5 Useful Item Sorters For Minecraft Java & Bedrock!

I'll show you 5 different sorting system designs to help you sort your items in Minecraft. The first 3 designs work in current versions of Minecraft Java and Bedrock.
5 Designs Shown:
Overflow Proof Tileable Stackable Item Sorter: 1:24
Stackable Item Sorter: 7:23
Non-Stackable Item Sorter: 9:20
Potions Only Item Sorter: 11:42
Minecart Only Item Sorter: 15:18
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[@mikededmon]

With the advent of ver. 1.20, you can now replace the brewing stand with the new chiseled bookshelves to filter out any kind of books. I used this at my piglin bartering farm to separate out all the soul speed books. This is in addition to the brewing stand setup to separate out all of the potions and water bottles. I'm putting the output into a shulker box loader. All works like a charm.

[@esaedromicroflora1247]

this is critical news, thank you

[@zacharyhandy9606]

Thank you for including bedrock

[@doanle1282]

🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿 Whooooo

[@qazwiz]

it's not that he ADDED it, the design works in both... he simply mentioned it.

[@Livingstonshoedios]

were people too damn it lol

[@itsdakota6442]

2019 bois

[@alexandereaton3394]

This is better for bedrock kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ3OfmN8rNaqj7c

[@kaicheng6471]

Impulse is back for storage systems! And even bedrock edition! I’m I dreaming???

[@Duraith]

You're you not dreaming

[@lythd]

4) can also be used to seperate shulker boxes from non shulker boxes by replacing the brewing stand with a shulker box, the potions chest will now be any non shulker box and the other chest will be your shulker box. 5) will sort out any items that are used in a dispenser, so like snowballs eggs and firecharges will also be thrown out, buckets can be used etc. So be careful with using these items.

[@joelcarterramadge183]

Spartan Spark what about TNT?

[@lythd]

Bob Scratch ‘n’ Sniff oh yes thank you this will also be terrible for dispenser systems.

[@BunnyOfThunder]

Terrible. Spectacular. Some combination of the two. :D

[@jamesmacleod8388]

Thanks for pointing out Shulker Boxes - I'm planning a sorting system that will sort them out, then empty them for me too! Then I can do a complete inventory dump after mining and collect the emply shulkers at the end :-D

[@Mjot101]

So the fifth one will shoot out dispenser items like arrows and snowballs but they 4th one won't?

[@ankhayratv]

If anyone says item sorter, I think "Impulse's item sorter with overflow protection". It feels right to get this video from you!

[@johnpera2041]

Been using the 1st design for years. Saved your original video. Best design ever. I like the additional sorters too. Glad to see redstone videos from you again. Thank you.

[@ZactheDragon]

It's been a while since you last did a tutorial, yay for another awesome tutorial :)

[@austinmurphy9225]

I have used the Impulse sorter for everything for years but added my own overflow design that takes overflow from the individual sorter and funnels it to a dropper facing lava. Works great if you have a farm that over produces.

[@brandynamite3022]

Great video impulseSV, I have never seen anyone minecraft youtuber feature redstone designs that work on minecraft bedrock and Java. Keep up the great work

[@errorbanana5063]

Gnembon has a "truly universal tree farm" which he has designed to work on both editions

[@Xephyr80]

Been a big fan of the 1st design for a long time. These days I use it in combination with water streams and bubble elevators fed via dropper which is connected to a super smelter. LOL. Thank you for the tutorials over the years and more importantly your time spent that has made many Minecraft players lives easier and more enjoyable. Again Thank you so much.

[@samakshmanchanda.]

And output of the supersmelter back into the sorters input lol

[@richardguzman1184]

I love your redstone sorters. Thanks for going step by step i always wondered how these worked.

[@messynessie4417]

I still use that tileable sorter in every vanilla world. It's simple and works beautifully. 5 stars; would recommend to a friend!!

[@kz-12prototype49]

I’ve been trying to figure out a non-stackable sorter for weeks on bedrock, thanks a million Impulse!!

[@xchxmt]

This is going to be really helpful, building a storage system for my survival world.

