Block Dispenser

Block Dispenser

Type	Automation
Stackable	Yes (64)
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First Appearance	1.20
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The Block Dispenser varies from the regular Item Dispenser by placing actual blocks, working Minecarts, Boats and Redstone (Wire) in front of it. It also dispenses its contents in order from left to right. When receiving power the dispenser will place the object and when power is cut, the dispenser will remove it.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Block Dispenser	Moss Stone, Soul Urns, Stone, Redstone Torches, Redstone Dust

Applications

• Item Deletion
• Floodgate
• Secret doors
• Minecart doors
  • Battosay's Minecart Doorway
• Farming - (Hemp, Wood, Sugar Cane)
  • Battosay's Tree Farm
  • Battosay's Sugar Cane Farm
• Minecart & Boat dispensing
• Storage Minecart unloading (sucking the cart in will cause inventory to spill out)
  • Battosay's Storage Minecart unloading
• Animation
  • Battosay's BTW Animation
• Automated building (with Pistons)
  • Battosay's Automated Building
• Redstone Mechanisms (Placing & removing of Redstone (Wire), Torch, Repeater)
• ROMs (By filling the Block dispenser with various slabs and full blocks, the Block dispenser can allow redstone current to pass when the Block dispenser is given a certain number of redstone pulses)
• Production of Companion Cubes

Keep in mind

• Block dispensers that are sucked up by other block dispensers will have their contents deleted
• Block dispensers will be powered if the block above them is receiving power
• It must be crafted on an Anvil
• Redstone
  • Wire - Can be powered when redstone wire is powered on top of the dispenser.
  • Torch (Will flick on, then off and remain off)
    • Will be powered once when power is place to the dispenser.
    • Will be powered twice (once when power is received and once when cut) when power is run on the top of the dispenser.
  • Repeater - Will always be powered. (Doesn't need to have redstone wire on top)
• Moss Stone - Cobblestone in the vicinity of monster spawners will slowly turn into moss stone, which makes it possible to farm moss stone. The area of this effect around monster spawners is roughly the same size of dungeons.

• As of 2.92, Will not pick up Wheat that has not fully matured.
• When it picks up something in front of it, only that item will enter the Block Dispenser inventory (i.e: If picking up wheat, and seeds that would have been dropped if it had been broken normally by hand will not appear at all either inside the Dispenser or on the ground).
• As of 2.97, Will pick up and place whole Melons
• As of 3.45, Will pick up the following block types without altering them: dirt with grass, book shelves, coal ore, lapis ore, diamond ore, redstone ore, giant mushroom blocks and Mycelium.
• As of 3.63, Will pick up ice.

Blocks That Cannot be "Sucked" Up

• Water
• Lava
• Bedrock
• Windmill
• Waterwheel
• Tall grass and the dead plants
• Double half slabs (will only be picked up as one half slab)
• Fire
• Stoked Fire
• Paintings
• Cement

Blocks That Will be "Spit" Out as Items

• Signs
• Doors
• Windmills
• Waterwheels
• Beds

Mobs That Can be "Sucked" Up Into Items

• Wolves become a Companion Cube (In the dispenser) and 2 string (In the world)
• Chickens become an egg (In the dispenser)
• Sheep will have their wool sucked up by the dispenser and will produce 1 string (In the world)

Exceptions

• Levers, buttons, and trapdoors need a block to be placed on opposite the BD
• Portal (will be destroyed)
• Axles are places so it touches the "mouth" of the BD
• Gearboxes are placed with the arrows facing the same direction of the BD "mouth"
• Panels will always be placed on the wall opposite to the BD
• Most blocks from other mods can be sucked up and placed (Buildcraft blocks with the place/remove blocks is exception [the block is placed but not the area of the digging/placing])

Demonstration video

[Tutorial] Better than Wolves 101 #3 The Block Dispenser : Wiring and Uses" on YouTube