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Villager Discounts As discussed in the Buying and Selling Resources Page, trading is at the epicenter for progressing through a world; however, villagers are greedy scam artists that love to charge high prices for buying items and selling resources. As TMC is...

A Advanced Automation AA SMP A technical Minecraft Server well known for its perimeters and origins. More info in Community Shelf. AB Tileable / A/B Tileable AB Descriptor A term used to describe a contraption's tileability. The contraption...

Advanced Automation, also known as AA, is a technical SMP that was founded in March 2018 by Zundappchef. The server stood out as one of the only tech SMP's to be hosted using a Realm, which allowed console and mobile players to access the server more easily at...

A Box unloader is a contraption used to take items out of a box. They are used to move  items somewhere else like a chest. They are also used in storage inputs to send items around a storage. There’s lots of different types of unloaders such as: FITs (First I...

In most cases, a simple line of hoppers is both the slowest and most expensive option for item distribution, so how do you optimize moving items for speed and cost? Ice & Water Streams The most common method of distributing items across a set of filters is t...

A box splitter splits the items in the box into non-stackables and the other items are loaded into boxes. The loaders replace the box whenever the item changes, so you end up with lots of boxes with a single item type. And the non-stackables are sent down a se...

A box merger takes in 2 boxes of the same item type and combines them into one or more boxes. It will place the most full box out of the two and unload the least full. What it’s doing is unloading a box into a loader. The loader box will ether get loaded as no...

Box sorting is very powerful especially when used in the correct way but first what is a box sorter? box sorting works by seeing what is in the first slot of a box and taking one item out. It will then send that item and the box into two separate item transpo...

Loose Item Input: The simplest form of input, loose item input is when items are placed directly into the system as-is, either by throwing them into a water stream or into a chest/barrel. Loose items inputs sometimes automatically sort out unstackables (such ...

Input buffers are an optional component of an automated storage system. The input buffer will accept items from the input UI (usually in the form of mixed-item-type shulker boxes) and hold them until the storage is given the instruction to "run".  Input buffe...

What are block properties? Block properties are the different values that blocks have within the Minecraft code that determine how to block behaves in the game. Each block has defined properties with some being more unique than others.   Solid Solid blocks...

The following page does not apply to loader-based bulks nor any bulk that accepts loose items (as opposed to full shulker boxes) as input.  Temporary "temp" storage is a front-logic component for a merging array (see the Mergers page). Temporary storages will...

Stackable item sorters separate items by type are the very base of of storage tech. Nearly every storage tech contraption uses an item filter or a variation on the concept. How Item Filters Work Most item filters utilize the property of items that only allow...