TIP: instead of using 41 of the item you need to sort which would be a total waste, put 44 filling blocks (dirt preferably) inside the hopper with only 1 of the item you need to sort. This works because a hopper can only hold 45 items at a time so it filters out the other items into the chests.
Saw someone else say "There is the risk that in case the chest fills, the system would break completely." if you sort using this method. Not sure if this is true or what but wanted to see if you know.
@@unironicpanda when both chests filled up it started sending the item into the chest beside it. So maybe thats what you talking about and doing it the way in the video prevents that? Idk
Tip for those who might be making the same mistake I did: THE ITEM YOU WANT SORTED MUST BE IN THE FIRST SLOT. I wasted a couple of hours trying to make this work and getting frustrated as hell before I realized what was going on. When the order is correct, it works great! Also, for those wondering about the 44 fill items/1 sorting item thing: its 11 fill items in each of the last 4 slots + 1 sorting item in the first slot. Works fine.
@@al1enzz someone else already specified it in the comments. a hopper can hold a max of 45 items at one time so any configuration will do as long as the sorted item is in the first slot. you dont need 41 sorted items, you can have 44 fillers (11 for each of the last 4 slots) and then one sorting item in the first slot and it will work as well
@@magebelac9066 i dont think so. you need either 41 of sorted blocks or 44 of filler blocks. i just tried manipulating blocks inside the hoppers and it was screwing up the whole mechanism. but im not surprised. i guess its one comparator per one compared item, as it probably should be
@kr_ykoo so I built the identical setup opposite the first one. I have 2 sorting chest. 1 for each row of chests. Trying to figure out a way where I can have one chest between the two to sort items into their respective lane
OVERFLOW GUIDE FOR THOSE CONFUSED BY THE OTHER COMMENTS: It seems that people are confused about how the overflow works. This provides clearer information, and a solution dependant on your needs. EDIT: I originally wrote this while very tired, and I've come back to reword it for clarity HOPPER LOCKING: - If you build the design in this video, the redstone torch 'locks' the sorter hopper, and does not allow items to pass through until the torch is switched off. - The torch switches off, and 'unlocks' the hopper, allowing items to pass down into the chests, when the comparator signal is strong enough. - The comparator signal is strong enough to turn the torch off at exactly 46 items. - So at 45 items, the torch locks the hopper, at 46, the torch turns off, allows one item through, which causes the hopper to go back down to 45 items, and locks again. OVERFLOW: - If there are 69 (nice) items at any one time in the sorter hopper, the redstone signal 'overflows' by sending a strong enough signal that it will push over to the adjacent hoppers, and unlock their torches, causing your dummy items to be released into your chests. - Therefore, the operational range of the sorter hopper with this redstone configuration is 0-68 items. Any more than that, and your sorting system will break. CONFIGURATIONS: - There are two configurations that your sorter hopper can be in for the sorting system to work. - D = dummy items (the items that will not ever enter into your sorting system, like named cobblestone) - S = sorter items (the item that you want to fill the chests below with) - The two configurations are either 'no protection' or 'overflow protection'. CONFIG 1: NO PROTECTION [1S] [41D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - In this configuration, there is a total of 45 items (1 Sorter item + 44 dummy items). - When this hopper sees an item in it that matches your S item, it increases by 1 and creates: [2S] [41D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - This is a total of 46 items. - At 46 items, the torch 'unlocks' the hopper, and items begin falling through the hopper, starting from the left-most side. - Because at 45 items, the torch 'relocks' the hopper, only 1 item falls through, and we return to the original state: [1S] [41D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - However, if your chests are full, the hoppers will also fill up, meaning that when this hopper unlocks, no item will pass down to the lower hoppers (because they are full). This means that this hopper will begin to fill up with Sorter items (S): [64S] [41D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - Here we have a total of 108 items (64 Sorter Items + 44 dummy items) - Because the redstone configuration will cause your other hoppers to unlock once *any* sorting hopper has 69 items in total as your first slot fills up with items because your chests are full, you will start to 'break' your other hoppers, because they will 'unlock' from the overflowed redstone signal, turning off their torches, and your filter items will start to go into your chests. - The benefits to this first configuration is that you do not have to 'sacrifice' 41 sorter items into the sorting hopper in order to begin filtering. The risk is that if you fill up two double chests full of the item, if will overflow. This is to our advantage however, because the items that we don't want to 'sacrifice' are often the very items that we are never going to fill up two double chests with (diamonds, netherite, etc.) - You can build this configuration for any item that you do not reasonably expect to fill multiple chests with, and your item sorter will work *fine*. CONFIG 2: OVERFLOW PROTECTION [41S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - In this configuration, we once again have 45 total items (41 Sorter items, and 4 dummy items) - When this hopper sees an item in it that matches the S item, it also increases by 1, creating: [42S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - The same thing occurs, the torch unlocks, one item falls, and we go back to the regular form: [41S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - However, the advantage here is that the first slot of sorter items *cannot* exceed 64 items, even if the below hoppers are full and cannot accept another item: [64S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - This gives a total of 68 items (64 Sorter items + 4 dummy items) - Because 68 items is less than the 69 item limit, the hopper never 'overflows' to the next hopper, preserving your sorting system. The items simply flow to the end of your sorting system. - Once you clear out the chests below, this system will begin dropping until it reaches the original configuration once more: [41S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - The benefits to this configuration is that you have the 'overflow' protection, but the problem is that you do have to 'sacrifice' 41 of the item that you want to sort. - However, if you think about the items that are likely to fill up two double chests (cobblestone, iron, deepslate, etc.), it doesn't feel as much of a 'sacrifice' to just place the 41 items in there anyway. You are expecting to have 41 in there. - Additionally, if you do not yet have 41 of these items, you don't need 41 to build this hopper configuration. The sorting hopper will remain 'locked' from 0-45 items, meaning that you can begin with this configuration: [1S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - And it will simply just not deposit items until the first slot reaches the 41S level. COMBINATIONS: - You can combine these methods into one total sorting system. You do not have to choose one or the other. You can