Minecraft How to Make a Hopper Feed a Cherst

A hopper is a block that can be used to catch item entities, or to transfer items into and out of containers.

Obtaining [ ]

Breaking [ ]

To obtain a hopper, mine it with a pickaxe. Using any other item to mine a hopper drops only its contents.

Block	Hopper
Hardness	3
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default	15
Wooden	2.25
Stone	1.15
Iron	0.75
Diamond	0.6
Netherite	0.5
Golden	0.4

1. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Crafting [ ]

A hopper can be crafted from 5 iron ingots and a chest.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot + Chest

Usage [ ]

Hoppers can face down or sideways.

A hopper can be used as a container, as a crafting ingredient, and as a redstone component.

A hopper has an "output" tube at its bottom that can face down or sideways and provides a visual indication of which block the hopper is set up to drop its items into, if that block has an inventory. To place a hopper, use the Place Block control while aiming at the surface to which its output should face (Hoppers do not orient themselves automatically). To place a hopper directly on the face of an already interactable block, the player can sneak while placing the hopper. Attempting to place a hopper aimed on the bottom face of a block instead faces downward. With some blocks, such as the furnace and brewing stand, the hopper has multiple uses. A hopper does not change direction after placement, and it is not attached to the container it faces; the container can be removed or replaced, and the hopper remains unchanged.

Hoppers cannot be moved by pistons.‌^{[ Java Edition only ]} Despite not being a solid block, attached blocks such as rails, levers, tripwire and redstone dust can be placed on top of hoppers, but not on their sides.

Container [ ]

Hopper GUI showing the hopper's five slots of inventory at the top and the player's inventory below.

A hopper can be used as a container and has 5 slots of inventory space.

To open the hopper GUI, use the Use Item/Place Block control. To move items between the hopper inventory and the player inventory or hotbar while the hopper GUI is open, drag or shift-click the items. To exit the hopper GUI, use the Esc key, B button or circle button, depending on the device.

By default, the GUI of a hopper is labeled "Item Hopper". A hopper's GUI label can be changed by naming the hopper in an anvil before placing it, or, in Java Edition, by using the data command (for example, to label a hopper at (0,64,0) "Steve's Hopper", use /data merge block 0 64 0 {CustomName:'"Steve's Hopper"'}).

In Java Edition, a hopper's GUI can be "locked" (or subsequently unlocked) by setting the hopper's Lock tag with the data command. If a hopper's Lock tag is not blank, the hopper cannot be accessed except by players holding an item with the same name as the Lock tag's text. For example, to lock a hopper at (0,64,0) so that only players holding an item named "Steve's Key" can access the hopper, use /data merge block 0 64 0 {Lock:"Steve's Key"}.

Crafting ingredient [ ]

A hopper can be used to craft a minecart with hopper.

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Minecart with Hopper	Hopper + Minecart

Redstone component [ ]

Flowchart of hopper logic

While a hopper is not powered by redstone signals, it operates with three functions:

• Collect item entities (free-floating items in the world) into its inventory from the space above it
• Pull a single item into its inventory from a container above it
• Push a single item from its own inventory into a container it faces

A hopper first attempts to push any items inside it. Afterward, it checks if the block above it is a type of container. If so, it attempts to pull from it. Otherwise, the hopper attempts to collect item entities. Notably, hoppers can push to and pull from other hoppers, forming hopper pipes or hopper chains, which allow transporting items across several blocks and are further discussed below.

Redstone signals [ ]

When a hopper receives a redstone signal (and is considered to be "activated"), all three functions stop. To avoid confusion over the terms "activated" and "deactivated", powered hoppers are often described as being locked and unpowered hoppers described as being unlocked. Hoppers can be powered by soft powered blocks, meaning a redstone dust trail pointing into a block touching the hopper locks it just as effectively as a redstone block or any other power component touching the hopper. When the hopper is unlocked during a redstone tick, it does not push or pull/collect during the same tick, but has a delay of 1 redstone tick instead.

While a locked hopper does not push or pull/collect items, it may still receive items from dispensers, droppers and other hoppers, and may have its items pulled out by another hopper beneath it. Hence, the item flow in a horizontal hopper pipe may be stopped by locking just one of the hoppers, but stopping a vertical hopper pipe requires locking two adjacent hoppers at the same time, such that both the pushing of the top one and the pulling of the bottom one are stopped.

