Dispensers and droppers have 9 slots to dispense from. When an item is dispense/dropped, the dispenser/dropper needs to dispense/drop items from each slot evenly.
Some slots of the dispenser/dropper will end up empty while others still have items left.
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We're tracking this issue in MC-61815, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
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