Item Filters & Auto Sorted Storage! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide (1.18 Tutorial Let’s Play) [S2 E45]

Hello everyone my name is pixariffs and welcome back to the minecraft survival guide i hope you’re all having a good day in today’s episode we need to talk about this basement because as i mentioned in yesterday’s episode we are reaching the point where yes we have a

Little bit of space in some of these chests but the others are starting to reach capacity i have so much tough from clearing out that huge iron vein i have a bunch of deep slate in both of these chests just from digging underground and i’m outgrowing the storage system that

We built down here in the basement there may be a couple of chests in here that we could use for something but generally speaking this whole area does not have much room for expansion once we start to acquire much larger amounts of stuff and i’m having to cram all of the different

Stone types into a single chest which is never a good idea because there are so many different types of stone in the game i think it’s time for an upgrade and so today we’re going to build a brand new storage area i’ve been trying to figure out exactly where that’s going

To go because it would make sense to have it down here with some of our farms we’ve got our new cactus farm there’s sugar cane there’s honey and other bee products there’s iron over there there’s wool over here it would make sense to have it somewhere relatively central but

I’m also thinking about what i want to do with the overall look of this area and i don’t want it to feel too crowded we have a lot of space to work with here and my eyes have been turning towards this hill over here and thinking what can we do with that

Any structure that we build up there is going to be plainly visible from everywhere around here and i think it’s up there that i want to build my storage system the other option would be having a bridge across this kind of ravine i call it a ravine this kind of like gully

Behind the house and maybe having a storage building over there but the ground over there is not the best for building it’s kind of sloping away instead of sloping towards this area so i actually think we’re gonna go and build a storage area up here on this

Hill today and that’s going to give us a chance to talk about how redstone can assist us with storage and automatically filter items into different chests for us but the first thing i want to do is head up onto this hill clear out a bunch of the trees and figure out a space

Where our storage building is going to go and i think we’re going to start here about halfway up the hill roughly speaking there is this kind of flat divot of ground here where the hill has just shaped itself around this natural flat area and i think we’re probably

Going to start building a storage area here because it will stick out from the hill enough that we can see it from the front door of our house over there and we can probably just tuck it in here digging into the hill if we want to so

That we can carve out a little bit of space there’s also kind of a gully behind here that i’ve lit up so that skeletons don’t come out and shoot me while i’m working on my storage system but i think this is going to be a large

Enough area to give this a go and we will need a little bit of room for redstone circuits in here because much like the bee farm that we set up the other day this is going to rely quite heavily on there being enough room for redstone circuitry so with that in mind

We’re probably going to lay down a floor and then we’re going to build the insides of this storage house before we build the exterior because that way we’ll know that we’ve got the perfect amount of space for what we want to do and i’m wondering if we maybe start with

A stripped birch floor yeah i kind of like that it’s got potential but before we continue with that let’s talk about what you actually came here for which is item filter circuits so first of all we’re going to build the circuit that we’re going to be using for

The majority of this video the foolproof item filter circuit that i believe was pioneered by impulse sv so big shout out to impulse for having put in the work and figured out that this is the most effective item filter we can build if we want to build a compact automatic

Sorting system the requirements for building this are actually fairly slim in terms of redstone components each circuit will need some kind of output chest we’re going to use a double chest for this example you’ll need two hoppers a comparator a redstone repeater three redstone dust and a redstone torch along

With a decent handful of building blocks first of all we’re going to put our output here and of course a hopper will need to go facing down into that which is going to deliver all of the items to the chest itself next to that hopper we’re going to place a solid block and

On top of that we’re going to place a comparator the comparator is going to be reading the contents of our second hopper which we’re going to place facing into the comparator it doesn’t technically need to be facing into the comparator but if it faced to either side it would be transferring items to

Hoppers on either side of it the most important thing is that it doesn’t face down because then it would push items downwards into this hopper even when that hopper was locked which is what we’re going to do right now we’re going to place another block here and on this

Side we’re going to place a redstone torch this is going to power this solid block above it which will actually lock the hopper here so if i put items in this hopper right now it’s not going to drain them out into the chest because the hopper has been locked by redstone

Power what’s going to unlock it is enough items being in this top hopper so we want to make sure this comparator will output a redstone signal that’s going to reach this redstone torch and switch it off allowing items to flow through the system to do that we place