A hopper does not output any redstone signals by itself, but its fullness can be read using a redstone comparator, which needs to be placed next to it and facing away from it. An empty hopper outputs a signal strength of 0 and a completely full hopper outputs a signal strength of 15. Notably, a single stackable item (16 or 64) outputs a signal strength of 1 and a single non-stackable item outputs a signal strength of 3.

In Java Edition, if the hopper being read is part of a horizontal hopper pipe, the comparator can individually read each item passing through the chain, because items are pushed through the hoppers one by one at a speed that is manageable by the comparator. If there is an uninterrupted stream of items, the comparator does not switch off in between items. On the other hand, in a vertical hopper pipe, some of the hoppers may never produce a reading above 0, even with a continuous stream of items, because pushes and pulls both occur in the same game tick: The hoppers' items get pulled out a single game tick after they're pushed in and this isn't measurable by a comparator, because comparators need measurements lasting at least 1.5 redstone ticks to produce a reading.

Collecting items [ ]

A hopper collects items dropped on top of it if the space above the hopper not occupied by a storage block. In Java Edition, items are gathered from the entire 1 block space above the hopper, meaning that items sitting on partial blocks such as soul sand directly above a hopper can be collected. In Bedrock Edition, items are gathered from the lower ³⁄₄ of the block space above the hopper, so items sitting on a lower slab or bed can be collected while items sitting on an enchanting table or horizontal grindstone cannot.^[1] (Moreover, soul sand is a full block in Bedrock Edition.^[2]) It is also possible for a hopper to collect items from inside a full, solid block, a situation that might come from items rising up through solid blocks or being summoned. Item entities are not collected when they are outside of the collection area however; for example, items on top of a stone block directly above a hopper are not collected. Collected items are placed in the leftmost empty slot of a hopper's inventory.

In Java Edition, if there is no container above the hopper, then the hopper collects dropped items in the order in which they landed on the hopper. This order is remembered even while a hopper is locked. For instance, if a hopper is locked under a carpet while a fully equipped armor stand is broken above it, then it always collects items in this order when it is unlocked: armor stand, boots, leggings, chestplates, helmets. This is due to the order in which these items land.^{[ verify ]} In Bedrock Edition, hoppers do not remember the order in which items land on the hopper. Instead, hoppers with multiple dropped items above them collect the items in the order in which they entered the chunk in which the hopper is located. Items that drop from a broken armor stand are collected in a random order.^[3]

Hoppers usually check for dropped items every game tick and they can collect items even before they are picked up by a player^{[ verify ]} or destroyed by lava. However, in Bedrock Edition hoppers have a "collection cooldown" time. After collecting an item (or stack of items), a hopper waits 4 redstone ticks (0.4 seconds, barring lag) before attempting to collect again.

Hoppers collect groups of items all at once rather than collecting them as single items one at a time. As a result, hoppers can collect item entities much faster than they can pull items from a container. Pulling from a moving minecart with chest or minecart with hopper is even slower, since the minecart is not always above the hopper.

Pushing and pulling items [ ]

A hopper with a storage container above it (such as a furnace, chest, dropper, composter, or another hopper) attempts to pull from the container instead of checking for floating items above it, and hence can not collect items. A hopper always tries to push or pull items using the leftmost available slot. When a hopper is removing items from a chest, the items disappear from left to right. Similarly, when filling up a chest, the chest fills up from left to right. Hoppers prioritize pulling from the first slot of a container over pulling into the first hopper slot. If a hopper has stone in its first slot and nothing in its second while the container it is pulling from has chicken in its first slot but stone in the second, the hopper pulls the chicken from the first slot of the container into its empty second slot. However, if the hopper is unable to pull the chicken, such as if all slots are filled with stone, the hopper pulls the stone from the second slot of the container instead. Similarly, hoppers prioritize pushing from their first slot over pushing into the first slot of a container. If a hopper has stone in its first slot and chicken in its second while the container it is pushing to has chicken it its first slot but stone in the second, the hopper pushes stone from its first slot into the second slot of the container.

