Like a well written paper abstract, chef's kiss

@@bottledcat6255 he's a real life engineer IIRC, and it really shows through in his ability to explain technical concepts in a "first principles" way.

Exactly why I watch. Most others will show you block by block on builds but don’t really explain why you are doing it the way you’re being shown.

Wait… you can point the top hopper down on the water-based auto sorter? Instead of forward? And it’ll double the sorting speed?

@@NooshaSheep The actual sorting hopper, the one usually facing the comparator, that one goes facing down. And then three hoppers below in an L shape feeding a chest. Search for ilmango double speed sorting and it should come up.

It's possible to place the rails like that using update suppression or not survival friendly methods. But the upper rail would get broken as soon as it gets a block update making it useless for a sorter.

@@YellowBunny Just update suppress it every time it gets powered/unpowered! Update suppressors are super easy on the client and very stable

@@ItsaJuraff I guess we are overcomplicating it a bit at this point :)

​@@YellowBunny Lol I think @juraff was being sarcastic :P

@@ItsaJuraff update suppression crashes the server if done by redstone! Make sure you have an alt there afking constantly to help it out

I don't think we'll ever stop learning minecraft tips, it's amazing to watch the setups people used to use

I think Etho has done it once, but he doesn't make tutorials, so it's just buried in one of his episodes

Item filters make no sense to me lol

That's funny since hopper minecarts are much laggier :3

@@volbla yeah lol

That sounds like a cool challenge, I’m assuming the owner is doing it for lag efficiency but this idea could be used somewhere else

@@Akhimed yeah

@@Akhimed I had a server where hoppers were uncraftable but the Create mod took their place nicely

I wonder which minecart the comparator would use if there were multiple minecart hoppers on the same rail...

@@raymondwiggins354 The first one returned in the result list of the entity search - whichever that would be. (With command block minecarts taking precedence over container minecarts.)

@@TheRealWormbo Wouldn't multiple hopper minecarts cause this system to fail as when (if) another hopper minecart unlocked the one below, the items could pass from the filter set of another of the multiple hopper minecart? Or less convoluted: the comparator activates the redstone signal without passing details on which entity caused the signal change?

Yeah, comparators are kind of special. They get their own kind of update whenever a nearby inventory updates. But apparently only block inventories send those, and not entity inventories like the minecart.

LOL ! Except that he did say "hundreds OR thousands" 😉

I like this suggestion.

I’d say the reason this chest+hopper trick is laggy is precisely because it sends block updates every tick. If some other block doesn’t generate lag, thats because it doesn’t update neighboring blocks every tick, so it wouldn’t be useful here. Maybe i’m wrong tho, but it would make sense that the lag comes from the block updates i guess

@@antoineb9278 I would recommend checking out comparator update detectors (CUDs). Blew my mind when I first saw it. Essentially, the hopper is full, so it can't accept the item from the chest. But, it still creates comparator updates for the chest above (probably to keep things in sync if a slot frees or just an unintentional side effect) So, every tick the chest's inventory is updating and that is updating the comparator. CUDs are honestly amazing and so are comparator updates because they work entirely differently from block updates (they aren't block updates at all actually), for example, you can detect a player clicking inside of an inventory, which even triggers a CUD if the player clicks an empty slot. Great for secret entrances!

@@Hexcede damn never knew about this

@@Hexcede Can't believe I only found out about this now, I used to play on bedrock where you can use observers to detect inventory changes in a chest, but never knew you could do something similar in Java as well!

Loops cant get clogged unless you have items without hoppers.

1.14?

No, not at all. Normal filters are much more lag efficient and easier to build. This is just something for special cases

@@racernatorde5318 It's very important when you have highly efficienct farms with very high rate item input when a ordinary hopper can't keep up . Also he showed a way to significantly reduce lay with two observers in the second configuration.

@@sirog7116 The hopper minecarts cause serious lag (As entities) if you need multiple of these systems. And considering the importance of lag optimization for large farms, I would not use such system as long as there is alternative

@@sirog7116 He didnt do it to replace large farms storage systems.... It's a niche and specific use case scenario. For large output farms its still better to use regular sorters. If a farm outputs too many items, the way around it is to place more hoppers. EVEN if you use hopper minecarts and it can PICK UP items 8 times as fast, you can't TRANSFER those items to containers at the same speed, you need regular hoppers anyways, so in the end you use THE SAME amount of regular hoppers so no, its not revolutionary for large farms at all.

@@racernatorde5318 If there is a redstone contraption , there will be a particular use for it . -Sum Tzu , the art of redstone engineering. For your kind information, I know that they are entities and also know that they cause lag but if I use the second configuration where the observer is activated only when redstone signal is detected , lag will be reduced. Also FYI , I was just going to use it when the speed and space required more than the lag-friendlyness . It better to use one of these instead of 3 double speed item sorters (for the same item) in a certain farm I am using .

hundreds or thousands

@@ilmango ohh that's an "or" 😂👍

been playing since 9 years, 6 of those as a full time youtube content creator. I definitely spent 6 hours a day on average on the game.

A comparator will output a signal with redstone stength between 0 and 15 depending on how full a container is. What you want is to have a hopper with enough items so that the signal is essentially at 1.99 but gets rounded down to one. Then when you add an item it goes up to two, which can be detected. When you detect the signal, it means that the hopper has picked up an item. You can therefore unlock the hopper for a single tick to allow the item to fall down in the chest below. Hope this helps

@@OrioPrisco it does :D