is inspiring me to actually make an auto sorting machine. Idk what clicked, but thank you for making this video nonetheless. The build will have to wait until after I finish a farm I'm currently working on though 😅
I just finished binge watching your last guide and empires...🥰.. The amount of time it must take to make all this content is unreal.😱 Keep up the amazing work 🤩.. wish you did bedrock too 🫣
Its 3 in the morning for me, and I cant fall asleep, so watching this is the next best thing to do
When I first learned about item filters and automated sorting years ago, I was thrilled and built them wherever more than one item type could be expected to appear. And of course large systems to automatically sort as many different items as possible, including all the derivate stuff like slabs or stairs.
For a while now, I learned that these automated sorting systems don´t provide advantages worth the effort to build them. Also the "can do factor", the principle of the sorting unit is fine, but just stacking an endless row of these isn´t any redstone-ish challenge or archievement. Nowadays my focus is more on compact designs and I do the sorting manually. Pillar of 3 or 4 different blocks (5 would work, too), e.g. logs, a barrel besides each of them, the same with other blocks back to back. Derivates like planks or cut blocks go into the same chest. That´s 6-8 dedicated barrels on a 2x2 area, easy access, type of content displayed, pillars a good option to group related items. Other arrangements such as long storage walls or a more playful integration into the room design are a good idea, no need for a sterile looking row of chests. Just think of placing shelves in a real room, many options. As the barrels fill up, I put the content in a shulker box and restore this on in the barrel. That provides space for 27x27=729 stacks or 13,5 double chests. If not sufficient, just place another barrel beside.
The only places I still use these item sorters are fully automated farms with different drops occuring, such as an all color wool farm or some of the monster farms.
I like that. I have something I'm going to try on the roof. Not going to say now - until I try it! :-) Just kind of make it still go along with the style of build. Thanks loads Pixl! I still have loads of videos to catch up with, but I'll make it. See ya next time!
Thank you for explaining why to use 41 items! Every other source skips over the "why"!
Hands on the best understandable tutorial i've ever seen on a automated storage system. Thank you so much for all you do @Pixlriffs !
Thisan actually made me play mc survival even though I was once afraid of even seeing a zombie, tnx Soo much 🙏
Love your content Pixlriffs!
I was way to late to build a 3 story autosorter for all my items and goin filter by filter would drive my small brain insane. So I just spammed the input chest with items by material so the sorter sorted items by itself, as a new type came in it filled the next filter and so on. For the non- OCD this saves time
A redstone elevator in the center of the building to take you down to additional storage would be really cool!
You’ve given me a lot of good things to think about
A warehouse build would be cool seeing as how its a storage system
I do the first design almost a decade now. It breaks because the Redstone dust must be a block longer and it's perfect. I use it in the nether with high intensity filters. Never breaks.
Edit: And you just built what I was talking about. 😂 Good job mate. ❤
FYI this is great for Java item sorters. Bedrock's best is SilentWhisper's smallest one with target blocks for early then his big one for later. Great vid though Pix :D
The wood in the floor and the crafting table in the middle of the entrance reminds me a lot of the season 1 storage system.
A trick I like to use is to make the first filter chest a filter item filter chest, so I can throw filter items in, and they get sorted out before they can cause trouble
the channel from which i learned minecraft
Woohoo once again you do the perfect episode to make my life easier
Every sorting system needs a Filter Material sorter at the beginning cus some day you will shift-click a stack of them into your sorter input without realizing it. Trust this will not happen enough to cause overflow, or be even safer and use 4 uniquely named items in the filter.
Also if you put the repeater in impulseSV's filter on 2 ticks it will prevent a (rare) issue where exactly the wrong rate of item input will cause the torch to burn out, while working just as well. This was the scourge of a tree farm sorting system from a long time ago so I always do this even if nobody else has ever seen this problem. XD
Built this today, worked great!
Standing there in front of the bed with the chests to either side make me so nsotalgic for season 1!
Okay, I gotta build one of these now! Great video!
Whoa! I didn’t know you could rename an entire stack of items at once, thanks Pix!
Not only can you rename the entire stack at once, it will still only take 1 experience level, making this not only faster, but more efficient.
hey pix when u decorate this building i thing you should add a big custom tree in the center i think that'd look really cool. love the videos!!!!!
we can think impulse for the overflow proof version.
Thanks for tutorial it really helped me a lot.
I find auto sorters either need to be (A) huge or (B) specialized to a task. Thus, I no longer make generalized ones. They simply are not worth the time, effort, and space.
Where they are useful is when you have farms producing a wide variety of products. So, if I have a froglight farm, I don't bother. I'm getting 4 products (magma cream and three froglights) and if I want them sorted I can just pre-fill the blocks in the collection chests with 1 of each for the part devoted to each product. For a general mob farm, however, where I'm getting 14 stacking plus non-stacking items - they make sense.
