Break a not “full” shulker box by using the input hopper. If you detect when the input hopper fills up you know there are no more empty slots in the shulker. Just a suggestion;). Love the content!
I came here to suggest the same thing, alas you did it first (and probably worded it a little better than I would have...). Great video as always! I've been playing since 1.15, and although I consider myself somewhat descent technically, I keep finding little tips and tricks I didn't know in this series...
@@aircobraman1375 The status of a hopper can be read by a comparator facing away from it. It outputs 1 for a non-full stack and 3 for a full stack or an unstackable item in the hopper. Thus, a completely full hopper puts out a signal of 15.
@@peterschulze4975 correct. But the same issue of mixed items not completely filling the shulker applies to the hopper as well. Have to use an observer to detect the pulse from the comparator as the items flow through it. Then a cooldown clock to an inverted redstone torch to trigger the break and replace circuit. There are tons of videos for “mixed shulker loaders”. Just looked it up. Ilmango’ is the best as usual…. Which reminded me that it’s the container on the input hopper (which can not be the main input container of the system) is a great spot to use the comparator. The item flow doesn’t register in the container above a hopper when feed by another hopper. So as soon as a signal of lvl 1 is read from the comparator you know the shulker and the hopper have no space. And can hook that directly to the break/replace circuit.
A word of warning on shulker box loaders and unloaders: Item entities, such as the broken box, will usually not move too much, but math for that works in strange ways and items can sometimes "jump" up a lot more than usual, or have an unusually high sideways momentum. If you are loading with a hopper from above, breaking the box may cause it to glitch out and land on top of the newly dispensed box, out of reach of any hoppers. Similarly, I can imagine the unloader shown first to have the box glitch out sideways onto the comparator, again, only in very rare cases. These issues stem from the 1.13 hopper collision box update, and the 1.15 item physics changes. You will find that box loaders and unloaders from before those versions may still function, but they must be considered unreliable in terms of their box collection functionality, if they use a hopper pointing into the box from above. For any more interested players, shulkerbox loading and unloading are part of the field of "storage tech", which is its own subcategory of technical Minecraft, and there are many sophisticated contraptions that focus on individual aspects for storing items, such as handling sorted boxes, making sorter contraptions compact (e.g. so they can use or replace 1-wide tileable item filters), and many other things.
Excellent points. We can work around the “box jumps onto comparator” issue by having the comparator read the shulker box’s contents through a solid block, but it increases the size of the redstone circuit a little. 🙂
@@Pixlriffs Another possible solution could be putting the comparator onto the collection hopper for the boxes. Of course that would require routing the signal output to the dispenser and breaking piston in a different way. But I guess that's part of the fun with solving redstone-related problems. :)
In 1.19, only Wool Blocks and Carpets will silence Noteblocks, according to the Snapshots. While it works for now, it may break until you replace the Wood Block with Wool or Carpet then.
I’ve seen shulker un/loaders on a certain popular SMP, and always thought there was some super complex mechanics behind them. This is actually really simple redstone, even if you don’t 100% understand all the complexities of redstone.
I always enjoy the redstone episodes! When I first started watching the Survival guide back in 2020, the most complicated thing I could make was a simple auto-smelter with a furnace and some hoppers. Now I make big complicated machines that make my server mates nervous, lol. What I love is that no matter how much redstone knowledge I think I have, there are always new tricks to learn, like pushing the shulker into a second hopper... I always just had the empty shulkers go into the overflow at the end of the line
08:47 - the dispenser only places the shulker box upwards if there is a non air block below it. If not, the dispenser places the shulker box in the same direction where the dispenser is directed at In this case you still cannot do something about it because you need to have the hopper below though But get rid of the slab at 17:49 above the hopper and you will see what i mean
Really really interesting use of shulker boxes for storage. For the last setup, I would have placed a bunch of redstone in a line to get the full signal strength so knowing comparitors can work the way you showed is so so helpful.
Shulker loaders and unloaders is something I've always been intimidated by... but watching this I realise that my redstone knowledge has improved enough to where I understood the why and how. This has given me some great ideas for my world and also the confidence to try it out 😊 Great episode Pix!
The reason you cannot hopper into an Ender Chest is because the contents are a part of the player's inventory that can only be accessed via the Ender Chest (which is how the Ender Chest automatically shows the contents that belong to the player that opens it). Happy to see this one come along! I'm in the process of finding a place for my own storage build in my current MC world. 😊
I am a looooooong way off needing this in single player survival (maybe useful in multiplayer) but this video just reminded me I need to set up a wool farm. Back to the earlier videos I go! Lets hope this one isn't as difficult as the iron farm one lol.
You won't even need a wool-farm so much. I've got a sheep of each color running around in a pen in single player, and shear them manually from time to time. That's enough wool for my everyday needs. But once, I accidentally burned down a woodland manison nearly completely and rebuilt it. To replace all the carpets a wool farm for red and white wool was convenient.
