Practical Multi Item Sorter v4 Tutorial

Fix, Update, and Troubleshooting follow up video: • Fixes and Troubleshoot...
Downloads available on Discord: / discord
(world download, litematica file, and resource pack for redstoners)
Bedrock Version + Tutorial: • Hopper-ish Speed Item ...
Description:
V4 provides a significant upgrade to the speed of the system, nearly doubling it (now hopper speed) as well as better stability. This video contains a block by block tutorial for the core components of the system, a brief showcase of the system as a whole, some troubleshooting tips and tricks, and a discussion about compatibility.
This builds on our already very successful design that was even picked up by prominent Minecraft players such as Cubfan135 in his Xibalba mega base storage system.
Contributors:
RaPsCaLLioN1138 - For his dedication and enthusiasm for this project that has kept it alive and progressing for over a year.
• Multi Item Sorter V4 |...
Rifter Labs - For his torchless concept that made hopper speed possible.
/ @rifterlabs6803
DatNerd - For his compacting genius and willingness to do tedious debugging.
/ @datnerd
Metamilo - For my compacting skills, testing, and community support. (tutorial, server hosting, etc.)
metamilo.com
SamosTheSage - For his significant input into the design of V3, much of which was reused in this version.
/ @samosthesage3719
Shildifreak - For the original concept behind this type of multi-item sorter.
• EXPLAINATION: Autoadap...
Some components of my resource pack were borrowed from Vanilla Tweaks (vanillatweaks.net/picker/reso...) and Little Improvements (www.planetminecraft.com/textu...) which is itself a conglomerate of other packs.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Compatibility
02:59 - Showcase
06:05 - Materials List
06:36 - Tutorial
10:14 - Slice A
15:35 - Overflow
16:55 - Slice B
24:10 - Demo
26:35 - Troubleshooting
31:13 - Outro

[@RaPsCaLLioN1138]

Thank you so much for doing this tutorial. You do them so well! Really appreciate the compatibility table at the beginning too.

[@DatNerd]

Compatibility table was a lovely design choice, milo!

[@metamilo]

You're very welcome. I tried to answer a bunch of the common questions we got with the last version and one of the main ones was about compatibility. Hopefully people don't skip past that part.

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

This tutorial is damn perfect, here's why - Quick introduction on what this machine/part of the machine does - Modular build with demonstration on each modules so that you can test it early - Debugging tips just in case the machine is broken

[@saser11]

Im the type of person who never watches tutorials, because i want to make my own stuff, and learn from it. This however, is the only build i cant wrap my head around, and its by far the best sorter. Ill shamefully copy it, and tell everyone where i got it! You are incredible.

[@Bancheis]

I feel like I am watching an engineer tell me how they build a jet plane. That said, I feel like I could make it fly with this level of detail :p

[@metamilo]

Funnily enough, that's how I feel while explaining it.

[@randomboi9249]

Just letting you know that Illmango just used this in a peaceful mode episode!

[@metamilo]

@@randomboi9249 Sweet! Thanks for the heads up.

[@ovencake523]

@@randomboi9249 planning to build this on a realm with my friends... With schematics...

[@heihei1951]

This will be the single most important redstone build in my world! (After I build it). Thank you so much for all the collaborative effort!

[@MaizumaGames]

Awesome upgrade to the previous system. Good job guys!

[@metamilo]

Thanks a bunch!

[@kingdomadventures]

I love the upgrades to the design. The updates to the overflow are so useful. Excess items are so much easier to redirect to bulk storage silos, composers, etc with the way this is set up. And it just seems easier to incorporate other features than the previous version (it seems like more room to tie in a shulker unstuffer, for example). I like it. I like it a lot.

[@metamilo]

Yeah, we made a lot of little improvements in addition to the speed upgrade.

[@crimsey4774]

Love the compatibility section, keep up the good work and I hope to build this system in my near future!

