MrCrayfish – Minecraft 1.12: Redstone Tutorial – Item Sorter (Hidden)

Hey guys crayfish and welcome back to redstone tutorials in this tutorial today I’m gonna be teaching you guys how to build this item sorter now you might be confused we’ve just got an innocent toilet here what is this actually doing well it’s a hidden item sorter so people

Wouldn’t expect this they’ll look at this and I’m thinking that this is going nowhere it’s simply just a hopper but if I go ahead I’m gonna open up the toilet here and you could do your business or some sort but what I’m gonna do is I’m actually gonna throw all these items in

My inventory here into this hopper and what this is going to do is it’s actually going to get sorted so as you can see they’re all gone from this hopper here it’s it’s quite the magic but if I go down this ladder here into the secret room the items are actually

Being sorted underneath though you wouldn’t expect this when you see a toilet like that but we’ll go down here as you can see a bunch of diamonds have gone in here the iron ingots have gone into this chest the gold ingots have gone into this one and all the errands

That don’t get filtered just get placed into this chest at the end here now one last thing I forgot to mention is it is expandable so if you’re looking to add more than three chests here then you can so I’ll show you later in the tutorial

How you can do that so I’m gonna show you guys how you can build this now so the materials that you are going to need is four redstone dust two redstone torches two redstone repeaters two redstone comparators eleven hoppers one lever one iron trapdoor two normal chests one trapped chest one minecart

With hopper two blocks of quartz and sixty four blocks of your choice so the first thing that we are going to do is build the toilet part to this so what we need to do is get out our two blocks of quartz here we’re going to

Need to use the iron trapdoor so we’re gonna place a to hype it up with the quartz there we’re gonna get a hopper place it in front of this bottom quartz here with the funnel going into it place your iron trapdoor on the top of the hopper there and then get your lever

Place it on the left side here and we are ready to go so that’s just the toilet what we’ve got to do now is actually build the item sorter so this is where it’s gonna get a little bit trickier now it’s best to build the toilet first so you would simply build

It in your house and then you know where you actually got to build the sorting system so let’s go ahead and let’s dig out a hole for the sorting system now so we need to dig a four wide by five long by five deep hole and what you want to

Do is actually come in front of your toilet here so you start right it’s block here dig one down and then dig three to the right here so one two three then when you go five towards the back here so we’ve already got one so that’s

One two three four five then go to the left here until you get in line with the start and then just dig out those blocks underneath dig out the ones in the center and then simply dig this hole down up four more layers now come to this front right corner here

And what we’re going to do is get our blocks of choice we’re gonna place one down in the corner here then two to the left on this first one we placed make sure you place your one normal chest then trap chest and then normal behind each of the chests we’re going to place

A hopper going into it so Crouch then right click the back of each of them now under each hopper we need to place a redstone torch so we’re going to go under the hopper here then back one so place three blocks down like that then you’ll get out your redstone torches

What’s going to get this block right here you want to get your two redstone torches and place it on these first two blocks here the last one is for items that don’t get matched and just go into a miscellaneous chest so we don’t have to worry about placing a torch there

Really we don’t need this block at the end here so you can get rid of that on top of these blocks which the red tone redstone torches are on place a block on top we’re then going to place a redstone comparator on top of these blocks here

Facing towards the back in front of these blocks place two more blocks of your choice then go down a block like that place your 4 redstone on top of these blocks here and then in this gap here you want to place a redstone repeater coming out of this block here

And going into this one which the torch is on do that on the other side as well say that there make sure it stays on the default delay we’re temporarily going to place two blocks on top of these first two chests here then place a hopper which goes into

The back of these blocks and then you can just destroy these on top of this end hopper here simply just place one going down into it so the funnel should face downwards while these two should be facing forwards are not going directly down at the end here

Place another one on top with the funnel going down then we’re going to lead our remaining three till it’s under this hopper here so one two three and you should note or notice all the funnels are pointing in the same direction until this last one and this directly goes

Down and into that chest there now head back up to the top and what we’re going to do now is place our minecart with the hopper so to place the minecart with the hopper you’re going to need to get some extra materials now I didn’t include this on the list because they’re only

Temporarily used so you’re going to need to get one normal rail one normal piston a power source such as a block of redstone and then just an inventory block such as a furnace so what you need to do is go to the left of this hopper here dig out this block place your

Furnace or whatever down in there you want to get your normal rail place it on top of this hopper down here under that one place your minecart on top and then you simply want to break the rail below it so you should be able to select it

And then just break that we’re going to get a block which would most likely be the block you’re using for your floor I’m just going to use this dirt block here place that to the right of the minecart hopper so Crouch them right click we’re gonna place our piston here

On top of this hopper here facing into this block here so when you push it it’s going to push the block into the hopper here so power the Fernet I’ll power the piston now I mean and then we can destroy that and then destroy the piston and then you

Can destroy this furnace over here and then you could replace this with your floor material now that is pretty much it all we’ve got to do now is configure it then afterwards I’m gonna show you guys how you can expand this so what we’re going to need to have to configure

This is it going to need to grab an anvil you’re going to need 64 blocks of your choice I’ve just gotten 64 cobblestone and then you’re going to need two of the items that you basically want to filter out now these items have to be able to stack up to 64 otherwise