A few notes from a technical player: -Dispensers actually can place shulker boxes that open in any orientation, but they will always place them opening upward if there is a non-air block below where the box is placed. This may actually be a bug, it's not entirely clear, but it's been this way since shulker boxes were introduced and is relied on for some contraptions. I think it's different on Bedrock, but I'm a Java player so I'm not certain. -The reason broken empty boxes in your unloader end up in the correct hopper is because the breaking sequence takes 6 game ticks, so the hopper below the box is still in it's 8gt cooldown from draining the last item and can't pick up anything else yet. If you had more delay in the breaking sequence, the hopper below the box would pick it up, though this can be avoided by briefly powering that hopper. -Your unloader cannot handle empty boxes or boxes with one item, since the comparator that reads the contents will never turn on as either there are no items to detect or the single item drains instantly when the box is dispensed before the comparator can react. The box will never be broken and will have to be removed manually before you can continue to use the unloader. I realize this is easy for the player to fix if it happens in your particular use case but it's worth noting the limitations as it does matter sometimes. There are designs that can handle these cases without being much larger, and even auto-dispense the first box. -It is actually possible to make a fully automated box loader that can handle mixed items with varying stack sizes. Basically, instead of reading from the box with a comparator, you instead detect when items are no longer able to be put into the box. Though I do think your manual system is fine for your use case. -As TheRealWormbo's comment details, the hopper hitbox and random item momentum make it tricky to reliably collect the broken shulker box 100% of the time. Closing that gap from mostly reliable to perfectly reliable is tricky but doable and there are existing designs for many different use cases.
Nice video, pix! I wanted to say that I think you should do a guide on redstone components like comparators, observers, target blocks etc. Because many people want to join the technical minecraft community and amaze people with their contraptions, but they can't because they don't know how complex redstone components work.
I haven't built any shulker box loaders or unloaders, but gears turning, I think you could detect when your input chest/hopper was empty on your loader, and then that could break the Shulker without it completely filling up, if say you wanted it to automatically go into a rail system and be dropped off to be unloaded.
I've never knew that you can: A) Mute a Noteblock with a Woodplank ontop. B) That Noteblocks can act as a Manual Single Pulse for Redstone. Making Redstone Doors just gotten easier for me!
Using note blocks to trigger redstone is extra useful since they can be pushed by pistons unlike buttons and levers. Good for launching flying machines, for example.
@@lazypaladin For elevators based on flying machines, yeah, it would be a way of activating the elevator from inside rather than having to put the button outside the elevator (since buttons can't be moved by pistons). You'd still need to somehow be able to "call" the elevator from outside though, in case you're at the bottom and it's at the top or vice versa.
Pix's is going to need a shulker box farm at this rate. I now have a redstone testing world on the xbox but can't wait to get my PC up and running so I can play with this idea. A bit complicated for me still, will have to come back for another look. Cool episode.
Thanks again for teaching these things. I already learnt these things for your survival world 1. This feels like revisiting school. Glad that new minecrafters can learn redstone too.
Filling and emptying shulker boxes is quite interesting, but I never have built/farmed so massive things in my worlds, that I would have needed an automatic sorting-/packing- system. The only stuff, that I get a lot of in survival is stone, dirt and wood. There, a handful shulker boxes would be handy, but in my recent world, I haven't yet made it to the end. I tried out a sorting system once in creative just to see and understand how it works, but never needed one in survival. The few mob farms I've built so far in survival, didn't yield so much stuff, that I needed excess storage for them.
Once 1.19 is availabe you can put a mud block under your overflow shulkerbox breaking system (or a block of soul sand right now). If it doesn't bother you looking at it that is ^^ Otherwise maybe a line of dark oak trapdoors to hide it.
Because there are several asking. On Bedrock chests can be pushed by pistons, however shulkers are still broken by pistons. I believe this still will work but I didn't try anymore than trying to push them.
For the overflow shulker box i don't know if an anvil is less than a full block, i think that for aesthetic it would look nice and realistic under the shulker-box. Or else my other suggestion would be a stone-cutter.
I'm just proud I could tell his comparator was backwards...comparators are a little harder to grasp....I'd managed to work out a (pure signal strength)shulker filler the other day...but this was much better...upgrades to do
finaly a new minecraft video. I'm new to mindcraft about 2 months. earlier today i went to sleep in minecraft and woke up to half my house and barn missing it looked like parts of my homestead got reset to original state. fully restored trees and stuff. upon leaving to look a round i got another surprised. i live on an island over looking the ocean about 20 blocks above sea level and not just the land but the sea too as far as i could were complet chunks missing all the way through the world. i closed the game without saving and reloaded but it stayed that way after trying to log out and in. what happened? i was having a realy sucessfull game nurtured villiages and mines just gone.
Hi there. Great tutorial. Not sure if this is for bedrock or not but I'm noticing that when the piston breaks the shulker, it goes into the first hopper instead of the second and gets included in my sorting system. Also, the redstone doesn't seem to power the dispenser - could you shed some more light on this or is it because I'm on bedrock? Thanks.
What amazes me is that even though I've been playing MC for years, (yes a casual player, but have been playing since 1.8) I still always seem to learn at least one new thing every episode, and some episodes are full of info I'd never known. Thanks bunches!
The thing I've noticed on Bedrock is that it's best to have the piston breaking the shulker box from above, with full blocks taking-up as much space as possible around the shulker box, as having the piston at any other angle results in the shulker box going in random directions too often.
@@Pixlriffs There was a near unanimous vote in the US Senate to abolish Daylight Savings time recently, as it causes so much trouble globally twice a year. Not sure if the UK and the rest of the world will follow suit or not, but this may be the last time we have it. At least our dogs won't be waking us early to go outside anymore, lol.