place 41 dummy items in one sorting hopper, and 41 sorter items in another, and this will not affect the overall working of your sorting system. As long as you don't create an overflow problem, any combination will work together because both combinations will contain 45 items at the start of each 'sorting' session. NOTES: - This sorting system, while reliable, is somewhat slow. If you have Efficiency 5 on a Pickaxe, you are going to fill your own inventory in a mining session faster than this hopper system will unload an entire inventory full of items. In this case, you can modify this sorting system to make use of packed-ice piston pushers. However, if you use this method you *MUST* have overflow protection on all your hoppers, as this moves items through the sorting system at a much faster rate than a hopper does, and will overflow if you aren't careful. - On servers, there are occasional bugs where the torch may remain turned off for longer than 1 tick, allowing 2 items to fall through into your chests. This is a problem for Config 1, and my recommendation if you are using Config 1: No Protection on a server is to use this config instead: Config 1.1: Server Lag No Protection: [2S] [40D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - You can extend the sorting system for your bulk items (cobblestone, deepslate, etc) by either using more hopper slots (multiple sorters with the same configuration), or by having more chests in a line (3-high for example). I often build this sorting system on multiple levels of my base, with a Soul Sand-Dropper item launcher to travel the items up layers. My first layer is the regular bulk items, and I use 3-high double chests, and then I just have single or double chests for my less frequent items. COMMON TROUBLESHOOTING: - Your sorter item must be in the LEFT-MOST SLOT for this system to work. - Your repeaters must be on 1 TICK (sometimes when you place them you'll accidentally double click and move the tick count down). The repeaters should look the exact same as when you first place them, not with the bar moved at all when you right-click/left-trigger them. - Sorter hoppers MUST face a direction that is not directly down. - Top hoppers must all face the same direction (left or right), and these are NOT the sorter hoppers. - Dummy items MUST be an item that NEVER goes into the sorting system (an easy way to avoid this is to 'rename' blocks with an anvil, but this can be expensive with iron in early game) - This sorting system DOES NOT sort 'single' items like bows, boats, etc. - If you have multiple entry points into this sorting system (chests around your base) they may be happening at the same time, in which case you increase the risk of overflow. Config 2 is more suitable if you pursue this. - If you want to sort an item that only stacks into sets of 16 (eg. ender pearls, chicken eggs) the configurations are: CONFIG 1.2: NO PROTECTION (16 stack) [1S] [38D] [1D] [1D] [1D] CONFIG 2.1: PROTECTION (16 Stack) [10S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D] - For lag reasons, placing an EMPTY harvester (composter) above the top hoppers prevents those hoppers from 'checking' above them for blocks, increasing speed and reducing computational time. - Don't use transparent blocks (like glass) for the backend setup of the redstone. Transparent blocks pass redstone differently to solid blocks (like cobblestone) and the system will not work. - You *can* sort non-stackable items, but not using this method. It requires a great deal more redstone, and is somewhat more limited. ilmango is the person to check out regarding this.
@@evenstorli5479 So glad this helped! Came back after seeing your comment and decided that my wording was a little weird. Hope this rewrite still makes sense, and adds some more valuable info for you! Best of luck :)
This was a bit easier for me, as i needed to only sort one item, raw chicken (For my automated chicken farm). I kept getting a metric f load of feathers and i needed a solution lol. I modified the output of the sorter to be a dispenser into a lava trash can, that seems to be working pretty well. I have to jury rig a redstone power source for the dispenser with 2 blocks, 2 redstone torches and 2 redstone dust, which works fabulously. I'll admit I do have 2 other contraptions in the chicken farm as well like that, so its ungodly noisy at the farm lol. But for all its worth, im pretty happy with it! This video was pretty simple to follow, which I like. I'll be using this design in the future, thats for sure!
for anyone out there who needs this: if you want to sort things like ender pearls as well, just put 10 in one slot instead of 41, since they only stack up to 16.
What you need: 8 Building blocks per layer 4 chests per layer plus 2 4 hoppers per layer plus 1 3 redstone per layer 1 repeater per layer 1 comparator per layer 1 redstone torch per layer 1 anvil for renaming items
Tip to generally reduce lag. Add composters on top of exposed hoppers, this will reduce lag as hoppers check for items above them every 20 seconds, and they also check every slot in a chest. Because composters only have one item slot, they will make hoppers lag a lot yes.
By the way, dont use glass to build it. I spent an hour trying to figure out why it wouldn't work, it seems glass messes with the redstone or something
This is one of the BEST storage farm tutorials on youtube . It is very simple. Btw you can just put 44 filling items in each slot of the hopper and only 1 of the item you wanna sort.
tip for those who wanna extend it vertically, just build this exactly and add another layer of a double chest and a hopper underneath it, works like a beauty
Did you place the redstone torches correctly? The Torches should block the lower hopper until you put more than 45 items in the upper hopper, regardless of item name
In case anyone is wondering, it does work on legacy edition. Just instead of using chests, alternate between using trapped chests and regular chests because you can't place regular or trapped chests right next to each other.
but you were always able to place double chests next to each other when they were placed vertically lol (it just didn't work when you placed them horizontally)
I've watched so many auto sorter videos, and YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON TO SAY YOU GOTTA NAME THE BLOCK IN THE ANVIL. The auto sorter works perfectly now. I have a lava bucket attached to a pigman farm and it's burning all the swords and keeping everything else. Ty
Pro tip: Make the floor of your stock area covered hoppers. Now you just drop items on the floor and they'll just be hovered up and put where they belong. And your auto farms... can feed into this inventory system. Want to go FULL AI protection? You can add an overflow of items, especially from auto farms, that checks if you have filled up storage... and dumps it in lava. Cuz it will fill it back up if you ever take any. Some items can dump the extra into a compost bonemeal farm, and directed to supply farms that burn resources. ...but honestly it started lagging up pretty hard pretty quick when you got countless stored and moving items like that. And farming EVERYTHING when you don't actually use much of anything... becomes the purpose in itself. You spend FAR more time than you're trying to save. What he has is already plenty to help sort the types of stuff you waste time organizing. Mining spoils or farming produce... Our mega storeroom was not actually practical. Small stuff closer to where it's needed is better. Several specialized "homes" you can travel between rather than one superbase that becomes increasingly farther from ANYTHING as it grows.