[@mrspinn3999]

Hello from r/redstone! Great work on this metamilo! So precise it's crazy. Thanks! One troubleshooting tip I would offer to anyone having issues is that if built it right, but you're still getting the wrong items in the wrong chests, make sure that all the droppers in the whole thing are emptied out otherwise the defragging is useless!

[@metamilo]

Hello! That's a very good tip, thanks for sharing.

[@ckeimel]

Thank you soooo much. It has been really fun to build this and it's a mayor upgrade to my base. I'm just a beginner in redstone and I'm would never have been able to build this my self. I appreciate this tutorial a lot ^^

[@FellowRabbit]

Yeee, Fabric represent! I can't wait to get my base ready to put this in it!

[@kl0vi]

Someone may have already said this, but thanks so much for putting the texture pack in that shows the detail on the redstone components! It helps so much!

[@noahsimmons6971]

This is really smart... I'm not much of a redstoner, but I know enough that I can appreciate the simplicity, but also the time it probably took to design. Really great work!

[@gojar9]

Thank you so much! Great design, I built the V2 design and it did not work on my vanilla server and after many weeks of troubleshooting I was nearly losing my mind. But this - ist works like a charm!

[@grayire]

I finished the previous one a week ago, but having some timing issues so I think upgrading is my goal for the week. Thanks heaps metamilo

[@grayire]

Finished work so just watched it. Was a very well done tutorial, the troubleshooting section was especially useful

[@metamilo]

Thanks and you're very welcome. I hope the upgrade works out for you.

[@sama9526]

Ok, time to tear down the old system! Great design!

[@metamilo]

Thanks and good luck!

[@KNIZE_]

This sorter is amazing! great design, love it

[@daviddellevaux8071]

Awesome tutorial. Very complex, but you managed to make it clear. It worked (1.17.1) in creative, now I have to build it for real. Thanks a lot, I'm sure I'll love it.

[@byroboy]

Thanks metamilo and Co. I've just built up the fixed design using litematica. it took me three days including finding missing materials but it works flawlessly. I used renamed iron nuggets for my filters and blockers as they are easy to come by with a starter Iron farm.

[@Sup-ih3mt]

Awesome design and very well explained. Good job!

[@christianbauer5912]

Amazing tutorial! :) And yes, Observer misplaced, thanks for the troubleshooting part!

[@Skirakzalus]

Took me less than a week of having my vanilla server running on buckit before finding something really cool that I can't build now. Great tutorial, really appreciate the version table at the beginning, which got me to pre-build a segment on the server in creative.

[@noahsimmons6971]

Maybe I missed it in the tutorial, but if you're continuing on the slices, you need a solid block cutting off the Redstone on the rear barrel in slice B. Otherwise it gets powered by the next slice and you lose your filters.

[@metamilo]

You're correct, I missed it in the tutorial, but it's there in the showcase.

[@paulmarko]

Thanks! This saved me. I kept loosing my blockers in my second slice after I installed my third one and had no idea why. I sorta noticed that there was a blocker block, but I guessed the wrong place to put it. I don't quite understand the circuitry going on. :p

[@cr4cker394]

that is probably why mine broke after adding more slices. i need to check it

[@justin7035]

Thank you!!!

[@cr4cker394]

@Jacktb971 difficult to explain. Milo flies around the sorter at the beginning, you should spot the missing block with no problem

[@FlancakeTv]

Pretty neat design. Compact for what it is and aesthetic in a redstone sense.

[@metamilo]

Thanks :)

[@Bancheis]

Pretty good tutorial too. It's like the guy knows what he is doing or something.

[@denism7507]

I was looking for something like that for a few months, thank you

[@metamilo]

Well I'm glad I could help out lol :)

[@kevindeneys]

You did a great job mate. You and your team!!! Hell of a sorter!

[@Borbarad13]

Also, top that you include a pause option and shortly debate as well the impacts of chunk loading/unloading!

[@metamilo]

Yeah lots of people had issues with that from the last design so I wanted to cover it better this time around.

