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I have about 10 or so minecarts coming from my farm area and I'd like to feed their items into an automatic item sorter system. Right now I have an automated minecart loading/unloading system delivering their goods directly into chest storage. However, that really only works "neatly" when I manually limit each minecart to be carrying 1 type of item; which obviously breaks if I want to easily just toss all 16 color wools into 1 cart and hope my destination chest stacks neatly etc.
So instead, I'd like to just feed the minecarts into an automatic item sorter system. My question is what is the best (resource, server, survival friendly) way of offloading all the items? I've come up with 2 options:
1- Offload into a hopper pipe which passes by the item sorters (large amount of iron required for all the hoppers)
2- Offload into a dispenser and dispense into a water transport system which passes by the item sorters (dispensers are slow and noisy and water adds extra latency and glitches)
Are these the only 2 options and what have others found that works best?
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I prototyped a small dispenser+water-transport system from my original post and it doesn't work very well. Some items skip right over their hoppers due to glitches while the items float in the water or something, and it's a pain to setup really.
I'll have to try out your minecart idea. Rails are certainly cheaper than hoppers for the given distance I would have to use around the sorting system. However I would have to see how long it takes to offload. Imagine a single incoming cart with ~100 carrots and potatos mixed in from my farm. How long would it take to fully drain into the carrot and potato hopper sorter etc.
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It's not worth the time and resources to build a automatic sorter there is still a lot of problems with them in minecraft xbox not to mention the amount of lag that they add and the constant breaking of them when you push to many blocks through them.
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Ah, that's what triggers that problem :-/ I hit that once but couldn't narrow it down. I thought it might've been due to me switching to a new full screen app and the game didn't suspend/resume correctly from the dash... but yeah I've now repro'd a simple enter the Nether, come back out, boom redstone clocks/sorters are toast
I hope everyone who's hit that has filed bugs etc. I've gone ahead and filed a preview feedback bug as well as there's not much else I can do.
Luckily I haven't really started building anything yet, just prototyping, but I'll most likely go with hoppers when I do. I'm waiting for the 1.8 Villager AI before I dive back in for real anyhow.
I have about 10 or so minecarts coming from my farm area and I'd like to feed their items into an automatic item sorter system. Right now I have an automated minecart loading/unloading system delivering their goods directly into chest storage. However, that really only works "neatly" when I manually limit each minecart to be carrying 1 type of item; which obviously breaks if I want to easily just toss all 16 color wools into 1 cart and hope my destination chest stacks neatly etc.
So instead, I'd like to just feed the minecarts into an automatic item sorter system. My question is what is the best (resource, server, survival friendly) way of offloading all the items? I've come up with 2 options:
1- Offload into a hopper pipe which passes by the item sorters (large amount of iron required for all the hoppers)
2- Offload into a dispenser and dispense into a water transport system which passes by the item sorters (dispensers are slow and noisy and water adds extra latency and glitches)
Are these the only 2 options and what have others found that works best?
I prototyped a small dispenser+water-transport system from my original post and it doesn't work very well. Some items skip right over their hoppers due to glitches while the items float in the water or something, and it's a pain to setup really.
I'll have to try out your minecart idea. Rails are certainly cheaper than hoppers for the given distance I would have to use around the sorting system. However I would have to see how long it takes to offload. Imagine a single incoming cart with ~100 carrots and potatos mixed in from my farm. How long would it take to fully drain into the carrot and potato hopper sorter etc.
It's not worth the time and resources to build a automatic sorter there is still a lot of problems with them in minecraft xbox not to mention the amount of lag that they add and the constant breaking of them when you push to many blocks through them.
Ah, that's what triggers that problem :-/ I hit that once but couldn't narrow it down. I thought it might've been due to me switching to a new full screen app and the game didn't suspend/resume correctly from the dash... but yeah I've now repro'd a simple enter the Nether, come back out, boom redstone clocks/sorters are toast
I hope everyone who's hit that has filed bugs etc. I've gone ahead and filed a preview feedback bug as well as there's not much else I can do.
Luckily I haven't really started building anything yet, just prototyping, but I'll most likely go with hoppers when I do. I'm waiting for the 1.8 Villager AI before I dive back in for real anyhow.