[@DrKvo]

I'd love if you keep doing redstone tutorials! Thank you for this! I'll definitely be coming back to this video for reference.

[@doomsparkles]

Quick! Someone tag/send this to Grian so we can end the chest hoarding madness!

[@hellobye9178]

Nope. Still refuses to sort out his items and still loves his chest monsters. :P

[@doomsparkles]

@@hellobye9178 Even after he made a sorter he doesn't use it XD

[@DJ-gu1kf]

Thank you! The first item sorter you showcased works really well for my iron farm. Makes sorting out the iron ingots and poppy's so much easier!

[@benjaminm6728]

I have memorized the first design that you have shown many years ago in one of my old base videos. I still have a problem of explaining how its works but I know that it is very reliable. Thank you for your contribution to the minecraft community.

[@joshjones]

You’re a genius. I made an auto cooked chicken farm, got tired of walking to it, made a powered rail track that brings the chicken right to my door, got tired of having to manually sort through the occasionally raw chicken and feathers, so I used this to sort it before it even gets to me. I’m a happy man.

[@TaterVater5]

Hey Impulse, I'm a huge fan and thank you for this tutorial. I've used your item sorter several times in my current Let's Play world. Keep them coming, buddy!

[@tidbit1877]

Thanks, these are all super helpful, especially that potion sorter, truly inspired. I'll be adding these into my sorting system!

[@alanbeardsley8346]

Super useful. Exactly what I needed in my vanilla world right now.

[@Gina-gt3ih]

Thank you I was looking for the different types of item sorters for my new world. As always I enjoy the awesome videos that you make. Thank you and keep up the awesome work.

[@tomtom232]

Thank you for this video. You make things "stupid proof" for me by clearly enunciating and and taking things step by step. Thanks

[@masterofaparalleluniverse]

Really well explained. Makes it simple to replicate in our Minecraft worlds!

[@grannyspark2993]

I was looking a few years ago for a sorting system that was pretty simple to build and found the one you did the tutorial for (system 1), i loved it and have been using it ever since on both java and bedrock :)

[@fireballstudios656]

Only legends include bedrock edition too. I salute you.

[@Frockit]

A little hint: if you want to use the minecart sorter, you should lead the output into another sorter to sort out heavy items, so the chests and hoppers coming from chest and hopper minecarts get sortet out

[@gabrielq8454]

Would love to see you make shulker box storage system integrated into a tileable item sorter with over flow protection

[@Kyle-El]

ImpulseSV doing bedrock redstone builds? Finally, thank you so much! (I do however already use your original sorter on bedrock. Any chance of you looking into all the other crazy bedrock mechanics and sorting it all out?)

[@iakahdrake2801]

Wow thank you i needed a non stackable item filter for my bedrock singleplayer world

[@Throlash]

Very thorough and well done tutorials sir, great builds!

[@easye9186]

Probably my most watched and referenced video. Thanks so much for this invaluable information.

[@sirgrindenson8174]

Thanks you for showing what the build looks like from every angle slow enough 😊

[@franthehorsegirl]

Thanks so much for this. This is the only video that helped me find out what was wrong my with system, it was the torch.

[@rileytardini]

Thanks impulse It took me ages to find a video that actually worked for my version of minecraft

[@RJ-ld1vh]

Your videos make my days so much better! This is super helpful, thank you!!

[@Erfurt92]

One thing to remember about the potion sorter, is that it will also sort empty glass bottles with the other potions. But they can easily be filtered by the simple item sorter shown earlier in the video.

[@bouchy7600]

Thanks for great ideas and tutorial, that was exactly what I needed! 😊

[@aiboffin295]

I had forgotten how much I enjoy your tutorials.

[@nathanpearson4600]

Number one has been my go to for years. I love it with a down filtering chest silo with about 10 chests lol.

[@kalancosta7650]

Your potion sorter is the only one I found that works!! Thank you!

[@KenPryor]

Thank you so much for this great tutorial! I've been looking for a way to separate the iron and poppies on my iron farm.