Thanks for the tips, do you know if its fine to just put 3 renamed items and 20 of for example diamonds, and 21 for example iron, in one of the hoppers, so you can sort multiple items in one chest?
saw "minecart" and realized I'm needing your videos a lot more than usual lately. I guess that counts as brand recognition lol i never would have realized otherwise that i keep coming back to yuor videos.
How do you always post the exact MINECRAFT tutorials I need? I was planning to make an auto storage system just two days back! It's so awesome, love your vids :)
Works perfectly and so worth it, it was such a hassle clearing out the gold swords and rotten flesh every 10 minutes in my gold farm but I can afk now with no worries
for me it doesnt work because when i place the fill items in the hopper they just go to the chest immidietly if somone knows how to fix this please help
So you can build this with as few layers as you want too? I’m doing one for a skeleton farm and really only want bones and arrows, and to discard all the bows. Can I make it with just two sorters?
@@jebbennett4619 Yes, you can absolutely do that. You can also replace the chest which will get filled with bows, with a dropper and and automatic mechanism to activate the dropper (almost) every tick. Then just place a netherrack with a flame on it in front of the dropper to automatically discard all the bows.
i dunno if you can help i followed the video but every time i get to the point to put the named dirt in i used filler it just goes right thru the hoppers! Anyone have any suggestions im pretty sure i have everything done properly, @@jebbennett4619
One item will always stay in the hopper, in the video you can see when his mining session is over he has 5 netherite in the chest he has 4(this video did help but it will always miss one item)
If I want to sort two types of blocks in one chest do I just put two of the 41's? Or do I actually need to make another chest since it wouldn't work? (Like if I wanted a chest for iron ore and raw iron at the same time)
This is an old comment but follow exactly how he builds it dont skip steps and make sure the hopper is locked first that’s probably why stuff keeps going down
Nope, that would break it. BUT, what I usually do in those cases is lead the sorted output into the same chest. The top double chest can be replaced with 1 hopper facing into the bottom chest. Then, under the bottom double chests you can easily lead them together with hoppers going into the same chest.
Alternatilvely you can replace the top row of hoppers with electric rails and a hopper minecart, it's a bit slower but you can save on hopper ingredients.
Thank you needed an item sorter at my witch farm. It was fairly easy concept I just had a pain because my witch hut was in the middle of the water sorting system had to be built under sea level took some time emptying Space haha
A tip for the tutorials in the future try showing it backwards or another way for people to insert itself into a farm, I had this issue with my iron farm and I made it too high. Not much of a problem just could be solved by showing where to make the farm in relation to an already existing flow of items.
I did some math for my own build, so I'm sharing in case it could be helpful to others! If you follow the dimensions of the video (having 8 rows of chests), you can use 44 filler blocks for each of the 8 hoppers. That means you would need 352 total filler items, which is 5 and a half stacks because: 8 × 44 = 352 and 352 ÷ 64 = 5.5 I will probably use dirt, as I already have a lot of it. Hope this was helpful :)
spent a solid two hours making a huge auto sorter just for it to fail. it doesn’t work for me. followed the entire video step by step. the items just fill up the 41 to 64 and then move to the output chest. how do i fix this???
That means that the torch isn't turning off when the quantity hits 42. The torch turning off unlocks the hopper below allowing items to flow through, so you need to troubleshoot your build and find out what was built wrong that is causing the Redstone signal to either not reach or not power the torch.
How do I adjust this farm to be able to sort multiple types of items in one chest, like putting all the different wood items in one chest, which would add planks and logs etc.
You could do it like this but lay the chest the other way. Use the two filtered hoppers (one for log, one for plank) then have them both go into the same double chest. Thats my plan for mine, anyway.
Is there something that sorts BETWEEN non-stackable Items? not stackable in one chest and non stackables in another, but (for example) swords in one chest and Totems in another?
When filling the hopper with fillers for 1 item you will need 44 filler blocks spread amongst 4 of the 5 hopper slots using that 1 extra for the item you wish to sort, for 2 items to be sorted into a chest fit 43 filler items into 3 of the 5 slots and use the extra 2 for whatever you want, I believe the max is 4 but haven’t tried
Thank you for the design I modified it so use can use water in stead of the forth row of hoppers. I used it as the base design for my 300 item storage room and took some insperashine from shulkercrafts massive storage room
You're a legend bro. I have been trying to figure this out for days! I even had to go back 2 world backups because I crashed it twice. Tysm for this video!
if you want to do filter something expensive like diamonds, you can have 41 filler blocks on the last slot. This makes it so you only need 1 of the material
Question. I have this build in my world, but the hoppers under the filters aren’t grabbing the stuff they’re supposed to grab and it isn’t going into the chest. Why isn’t it working? I’m a bit frazzled right now, help
This sorter doesn’t have overflow protection. But also i find it easier on resources to use a water stream to pass items through over the top of the sorting hoppers. But you will need buttons and ice
You can technically leave the sort hopper empty except for the fill blocks and the first item to drop into it will become the sort item, not good if you throw non-stackables or want specific items sorted to specific locations but if you're lazy...
DUDE i love all your videos and THANK YOU for making a per-layer amount, because I'm doing this for my iron golem farm. So, i only need 2 layers for 2 items :D
You can use the navil to name a whole stack of dirt and use 11 blocks on each filler which allow u to only put one item that u want to sort so u can save on valuable resources and still get the auto sorter to work
While some items seem to sort out properly... some just do not and go in the Output although I've set it up so they go in the chests... have any idea why? Items that do not Sort: Raw Gold / Flit
my tip would be that in the hoppers behind or above the target chests some wrong item(s) sit(s) idle, or a torch is missing, i would remove comperator and the smoth stone beneth it and rebuild that row, works for my 45 items first row, but makes problems on single stack items (like bows etc)
Btw you can instead put 44 filler items and 1 item to sort, much cheaper. Maybe use sticks if you don't have enough dirt. Also, the top row of chests is unnecessary 😄
i built it exactly like that but for some reason it just randomly removes the Filler items (the ones named in an anvil) out of the hopper. Any idea why that might be happening?