Two blocks along here and one block down at a diagonal we’re going to place our three redstone dust along the top of these blocks and we’re going to finish off the circuit with a redstone repeater there now naturally when you build this circuit you’re probably going to want to

Have that repeater on some sort of solid block that you can recognize if you’re still digging around in this area but this is our circuit complete one comparator three redstone dust one repeater into this block with a redstone torch there powering and locking this hopper grabbing some items from a nearby

Chest i’ll be able to show you how this works we’re going to place four items in the last four slots of this hopper and the first slot is reserved for the item we want to filter in this case i’ve got a stack of sand from our concrete

Gathering the other day i’m going to place that in the front slot of this hopper and you’ll notice that the items start to slowly drain away and they will do that until the stack reaches 41 items at which point the redstone torch here turns back on and that hopper locks

There will be one block of sand left in here when it locks so in total 42 blocks are going to be tied up in this item filter system the remainder of that stack gets filtered down into this chest where we have 22 cent waiting for us and

So the most important feature of this circuit is that now anything we throw on top of this hopper is not going to end up getting pulled through the hopper into the chests because it will only accept the item that is in this first slot and any of the other items that are in

Here if we threw any more coarse dirt in here then the filter would be in trouble which is why you will typically find people using renamed items in order to fill up those filters because if i rename this netherrack for example filter junk and i’ll get another stack of netherrack just for demonstration

Purposes if we fill our four slots of this hopper with our filter junk netherrack and then i try and throw some of the unnamed netherrack into the hopper that’s not going to work either because the game won’t recognize them as the same item once those items there

Have been renamed if i throw any more of the filter junk items in there you’ll see they disappear instantly and they start to fill up the remaining slots of the filter draining a few more items out of this first slot so i mentioned that this circuit drains the items in this

Hopper down until there are 41 left in here and one extra in this spot and so you may be thinking wait a second why are we leaving so many items here in the filter why can we just not add more items on this side and allow everything

That we put in here to filter down into the chest let me explain these filters are designed to be built side by side so that we can build basically exactly the same filter circuit right here we’re going to put a repeater there we’re going to put our torch there we’ll put

Our output chest here with the two hoppers configured as before three redstone dust on the top of this and you’ll notice all of the redstone dust connects to each other so that even though we don’t have any items powering this redstone comparator because there are no items in our hopper here yet the

Signal from the circuit that’s built on top of smooth stone blocks is technically adding some power to the circuit that’s made out of dark oak blocks right now it’s only powering one redstone dust from this line though because the comparator is not producing a powerful enough signal to power any

More than that and if we wanted to we could fill this hopper here with our filter junk we could put in say our valuable diamonds and those could start to filter down into the next door chest while the diamonds are doing that you’ll notice that this filter circuit

Completely lights up all the way to the end where it’s activating this redstone repeater which is switching off the redstone torch and allowing that hopper to be unlocked but it’s only activating this half of the circuit it’s not activating the other half and that comes down to the comparator outputting a

Signal strength of three this side of the circuit needs one two three redstone power to activate but to activate the neighboring circuit it would need four so it’s safe to build this circuit side by side without them activating each other that changes when you insert more items into the filter here because the

Comparator will output a redstone signal of three when there are more than 45 items here in the hopper so there’s 44 with all of the filter junk here and a one with that additional diamond once that number goes any higher that’s when the comparator outputs a signal strength

Of 3 which activates the circuit and allows the items to drain out of that hopper but what happens if an entire stack of items somehow gets in that makes the comparator output a stronger redstone signal which will actually activate the circuit next door you’ll notice that both of these redstone

Repeaters are now powered even though i don’t have anything going into this neighboring hopper and that’s actually draining all of the sand out of this hopper if that happens a second time then this hopper drains entirely and then whatever junk we’ve got coming in here whatever items end up flowing

Through this circuit are going to end up draining through this hopper regardless it basically breaks the filter entirely meaning that any items that go through the system end up in this chest now typically when you add items to an automatic storage system you’re going to

Be adding them in one at a time either through a chain of hoppers that’s going to travel across all of these hoppers allowing them to pull out any items that match what’s in their filters or you’re going to have a stream of water flowing across the top and the items are going

To be flowing in that water stream and being delivered to all of the hoppers one at a time so a lot of the time you’re not going to have an entire stack of items going through here at once so in those circumstances it might be okay