Education edition is basically bedrock edition with a handful of other features to help in classroom settings. I think there’s a few extra blocks and items for stuff like chemistry, and a few tools for teachers to limit what students can do in a shared world. Java Edition lacks those features because it’s not designed to be an educational tool
My son just bought his first copy of Mind Craft but his is a bit upset because he wants to change his profile skin to Steve but he keeps getting Alex. Can you please help us solve this problem. He doesn't want to play a female. Thank you . Oh I love your series. You are so good at teaching us. Thank you.
The architecture of that building is very interesting and for some weird reason, the shape of it kind of describes what's going on inside it. I think you are a very creative gentleman. Bravo!
It’s a good microphone, and I add a little audio compression when I edit the video. But people often overestimate how much the microphone matters! Mumbling into a good microphone is still going to sound like mumbling. It’s important to develop your own presentational style and keep your vocal energy at the right level for the video.
A non-stackable item outputs a signal strenghth of 3, if you measure the hopper. It could be, for example, 2 non-stackable items stuck in the hopper and a bunch of stackables still filtering through into the shulker box. Then, the signal would be 7 or higher and the box still not full. Not really sure, what signal strenghth to use as criteria. It could also be, that the hopper is full with 5 different but not full stacks, which have no room in the shulker box. The output would be 5. Then a sixth item arriving later, which could be stacked into the shulker box, won't go in there, as the hopper is already clogged up.
I'm wondering if it's possible to connect all the chests from farms all the way to your storage system by minecarts. So that you don't have to visit your farms to collect the stuff, it will be transported automaticly to your storage system and unloaded. Maybe a future project if it's possible?
While that kind of thing is technically possible, the fact that farms are often placed in remote locations (for good reasons) and are not always loaded (Pix did not build his base in the spawn chunks, only the iron farm is there), makes *reliable* minecart tracks somewhat complicated. Also, it's actually better for performance if you keep specialized storage systems at your farms. For easy resource transport you can set up shulker box loaders for the farm output and make sure you can access these farms easily when you need the resources.
I was watching a Hermitcraft video by Tango Tek and he had a setup system for his raid farm where it put the items into schulker boxes then into a double chest. Would this system be good mostly for farms where you have a limited number of items say no more than 10 or could you use this system because I think the SciCraft server uses something similar from their videos. I’d love to see a video where you consolidate bulk storage (i.e. how to setup from a multiple double chests system into shulker boxes into corresponding chests)
For some reason when I do it it won’t dispense the shulker box’s. Yes I made it exactly like in the video and put the piece of redstone on the block. It’s like it’s showing it’s dispensing but not actually placing the shulker box. Any advice? Please help
I know this is kind of unrelated to the video, but what are all of the songs you use in the background? One of them was so soothing but I can’t figure out the names 😭
It's all stuff from the Minecraft soundtrack. Each episode starts out with 'One More Day' by Lena Raine, from the Caves & Cliffs update music. Then I think this episode also uses 'Stand Tall' and 'Left To Bloom' by Lena Raine, and 'Minecraft' by C418. You can find Lena's Minecraft music on Spotify, and C418 on Bandcamp.
Pix! Is the redstone contraption in the end of your video (the full shulker box one), can it be modify to detect a shulker box which has, let's say, containing half of the space of the shulker box?
Easily! Instead of a redstone block side-input, you need something that outputs a constant signal strength of 7 or 8. A comparator reading another half full container, or a half-eaten cake, is usually the best approach :)
Cakes are legit an important storage tech redstone component due to the signal strength 14 comparator output (or any even value less than that) and them not being a block entity. Other such blocks are cauldrons (signal strengths 0 to 3) and composters (signal strengths 0 to 6, or 8; 7 is possible but temporary). The next best thing probably is a dropper if it won't be powered, or a barrel if it might be powered, or is supposed to transmit a redstone signal itself.
Why not putting the comparator to the output chest? You are not detecting when the shulker is full, you’re detecting when this output is empty. And that’s what triggers the shulker loader Redstone. Or am I overlooking something?
can't you measure the redstone signal strength of the hopper that fills the shulker box to determine if the box is full? the moment the box can't accept any more items, the hopper will get filled with items and should signal when it's ready to change the box?
You could do that, but the hopper signal will also be variable depending on how many items are in each stack, and if multiple items somehow end up in there before the box is loaded, it could eject the box before you want it to
@@Pixlriffs One option is to do a rising edge circuit triggering shulker box replacement when feeding hopper goes from 1 to 2 output. Feeding hopper will remain at 2+ for some time after new shulker is in.
@@scorrp_10 This doesn't work reliably for mixed items. The hopper can fill with single items of different types and never reach signal strength 2 if the items being fed in don't match them. Also, any unstackable will instantly result in signal strength 3 from the loading hopper. For mixed item loaders, you use an intermediary container between two hoppers such that the item put in is instantly drained from it. When the hopper loading the box backs up and can't pull from the intermediary container anymore, a comparator reading the container will then output a signal that can be used to break the box. It is necessary to lock the hopper feeding into the intermediary container and keep it locked until it drains into the new box, because otherwise the loader will fail if there is continuous item input when the new box fills up and the container was never drained.