[@jessiesandoval1269]

The best item sorter in Minecraft, actually easy to build also, I've built it a few times and I'm gonna do it again in hardcore soon, thanks again

[@kye5290]

You know you are doing something great when after 1 month it has 500+ likes and NO DISLIKES. Appreciate your work. Thank you so much

[@metamilo]

You're very welcome :)

[@sushibali6522]

Yesterday I was thinking about building the previous one, glad I didnt :p that's awesome

[@metamilo]

Very lucky timing indeed.

[@thymenwaterman8672]

yep... I build the previous one and at first it worked like a charm, but then our server updated and I was like ''ITS BWOKEN, ITS BWOKEN'' so that was very unlucky

[@alexeschen1849]

I was literally laying in bed last night contemplating downloading the world to figure it out myself. Thank you @Metamilo Amazing, I'll be watching this like 100 times

[@metamilo]

Yeah it turned out good. Hopefully I covered things better this time around.

[@blacksheep_77]

Metamillo...got the world download from RaPscallion's video the other day. This version is working great on 1.16.1 Java for me. Love this new design. It seesm a bit less bulky than that last one, but maybe that's just me. The added "item defrag?" has solved a lot of problems for my system so great work all around.

[@metamilo]

Glad its working good for you. It should be roughly the same size as the last version, which is honestly pretty amazing.

[@glidersuzuki5572]

This is one the greatest build in Minecraft. Literally man! The normal item sorter is easy and just needs to be stacked but this is one hella build. So useful. And the best part is that you feel like a Redstone God after building this (although following the tutorial)

[@metamilo]

Yeah, it's super satisfying once it's complete and working.

[@calspazer]

this is brilliant. super compact and perfectly explained.

[@metamilo]

Thanks, glad you like it!

[@kicvacallard4193]

Thank you very much I desperately needed this!!!

[@ndoman]

love your content man! beautiful build!

[@metamilo]

Thanks :)

[@tking791]

You deserve soooooooooooo many more subscribers. Thanks so much!!

[@metamilo]

Glad you enjoy my content. :)

[@grampyrick4356]

This thing is so incredible! And it is much simpler than your older version that used minecarts to transport items. TBH, I never got over how much you were able to accomplish with minecarts. It was like impossible magic, but this version is so much more "practical" :)... I'm playing on Tango Tek's Patreon server, which uses Spigot (I think) and a few other plug in's. I had to use the slower version of the pre-sorter (which bummed me out), but it works great after that change. Thank you for sharing this amazing gadget with the community!

[@metamilo]

You're welcome, I'm glad you got it working.

[@themoon1455]

Awesome build! I just built this on a paper server and it seems to be working wonderfully. I do have a couple notes for people building this that might be useful to know. I don't know if these were mentioned in the video, as I honestly kind of skimmed it then built it with litematica. 1. Don't mix shulker boxes and normal items in the input chest. It doesn't make that much of a difference, but I've found that doing so can lead to the dropper elevators getting clogged sometimes. To unclog, you can either just take all the items out of the droppers manually, or you can turn on pause mode and put an item in the now-locked hopper near the bottom corner of the build to drain it out. Again, it doesn't really break it, but it can be kind of annoying 2. Don't put empty or near-empty shulker boxes into the input chest. If you do, it can jam up the shulker unloader and cause the empty shulker to just stay there instead of being broken. Solution is simply to break the shulker box and replace it with a shulker with items in it.

[@mingyuxiang8088]

Don't think that actually happens in vanilla or fabric, maybe it's because you are playing on paper

[@TxntFPS]

I thought this would be confusing as in not saying how to do more along the line but mate u explained everything perfectly I dropped a sub and everyone that reads this should sub

[@metamilo]

Thanks, these tutorials take a lot of work to make, so I'm really glad you found it helpful.

[@TxntFPS]

@@metamilo omg can't believe u replied big fan

[@bennettbalogh8506]

Congrats on 1k subs!