I found out why I used 44 items as filler then one as the filter but if you put in more then 1 or two the redstone signal becomes to strong and the adjacent hoppers get emptied.
TIP:
instead of using 41 of the item you need to sort which would be a total waste, put 44 filling blocks (dirt preferably) inside the hopper with only 1 of the item you need to sort. This works because a hopper can only hold 45 items at a time so it filters out the other items into the chests.
Thank you
Was trying to make a piglin trading sorter
he should pin this comment, it much better to put more filler block rather than having 40 valuable items in hopper that u cant use
Saw someone else say "There is the risk that in case the chest fills, the system would break completely." if you sort using this method. Not sure if this is true or what but wanted to see if you know.
@@unironicpanda when both chests filled up it started sending the item into the chest beside it. So maybe thats what you talking about and doing it the way in the video prevents that? Idk
Tip for those who might be making the same mistake I did: THE ITEM YOU WANT SORTED MUST BE IN THE FIRST SLOT. I wasted a couple of hours trying to make this work and getting frustrated as hell before I realized what was going on. When the order is correct, it works great!
Also, for those wondering about the 44 fill items/1 sorting item thing: its 11 fill items in each of the last 4 slots + 1 sorting item in the first slot. Works fine.
Huh? explain that 2nd part. Also, my fill item keeps going straight into the chest instead of staying in the hopper
@@al1enzz someone else already specified it in the comments. a hopper can hold a max of 45 items at one time so any configuration will do as long as the sorted item is in the first slot. you dont need 41 sorted items, you can have 44 fillers (11 for each of the last 4 slots) and then one sorting item in the first slot and it will work as well
@@kr_ykoocan you sort more than one item into a chest?
@@magebelac9066 i dont think so. you need either 41 of sorted blocks or 44 of filler blocks. i just tried manipulating blocks inside the hoppers and it was screwing up the whole mechanism. but im not surprised. i guess its one comparator per one compared item, as it probably should be
@kr_ykoo so I built the identical setup opposite the first one. I have 2 sorting chest. 1 for each row of chests. Trying to figure out a way where I can have one chest between the two to sort items into their respective lane
You actually don't need to put 41 diamonds or any other items into the hopper to make sorter work. Putting 45 (in total) fill items will also work
There is the risk that in case the chest fills, the system would break completely. But in normal situations it would work
@@pedronunes3063 Yea my sorter is completely broken
You still have to place dirt in every single spot except first
For rare itens it could work if you don't fill the rest of the chest with junk
Just put 1 named item in 3 slots then 41 named items then 1 items you want it to filter
OVERFLOW GUIDE FOR THOSE CONFUSED BY THE OTHER COMMENTS:
It seems that people are confused about how the overflow works. This provides clearer information, and a solution dependant on your needs.
EDIT: I originally wrote this while very tired, and I've come back to reword it for clarity
HOPPER LOCKING:
- If you build the design in this video, the redstone torch 'locks' the sorter hopper, and does not allow items to pass through until the torch is switched off.
- The torch switches off, and 'unlocks' the hopper, allowing items to pass down into the chests, when the comparator signal is strong enough.
- The comparator signal is strong enough to turn the torch off at exactly 46 items.
- So at 45 items, the torch locks the hopper, at 46, the torch turns off, allows one item through, which causes the hopper to go back down to 45 items, and locks again.
OVERFLOW:
- If there are 69 (nice) items at any one time in the sorter hopper, the redstone signal 'overflows' by sending a strong enough signal that it will push over to the adjacent hoppers, and unlock their torches, causing your dummy items to be released into your chests.
- Therefore, the operational range of the sorter hopper with this redstone configuration is 0-68 items. Any more than that, and your sorting system will break.
CONFIGURATIONS:
- There are two configurations that your sorter hopper can be in for the sorting system to work.
- D = dummy items (the items that will not ever enter into your sorting system, like named cobblestone)
- S = sorter items (the item that you want to fill the chests below with)
- The two configurations are either 'no protection' or 'overflow protection'.
CONFIG 1: NO PROTECTION
[1S] [41D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- In this configuration, there is a total of 45 items (1 Sorter item + 44 dummy items).
- When this hopper sees an item in it that matches your S item, it increases by 1 and creates:
[2S] [41D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- This is a total of 46 items.
- At 46 items, the torch 'unlocks' the hopper, and items begin falling through the hopper, starting from the left-most side.
- Because at 45 items, the torch 'relocks' the hopper, only 1 item falls through, and we return to the original state:
[1S] [41D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- However, if your chests are full, the hoppers will also fill up, meaning that when this hopper unlocks, no item will pass down to the lower hoppers (because they are full). This means that this hopper will begin to fill up with Sorter items (S):
[64S] [41D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- Here we have a total of 108 items (64 Sorter Items + 44 dummy items)
- Because the redstone configuration will cause your other hoppers to unlock once *any* sorting hopper has 69 items in total as your first slot fills up with items because your chests are full, you will start to 'break' your other hoppers, because they will 'unlock' from the overflowed redstone signal, turning off their torches, and your filter items will start to go into your chests.
- The benefits to this first configuration is that you do not have to 'sacrifice' 41 sorter items into the sorting hopper in order to begin filtering. The risk is that if you fill up two double chests full of the item, if will overflow. This is to our advantage however, because the items that we don't want to 'sacrifice' are often the very items that we are never going to fill up two double chests with (diamonds, netherite, etc.)
- You can build this configuration for any item that you do not reasonably expect to fill multiple chests with, and your item sorter will work *fine*.
CONFIG 2: OVERFLOW PROTECTION
[41S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- In this configuration, we once again have 45 total items (41 Sorter items, and 4 dummy items)
- When this hopper sees an item in it that matches the S item, it also increases by 1, creating:
[42S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- The same thing occurs, the torch unlocks, one item falls, and we go back to the regular form:
[41S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- However, the advantage here is that the first slot of sorter items *cannot* exceed 64 items, even if the below hoppers are full and cannot accept another item:
[64S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- This gives a total of 68 items (64 Sorter items + 4 dummy items)
- Because 68 items is less than the 69 item limit, the hopper never 'overflows' to the next hopper, preserving your sorting system. The items simply flow to the end of your sorting system.
