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Compost with Dispensers and Hoppers

If a dispenser is facing a compost bin, when activated its contents go into the compost bin.

When a hopper is below a compost bin, the composts bone meal goes straight into the hopper as apposed to popping out.

Also if you were to drop items into the compost bin (or with a dropper) it would also fill.

This is all great for automation ༼ つ◕‿◕༽つ━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

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    These two:

    - hopper on top of compost is putting things to the compost

    - hopper below compost is taking bonemeal from the compost

    are already in game since they added compost. It's fullautomation already.

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    As a reply to the previous comment, while hoppers can fully automate composers, there are good reasons to want to also be able to do it with a dispenser. 
    Hoppers can get blocked if a non-compostable item gets in the system. If the dispenser where to “shoot” or drop a non-compostable item, the hopper below could catch the item and not clog up the system. This would be ideal for filtering items that might go into an overflow chest at complex industrial area. 

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    How about putting the hopper by the side of compost? 

    I hope that will be able to come to the same thing with the hopper on top.

    If that so, it would let the iron farm item sorter be more simple:

    A hopper below the hopper which is set by the side of compost could catch irons cause they are non-compostable.