[@metamilo]

Thanks

[@petercheeks404]

One thing I figured out is if you want to do the side by side stack, it matters which way the double chest is facing so that it goes into the second slice instead of going to overflow. The left side of the double chest needs to be over the second slice hoppers or the overflow hopper will grab the item first and just send it on.

[@metamilo]

You're 100% correct, that's something I forgot to mention.

[@ovencake523]

Glad I saw this comment. Tho I'm building with schematics but know me I'll still manage to make 30 mistakes.

[@cr4cker394]

Thanks metamilo. This is one of the best structured tutorials i ever watched. Also, sick storage system. I gonna give it a try and leave you a sub

[@metamilo]

Thanks :)

[@cr4cker394]

@@metamilo I just built it on my server and the first try after building the first yellow and green part worked fine. after building some more parts i wanted to try it again and the first green part does break now. I am playing on a rented server from hostinger running from Multicraft. It´s a vanilla default minecraft server. shouldnt it work on there? Edit: found an other comment on this vid that said you forgot a block in the tutorial but its in the showcase. added that and now its working. thanks

[@metamilo]

@@cr4cker394 Yea, I missed a block that's needed to prevent the redstone from bleeding across slices. If I had built the third slice I would have realized it. Sorry about that, but I'm glad you figured it out.

[@cr4cker394]

@@metamilo no problem man. Still one of the best tutorials out there. Would you consider adding a small info in the description for people trying to build it in the future?

[@logantoth5]

just saw an upload. I'm excited

[@metamilo]

Yea, this one took me a week to finish.

[@ofrenegades3185]

I build a very large version of your previous model in vanilla and I am very excited to try out this new model sometime soon! Might be an RL craft build, which will be an adventure haha Mostly just commenting for the algorithm :)

[@metamilo]

well, thanks and good luck lol

[@ToughDialga007]

This is amazing, I love this one

[@guesswho2232]

amazing design!

[@andrewchapman2039]

One thing to check if you find the bottom falling out your sorters; don't use the same filter item in the catalogue chests and the hoppers below them. Shows me right for not paying full attention.

[@SidOfThe7Cs]

yup yup figured that one out lol

[@TheBirdieBomber]

Looks a bit daunting but going to build it soon in my world. I would love to sort a huge amount of items into such a nice sized room!

[@alexeschen1849]

Found the way my items came in from the hopper elevator the buffer system was bypassed often and made the system click and loose one of the two filtered items. Raised the hopper elevator to allow addition of a hopper lock when the elevator is active. This caused major delays in sorting... had to finish the unloading before sorting begun in mass. So a hopper lock disable added when the hopper in question is about half full. Now there is enough back long of items to make the buffer operate well. This thing is amazingly fast. Thanks again

[@metamilo]

Interesting solution, I'm glad you got it working.

[@alexeschen1849]

@metamilo - still having input problems with free flowing hoppers even with my locks. Had an epiphany 'cobwebs'!!!! Direct dropper or water stream into a cobweb bunches the items. Therefore only stacks of items enter the hopper that the buffer will handle.

[@MrLogicAndReason]

thanks so much for starting off by saying which versions of minecraft this will work with. +1 just for that even though this doesn't apply to me i'll watch it.

[@namtaru7086]

This is just wonderfull. Just build it in 1.18. Works like a charm. I have to say this has to be the best sorter out there.

[@namtaru7086]

also thank you for the download

[@kingdomadventures]

Appreciate the video so much because I appreciate the creativity and engineering so much. This is huge! Content creator tip: 1 in 8 male viewers won't be able to tell the difference between the yellow and green blocks; when color coding consider how color vision impairments affect your viewers. Fortunately the explanation was so clear it didn't matter :)

[@metamilo]

That's a really good point. I try to never rely solely on color coding for that reason, but I can definitely look into improving my color choices. Thanks for pointing that out.

[@Empyrean55]

Am that 1, thanks for pointing it out!

