Ender Hoppers
A hopper that pipes whatever it collects straight into your Ender Chest, so a remote farm feeds the storage you carry.
An Ender Hopper is a special 
hopper with one job: everything it picks up goes straight into your 
Ender Chest. Because your Ender Chest travels with you, a farm running far out in the wilds can fill storage you reach from anywhere. You collect the harvest without ever walking back to it.
Why you want one
Your Ender Chest is the same chest no matter where you open it. Feed it with an Ender Hopper and the distance between you and a farm stops mattering. Set a farm running at a mining camp, keep working elsewhere, and open your Ender Chest that evening to find the drops already banked.
Common uses:
- A mob farm out in the wilds that keeps stocking your carried storage.
- A crop or tree farm at a base you visit rarely.
- Any collection point you would rather not walk back to.
Using one
- Craft the Ender Hopper.
- Place it under whatever produces or collects the items.— the way you would place a normal hopper below a farm's output
- Let it run — items it takes in go into your Ender Chest instead of a chest beside it.
- Open your Ender Chest anywhere to collect.
Things to keep in mind
- The farm still needs loaded chunks. A hopper in unloaded territory collects nothing — items flow only while the area is loaded around a player.
- The Ender Chest is yours alone. Its contents are private to you, so an Ender Hopper feeds your storage and no one else's.
It fills your Ender Chest, which is finite. When the Ender Chest is full, the hopper has nowhere to put new items — empty it out so the flow keeps moving.
Pair an Ender Hopper with a farm you tend on a loop. By the time you cycle back to base, the take is waiting in the chest you already carry.
See also
- The Item Network — sort what your farms produce once it is home
- Caravans — haul bulk goods the Ender Chest can't hold
- Automation — the rest of the systems that work while you play
The Item Network
Wire an input, sorted containers, and a fallback into one wireless network that routes items across distance with no hoppers.
Work Orders
Hand a copper golem a Work Order and it picks up a job — hauling, smelting, restocking, sweeping, sorting, or farming. They walk real routes and never play the game for you.