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Froglight Farm – Hopper Minecart unloader

Hi everyone,

I’m currently trying to recreate the Froglight farm from EthosLab’s Let’s Play episodes 569 and 570. Since it’s not a step-by-step tutorial, I had a few difficulties, but I think I’ve figured most of it out.

However, I’m running into two problems:

1. Powered rail at the unloader
As far as I understand, the powered rail at the hopper minecart unloader should only activate once the second minecart passes over the detector rail. That’s how it looks in Etho’s video.

In my build, however, the powered rail is always powered. As soon as the hopper minecart is empty, it immediately starts moving again instead of waiting for the signal from the detector rail.

The detector rail setup itself seems to work correctly. I just can’t figure out why the powered rail is getting constant power.

2. Rail intersection issue
At the intersection where the two rails meet:
In Etho’s video, the minecart turns left to go to the unloader.
In my build, it always turns right instead.

At first, I thought the direction might depend on whether the minecart is empty or not, but that doesn’t seem to be the issue.

I’d really appreciate any hints or ideas on what I might be doing wrong.

Thanks!

by Mum_Maljian

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  1. craytails on

    1. The way this unloader works in ur picture, the redstone torch would turn on once there is no items in the hopper. The comparator checks to see if the hopper has no items in it, and if so the torch will be powering the powered rail. From the way you described how it works from Etho’s video there is no need for an unloader. The powered rail would be powered directly from the detector rail.

    2. What decides when a rail turns left or right is based off the direction it is in. If you want to flip the direction that the rails change in you have to invert the redstone signal which is done through redstone torches.

    Also the way that your system is now. It would work using just 1 hopper minecart, and not needing to change the direction for another minecart.

    I know this doesn’t solve your issues but I hope it gives you a hint at what is happening.