[@jinro935]

@@metamilo im gonna make r the slices in red and green for my red-green colorblind friend

[@BrownBanana13]

this sorter is just amazing. it does everything you want it to! i have to have this in all my worlds. I'm not sure I'm good enough to build it though.

[@aswope6051]

Adjustment of the sorting repeater fixed my issue!! I was getting clicking and wrong items SOMETIMES ending up in the first slice chests. I even rebuilt a second time and KNOW my build was exact to the tutorial. 1 tick on the sorter, fixed the system on a vanilla server. Hopefully this helps.

[@denvertaves2286]

I love it bro thanks so much

[@JMIK1991]

Switched pacer and it works fine.

[@orinahari8373]

Adding all the concrete and glass together you'll need: 274 solid blocks 52 glass

[@louislegein]

Great! Amazing design. Thanks for making the vid and explaining everything. I built it but it kept breaking because I used the same renamed item for blokkers and filters. Ive been flying around this thing for 3 days to see why it wouldnt work in my own world :P

[@metamilo]

Is it working now?

[@louislegein]

@@metamilo Yeah it is working flawless ^^

[@marcleberre8686]

trop bonne vidéo, c'est trop bien expliquer, c'est trop claire, c'est juste parfait même pour moi qui ne parle pas très bien anglais

[@leotheboy4744]

I’m surprised Harvard has not offered this man a scholarship

[@Xenro66]

I saw ilmango recently built this in his peaceful challenge, and pointed towards Rap's video. This just popped up in my suggestions, and I had to watch it. I find this system utterly fascinating and *VERY* clever; a huge upgrade from dropper sorters. I used to play on a paper server, but the admin decided to mess with redstone (more specifically hoppers) to save some MSPT. He set the tickspeed of hoppers to 24 rather than 8, and to "balance" it, the hoppers move 3 items at a time, making a lot of contraptions impossible. Already had other issues with redstone bottlenecking on that server, and knowing this type of sorter is impossible on there tipped me over the edge. Definitely won't be playing that again haha. Still though, this is an amazing bit of kit.

[@metamilo]

Yea, I got tired of playing on public servers where the redstone was always inconsistent. Eventually I convinced some friends to join a realm I created and that's been going for just over 2 years now. The realm doesn't have the best stats but at least it's consistent.

[@BertrandDunogier]

After wanting to do so for months, I started building this two days ago in survival in my Skyblock world, and it's been a blast. I'm still amazed at the ingeniosity behind the concept. Fantastic job on the tutorial Metamilo. I was so proud when I managed to understand why it was failing at this or that point. One question though: is anyone else a bit annoyed by the fact that up to 5 items will remain in the hopper behind each chest ? It can add up to a lot, and can be quite annoying on some items types. I've been thinking about some way to lock the hoppers when the chests are full, but it's not that simple, as the chest might not be full _but_ might not have room for a given item... P.S. tweakaroo makes it MUCH easier to build this, even starting from the top.

[@justinadams5446]

*ingenuity ;)

[@BertrandDunogier]

@@justinadams5446 ah. I hesitated. In french, ingenuity exists (almost) as is, but means something else (ingenuous). I'll try to remember, even if it's a bit rude to correct those who are at least writing in languages that aren't theirs ;)

[@idontcare_wtf]

Thank u so much! I'm going to build this in my world

[@kingdomadventures]

Don't know if you saw; this is the design @ilmango used in his Peaceful Challenge series. Talk about being appreciated by the powers that be! Congrats.

[@ishaansadana547]

Made it and Loved it . A lot of work cuz i made 30 modules . But believe me its worth it

[@Sound_Spark]

To any who are thinking of building this, download litematica + the schematic that is provided, doing that will save you so much time and it will make building this 10x easier. Also if you are using Optifine make sure to remove it when you install litematica, those 2 mods have issues with each other and can cause texture issues and will make using the schematic a pain in the butt.

