Composters can only be filled by droppers above them. However, if the dropper is either on the side or below the composter, it does nothing when activated. Expected would be that it drops the item.
Attachments
Comments 10
Composters never take in items from the side so it should ignore dropper trying to shoot items into them.
Can confirm the behavior in 1.18.1, but I can't necessarily see a reason to call this a bug: Droppers never drop items into the world under any other circumstance when facing an inventory block, even if they can't deposit an item for whatever reason. For example, you can never push a shulker box into another shulker box this way from any side, and you can't push non-fuel items into furnaces from the bottom or sides, and in neither case does the item end up being dropped into the world instead.
Please report only one issue per report. Change this report to be only about the incorrect item collision and then create separate reports for
Hopper / dropper not being able to insert compost material from the side
Dropper not being able to fill water bucket into cauldron
Though both sound like feature requests and the reports will likely be closed.