I’m not good at redstone at all, I just copied these designs from a YouTube video because it said they were “double speed” item sorters for Bedrock.
I built both of them exactly like in the video, and they kinda work, but I’m confused about a few things:
• Are these actually double speed item sorters, or just normal ones?
• Are these designs even good, or is there a better / more reliable version I should use?
Main problem:
Sometimes the items don’t all go where I want. It’s like the system is splitting them, some go into the top chest, and the rest go into the bottom chest.
I don’t want that at all. I want everything to go into the bottom storage first then up
So I’m wondering:
• Did I build something wrong on one or both of them?
• Is that splitting normal for these kinds of designs?
• How do I stop items from going into the top chest completely?
If possible, can someone explain what’s going on in a simple way because I honestly don’t understand how comparators/target blocks/hoppers work together yet.
by BestPut6719
1 Comment
With caveats, they are. Hoppers go on a cooldown every time they do something, which means the top hopper here will be unable to pull items down if it just pushed one downwards. Which can cause it to fail to pick up items from a double speed (or lower) stream. Item batching, to make sure items don’t appear mid cooldown, can be used to mitigate this.
Second, things are going into the top chest because you have a hopper pointing into it and no hopper draining that chest.
To be double speed all the way down you’d need hoppers between chests, or go 2 wide. I usually double speed load the top chest, then have a tower of hoppers under that feeding the main storage chests. Those will get filled at single speed while the top fills at double speed as a buffer; it will eventually drain into the lower chests.