When it comes to redstone, unfortunately I don't know off the top of my head what works and what doesn't - but these circuits are small enough that I think trying them in a creative world should be easy enough.
The most definitive answer you will get without testing it is: Maybe? The contraptions Pix showed in this video do not use quasi-connectivity or sticky piston block dropping and also appear to not rely on any particular update order, so chances are good.
If you experience lag from sorting systems like this, yes it might help a little to cover them with composters. Really only a consideration if you’re on lower-performance hardware or a multiplayer server where lag is an issue for other players.
@@yeppers3701 Assuming you are running Java edition, for lower end systems it might be worth looking into optimization mods. These don't actually change gameplay, but modify the internals of the game in a way that it performs certain operations more efficiently. Personally I'd recommend running the combination of Lithium, Starlight and Sodium, all based on the Fabric mod loader. An all-in-one solution many people recommend would be Optifine, which is about as easy to install, but may include certain optimizations that actually do affect gameplay, such as disabling the spawn chunks via a less-than-obviously named setting. Many of Optifine's non-optimization features (e.g. shader support or a zoom key) are also available as Fabric mods (e.g. Iris and "Okay Zoomer"), so they play well with the optimization mods I mentioned above.
@@TheRealWormbo thankyou :D all very good points, I run sodium, indium, phosphor, mod menu, starlight, entity culling lamb dynamic lights and iris as standard, then logical zoom, and shulker inventory. And agree with you for optifine, great for simplicity of use but nothing beats sodium 😅 saving for a better computer as I only have a laptop, just taking a lot of time but ill get there :)
@@yeppers3701 Phosphor and Starlight do the same thing (with Starlight doing it way better) and should be mutually exclusive, so you might want to check that.
Yeah, and that's somewhat of a shame. I hope there will be ways to silence them or replace them with an equally versatile block, considering they are used in all kinds of contraptions where they are not supposed to make noise and it's not always viable to put a carpet or wool block on top.
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Break a not “full” shulker box by using the input hopper. If you detect when the input hopper fills up you know there are no more empty slots in the shulker. Just a suggestion;). Love the content!
I came here to suggest the same thing, alas you did it first (and probably worded it a little better than I would have...). Great video as always! I've been playing since 1.15, and although I consider myself somewhat descent technically, I keep finding little tips and tricks I didn't know in this series...
Great idea!
@@aircobraman1375 The status of a hopper can be read by a comparator facing away from it. It outputs 1 for a non-full stack and 3 for a full stack or an unstackable item in the hopper. Thus, a completely full hopper puts out a signal of 15.
@@peterschulze4975 correct. But the same issue of mixed items not completely filling the shulker applies to the hopper as well. Have to use an observer to detect the pulse from the comparator as the items flow through it. Then a cooldown clock to an inverted redstone torch to trigger the break and replace circuit. There are tons of videos for “mixed shulker loaders”. Just looked it up. Ilmango’ is the best as usual…. Which reminded me that it’s the container on the input hopper (which can not be the main input container of the system) is a great spot to use the comparator. The item flow doesn’t register in the container above a hopper when feed by another hopper. So as soon as a signal of lvl 1 is read from the comparator you know the shulker and the hopper have no space. And can hook that directly to the break/replace circuit.
A word of warning on shulker box loaders and unloaders: Item entities, such as the broken box, will usually not move too much, but math for that works in strange ways and items can sometimes "jump" up a lot more than usual, or have an unusually high sideways momentum. If you are loading with a hopper from above, breaking the box may cause it to glitch out and land on top of the newly dispensed box, out of reach of any hoppers. Similarly, I can imagine the unloader shown first to have the box glitch out sideways onto the comparator, again, only in very rare cases.
These issues stem from the 1.13 hopper collision box update, and the 1.15 item physics changes. You will find that box loaders and unloaders from before those versions may still function, but they must be considered unreliable in terms of their box collection functionality, if they use a hopper pointing into the box from above.
For any more interested players, shulkerbox loading and unloading are part of the field of "storage tech", which is its own subcategory of technical Minecraft, and there are many sophisticated contraptions that focus on individual aspects for storing items, such as handling sorted boxes, making sorter contraptions compact (e.g. so they can use or replace 1-wide tileable item filters), and many other things.
Excellent points. We can work around the “box jumps onto comparator” issue by having the comparator read the shulker box’s contents through a solid block, but it increases the size of the redstone circuit a little. 🙂
@@Pixlriffs Another possible solution could be putting the comparator onto the collection hopper for the boxes. Of course that would require routing the signal output to the dispenser and breaking piston in a different way. But I guess that's part of the fun with solving redstone-related problems. :)
The best solution I think would be to let the comparator read the container signal through a block. That might solve it.
In 1.19, only Wool Blocks and Carpets will silence Noteblocks, according to the Snapshots. While it works for now, it may break until you replace the Wood Block with Wool or Carpet then.
I don't think the noteblock not being silenced will change the circuit's functionality, it'll just make it noisy, which people might find irritating
I could be wrong, but I think they reverted that change
@@jokernormangames6556 Yes, they did revert it a couple of snapshots ago
I’ve seen shulker un/loaders on a certain popular SMP, and always thought there was some super complex mechanics behind them.
This is actually really simple redstone, even if you don’t 100% understand all the complexities of redstone.
