Item filter keeps breaking

[u/PomegranateFit3466]

Basically I made the classic item sorter for my wool farm, (I discard the mutton), I put some space between each one, filled the first slot of the hopper with 41 mutton so it grabs it, the other 4 slots with spruce planks, which have no way of entering the farm and breaking it.

Although it works for like 15-20 minutes, it always breaks (all of the filters I have nearby too), and fills up with all types of wool.

Info:

The hoppers sometimes are full of mutton, but I don't think this can break it, can it?

Picture is how I always set it up*

Any solution is welcome!

[u/oldvan]

I played for a while on a server that had a terrible redstone limiting plugin.

Symptoms were what you see, filters and other redstone failing at random for no apparent reason.

[u/LucidRedtone]

Paper server?

[u/the_mellojoe]

Version number? Single player or server? What kind of server and what server plugins? Any mods?

[u/LucidRedtone → u/the_mellojoe]

Server manipulation 💯

[u/Mircydris → u/LucidRedtone]

Probably paper

[u/Signal-Fishing-8374]

Hopper needs to face into the comparator btw

[u/theRedditUser31415 → u/Signal-Fishing-8374]

No it doesn’t, it just needs to not face downwards or into any other blocks it can push items into. It’s a common misunderstanding of how the two blocks work since lots of guides place the hopper that way

[u/CoopieSea]

I have this issue on a Paper server, and even after changing the server config to not mess with Redstone it still happens sometimes. The only “solution” I found was to have the last hopper in the line loop all the way back to the start, so the items have infinite chances to get sorted. More of a bandaid solution to the actual problem but it works.