Recipes & Machine Tiers

Super Hopper

Today it moves its whole five-slot inventory every cycle — it fills from the container above and empties into the block it faces, on the same 8-tick beat as a normal hopper. A powered hopper is locked, exactly like vanilla.

Changing soon: a Super Hopper will move one stack per transfer instead of all five slots, so it becomes the first rung of the tier ladder rather than the top of it. See Hoppers for what Mega and Giga add above it.

• SpeedSame 8-tick cadence as a normal hopper.
• NowUp to 5 full stacks per cycle — its whole inventory, in and out.
• PlannedOne stack per transfer. Mega and Giga take it from there.
• WhyOne block does the work of a wall of hoppers — often less lag, not more.

Hopper ×5 Ender Chest ×1

Mob Bundle

Right-click a mob to scoop it up, right-click a block to set it back down — exactly as it was: name, tame, age, health and all. Even shulkers.

• HoldsOne creature at a time (bosses excluded).
• ShowsThe trapped mob's spawn egg — locked in, you can't take it out.
• Free itRight-click a block to place the mob back.
• PlannedLoading one into a dispenser, so a machine can catch and release — see Dispensers.

Shulker Shell ×6 Ender Chest ×3

Bamboo-Block TNT

The vanilla TNT checkerboard with bamboo blocks where the sand goes — so TNT is craftable from fully renewable bamboo. No sand pit required.

• Makes1 TNT, identical to the normal one.
• Cost5 gunpowder + 4 bamboo blocks (36 bamboo).
• NoteThe classic gunpowder + sand recipe still works.

Gunpowder ×5 Bamboo Block ×4

Block Placer

A dispenser that builds instead of throwing. It never fires anything out — on a redstone signal it takes one item from inside and sets it down as a real block, at a distance the signal itself decides.

The signal is a range dial, and it runs backwards on purpose. A full-strength 15 (a lever or redstone block right on it) places one block away; every point weaker reaches one block further, so a signal of 1 — fifteen blocks of dust, or a comparator wound right down — places fifteen blocks away. The rule is distance = 16 − signal.

It fires on any change in signal strength, not just on being switched on. A steady signal places once and then holds. A clock places once per pulse. And a comparator reading a chest or hopper that is draining — its output stepping 15, 14, 13… — walks the placer one block further out with every step, which is how you build a line without moving anything.

• PlacesAlmost anything that is a block: rails, dust, repeaters, torches, levers, plates, carpets, saplings, flowers — not just walls.
• And cropsWheat and beetroot seeds, potatoes, carrots, melon and pumpkin seeds, torchflower seeds, pitcher pods, cocoa beans, sweet and glow berries, nether wart, bamboo, kelp, sugar cane — and redstone dust and string, which also change name when placed.
• Won't placeDoors, beds and tall flowers (two-block things), and anything that needs the ground it is going on — a crop aimed at stone is left in the box, not wasted.
• Won't throwBuckets, TNT, fireworks and arrows are not placeable, so they simply sit inside. It is a placer, not a dispenser any more.
• SkipsChicken Coops, Restart Detectors and Light Suppressors — it cannot give those back their identity, so it looks past them to the next stack.
• Places machinesA placer or breaker placed by a placer keeps its tag and still works.
• BlockedAnything already in the target space stops it. A placer places; it never mines.
• RateAt most one placement every 4 ticks. Don't drive it with a clock faster than that — pulses shorter than 4 ticks can be missed entirely.
• Break itYou get the Placer itself back, plus everything inside it.
• CentreA plain dispenser. Not a Block Placer — a placer fed into the grid is refused.
• Ring7 Stal discs and 1 Pigstep.

Dispenser ×1 Music Disc — Stal ×7 Music Disc — Pigstep ×1

Block Breaker

The other half of the pair, and it is a furnace, not a dispenser — because a furnace already has the three slots this machine needs. Tool in the top slot (where the ore would go), repair material in the fuel slot, drops come out of the result slot. It never actually smelts anything; the flame is decoration.

The tool decides everything. The breaker is exactly as good as the pickaxe you put in it — Fortune and Silk Touch apply just as if you were holding it. Point it at something the tool cannot harvest (a shovel at stone) and it leaves the block standing rather than destroying it for nothing.