This isnt really the best design, have a look at some of the automatic ones as this one isnt
I always enjoy the redstone episodes! When I first started watching the Survival guide back in 2020, the most complicated thing I could make was a simple auto-smelter with a furnace and some hoppers. Now I make big complicated machines that make my server mates nervous, lol. What I love is that no matter how much redstone knowledge I think I have, there are always new tricks to learn, like pushing the shulker into a second hopper... I always just had the empty shulkers go into the overflow at the end of the line
I really appreciate how you always take the time to explain how the redstone works, not just how to build it.
Pixlriffs spittin out the best tutorials
as always. :3
This video will be perfect for setting up a mechanism for collecting eggs for wither rose fodder.
@@bonzue haha wither rose fodder. I like that xd
I never seem to grasp what comparators were comparing before, but your explanation finally 'clicked". Thank you much.
They even can subtract signals.
08:47 - the dispenser only places the shulker box upwards if there is a non air block below it. If not, the dispenser places the shulker box in the same direction where the dispenser is directed at
In this case you still cannot do something about it because you need to have the hopper below though
But get rid of the slab at 17:49 above the hopper and you will see what i mean
Really really interesting use of shulker boxes for storage. For the last setup, I would have placed a bunch of redstone in a line to get the full signal strength so knowing comparitors can work the way you showed is so so helpful.
you can also use the subtract feature if a comparator to make that circuit a lot more compact.
Shulker loaders and unloaders is something I've always been intimidated by... but watching this I realise that my redstone knowledge has improved enough to where I understood the why and how.
This has given me some great ideas for my world and also the confidence to try it out 😊
Great episode Pix!
I've seen shulker loaders in videos before but I don't think I'd ever seen a tutorial for it, this was useful!
Glad you found it useful! They're actually pretty easy circuits once you get used to them :)
Great now I need a Shulker farm for all those boxes. Learn something new with every video. Thanks for the vid.
Shulker unloaders are so convenient but I've never really messed with the loaders. Might have to try it. Great informative and entertaining series.
Really useful tutorial! I've never actually seen how these work so this is super helpful
The reason you cannot hopper into an Ender Chest is because the contents are a part of the player's inventory that can only be accessed via the Ender Chest (which is how the Ender Chest automatically shows the contents that belong to the player that opens it).
Happy to see this one come along! I'm in the process of finding a place for my own storage build in my current MC world. 😊
No server robbing 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺????????? (lol)
So that's why it's called a comparator! It all makes sense now. I was only used to it reading contents and producing a redstone signal based on that.
I am a looooooong way off needing this in single player survival (maybe useful in multiplayer) but this video just reminded me I need to set up a wool farm. Back to the earlier videos I go! Lets hope this one isn't as difficult as the iron farm one lol.
You won't even need a wool-farm so much. I've got a sheep of each color running around in a pen in single player, and shear them manually from time to time. That's enough wool for my everyday needs. But once, I accidentally burned down a woodland manison nearly completely and rebuilt it. To replace all the carpets a wool farm for red and white wool was convenient.
A few notes from a technical player:
-Dispensers actually can place shulker boxes that open in any orientation, but they will always place them opening upward if there is a non-air block below where the box is placed. This may actually be a bug, it's not entirely clear, but it's been this way since shulker boxes were introduced and is relied on for some contraptions. I think it's different on Bedrock, but I'm a Java player so I'm not certain.
-The reason broken empty boxes in your unloader end up in the correct hopper is because the breaking sequence takes 6 game ticks, so the hopper below the box is still in it's 8gt cooldown from draining the last item and can't pick up anything else yet. If you had more delay in the breaking sequence, the hopper below the box would pick it up, though this can be avoided by briefly powering that hopper.
-Your unloader cannot handle empty boxes or boxes with one item, since the comparator that reads the contents will never turn on as either there are no items to detect or the single item drains instantly when the box is dispensed before the comparator can react. The box will never be broken and will have to be removed manually before you can continue to use the unloader. I realize this is easy for the player to fix if it happens in your particular use case but it's worth noting the limitations as it does matter sometimes. There are designs that can handle these cases without being much larger, and even auto-dispense the first box.
-It is actually possible to make a fully automated box loader that can handle mixed items with varying stack sizes. Basically, instead of reading from the box with a comparator, you instead detect when items are no longer able to be put into the box. Though I do think your manual system is fine for your use case.
-As TheRealWormbo's comment details, the hopper hitbox and random item momentum make it tricky to reliably collect the broken shulker box 100% of the time. Closing that gap from mostly reliable to perfectly reliable is tricky but doable and there are existing designs for many different use cases.
This is awesome well done man keep it up I need this for my survival world thanks I’ve been looking for this
Nice video, pix! I wanted to say that I think you should do a guide on redstone components like comparators, observers, target blocks etc. Because many people want to join the technical minecraft community and amaze people with their contraptions, but they can't because they don't know how complex redstone components work.
I haven't built any shulker box loaders or unloaders, but gears turning, I think you could detect when your input chest/hopper was empty on your loader, and then that could break the Shulker without it completely filling up, if say you wanted it to automatically go into a rail system and be dropped off to be unloaded.
That’s a giant rabbit hole you’re about to jump into…..enjoy! 😉
I've never knew that you can: A) Mute a Noteblock with a Woodplank ontop. B) That Noteblocks can act as a Manual Single Pulse for Redstone.
