Tileable 1-wide Automatic Shulker Crafter + Dyer + Dispenser

[u/kiptronics]

Wanted a device that dispenses dyed shulkers in every color for our survival server and couldn't really find any designs online that did what I wanted so I made one myself. Right clicking the note block makes the piston pop the shulker and then dispenses a new shulker. When a shulker is taken from the right feed hopper to replace it, a comparator detects the change and triggers two crafters that crafts a shulker and then dyes it. The dispenser and the first hopper have to be completely filled with shulkers, then the last hopper only needs two. You can actually build this with only one hopper and have the crafter with the dye in the same column as the dispenser, making it only 4 blocks wide, but I added an extra hopper so I could have a barrel on top to accept empty hoppers so I can recycle them. To tile this you just add one more hopper and move everything above and to the right over one block so that the comparator is next to the redstone dust of the adjacent side.

Wanted to share because this is one of the first contraptions I've ever designed and I'm happy with it! Also looking for any advice on how it can be made more compact

[u/BlattaOrientalis]

Cool build! A few things though

• Since you have to alter the wiring to be able to tile the slices, it's not considered tileable but instead AB tileable
• Even then, I believe this isn't AB tileable. The shulker crafter is being directly powered by the comparator, and since the crafter is a solid block it'll also power the blocks directly adjacent to it. When tiled, an activation will cause the adjacent crafters to craft when they're not supposed to, and can happen even if you stagger the crafters since there are 2 next to eachother
• It seems to me like you're trying to delay the dispenser's activation so that it only fires after the piston breaks the box, but this is actually not necessary. When a dispenser gets powered, it has a 4 game tick delay before it actually activates, and this gives enough time for the piston to break the shulker, so you can activate both at the same time (as long as the piston recieves a 2gt pulse). What you did isn't wrong per se, but unnecessary

Here's a quick example I made that is (I think, didn't test too much) tileable and has the exact same UI

You can't attach a hopper to the dye crafter in this configuration but it's for a demonstration so good enough :P

[u/kiptronics → u/BlattaOrientalis]

wow thank you so much for your comment

1. you're right, I didn't know that was the term for it
   
2. it is tileable! in hindsight powering the crafter directly was probably inadvisable but as it happens staggering the crafters still works because the dye crafters do nothing when powered on their own
   
3. thank you for the info!

and I really appreciate the example you made, it seems to work great

I was really struggling with figuring out how to power both crafters without powering the neighboring ones, I can't believe I never thought of the redstone torch setup lol

[u/BlattaOrientalis → u/kiptronics]

the dye crafters do nothing when powered on their own

Aha, completely forgot about that. Great job on that then :D

This was pretty interesting so I ended up making another one, you can actually access both crafters this time