User:Depressed pho/Storage minecarts

This tutorial covers basic minecart systems involving Minecart with Chest and Minecart with Hopper.

Item loader
An Item loader is a system which stops a Minecart with Chest or a Minecart with Hopper to feed them with items, and when it's done it restarts the minecarts.

Design A is probably the simplest. When the hopper has at least one item, it deactivates the Powered Rail so a storage cart coming from right will be stopped under the hopper. After feeding the cart with all the items in the hopper, the powered rail gets activated so the cart starts going right. A possible downside of this design is that the powered rail is always active as long as the hopper is empty so if a cart comes to the loader it immediately bounces off to the opposite direction. This might lead to an inefficiency of the system if there is a great distance between the loader and unloader. Earliest Known Publication: 28 March 2013