Tutorials/Item transportation

Item elevators are wonderful machines for transporting items. They can be useful for a storage system of a fully automatic farm. It is good to know which item elevators are best for you, and how to build them.

Usage
Item elevators are used to transport items upwards. The item could be as a dropped item, or it could be in a container (droppers, mostly). There are quite a few designs, but not all work in all versions.

Water
This design use the new water mechanics introduced in 1.13 (18w07a).

Dropper

 * See also: Ultimate Guide to Reliable Dropper Towers

The following design is a simple dropper elevator, and will work in all versions back to 1.5, when it was introduced.

Glass or Solid Block
This showcase is of a design that uses a dropper to fire items into a 3&times;3 glass pillar to send items upwards with the updates made to entity behavior in 1.11. The fast clock used in this item elevator also works well with observer blocks for a very fast and silent dropper elevator.

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