Making Redstone Doors just gotten easier for me!
Using note blocks to trigger redstone is extra useful since they can be pushed by pistons unlike buttons and levers. Good for launching flying machines, for example.
@@claaaaaire So you're telling me in theory: Noteblocks would work in a Redstone Elevator Set up?
@@lazypaladin For elevators based on flying machines, yeah, it would be a way of activating the elevator from inside rather than having to put the button outside the elevator (since buttons can't be moved by pistons).
You'd still need to somehow be able to "call" the elevator from outside though, in case you're at the bottom and it's at the top or vice versa.
@@claaaaaire Thank you very much, not dabbled with Redstone since the Beta days. Might have to dabble with it again now 👌
Pix's is going to need a shulker box farm at this rate. I now have a redstone testing world on the xbox but can't wait to get my PC up and running so I can play with this idea. A bit complicated for me still, will have to come back for another look. Cool episode.
Thanks again for teaching these things. I already learnt these things for your survival world 1. This feels like revisiting school. Glad that new minecrafters can learn redstone too.
Thanks Pix, you make it look so easy, its a must try for me!!!
This was so informative, thank you so much! I'm lacking inspiration on my survival world, maybe I'll do some of these for a change.
This was amazing! So useful! I'm going out now but afterward I will build it!
Filling and emptying shulker boxes is quite interesting, but I never have built/farmed so massive things in my worlds, that I would have needed an automatic sorting-/packing- system. The only stuff, that I get a lot of in survival is stone, dirt and wood. There, a handful shulker boxes would be handy, but in my recent world, I haven't yet made it to the end.
I tried out a sorting system once in creative just to see and understand how it works, but never needed one in survival. The few mob farms I've built so far in survival, didn't yield so much stuff, that I needed excess storage for them.
First time shulker loader/unloaders have made sense to me -- thanks!
My day has been made.
Love this episode Pix!
Shulker box loader/unloaders are so useful late in the game
Once 1.19 is availabe you can put a mud block under your overflow shulkerbox breaking system (or a block of soul sand right now). If it doesn't bother you looking at it that is ^^ Otherwise maybe a line of dark oak trapdoors to hide it.
Sure, we could do it now with grass path, or soul sand, or farmland, or a honey block… lots of options.
very handy and informative, will definitly be of use to me in some builds ;)
Because there are several asking. On Bedrock chests can be pushed by pistons, however shulkers are still broken by pistons. I believe this still will work but I didn't try anymore than trying to push them.
For the overflow shulker box i don't know if an anvil is less than a full block, i think that for aesthetic it would look nice and realistic under the shulker-box. Or else my other suggestion would be a stone-cutter.
I've been very curious about this. Thanks Pix
22:25 thought I heard Lucifer when he said "detecting" LOL
Dude you're a genius
I've never been this early! You're amazing Pix!!
I'm just proud I could tell his comparator was backwards...comparators are a little harder to grasp....I'd managed to work out a (pure signal strength)shulker filler the other day...but this was much better...upgrades to do
Best tutorials !!
This is the simplest unloader I've seen anywhere. Why does no-one else have one this simple?
finaly a new minecraft video. I'm new to mindcraft about 2 months. earlier today i went to sleep in minecraft and woke up to half my house and barn missing it looked like parts of my homestead got reset to original state. fully restored trees and stuff. upon leaving to look a round i got another surprised. i live on an island over looking the ocean about 20 blocks above sea level and not just the land but the sea too as far as i could were complet chunks missing all the way through the world. i closed the game without saving and reloaded but it stayed that way after trying to log out and in. what happened? i was having a realy sucessfull game nurtured villiages and mines just gone.
Will you make a 101 questions on episode 101, as you did with the Survival Guide S1?
Hey pixlriffs I love you're videos man you have taught me alot keep up the great work my friend
Hi there. Great tutorial. Not sure if this is for bedrock or not but I'm noticing that when the piston breaks the shulker, it goes into the first hopper instead of the second and gets included in my sorting system. Also, the redstone doesn't seem to power the dispenser - could you shed some more light on this or is it because I'm on bedrock? Thanks.
Thanks, Pix. 👍
LETS GO!PIX UPLOADS TODAY:D
I love your content it's very entertaining minecraft was a good subject for you to do on youtube
2:45 if he said “the circuits involved are actually really simple” my Mumbo redstone PTSD was going to skyrocket lol
What amazes me is that even though I've been playing MC for years, (yes a casual player, but have been playing since 1.8) I still always seem to learn at least one new thing every episode, and some episodes are full of info I'd never known. Thanks bunches!
Great video as usual, not sure if I missed it but guessing this sort of system wouldn’t work on bedrock due to redstone differences?
The thing I've noticed on Bedrock is that it's best to have the piston breaking the shulker box from above, with full blocks taking-up as much space as possible around the shulker box, as having the piston at any other angle results in the shulker box going in random directions too often.
Everything is looking so easy when you are doing it.
The trick is that it IS easy, you just have to know what you’re doing
@@Pixlriffs Well then, this explains a lot. Most of the time I've got no idea what I'm doing. ;)
17:05 after 1.19, the note block will still make sound through the wood
Got all my friends to sub 2 u and keep up the good content!!!
Love your vids
You are very good at minecraft
Pix, is it that you changed your video schedule timings?
