Hopper

Hopper

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While it appears deceptively simple (it's basically a box with a hole in it), the hopper allows the construction of many advanced mechanisms. Items that fall into the top of the hopper are added to its inventory. If the hopper receives Mechanical power through a axle or hand crank mounted on the side of the hopper, items from the hopper inventory will start ejecting out the spout on the bottom of the hopper (and stop when power it cut). Items may be ejected into the air, directly into any other block that has an inventory (e.g. a Chest, a Dispenser or a Minecart with Chest) parked beneath it. A hopper with items in its inventory will send a signal to an adjacent Redstone Comparator.

Crafting

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Hopper	Gear, Wooden Corner, Wooden Pressure Plate, Wooden Siding

Item Filtering

The hopper also contains an extra inventory slot in which you may place various items that act as a filter so you can determine what items can enter the hopper inventory. By combining multiple hoppers with different filters and a stream of water, you can sort the items produced by a mob trap, an automated farm, or any other mixed output processes.

The types of hopper filters and what items will or will not pass through the filters are described in the following table.

Filter	Blocked	Enters Hopper	Examples that enter hopper
Wicker Pane	Not powdery	Powdery	Flour, Gunpowder
Slats	Thick	Thin	Paper, String
Grate	Large Items	Small Items	Feathers
Trapdoor	Mid-sized items	Small or longish Items	Coal, Fishing Rod, Rope, Bones
Iron Bars	Unstackable items	Stackable items	Dirt
Ladder	Solid Blocks	Items	Food items

Wicker Separation

Wicker in a hopper can also be used to separate some items into their component parts, with the larger item remaining on top of the hopper, and the smaller item entering its inventory. No mechanical power is required, but if it is, the lower item will be ejected from the bottom.

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Flint, Sand	Gravel
Straw, Wheat Seeds	Wheat
Melon Seeds	Mashed Melon

Soul Separation

Making a Soul Urn

Soul Sand purifies and extracts the souls from many Nether-based materials, changing their properties. These souls can be bottled to make Soul Urns by physically applying normal Urns to the bottom of the hopper. When doing so, it is important to apply continuous mechanical power, as too much unextracted energy in the Soul Sand can cause the hopper to explode.

Name	Ingredients	Input » Output
Hellfire Dust, Soul Urn	Ground Netherrack, Urn
Saw Dust, Soul Urn	Soul Dust, Urn
Brimstone, Soul Urn	Glowstone Dust, Urn

XP Storage

Soul Sand in a hopper can also be used to process Dragon Orbs into claimable XP. An unpowered hopper can hold a maximum of 100 XP. When powered it will drop a large XP orb as soon as enough small orbs have been collected.

A better solution for storing large amount of experience is the Vessel of the Dragon.

Advanced Uses

When a Hopper is powered, items will be dropped in stacks of 8, from a random slot in its inventory, at a rate of 8 items/tick.

Since the Hopper will only output items when there's no block under, a piston can be used to block the output, and give a more precise control over the amount of items that will be dropped from the Hopper.

Using a 1 tick pulse on a piston blocking the output of a Hopper will always drop exactly 8 items, which works great when dealing with the making of Soul Urns, since that's the exact amount of items needed.

A 2 tick pulse will spit out 16 items, a 3 tick pulse will spit out 24 items, etc.

Full filtering list (X = Enters Hopper)

