I wanted to make an item sorter for my iron golem farm. Flowers would go to the right - they would be put into a composter, and iron ingots would go to the left.
I used this type of item sorter.
If you didn't know, hoppers prefer going to the bottom and then going to the sides.
So I thought that it can be caused by chunks, as it is in this case. But no.
Rather than going to the bottom, the hopper is going to the sides and dividing them to 2 chests. It's really weird and complicated.
Here are my observatios:
If a hopper is an input, then items from that hopper divide like this
If a chest is an input, items go to the chests as they should.
they firstly go to chest A1, then hopper B1, and if they are full, then items go to chest A2 and lastly to hopper B2.
However, if a hopper is an input and there is more than 2 chests, then items go like this.
Also if chest A1 is full, yet chest A3 isn't, items will start to pile up in hopper B1, untill chest A3 and hopper B3 aren't full. If they are, then they will start to go to chest A2, then B2 and lastly they will stay in hopper B1.
It seems that the input hopper throws out items way faster than ither hoppers cans.
This weird behaviour doesn't seem to occur when input hopper is placed sideways.
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But this isn't how it's supposed to work. Was there some change to hoppers that I'm not aware of? Because as long as I know, items should go to the lowest hopper, then to the lowest chest. If that hopper chest fill up, items go to the second from the bottom chest and so on. They shouldn't split. Am I wrong?
I think this is the same as always. But let me know if you can find an older version in which it works differently, to pinpoint when it changed
Well just like if you remember it working differently in 1.14 or so, just try it out and let me know
Well, I've tested every full release from 1.6 to 1.11.2 and it seems like the hoppers are behaving the same way, and I think that they will behave in the newer versions too. However, I think I came up with a solution. Since when a chest is an input, it slows down the hoppers item pulling, therefore item pulling, so I just need to place a single chest inbetween the hoppers.
Conclusion: If I want the sorter working properly, I have to use a chest, or a hopper going sideways.
Also, this is just my opinion, but i think this isn't how hoppers should work. I think they should be pulling items slower, not 2 at a time and they should be checking if there is a hopper underneath them everytime, even if there's 2 items in there.
The upper hopper pushes into a chest, and the lower one pulls from above