It won’t work so you can’t have stuff like buckets or tools in this sorting system so let’s go ahead let’s place down and AM anvil right now and what you want to do is rename your cobblestone or your blocks to a random string of characters so just literally span a

Bunch of characters in there now why we’re doing this is basically if someone was to throw cobblestone into the system it’s not going to ruin it they would have to have a cobblestone block named exactly this and I highly doubt they would so it’s going down into the system

Here and what we’re going to do is open these first two hoppers here in the middle so in this first one here let’s just get out that rail that’s probably from before what you’re going to do is chuck in the two items that you want to filter out then in the remaining slots

Of the hopper here place five of the item in each slot or five of the cobblestone in each slot then do that for the next one here whoops one two three four five and it’s simple as that so old diamonds will go down into this chest here o iron

Ingots will go down to this chest here and then all remaining items that don’t get filtered out will simply go into this N chest now just to prove that that cobblestone won’t get caught up in the system so as you can see is actually two different items even though they’re both

Cobblestone if I throw that into the toilet there it will just end up in this end chest here so it doesn’t get so this cobblestone here doesn’t pick up this cobblestone but now I’ve actually threw in an iron ingot and a diamond let’s open this up properly

Throw that in that should go into the iron chest and that one should go into the diamond and let’s take a look right now Oh as you can see this is what happens initially there’ll be one stuck in this bottom hopper here but once you’ve done that at least once so let’s

Throw in another one the items will then go into the chest now I’m gonna show you guys how you can expand this and it is very simple so what we’re going to do is simply dig out this wall here so dig that down so you get down to exactly the

Same level we did before we’re going to destroy all the last year all more time we’re going to destroy this column of materials here so these hoppers this chest and that block we’re then going to copy this here exactly the same so what we need to do two blocks there we’re

Gonna have our redstone repeater two blocks above redstone redstone comparator here we’re going to place a block then make sure you place the right chest next to each other so this one here is a trap chest we instead when I place our chest here so it doesn’t

Connect up we’re gonna get a redstone torch place it there hopper going into the back of the chest there block temporarily there hope you’re going into the back of it and then we’re going to place that other chest all the basically the one that captures all of the unfiltered items hover at the

Back to hoppers on top of the funnels going downwards and then finally one going into there and you’ll notice that all the funnels are leading to that one chest at the end there then simply configure the items that you wanted go in there I’m not gonna do it

Again I just showed you guys how to do it now you can do this for as long as you like as long as the items that you are filtering out can stack up to 64 there’s probably a limited amount of items that you can do but for the

Majority of items that’s quite a lot now at that point in the tutorial where I’m gonna teach you guys how this works and it’s very simple so when we throw an item into this hopper here it goes into it then this minecart with Harper here actually pulls that out now the cool

Thing about this is you can’t actually see that the minecart with hopper is below there so it looks like this hopper goes nowhere and this is the trick with people and they won’t actually know that this actually goes into a sorting system and there’s like a secret room under

Below but yeah it’ll pull out the items then the hopper below the minecart here will pull the items out of that it will go through these hoppers here and it’s going to check if it can get pulled down so in here we’ve got two diamond and we’ve got these slots here filled up

With five cobblestone renamed to a random string of characters when one when eight diamond passes over here if it’s a diamond it’s going to get pulled down into here now once there’s one diamond in this first slot here it’s actually going to send out a signal strength of two from this comparator

Here so it’s gonna power this redstone here which empowers that repeater I’m powering this torch here and this simply lets one of the items from this hopper here go down into the hopper below so it will pull one down so reset back to this state that you see right now so there

Might be three in there but because there’s too many in there it’s gonna pull one down below and it’s going to go back to two so this does it for all of them so if it doesn’t go into the diamonds it’s gonna check for this next one if it’s an iron

Ingot then this one I haven’t done that but if none of them match it’s simply just going to go down to this remaining order to this end chest here so it’s really simple how it works now you can go ahead and cover this up now now

Obviously what you would do as well is actually build a room down below so you can actually see the chests say if I was to be building this on my survival world I would probably be building a room below so I can access these chests here

Also a good thing to do is put item frames on the front of the chests so if I go down below here put item frames on the front then put the items that are going into it say this one here is the diamond so I’d put diamond on the front

Of that this one here is the iron haven’t configured that one but then this last one would be like miscellaneous so I might put like a a bucket on there for kind of like trash items I don’t know and then you would cover this up and you’d have like a

Secret room underneath now that’s going to end off this tutorial today if you guys enjoyed make sure you hit that like button below if you have any ideas for redstone tutorials let me know down in the comments now before I do end this off completely if you are from Australia

I’m going to be doing an official meetup at the end of the year so I’m going to the convention known as PAX in Melbourne now you don’t actually need a ticket to see me I’m going to be doing it outside the Exhibition Centre so if you always

Wanted to meet me I’ll put a link down below where you can find out more details of when the event is happening it’s not happening for a while it’s going to be in November so you’ve got some quite some time to think about it I just thought I would let you know give

You an idea but anyway that’s gonna end off I will see you guys later bye