To increase the amount of filter junk so that you can end up with more items flowing through the system but that doesn’t account for when this chest ends up getting full and let’s take the diamonds out here as an example let’s fill up this entire chest with single

Blocks of netherrack and let’s say the input hopper is full up of full stacks of that item as well assume this is all the same item for the purposes of this demonstration if we have a bunch of our filter junk items in here and we put in

Some more items those items have nowhere to go because the hopper and the chest below it are completely full of items and it’s going to switch off this circuit permanently which completely damages the circuit next to it all of those items end up draining back into

The chest and the same thing happens and with a full stack of items in here it’s not just powering the circuit next door and potentially the circuit on the opposite side if we’re building all of these side by side the power will actually get to one circuit further over

As well so we end up breaking five filters in this area just because one item filter ends up getting full the entire system would end up breaking just because you wanted to make sure all of your diamonds ended up in a chest instead of stuck in a hopper chain so

Honestly the best advice i can give is don’t use these for valuable materials use them for the kind of things you acquire in bulk use them for the stuff that you can afford to lose half a stack of items in the filter use them for things like sand and gravel use them for

Stone use them for deep slate use them for tough all of that stuff that we have in bulk in our storage system right now could go in a filter circuit like this and we wouldn’t miss 40 or so blocks that are going to be tied up in the filter system

Alternatively don’t leave your item filters side by side if you build a one block gap between them then the redstone can’t possibly affect what’s happening on the circuit next door and you can filter your diamonds this way if you want to in fact if you wanted to you

Could even save on the amount of items that you put in here by using items that only stack to 16 like signs or chicken eggs or ender pearls what have you got handy if you put 11 of these items in here because they effectively count as four items each because of only snacking

To 16 those items can occupy the remainder of your filter while allowing the items in the first slot to filter down to just one item and then once again only two diamonds end up in the system but you need to make sure that these filters are built one block apart

Or the filters on the side risk being drained when you end up putting some extra diamonds in here these single module item filters can even be reconfigured to use one fewer redstone dust so we’re going to set up our chest here we’re going to redirect the hopper

Into the chest that way we’re going to move this redstone torch to underneath this hopper so it will still lock it from below and once the wandering trader and his llamas get out of the way we can actually remove these last few blocks here put the redstone repeater there put

One block there and we’ve used one fewer redstone dust to create an item filter that does exactly the same thing only in this one the comparator only needs to reach a signal strength of two to activate the circuit so we end up with even fewer items being stashed in the

Chest this does of course mean that it’s a disaster placing these item filter circuits side by side because if we put in a whole stack of items even with one set of filter junk in there that’s still going to power the circuit next door because the comparator is reaching a

Signal strength of three which is going to activate the circuit next to it so if you’re just filtering a single item and you don’t want to build these circuits side by side then this is actually a slightly better item filter circuit but if you’re building these for bulk

Storage like we are and you want to have the filter circuits built side by side to compact them into a smaller space then this circuit is basically foolproof as long as you keep 41 of the filtered item in the first slot of the hopper i hope that made sense because we’re about

To build a lot of these up here in our little divot on the side of the hill we’re going to build a storage system that’s going to have a bunch of these circuits in so i need to do a bit more clearing out of the hill we’re going to

Lay down a bunch of circuits and i’ll bring you back to explain how the sorting system is going to work hey folks welcome back so i have been busy we have a whole bunch of our storage system all set up and right now the bones are in place of course we have

A lot more decorating to do because right now it’s just two big wooden pillars and then all of the redstone workings exposed to the open air but that’s really so i can show you all of this in process so that you can see a little bit

More of what’s going on here but we don’t have to build every single item filter circuit on camera because you kind of get the idea after one or two hopefully you have the idea just from what i showed you earlier in the video but if we look down the line here you

Will see almost stretching into infinity row upon row of repeaters and all of the redstone for these circuits side by side all working in tandem attached to each of our item filters we have not one not two but three storage chests and the main reason for that is that a double

Chest of cobblestone fills up pretty quickly if you go mining in fact through just the amount of mining we did on that huge iron vein i have more than a double chest of tough don’t forget that this also includes tough all through the hopper behind it

So that’s all filled up as well a few extra storage spaces per chest and we’re already eating into the second one so if i went mining for any more of that stuff you better believe it would build up in the system pretty quickly and once again that is why overflow protection ends up

Being pretty useful so the way i’ve laid out this whole thing kind of has a system of sorts to it for a start i’m cutting down on the amount of signs or item frames or anything like that we would have to do by putting a couple of

