BlackBeltPanda – How to build 8x faster item sorters WITHOUT clogging! ✨ Minecraft Tutorial | Tileable | Minecarts

Sorter can’t quite keep up so i built this fairly  standard item sorter here that uses hoppers with   various different filters to filter out the items  from this hopper line up above the problem with   this is that it transports items at hopper speed  which is just a little bit too slow for me and  

A little bit too slow for some of my automatic  farms so a simple solution you might be thinking   well just replace the hopper line up here with  the water transport line and some blocks of ice  

Well that’s exactly what we’ve got right here so  it’s the same exact hopper filter setup as the one   below only this one has a water transport system  instead of a hopper line up above as well as a  

Dropper here running at roughly hopper speed  to insert items into the line we can go ahead   and place some items in here and you can see they  certainly do travel through the system faster than   hoppers but they don’t actually get processed by  the sorter any faster than the system down below  

And it doesn’t actually process the items here  any faster than a hopper would so we’re still   waiting the same amount of time for all our items  to make it into the system so then you might be   thinking okay simple solution once again just  use a faster clock so we can insert items into  

The system faster and that’s exactly what i’ve  done up here so this is once again the same   system same filter only this time we’ve  used a faster clock on the dropper back here  

So i can put some items in here again i’ll put a  couple stacks of redstone in this time and you see   they do go through much faster but if we  look inside the filter is slowly going up and  

Eventually that’s going to hit 64 and when it does  the items are going to skip right past that hopper   and they’re going to go right into the overflow  chest right here and we can actually see that  

We’ve got several items in the overflow chest now  out of 64. actually out of 128 we’ve got 42 that   did not make it through the filter in addition you  might have seen that the item sometimes skipped  

Over the hopper before it clogged up and that’s  because the hoppers can only pick up items so fast   and sometimes the items travel past the hopper  quicker than it can actually pick them up   so what i’ve done is i’ve replaced these hoppers  here with hopper mine carts now these are capable  

Of transferring items eight times faster than a  regular hopper now this is a two wide tileable   version which allows us to use four hoppers for  the output chest this means that this can output   to this chest four times faster than this system  and it can accept items at the input up to eight  

Times faster than this system over there and i’ve  also created a one wide tileable version here   it works pretty much the same way only there’s a  single hopper going to the output chest so it does   output at the same speed as the hopper systems  over there but it still has the capability of  

Accepting items up to eight times faster and this  version is considerably smaller and cheaper to   build than the two wide version in fact if we come  up here we can see just how big these systems are  

This is five modules of the two wide tileable  version and this is five modules of the one wide   tileable version so you can see that the one wide  version is significantly smaller it’s actually the   same size as the hopper system we were using over  there and we’re using the same water line with  

The faster clock on the dropper here and i can  demonstrate here just how well this system works   i’m going to throw in two stacks of redstone  again like we did before we’ll come over here   and you’ll see that all of them are getting  picked up right here above our redstone filter  

None of them are actually skipping past because  the hopper mine carts can pick items up faster   and you’ll notice that the redstone never really  approaches 64 items because it’s able to transmit   those items much much faster to the hopper mine  cart below it and because it outputs four times  

Faster we can see here that it is basically  already done if we go to the output chest   no redstone there and this system is so fast  that we can actually put a second dropper in   so now we have two droppers running on this faster  clock which is the equivalent of about four times  

Hopper speed total so we can place some items  in here i’m gonna go ahead and put in two stacks   there and i’ll put two stacks in here so  now we’re processing four stacks of redstone   and we’ll come over here and take a look and  once again you can see that they’re all getting  

Picked up none of them are skipping past and  if we look at the filter here you can see it’s   processing the items extremely quickly and it’s  never really getting close to 64 like you would   see with just a regular hopper only downside of  course to this one wide version is the output is  

Just as slow as the hopper system over there and  there is a buffer that you have to be aware of   but there is a trick to increase this buffer to  reduce the risk of clogging and i’ll show you  

How to do that but first let’s go ahead and head  on over to my lab world and i’ll show you how to   build both of these items orders okay so here we  are in my lab world and these are fairly simple  

To build we’re going to go ahead and start with  the two wide version so what you want to do is   just place down a double chest and we’re going to  cover the top with hoppers and then the back we  

