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MC-846

Dispenser and Dropper shooting out when updated

How to reproduce this bug:
1. place a dispenser with about 64 items in it
2. power it; shoots out one.
3. Place redstone (not connected to the input that is powering the dispenser) or any other block near the diespenser (radius of 2 or 3 blocks)
4. It shoots out another item.

ATTENTION!
screenshot-1.jpg is the bug I'm talking about, not others! Comparators are intended to make constant updates, and dispenser BUD.jpg is acutally not BUD, because the redstone dust is powering the block and that powers the dispenser. I would like to remove the picture but I don't know how and I don't even know if I can.

Linked issues

MC-654 Tripwire Updating Dispensers incorrectly Resolved MC-2812 When I am Pressing button, Dispenser is throwing items twice. Resolved MC-4223 dispenser shoots twice when connected with repeater Resolved MC-4298 Dispenser dispenses 2 times probably should do it 1 time (resolved) Resolved MC-4341 Dispenser bug Resolved

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Can confirm. Redstone dust placed in positions 1 or 2 will trigger the dispenser, but not on dust removal.

Placing dust in positions 3, 4 or 5 however won't trigger dispenser, but will trigger on removal.

Position 6 has no effect

WARNING : this is a well known and useful bug. A lot of people use it to make the dispensers shoot faster. You should check with the community before fixing it.

Google "rapid fire dispenser"
https://www.google.ch/search?q=rapid+fire+dispenser

A good fix would be to simply make the dispenser fire as fast as whatever clock you're using can go. It would not only resolve the update bug but also remove the need to use a silly workaround to make the dispenser fire quickly.

@Kumasasa : Why did you update fix version to "Minecraft 1.4.5" ? Has this been fixed ?

I believe it's a request to fix version 1.4.5, not a version in which it is fixed. English is a silly language.

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David Whitcomb

I was making a contraption with a dropper and a Comparator. The redstone dust from the comparator(changing the redstone strength) was causing a update, which messed up the timing/item count. Hopefully his bug gets fixed soon. Vote for it.

bruno rodrigues

The powered dispenser dispense the lava cause of an update in front of it and don't stop until we remove the bucket from the dispenser. The dispenser act like a BUD but not only with redstone

bruno rodrigues

http://youtu.be/qyzFkmp3G3c that's what it does on the latest snapshot

There is a way to rewire everything so that it works with the new behavior. It is always better to have something be larger than founded on bugs. And if you don't like the behavior, you can always run 13w10a.

@William Pearson: One of the goals of the Redstone Update was to make Redstone more reliable and self-consistent. No other block activates on redstone updates, and the behavior didn't even make sense. Yes, it IS all bug.

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Jens Bergensten

Confirmed

dispenser, dropper

Minecraft 1.4.1, Minecraft 1.4.2, Minecraft 1.4.5, Snapshot 12w50a, Minecraft 1.4.6, ..., Snapshot 13w01a, Snapshot 13w02b, Snapshot 13w03a, Snapshot 13w09c, Snapshot 13w10a

Snapshot 13w10b

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