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"Filter" Redstone Component

As it stands, organized storage in Minecraft has a real problem.

Keeping storage systems organized can be very tedious to do manually (navigating through hundreds of chest menus and UI's, especially late-game), yet it is extremely difficult for the average player to automate. Single-item item sorters (made with hoppers and comparators) simply are not useful for a player's regular storage system, and the current meta for multi-item sorters like the MIS4.2 requires costly, lag-heavy, complicated Redstone to achieve.

There's a gap in the redstone arsenal: how do we filter out specific items from hoppers and chests efficiently (without requiring dozens or even hundreds of observers, pulse stabilizers, and cryptic redstone)? To do so, a "filtering" redstone component could fill the void. Behaving very similarly to a hopper, with one key difference: only certain items can ever pass through it. The menu could provide the player with a "filter-list" of perhaps 9 or 18 slots, acting like a open hopper to any items in the list, and a locked hopper to any items not in the list.

This would allow average players to automate storage systems in an intuitive and understandable way, separating chests and sections into categories of their choosing

 

P.S. copper needs some more useful recipes, and this could definitely be one of them.

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    You can already do this with a comparator going out of a hopper which is filled so one more item will power a block with a Redstone torch on it which locks the hopper. I use it it most keycard doors.(not trying to be harsh, it rarely comes up in most instances though it is still possible)

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    Look at the copper-hopper mod for a perfect example of how this could work.  The functionality of this mod is something that should be built into vanilla minecraft.  It would pair extremely well with the new autocrafter and other improvements in 1.21