[@LoreleiBlaine]

relatedly, Sodium is works just fine with other mods and is even better at boosting performance than Optifine. I switched a week ago and have loved it (went from ~50fps with Optifine on lowish setting most of the time to 100-400fps on medium to high settings, depending on circumstances), strongly recommend getting the fabric modloader and Sodium

[@frully3698]

Omg this so cool i use it in every my World you are a legend

[@metamilo]

thanks!

[@MrZAPPER1000]

9.5k views 500 likes 280 comments and 0 dislikes! Great job thank you for this design

[@metamilo]

You're very welcome :)

[@phoenixxkn5555]

Awesome system, and a tutorial that’s just as good! Gonna hop onto the server I’m playing on and try to make it work... paper server with additional custom anti-lag plugins manipulating hoppers, might have to ask the owner how exactly those work...

[@metamilo]

Yeah, that might prove to be quite the challenge. Good luck.

[@nickkoenig8083]

Hey did manage to make it work? I’m going to try the same and am just wondering if there’s anything I should look out for. Thanks!

[@katharinabosch8963]

Same here

[@nickkoenig8083]

@@katharinabosch8963 I got it working on my paper server. As long as you are careful with the input of the sorter it runs exactly the way he built it. I didn’t have to change anything.

[@katharinabosch8963]

@@nickkoenig8083 great thank you!!

[@PunkR0ckz09]

Hello metamilo, I admire the work you've put into this tutorial and the work you've done with the other guys to make this thing possible. I would like to know if it would be possible to make something similar, but where the entire mechanisms would be underground (except obviously the elevator and the chests). I do not like to have super high builds and and this mechanism kind of requires that, thus my question. Also, as an added bonus, could there be a lever to activate a shulker box unloader/sorter or not? By this I mean, if it is activated, it would unload the shulker box and put the shulker box in a chest, but if it isn't activated, it will go in a "filled shulker box" chest? :D

[@chiirp]

Thanks for the tutorial!

[@metamilo]

You're very welcome :)

[@davidmorris8319]

This design is so awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this :) You mentionned that the machine might break with an irregular item input, so i wanted to ask if that could also happen when you chain this system with others. I want to build one big multi-purpose storage system that has a single input for shulkers and items, that first seperates and unloads shulkers (which can already cause some delay in the item flow) and then have some "normal" single item sorters add bulk storage for things like stone, sand and dirt, before eventually funneling the items into this system. so basically, if i dump in a multitude of items, including ones that may go to pre-chained systems, the item flow would probably be potentially irregular. before i start construction (because all of this sounds like a lot of hours to build), i wanted to ask your opinion if this would work or that the delay could very likely break the system.

[@metamilo]

I have an alternate presorter module that will fix the odd timing issue. I should have a video out for it in a day or two.

[@phoder1]

Me and my friends decided to build this on our survival world, couldn't thank you enough, this is really amazing. It sure should be the new gold standard for general purpose storage rooms! Edit: also, we built it without the defragmenter (we forgot, and decided to try the system anyway, and it worked quite well), and built on a paper server which you claimed would not work, but it did perfectly. Hopefully it will stay that way, for now I told them to take it easy with the machine and input all the items in one go and not cut it with new items while it's running, and preferebly in big stacks, if we will have a problem maybe we will make a temp box with a "sort" lever to reduce items variety. Edit 2: After some problems we decided to build the defragmenter, now it works great, but sometimes if you pass many unmatched items, the lags get really bad, we tried putting composts over all of the hoppers, and it didn't really do anything.

[@metamilo]

Yea, the defragmenter helps cover some edge cases, so it's needed. Also, the lag is likely from blinking redstone. We've been looking into a version that uses subtract mode instead of compare, which should greatly reduce the lag from blinking redstone.

[@phoder1]

@@metamilo Interesting, I'm following you and your friends for future releases for sure!

[@andersr666]

Thanx a bunch for the tutorial! Is there another video where you or RaPsCaLLioN1138 describe the input/overflow/shulker/pause redstone?

