Ender Hoppers

An Ender Hopper draws dropped items from a square around itself. Place one beneath a farm floor and loose drops within four blocks to each side travel to the hopper, even if they never land directly on top of it. The collection area is 9 × 9 blocks. Connect a chest below or beside it as you would with an ordinary hopper; the drops go through the hopper's inventory, not into your Ender Chest.

Craft one

Put an eye of ender above a respawn anchor, with a hopper below it. The three ingredients form one column in a crafting table.

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Ender Hopper

Place the crafted item where a normal hopper would go. Point its output into a chest or another part of your storage line. Items lying near the hopper teleport to it; items already inside are moved onward by normal hopper rules.

Put one on rails

The mobile version uses the same eye of ender and respawn anchor, but the bottom ingredient is a minecart with hopper. Place the resulting minecart on rails and let it pass through dropped items. It collects from the surrounding area as it travels.

Control the flow

• A redstone signal disables a placed Ender Hopper. Remove the signal to resume collection.
• A powered activator rail disables the minecart version while it is on that rail.
• The area must be loaded for collection to run. A distant, unloaded farm will wait until a player loads it again.
• A full hopper or blocked output needs attention like any other hopper system. Give the collected items somewhere to go.

See also

• Linked chests — move items around your storage room
• The Smeltery — process the raw materials your farm collects
• Automation — more ways to keep a base running