Also, if you like to go exploring/mining/end raiding - then having them as good unloading stations for that makes sense. Whenever I'm doing those things, I tend to work on a 2-shulker system. I have one shulker for stackable things and one for non-stackable things (including full stacks). So, when my inventory is full, I drop the shulkers dump in the stackables, then remove any full stacks that have accumulated. Then I fill the non-stackable shulker with those items and the full stacks. When the non-stackable is full, it gets switched out with an empty shulker from the ender chest. I normally only have a few dedicated shulkers in my ender chest for gear and supplies - so there are 20 or so slots for these absolutely full shulkers before I have to go home.
If you have been end raiding - then those shulkers are very well set up for a sorting system. Purpar block, bricks, stairs and pillar, end stone and bricks, purple glass, shulker shells, chests, diamonds, beetroot seeds, dragon heads, brewing stands, item frames, iron ingots, diamonds, eyes of ender, end rods, banners, chorus fruit and flowers - all the normal stuff that if you do much end raiding you get stacks and stacks of. You still have to sort the non-stackables (diamond gear, wings, healing 2 potions, etc).
I do much the same when running around caves for ores - and there a similar dedicated system (stone, andesite, granite, diorite, and deepslate plus the stone and deepslate ores for everything) can make "unloading and sorting" from such a trip faster.
In the nether, if I'm not just destroying the netherrack in lava, I keep a third shulker in my inventory specifically for it and run the two shulker system for everything else.
It is also faster to run several separate systems that are smaller than one mega system if you are still using hopper lines for feeding the system.
I recon for the 7x7 areas you could add some silo storage for extremely high quantities like dirt and stone
Nice, informative video.
Thanks Pixlriffs.
As someone that loves to play around redstone and storage, I have a lot to say.
First, there is a huge misconception about which auto-sorter to use. The small version (2 redstone dust) is perfectly capable of handling any input that comes from a hopper like in the video. You only need the 3 redstone dust version when the items travel above the filtering hopper by water.
Second, I think is important to talk about how useful the auto-sorter is. Since every row will have only 1 item, is very impractical for any all purpose storage (like what we usually have in our base/house). There are exceptions but it generally needs a far more complex auto-sorter, like the ones Cubfan or Impulse have done in Hermicraft in previous seasons. Auto-sorters are great for any farms on contraption since they give a few different outputs.
Third, there are 2 variations of an auto sorter worth talking: The shulker loader and the hopper-minecart filter. The first one uses the same sorter but the output is not a chest, but a shulkerbox. The second uses a hopper-minecart as an auto-filter, useful only for the most efficient farms but more complex.
Hope this comment hepls!
No, you absolutely need the 3 redstone dust version if you plan to store large quantities of blocks.
For example, let's say I collect 5 shulker boxes of stone from a beacon strip mine, and dump it all into this storage system along with all the granite and diorite and stuff.
The two double-chests would fill up, the hoppers would fill up, and the filter hopper would end up with 64 items in it. The filter with 2 redstone dust would then stay powered permanently, activating the redstone to either side and breaking the filters either side.
Of course you can avoid this by adding more chests, or just being aware of how much you're storing, but building the 3 dust filters makes it idiot proof. You never have to worry about it breaking, because it simply cannot break.
@@Pixlriffs Sure, If that's your concern then yes. But if you have enough chests is not needed. And sometimes that difference is important in tight spaces.
I dream of a day where I wake up and open youtube and click the first video in the feed and hear "Hello, my name is Pixlriffs and eelcome to the create survival guide"
26:56 block break-down for storage organization
Bookmarking for myself for my own system, feel free to use!
this is the earliest ive been to a pix video watching the vid rn!
Will I ever use this? Probably not. Do I enjoy watching this? Very much so yes.
Very informative. Thx!
amethyst is great for decorating storage areas, or 'labratory' rooms (brewing stands)
Pix, please do a video on auto storing bulk storage in shulkers and then in chests. I keep my storage room small by sorting and then placing all the filtered items in shulkers first before placing them in final storage. Takes 1/27th of the space, and it's something not often presented. Shulkers are easy to obtain with a (not so easy to make) shulker farm, but it's really worth it.
Hey pix, I want you to use the colour palette of mangrove woods and deepslate(variants) in some of the future builds. They mesh up really well. TH-camr named "WaxFraud "
does it really well.
Also want to let you know that I have outpaced you and even completed end mission😂😂 but still loving your series.
I'd really like to see a Pixel guide on the other sorters. Multiple items in a single chest, non stackable items, potions, armor, books, the other ones that are just voodoo magic to me.
the only vid made me understand how sorter works
Thanks Pix, I have now learned what to do 😉 Your the best #1M Subs for Pix