[@saucemonster7137]

Impulse: "For Java AND bedrock" Also Impulse: "So, we're just gonna put a powered rail there to bud the dropper..."

[@mariadefatimadasilvaabreus8748]

Bedrock doesnt have powered rails?

[@JohnDavidSullivan]

@@mariadefatimadasilvaabreus8748 doesn't have budding

[@sammybeaver9130]

@@mariadefatimadasilvaabreus8748 we can't bud them

[@Nehji_Hann]

I mean, he does specifically say that the first 3 are possible in both Java and Bedrock. 0:14

[@Fushiesb]

@@Nehji_Hann do any of these item sorters still work?

[@whereswaldo4197]

Thx so much Impulse this coming from a bedrock player have been wanting to see stuff like this for a while

[@undeadfox2223]

I've tried many item sorters but the first sorter on this vid is the only one that has worked for me and it's so simple to build! Kudos to you my friend. Works with Java 1.17

[@neogery]

also thank you for the world download!!! so nice of you, not only a very nice tutorial, but also a download. you are spoiling your viewers :)

[@Wortigon2000]

that non-stackable item sorter is going to be a life saver. Also, the potion sorter might be a nice addition for witch farms

[@ernest5385]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial!

[@BonitoIncognito]

You have no idea how long I waited for this video

[@ndgulli1225]

I need this for my mob farm! Thanks impulse!

[@natsuderga]

nice simple show case, hope you can make more simple but useful stuff like this :D

[@jcrust1975]

I have been using the first item sorter for a few years now (since impulse first video on it) but have made one small change. I have replaced the top row of hoppers with a water stream. This not only reduced the number of hoppers (good for cost and lag in big systems) but it prevents one issue I found where an item in one of the later filters filling up and then causing the hopper chain to back up. It doesn't break the filter but items can stop flowing. I either let the items sit at the end of the water stream and despawn or have then go into lava\cactus to be destroyed. Great filters and once again thanks impulse for them.

[@dillon6968]

Needed this for my raid farm. Thanks

[@LadyVineXIII]

I can see a way to combine these into a super useful storage System. Thank you.

[@cameronlovell3735]

Hey Impulse, I designed what I call a “serial sorter”, which I find very useful. Instead of a single item per filter, you have a chest of items that you want to be filtered (the filter chest) from the input chest. The items from the filter chest go into a hopper that points into the side of the sorting filter (directly below the input chest). Then, each item from the “filter chest” in turn takes the spot of the first item in the sorting filter. Its bulky and slow, but it can do the work of a lot of individual sorting units.

[@hashslingingslasher4606]

this really helped out my armor and shovel problem in my survival world thanks

[@ThisKittyPlays]

Sorted! needed a special circuit for full honey bottles that only stack as high as 16, ty impulse!

[@jakubvsetecka4082]

very nice video, thx for the idea of a potion sorter, i managed to make a reliable bedrock version. very helpful video)

[@HotblackDesiat042]

I don't know if someone already mentioned it, but there is a torch burnout issue with the stackable item filter, or non stackable bypass (whichever you want to call it). And I'm not referring to the upper torch (which is superfluous) that is locking the main pipe hopper. I am referring to the torch locking the lower hopper until the comparator detects an item in the pipe hopper. If a non stackable item is pushed into that pipe hopper while that torch is burned out the hopper beneath it will pull it (because it can grab it before the comparator produces its output). This can be remedied with the use of an observer watching the redstone dust on the block the comparator is powering to trigger a sticky piston with a redstone block. Here is an image: prntscr.com/oia9c1 I haven't had any issues with this one. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more progress on the skyblock series with Skizz. Cheers! ;)

[@Xemantha]

Thanks a lot!

[@MichaelVezie]

Thank you. It certainly makes it louder which adds evidence to confirm my theory that the best farms are somehow the loudest.

[@nekkyo1127]

can you help me

[@telendar_]

thank you so much for this fix!

[@Hayds126]

Just a note first sorter on bedrock can be inconsistent occasionally. There is another KZbinr called silentwisperer who modified the design to work better on bedrock.

