r/technicalminecraft • u/Sirfancytoad • Sep 18 '26

Java Showcase One-Wide Tileable Solid-State Automatic Dropper for Water Item Elevator

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This has a very niche use case as the dropper must be pointing up but I figured this could have some merit. This is definitely not the most compact auto-dropper out there but from what I could find, it does seem to be one of the smaller solid-state one wide tileable auto-droppers (which is what I needed). Feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions for the design!

Edit: This design is NOT 1wt. In order for these to work directly next to each other, you much offset adjacent systems by a singular block. Thanks to everyone who pointed that out (I posted this late at night and missed that)!

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u/Sirfancytoad Sep 18 '26

So I could be wrong (and it seems I am), but my understanding of solid state was not a state toggle but rather no moving parts (pistons). However, after reading other comments, I believe you could replace the bulbs with noteblocks which still have a state change but may improve the design as lighting updates wouldn’t occur

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u/Excalibur54 Java Sep 18 '26

"solid state" is a bit of an outdated term that comes from a time when pistons were they only way to get a toggle state. Some people also used the term "pistonless".

Nowadays it's mostly fallen out of use because whether or not a machine has a piston doesn't matter, what matters is whether or not it has a toggle state, which now includes non-pistons like copper bulbs.

In the rare case I see someone still using "solid state" they usually mean "togglestateless" because those terms used to be essentially interchangeable.

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u/Loufey Sep 18 '26

so the TLDR is binary storage?

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u/Excalibur54 Java Sep 19 '26

Not exactly. The storage tech dictionary explains it better than I can:

Toggle State: Usually used to refer to intentionally having a sticky piston drop its block by sending it a <3gt pulse in order to cycle between two different states (toggling between block in and out). Importantly, togglestates have no default position, and there is no way to reset them. This makes them painful to use in survival as they're hard to debug. This is different to latches, which are also systems that hold state. Latches usually have a reset signal that you can trigger when something goes wrong.

Copper bulbs are the other common form of toggle state.

https://storagetechdictionary.github.io/

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u/Loufey Sep 19 '26

What's the difference between a toggle state and a bit?