The blocks that are assigned to each of these chests on the ground in front of the chest so that you know what is in which chest and there are 16 modules on each side this side over here is the kind of stuff that we find on the

Surface in the overworld so it’s all six wood types i decided to put the nether wood types here as well simply because it made sense to have all of the different types of wood together and then we have grass moss dirt coarse dirt sand gravel puzzle and there is a space

Here for something we don’t have yet because i have yet to locate a mushroom island biome where we get our last dirt type mycelium and yes there are dirt paths but you can’t get those by silk touching them in java edition i believe you can in bedrock edition but that’s

Something that we’re not used to in java so dirt path doesn’t appear here farmland obviously doesn’t appear here and there are a couple of other bits and pieces that we could put in here for right now it’s kind of useful to have a place to store glass because at the

Moment this system does not have a place to auto sort that but the idea is this site is a little bit more of the organic stuff with the exception maybe of sand and gravel whereas over here this is more the mineral side of things my build

Chest is still here with a bunch of the redstone components in but this is cobblestone stone stone brick which you can just about see and we can find it there in the chest all of the decorative stone types up to tough and then we’ve got deep slate cobbled deep slate

Primarily because we’re going to be putting the remainder of the deep slate somewhere else we’ve got basalt and blackstone and netherrack from the nether the three blocks you find in geodes and then finally here at the end clay and terracotta clay because we get it in larger quantities from lush caves

And terracotta because we’ll want a whole bunch of the raw stuff to transform into the other colors now the reason i have a row of barrels here is so that we can take all of the crafted materials from these different types of materials say for example we want these

Oak logs to turn into stairs or whatever but we figure we’ve got enough stairs and we need to put some of those away those can now go in this barrel above here and if we wanted to we could even add another barrel on top of that if one

Barrel isn’t enough to store all of the variants of oak things that we would make but most of the time i just want to pull out some logs and make as many things as i need to i’m not looking scrounging in chests to see if i have

The right amount of stairs or slabs or whatever for a project and that can go for all of the different wood types i don’t know if we’re going to just use this for overstock with grass or if we’ll put like tall grass and ferns and those kinds of things in here above that

But obviously moss comes with moss carpet and maybe even some azalea saplings we could put those in there as well again with the dirt and coarse dirt i’m not entirely certain maybe we’d put some extra gravel in there so that we could mix that to make more coarse dirt

If we wanted to with sand i don’t think we’re going to store sandstone in here because that probably deserves a chest all of its own but we don’t have a massive supply of sandstone unless we go out and mine a big desert so we don’t need to worry too much about that might

Put the flint in here with the gravel and the podzol and mycelium might have some of their own stuff that we’ll get onto a little bit later likewise there are some things on this side which are obvious and not so obvious there’s a ton of stuff we can craft out of cobblestone

And less stuff that we can craft out of natural stone although there’s still some stairs and slabs smooth basalt has basically no crafting recipes whatsoever it is one inert block but it is a block we find in natural generation alongside the geodes so if we go and excavate a

Bunch of geodes we’re going to come away with quite a lot of that we can’t do much else with except store it meanwhile this barrel alone is not going to be enough to contain all of the colored terracotta and glazed terracotta variants so we’re probably going to

Store those somewhere else and the way all of these items get to each of these chests is via the item filter circuit supplied by this chain of hoppers that goes all the way around the outside of the room and ends up over here and if

You wanted to know why we built an iron farm that early in the series it was really for projects like this because having automatically sorted storage is one of those quality of life things that you will thank yourself for doing later this chest here which i will make a more

Accessible way of getting to but right now we kind of have to jump up and grab from ground level is what we input the items into and then one by one slowly but surely they make their way around this entire ring of hoppers and each

Time an item makes its way round to the appropriate filter circuit say the dirt here for example let’s throw some dirt in halfway along the hopper chain and we’ll see it all start to filter down into this chest in particular you’ll notice that one at a time those items

Drip on through there’s a steady stream of them coming through this chest and the dirt chest here starts to fill up let’s grab a couple of items from these chests just to show you those coming in we’ll take like a decent amount of the cobble deep slate we’ll grab the

Remainder of the netherrack that’s in here we’ll take some gravel from over here and just for good measure a little bit of dark oak wood because i’ve been working with a lot of that if we put all of that into our input chest here that’s the gravel the cobble deep slate the