[@041744]

If you're losing items in the chests make sure your blocker items in the chest and filter items in the hopper are different. I missed that

[@FSBWS]

Can it be the same item (iron nugget) but renamed different (filter & blocker) ?

[@NonJohns]

​@@FSBWS yeah

[@caseyriley1014]

When I build I'm... Definitely going to have to dl that schematic... And watch the video again

[@spyvingen]

I had issues that filter item got lost even if that should only happen on paper/spiggot (im on fabric) but after rebuilding the presorter as he explains in the troubleshooter it worked great :)

[@maurospinolams]

Where can I find videos for the orange, cyan, magenta and red components? Amazing stuff. worked like a charm

[@gizmonodragon3342]

This is such an amazing system, I've always always always wanted one in my world. Just one thing about the video, for small brain people like me, could you add time splits for the type A section and type B section? I keep going back to each one to make sure I am building them properly, it might be handy for other people too.

[@metamilo]

good idea, I'll do that

[@sgmain1986]

Firstly, wonderful tutorial, concise and easy to follow, Thank You... Second, did 1.17 break this? Suddenly having alot of issues

[@celestialbeas9214]

hey, this is working really well for me on one side, but on the other, it seems to pull the items out of the chests, and into the overflow line before it can get to the storage, am i messing something up? i posted some of it in discord in the redstone help channel

[@lseagle61]

I'm confident this would work on the spigot server I play on. Everything else redstone related works just fine, flying machines, tnt dupers, world eaters, simple item sorters, shulker box loaders, etc. Even when laggy, the machines seem to just slow down to whatever the tick speed is and continue working. That whole skipping ticks thing doesn't happen on the server I play on. If anyone is curious about it I'll update my comment here when its built, I will probably be doing the v4.2 update.

[@metamilo]

It very well might work, I just can't guarantee that it does, and I don't know enough about spigot to be able to debug any server issues. I'm curious to know how it goes so definitely check back in once it's built. 4.2 is a good choice.

[@one_hoop]

Did you build it?

[@Borbarad13]

Great overview on the platform, the game version and the server! Kinda sad to see though that redstone is so fragmented nowadays, uff ^^ Also, Paper and Spigot need to be in the same bracket in my opinion and for both it really depends on the paper/spigot configuration and their plugings :)

[@metamilo]

Yeah, they're basically the same but paper has settings that let you bring it closer in line with vanilla. Maybe one day vanilla Minecraft will be more mod friendly and we won't need so many spinnoffs. They finally got around to publishing deobfuscated code versions so baby steps I guess.

[@hellomon4791]

@@metamilo I am actually on a server using paper, does not seem to work (the item filter just picks he first item and does not filter the rest...) so do you know perhaps what settings to change for it to work ?

[@NiccoTimo]

@@hellomon4791 I currently have the same problem. Have tried changing some settings, but doesn't seem to help. Something you can do is put more items in the filter, but it still quite often remove one item from the filter. Will report back if I ever get it to work.

[@hellomon4791]

@@NiccoTimo Yea it takes out an item from the item chest and placing a new one... I haven't fixed it either

[@zackglenn2847]

I think you can actually go out to 5x5 chunks with a single portal chunk loader. Only the inner 3x3 will be entity processing, but I don't think that's a problem because the outer ring would still be redstone processing.

[@metamilo]

It's possible, I'm not an expert in such matters, but I know 3x3 will work.

[@ffnichols1]

Hey Great system. The item filter chest sorts the items for the SLICE not for the individual CHEST in that slice, correct?

[@minnellawalcott5441]

I don't know if u see this comment but I was the one that told u to make the redstone survival series but congrats for your 1.02k subscribers but I am on a a other device keep up the gold work.

[@metamilo]

I might make a second channel for survival and let's play type stuff.