In Java Edition the checks done by a hopper while pulling generally require less processing than the checks done by a hopper attempting collection. Therefore, a chain of hoppers topped with storage containers rather than air/solid blocks has better performance (measured as milliseconds of processing per tick) and lower potential for processing lag. ^[4] The performance improvement achieved is correlated with the the number of storage slots the container has. Placing composters (with no storage slots but still with custom output logic) on top of hoppers provide the greatest efficiency, while double chests actually degrade performance, even when sharing each double chest across two hoppers.^[4] In Bedrock Edition a chain of hoppers with air or non-container blocks on top has better performance than a chain of hoppers topped by container blocks.^[5] This may be because, even though hoppers with containers on top do not check for items, they do check for hopper-minecarts and chest-minecarts to pull from, and that involves scanning the chunk entity list.^[6]

Push then Pull

Chest A is full of items while the hopper and Chest B are empty.

Item pushes and pulls are processed in the same game tick, but pushes are processed before pulls. In the schematic, the empty hopper first pulls an item from chest A as it cannot push anything into chest B. After the cooldown, the hopper first pushes its item into chest B before pulling another item from chest A, both pushing and pulling in the same tick, and the process repeats. The hopper stops pulling when A is empty, and stops pushing when B becomes full.

Hoppers also have a "transfer cooldown" time. After pulling and/or pushing items, a hopper waits 4 redstone ticks (0.4 seconds, barring lag) before pulling or pushing again (a transfer rate of 2.5 items per second, barring lag). A hopper that has an item pushed into it from another hopper also starts a 4 tick cooldown period, regardless of whether it pushed or pulled items itself. Item entities can be collected at any time without affecting the transfer cooldown time. The transfer cooldown and the Bedrock Edition collection cooldown are independent of each other.

Container interactions [ ]

Some containers interact with hoppers in specific ways:

Composter

Hoppers above composters can push compostable items into the composter's top face with a chance of increasing the level of the composter as if the player used the item on the composter. Items that are not compostable cannot be pushed into the composter. Hoppers below the composter can pull bone meal when the composter is in stage 8, emptying the composter and resetting it to stage 0. Hoppers to the side of a composter do not interact with it.

Brewing Stand

A working hopper on the top face of a brewing stand deposits only into the ingredient slot and it can push only valid brewing ingredients. A hopper on side face of a brewing stand can deposit only blaze powder or filled bottles into the three brew slots. A hopper underneath a brewing stand always extracts from the three brew slots, whether brewing is finished or not—The hopper must be locked to allow potions to finish brewing.

Chest

Trapped Chest

Large chests and large trapped chests are treated as a single container: A hopper depositing into a large chest fills up the entire chest and a hopper underneath a large chest empties the entire chest. Trapped chests being accessed by a player lock any adjacent hoppers, per the standard behavior of a hopper next to an active power source.

Furnace

Blast Furnace

Smoker

A working hopper pointing into top of a furnace deposits only into the ingredient slot. It can push any item, including items that can't be smelted by the furnace. A hopper pointing into the side of a furnace deposits into the fuel slot, and only items that are usable as fuel. A hopper below a furnace pulls everything from the output slot and empty buckets from the fuel slot left over from using lava buckets as fuel. When a hopper removes items from a furnace, the experience points are 'stored' in the furnace until a player removes at least one smelted item, or the furnace block is broken.

Hopper

A sequence of three or more hoppers, each pushing items into the next, is called a hopper pipe. Working horizontal hopper pipes simply push items into each other at the expected rate of 2.5 items per second, but vertical hopper pipes are more complicated, as the hoppers are trying both to pull and to push. When a vertical pipe pulls from a single container, it simply transfers items at 2.5 items per second because the transfer rate is limited by the first hopper pulling items from the container. If a stack of items is in a vertical pipe, the items can be transferred twice as fast, because the hopper with the item stack is pushing items down while the hopper below it is also pulling items down.

Minecart with Chest

Minecart with Hopper

Unlocked hoppers fill chest minecarts and hopper minecarts if any part of the entity's hitbox is within the hopper's target block-space. Hopper minecarts try to pull items from the hopper at high speed. Hoppers can pull items from minecarts above them so rails can be placed directly on the top faces of a hoppers. If a detector rail is in the right position, it could lock the hopper per standard redstone-hopper behavior.

Jukebox

In Bedrock Edition, discs play instantly when inserted.

