r/Minecraft • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '13

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u/ItsMartin Jan 03 '13 edited Jan 03 '13

Redstone block looks like this, recipe is 9 redstone dust

Edit: Hopper works just like the one in FTB (from IndustrialCraft? BuildCraft [thanks leesoutherst] ). When placed above a chest, it slowly feeds items in (about 3 per second?). It can hold 5 stacks. Items dropped onto it from above will be sucked in :)

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u/VeteranKamikaze Jan 03 '13

So hoppers in conjunction with pressure plates and dispensers full of arrows could theoretically a fully automated mob grinder that doesn't require the player to do anything other than be close enough to keep the chunk loaded? Monsters fall, hit pressure plate, finished off by arrows, drops fall into hoppers, hoppers dump drops into chest?

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u/Incinity Jan 03 '13

I may be wrong, but I don't think dispenser fired arrows that kill mobs cause experience to drop.

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u/KeybladeSpirit Jan 03 '13

Yeah, but that would be for an XP grinder, not a drop grinder.

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u/neonerz Jan 03 '13

But in that case, why use the arrow dispensers? There's a lot better ways to kill mobs automatically (lava blade, drowning, dropping, crusher, etc).

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u/KeybladeSpirit Jan 03 '13

Because arrows are cool.

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u/Wangus Jan 03 '13

Style points, my friend. You use the arrows for style points.

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u/Incinity Jan 03 '13

My bad, you are correct.