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Item	Ladder	Iron Bars	Trapdoor	Grate	Slats	Wicker
Apples	X	X	X	X
Arcane Scrolls	X	X	X	X	X
Armor	X
Armor Plate	X	X
Arrows	X	X	X
Barks	X	X	X	X	X
Bat Wing	X	X	X	X	X
Bed	X
Belt	X	X	X
Blaze Powder	X	X	X	X	X	X
Blaze Rod	X	X	X
Boat	X
Bone	X	X	X
Book	X	X
Book and Quill	X
Bottles	X	X
Bowl	X	X
Bread	X	X
Breeding Harness	X	X
Brewing Stand	X	X
Bricks	X	X
Brimstone	X	X	X	X	X	X
Broadhead	X	X	X	X
Bucket (empty)	X	X
Bucket (filled)	X
Cake	X
Candle	X	X
Canvas	X	X
Carrot on a Stick	X		X
Cauldron	X	X
Charcoal	X	X	X	X
Chicken Soup	X	X
Chocolate	X	X	X	X
Chowder	X	X
Cistern	X	X
Clay Ball	X	X	X	X
Clock	X	X
Coal	X	X	X	X
Coal Dust	X	X	X	X	X	X
Cocoa Beans	X	X	X	X
Compass	X	X
Cookies	X	X	X	X
Concentrated Hellfire	X	X
Cooked Carrot	X	X
Cream of Mushroom	X	X
Creeper Oysters	X	X	X	X
Diamond	X	X	X	X
Dinners	X	X
Donut	X	X	X	X
Doors	X
Dung	X	X	X	X
Dyes (except Dung and Ink Sacs)	X	X	X	X	X	X
Dynamite	X	X
Eggs (except Scrambled Eggs)	X	X	X	X
Emerald	X	X
Ender Pearl	X	X	X	X
Ender Slag	X	X	X	X	X	X
Eye of Ender	X	X	X	X
Fabric	X	X			X
Feather	X	X	X	X
Filament	X	X	X	X
Fire Charge	X	X
Fireworks	X	X
Fishing Rod	X		X
Flint	X	X	X	X
Flour	X	X	X	X	X	X
Flowers	X	X	X	X
Foul Food	X	X
Fuse	X	X	X	X	X
Gear	X	X
Ghast Tear	X	X	X	X
Glistering Melon	X	X
Glowstone Dust	X	X	X	X	X	X
Glue	X	X
Gold Nugget	X	X	X	X
Grate	X	X
Gravel Block	X	X	X	X	X
Gravel Slab	X	X	X	X
Ground Netherrack	X	X	X	X	X	X
Gunpowder	X	X	X	X	X	X
Haft	X	X	X
Ham and Eggs	X	X
Hearty Stew	X	X
Hellfire Dust	X	X	X	X	X	X
Hemp	X	X			X
Hemp Fiber	X	X	X	X	X
Ingots	X	X
Ink Sac	X	X	X	X
Iron Nugget	X	X	X	X
Kebabs	X	X
Kibble	X	X	X	X
Leathers	X	X			X
Magma Cream	X	X
Map	X	X			X
Meat	X	X
Melon Slice	X	X
Minecarts	X
Mould	X	X
Mushrooms	X	X	X	X
Music Discs	X
Nether Brick	X	X
Nethercoal	X	X	X	X
Nether Groth Spores	X	X
Nether Quartz	X	X
Nether Sludge	X	X
Nether Star	X	X	X	X
Nether Wart	X	X	X	X	X	X
Nitre	X	X	X	X	X	X
Ocular of Ender	X	X
Omelets	X	X
Padding	X	X
Painting	X	X
Paper	X	X	X	X	X
Pile of Gravel	X	X	X	X
Pile of Sand	X	X	X	X	X	X
Pile of Soul Sand	X	X	X	X	X	X
Potash	X	X	X	X	X	X
Potions	X	X
Pumpkin Pie	X	X
Redstone Dust	X	X	X	X	X	X
Redstone Eye	X	X	X	X
Redstone Repeater	X	X			X
Redstone Torch	X	X
Rope	X	X	X
Rotten Flesh	X	X
Saddle	X
Sail	X
Sand	X	X	X	X	X	X
Sand Slab	X	X	X	X	X	X
Saplings (except Bloodwood)	X	X
Saw Dust	X	X	X	X	X	X
Scrambled Eggs	X	X
Screw	X	X
Seeds	X	X	X	X	X	X
Shaft	X	X	X
Sign	X	X
Slats	X	X
Slimeball	X	X	X	X
Snowball	X	X	X	X
Soap	X	X	X	X
Soul Dust	X	X	X	X	X	X
Soul Flux	X	X	X	X	X	X
Soul Urn	X	X
Spider Eye	X	X	X	X
Steak and Potatoes	X	X
Strap	X	X	X		X
String	X	X	X	X	X
Sugar	X	X	X	X	X	X
Sugarcane	X	X	X
Tallow	X	X
Tasty Sandwiches	X	X
Tools1	X
Torch	X	X
Tuning Fork	X	X
Urns	X	X
Vegetables (except Cooked Carrots)	X	X	X	X
Venom Sack	X	X	X	X
Water Wheel	X
Weapons	X
Wheat	X	X	X
Wicker	X	X
Wind Mill	X
Wool Balls	X	X	X	X	X
Wood Blade	X

• All tools except Carrots on a Stick, Clocks, Compasses, Fishing Rods, and Stakes will only enter a hopper with a ladder filter or no filter.

If something is not listed individually or in a category, it can only enter a hopper with no filter.

Measuring Fullness of containers

The Comparator can be used to read the content of this block.

See Also

• Gear Box
• Ground Netherrack
• Soul Sand
• Vessel of the Dragon
• Comparator