Want hoppers pointing in there and then make sure  that you place hoppers above these two separately   so you see we have four separate lines of hoppers  this next parts just a tiny bit trickier you just  

Place down any type of rail put a hopper mine cart  on top of that and then you need to break the rail   and then hop up here and just push the minecart  very carefully until it’s over top of all four  

Hoppers it doesn’t have to be perfect if you hold  down f3 and press b you can see the hit boxes   as long as that white hitbox outline there is  above all four hoppers you are good to go once  

You’ve got that hopper mine cart there next thing  you want to do is place a solid block next to   the hopper and then we’re gonna place a couple  more just like that grab any type of gravity block  

So this could be concrete powder sand or gravel  and you’re going to want to place that right there   and that’s going to fall we’re going to do the  same thing on this block right here and if you  

Want you can cover the whole thing but really you  just need these two blocks i’m gonna go ahead and   cover the whole thing just so it looks pretty and  now with that we’re gonna place a solid block at  

The front left right there and we’re going to go  ahead and place another one on that temporarily   so we can place a top slab right there  i’ll go ahead and break that solid block   should look like that place another solid  block behind that slab we’re going to place  

Two more so we get three of them underneath the  middle one here place another one and then two   more so we have three of them again and then one  more underneath the middle one again so you have   this like diagonal shape here and then just  break out that middle block right there with  

That done the next thing we’re going to do is  come on up here and place an activator rail   right there place another activator rail right  there and then finally place a detector rail   right there so what should happen is this  detector rails facing this way this activator  

Rail should be on an incline and then what  we need to do is break this activator rail   place another block right there then an activator  rail here and here and then break this one and   this block doing it that way allows us to make an  activator rail face that way without connecting up  

To either of these two now we need to place  any type of wall above this activator rail   and then we can grab our hopper mine carts and  we’re gonna place one on this inclined activator   rail and it should just stay there right  like that this block is holding it in place  

We’re gonna place one up top on the detector rail  and we’re going to give it a bump once you bump it   it should fall just like that and it’s going to  be sitting at incline that guy has to be on an  

Incline in order to feed this guy because he’s on  an incline this guy is going to feed that hopper   in the middle that we placed earlier and that’s  going to feed all four hoppers at the same time  

So now we can go ahead and do some redstone this  is very very basic you just need a comparator   coming off of that detector rail and then  three pieces of redstone dust just like that   a repeater inside this little hole facing the  hopper mine carts and a torch redstone torch  

On that block right there that’s  going to activate this activator rail   which is going to prevent the hopper mine cart  from transferring items down now in this upper   minecart you’re going to want to right click on  that and we’re going to set a filter so use any  

Block that’s not going to go into your sorter  system i recommend actually renaming the blocks   so that they can never stack with anything you put  in i’m just going to use these quartz blocks here  

In this first slot you’re going to want to put in  the item you actually want to sort in this case   i’ll put in some redstone and it’s going to start  transferring down just like that and it’ll stop  

When it reaches a certain level and what’s going  to happen is when enough redstone comes in here   this piece of dust here will power powering this  repeater de-powering the torch unlocking the   hopper minecart transferring the items down until  the level is low enough that this redstone turns  

Off this torch turns back on re-locks the hopper  minecart and stops transferring items basically   works exactly the same as any hopper item sorter  we’re just using hopper mine carts instead so for   the one wide version we’re going to do the same  thing we’re going to place down a double chest  

Except this time we want it to be sideways we’re  going to place a hopper on this back side here   pointing into the chest then we’re going to  place a solid block above the hopper and a slab  

Top slab against that now we can go ahead and  place another solid block above this top slab   and we’re going to place the top  slab again right there like that   so it should look like that now go ahead and  break these two solid blocks and we’re going  

To place three solid blocks against that slab come  underneath place three more from the middle here   like so and then one more at the bottom  and break out that middle piece right there   and now we can come over here place our activator  rail facing the slab on top of the hopper  

Place another one on top of the slab and then  place your detector rail on the top just like   before so now we have our inclined activator  rail we’re going to place another slab here   break that activator rail place another one  here and here and break this one and this slab  

Same thing as before inclined activator rail  activator rail facing that way detector rail on   the top facing that way now we can go ahead  and place our hopper mine cart down here   just like that place our wall block above this  activator rail place another hopper minecart up  