[@pxolqopt3597]

Its funny even how something as simple as item sorters can be unreliable on bedrock edition redstone

[@pastasam4069]

@@pxolqopt3597 typical bedrock. Built the other system in my realm after discovering the Java on shown here didn't work. God, why couldn't they just make it the same?!

[@connorchoiniere3275]

They need to really make redstone the same for all current platforms

[@wwblanch24]

Connor Choiniere I honestly would like a hundred times

[@makfeed140]

@@pastasam4069 because bedrock has different engine and Microsoft works on bedrock, not mojang, that's why there are so many differences between 2 versions

[@sfrausing80]

Super Nice tutorial👍 Easy to understand and well explande. Really good🤘

[@Mesaswah]

Just built the potion filter in my 1.16.4 Java world, I absolutely love it! One addition: an extra hopper beneath the dropper makes sure items don't get stuck in the first hopper under the dropper.

[@MaryNarutoLover]

Thank you so much!!!! I was making the potion filter and was having that problem, all things that where blocks (dirt, glass, etc) were getting stuck 1 block inside the hopper. I would put 10 blocks and the chest would fill with 9 and 1 would get stuck inside the hopper. Didn’t happen with items like string or feathers… so I came to the comment section to see if anyone else was having this problem and found your comment that just helped a ton! Nothing is getting stuck now! Thank you so much!

[@Paul24John]

THANK YOU IMPULSE!

[@boonedockjourneyman7979]

Brilliant. Some is sort of Minecraft art. Not sure how many people meed some of it but it’s just plain cool.

[@raigom8691]

Great video. It solved a problem i had for way to long

[@outfoxgaming7456]

Long time watcher first time commenter. I love your videos. Keep em coming

[@jackkanaris3971]

I’m so excited I was just searching for one of these for my survival world

[@michaeldeem9143]

ive been looking for the past 3 weeks

[@ThunderTeen20]

impulse you are making the best vids 4 Redstone

[@FDA-qg4tm]

thank you thank you thank you impulseSV now i have fixed my sorting system at last. you rock \m/ :) \m/

[@polischawolpolis]

Hey impuls these are the videos I joined your channel for. Keep up the good work. But I also really like your hermitcraft episodes. So I hope to see some new work on that as well. ;) anyway just wanted to show my appreciation.

[@thefatratman3977]

Thanks it helped a lot with my farms.

[@AdamAarts]

Thanks for including Bedrock! I knew the OG sorter worked, but a great video to remind/teach us Bedrock folks

[@douglasskinner6348]

This is so amazing! Thank you Impulse!!!

[@buschangne9840]

THIS IS SO HELPFUL

[@JohnnyJolt]

Great video! Thank you. Is there a way to sort non-stackable items by item not by group?

[@anthonyortiz7924]

Great video, love the different designs! A tip for those wanting to use design #2 with less items "wasted", put 11 of each filter-material into each slot and then place 1 of the item that you want filtered into the remaining slot, that way you "waste" only 1 and don't waste 41 of the items you want sorted. Overflow safe as well.

[@vincentweatherly9991]

In the last one, you might want to put some item filters before it so tnt or other dispensable items don’t break/get lost in the sorter

[@Xemna8]

Thank you! Really really helpful !

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

I've used the first sorter for years, though some times I tweak it a bit. If you make it longer, I think it's 5 blocks out. You can increase the number of items inside without running into overflow problems. I think I put in 4 items that stacked to 16 like snowballs or signs. I can't remember the exact filter number but basically it cut down the 41 items locked inside to something much smaller while still being tile able.

[@Thebirdy123]

Thanks a lot impulse

[@Huntress_Lena]

Thank you for the tutorial! I just successfully built my first item sorter! :)

[@Chrisiskewl100]

you can use a dispenser, along with an appropriate circuit to dispense the items every 2 ticks, so as to not over flow the system, into a water stream in order to bring the items across the hoppers. it uses a lot less iron.