- Once you clear out the chests below, this system will begin dropping until it reaches the original configuration once more:
[41S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- The benefits to this configuration is that you have the 'overflow' protection, but the problem is that you do have to 'sacrifice' 41 of the item that you want to sort.
- However, if you think about the items that are likely to fill up two double chests (cobblestone, iron, deepslate, etc.), it doesn't feel as much of a 'sacrifice' to just place the 41 items in there anyway. You are expecting to have 41 in there.
- Additionally, if you do not yet have 41 of these items, you don't need 41 to build this hopper configuration. The sorting hopper will remain 'locked' from 0-45 items, meaning that you can begin with this configuration:
[1S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- And it will simply just not deposit items until the first slot reaches the 41S level.
COMBINATIONS:
- You can combine these methods into one total sorting system. You do not have to choose one or the other. You can place 41 dummy items in one sorting hopper, and 41 sorter items in another, and this will not affect the overall working of your sorting system. As long as you don't create an overflow problem, any combination will work together because both combinations will contain 45 items at the start of each 'sorting' session.
NOTES:
- This sorting system, while reliable, is somewhat slow. If you have Efficiency 5 on a Pickaxe, you are going to fill your own inventory in a mining session faster than this hopper system will unload an entire inventory full of items. In this case, you can modify this sorting system to make use of packed-ice piston pushers. However, if you use this method you *MUST* have overflow protection on all your hoppers, as this moves items through the sorting system at a much faster rate than a hopper does, and will overflow if you aren't careful.
- On servers, there are occasional bugs where the torch may remain turned off for longer than 1 tick, allowing 2 items to fall through into your chests. This is a problem for Config 1, and my recommendation if you are using Config 1: No Protection on a server is to use this config instead:
Config 1.1: Server Lag No Protection:
[2S] [40D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- You can extend the sorting system for your bulk items (cobblestone, deepslate, etc) by either using more hopper slots (multiple sorters with the same configuration), or by having more chests in a line (3-high for example). I often build this sorting system on multiple levels of my base, with a Soul Sand-Dropper item launcher to travel the items up layers. My first layer is the regular bulk items, and I use 3-high double chests, and then I just have single or double chests for my less frequent items.
COMMON TROUBLESHOOTING:
- Your sorter item must be in the LEFT-MOST SLOT for this system to work.
- Your repeaters must be on 1 TICK (sometimes when you place them you'll accidentally double click and move the tick count down). The repeaters should look the exact same as when you first place them, not with the bar moved at all when you right-click/left-trigger them.
- Sorter hoppers MUST face a direction that is not directly down.
- Top hoppers must all face the same direction (left or right), and these are NOT the sorter hoppers.
- Dummy items MUST be an item that NEVER goes into the sorting system (an easy way to avoid this is to 'rename' blocks with an anvil, but this can be expensive with iron in early game)
- This sorting system DOES NOT sort 'single' items like bows, boats, etc.
- If you have multiple entry points into this sorting system (chests around your base) they may be happening at the same time, in which case you increase the risk of overflow. Config 2 is more suitable if you pursue this.
- If you want to sort an item that only stacks into sets of 16 (eg. ender pearls, chicken eggs) the configurations are:
CONFIG 1.2: NO PROTECTION (16 stack)
[1S] [38D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
CONFIG 2.1: PROTECTION (16 Stack)
[10S] [1D] [1D] [1D] [1D]
- For lag reasons, placing an EMPTY harvester (composter) above the top hoppers prevents those hoppers from 'checking' above them for blocks, increasing speed and reducing computational time.
- Don't use transparent blocks (like glass) for the backend setup of the redstone. Transparent blocks pass redstone differently to solid blocks (like cobblestone) and the system will not work.
- You *can* sort non-stackable items, but not using this method. It requires a great deal more redstone, and is somewhat more limited. ilmango is the person to check out regarding this.
This should be the top comment my god. Thank you for the explanation I was trying to figure out why 41 + 4 was the best combo
@@evenstorli5479 So glad this helped! Came back after seeing your comment and decided that my wording was a little weird. Hope this rewrite still makes sense, and adds some more valuable info for you! Best of luck :)
Damn your a genius !!! thank you
@scruffysz Happy that this helped!
@@sheldonlynn934 Definetly helped!
This was a bit easier for me, as i needed to only sort one item, raw chicken (For my automated chicken farm). I kept getting a metric f load of feathers and i needed a solution lol.
I modified the output of the sorter to be a dispenser into a lava trash can, that seems to be working pretty well. I have to jury rig a redstone power source for the dispenser with 2 blocks, 2 redstone torches and 2 redstone dust, which works fabulously. I'll admit I do have 2 other contraptions in the chicken farm as well like that, so its ungodly noisy at the farm lol. But for all its worth, im pretty happy with it!
This video was pretty simple to follow, which I like. I'll be using this design in the future, thats for sure!
for anyone out there who needs this: if you want to sort things like ender pearls as well, just put 10 in one slot instead of 41, since they only stack up to 16.
What about totems?
@@dwarfskii currently I’m unsure. Ill try to figure it out later
@@dwarfskiiunfortunately you can't sort unstackable items
@@dwarfskiibut for unstackable items you can use an allay sorting system!
What if i want to sort 2 or more items in one chest ? Can i just fill 44 filling blocks and 2 items that i want ? I'm on bedrokj btw
Does this work for bedrock?
Edit:it does i just built it
Does*
@@harshdeshmukh6751that ain’t sarcasm 😂
@@LeimTraulhu then what is that ?
@@harshdeshmukh6751a kid
Good. I prefer bedrock because I don’t have a high end pc
What you need:
8 Building blocks per layer
4 chests per layer plus 2
4 hoppers per layer plus 1
3 redstone per layer
1 repeater per layer
1 comparator per layer
1 redstone torch per layer
1 anvil for renaming items
@@EnterickYe
Useless... It's literally shown in the video at the beginning, why the fuck did you post this
was looking for this comment, thanks, helpful for too new players lol
Tip to generally reduce lag.
Add composters on top of exposed hoppers, this will reduce lag as hoppers check for items above them every 20 seconds, and they also check every slot in a chest. Because composters only have one item slot, they will make hoppers lag a lot yes.
