As we know, hoppers can be used for horizontal pipes (sort-of), but in the latest snapshot we can place droppers to point up, and (quote from wiki) :"If there is a chest immediately in front of the dropper when it is powered, it will instead store the item within" since we can now point them up, we can make stacks of them and make redstone towers to make items go upwards, this is a pic of what I am talking about:
I have hoppers to put items into the bottom dropper, then a stack of upward facing droppers, I then put a chest on top, then to avoid annoying sounds, I put a comparitor on the bottom dropper to turn off the pulser whenever the bottom dropper has nothing in it.
What do you think? I personally think this is awesome
Or you could always use, you know... minecarts... at least if you're not in creative. Although if you need to compact I guess droppers would work better if you have a bunch of iron.
Or you could always use, you know... minecarts... at least if you're not in creative. Although if you need to compact I guess droppers would work better if you have a bunch of iron.
Minecarts I think would be more efficient than hoppers and droppers, IMO. Six iron ingots gets you 6 or 12 rails. 5 ingots and a chest gets you a hopper. A stack of iron ingots can make 60-120 rails. A stack can make 13 hoppers. But I think this is fair for compactibility over cost.
but in the latest snapshot we can place droppers to point up,
What do you think? I personally think this is awesome
Wait, so the device that can move items *up* is called "drop"-pers, while the device can move items *down* are called "hop"-pers. Such wonderful names.
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Wait, so the device that can move items *up* is called "drop"-pers, while the device can move items *down* are called "hop"-pers. Such wonderful names.
When you kill monsters, or monsters die, their "drops" start with a positive vertical velocity. Extending your logical conundrum, should we thus call item "drops" item "hops" as a result?
Hoppers are called hoppers because we have them IRL and thats what they are called... Its not a name Mojang just invented, that would be like calling minecarts rail-boxes or something. As for dropper, dispenser was already taken so they went the easiest most understandable route for the name I supose.
I'm just having fun with linguistics morphology. I was not suggesting a change. I honestly thought people would lol.
The dropper/dispenser split could have easily been a dispenser/launcher split.
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I have hoppers to put items into the bottom dropper, then a stack of upward facing droppers, I then put a chest on top, then to avoid annoying sounds, I put a comparitor on the bottom dropper to turn off the pulser whenever the bottom dropper has nothing in it.
What do you think? I personally think this is awesome
Pipes are simple and don't need this much redstone wiring to do the exact same thing.
They aren't supposed to be pipes. Mojang doesn't want total automation. This is as good as you'll get, if you want pipes.
...but that's just like, my opinion, man.
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Pipes are by far better, but they are in, and should remain, in the land of mods.
This is a great way for Mojang to do it.
The iron cost is very high, but I think that it is better this way (perhaps a little cheaper) this way automation take a long time to get to
Minecarts I think would be more efficient than hoppers and droppers, IMO. Six iron ingots gets you 6 or 12 rails. 5 ingots and a chest gets you a hopper. A stack of iron ingots can make 60-120 rails. A stack can make 13 hoppers. But I think this is fair for compactibility over cost.
I know it would be quite technical and item demanding but it's more compact, and you wouldn't need any of those pesky mods with pipes and all that.
Wait, so the device that can move items *up* is called "drop"-pers, while the device can move items *down* are called "hop"-pers. Such wonderful names.
When you kill monsters, or monsters die, their "drops" start with a positive vertical velocity. Extending your logical conundrum, should we thus call item "drops" item "hops" as a result?
I'm just having fun with linguistics morphology. I was not suggesting a change. I honestly thought people would lol.
The dropper/dispenser split could have easily been a dispenser/launcher split.