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branchpanic / stockpile

A Minecraft mod all about storage.
MIT License
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Suggestion: Item insertion with hopper - sorting system #42

Open Knito58 opened 5 years ago

Knito58 commented 5 years ago

A hopper that was set to insert items into one of connected barrels would distribute its items over all connected barrels. This would allow to ease the construction of a sorting system for a monster grinding tower. An extracting hopper under one of that connected barrels would take all the "overflow" which was not arrow, gunpowder or bones which were caught in the other connected barrels. Of course, inserting overflow items would only work when an overflow extracting hopper was present. Otherwise the hopper would not insert items w/o matching barrels and after some time when no stack has matching items any more it must block and stop working.

branchpanic commented 5 years ago

I certainly like the idea of having some kind of barrel bank / "network" system and still have plans to implement one. Following the rewrite, something like this should be simple to achieve in the next feature release.

Knito58 commented 5 years ago

Yay thumbs up! May the force be with you!

mholland999 commented 4 years ago

Please add this option. This is such a needed enhancement! What would it take to help start this? I use Tech reborn and it has so many items and they really need to be sorted.

Some really impressive add-ons to the same option might be:

-A special hopper that searches for the item in the storage network and if it is in it, the hopper would pass the item to the drawer but if not would send it onward in another direction. This would allow you to have different storage networks for different types of goods.

-an upgrade to display the first letter of the name of the item so that you could create alphabetical drawer networks