By the way, dont use glass to build it. I spent an hour trying to figure out why it wouldn't work, it seems glass messes with the redstone or something
yes it does because one can put redstone on top of glass and glass above that and it still works
Glass isnt a solid block lmao
wish I saw this before building 🤦♂
Who would build this with glass?
@@EpicandRon I built it for a raid farm and raiders can’t spawn on glass so
This is one of the BEST storage farm tutorials on youtube . It is very simple. Btw you can just put 44 filling items in each slot of the hopper and only 1 of the item you wanna sort.
44 item each slot in of 1 hopper or just 44 item in 1 hopper? (hope you understand cause it sounds confusing)
@@raplitoo7652im positive it's 44 fill items in 1 hopper instead of each slot
@@Iamsome thanks
Does this work on bedrock?
@@NotViper44 Yep
I’m so thankful for this guy because, when it comes to redstone I have no clue. Very helpful tutorial.
ez in like 10 minutes i built this
@@erikmehtala-wq9pt20 min I memorized it
tip for those who wanna extend it vertically, just build this exactly and add another layer of a double chest and a hopper underneath it, works like a beauty
DOESN'T work when you put the renamed dirt as filler, it goes down the hopper and doesnt stay in the hopper
2:34
Did you place the redstone torches correctly?
The Torches should block the lower hopper until you put more than 45 items in the upper hopper, regardless of item name
@Jo4.2 nope still dont work the filler blocks just fall into it
Still works 2024. I come back to this video so often, I can never remember what to do properly. Thanks much, creator.
It doesn't sort oak logs for me for some reason
In case anyone is wondering, it does work on legacy edition. Just instead of using chests, alternate between using trapped chests and regular chests because you can't place regular or trapped chests right next to each other.
Didn't they change that in the new update or you mean older versions of java?
@@AnonTDegeneratelegacy is old console versions
but you were always able to place double chests next to each other when they were placed vertically lol (it just didn't work when you placed them horizontally)
@@QifiShiina what😭😭 this whole time I've been alternating trapped chests and regular chests
@@QifiShiina I have literally been playing legacy edition since a few months after it released and I am just now finding this out
I've watched so many auto sorter videos, and YOU'RE THE ONLY PERSON TO SAY YOU GOTTA NAME THE BLOCK IN THE ANVIL. The auto sorter works perfectly now. I have a lava bucket attached to a pigman farm and it's burning all the swords and keeping everything else. Ty
me to
LOL ME TOO BUILT IT TODAY FOR MY HUGE GOLD FARM
What do you mean burning all the swords and keeping everything else
@@FRAGS_AP useless golden swords
@@nevinnguyen3440 I hope you are smelting them for gold nuggets.
Pro tip:
Make the floor of your stock area covered hoppers. Now you just drop items on the floor and they'll just be hovered up and put where they belong.
And your auto farms... can feed into this inventory system.
Want to go FULL AI protection?
You can add an overflow of items, especially from auto farms, that checks if you have filled up storage... and dumps it in lava. Cuz it will fill it back up if you ever take any.
Some items can dump the extra into a compost bonemeal farm, and directed to supply farms that burn resources.
...but honestly it started lagging up pretty hard pretty quick when you got countless stored and moving items like that. And farming EVERYTHING when you don't actually use much of anything... becomes the purpose in itself. You spend FAR more time than you're trying to save. What he has is already plenty to help sort the types of stuff you waste time organizing. Mining spoils or farming produce...
Our mega storeroom was not actually practical. Small stuff closer to where it's needed is better. Several specialized "homes" you can travel between rather than one superbase that becomes increasingly farther from ANYTHING as it grows.
Thanks for the tips, do you know if its fine to just put 3 renamed items and 20 of for example diamonds, and 21 for example iron, in one of the hoppers, so you can sort multiple items in one chest?
the repeater isnt lighting up , help pls
the directions are all correct
@@Dudeesy same have you found a fix?
Make a vid
saw "minecart" and realized I'm needing your videos a lot more than usual lately. I guess that counts as brand recognition lol i never would have realized otherwise that i keep coming back to yuor videos.
I love how its no unnecessary chatting just lovely music and simple instructions on the screen 😊 i love it new subscriber
Just me or does it sound like Jump Up Super Star
Not really. This means you have to tab over and read instead of just hearing what he's saying while you're working in the game
@@Eric_In_SF yeah let me try to keep up with a voice at light speed while placing blocks
@@Eric_In_SF bruh it is 3 minutes
How do you always post the exact MINECRAFT tutorials I need? I was planning to make an auto storage system just two days back! It's so awesome, love your vids :)
😊😊
java or bedrock?
@@the_radio_demon-1933I think this is Java
@@the_radio_demon-1933both
@@the_radio_demon-1933 Bedrock. It says so in the description
Lol I was just thinking about building one for my world and this video pops out.😂
Same
@@NickSamherdo you also have random chests filled with random stuff like gold nuggets with spider eyes lying here and there ? 😂
Yo samee!!
Dude I literally needed one YESTERDAY for my iron farm
UA-cam can read your mind bro
Works perfectly and so worth it, it was such a hassle clearing out the gold swords and rotten flesh every 10 minutes in my gold farm but I can afk now with no worries
Dude you're a hero. Rediscovering my old world and I definitely need to up my storage game and this will come in very handy I reckon :D
i don't even really understand how or why this works but i built it and it worked so thank you lmao
for me it doesnt work because when i place the fill items in the hopper they just go to the chest immidietly if somone knows how to fix this please help
I’ve built this thing 3 times. The biggest is 6 lanes totaling over 200 items that can be sorted. Smallest was 3 for my iron farm. Love it
So you can build this with as few layers as you want too? I’m doing one for a skeleton farm and really only want bones and arrows, and to discard all the bows. Can I make it with just two sorters?
@@jebbennett4619 Yes, you can absolutely do that. You can also replace the chest which will get filled with bows, with a dropper and and automatic mechanism to activate the dropper (almost) every tick. Then just place a netherrack with a flame on it in front of the dropper to automatically discard all the bows.
