How to make a Crafter block & auto-craft in Minecraft

Mojang / Dexerto

Not only is this ideal for those looking to create multiple arrows, weapons, and armor, but it’s also brilliant to help create building blocks for your dream house. However, you’ll need to know how to make a Crafter and how to autocraft before you begin. So, here’s everything you need to know.

Dropper Crafting Recipe in Minecraft

Now that you have the needed resources, let’s make a dropper in Minecraft.

• Place the crafting table in your world and right-click it or use the secondary action button to open its interface.
• Put the redstone dust in the middle slot of the bottommost row of the grid.

• Then, fill every other slot with cobblestone leaving only the central slot empty.
• And that’s it. The dropper icon will appear on the right. To craft the block, hover over the output slot and click to move it to your inventory.

Alternatively, you can also use a crafter in Minecraft 1.21 to make the dropper, but to craft any item with it, you’ll need to power the crafter using a redstone power source like a lever, button, or redstone block.

How to Use a Dropper

After you make a dropper, let’s figure out what to do with it.

Once you open the dropper’s inventory, you can see it’s a 3×3 slot grid with Dropper text above it. Dropper is a container block. This means you can leave items in it, walk away and they’ll be safely stored. Though it only has 9 slots worth of space.

What the dropper is mostly used for is for its ability to put items in other containers and also spit them out. You may place the dropper facing in any direction you want. This will help you funnel the items exactly where you want them to be. To activate a dropper, you need to provide with redstone power. You can use some of the following to do so:

• Lever
• Button
• Redstone block
• Observer
• Redstone torch
• Pressure plate
• Tripwire hook
• Just activated redstone dust
• Adjacent just powered solid non-transparent block
• Activated redstone repeater and redstone comparator
• And more

Note that dropper requires one pulse to activate. So, if there is a constantly activated lever on top of it, that won’t cause the dropper to constantly get activated, but only when the lever activates. To make the dropper consistently active, you can create a redstone clock such as a hopper clock or observer clock that will quickly activate the dropper many times.

If there are no containers in front of the output side of the dropper when it gets activated, the items will simply get spat out. You may then collect them via hoppers or a water stream. In case dropper has multiple slots filled with items, then the items will be ejected randomly. You can use this simple mechanic to create randomizers for whatever reason you want.

Contents

• 1 Obtaining
  • 1.1 Breaking
  • 1.2 Crafting
  • 2.1 Container
  • 2.2 Crafting ingredient
  • 2.3 Redstone component
    • 2.3.1 Redstone signals
    • 2.3.2 Collecting items
    • 2.3.3 Pushing and pulling items
    • 2.3.4 Container interactions
    • 3.1 Generic
    • 3.2 Unique
    • 4.1 ID
    • 4.2 Block states
    • 4.3 Block data
    • 10.1 Renders
    • 10.2 Screenshots

    Breaking [ ]

    To obtain a hopper, mine it with a pickaxe. Using any other item to mine a hopper drops only its contents.

    Block	Hopper
    Hardness	3
    Tool
    Breaking time [ A ]
    Default	15
    Wooden	2.25
    Stone	1.15
    Iron	0.75
    Diamond	0.6
    Netherite	0.5
    Golden	0.4

    1. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

    Crafting [ ]

    A hopper can be crafted from 5 iron ingots and a chest.