Colour Coded Hoppers

A simple tip about carpets and hoppers.

Generally people know that you can place carpets on top of hoppers, useful for keeping them active (picking up item drops on top of hoppers) while allowing players to walk across them without the camera/view bopping up and down on bare hoppers.

A simple tip I recommend is to colour code your carpets to your hoppers, like how strands of electrical wire have different coloured insulation (the plastic around the wire).

Note: Post has images so be patient on slower net connections.

Using a separate colour of carpet, or even a specific pattern of carpet colors when building to a colour scheme or using 16+ strings of hoppers, will make things easier to troubleshoot mistakes/errors when you construct large scale item systems with several strings of hoppers connected into each other.

Strings of hopper could also be chains, wires, or wording of your choice that that refer to: start -> hopper -> hopper -> hopper -> hopper -> end. Like what I have carpeted in the below image.

The added benefit also is being able to better highlight sections of your large scale red-stone circuits, which will make tutorials easier for you to make and provide and other players to follow when they recreate your projects.

A slightly larger scale working hopper design I have in operation on the Minecraft Crafters Community server features the below sets of hoppers for example.

Simple in theory, but as you can see in the above images it makes following the flow path of items from the sorters easier to visually follow as opposed to going to where the item sorter hoppers are and checking what item is inside the hopper.

Not a difficult task with this specific system but the tip really shines through when building around systems in tight spaces, either to guard against hostile mobs spawning around them or other players accessing things they should not in protection field shielded spaces.

I've built the sea temple that features the item sorters inside by using another players redstone circuitry design on the server, some of the pictures in this entry show part of it, however the green colour scheme is my own design.

A special thanks to player ralph1323 for popping my name up on the wall inside the sea temple on the Minecraft Crafters Community server.

Thanks for visiting (or even returning to) my blog and I hope this tip proves to be very useful in your own Minecraft adventures.

Drop a comment below (be patient for me to approve them manually) to share your own examples of using the hoppers and carpets like I have here.


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