[@Camerinhahn]

Note: because of items transfer and redstone power innings in bedrock are hash based the first 3 sorter only sometimes work on bedrock. Silentwhisper has a bedrock only version that reliably works. You have to remove the repeaters to prevent the random same tick redstone/item processing

[@redzeppelin7728]

Nice :) Very useful!

[@markallenayers5510]

Finally some bedrock love. Thank you kind sir!

[@Orbis92]

Thank you! That unstackable item separator is exactly what I need. I replacde the chests with droppers and used a comparator followed by a repeater on that "single redstone piece on top" block to generate the pulses for the droppers, seems to work fine :) Btw, I had to click the single redstone dust on top of the block to the "star" form in 1.16 (snapshot) to get it working

[@DarkQueen619]

Thank you so much! I've been troubleshooting for the last 15min and I was hoping someone in the comments had the answer! This fixes my problem in 1.20.4!

[@Danielhernandez196]

I really enjoyed this video man! Thank you for thinking about the Bedrock people too🤧

[@kcfromwi]

Thank you. Might add the potion and non stack sorter on my raid farm. Fyi. On bedrock the first one can break. What I'm hearing its something with the repeater. Might have something to do with having more items in slot 2-5. But not from backing up. Think it has to do with loading and unloading chunks that are working. Might want to look. There is a model you could show. It removes the repeater and uses a piston and comparitor. Options exist to block the pistons to run quiet. Although i built on for a flower farm. It looks cool with them moving. Looking at mod that uses note blocks to play music as it sorts.

[@ihalloway]

naming stack of stone is genius move.. I call them Pet Rock , but atleast hey will be more usefull than in actual life

[@jamesbae4104]

I saw a video that improved your design for bedrock edition (since hoppers are somewhat random). You should look for it. It uses pistons in your design to update each row as it goes

[@Mjot101]

Tip for everyone who wants to use the first design, use a dropper and water stream to carry the items over the locked hoppers instead of an additional hopper line, this removes all uncovered hoppers which are what cause a lot of lag. With the water I have currently built like 250 of these sorters with no problems, but without the water I start lagging after like 20-30

[@jillian5474]

I use the impulse sorting system in all my worlds! In my current world I have the drops from all my farms automatically sorted into my massive TangoTek sorting system but before the drops get there I use your sorting system to pull out the poppies (and burn them) and pull out the kelp and send it to my Cubfan furnace array to smelt for fuel! 😂 I added a switch that locks the kelp sorting hopper and allows me to send the kelp to my sorting system if I want to store it instead. Welcome back Impulse! Hope you are recharged!

[@monarchsown6938]

You can use the minecart output chest to weed out your minecart attachments(hoppers, furnaces, chests etc.) Just use it as the input for another minecart sorter

[@lowendfreq3340]

Nice vid ImpulseSV thanks 👍 let’s see some more tutorials if you have the time. For anyone seeing these designs for the first time and wondering which to use on a skele spawner farm. Use option 1. Filter bones and arrows and everything else (bows, armour) will end up in the non sorted chest(s) anyway. From there you can manually sort or funnel into dropper-to-lava setup for instant permanent disposal.

[@NoxExodus]

You my man are a true Legend. I'm on Bedrock and the item sorter I was using broke and I had no idea why. It was the 2nd one you showed and now I know why it broke. Shame the video i followed to build it didn't warn about this issue. It said they could be right next to each other and it was not going to be a problem. Oh well you live and learn. Moral of the story....always trust a Hermit!

[@arjanellingson4525]

very helpful! thankyou!

[@poncikgamer2298]

Thank you, you saved my life!

[@MrNiMo]

Hi Impulse, thx for the great tuto! I have a question, I have build the fiorst item sorter that work fine for about 90% of the time but for some reason, at some random time that i can't figure out, the item filter brake and everything go out of there place, do you have any idea why by any chance ?

[@qazwiz]

for the hopper minecart multiple items problem... adding three of the first sorter (tilable sorter w/ overflow) and filtering out hoppers, furnaces and chests the overflow will contain all the mine-carts