The UK put its clocks forward for an hour on Sunday March 27th, when British Summer Time began
@@Pixlriffs Ooh! so that's why I got your videos one hour early this week.
@@bluethekingTDM yea i was also wondering the same.
@@Pixlriffs There was a near unanimous vote in the US Senate to abolish Daylight Savings time recently, as it causes so much trouble globally twice a year. Not sure if the UK and the rest of the world will follow suit or not, but this may be the last time we have it. At least our dogs won't be waking us early to go outside anymore, lol.
I would have the empty shulker boxes go into the item sorter to be sorted and stored where I wanted them preferably in the first location.
I found for bedrock that you can use a cauldron and a water bottle to mimic the note block
Hey I love your vids and your really cool
I really enjoy watching these videos and I like the world but I don't now the seed... Could someone help me please?
Hello Pixlriffs, I'd like to know what is the difference between Minecraft: Education Edition and the Minecraft: Java Edition?
Education edition is basically bedrock edition with a handful of other features to help in classroom settings. I think there’s a few extra blocks and items for stuff like chemistry, and a few tools for teachers to limit what students can do in a shared world.
Java Edition lacks those features because it’s not designed to be an educational tool
Should probably make a habit of using wool on top of the note block if the snapshot mechanics are going to stay
My son just bought his first copy of Mind Craft but his is a bit upset because he wants to change his profile skin to Steve but he keeps getting Alex. Can you please help us solve this problem. He doesn't want to play a female. Thank you . Oh I love your series. You are so good at teaching us. Thank you.
The architecture of that building is very interesting and for some weird reason, the shape of it kind of describes what's going on inside it. I think you are a very creative gentleman. Bravo!
Hey Pix! How does your microphone sound so good?
It’s a good microphone, and I add a little audio compression when I edit the video.
But people often overestimate how much the microphone matters! Mumbling into a good microphone is still going to sound like mumbling. It’s important to develop your own presentational style and keep your vocal energy at the right level for the video.
For the shulker loading... couldn't you just check whether the hopper feeding the Box outputs a signal stronger than a non-stackable?
A non-stackable item outputs a signal strenghth of 3, if you measure the hopper. It could be, for example, 2 non-stackable items stuck in the hopper and a bunch of stackables still filtering through into the shulker box. Then, the signal would be 7 or higher and the box still not full. Not really sure, what signal strenghth to use as criteria. It could also be, that the hopper is full with 5 different but not full stacks, which have no room in the shulker box. The output would be 5. Then a sixth item arriving later, which could be stacked into the shulker box, won't go in there, as the hopper is already clogged up.
I'm wondering if it's possible to connect all the chests from farms all the way to your storage system by minecarts. So that you don't have to visit your farms to collect the stuff, it will be transported automaticly to your storage system and unloaded. Maybe a future project if it's possible?
While that kind of thing is technically possible, the fact that farms are often placed in remote locations (for good reasons) and are not always loaded (Pix did not build his base in the spawn chunks, only the iron farm is there), makes *reliable* minecart tracks somewhat complicated. Also, it's actually better for performance if you keep specialized storage systems at your farms. For easy resource transport you can set up shulker box loaders for the farm output and make sure you can access these farms easily when you need the resources.
I was watching a Hermitcraft video by Tango Tek and he had a setup system for his raid farm where it put the items into schulker boxes then into a double chest. Would this system be good mostly for farms where you have a limited number of items say no more than 10 or could you use this system because I think the SciCraft server uses something similar from their videos. I’d love to see a video where you consolidate bulk storage (i.e. how to setup from a multiple double chests system into shulker boxes into corresponding chests)
An actual tutorial posted on April 1st?
I'm also bad at Redstone you are good at redstone
For some reason when I do it it won’t dispense the shulker box’s. Yes I made it exactly like in the video and put the piece of redstone on the block. It’s like it’s showing it’s dispensing but not actually placing the shulker box. Any advice? Please help
God bless the people that understand redstone and algebra!
you know sometimes I feel like I should be paying for this kind of useful education in Minecraft
I know this is kind of unrelated to the video, but what are all of the songs you use in the background? One of them was so soothing but I can’t figure out the names 😭
It's all stuff from the Minecraft soundtrack. Each episode starts out with 'One More Day' by Lena Raine, from the Caves & Cliffs update music. Then I think this episode also uses 'Stand Tall' and 'Left To Bloom' by Lena Raine, and 'Minecraft' by C418.
You can find Lena's Minecraft music on Spotify, and C418 on Bandcamp.
Pix! Is the redstone contraption in the end of your video (the full shulker box one), can it be modify to detect a shulker box which has, let's say, containing half of the space of the shulker box?
Easily! Instead of a redstone block side-input, you need something that outputs a constant signal strength of 7 or 8. A comparator reading another half full container, or a half-eaten cake, is usually the best approach :)
Cakes are legit an important storage tech redstone component due to the signal strength 14 comparator output (or any even value less than that) and them not being a block entity. Other such blocks are cauldrons (signal strengths 0 to 3) and composters (signal strengths 0 to 6, or 8; 7 is possible but temporary). The next best thing probably is a dropper if it won't be powered, or a barrel if it might be powered, or is supposed to transmit a redstone signal itself.
Can u make a zombie piglin farm tutorial plz?
can you please make a villager trading hall
Hey Pix!