@@jebbennett4619 yes! i have 2 iron farms (first one broke then started working again ) and both have a 3 item sorter.
i dunno if you can help i followed the video but every time i get to the point to put the named dirt in i used filler it just goes right thru the hoppers! Anyone have any suggestions im pretty sure i have everything done properly,
@@jebbennett4619
Does your second row of chest gets filled too or it does nothing?
thank you for the only one that isnt lying about working in 1.20
Hey a tip after 1 hour of troubleshooting. Don't use glass blocks for the redstone portions of the build. I'm very new to redstone so this tripped me.
One item will always stay in the hopper, in the video you can see when his mining session is over he has 5 netherite in the chest he has 4(this video did help but it will always miss one item)
Is there a fix?
@@Nxtn No
@@Nxtnit's intentional, there needs to be at least one of each item in the hopper
Intentional.
@@Fate_brawlstars you mean the bottom hopper right? thats the problem im getting
If I want to sort two types of blocks in one chest do I just put two of the 41's? Or do I actually need to make another chest since it wouldn't work? (Like if I wanted a chest for iron ore and raw iron at the same time)
Did you find out a way to make it work?
@@AliPlayz1 No, I had to make separate chests for each, sadly 😞
theres a different sorter for that
you can just put two hoppers leading to the same chest
“Minecraft”
Thx for showing this and I’m glad it can be used for non stack items (overflow chest)
this worked really well once i figgered out i had the conparater the wrong way around
Minecraft! thx for the sorting system rlly needed it!
Does not work correctly for me. Fill Item will remain in first and last hopper. All the ones in the middle automatically go down into the chests.
same here...
This is an old comment but follow exactly how he builds it dont skip steps and make sure the hopper is locked first that’s probably why stuff keeps going down
@@iCherrryyt I appreciate the time for your reply. I forgot by now what the issue was, but latter builds did work if I remember correctly
Make sure you got the redstone torches placed first
idk wat to do
2:59 "Your *farm* is done"?
I liked it how you said "the farm is done" at the end 😂.
Can I add multiple items into one layer? Ex: Stone Bricks, stone brick slabs, stone brick stairs etc.
Nope, that would break it. BUT, what I usually do in those cases is lead the sorted output into the same chest. The top double chest can be replaced with 1 hopper facing into the bottom chest. Then, under the bottom double chests you can easily lead them together with hoppers going into the same chest.
Alternatilvely you can replace the top row of hoppers with electric rails and a hopper minecart, it's a bit slower but you can save on hopper ingredients.
MINECRAFT!!! I will always love playing Minecraft :D So many possibilities
Doesn't work for me, Everything goes to the output chest even though i placed them in right hoppers. Only coal gets sorted to right chest...
You did it wrong then
Thank you needed an item sorter at my witch farm. It was fairly easy concept I just had a pain because my witch hut was in the middle of the water sorting system had to be built under sea level took some time emptying Space haha
A tip for the tutorials in the future try showing it backwards or another way for people to insert itself into a farm, I had this issue with my iron farm and I made it too high. Not much of a problem just could be solved by showing where to make the farm in relation to an already existing flow of items.
question: what is the texture pack that lets you see the direction of the hopper?
I did some math for my own build, so I'm sharing in case it could be helpful to others!
If you follow the dimensions of the video (having 8 rows of chests), you can use 44 filler blocks for each of the 8 hoppers.
That means you would need 352 total filler items, which is 5 and a half stacks because:
8 × 44 = 352
and
352 ÷ 64 = 5.5
I will probably use dirt, as I already have a lot of it.
Hope this was helpful :)
spent a solid two hours making a huge auto sorter just for it to fail. it doesn’t work for me. followed the entire video step by step. the items just fill up the 41 to 64 and then move to the output chest. how do i fix this???
You ever find out how to fix it I’m having the same problem
@@kingclown_8605same
Did you use glass on your build?
That means that the torch isn't turning off when the quantity hits 42. The torch turning off unlocks the hopper below allowing items to flow through, so you need to troubleshoot your build and find out what was built wrong that is causing the Redstone signal to either not reach or not power the torch.
How do I adjust this farm to be able to sort multiple types of items in one chest, like putting all the different wood items in one chest, which would add planks and logs etc.
Please reply to me when u get an answer I’m asking the same wuesgion
still trying to figure this out - didnt work , with / without named items
You could do it like this but lay the chest the other way. Use the two filtered hoppers (one for log, one for plank) then have them both go into the same double chest. Thats my plan for mine, anyway.
have you tried putting oak planks with your oak wood in the hopper? i don't know if it works but its possible btw I'm not good at redstone
also i dont know what the top row of chests does
please help
Is there something that sorts BETWEEN non-stackable Items? not stackable in one chest and non stackables in another, but (for example) swords in one chest and Totems in another?
Did you find a way???
no unfortunately@@psycho_craft5412
The answer you are looking for is no
You're looking for an allay sorting system! Uses the new allay mob. Pretty handy
Alright, awesome edit. Plus the music 👌
Thank You very much for this tutorial ❤ Its been hard for me sorting all the mob loots
You have my like ^^
One doubt, can I put 3 chest higher instead of 2?
you can stack as high as you want.
I built it exactly as the tutorial says, with all the same items and blocks. It keeps taking my Fill Item, what am i doing wrong?
Can you make it so that one chest can accept multiple items or does the system only allow one per cheat
When filling the hopper with fillers for 1 item you will need 44 filler blocks spread amongst 4 of the 5 hopper slots using that 1 extra for the item you wish to sort, for 2 items to be sorted into a chest fit 43 filler items into 3 of the 5 slots and use the extra 2 for whatever you want, I believe the max is 4 but haven’t tried
i tried this in java 1.20.2 it did not work...followed tutorial exactly @@airh3d534
Materials:
40 building blocks
34 chests
33 hoppers
352 dirt (5 stacks 32 blocks)
24 redstone dust
8 repeaters
8 comparators
8 redstone torches
(1 anvil)
Raw Materials:
88 stone
4 stacks 55 blocks of planks
165 iron ingots (2 stacks 37 ingots)
72 redstone dust
8 nether quartz
Thank you for the design I modified it so use can use water in stead of the forth row of hoppers. I used it as the base design for my 300 item storage room and took some insperashine from shulkercrafts massive storage room
You're a legend bro. I have been trying to figure this out for days! I even had to go back 2 world backups because I crashed it twice. Tysm for this video!