[@Ashton702616]

Thank you! I appreciate your hard work. Great at explaining and my Redstone knowledge expanded from all the detail. Just wondering if I want to have a sort of system that destroys the items when it reaches the max how would that go about?

[@Musikvidedo]

well they would probably end up in overflow. You could simply remove the overflow chests and directly connect to the lava

[@Cavvie]

Great design! I saw in Rapscallion's video that he was using furnaces instead of barrels. Are there interchangable? Or is there a reason why you use barrels instead?

[@metamilo]

Good question. Furnaces are generally cheaper, but barrels are less laggy.

[@harits3183]

works great. i changed the item gate with the one in the discord, thats the only change i made. the only problem is when i put like 2 doublechest full of items to the sorter, there is an item thats not sorted perfectly, and ends up being on the other chest (only like 2) and most of them are sorted perfectly, so its not really a problem.

[@wasbedeutet151]

Love it

[@Sodalis_]

What's the differnce between this one and rapscallion's? Which one would be best to build in survival? Or should I wait till the next version comes out? I'm absolutely mind boggled by how amazing this is so will be pretty clueless as to what I'll do doing when building, so any advice would be highly appreciated

[@softie4645]

For Paper, I think as long as the max-tick-time or max-tick-rate, I forgot the name, is set to 1000 instead of 50, it works, as this setting limits to at most 50mspt, and if it's over it starts skipping ticks

[@metamilo]

This will help for sure, but it's not a solution. It just means the lag has to get a lot worse before it breaks, but it will still break. Sometimes you can completely disable settings like this by setting them to -1 or 0, not sure if it would work here though.

[@bradythompson]

For those of you thinking you can replace the double chests up top with a barrel (for lag reasons or whatever) -- DON'T i think the barrel (as a solid block) gets powered and messes up some observers and makes it click and breaks it. you can use a single chest though

[@metamilo]

You are 100% correct.

[@shubu42069]

Wow this is amazing. Seems much less likely to break. What problems exactly did you have on Paper servers? Or what issues would you expect to arise?

[@razona5139]

And spigot please

[@DatNerd]

Paper changes/can change fundamental mechanics to how redstone is processed. Our sorter relies upon the redstone process order being consistent. We built this in fabric-carpet as well as tested in vanilla. It could maybe work on Paper, but as milo said it is not 100%.

[@DatNerd]

@@razona5139 Spigot will skip ticks when the server is lagging behind. This means certain redstone processes won't be processed at all. This means that anytime the server lags behind, the sorter has potential to break.

[@Sup-ih3mt]

I made it on a minehut server and it works flawlessly. It doesn't use fabric or vanilla but I'm not sure what it uses.

[@razona5139]

@@Sup-ih3mt minehut uses paper spigot servers

[@ElvenKindH]

You mentioned an item filter/pre sorter by Rifter Labs if feeding farms into this design. He has not made a video on that as far as I could see (he only has 1 video). Any chance of seeing that from you? (aswell as the rebuild to v4.1 for the entire sorter?). Btw, while here, awesome design and I'm currently implementing this in my world, but doing it quite cumbersome for now due to the farms. Thanks for showing us this!

[@metamilo]

DatNerd and I came up with an alternate presorter module that can handle input from farms. It's a bit slower but it won't break the system. You can find it in my fix/troubleshooting video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJOocqR5icqhZ6M

[@ElvenKindH]

@@metamilo Thank you! Didnt realize this was the alternate presorter to use for farms. Thanks again! (building now :))

[@deadlykitten4471]

What texture pack do you use for redstone?

[@jakewaitart9507]

On a server that could have issues with this sorter because it uses paper, would it not be easiest to replace/change the defragmenter so that items are entering the machine at a reduced speed? Obviously isn’t as efficient but I would trade speed for still having the functionality. Or would that mess up the rest of the system....?

[@mikerc1630]

This may have been asked before but where can i find the tut for the input slice and the overflow slice?

[@otty6292]

the schematic is slightly different in some areas like the pre sorter, should i change that or is it more optimal ?