Are u planning to start a new RTX Bedrock survival series for 1.18?
Nope.
@@Pixlriffs Um... Alright...
Me: *Finally starts to understand what comparator is capable of doing
Pixl: *places it the wrong way
Me: What the- *confusion
Why not putting the comparator to the output chest? You are not detecting when the shulker is full, you’re detecting when this output is empty. And that’s what triggers the shulker loader Redstone. Or am I overlooking something?
what happens when all slots of the shulker are occupied, so nothing can be put into it, but the output chest is not empty?
@@Jason-sm4oc good point. Could be avoided by sacrificing space and using a single chest for output
@@Jason-sm4oc good point. Could be avoided by sacrificing space and using a single chest for output
Is this a java only mechanism or does this work for bedrock
On Bedrock chests can be pushed by pistons, I'm not sure if they break shulkers. I do know shulker unloaded are different on Bedrock though
@@jacara1981 thanks for that info
Love the vids
A hopper cannot output items INTO an Ender chest, but can an Ender chest OUTPUT into a hopper?
You can build one more big house bro please
can't you measure the redstone signal strength of the hopper that fills the shulker box to determine if the box is full? the moment the box can't accept any more items, the hopper will get filled with items and should signal when it's ready to change the box?
You could do that, but the hopper signal will also be variable depending on how many items are in each stack, and if multiple items somehow end up in there before the box is loaded, it could eject the box before you want it to
@@Pixlriffs One option is to do a rising edge circuit triggering shulker box replacement when feeding hopper goes from 1 to 2 output. Feeding hopper will remain at 2+ for some time after new shulker is in.
@@scorrp_10 This doesn't work reliably for mixed items. The hopper can fill with single items of different types and never reach signal strength 2 if the items being fed in don't match them. Also, any unstackable will instantly result in signal strength 3 from the loading hopper. For mixed item loaders, you use an intermediary container between two hoppers such that the item put in is instantly drained from it. When the hopper loading the box backs up and can't pull from the intermediary container anymore, a comparator reading the container will then output a signal that can be used to break the box. It is necessary to lock the hopper feeding into the intermediary container and keep it locked until it drains into the new box, because otherwise the loader will fail if there is continuous item input when the new box fills up and the container was never drained.
Your builds are awesome my builds are trash
I do not remember hearing if this is Java only but I am guessing this does not work on Bedrock?
When it comes to redstone, unfortunately I don't know off the top of my head what works and what doesn't - but these circuits are small enough that I think trying them in a creative world should be easy enough.
@@Pixlriffs Thanks, i will give it a go.
Will that work on Bedrock too?
The most definitive answer you will get without testing it is: Maybe?
The contraptions Pix showed in this video do not use quasi-connectivity or sticky piston block dropping and also appear to not rely on any particular update order, so chances are good.
Happy April fool's Pix! 🥳🥳(Haha I know it isn't April fool's today for you!)
would covering the top of the hoppers help with lag as it stops their search above program running? (literally just read it online so no clue atm)
If you experience lag from sorting systems like this, yes it might help a little to cover them with composters. Really only a consideration if you’re on lower-performance hardware or a multiplayer server where lag is an issue for other players.
@@Pixlriffs nice, thankyou :) yeah unfortunately lower end pc 😅
@@yeppers3701 Assuming you are running Java edition, for lower end systems it might be worth looking into optimization mods. These don't actually change gameplay, but modify the internals of the game in a way that it performs certain operations more efficiently. Personally I'd recommend running the combination of Lithium, Starlight and Sodium, all based on the Fabric mod loader. An all-in-one solution many people recommend would be Optifine, which is about as easy to install, but may include certain optimizations that actually do affect gameplay, such as disabling the spawn chunks via a less-than-obviously named setting. Many of Optifine's non-optimization features (e.g. shader support or a zoom key) are also available as Fabric mods (e.g. Iris and "Okay Zoomer"), so they play well with the optimization mods I mentioned above.
@@TheRealWormbo thankyou :D all very good points, I run sodium, indium, phosphor, mod menu, starlight, entity culling lamb dynamic lights and iris as standard, then logical zoom, and shulker inventory. And agree with you for optifine, great for simplicity of use but nothing beats sodium 😅 saving for a better computer as I only have a laptop, just taking a lot of time but ill get there :)
@@yeppers3701 Phosphor and Starlight do the same thing (with Starlight doing it way better) and should be mutually exclusive, so you might want to check that.
For some reason the unloaded doesn’t work on MCPE. The shulker doesn’t come out of the dispenser…
I want to download your survival world of 1.16 but the video is private
18:06 what if you use minecart with hopper instead of a regular hopper?
That’d work, but would still need a hopper below that to extract the contents into a chest. Just feels like it’s adding unnecessary components
@@Pixlriffs oh ok
17:01 well in the new snapshot that's changed
Yeah, and that's somewhat of a shame. I hope there will be ways to silence them or replace them with an equally versatile block, considering they are used in all kinds of contraptions where they are not supposed to make noise and it's not always viable to put a carpet or wool block on top.
does that work on bedrock?
I don’t know. These are only small circuits, so try building them and find out? Maybe in a creative test world
Are you ok pix?
I'm back finally after one month
I have a very bad burnout but hopefully pixlriffs makes me happy