A guide to basic redstone item sorting on MCC

Hi fellow minecrafter,

Today, I'd like to help you build a Redstone item sorter module.

Minecraft central's plugins create a unique problem that has to be solved through creative solution finding.
The main difficulty with conventional sorting systems is that most make use of water and ice to move items through the sorting array, this is however not an option because of the clear lag plugin used on mccentral.
Because of this, we are forced to use hoppers to move all the items. This system could be called a loss-less system because the clear lag will not interfere with the items that are in transport.

What it'll eventually look like





STEP 1
Place 5 blocks in the configuration as seen in the picture below

This formation will be the base on top of which we'll build our sorter.

STEP 2
Place a redstone torch on the middle bottom block and a redstone repeater on the other side of the block. the redstone repeater should be aiming into the block (you can see this by the direction in which the arrow of the repeater is pointed)


STEP 3
Place a redstone line on the top right blocks, place a redstone comparator facing into the redstone line (again, you can see the way it's aimed by looking at the arrow)


STEP 5
Place a chest on the most left block, it's not important which way this chest is aimed unless you're going to expand the system. In which case, place it sideways, so you can place other chests next to it.
Place 2 hoppers, the top one must aim into the comparator (make sure to shift while placing it against the comparator otherwise it'll turn on a different function)
Place the second hopper below the first, it should aim into the chest.


STEP 6 configuring the filter
for this step, there are a few considerations to make. one of which is what item you'd like to use for your filter. keep in mind that you cannot filter out this item itself and inserting this item into the sytem can break it entirely.
Open the top hopper, place the item you would like to end up in the chest, in the other 4 slots, place atleast one item such as a sign, this prevents other items from entering the hopper


You will notice that when using this configuration, if you start adding items one by one, the moment you reach 7 items, the hopper will let a single unit of the item in the most left slot though.
This is how your sorter works. (the first time the item will get stuck in the hopper below, after this first item all items will end up in the chest.)

STEP 7 adding more modules

Repeat step 1 to 7 on the blocks next to the previous module to make more modules.

STEP 8 chaining it all together
to make the whole system work, place a line of hoppers aiming all into one direction to create a chain of hoppers. By adding a chest at the start of the line and at the end, you can catch all items that didn't get sorted.


If you followed all steps correctly, you should now have a working sorter,
enjoy building!

Kind regards,
Thomas

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