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And here is the finished product:<\/p>\n
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So in testing the gold farm more it looks like unloaded chunks have some weird behaviors. \u00a0No matter how long I waited I would always get the same amount of gold and rotten flesh. \u00a0What was different however was how many magma slimes I would have caught in the system. \u00a0Another thing I noticed was the iron golems would also spawn in the unloaded chunk. \u00a0It looks like when you push a mob through a portal it loads the chunk on the other end for a short time. \u00a0This causes items to disappear while I am afking in the nether but doesn’t count the chunk as fully loaded to force mobs to disappear.<\/p>\n
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To combat this I switched from the water channels to hoppers and chests which store the items instead of letting them just sit. \u00a0I was going to eventually do this anyway so it just forced me to do it earlier. \u00a0The next problem I encountered was that once I unloaded one chest of items I’d have to sit and let it wait while the other items loaded into it. \u00a0 I also had to dump all the useless rotten flesh. \u00a0This took forever and wasn’t worth the hassle.<\/p>\n
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The solution for this is a sorter that only sends the gold through. \u00a0Basically a sorter is a hopper that is turned off under a hopper hooked to a comparator. \u00a0The comparator outputs a signal proportional to the % full it is. \u00a0When full enough it outputs a signal long enough to turn the hopper on long enough to suck through one gold which leaves the hopper partially full when it turns off again. \u00a0Since the hopper is “full” the rotten flesh won’t get sucked through. \u00a0This caused another problem. \u00a0The rotten flesh would gather on top and block the gold from getting in. \u00a0It also sucked in too slow causing the gold to stack. \u00a0A stack of gold getting sucked in broke the system as it could cause the comparator to output too much signal.<\/p>\n
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The last fix is to create a ring of hoppers that act as a flowing current of any items that hit the system. \u00a0Water couldn’t be used because it would keep the pigmen from dying. \u00a0This current loops until the gold is pulled out. \u00a0I also added a system for pulling out the rotten flesh as well or the system would get clogged. \u00a0These additional hoppers would then load a dispenser that spits the rotten flesh into lava pools to prevent lag. \u00a0Theoretically this could still clog up but I added extra hoppers to it and I don’t think the pigmen spawn fast enough to jam it up.<\/p>\n
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Here is my test design:<\/p>\n
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