Top and give it a bump see same thing as that one  we’re just skipping all the hoppers at the bottom   so we can go ahead and do the redstone again  here same process as before so you can see it  

A second time comparator dust dust dust repeater  and torch and then throw your filter items in the   last four slots here and the item that you want  to filter in the first slot and that’s the one  

Wide version done okay now i’ll show you the trick  to increasing the buffer size between the filter   hopper minecart up top and the output hopper down  below all you have to do is grab a hopper minecart  

Look at the rail here and right click and now  we have two hopper mine carts on the same rail   this gives us 10 total inventory slots of space  since each one has five helping to prevent any   clogs since there’s some more inventory slots  that can be used up while items are filtering  

Down through the hopper below you can also  do this on the two wide version it doesn’t   need it as much because it does have four hoppers  pulling items at once but you certainly can just   pop another hopper minecart on there if you  are concerned about any potential clogging  

Unfortunately you can’t really add more than the  two hopper mine carts that are on here because   once you go above that it starts to pull items out  of the filter my cart faster than the system can   lock everything up so it ends up draining  all of the items and breaking the filter  

So you are limited to just two hopper mine carts  of buffer space here and just to demonstrate i’ll   throw some redstone in here and you’ll see that  it’ll go all the way down to two so if we added  

Another hopper minecart in there it would drain  out the rest of the items so a couple of tips when   you’re building a bunch of these side by side  leave this back block off so you just want to  

Build the little t here and then the bottom  here so you can place all of your repeaters   before putting on this back block just makes  things a little bit easier and also when it  

Comes to the rails make sure you place the rail on  this slab first that way when you place this rail   on the hopper it connects up like so  instead of connecting to the uh hopper  

Rail next to it and then of course you can just  place your uh detector rail up top like that and   if you’re doing a whole line of them what you  can do is place the bottom line first like so

Then place your detector rails like so then  add your extra block break all these guys   and starting from this end work your  way down just like that and get rid of   your extra block just makes things a lot  easier and when you place multiple walls  

You’ll notice that these mine  carts when you bump them down   the ones in the middle go down a little bit  further and that’s just because the walls a   little bit thinner there it’s not going to  hurt anything so don’t even worry about that  

And a couple of things i’d like to talk about  regarding the water stream first of all the   hopper mine carts if you look at their hit boxes  here you can see that they are slightly under  

This block here that the wall is under and they  don’t cover the whole block under the ice here   for that reason i recommend aligning your items  to the center where these two blocks meet you can  

Do that using a chest it’s very simple when the  items come down they hit the chest and then they   all get stuck to this side here when they travel  and that just ensures that they’re in the pickup  

Range of the hopper minecarts another thing to  take note of is the item speed it is possible   that they can pick up so much speed on this ice  that even the hopper mine carts can’t pick them up   for that reason i recommend making sure your  water streams are only about five blocks long  

So in this case we have one two three four um you  could maybe get away with five there and by doing   that it kind of resets their speed just a little  bit whenever they hit the empty block here and  

I like to use trap doors for this just because  it gives a lot of clearance underneath for the   items to travel through and if you’re not using  two droppers like this which you totally don’t   have to do i would actually recommend having two  separate droppers with their own clocks i would  

Definitely recommend you put a trapdoor  in front of your dropper as well like that   that keeps the items from being shot up into the  air where they can land on the glass so instead  

They hit this trap door and they stay nice and low  and end up in the water stream every time and also   when you place this chest here to align your items  i recommend starting a new stream in front of it  

Just like this that way it just helps to keep  items from kind of going diagonally through here   which is something i have noticed can happen if  this water bends around the corner the items can   actually travel diagonally and end up slipping  right past the chest and getting stuck here so  

By just starting a new water source in front of  the chest like that we help avoid that problem   since they collide with the chest before moving  in this direction and that’s it i really hope you   liked the video if you did please click that like  button subscribe if you haven’t done so already  

And if you have any questions or concerns or if  you’ve come up with any ways to improve on this   item sorter definitely let me know in the comment  section down below and i’d love to see you guys  

Use this in your build so if you do feel free to  take a screenshot and post it to my discord server   at discord.gg pandacraft this is the blackboard  panda and i’ll see you in the next video bye