You did *w h a t*
Wait, what exactly did you do while building this that crashed the world?
@@00dethklok00 redstone ticks with my mods
@@00dethklok00 I have the mod which removes redstone ticks
if you want to do filter something expensive like diamonds, you can have 41 filler blocks on the last slot. This makes it so you only need 1 of the material
Yes.
41 of what?
@@ItsZigggy the filler block, my bad for not clarifying
@@ItsZigggy 41 of the filler blocks, my bad for not clarifying
@@ItsZigggy like dirt or leaves, stone, netherrack anything you can find anywhere
Can you sort mutiple items into a hopper?
Works very well, can be done for only one item, once again an excellent tutorial
Needed a simple sorting system thank you for this video!
The random named objects don't stay in the hopper. They flow down immediately.
Rebuild it 1:1 like in the Video, must work if u do nothing wrong
I had this issue as well
@@norcalcardo6574 Turns out the torches were not placed directly opposite the repeaters. I had them a level lower.
@@JonniusAngelicus I had the same problem, my torches had broken from without me noticing, worked well once I replaced them
I love your *Minecraft* vids! I build them on stream all the time and they are so useful and fun and helpful, my viewers love it as well❤
Teue😊
Ahhh, Minecraft! :) Been looking for something simple like this to start my new server with. Keep up the good work~
Question. I have this build in my world, but the hoppers under the filters aren’t grabbing the stuff they’re supposed to grab and it isn’t going into the chest. Why isn’t it working? I’m a bit frazzled right now, help
Its the blocks. Dont built it with glass. some blocks dont transmit redstone signal down to the redstone torch.
@@SuperLifestream i figured it out- i only had one layer of chests instead of two. But thank you, i will store that information in my brain
Thank you. You made it easy to see and understand.
1:59 I thought the Video actually paused
What happens if u have a item that can’t stack, such as a bow?
dont ask me idfk
@@ISOLATEDMUSICINSTRUMENTALS the only comment I found regarding nonstackable items and this is the response ¬_¬
@@crojgclips6301 womp womp
you can't sort those items you just have to add chest to the end for the unstackables
@@xgamewinnercan the chest at the end be a garbage can/ can I make a item destroyer
Tested, built, and works on java edition 1.20.1
august 10th
does not work for me 1.20.2
@@CocoCokesterok.
"Minecraft" Sick video! Keep up the work!
What is the second layer of chests for? It's not filling up or anything
it does not work i did it perfectly and it did not work
You didn’t then it’s works for me
Thank you now I can export only the weed to my cow farm and the seeds for composting for bonemeal and to the farmers
can i filter for two things in the same chest for example iron ingots and iron blocks to the same chest?
Thats what im wondering
This sorter doesn’t have overflow protection. But also i find it easier on resources to use a water stream to pass items through over the top of the sorting hoppers. But you will need buttons and ice
You can technically leave the sort hopper empty except for the fill blocks and the first item to drop into it will become the sort item, not good if you throw non-stackables or want specific items sorted to specific locations but if you're lazy...
I love this organizing system. It is amazing. You don’t know how much I have tried this and I have failed.
DUDE i love all your videos and THANK YOU for making a per-layer amount, because I'm doing this for my iron golem farm. So, i only need 2 layers for 2 items :D
You can use the navil to name a whole stack of dirt and use 11 blocks on each filler which allow u to only put one item that u want to sort so u can save on valuable resources and still get the auto sorter to work
This is amazing! Thank you so much.
Thanks, I was wondering what I'd do with the iron farm I built:D
thank you im searching for hours and finali something working
after i expanded the same design some comparators got lit but some did not any way for fix this
?
This *Minecraft* tutorial helped me alot, thanks!
Great tutorial put it right under my mob farm and it worked great. Also used a similar one for my gold farm as well.
The hopper with the blank item fills up but nothing happens after that. Tried redoing it rewatched the video countless times but nothing
Just wondering is there a way to make multiple of these without them being in a straight line and only having one input chest for all of them?
Just make the top hoppers curve ig
Can you sort two items in one chest? Example Coal and Coal blocks in the same chest?
My guess is to fill the hoppers with 3 of the fill items instead of 4
Why do they stay in the hopper at 2:32 , but when i do it , they don't??
change the block you are building on. dont use glass
Voltrox is great!!))
While some items seem to sort out properly... some just do not and go in the Output although I've set it up so they go in the chests... have any idea why?
Items that do not Sort: Raw Gold / Flit
my tip would be that in the hoppers behind or above the target chests some wrong item(s) sit(s) idle, or a torch is missing, i would remove comperator and the smoth stone beneth it and rebuild that row, works for my 45 items first row, but makes problems on single stack items (like bows etc)
hey is it possible if i use the output chest as an input chest for another system?
Yes, You can just place hoppers under output chests.
Woah I just tested this and it works amazing. Thank you will definitely be streaming the process tonight on my survival world
Minecraft. Also, gotta love the super Mario odyssey OST
Thanks a lot for the tutorial, man. I wanted to build an Item sorter and dustbin in my Skeleton farm, and thanks to your vid, It's now ready.
Btw you can instead put 44 filler items and 1 item to sort, much cheaper. Maybe use sticks if you don't have enough dirt.
Also, the top row of chests is unnecessary 😄
can i make somehow that multiple items sort in the chest? Becose 4 hopppers for 1 item to sor is kinda expensive...
You got a subscriber. It work pretty well
Thats cool so much i sub ur channel
Good addition would be to add a lava block at the out put chests spot so things you don’t want automatically get disintegrated.
i built it exactly like that but for some reason it just randomly removes the Filler items (the ones named in an anvil) out of the hopper. Any idea why that might be happening?
I found out why
I used 44 items as filler then one as the filter but if you put in more then 1 or two the redstone signal becomes to strong and the adjacent hoppers get emptied.
thanks my guy, mine kept breaking for seemingly no reason, i think this might be it@@olivermager2532