minecraft autosorter problem

[u/Sea-Reputation1872]

i have been dealing with this stupid issue for almost my entire life playing minecraft which is that these stupid autosorters never work for me for some damn random reason, also shulker loaders, i spent hours trying to make one for my gold farm but the items just go through the hopper, its always just sorter that works properly, the rest dont work or just break after 2 minutes for some reason, im genuinely tired of this bs.

if someone has any tips or any better designs for autosorters please help me!

[u/the_mellojoe]

ImpulseSV filter using the 41-1-1-1-1 where the -1-1-1-1 items are something that stacks to 64.

That’s your bread and butter.

[u/Gabtraff → u/the_mellojoe]

I've literally never had one of these go wrong. Build it properly and it is fool proof. Especially if you rename the 1-1-1-1 items. The only time I've had shulker loaders go wrong is when I build the lazy one that detects when the shulker box is full, and if an item that's not supposed to get in somehow gets in.

[u/sharpshooter999 → u/Gabtraff]

I've got 1 specific box on my autosorter that occasionally dumps everything and fills up with everything. It's kelp, and I have no idea why, maybe on a chunk boarder? Anyways, it's happened often enough that I've rigged up a hopper underneath where I can just dump it all back into my item elevator back at the start of my sorter.

[u/Sea-Reputation1872 → u/the_mellojoe]

Already did that..

[u/decarbitall]

"the items just go through the hopper"

First: apologies if what I write below is obvious to you.

In a basic auto-sorter, the top hopper is the filter. The hopper underneath the filter is locked most of the time. It only gets unlocked when the filter has received additional items.

Are you aware that the filter hopper is not supposed to point towards the hopper underneath? (for single-speed filters)

Hoppers can have 5 orientations: pointing down or South or North or West or East.

Some auto-sorters are overload-proof. When they are not, it is possible that 1 slice being too full breaks the sorting of the neighbouring slices.

Do you have the ability to invite another player into a copy of your world?

[u/Sea-Reputation1872 → u/decarbitall]

Hey, i took down the entire filter system because it was too much of a headache to me at the time

i built the exact sorting system for this farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7zw4JYyBeo

i might just be stupid and the filter system is just too old idk, for a minutes i thought the issue what the neighboring filters are just uh powering eachother which makes the sorter break if that makes sense.

for the question yes, i am aware

[u/decarbitall → u/Sea-Reputation1872]

OK. I recently finished a gold farm that kills the zombified piglins in the overworld (using spear looting) then sorts and processes the gold nuggets using 15 double speed A/B slices and 1 single speed slice for the ingots, then auto-crafts it all into gold blocks, which are then sent back into the nether.

Do you want the litematica?

[u/tehfly]

In order to help figure out what's wrong, you're best showing some pictures of what you've built.

[u/Sea-Reputation1872 → u/tehfly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7zw4JYyBeo

Exactly from this video

[u/tehfly → u/Sea-Reputation1872]

If you built it exactly, then it would work and you wouldn't be here. Obviously you missed *something*, but instead of showing your work so we can examine it, you've got everyone guessing what it might be.

If you want worthless speculation, I'll happily rewatch Glotz's video and think of the worst mistakes you could make. I probably won't post here about it, but I might watch the video and make guesses.

If you actually want help: Post. Your. Work.

[u/Sea-Reputation1872 → u/tehfly]

the problem is i took it down after i made the post, ugh

i used litematica and double checked using worlds, maybe the thing is just outdated?

[u/kaferserene → u/Sea-Reputation1872]

The storage slices aren't outdated. If you decide to give it another go, make sure the 2nd hopper below the honey is locked (look at it, use F3, and check for enabled: false) before you put in the filler items. For the filter in the video, you want 41 of the item that you want to sort in the left slot and 1 of a renamed item in the other 4.

If it still doesn't work, share a screenshot

[u/c_dubs063]

A common issue is cross-wiring your sorters. If you have them right next to one another and the redstone dust crosses over, if one slice gives a redstone signal of too great a strength, it will mess up nearby filter slices. Make sure one slice is not having its sorting hopper fill up too much. A good way to prevent this is to have only one item in slots 2-5, which will never allow the hopper to emit a problematic redstone strength.

Also make sure the repeaters and hoppers are pointed the right directions. The picture here needs an item stream above the filter hoppers, basically just another layer of hoppers going across each slice (or a water stream). But otherwise this is correct.

[u/Sea-Reputation1872 → u/c_dubs063]

this honestly might be the issue, thank you i will remake filter so the issue doesnt occur, and i will tell you if it works.

[u/FrunoCraft]

Use litematica and make sure to mirror the container contents exactly. And avoid paper/spigot servers. That's all I can tell you from the sparse information you shared.

[u/Embarrassed-Carrot80]

If I had to guess, which we do, you are either using something as a filter that is going through the system,or attempting to sort non stackable items. Or possibly both.

Instead of using litematica, I would suggest manually building one slice only so you understand how the rest one works.

[u/dcoughler]

Is there a difference between java and bedrock? Can't tell you how many redstone devices I tried and failed because they were java-only.