Etho's Item Sorter Shulker Box Search Engine

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

Etho built the shulker search engine in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pnbFhGhjhMx4mK8

[@RJL7]

I can’t thank you enough, been trying to build this from ethos video for about an hour now and became demoralised. This is so incredibly helpful.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

use desktop fullscreen and the < > keys to move 1 frame at a time. i must have rewatched his few minutes for 3 hours haha.

[@jonathanm2645]

I recreated it myself from etho's video and had the problem you talk about at 7:15. I wasn't able to fix it on my own. Thanks for the solution

[@AlluttajaYT]

I really like this video because I attempted a similar thing some years ago. Etho made a Minecraft trivia game on Hermitcraft, with matching items. He only explained the main functions and how the hoppers go. With my beginner redstone skills I attempted to build his trivia game for a video and somehow succeeded and made it smaller i think? Looking back at it, could have been built much simpler but it was a fun challenge at the time.

[@on_certainty]

splitting this up into sections like that is a brilliant way to show redstone!

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

thank you! I prefer to do that for bigger builds.

[@pyfuu]

Great video, personally i dont do redstone but i just like watching the videos and see someone build something like this. Keep the good work up i can see everybody that got help in the comments

[@emanuelg1892]

Good video! I already finished designing my version but this one seems to be faster!

[@ninodv9839]

Looks awesome, also a very nice way of explaining it. I built/ designed one myself just a few days ago (and succeeded, including the viewing system and storage part of it), but min is slower and bigger. I don't know exactly how fast your design is, looking at shulkers per second or redstone ticks, but mine used a redstone torch in combination with a repeater set to two ticks, meaning 6 redstone ticks per shulker. I couldn't set it to one tick, which would have worked with the sulkers, but the redstone torch would burn out. You used a comparator clock and some observers, very smart!

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

I just copied his initial design precisely, and worked out hiccups in it he dealt with.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

I would be interested to see it!

[@ninodv9839]

Oh haha, thx. But it's not that special, and I don't have the means to lol.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

that's what we have a discord show and tell for.

[@royalplayz4274]

Thanks so much for this awesome video, it really deserves many more views.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

I guess you'll have to share it with friends haha. I've got more coming in the playlist.

[@morphineprince]

Absolutely fantastic tutorial, and great for using those modified redstone blocks with arrows in them, thank you! :-D

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

thank you! and no problem.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

Vanilla Tweaks is so helpful.

[@MiaChillfox]

Awesome, Thanks for the tutorial.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

you're very welcome. I'm grateful to be able to learn from Etho.

[@mr-funki52]

Amazing! Very well explained. You deserve more views. Great Job 👍

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

You're too kind.

[@cr4cker394]

I love you for this vid. Keep up the good content

[@archy-x]

Could you do a tutorial for the entire machine including the storage chests and water streams? I tried to copy it from the video but it's hard to see some stuff.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

Honestly there's not enough shown, but I will do A video of something similar.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

What one should do is design your own storage chests that funnel down for holding shulkers. Have a lever or long pulse button to dump it into the sorter and funnel the non match output back into the chests. think of his design as a module with 2 inputs and 3 outputs. we have to do the other pieces.

[@AlluttajaYT]

For the past few days I've been trying to build this making it 2 wide tileable instead. Paid attention a lot in your dissection part to try and make it 1 wide. Unfortunately it has to be 2 wide since the filter item has to come from the side. Also what I need this for is that the shulker boxes that weren't a match, return back up top to wait for another cycle. Also placing the filter item in is what starts the search process and the shulkers start moving. Problem is that the items get separated and the dropper below doesn't put them back in :D something is wrong

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

incredible efforts so far. right now I suggest thinking about the logical construction on paper. you are (needing) redesign. if you're going to make it tileable then you're removing its self-clearing filters so it may atill be possible once those are gone. it's also possible to tile things staggered off by one, tiling in pairs where you have 2 per 2 blocks, but parts may be checkerboard-like. returning to the top could be done by several means - dispensers and water stearms would be a way. (these would need to be staggered so they didn't bleed into each other) best of luck!

[@AlluttajaYT]

@@DoctorPlasmaMC Thank you! I did make a version that works but the filter item + the matched filter item also travel back up with the incorrect boxes. I'm currently trying to re-do the whole thing where all box contents are intact and sorted. They are working next to each other but I just need to figure out the sorting item problem.