Same redstone rules as the Placer: distance = 16 − signal (15 digs the block right in front, 1 digs fifteen away), it fires on any change in signal strength so a draining comparator walks it outward, and it swings at most once every 4 ticks. No signal, no digging — but it keeps topping up its repair material either way.

Put a sword in the top slot instead and it becomes a mob killer. It swings at whatever is in front of it as if a player struck it: base sword damage plus Sharpness, Smite or Bane of Arthropods, Knockback to shove them, Fire Aspect to light them, and Sweeping Edge to fan a lighter hit across the mobs packed around the first one. Drops land where the mob dies, for your existing hopper or water-stream collection to pick up.

• Feeding itA hopper on top loads the tool, a hopper into the side loads repair material, a hopper underneath drains the drops.
• RepairsWood by planks, stone by cobblestone, iron and shears by iron ingots, gold by gold ingots, diamond by diamonds, netherite by netherite ingots — and sculk mends any tool at any tier. One unit restores about a quarter of the bar.
• WearOne durability per dig, Unbreaking honoured. A tool that runs out with nothing to mend it is spat into the top slot's place and the breaker idles until you refeed it — it never keeps digging on a broken tool.
• ToolsPickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe or shears — or a sword, for the attack mode.
• Full stops itThe result slot is one stack. If the drops won't fit, or a block drops two different things at once, it leaves the block standing rather than littering the floor.
• Won't breakBedrock and anything else unbreakable, any container (chests, barrels, and every Placer, Breaker or Coop), Restart Detectors, Light Suppressors, and super cactus hearts.
• Will breakA super cactus body — which bursts the rest of the plant. That is deliberate: a breaker at the base is a harvest button.
• Sword reachUp to 32 mobs in one Sweeping Edge swing, within about 3.5 blocks of the first target. Never hits players or armour stands.
• Sword XPHostile mobs killed by a breaker drop 5 XP each, so a sword breaker over a farm feeds an XP supply.
• Break itYou get the Breaker back with everything inside, tool included.
• CentreA plain furnace.
• Ring6 disc fragments and 2 echo shards, the shards either side.

Furnace ×1 Disc Fragment ×6 Echo Shard ×2

Chicken Coop

Houses a flock and lays for you — the chickens live inside the block instead of as entities, so a huge flock costs the server almost nothing.

• CentreA plain barrel. A coop holding a flock will not be eaten by the grid.
• Ring4 dispensers in the corners; the three egg types and the Lava Chicken disc on the edges.
• CarefulBreak it and it comes back to your hand with the flock still inside.

Barrel ×1 Dispenser ×4 Blue Egg ×1 Brown Egg ×1 Egg ×1 Music Disc — Lava Chicken ×1

Restart Detector

Fires a redstone signal before the server restarts, so your farms can shut themselves down cleanly instead of being caught mid-cycle.

• CentreA plain target block.
• Ring4 dark prismarine in the corners, 4 sea lanterns on the edges.
• Use it forClosing gates, cutting power, parking minecarts.

Target ×1 Dark Prismarine ×4 Sea Lantern ×4

Light Suppressor

Give it a redstone signal and it holds everything in the chunk below it at light level 0. Torches and lamps pop off as drops, new ones refuse to place, and the dark is real — mobs spawn in it.

• CentreA plain redstone lamp.
• Ring4 copper bulbs in the corners, 4 lanterns on the edges.
• RangeIts own chunk, everything strictly below it.
• Only while poweredNo signal, no suppression. It is an ordinary lamp again.
• Limit8 per player.
• Use it forMob farms that need dark, and builds you want to stay unlit.

Redstone Lamp ×1 Copper Bulb ×4 Lantern ×4

Block Suppressor

The same ring turned inside out. While powered it cancels block physics in the chunk below it — sand and gravel hang in mid-air, torches hold on walls you have already mined out, concrete powder never sets, rails keep their shape.

• CentreA plain copper bulb.
• Ring4 redstone lamps in the corners, 4 lanterns on the edges.
• RangeIts own chunk, everything strictly below it.
• Only while poweredCut the signal and everything it was holding up falls at once.
• Limit8 per player.
• Use it forFloating builds, sand sculptures, contraptions mid-edit.

Copper Bulb ×1 Redstone Lamp ×4 Lantern ×4