Shulker Box

Hoppers cannot put shulker boxes into other shulker boxes. This allows for the creation of certain item filters.

Otherwise, hoppers interact with shulker boxes normally.

Lectern

Hoppers cannot remove or place books on lecterns. The redstone pulse emitted from a lectern when a page is turned can temporarily lock hoppers.

Ender Chest

Hoppers cannot interact with ender chests in any way.

Barrel

Dispenser

Dropper

Hoppers interact normally with Barrels, Dispensers and Droppers.

Boat with Chest

Sounds [ ]

Generic [ ]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.metal.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	1.2	16
	None [sound 1]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.metal.fall	None [sound 1]	0.5	1.25	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.metal.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.75	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.metal.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	1.2	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.metal.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.5	16

1. ↑ ^{a b} MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	?	1.2
	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	?	?
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	?	0.75
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	?	?
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	?	?
	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.stone	?	?
	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.stone	?	1.2

Unique [ ]

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Chest locked	Blocks	When a player attempts to open a hopper locked using the  Lock tag	block.chest.locked	subtitles.block.chest.locked	1.0	1.0	16

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Hopper	hopper	Block & Item	block.minecraft.hopper

Name	Identifier
Block entity	hopper

Bedrock Edition:

Hopper	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Block	hopper	154	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	item.hopper	tile.hopper.name
Item	hopper	527	Item	—	tile.hopper.name

1. ↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.
2. ↑ Unavailable with /give command

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	Hopper

Block states [ ]

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
enabled	true	false true	True if hopper can move items to and from its inventory. When the hopper is being powered by redstone current, this is set to false.
facing	down	down east north south west	The direction the hopper's output points. The hopper pushes items into containers in this direction only.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
facing_direction	0x1 0x2 0x4	0	0 1 2 3 4	0 1 2 3 4	The direction the hopper's output points. The hopper pushes items into containers in this direction only. 0: Output facing down 1: (unused) 2: Output facing north 3: Output facing south 4: Output facing west 5: Output facing east
toggle_bit	0x8	false	false true	0 1	1 if hopper cannot move items to and from its inventory. When the hopper is being powered by redstone current, this is set to true.

Block data [ ]

A hopper has a block entity associated with it that holds additional data about the block.

Java Edition:

• Block entity data
  •  CustomName: Optional. The name of this container in JSON text component, which appears in its GUI where the default name ordinarily appears.
  •  Items: List of items in this container.
    • : An item, including the slot tag.
  •  Lock: Optional. When not blank, prevents the container from being opened unless the opener is holding an item whose name matches this string.
  •  LootTable: Optional. Loot table to be used to fill the hopper when it is next opened, or the items are otherwise interacted with. Note that the loot table is used when the hopper tries to push items, when it's enabled.^{[note 1]}
  •  LootTableSeed: Optional. Seed for generating the loot table. 0 or omitted uses a random seed.^{[note 1]}
  •  TransferCooldown: Time until the next transfer in game ticks, naturally between 1 and 8 or 0 if there is no transfer.

1. ↑ ^{a b} Both loot table tags are removed once the items have been generated.

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Block entity format.

Achievements [ ]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Freight Station	Use a Hopper to move an item from a Chest Minecart to a Chest.	—	15G	Bronze
		Smelt Everything!	Connect 3 Chests to a single Furnace using 3 Hoppers.	Be within the range of three chests connected to a Furnace with 3 Hoppers.	15G	Bronze

Video [ ]

History [ ]