[@AlluttajaYT]

​@@DoctorPlasmaMC Sigh kinda works.. I removed the piston at the bottom. It finds the correct box and separates them, its just two droppers for non-matches and a match now. Btw what I need this for is just 1 box out of 10. I'm using it for something specific. I haven't even tested if it can match more than 1.. theoretically it can. Issue is with timing: the match-item from the item filter goes with the non-match boxes. And the item that gets taken out of the correct box is removed and travels with it to it's own barrel. I just want, well you know the item that was taken out of the correct box to come out with it. Inside or outside doesn't matter. Issue is that its either: the box im getting or the item that was inside, not both lol.

[@oriyadid]

Great video, Thank you so much!

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

thanks!

[@fran.andres]

THANKS! I was watching Etho's video again and again trying to build it but failed constantly

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

that's why i figured a tutorial was in order!

[@TrueMikeyQ]

hey, how do I fix shulker boxes getting stuck in the hoppers of the interface?

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

sounds like your hoppers might be pointing the wrong way. I'd have to see it.

[@TrueMikeyQ]

@@DoctorPlasmaMC I checked it via the Litematica schematic I used, it also doesn't always happen, when it does it usually passes multiple boxes into the bottom hopper

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

huh. you'll have to show me where they're getting stuck, it was a bit fiddly even for etho so i had to tweak it to prevent this.

[@randomcanadian4257]

Thank you so much, I tried to build it from looking at his video and failed miserably

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

it wasn't easy, I had to make some guesses haha

[@RJL7]

Please can you do a similar thing to the rest of ethos storage system, I really want to build it but there is way too little shown for me to copy any of it.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

same for me, but sure! in the meantime, because it might take a month, get super familiar with etho's design, and slap a bunch of hoppers on the inputs and outputs, and start exploring how you can hook it up to chests on your own. a hint: you'd want a chest system that dumps into the input, and then locks when empty, and then to make the non-matches come back into it in a circle. the matches would go somewhere else, a third system, for you to open them, and then hitting a button would send them back to the original system too.

[@AshBreezy333]

Does this work in bedrock?

[@mikeythor7582]

Why hasnt this blown up? My bamboo isnt getting kicked out of the dropper... how do i fix this

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

look for errors. most likely a misdirected hopper or wrong repeater timing.

[@mikeythor7582]

I found the problem, the bamboo isnt leaving the hopper under the first dispenser. The issue probably is the item sorter thingy

[@ryanlehberger8140]

Anybody on here convert it to bedrock yet? There are only a few changes, but for the life of me I can not get the timings to work out. Also great vid! there is no way i could have recreated the java version let alone try to convert it xD you've got my sub!

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

best of luck!

[@adamwhittam3474]

I’ve got all the circuits running. My issue is the timings at the final point. Seem to get an item pulled out there and then not going into the right barrel. Varies from time to time though

[@ryanlehberger8140]

@@adamwhittam3474 hmmm maybe we can get together in a discord a review each others approaches? Might be something missing that the other has figured out?? lol

[@adamwhittam3474]

@@ryanlehberger8140 yeah I’d be up for that. Would be nice to be able to figure it out

[@b1dogg23]

@@adamwhittam3474 Did you guys ever get it working? I'm running into the same timing issues on bedrock

[@jessiesandoval1269]

Ironically it looks relatively easy

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

I've heard the whole spectrum of opinions on it. It certainly took a lot of fiddling to reverse engineer and there's a lot of simple mistakes that will break it.

[@lounytoones2632]

is there a material lisT?

[@Elvi75Gaming]

at the end

[@adamwhittam3474]

Any idea how to edit this to work on bedrock? Tried editing the monostable circuits myself but timing seems to be an issue. Items get spit out randomly and the shulkers aren’t separating correctly

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

not really, you'd have to run some isolated tests of the parts to prove the tick counts. i have played Java almost 12 years so forgive me, I'm not equipped to deal with Bedrock's lack of parity.

[@adamwhittam3474]

@@DoctorPlasmaMC no problem at all, thought that may be the case. Thanks for the reply though- great video

[@ryanlehberger8140]

I have gotten 3 out of 4 issues fixed for bedrock. the final issue is the timing for the shulker reloader. the shulker gets broken and the item dispenses AND they both go through to the right (sorted) output... it is getting them synced so that shulker places, then item dispenses, then shulker breaks, then hopper unlocks. I cant seem to get that order of operations to function.

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

if you get it figured out, you should definitely do a bedrock video!

[@adamwhittam3474]

@@ryanlehberger8140 I tried adding in another lock to the side of the hopper and slowing it down. I think I got to a similar place to you it’s just the timing of that

[@jessiesandoval1269]

I'm building this lol

[@DoctorPlasmaMC]

good luck, it's finicky but amazing when it works!