Dark oak log and the netherrack let’s say we also put in the stone that we’ve got on us and for good measure we’re going to throw in these bookshelves which don’t actually have an item filter in the system so we’ll see what happens to those in the meantime though the

Gravel is making its way around this chain of hoppers and if we walk over to the gravel chest we can see it started to make its way into the system and it’s not ending up in any of the neighboring chests all the gravel should end up in

Here i believe the deep slate was next that’s making its way in here as well and then sooner or later we’ll see a little bit of stone drifting into this chest as well it’s going to take a minute for the dark oak logs to show up because the system does have to process

All of the other items one at a time before it gets to these but there they are the darkhook logs are finally making their way back into the system and now the bookshelves are making their way around here and the system will obviously reject the bookshelves because

They don’t appear in any of these item filters so they end up going to the end of the line where they would get stuck in that hopper except i’ve created a down pipe of hoppers that ends up right here and you can see the bookshelves haven’t ended up getting caught in any

Of the other item filters they’re all making their way down here where the plan is to continue this down towards a second area of the storage system which is going to be reserved for manual sorting and down here i’ve started carving out an area that’s going to act

Like a little storage cubby for everything else in the game which isn’t one of the materials that we’re filtering up there or any of its products like you know spruce signs and stuff like that are all going to be up there everything else is going to be

Down here and to make sure that we have enough space i’m going to put a couple of double chests in here we’re going to break out that dirt block there and make sure this chest ends up connecting we’ll have a final hopper going into there and if we put any items that aren’t

Compatible with our storage filters in the system they’ll just end up filtering down into this chest where we can extract them and sort them into all of the shelves that we’ve put up down here i am going to come up with a sort of system that’s going to work down here

For where everything goes but as of right now i just thought we could come up with a more creative design for a storage room so we’ve got barrels here we’ve got double chests in two different orientations so these are double chests that just reach back a block into this

Alcove here and we’ve got a couple of more interesting looking shelves at the end with barrels and chests and various other bits and pieces which i’ll have to make sure that we have enough headroom or like a non-solid block above them so that those chests can still open maybe

I’ll color code the walls behind here and maybe we could even sort items by color instead of by category of items but either way whatever we end up with we’re going to end up with a lot of storage space down here for all of the stuff that doesn’t necessarily fit into

The filters above we are going to be storing all of the precious materials down here as well since they aren’t filtered above so we’ll put all of the iron blocks and the diamonds and the redstone and all of the ores and things like that down here as well probably on

This side while all of the crafted materials and all of the other bits and pieces go on this left hand side so we’ll develop a bit of a system as we go and then that way as we’re coming up the hill from the spawn area we can either

Go up into the main bulk storage where a lot of the main blocks are or we can take this other path down towards the basement where we’re going to be gathering all of the more specialized stuff ultimately the most important thing about setting up a storage system

Is that it works for you and that you know exactly what you want out of it personally i think this is going to work as a pretty decent system for me but feel free to experiment if you want to come up with your own take on an auto sorting system it’s probably worth

Bearing in mind though that there are over a thousand different items in minecraft and there’s some that you won’t really get a huge amount of so i figured there’s no point in making a different sorting module for oak stripped oak oak stairs oak slabs oak planks oak buttons oak signs you know

All of the different kind of stuff that we’re probably only going to be crafting it as we need it instead having one chest here for oak logs and a barrel for all of the miscellaneous items kind of covers each of those categories what we have done however is left ourselves a

Little bit of room for expansion because all we need to do is carve into the hill a little bit further even if we end up building something around this the storage system can continue back into the hill and if it came to it we could even hang a couple more storage filters

Off of this and have the back wall included in part of the chest setup here so there’s lots of different options here we could add to the hopper chain here we could expand it into the hill that way we could just stick with what we’ve got and be happy manually sorting

The rest but hopefully this episode has opened your eyes to the possibilities of auto sorted storage i do think even if you’re not a redstone person this is one of those things that you need to have in your back pocket because even as a builder it will make your life a whole

Lot better and we’re going to be decorating this here and there so you might see a few different iterations of it popping up in future episodes but folks that is where we’re going to leave it for this episode of the minecraft survival guide i hope you’ve taken a

Look at this auto sorting system with me and hopefully found it a little bit easier to understand don’t forget to leave a like on this video if you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more and i’ll see you folks soon take care bye for now you