Java Edition
1.5		13w01a			Added hoppers.
					Hoppers with the damage value of 1, which are obtainable only through world editing, visually point in no direction. They functionally push items upward, however the behavior is inconsistent.
					There is currently a temporary "work in progress" sprite for hoppers in the inventory.
					Hoppers can be crafted from a chest and stone blocks with the following recipe: Recipe
		13w01b			Rails can now be placed on top of hoppers.
					Hoppers no longer load items into minecarts without chests.
		13w02a			The inventory sprite of hoppers has been changed.
					However, the item of hoppers appears bugged if dropped or placed in an item frame.[7] This may be due to the game attempting to pull the item sprite from the hopper's equivalent spot in stitched_terrain.png (compare files: terrain, items), a region which contains parts of the oak planks, end stone and iron bars textures.
					Applying a redstone signal to a hopper now deactivates the hopper until the signal is removed.
					Hoppers can no longer be used as fuel in a furnace.
					Hoppers are now crafted using 5 iron ingots rather than 5 stone blocks. Recipe Ingredients Crafting recipe Iron Ingot + Chest
					Hoppers now pull only from the output slot of furnaces.
					Hoppers now output 1 signal strengh per 1/3 of a stack (21 items) when interacting with a redstone comparator.
					The texture of hoppers has been given a unique texture. Hoppers no longer use the cauldron texture. Note that the top texture does not rotate with facing direction.
					The preferred tool is now a pickaxe, rather than the axe.
		13w02b			Hoppers now treat large chests properly, no longer needing two hoppers connected to them to fill up the entire inventory.
					Hoppers no longer take items from containers when powered via a redstone current.
					Hoppers now display correctly as a dropped or frame item.
		13w03a			Hoppers are now used to craft a minecart with hopper.
					Hoppers can now empty a minecart with hopper.
		13w04a			The transfer rate of hoppers has been changed from 7 to 8 game ticks per item (2.5 items per second).
1.5.1		pre			Hoppers now take empty buckets out of furnace fuel slots.
1.7.2		release			The UV of all blocks is broken on certain sides as a result of MC-37106 (few cases are listed on the wiki so far - this is a future project). This includes hoppers.
1.7.4		13w47a			MC-37106 has been fixed, reverting hoppers to their pre-1.7.2 appearences.
		13w48a			This version fixed MC-190, which hoppers were allegedly subject to since their introduction. However, a comparison of hopper UV in 13w02a and 14w08a failed to reveal any visible differences, even accounting for the example images on the ticket. More research is needed on this matter.
1.8		?			Hoppers no longer generate multiplayer lag when idle.
		14w10a			Hoppers now use block models rather than having a hardcoded shape. This brings multiple changes: the inside texture now rotates with the hopper rather than being constant, the inside planes of hoppers are now shaded/have ambient occlusion, and some minor UV changes have occurred, notably on the smallest cuboid. The directionless hopper also no longer has a model.
		14w26a			The directionless hopper has been removed.
		14w31a			Hoppers now no longer use wood sounds.[8]
1.9		15w33c			A hopper now generates as a part of the end ship in the end cities.
		15w41a			End ships no longer contain a hopper.
		15w43a			Loot tables have been added; hoppers can now use loot tables.
		15w43c			The UV on the hopper model has changed, resulting in minor differences, particularly to the smallest cuboid. This is likely due to the fix for MC-73401.
		15w44a			A mapping issue introduced in the previous snapshot for the sides of the large funnel region has been fixed. This may be due to the fix for MC-50344.
1.9.1		pre1			A hopper can now push into and pull items from a blocked chest.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 154.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of hoppers have been changed.
		19w03c			Hoppers now use correct cullface arguments, and some redundant faces have also been deleted.
1.19		22w13a			Hoppers no longer drop when breaking a minecart with hopper.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.14.0		build 1			[ verify ] Added hoppers. Upward hoppers also exist.
v0.15.0		build 1			Hoppers can now be moved by pistons.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of hoppers have been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1	1.0.1	[ verify ] Added hoppers.
		1.90			[ verify ] The textures of hoppers have been changed.
		1.91			Hoppers can now fill composters.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					[ verify ] Added hoppers.

Gallery [ ]

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  In snapshot 13w01a, the hopper item uses a 'WIP' sprite, though the item still read "Hopper".

Issues [ ]

Issues relating to "Hopper" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia [ ]

• A real-world hopper is a large, pyramidal or cone-shaped container used in industrial processes to hold particulate matter, like dust, gravel, nuts, seeds, etc., and can then dispense them from the bottom.
• A hopper can transfer 9000 items per hour, or 150 items per minute.

References [ ]

1. ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-55824
2. ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-87458
3. ↑ https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-120586
4. ↑ ^{a b} https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC3ZOOI1Rf0
5. ↑ https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/715523208530362389/890030941282631741/Redstone_MSPT_measure.xlsx
6. ↑ MCPE-109449
7. ↑ MC-6737
8. ↑ MC-5991

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Source: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Hopper

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