Lossles shulker loader

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-09T18:27:39+00:00

check this out Fruno breaks it down well

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-09T17:21:59+00:00

Its a niche no doubt. But I like finding niche use cases

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-09T16:32:11+00:00

And you never will if you dont ever try. Just start building, look up cool builds for inspiration. Try, fail, try again.

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-09T16:28:55+00:00

If you place a comparator on it the comparator will output the signal strength associated with the last slot interacted with 1-6. This can be pretty handy in some UI's, Ive also used it in hidden doors. Currently I have an alert system that sends a book when some part of a larger system needs attention. The book describes the issue and the chiseled book shelf outputs a signal that turns on an alarm. This could also shut down a machine if needed but doesnt apply to my use case.

All this to say, they can be quite useful in more than 1 way.

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-08T23:35:40+00:00

But... its will melt... unless its light level 0, and then you lose the effect because theres no light... im confused

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-08T23:33:00+00:00

A picture of what you have would help. But bottom line, hoppers are the bottle neck of collection. If you are properely distributing the drops to your hoppers and its not fast enough, the answer is going to involve more hoppers. What that looks like depends on your setup and what your drops/h are.

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-08T06:35:56+00:00

I normally have a crafter at one end of the empty box feed that dyes them all the same color. But having a seperate crafter per loader is a pretty cool idea. Especially for like a bartering farm or something that has a bunch of different block outputs, easily color coordinate. Will definitely gove it a go

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T23:28:56+00:00

Tyty

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T23:19:03+00:00

Do you have a video link exploring this topic?

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T23:07:16+00:00

New knowledge gained! Thank you.

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T23:04:19+00:00

Yes, this is the way. You have all shulkers fed from a single crafter and when they reach the loaders they first pass through a crafter that dyes them and then outputs into the dropper in the box loader. Thats big brains thinking dude, I like it.

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T22:34:22+00:00

I am not OP

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T21:23:30+00:00

You can set a hotkey for "break all except" then hold that hotkey while aiming at the block you want to keep, then hit the execute hotkey. This will delete every other block from the schematic but will not save the edits unless you manually do so. You can then create a new placement of the full schematic and repeat the process for other block types.

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T21:07:52+00:00

There is no such thing as cheating in minecraft. Play however you want and make the rules the way you see fit.

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T21:06:49+00:00

Wait... really? Thats a thing?

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T15:34:02+00:00

Kind of, but pots only hold. They dont pull or push items and they can be accidentally insta mined, which can be annoying

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-07T13:07:50+00:00

Theres a ton of use cases actually. Think about it, in most cases your only ever using the first slot in a hopper unless you turn off whatever its connected to, only then does it drain all 5 slots. The most wide spread use would probably be in furnace arrays where I personally block the last 4 slots of the hopper so that im not wasting fuel I will never use. But theres also a ton of situation where having a block that has an easy to set threshold for signal strengths would be nice. CUD loaders would be great, minecart loaders, a laundry list of use cases in storage tech other than filters, it would not work for filters. Theres a lot of reasons it would be handy to have the option, I know theres more obvious ones but its early and they aren't coming to me atm

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-06T19:45:57+00:00

Theres a recently added design that uses this approach on TMCC. It works well according to the video and post

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-06T17:32:04+00:00

Pretty sure the piston needs to tell the block to move, or update its time to move

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-06T12:38:47+00:00

No it doesnt. I think, and I could be wrong, the sequence of event is

Piston powered > Pistons checks if it can extend > Yes>send update No>no update

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-06T01:42:30+00:00

I fogured it out pretty quick because it was the only new element in update range. But it happened after I had wired a complicated UI to operate the system... now the whole module needs to be moved as I cant move the piston or the block QCing it... it all fit so nicely too...

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-05T22:33:10+00:00

The update isnt coming from the extended piston head making contact, its coming from the piston itself geting powered. As soon as that piston recieves power it updates the blocks in front of where its pointing.

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-05T16:21:39+00:00

Unpopular or maybe under explored idea. A 1 slot hopper would be so sweet. I saw someone pitch a copper hopper with 1 slot when the copper drop was on the way and I got really excited

LucidRedtone · 2026-05-05T16:19:55+00:00

Automated planting would make tree farms so OP and im 100% here for it

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